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Keon WestAuthor Keon West investigates racism in America and shares his research findings on the Exchange. -
Bradley W. Parks/OPBMore than 60 Oregon cities have diversity, equity and inclusion programs. But as the City of Bend recently saw, a national political movement to end these programs can energize hatred toward local leaders.
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The task force heard from experts about how the building of state highways and investment in certain forms of transportation have disproportionately hurt African Americans in California. -
A Klamath Falls official representing the city鈥檚 new equity task force says he was threatened this week because of his race and sexuality. And he says he鈥檚 not the only non-white person in the area concerned for his safety. -
If is passes the House, Oregon would become the latest state to criminalize using a noose to intimidate others. -
From Salt Lake City to New York to Atlanta, thousands gathered to remember the victims of Tuesday's shootings and to cry out against anti-Asian racism. -
Many Asian-Americans say they feel especially unsafe after eight people, including six Asian women, were targeted at their workplaces in Atlanta, Georgia, last week. On Friday, Southern Oregon University鈥檚 Social Justice and Equity Center held a community gathering to show support for those impacted by the violence. -
The previously scheduled visit was to have included a celebration of the recently passed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, but Tuesday's deadly shootings at area spas caused a change in plans. -
Violence and discrimination against Asian Americans is on the rise across the country, and in the Pacific Northwest. -
The Black teenager was killed Nov. 23 by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music. Ellison's death is causing soul searching in the mostly white community where he lived. -
A couple of hundred people gathered Wednesday night to remember Aidan Ellison, a Black teenager who was recently killed by a white man in Ashland during an argument over loud music. -
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Maybe history doesn't exactly repeat itself, but the racial tensions of recent years certainly give some people d茅j脿 vu. Incidents of people being鈥� -
The founders of the American republic let slavery stay on the books, but a few of them were looking down the road. Alexander Hamilton and John Jay were鈥�
