A measure to legalize recreational marijuana will be on Oregonians ballots this November; past efforts to be shut down. With ...

A historic site for local African American history is getting a new roof. Located at Northeast First Avenue and Schuyler ...

Portlander Herman L. Brame is taking on sports history in his new book, The Long Ebony Line: The First 100 ...

Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde breaks down the "myths" of the path to U.S. citizenship

Passerbys of the north Portland intersection of Killingworth Court and Borthwick Street will almost surely notice its newest instillation; a ...

Commuters going across the Hawthorne Bridge in years past often got a glimpse of Kirk Reeves, playing his trumpet and ...

Young people are getting to work this summer with a SummerWorks job program now underway for the sixth year in ...

Portland’s Black Rose Books invites the community to welcome national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley for a reading and signing ...

Portland young adult fiction writer Boss Amanishakhete does not shy away from the controversy. Instead she takes it head on ...

Youth lead a demonstration in McCoy Park in response to a recent rash of shootings, some fatal this summer to ...

The $2.7 million city-led move to renovate north Portland's Dawson Park comes with new amenities, and nods to the local ...

Gunshots rang out in the parking lot of a strip club in southeast Portland early Saturday, killing one man and ...

Local residents are invited to hear PSU Black Studies professor Walidah Imarisha speak on the history of racism in Oregon ...

'Hair Haven' in downtown Gresham, is the culmination of a passion for healthy, natural, hair stemmed in Black cultural design.

Two longtime Portland educators are looking to revive a 1992 student-led study of the economy of Alberta Street, for the ...