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June 23, 2021

Get this issue from your neighborhood Street Roots vendor. Articles from this edition are published on our website throughout the week

Culture

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Bronwyn Carver stands beside a bookcase full of books

Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots vendors’ book picks

We asked Street Roots vendors to recommend their favorite books
June 23, 2021
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Michelle Lewis stacks books at Third Eye Books

Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks

Staff, correspondents and volunteers share recommendations for books with a social or environmental justice bent
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Olivia reads

Summer Reads 2021: Kids’ book picks

Middle-grade fiction about racial justice dominates their recommendations for summer reading
June 23, 2021
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Books lined up vertically on a shelf include "Mediocre," "My Gradmother's Hands" and "This Book is Anti-Racist"

Summer Reads 2021: Advocacy leaders’ book picks

Leaders from Portland nonprofits share their recommendations for summer reading about social and environmental justice
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Keith Mosman on the left; Powell's Books on the right

Summer Reads 2021: Picks from your local book purveyor

Keith Mosman of Powell’s Books in Portland shares his summer reading recommendations
June 23, 2021
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“Funeral for Flaca” cover on the left; Emilly Prado photo on the right

Author Emilly Prado: ‘As long as you’re writing, you’re a writer’

The Portland journalist and DJ talks to Street Roots about her new collection of personal essays, ‘Funeral for Flaca’
By
Janey Wong
June 23, 2021
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Charles Hannah and Michelle Lewis look at a book at Third Eye Books

These Portland indie bookstores survived COVID-19, thanks to ingenuity and community support

How three booksellers thrived during one of the toughest years for small businesses in recent history
By
Sarah Hansell
June 23, 2021
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Author portrait and book cover

Book Excerpt | ‘Demystifying Shariah’ by Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Colonialism damaged Muslim women’s rights, at least with respect to the law
By
Sumbul Ali-Karamali
June 23, 2021

Opinion

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Street Roots vendor Char in the Street Roots office

Kaia Sand | If nothing else, these words are our own

OPINION | I love how flexible the English language is, that it keeps bending
By
Kaia Sand
June 23, 2021

Social Justice

Street Roots
Michelle Lewis stacks books at Third Eye Books

Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks

Staff, correspondents and volunteers share recommendations for books with a social or environmental justice bent
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Olivia reads

Summer Reads 2021: Kids’ book picks

Middle-grade fiction about racial justice dominates their recommendations for summer reading
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Books lined up vertically on a shelf include "Mediocre," "My Gradmother's Hands" and "This Book is Anti-Racist"

Summer Reads 2021: Advocacy leaders’ book picks

Leaders from Portland nonprofits share their recommendations for summer reading about social and environmental justice
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Keith Mosman on the left; Powell's Books on the right

Summer Reads 2021: Picks from your local book purveyor

Keith Mosman of Powell’s Books in Portland shares his summer reading recommendations
June 23, 2021
Street Roots
Charles Hannah and Michelle Lewis look at a book at Third Eye Books

These Portland indie bookstores survived COVID-19, thanks to ingenuity and community support

How three booksellers thrived during one of the toughest years for small businesses in recent history
By
Sarah Hansell
June 23, 2021
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