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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hand to Mouth" author Linda Tirado speaks with Street Roots about her own experiences living in poverty In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to rolling a boulder to the top of a hill, an act ...

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 ...

Scientist Dominick DellaSala says that when it comes to forest fires, we’ve got it all wrong July 2015: On the tail of back-to-back, historically severe fire seasons, drought-stricken Oregon has lit ...

The controversy about the Portland Development Commission’s decision to sell property on the northwest corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and NE Alberta to an out of state developer opens up a ...

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 ...