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Abortion Remains Legal, Accessible in Oregon in Wake of Supreme Court Ruling
Decision has no effect on Oregon’s Reproductive Health Equity Act that guarantees right to receive abortion, health care providers’ right to provide it
Black Man Police Killed in Clackamas County ID'd, Police Say He Had Gun
The shooting is being investigated by the Oregon City and Lake Oswego police departments.
WA, OR Leaders Skeptical About Pausing Gas Taxes
President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months and urged states to do the same at the local level.
Mother-Daughter Mental Health Professionals Launch Organization for Black Professional Women
Mo Better Wellness, Connection, and Facilitation will offer wellness events and consulting.
Increased Emergency Snap Benefits Continue in July
Approximately 422,000 households will receive an estimated million in extra food benefits ...
Opacity of Performance: Takahiro Yamamoto Opens at PAM
The Portland Art Museum marks a return to live art inside its galleries with a dance installation by Takahiro Yamamoto, the museum’s...
Portland's First Black Book Festival Launches on Juneteenth Weekend
She’s bringing together the community through books! ...
Juneteenth Oregon Celebration was founded 50 years ago by the late and beloved community leader Clara Peoples. View Juneteenth events...
Portland Public Schools Expands Weapons Ban
The action follows a bill the Oregon Legislature passed earlier this year giving schools the ability to prohibit concealed carry...
Air Force ROTC cadet dies in Idaho training accident
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho (AP) — An Air Force ROTC cadet from Alaska died in an accident involving a Humvee during a training exercise in Idaho, Mountain Home Air Force Base said Sunday. Mackenzie Wilson, 19, a cadet at Oregon State University, died of injuries sustained in an accident...
Abortion rights protest in Portland turns destructive
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An abortion rights protest in Portland, Oregon turned destructive over the weekend, with some people marching down the street breaking windows on businesses and vehicles and scrawling graffiti, police said. Officers were monitoring the crowed but no one was...
Centuries of indoctrination have ingrained into the minds of white and Black Americans that any aspect of Africanness is negative. ...
The Plan for Transforming Public Safety and Policing in the U.S.
Rising crime leaves communities feeling unsafe, however, police violence and killings of unarmed civilians demonstrate that pouring more money into more-of-the-same policing is not the answer. ...
What Is Afrofuturism? An English Professor Explains
Chambliss defines Afrofuturism as an intersection of speculation and liberation that’s inspired by the concerns of people of African descent. ...
Reflections on the Massacre of the Buffalo 10 & Racism
Former NY state senator and Buffalo native knew many of the people killed ...
Harris emerges as top abortion voice, warns of more fallout
WASHINGTON (AP) — During Brett Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, then-California Sen. Kamala Harris asked the judge if he thought women's privacy rights extended to choosing to have an abortion. Kavanaugh declined to answer. With Justice Kavanaugh now part of...
Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court made it easier Monday for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes. The justices ruled 5-4 that trial judges who are asked to...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs receives lifetime honor at BET Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a speech about his own inspirational dream for the Black community, Sean “Diddy” Combs channeled the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while accepting the BET Awards' highest honor Sunday night. After Combs received his Lifetime Achievement Award,...
Muti's legacy: respect composers, reject revisionists
CHICAGO (AP) — In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th century scores without altered notes. He urged them to...
Celebrities react to the Supreme Court's abortion ruling
Several celebrities including Viola Davis, Bette Midler and Stephen King reacted after the Supreme Court on Friday voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. ___ “They did it. THEY DID IT TO US! #SCOTUS has overturned...
Manufacturers struggle to keep pace with vinyl record demand
The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels. Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an...
EXPLAINER: What's the impact of a Russian debt default?
Russia appeared to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a...
NATO to boost rapid reaction force, Ukraine military support
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops...
No reruns: Committee tries new approach to break through
NEW YORK (AP) — As television programming goes, expectations were widespread that the Jan. 6 committee hearings...
Detained LGBTQ activists in Istanbul Pride being released
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul’s LGBTQ Pride organizers said 373 people detained by police following a ban on all...
Czech bullet train collides with engine, 1 dead, 5 injured
PRAGUE (AP) — A bullet train collided with an engine in a train station in northeastern Czech Republic Monday,...
Seoul urges China, Russia to prevent North Korean nuke test
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top South Korean official said Monday that North Korea is increasingly targeting the...
The next hearing will be held sometime in July; an exact date has not yet been announced.
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