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04-28-2024 11:42 am • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
Read our annual MBE Special Edition online, featuring commentaries, feature stories and advice on business startups, taking out loans, and future trends. … To read the MBE Special Edition click here
Even Black parents and scholars are beginning to publicly question whether corporal punishment—spankings, beatings, whoopings, whatever you want to call it – is the best way to discipline children… For all the information click here
Those pitching payday, auto-title, and installment loans continue to peddle credit from stores lining the streets near military bases… To read the whole story click here
About 100 people in attendance Sept. 26, voted to rename the task force… To read all about it click here
In effect, Stanley in the article creates a “fictional” Shonda Rhimes and the world she inhabits because Stanley can’t imagine that the real Shonda Rhimes (and Black people in general) is a complex human being… To check the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an ad for a job, bid/legal notice or sub-bid.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
Read our annual MBE Special Edition online, featuring commentaries, feature stories and advice on business startups, taking out loans, and future trends. … To read the MBE Special Edition click here
The lawsuit seeks class action status, with lost wages and damages to be determined at trial… For all the information click here
He was a psychiatrist who worked with people with severe mental illness, many of them victims of abuse… To read the whole story click here
Featured in the public television special ‘The Boomer List,’ Richardson speaks to The Skanner News about history and how she found herself in researching others… To read her interview click here
A classically trained singer, Randall was named Broadway’s Next Big Star by Ken Davenport on BroadwaySpace.com… To read the interview click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an ad for a job, bid/legal notice or sub-bid.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
The Black-White income gap narrowed in 2013 with Black men who worked full-time, year-round experiencing the greatest gain in earnings among all adult workers, according to the current population reports on income and poverty released by the Census Bureau… For all the information click here
Immigrant workers rights advocate Francisco Aguirre has taken sanctuary in Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland, after ICE agents came to his door early Friday… To read the whole story click here
Portland wants your input on how to spend more than $20 million earmarked for affordable housing. Attend one of three meetings to have your say… To read all about it click here
Seattle's elected prosecutor said Monday he's dropping all tickets issued for the public use of marijuana through the first seven months of this year, because most of them were issued by a single police officer who disagrees with the legal pot law… To check the details click here
We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an auto ad.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
The Justice 4 Youth campaigners may have a difficult fight ahead of them. Oregon District Attorneys are mobilizing to oppose any changes to the law… For all the information click here
The Oregon Center for Public Policy gave the state a pat on the back for tying the wage floor to the cost of living but stressed that poverty wages hurt the state’s economy in the long run… To read the whole story click here
The housing nonprofit announced a deal to preserve 64 senior citizen apartments at low rents locked in for the next 60 years… To read all about it click here
The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue… To check the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an auto ad.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
In the most recent city election in April, only 1,484 of Ferguson's 12,096 registered voters cast ballots, easily re-electing the mayor…. For all the information click here
The new sign-up period could expose underlying problems with the law itself that are less easily fixed than a computer system…. To read the whole story click here
Seattle King County NAACP and community members argued against the use of the restraint at a forum held by the Sheriff’s Office… To read all about it click here
A new report showing that rising income inequality could negatively affect state tax revenue comes amid a push by Gov. John Kitzhaber, legislative Democrats and others to overhaul Oregon's tax code… To check the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase a wedding announcement.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
Community health advocates as well as families in Oregon and Washington are working to step up their outreach to new generations of sickle cell sufferers as well as potential blood and bone marrow donors … For all the information click here
Passed July 2013, Oregon's law allows two lawmakers from different parties to request a racial impact statement before the Legislature votes on a new criminal justice or child welfare bill … To read the whole story click here
The City settled for $45,000 with the local mother over the 2004 triple-Tasing incident that left the then-eight months pregnant motorist face-down, handcuffed on the sidewalk in front of her child’s school … To read all about it click here
Xavier Bolden is charged with one count of murder and additional counts of attempted aggravated murder for shooting that shut down the Fontaine Bleau nightclub… To read more click here
The Hollywood Theatre this month offers Spike Lee’s classic followed by a panel discussion on race featuring author, filmmaker and scholar David Walker with comedian Sean Jordan, hosted by Jason Lam… To check the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase a wedding announcement.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
Henry Lincoln Johnson is another step closer to being the second black WWI hero to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor…For all the information click here
Ramon Hamilton and Jennifer Fischer say they hope to turn the show, 'The wHole,' into a series, and shoot it in Wapato…To read the whole story click here
Pamela Meanes called police brutality the new civil rights issue of this era, an issue that disproportionately impacts the Black community… To read all about it click here
'I’ve heard all of the arguments surrounding measure 90 and am now supporting it…' To check the details click here
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On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
Former Oregon Sen. Avel Gordly is the honorary chair of the 9th Annual Liberation-Based Healing Conference, Oct. 3 - 4 in Portland… For all the information click here
Linking the racial achievement gap and poor economic outcomes, the Seattle Mayor proposed a reorganization of existing education and support programs into a ‘one-stop shop’… To read the whole story click here
The Portland-based organization’s 5th Annual Parent Symposium features rapper David Banner and a wide array of free workshops designed to put better parenting tools into the hands of moms and dads… To read all about it click here
The protests, which were planned by labor organizers for about 150 cities nationwide throughout Thursday, are part of a campaign called ‘Fight for $15’… To read more click here
For over a dozen years Wikipedia has crowdsourced a list of deaths caused by U.S. law enforcement officers… To read the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase a real estate ad.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
During a rousing, standing-room only town hall discussion dedicated to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and police killings of young, Black men across the nation, Ron Daniels declared ‘a state of emergency in Black America’… For all the information click here
Elliott says she left after months of trying and failing to work with some longtime party activists who never embraced her leadership… To read the whole story click here
This September marks the 10th anniversary for National Preparedness Month. And when it comes to emergency situations, Black communities tend to be among the most vulnerable and least prepared… To read all about it click here
Among the reforms underway, the city must create a crisis-intervention team, expand its mobile crisis units from a single vehicle to one vehicle per precinct and complete investigations of officer misconduct within 180 days… To check the details click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an obituary.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
The streetcorner lot that once tore communities apart will be the home of Golden, Colo.-based Natural Grocers, an affordable-priced chain known for 'free nutrition education and healthy food' … To read more click here
While the campaign for a $15 minimum wage takes root across the country, a new report underscores just how meager that wage really is for families… For all the information click here
Group makes history with new East County and violence prevention projects… To read the whole story click here
Portlander James Crittenden Sr. says it's time to Let Our Vengeance End… To read all about it click here
Portland's proposed street fee is a regressive tax which will burden low-income families … To read the editorial click here
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We now have online classified ad and announcement ordering for your convenience. Place your ad or announcement in print, online or both using our new quick and easy form… Click here to purchase an obituary.
On our website, under Entertainment, click on Crossword Puzzle, or Sudoku Puzzle. Ten fresh puzzles each week. If you just can’t guess that word, just tell it to fill it in for you!
View our full newspapers on-line just like they are printed. to turn the pages click here
