After a Year of Protests, Portland Is Ready to Move On. But Where?
The demonstrations that swept the country after George Floyd’s death lived on for much of the year in Portland, a city now engaged in finger-pointing and a debate over what comes next.
Protesters gathered behind a wall of shields and umbrellas in Portland, Ore., in April.Credit.Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times
June 9, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
PORTLAND, Ore. Defund the police? City leaders in Portland tried it. A unit in the fire and rescue bureau, one of the first of its kind in a major city, began this year taking some 911 calls about people in crisis, especially those who are homeless.
Opinion: A new approach to gun violence
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Youth Organizers: The Photographers Behind the Movement
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Rolling Stone Year in Review: How Black Lives Matter Inspired a New Generation of Youth Activists
Young people across America found their voice in 2020, harnessing social media to lead the fight for change in their communities
By Vanessa Charlot for Rolling Stone
Khalea Edwards didn’t believe it at first. Someone on a text chain of organizers from Occupy City Hall STL, a movement she helped lead this past summer calling for the resignation of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, informed the group in November that Krewson was retiring. Edwards wanted proof. Then Krewson made the announcement herself. “We spent the whole day in shock,” Edwards says. “We were crying.”