Founded in 1999, Street Roots is a Portland-based nonprofit dedicated to creating income opportunities for individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty. As a member of the International Network ...

The city program Cooling Portland is coming to an end. After five years of providing free air conditioners to low-income families, applications close June 30. The application form is available on the ...

Willie Redman is used to being the life of the party as drag queen DeJa Skye. Redman competed twice on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” in 2021 and 2025. Redman’s appearance on the show was most memorable for ...

Street Roots is the publisher of the Rose City Resource Guide (RCRG), the most comprehensive, up-to-date print list of services for people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Clackamas, Multnomah ...

Researchers say the Vanport Cottonwood trees are among the survivors of the Vanport Flood, which ravaged the city in 1948. Credit: Etta O'Donnell-King / Street Roots The Vanport community scattered ...

Clara Mae Peoples brought the first Juneteenth celebration to Oregon over 80 years ago. Credit: Etta O'Donnell-King / Street Roots Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., and is ...

Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations throughout Oregon face funding issues and waning support, but continue efforts to host community celebrations for the holiday. Credit: Juneteenth Oregon/Tory ...

The first students in the country to graduate college with degrees in Social Justice and the Arts will cross the stage June 12, as new alumni of an innovative program at Portland State University.

On May 1, workers across Oregon celebrated International Workers’ Day, or May Day,with rallies and marches demanding increased workers’ rights and immigrant’s rights. Credit: Aurora Biggers / Street ...

An 1867 wood engraving of the scene when enslavers tried to re-kidnap Margaret Garner by Thomas Satterwhite Noble. Credit: U.S. Library of Congress Note: This story discusses human enslavement, sexual ...

A couple hundred sex workers, allies and curious passersby gathered at Laurelhurst Park on a recent sunny Monday afternoon to celebrate International Whores’ Day. The June 2 holiday honors sex workers ...

Pineapple is honest to a fault, they said. So when their bosses at HBO in New York City in the late 1990s asked them what they wanted to do after their copy writing internship, they were honest: they ...