-
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.
-
Black women are three times more likely than any other women to die during or immediately after pregnancy. California lawmakers passed a law in 2019 requiring hospitals to train labor and delivery staff on unconscious bias in medicine.
-
Oregon's heavily white racial present owes much to Oregon's heavily white past. The territory, then the state, chose to avoid completely the whole…
-
Historical markers dot the landscape of the United States. At best, they can give only about a paragraph of information about significant events at their…
-
Concerns about offensive place names arise from time to time, mostly because the names persist. Oregon has a long list of places with "squaw" in their…
-
Portland was a gritty place growing up, from the perspective of Mitchell S. Jackson. He was constantly calculating what it would take for him to get out…
-
More than one political scientist has observed that American voters often vote for candidates who work against the voters' economic interests. Jonathan…
-
Are you completely free of any preconceived notions of the characteristics of groups of people, even groups you belong to? Few of us are. Maybe we all…
-
"Separate but equal" was the doctrine underpinning segregation of the races in America until the civil rights rulings and laws of the mid-1900s.…
-
More than a few people have thought that racism might eventually die out in our country. But new racists are made all the time. Jennifer Harvey says we…
-
Have you heard the stories of "segregation academies?" Those are the private schools that sprang up in the South after the Supreme Court ruled that public…
-
We've come a long way in a short time on the issue of race in America, and it's been an ugly journey. It was a surprisingly short journey from thinking of…
-
The dead are buried from the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue, but they are not forgotten. Eleven Jews shot down because of their religion is an enormous…
-
Racism is alive and well in America. Which should not surprise us, given its long history in the country. Few places would admit to being "sundown towns"…