The state is supposed to provide cash compensation to people sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit. With many still waiting for payments, lawmakers will consider revising the program When ...

I know you aren’t going to read this whole issue. I have, while I cleaned and laid out data over the last two months, but I know it’s hard to take in like this. It’s overwhelming: 12 full pages of ...

In the name of helping homeless people, officials spend millions to harm them. Is that the Portland we want? When Street Roots publishes the Jan. 7 issue, I’ll have spent the last four years, six ...

Street Roots is an organization with not just one mission, but two: produce high quality journalism, and create jobs accessible to people living on the streets. Each year, Street Roots publishes 51 ...

Between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, the city hired city contractor Rapid Response Bio Clean to conduct at least 8,764 sweeps, where workers confiscate the belongings of people living outside and ...

That was a recurring sentiment expressed on a rainy afternoon by Street Roots vendors emerging fresh from a shower and wearing clothes they just washed in the building’s laundry room. The basement ...

When Street Roots publishes the Jan. 7 issue, I’ll have spent the last four years, six months and two days editing Street Roots. While many things have changed since I started on July 5, 2021, some ...

In 1963, Bob Dylan wrote his famous ballad “The Times They are A-Changin” to capture the spirit of the social and political upheaval that characterized the 1960s. The song is a call for people to come ...

The Black Panthers and other counter-mappers used maps to reimagine cities for communities of color How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and ...

Portland-raised author Renee Watson talks about her new young adult book, "This Side of Home" Author Renée Watson grew up in Portland and lived through the gentrification of her Northeast neighborhood ...

Loneliness in prison gave me time to focus on my drawings. And I began to enjoy the rewards. My name is Phillip Wilson. I was born in 1966 to Betsy Ross. My mother was also a famous wrestler in the ...