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Federal presence in Portland gives protests new momentum

by Associated Press
| July 21, 2020 11:27 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mardy Widman has watched protests against racial injustice unfold in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, for more than seven weeks but stayed away because, at age 79, she feared contracting the coronavirus.

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