The Independence Day holiday just past offers a sober reminder that, for many Americans, the founding ideals of liberty, justice, and equality remain just that: ideals. In the wake of the police…
Avel Louise Gordly, the first African American woman elected to the Oregon State Senate, begins her book, Remembering the Power of Words, with an epigraph from poet Audre Lorde: “While we wait in silence for that final…