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Val HoyleThe Oregon state agency charged with monitoring discrimination in workplaces across the state was itself a hostile work environment for the Black woman who was hired to head the civil rights division of the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries. A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury awarded Carol Johnson $1.7 million dollars on Monday, supporting her claim she faced a hostile workplace and race discrimination.
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Andrew Nixon/Capital Public RadioGovernor Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday that will allow county judges to order treatment for people suffering from addiction and severe mental illness, one of his top policy priorities this year.
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An Oregon Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year found the state's initial award of $135,000 in damages against Sweet Cakes By Melissa showed signs of bias. -
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Oregon's nonunanimous jury system was unconstitutional as well as rooted in racism and discrimination. Senate Bill 1511, now dead, would have extended the court's ruling retroactively to some such convictions. -
"A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died," pulmonary specialist Dr. Martin Tobin told jurors on Thursday. -
The observance of Martin Luther King's birthday sends us into the archives in search of MLK-related material. Newspaper reporter Marc Perrusquia joined us鈥� -
Ernest Withers is considered one of the great documentary photographers of the civil rights movement.He was a confidant of Martin Luther King, Medgar鈥�
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Allegations of voter fraud have been followed by allegations of voter suppression by officials in northern California鈥檚 Siskiyou County. Late last week,鈥� -
The concept of community rights could grow in stature this year, especially if a ballot measure on those rights makes it to the November ballot. The鈥� -
The Freedom Summer of 1964 helped usher in civil rights laws for black Americans. But the price was steep: many people of many ethnic backgrounds gave up鈥� -
Attorneys for California, and those representing prison inmates, are presenting a federal judge with starkly different views of prison guards' use of鈥� -
Democratic lawmakers on key policy committees say they want to limit California's practice of keeping hundreds of inmates in solitary confinement for鈥�
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California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that immigration advocates have long considered a top priority.The measure, known as the "TRUST Act" is鈥�
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California has a few more weeks to find a solution to its prison overcrowding. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled state officials have until the鈥�
