Where the Portland State campus has been nearly barren since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of students, faculty, alumni and community members came, echoing a familiar demand: Disarm…
UN will examine racism, violence against Black people
Protests for Black lives and against police violence spread across the world in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. In response, the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC)…
A reckoning in the food world
Adam Rapoport, editor in chief for food publication Bon Appétit, resigned on June 8 after a photo of him in brownface from 2004 reemerged on Twitter. Then, the floodgates opened….
In Trump’s corruption and racism, white supremacy finds a home
The United States’ inaction on gun regulation and white supremacy creates conditions for domestic terrorism to persist in this country. The rise of President Donald Trump has caused a re-emergence…
Dismantling America’s racism
Author Lawrence Lanahan discusses allyship, social responsibility “Let knowledge serve the…dismantling of structural racism,” an alteration to Portland State’s current motto came from Urban Planning and Studies Associate Professor Lisa…
NFL’s partnership with Jay-Z does not change its racist history
The National Football League isn’t racist—just ask their new Black friend: Jay-Z. Let’s be very clear about what happened. The NFL, with the help of an amicable Black entrepreneur in…
Brazilian Supreme Court votes to make homophobia a crime
The majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court decided discrimination on the basis of gender or sexuality should be punished under the same laws as racism on May 24. Six out of…
South Africa celebrates 25 years of freedom
The people of South Africa celebrated Freedom Day on April 27, which honors the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the apartheid, a legislative system that enforced racial segregation in…
Portland, you are racist
Portland is a racist city and white liberals need to acknowledge its history. Despite public perception of the city as über-liberal and accepting, these conceptions do little to protect people…
Mulugeta Seraw remembered
The Urban League of Portland held a conference on Nov. 13 at University Place Conference Center to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Portland resident and Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta…
Ethnographers help save dying languages
Of the roughly 7,000 languages in the world, the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, and the scientific community at large estimate around 3,000 are in…