Pete Shaw " [These] laws point to the fact that Oregon was founded as a racist white utopia," said Walidah Imarisha, a Black studies educator and writer based in Oregon.

An advocacy organization in Portland helps White homeowners sell their homes below market rate to Black and Indigenous buyers. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on May 11, 2023.) ...

Oregon has an established and growing network of programs to help Black teens find their way to higher education, but there are powerful outside forces at work, including spiraling college costs ...

Melissa Lowery's 2015 film, "Black Girl in Suburbia" discusses life for black women growing up in predominately white suburbs. She grew up in West Linn, Oregon.

The nonprofit, founded by a group of Black Salem residents in 1993, is dedicated to preserving and presenting Oregon’s Black history through exhibitions, public programs, research and education.

Oregonians generally believe the state's black history dates back to the shipyards in the 1940s. An exhibit at the Oregon History Museum addresses an overlooked, earlier era of Oregon's African ...

Using data from the US Census, the Stacker list below illustrates the Black homeownership gap in Oregon, where the homeownership rate represents the percent of all owner-occupied households in 2019.

Oregon State Police have been forced to deny that one of their officers flashed a white power hand gesture before being shown a "signal of appreciation" by a counter-protester at a Black Lives ...

Not everyone has the same access to the Northwest's green spaces. Many Black people felt excluded and unwelcome from a hike in the forests, well before closures meant to slow the spread of the ...

Oregon will wear a green helmet with a white "O" logo on the side with a green visor. Penn State will combat Oregon's all-black look with an icy white uniform.

“Red, White and Black: An Oregon Wine Story” is the brainchild of Bertony Faustin. Taking inspiration from his in-law’s small vineyard, he decided on a career change and became a winemaker ...

Meanwhile, white non-Latinx mental health care providers were overrepresented across the state, making up 75.1% of the population but 80% or more of each type of mental health care provider. Black ...