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
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.
by Alex Zielinski • May 19, 2021 at 11:47 am dlewis33 / Getty Images
A recent decision by the US Supreme Court has left the fate of hundreds of incarcerated Oregonians in the hands of Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum.
Ramos v. Louisiana that criminal convictions made by a non-unanimous jury (when only 10 out of 12 jurors are in agreement on a verdict) were unconstitutional, promptly barring the practice from being used in the only remaining state that allowed for non-unanimous verdicts: Oregon. While the
Ramos case came out of Louisiana, the state of Louisiana voted to bar non-unanimous juries in 2018, while the case was still moving through the courts.
The hexachloroethane smoke that police used against protesters can cause vomiting, respiratory distress and death
February 21, 2021 1:29PM (UTC) Federal officers walk through tear gas during a dispersal of about 300 protesters in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention building on August 26, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests continued for the 91st night in Portland as activist called for solidarity with rallies in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)