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Erik Neumann/JPRA Black Lives Matter memorial near downtown Ashland was vandalized on Tuesday night. The Say Their Names Memorial spans Railroad Park and includes hundreds of t-shirts and posters with the names of people of color who have been killed over the past century, many by police. -
Jasmine Lewin/KLCCEvents hosted by the local NAACP chapter and Springfield's Alliance for Equity and Respect drew hundreds of people wanting to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A rural road with a racist moniker on the Oregon coast has a new name. It now honors an early Black settler. -
The lawsuit was filed on June 5, 2020, by the local advocacy group Don’t Shoot PDX and eventually six named protesters. In addition to the financial settlement, the Portland Police Bureau will "decommission all remaining inventory" of its rubber ball distraction devices, similar to flash-bang grenades. A federal judge will oversee the injunction and retain the authority to enforce it for the next 14 months. After that, the city can ask for the case to be dismissed.
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Workers with two programs run by the White Bird Clinic are pressing on with unionization efforts.
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For Bobbie Scopa, firefighting was a 45-year career filled with danger and stress, including a seven-year stint as assistant fire director for all wildland fire operations in Oregon for the U.S. Forest Service. But a major stressor for Scopa was living life as a man…while privately identifying as a woman. That struggle is told in her new book, “Both Sides of the Fire Line: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter.”
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In September, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the removal of a word considered a slur for Native American women from nearly 650 federal sites.
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A Eugene donut shop owner is in hot water after reportedly drenching a homeless woman this weekend.
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The Yakama and Grand Ronde tribes are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on their claim that an expansion of Highway 26 in 2008 violated their religious freedom by destroying an ancient burial site, a stone altar and old-growth trees.
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Lane County Health and Human Services has opened a new emergency homeless shelter in Glenwood. It’s located in a building that was once an African American church. The new shelter is named for the late Reverend Arthur Shankle and his wife Luvenia, who founded the Bethel Temple Church in the early 1960’s.
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An embattled businessman resigned from Oregon Public Broadcasting’s board of directors this afternoon.
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A new emergency homeless shelter had a grand opening in Glenwood Thursday. The renovated 12-bed facility was once an African American church.
