Racism

Bill would limit when police can stop motorists for traffic violations.

Laws protecting free speech, along with challenging economic circumstances, make it difficult to cut ties

Skyler Brown-Evans sees herself represented on the top of this year's ticket, that also means she has had to deal with strangers engaging her in a topic people are often told to avoid: politics. Despite having to deal with heightened racism this election cycle, she's excited to vote.

The student athletes and coaches for David Douglas High School’s Football team in Portland say four out of the five weeks of this season, they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during away games.

A conversation with truth and reconciliation activist Taylor Stewart on confronting historical traumas and building communities around social justice.

The Lane County Audubon Society has decided to change its name and they’re soliciting the public for replacement suggestions.

Before leaving office in a few months, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has announced the DA's office will soon stop dismissing jurors without cause in misdemeanor trials, a practice that has been criticized for excluding people of color from juries.

People can call the hotline to report crimes and non-crimes alike. About one in five calls were determined to be criminal related.

The testimony from Columbia's president comes several months after lawmakers grilled the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania.

In February 1874, one of the state's first government-funded Native American boarding schools began operation on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Southern Oregon. It operated as part of a larger federal policy of forced assimilation of Indigenous people that often resulted in neglect, abuse and trauma that lingers to this day.