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Karen Kitchen tells stories created by the Osage at Native Story Hours at the Coos Bay Public Library.

Kathy McCovey, retired Forest Service fire expert and Karuk Tribal member, about the revitalization of burning practices.

Veronica Davis is working on making car centric cities equitable, and she provides a guide in her book Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities.

The Afroscoutz program of BASE Southern Oregon continues to bring in more young Black people and add to the activities in which they participate. Tiffany Beach and Precious Yamaguchi from BASE fill out the story.

There is a Black rodeo on tour in our time, the Bill Pickett Invitational, and a series of photographs of it are on display now at the High Desert Museum in Bend. Gabriela Hasbun is the photographer, and Heidi Hagemeier, Director of Communications at the museum

The Oregonian recently apologized, with an editorial offering the current management's regrets about past behavior. And the editorial was accompanied by a special section, "Publishing Prejudice," which lays out in great detail the many ways in which the journalism of The Oregonian was slanted toward the white side. Rob Davis, the reporter on the project, gives some detail on practices that are simply not acceptable in a mainstream news organization today.

We tell ourselves a heroic story of ""The Greatest Generation"" and its victory, but tend to leave out the Black people who made the victory possible. That's where Matthew Delmont focuses in his book ""Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.

The Reese Bullen Gallery at Cal Poly-Humboldt currently features the exhibition "My Black Is...," which presents artwork from nine artists in the Humboldt Bay area. The art show is a joint venture of the gallery and Black Humboldt. Mo Harper-Desir, one of the artists, gives us an overview of the show.

The downside of Brown: the closing of Black schools and job loss of Black teachers.

You Are More Than Magic: The Black and Brown Girls' Guide to Finding Your Voice by Minda Harts is about assumptions about skills based on color or gender.

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce asks why people in a diverse country need to sound the same.

History of racial division in armed forces