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Lawsuit Says New Majority Latino District in WA a 'Facade'
A Latino civil rights organization and others filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that says new political maps in Washington state approved by a bipartisan redistricting panel intentionally dilute Hispanic voters' influence.
Washington Students' Test Scores Drop Significantly
Reports show that between 2019 and 2021, the overall percentage of students who met state standards on the math portion of the exam fell by 20 percentage points.
The Skanner Foundation Drum Major for Justice 2022 is Teressa Raiford
Through political campaigns, legal actions, founding the grassroots organizing group Don't Shoot Portland and through her fearless determination to speak up against racial injustice, Portland-born Teressa Raiford has made a lasting impression on our city and our state
Paid Workplace Training Internships Program Receives Support From City
Black, Latinx students receive skilled on-the-job training, career coaching, through POIC-RAHS program
Revamped TriMet Website Makes Planning Trips Easier With Map-Based Tools
Riders can now track real-time locations of buses and trains on their smartphone ...
PHOTOS: Founder of The American History Traveling Museum: The Unspoken Truths Honored
Delbert Richardson's Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha XI Chapter fraternity brothers presented him a plaque that reads “Your commitment to...
St. Andrew Parish Announces 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards
Tony Jones was honored with the 2022 Parish Service Award, and the award for Community Service went to Terrance Moses ...
Culture + Trauma: An Artist Comes Home
An installation at the Alberta Arts Salon curated by Bobby Fouther is a visioning of the uncensored Black life. ...
MLK Day March Starts at Peninsula Park
Humboldt Neighborhood Association invites the public to participate in the March for Human Rights and Dignity in commemoration of the...
Washington state: Vancouver man ran Ponzi scheme
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state agency has filed administrative charges against a Vancouver man accused of violating the state Securities Act by using funds from a pooled investment vehicle to make Ponzi payments to investors, among other violations. The Washington...
Lawsuit says new majority Latino district in WA a 'facade'
SEATTLE (AP) — A Latino civil rights organization and others filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that says new political maps in Washington state approved by a bipartisan redistricting panel intentionally dilute Hispanic voters' influence. The legal action in the U.S. District Court...
UNLV promotes interim AD Harper to full-time job
LAS VEGAS (AP) — UNLV has promoted interim athletic director Erick Harper to serve in the job full time. Harper's hiring, announced on Monday, was effective Jan. 1. He had served as interim athletic director since Desiree Reed-Francois left UNLV for Missouri in August. ...
Army stuns Missouri in Armed Forces Bowl on last-second FG
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Cole Talley kicked a 41-yard field goal as time expired and Army rallied to beat Missouri 24-22 in the Armed Forces Bowl on Wednesday night. After the Tigers took a 22-21 lead on a touchdown with 1:11 to play, third-string quarterback Jabari Laws led Army...
OP-ED: A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
January 6th, Voting Rights and the Tyranny Threatening America ...
Support Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project
This important and ambitious project pulled back the curtain of euphemistic rhetoric composing American historiography that points only to the good in our history and sweeps under the rug the evil deeds perpetrated against people of color ...
In 2021, Organized Labor is Again Flexing its Muscles
We have seen dramatic change in the makeup of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under President Biden. ...
Study Reveals Racial Pay Gap for Social Media Influencers
The racial pay gap has long presented issues for African Americans in Corporate America and other industries. It’s now filtered to social media. ...
'Sanford and Son' at 50, 'double-edged' Black sitcom pioneer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to be a nonstarter for the timid broadcast networks that were...
Louis Vuitton stages Virgil Abloh swansong in Paris
PARIS (AP) — Louis Vuitton pulled out the stops Thursday to present the final collection of Virgil Abloh, the house's first African-American designer who died in November after a two-year battle with cancer. The stage of a bedroom, staircase, trampoline and smoking chimney on the...
EXPLAINER: Federal charges against 3 cops in Floyd killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former officers who were with Derek Chauvin during the arrest that led to George Floyd's killing face federal trial this week on charges they violated the Black man’s civil rights. Jury selection began Thursday in the federal case against J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and...
Publisher of 'The Firm,' 'Fire and Fury' has deal for memoir
NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of such blockbusters as Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” and John Grisham's “The Firm” has a memoir coming out next year. Stephen Rubin's “Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist” will be published by Applause Books in January 2023. ...
New Mo Willems 'Pigeon' book to be released in September
NEW YORK (AP) — An imprint launched last week by Barnes & Noble Inc. has signed up one of the country's top children's author-illustrators, Mo Willems, best known for his “Pigeon” picture books. Willems has a five-book deal with Union Square Kids, including for “The Pigeon...
The Sundance Film Festival is back and online once more
The lights may be dim at the Eccles Theater and Park City's Main Street will have fewer cinephiles packing the snowy sidewalks when the Sundance Film Festival begins its 44th edition Thursday night. But if 2021 proved anything, it's that the world's premier independent film festival is more than...
19-year-old woman sets record for solo global flight
BRUSSELS (AP) — Home! And no longer alone. The 19-year-old Belgian-British pilot Zara Rutherford...
Jury selection begins in federal trial over Floyd's killing
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jury selection began Thursday in the federal trial of three Minneapolis police officers...
EXPLAINER: What does it mean for COVID-19 to be endemic?
Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an...
EU orders Poland to pay 70 million euros in spat over judges
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union is ordering Poland to pay a fine of nearly 70 million euros (...
Belarus calls referendum that could strengthen Lukashenko
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian president has called a referendum next month on constitutional...
US: Swift, severe response if Russia sends troops to Ukraine
BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Thursday that there would be a “swift, severe”...
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