Black Portlanders Struggle to be Heard Amid Protests
The Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing Steering Committee will meet Tuesday, August 11, 2020 from 5:30 –7pm
Portland Protests Persist with Some Flashes of Violence
Tear gas was used by police on protesters Wednesday for the first time since the U.S. agents pulled back their presence
Reimagine Oregon Issues Equity Demands, Gains Legislative Support
Coalition of Black-led and Black-focused organizations takes new approach to concrete change
The initiative would expand access to drug addiction treatment and recovery services, and decriminalize low-level drug possession.
Oregon Housing and Community Services Awards $60,822,101 to Build and Preserve 802 Affordable Homes
Investments address the statewide shortage of affordable housing through the development and preservation of affordable rental homes. ...
Phase Two Re:Imagine Grant Deadline August 11
The fund focuses on supporting ten artists with grants of $5,000 as they reimagine their practices and pivot toward the...
A total of 15 CDFIs will receive grants ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 while the African American Alliance will receive...
2020 VRA anniversary observance to honor the memory of voting rights activist and late-Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) ...
White Democrats in Congress Falling Short on Reparations Bill
Democracy in Color releases “The White List” showing 79% of democratic House members haven’t cosigned HR 40 despite popular...
Lawmakers talk police reform, other bills at special session
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers discussed unemployment benefits and police reform bills Monday as they returned to the Capitol for a special session that was largely supposed to be focused on the state's jumi billion budget hole. Sunday night, less than 24 hours before the second special...
Washington apple crop projected to be larger than 2019
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — This year's Washington state apple crop is expected to be slightly larger than the 2019 crop.The Washington State Tree Fruit Association estimates the 2020 crop will total 134 million standard forty-pound boxes of fresh apples. That's just above 2019’s total of...
LSU adds Missouri, Vanderbilt in revamped SEC schedule
Defending Southeastern Conference and national champion LSU will host Missouri and visit Vanderbilt in its expanded Southeastern Conference schedule, while Alabama will visit Mizzou and host Kentucky in league play revised by the coronavirus pandemic. The league on Friday released two additional...
Missouri's Drinkwitz takes side in mask-or-no-mask debate
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Eli Drinkwitz has been the head coach at Missouri for just over seven months. He has yet to lead the Tigers onto the football field, much less win a game, yet his role in the community already has forced him to take some important stands.First, it was supporting his new...
Historians Offer Context, Caution on Lessons 1918 Flu Pandemic Holds for COVID
Scholars find parallels of inequitable suffering between pandemic of 1918 and pandemic of 2020 ...
US Reps Adams and DeFazio Call on Postmaster General to Resign
The legislators say Trump appointee Louis DeJoy is sabotaging the US Postal Service and could harm the election ...
Da 5 Bloods and America Abroad
Even before I returned to the United States from my combat tour in Vietnam, I had decided that we were fighting an unjust war. ...
Protesters met with jeers by crowd with guns in Nevada city
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — Several dozen Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a weekend protest in rural Nevada were greeted by a far larger group of counter-demonstrators, including some bearing military-style weapons and tactical gear, but a sheriff who had made controversial remarks earlier about...
Report: Agency in Alabama city segregated public housing
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A federal review found that a public housing authority in Alabama let white people live in riverfront towers with scenic views and other amenities while segregating Black people in another apartment development without the frills, a newspaper reported. A Housing and...
UConn's Bueckers marches for her little brother's future
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn freshman Paige Bueckers marched for racial justice in her home state of Minnesota after the death of George Floyd and says she plans to continue using her voice for social change now that she's at Connecticut.The 5-foot-11 guard, last year's national high school...
The always intimate Theatre for One goes online
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus hasn't stopped the world's smallest theater. “Theatre for One,” where one audience member sees one short play performed by a single actor in a portable theater, has now gone online.“The experience is unique to Theatre for One. And in that...
'Don't shut up!' Film spotlights Filipino journalist
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maria Ressa says she didn’t take Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte seriously when he declared four years ago that “corrupt” journalists weren’t “exempted from assassination.”“In 2016, it was really, really laughable. And...
Jolie seeks removal of private judge in Pitt divorce case
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie asked Monday that the private judge overseeing her divorce from Brad Pitt be disqualified from the case because of insufficient disclosures of his business relationships with one of Pitt's attorneys. In a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jolie argues...
Trump, coaches push for college football as cracks emerge
President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches Monday in the push to save the college...
55 years after riots, Watts section of LA still bears scars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — There were no fires this time in Watts. There was no looting, no shooting and no...
McDonald's sues ousted CEO, alleging employee relationships
McDonald’s says it's suing Stephen Easterbrook, the CEO it ousted last year over an inappropriate...
El Salvador waits for president, congress to act on pandemic
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — If El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and the country’s congress...
Pandemic wrecks global Class of 2020's hopes for first job
LONDON (AP) — British fashion school graduate Phoebe St. Leger’s dream of landing a job at a design...
Protester dies in clashes after disputed Belarus vote
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A protester died amid clashes between police and thousands of people gathered for a...
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Forty wealthy families and individuals have joined Microsoft's Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity. Estimate total $600 billion.
The Skanner News Video - Share the Wealth
