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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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John Stanley Ford was extremely pleased to be hired at IBM, where he was the company's first black software engineer. And for a long time, the only black鈥� -
Oregon's heavily white racial present owes much to Oregon's heavily white past. The territory, then the state, chose to avoid completely the whole鈥� -
Historical markers dot the landscape of the United States. At best, they can give only about a paragraph of information about significant events at their鈥� -
Concerns about offensive place names arise from time to time, mostly because the names persist. Oregon has a long list of places with "squaw" in their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� -
More than one political scientist has observed that American voters often vote for candidates who work against the voters' economic interests. Jonathan鈥� -
Are you completely free of any preconceived notions of the characteristics of groups of people, even groups you belong to? Few of us are. Maybe we all鈥� -
"Separate but equal" was the doctrine underpinning segregation of the races in America until the civil rights rulings and laws of the mid-1900s.鈥� -
More than a few people have thought that racism might eventually die out in our country. But new racists are made all the time. Jennifer Harvey says we鈥� -
Have you heard the stories of "segregation academies?" Those are the private schools that sprang up in the South after the Supreme Court ruled that public鈥� -
We've come a long way in a short time on the issue of race in America, and it's been an ugly journey. It was a surprisingly short journey from thinking of鈥� -
The dead are buried from the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue, but they are not forgotten. Eleven Jews shot down because of their religion is an enormous鈥�
