Early “exclusion laws” prohibited Black people from settling in Oregon, and by the 1920s, Portland was known as one of the most segregated cities north of the Mason-Dixon line and a hotbed for ...

In late August, Portland ... barred Black people from living, working and owning property within state borders. "[These] laws point to the fact that Oregon was founded as a racist white utopia ...

For many people, the protests have forced uncomfortable conversations about white privilege and the generations of prejudice against Black ... Oregon as a majority white state. And it's why ...

When Oregon was granted ... without harassment from Portland’s white population. But it did prove to be one of the few places in the city outside of church where black people could find a ...

gained statehood in 1859 and remains majority white today. Despite an 1844 law banning Black people and other minorities from living or purchasing property in Oregon, Portland gradually attracted ...

Oregon became ground zero ... of the recent wave of transplants to Portland—know. “As long as there have been white people here, there have been Black people here,” he says.

There were no black people in Oregon in the early '90s ... holding up a mirror to part of the black American experience. Portland is mostly white: white audiences at shows, white shoppers at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than two months of intense protests in Portland, Oregon — one of America's whitest major cities — have captured the world's attention and put a place that's less ...