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Details: Written by Lisa Loving; Published: 25 February 2016

Data will be used to study ways to minimize racial profiling

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 25 February 2016

The Oregon Department of Education plan focuses on closing the achievement gap

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 25 February 2016

The Portland Playhouse event brought together Black and White neighbors to talk about gentrification

Details: Written by KRISTENA HANSEN, Associated Press; Published: 21 February 2016

Republicans opposed the increase and voted against the proposal

Details: Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press; Published: 19 February 2016

In this Feb 12, 2015 file photo made from video and released by WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, Albert Woodfox walks into a courthouse in Louisiana. Woodfox, the last inmate of a group known as the "Angola Three" has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a lesser offense in the 1972 death of a prison guard and is expected to be released Friday after more than four decades in prison. (WBRZ-TV via AP, File)

Albert Woodfox consistently maintained his innocence in the killing of guard Brent Miller

Details: Written by Lisa Loving; Published: 18 February 2016

Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says arsenic and chromium discharged into the air are among an array of cancer-causing poisons in the air that have been watched in North Portland for more than a decade without any meaningful action by state regulators. Photo courtesy of Intel Free Press (CC BY-SA2.0) via Flickr.

Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says communities of color disproportionately affected

Details: Written by Christen McCurdy; Published: 18 February 2016

National activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi spoke at Portland State Tuesday. Photo by Christen McCurdy.

Scheduled Black Lives Matter speakers give stage to student activist to address campus issues

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 18 February 2016

Tyrone Poole, creator of NoAppFee

The service seeks to streamline the housing application process

Details: Written by PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press; Published: 17 February 2016

SPLC Founder Morris Dees. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Year in Hate report tallies number of active hate groups at 892, up from 784 in 2014

Details: Written by DON BABWIN, Associated Press; Published: 15 February 2016

In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, former Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel speak in the City Council chambers in Chicago. For more than a year after officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed Laquan McDonald, the Chicago Police Department had video footage and autopsy results that raised serious questions about whether other officers on the scene tried in their reports to cover up what prosecutors now contend was murder. The lack of swift action against the officers illustrates the difficulty of confronting the “code of silence” that has long been associated with police in Chicago and elsewhere. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times via AP File)

Critics contend a code of silence keeps cops from disclosing abuses