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04-19-2024 1:07 am • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
Audrey Peterman
In every facet of American life -from exploration; conquest; defense; economy; resistance; conservation and the pursuit of human rights – I can show you a unit of the National Park System where the event took place, where African Americans made the difference, and the park is the means of protecting the story.
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Angele Kirk (Photo courtesy of Planned Parenthood Columbia-Williamette)
Repairing historic harm begins with trust — because we know that when Black women thrive, we all thrive.
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Bakari Height
February 4 is Rosa Parks’ birthday. It is also Transit Equity Day.
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Charlene Crowell
For America, Black History Month brings opportunities to revisit our nation’s lessons, achievements, and unfulfilled promises, capturing our attention as well as our hopes. Yet nothing hits home harder than the painful reminders of how so much of Black America continues to struggle financially, despite an economy that reports low unemployment, a robust stock market, and low inflation.
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In normal times, a presidential election in Taiwan is mainly about domestic issues, not relations with the People's Republic of China. But the election January 13 put unusual focus on those relations, pumped up by dire warnings from Beijing and baseless predictions from some politicians and military officers in the US that China will invade Taiwan in coming years.
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Ben Jealous
In the wake of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass laid out the argument for why, as Americans, we should remain optimistic about our future and our ability to come together.
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This January 15, our nation again will observe the only national holiday designated as a day of service. The Martin Luther King, Jr. federal was first observed in 1986. But it took another 17 years for all 50 states to recognize the holiday.
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Stacy M. Brown
The wealth and influence of a few Black Americans won’t mean anything to racists who, just like after the Civil War, seized all they could from Black people and will undoubtedly be positioned to do it again.
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Tom Hastings
The countless stories of disenfranchised people around the world making a difference in their democracies--or even creating democracy where there had been none--can help motivate us when we feel like it's hopeless. People like Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Alice Paul, and so many more are still influential even though they've passed on.
READ MOREBen Jealous
The story of the orcas and the salmon shows the interconnectivity of species in our natural ecosystems. It further illustrates the dire need to combat the extinction crisis and protect endangered species.
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