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A new coalition of Black-led community groups called a press conference Tuesday with Oregon elected leaders. They have developed a two-year plan to begin dismantling systemic racism in Oregon. Nkenge Harmon Johnson, president and CEO of the Urban League of Portland, is one of the organizers of today's press conference. She joins us to tell us more about the plan.

Portland cartoonist Matt Bors says the coronavirus pandemic makes life in the U.S. unsustainable. So he's moving to Canada.

The Portland Underground Grad School offers classes in a variety of topics from history to improv comedy. This fall, PUGS is once again offering a course called “Interrogating Whiteness: An American Unstory.” We hear from Sarah DeYoreo, the Portland writer and educator who teaches the class, about what it means to critically examine white racial identity.

Portland police officers feel underappreciated and unsupported by city leadership, according to new reporting from OPB. Activists who have been protesting for months demanding police reform are also frustrated with the lack of action from political leaders. What is the path forward? OPB reporter Jonathan Levinson has been working on this story.

In 2013, science writer David Quammen wrote an editorial in the New York Times entitled “The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When.” Quammen has been writing about the spread of diseases between humans and animals since his book "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" came out that same year.

At the start of the pandemic, Klamath Falls couple Jack and Mary Depew weren’t taking coronavirus seriously or wearing masks. Then they both contracted the virus, and Mary Depew died in June. Now, Jack Depew is on a mission to spread awareness about the importance of wearing masks.

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Oregon is experiencing an unprecedented number of wildfires at one time in places that are densely populated. We hear the latest about evacuations in Medford and the fires burning all around the state.

Learn to draw jellyfish, whales and all kinds of fish with this video tutorial.

Residents are asked to submit their stories and ephemera reflecting the uncertainty of the pandemic.