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Dissect Black Lives Matter, the Blazers, and your daddy issues.
By
Julia Silverman
7/23/2021 at 5:58pm
Gregory McKelvey and Cameron Whitten, the co-hosts of the new podcast
Your Neighborhood Black Friends.
Planning a summer road trip? Or just getting back to the office and navigating a commute for the first time in nearly 16 months? Whatever your plans, itâs always a good time to have a new podcast queued upâand why not a made-in-Oregon one, while youâre at it? Â
Here are four new(ish) local podcasts for your listening pleasure, plus one old favorite, which run the gamut from news-heavy to music-based to one for all those who want to know what the heck is up with the Blazers these days.Â
by Alex Zielinski
[What follows is part five of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here. eds] The movement that kicked local police reform efforts into gear last May is far from over. For many activists who invested months into organizing in 2020, the past year’s wins aren’t satisfactory. “We’re not even remotely close to where we should be,” said Darren Golden, a former member of the activist organization Rose City Justice, which led many of the early summer marches. “But that’s expected. I think a lot of people believe that it is easy to change the system of policing, and you can just tear it down. It’s not that easy that investment takes time. If you remove a support system and don’t support the system you removed, it’s going to fall. And the people that are hurt most are the ones that need the most help.”
A year ago, many young Black people locally joined a global protest movement demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police violence. Here s where they are now.