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Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents. -
Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesA new federal program created by the Biden administration to reverse years of economic discrimination against U.S. farmers of color has ground to a halt.
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Conversations about race are not always comfortable in America, but it's clearly necessary to have them. Rogue Valley residents Mike and Emily Green鈥� -
Portland was a gritty place growing up, from the perspective of Mitchell S. Jackson. He was constantly calculating what it would take for him to get out鈥� -
For a "post-racial" society, we sure talk about race a lot. And not for the first time. 50 years ago, a commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson鈥� -
The images are seared into the American consciousness: fire hoses in Birmingham, nightsticks in Selma. The South was the center of the civil rights鈥� -
A special edition of our "Curious" segment is geared to the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday. University of Oregon associate professor鈥� -
Racism has flared anew in our country in recent years. Parts of our region were hospitable to racists, including Klan members, nearly a century ago. But鈥� -
Sharon Draper inherited the last of her grandmother's journals from her own childhood. And what Sharon read in that journal became a central part of her鈥� -
Medicine is a science... a body is a body, and approaches to treatment are supposed to be roughly the same from patient to patient. But bias creeps into鈥� -
Ashland takes pride in thinking of itself as an open, caring, multicultural community. But comments and threats to people of color roiled the city in鈥� -
The recent murders of two men defending people from racial harassment in Portland made us think instantly of Rabbi Debra Kolodny at Resolutions Northwest.鈥� -
"American Exceptionalism" is a phrase that floats through the body politic from time to time, usually in election years. Yet despite many Americans鈥� -
If someone displays racist behavior in front of you, do you know what to do? The question gets asked more frequently these days, given the rise in bias鈥�
