The activist, who will speak in Portland, wants women of color to know they’re not alone Dior Vargas is a Latina feminist mental health activist whose work has appeared in publications such as Forbes, Newsweek and The Guardian, and whose many awards inclu ...
14 Sep 2018 - Sarah Hansell
COMMENTARY | If we don't begin with an understanding while taking it seriously, we undermine the prospects for real and lasting change Tokenism seems to be a topic that folks want to avoid, but the argument against addressing it usually looks somethi ...
3 Aug 2018 - Darleen Ortega
Iranian-born Mina Dennert is leading a movement that challenges racial hatred in Sweden She woke up with her hair cut off and her body covered in Nazi symbols. She was 14 years old. In the white, rich and apparently peaceful area of Kullavik, south of Got ...
27 Jul 2018 - Sarah Britz
We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader Gun enthusiasm is rooted more in racial suppression than in the Second Amendment, Bill Fletcher Jr. told an audience at the SeaTac Hilton in April. From th ...
11 May 2018 - Emily Green
The former NBA player talks to Street Roots about activism in sports; his new book, ‘We Matter’; and his interviews with families of unarmed victims The 2018 NBA postseason is in full swing. This is the platform that has created historic basketball moment ...
20 Apr 2018 - DeVon Pouncey
The World War II-era housing project outside North Portland maintained race and class boundaries It was a place of contradiction, at once utopian and Jim Crow, innovative and second rate. It was a town, they joked, with everything but a future. Vanport, t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Patricia Kullberg
COMMENTARY | 50 years after the Fair Housing Act, segregation and discrimination persist in Portland I won’t try to define progress, but I know it when I see it – to paraphrase that famous Supreme Court case on obscenity – and when we look back 50 years t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Allan Lazo
Leanne Serbulo, Portland State University housing and segregation researcher, talks to Street Roots about the landmark legislation Fifty years ago, a national advisory body known as the Kerner Commission released its landmark report on the causes behind t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Sarah Hansell
COMMENTARY | Let's slow down, explore our biases, listen to people of color and truly address racism A few years ago, I wrote about race in social work and the structural and interpersonal racism that went undiscussed in Portland. Portland seemed to ...
13 Apr 2018 - Shannon Singleton
The modern movement inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. is a national call for moral revival Fifty years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a mass movement for economic equality, activists are working to reignite the flame of the movement ...
30 Mar 2018 - Colleen Grablick