When People Ask: ‘Why Do We March’
Few times in a nation’s history is the conscience of its citizens shocked and awakened – across racial, economic, generational ...
Long Past Time to Repeal Second Amendment
What country fetishizes, lionizes, valorizes, idolizes, and sacralizes guns as much as does our United States? OK, possibly Mozambique--the only ...
Saving a Prison Program for Mothers and Kids
The Family Preservation Program, located in Oregon's Coffee Creek Women's Correctional Facility, is scheduled to be shut down at the ...
Racial Profiling: Fruit from a Poison Tree
As events have unfolded over the past weeks, I’ve struggled to put together the right words, because on some level ...
Ferguson Anger comes Entirely from Valid Place
Shortly before Michael Brown’s fateful encounter with Ferguson cop Darren Wilson, I was appointed as a teaching assistant in a ...
Immigration Action Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Undocumented workers aren’t the only ones who suffer because of our broken immigration system. Thousands of U.S. citizen children live ...
A Path Forward in Prosecuting Ferguson Cop
On March 22, 1991, a visibly shaken and angered President George H.W. Bush said he was sickened and "outraged" by ...
'Gone Girl' Dreadfully Disappoints
Is this a movie or an endurance test?
Paying Heavily for their Political Failures
Dick Tuck, the legendary political prankster and wit, once ran for local office in San Francisco and lost. His concession ...
Police, Brutality and the Prevalence of Racial Bias
What is community policing? In the wake of increased shootings in Ferguson and around the country, there has been a ...
Closer to the Finish Line on School Disparities
With opportunity gaps widening for poor children and children of color, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in ...
Right Kind of Discomfort
When was the last time you saw a film that challenged your assumptions about identity? Or one that depicted anything ...
Reserve Chair Talks About Income Inequality
With all the political, national security and disease news recently flooding the airways, you may have missed one of the ...
Ferguson is a Critical Reminder for All Cities
A law enforcement agency must mirror the community in which it serves.
Ferguson Exposes Issues of Race and Class
Physician and the chief medical director for Volunteers of America Oregon, Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia examines the tension in trauma from ...
