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Curious Comedy Theater: Colorful language

The Curious Comedy Theater’s Minority Retort is drawing a diverse new audience to laugh —and learn It was nearing 9:30 p.m. on a Friday and Jeremy Eli’s brainchild, monthly comedy show Minority Retort, was about to debut at Curious Comedy Theater on Marti ...

19 Mar 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Growing up black in the increasingly white neighborhoods of Northeast Portland

Portland-raised author Renee Watson talks about her new young adult book, "This Side of Home" Author Renée Watson grew up in Portland and lived through the gentrification of her Northeast neighborhood. In 1990, more than 30 percent of Portland’s ...

4 Mar 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Mitchell S. Jackson remembers Portland's "Residue Years"

The author of “The Residue Years” talks about his memories of Portland, where his book is the 2015 Everybody Reads selection from the Multnomah County Library “It’s cold!” says Mitchell S. Jackson. “It’s really cold in Brooklyn.” Indeed. But in his native ...

3 Mar 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Melissa Lowery on the impact of her movie, “Black Girl in Suburbia”

Film could help her daughters navigate growing up as some of the few people of color in their community in Hillsboro In 2010, Melissa Lowery set out to create a film — her first feature-length film — that could serve as a guidebook for her two daughters. ...

18 Feb 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Mic Crenshaw: Talking music, race and getting results, the Portland artist and activist doesn’t mince words

When Mic Crenshaw came to Portland, it was sort of like shaking a personal Etch A Sketch. He wanted a fresh start. That is understandable. He had left behind an on-going struggle with white supremacists in Minneapolis, Minn. His connection to the streets ...

10 Jan 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Finding solidarity with Ferguson

“Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot.” I stood in a crowd of people in a city park echoing this line on Saturday afternoon. Among the crowd could be seen old and young and people of all different shades of color. Children w ...

9 Sep 2014 - Grace Badik
Oregon’s legislature grapples with racial equity

Last month on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, a coalition of advocacy organizations presented findings from Facing Race: the 2013 Oregon Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity. The report is designed to help legislators better understand how to addr ...

15 Feb 2014 - David Rogers
The dynamics of race and its impact on real social work

The topic of race and social work is a conversation that could take many paths. We could discuss the dynamics for professionals of color in Portland (and the sad trend of emigration from Portland); or the experience of people of color within our dominant ...

15 Feb 2014 - Shannon Singleton
Fair and balanced? Hardly, but was it ever?

Fair and balanced? Hardly, but was it ever? by Paul K. Haeder, Contributing Writer The foundational question all journalists — all Americans, for that matter — should be asking is: How should news and information flow through American democracy, and who c ...

15 Mar 2012 - Street Roots