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04-19-2024 8:58 am • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
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Established in 1976 under the visionary leadership of the late Mr. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the organization’s fifth president, the report remains a cornerstone for understanding the multifaceted challenges faced by Black Americans across crucial domains such as economics, employment, education, health, housing, criminal justice, and civic participation.
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The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2024, where the justices restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him from the ballot under a rarely used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.
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Chassity Coston, left, and Charity Wallace (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Claudine Gay’s resignation in January as Harvard’s first Black president was just the latest in a revolving door of Black women who have been especially and aggressively questioned or abandoned after achieving a career pinnacle. This has led some women to build networking groups or mentorship, even as some question whether it’s worth trying for top positions. For others, it has triggered an exodus to entrepreneurship and reinvention.
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On the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says a dramatic increase in legislative measures are making it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote. Sunday's events mark law enforcement's March 7, 1965, attack against demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Garland told parishioners at a church service that decisions by the Supreme Court and other courts have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed in the wake of Bloody Sunday
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The Fort Street Bridge Park (Paul Draus, CC BY)
Among the marchers’ demands: jobs for laid-off workers, a seven-hour workday without a pay reduction, two 15-minute rest periods a day, an end to discrimination against Black workers and the right to organize. This crowd of several thousand marched up the road on one of the coldest days of winter. They were greeted at the Dearborn border with clouds of tear gas, jets of cold water and a shower of bullets.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Jeffries spoke in depth with The Associated Press about his faith, which is rooted in the Black social gospel, inspired by civil rights leaders and centered at Brooklyn’s Cornerstone Baptist Church. Nancy Pelosi says Jeffries is a man of faith who believes there is a spark of divinity in everyone.
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Rev. Amos Brown (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
An apology would be the first reparations recommendation to be realized of more than 100 proposals suggested by a city reparations committee. The panel also recommended every eligible Black adult receive $5 million in cash, but that and other heftier proposals have gone nowhere.
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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
He appeared to compare his legal plight to the historic legacy of prejudice in the U.S. legal system during a speech Friday night at the Black Conservative Foundation’s gala a day before the South Carolina primary. Trump argues he is the victim of political persecution, even though there is no evidence President Joe Biden or White House officials influenced the filing of 91 felony charges against him.
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Darryl George and his mother Darresha (Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Darryl George wears his hair in tied and twisted locs on top of his head, and his attorney says his hairstyle is protected by the CROWN Act. State District Judge Chap Cain III on Thursday ruled in favor of the Barbers Hill school district, which argued its policy doesn’t violate the law.
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Darryl George, an 18-year-old high school junior (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)
For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. A trial this week is set to determine whether school administrators can continue punishing a Black teenager for refusing to cut his hair.
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