By Aileen Jacobson In 1941, Laura Margolis, the American Joint Distribution Committee’s first female field agent, was sent to Shanghai to help the nearly 20,000 Jews who had fled there… Read more »
Portland is one of the whitest cities in America, with an extremely racist history. So who would have ever thought we would be the city to watch during the modern-day civil rights movement?
The world is calling me to write. It’s also calling me to try new things and when I get scared, to surrender and try again.
As a first-time voter, radical feminist, and survivor of sexual assault, I’d anticipated that this election would be more hopeful than it is.
My hair was a problem to be solved. From inside and outside the walls of my house, my hair was a symbol of something larger that had nothing and everything to do with me.
Sadly, I cannot hide my disappointment in the system from my children.
Sara Erenthal escaped an Ultra-Orthodox sect, and now makes bold art in NYC.
Jordana Daumec was born in New York City. She trained at Studio Maestro in New York City and Canada’s National Ballet School. Jordana joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2003 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2015.
Iris Martin Cohen talks to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how her Jewish protagonist fits into this very Catholic world in her novel “Last Call on Decatur Street.”
I am a queer, black, multimedia artist creating artworks that empower and educate the black diaspora and those interested in supporting our liberation.
