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Last week, Arcata High School stood as a beacon of unity as the community gathered to honor the memory of David Josiah Lawson, a promising young man whose life was tragically cut short seven years ago in a fatal stabbing at an off-campus party.
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More than 60 Oregon cities have diversity, equity and inclusion programs. But as the City of Bend recently saw, a national political movement to end these programs can energize hatred toward local leaders.
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The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes.
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The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries this fall settled a lawsuit from a second former employee who alleged racial hostility under then-commissioner and current U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle.
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Lessons about Oregon's racist roots from Katie Pearson of Oregon Historical Society and Mic Crenshaw, who fought racism.
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Oregon has created the fresh tribal affairs director position, while Washington has had a similar official in place since the early '80s.
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Chauvin was stabbed and seriously injured by another inmate inside a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., according to officials.
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A series of essays by indigenous leaders, many of them women, in the book Invisible No More: Voices from Native America.Steve Dubb, the book's co-editor (with Raymond Foxworth), and from contributing writer Hillary Renick.
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Julie Oliveira and Rosemary Deck, Yurok Tribe investigators, about ongoing search for missing and murdered native women.
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Karen Kitchen tells stories created by the Osage at Native Story Hours at the Coos Bay Public Library.
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Coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for venture capital firms. Not coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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BASE Southern Oregon, set up a police liaison committee to keep an ongoing dialogue between the Black community in Jackson County and several of the police agencies. The Jackson County Sheriff has signed on, along with the police chiefs of Medford, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, and Central Point. Karla Narcesse chairs the committee.
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Veronica Davis is working on making car centric cities equitable, and she provides a guide in her book Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities.
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Richard Rothstein catalogued the actions and abuses of civil rights by government in his 2017 book The Color of Law. He follows that up with a guide to undoing lingering segregation, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law which he co authored with his daughter Leah Rothstein.