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Opinion | My first gay roommate helped me address my homophobia

A CROOKED PATH FORWARD | We must take action to save LGBTQ+ lives

July 5, 2020

Opinion | I work at Whole Foods, and I am calling out its hypocrisy

The Amazon-owned company does not live up to its core values. We are ‘essential workers’ only because we are essential to Jeff Bezos' bottom line.

Alli

July 3, 2020

Kaia Sand | Oregon should overturn all verdicts delivered by non-unanimous juries

OPINION | Street Roots has joined others in asking the state to retroactively apply the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling

Kaia Sand

July 3, 2020

A map of Portland that shows temperates and historical redlining

Opinion | No coincidence that redlined areas are now heat islands

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Efforts to confront racism should extend to the fight for climate justice

Martin Hart-Landsberg

June 30, 2020

Opinion | An American story of working undocumented

FINDING FRINGE | One person’s refugee status is another’s loyalty to employers, state and country

Paul K. Haeder

June 27, 2020

We want publicly funded preschool for every child in Multnomah County

COMMENTARY | You can help get the UP NOW campaign on the November ballot

Suzanne Cohen Angie Garcia Mary King

June 23, 2020

Call to remove statue of explorer who brutalized Native Americans ignites firestorm in Tillamook County

COMMENTARY | The monument to Capt. Robert Gray has been seen by countless Oregon Coast tourists and locals for the past two decades

Helen Hill

June 21, 2020

Portland Street Response is funded, and its success is up to all of us

DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed

Kaia Sand

June 18, 2020

Sophie Maziraga stands with her hands up

Struck by a rubber bullet: My experience as a Black woman at a Portland protest

COMMENTARY | ‘Surviving police brutality is a different type of trauma known to an endless number of Black people,’ Street Roots staffer Sophie Maziraga writes

Sophie Maziraga

June 10, 2020

We must not let up on the call for justice

DIRECTOR'S DESK | Portland’s City Council has a chance to change the city's legacy of prioritizing police over its Black residents’ well-being

Kaia Sand

June 10, 2020