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  1. Rep. John Lewis: From Selma to Congress

    Vendors at Washington, D.C., street paper Street Sense sat down with the congressman to talk about civil rights, then and now From Selma, Ala., to the halls of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans alike agree that U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia has b ...

    15 Feb 2017 - Josh Maxey and Angie Whitehurst

  2. Lessons in meritocracy: Civil rights attorney Lani Guinier on the failure of higher education

    Americans are a competitive lot, and that can have its advantages, but not necessarily when it comes to educating a generation that will need to collaborate in order to solve our intractable problems. That’s the perspective of civil rights attorney and Ha ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Jared Paben

  3. Musician, actor, activist — Belafonte followed his own beat

    One singer you won’t likely hear on a ’50s oldies station is Harry Belafonte, yet he was one of the most popular singers of that decade. He made a name for himself in the emerging folk music genre, with five gold albums between 1955 and 1963. For a time, ...

    6 Dec 2014 - Mike Wold

  4. Frustration on all sides with ‘half-baked’ JTTF involvement

    After the third year in a row of a disappointingly vague report from the Portland Police Bureau on its cooperation with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, frustrated City Council members appear ready to revisit Portland’s nebulous relationship with the FBI. ...

    16 Apr 2014 - Becky Straus

  5. Divine calling

    The documentary ‘Band of Sisters’ explores U.S. Catholic nuns’ passion for social justice Sister Lillian Murphy may be a nun, but that doesn’t mean she spends her days dressed in a habit. True, after she became a Catholic nun in 1959 she donned the distin ...

    12 Aug 2013 - Rosette Royale

  6. Portland Immigrant and Civil Rights Advocates to Denounce Anti-Immigrant Initiatives in Oregon and Arizona

    Portland Immigrant and Civil Rights Advocates to Denounce Anti-Immigrant Initiatives in Oregon and Arizona What: Press conference against Arizona SB 1070 When: Tuesday, April 27th, 11 AM Where: St Francis Church, 1131 SE Oak St, Portland, Oregon (the corn ...

    26 Apr 2010 - Street Roots

  7. Restorative justice equals no justice

    Restorative justice equals no justice The current proliferation of separate court systems- often referred to as "restorative justice"- within the U.S. criminal justice system tells us all we need to know about how government is addressing the he ...

    19 Aug 2008 - Street Roots

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