Regional Interests

UO Black Cultural Center | Student Newspaper | Gender Nonbinary | Climate Case

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Allison Frost, Julie Sabatier, Samantha Matsumoto, Sage Van Wing

Published November 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM PST

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<div id="cboxTopLeft"> Lyllye Reynolds-Parker outside the UO Black Cultural Center that bears her name.</div>
</div> — Lyllye Reynolds-Parker outside the UO Black Cultural Center that bears her name.

Last month, the University of Oregon opened the Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center, named after a UO alumna and former academic adviser. The center was created in response to a list of demands from the Black Student Task Force. We talk with Reynolds-Parker about the center that bears her name.

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Fourth graders at Hoover Elementary in Salem have started a school newspaper called The Hoover Journal. We talk to the teacher who came up with the idea and one of the students.

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Earlier this year, Jones Hollister filed a petition in court to legally change their gender to nonbinary. The judge in Lane County denied the petition. Hollister has appealed the decision. We hear from them and their lawyer, Lorena Reynolds.

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We get high school senior Annabelle Sukin’s take on the arguments made Wednesday before the Oregon Supreme Court, which took place last week at David Douglas High School.