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NORTHWEST NEWS

Albina Vision Trust and Lewis & Clark College Partner to Enshrine Community, Education in Lower Albina

Permanent education facilities, legal clinics and college opportunities to be offered. 

Bernice King Reflects on the Fair Housing Act, Made Law After Her Father's Killing

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for projects and tries to reduce funding for nonprofits that handle housing discrimination complaints.

Mo Better Wellness: Mother/Daughter Cofounders Offer Mental Health Tools to Black Women

Darcell Dance and Aasha Benton create safe spaces of support and solidarity.

Superheroes, Feminism And Incurring A Debt To Black Women: A Conversation With Comics Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick

Despite her love for comics, DeConnick said it didn’t occur to her that anybody made them, let alone that women would be welcomed into the field. Since then, the Portland-based comics writer has forged an impressive career that spans industries.

NEWS BRIEFS

Alerting People About Rights Is Protected Under Oregon Senate Bill

Senate Bill 1191 says telling someone about their rights isn’t a crime in Oregon. ...

1803 Fund Makes Investment in Black Youth Education

The1803 Fund has announced a decade-long investment into Self Enhancement Inc. and Albina Head Start. The investment will take shape...

Senate Democrats Keep School Book Decisions Local and Fair

The Freedom to Read bill says books depicting race, sex, religion and other groups have to be judged by the same standards as all...

University of Portland 2025 Commencement Ceremony Set for Sunday, May 4 at Chiles Center

Keynote speaker Michael Eric Dyson, PhD is a distinguished professor, gifted writer and media personality. His books on...

Education Alliance Announces 30th Anniversary Event Chairs

Set for Saturday, April 26, the evening will bring together civic leaders, advocates and community members in a shared commitment to...

Fresh lawsuit hits Oregon city at the heart of Supreme Court ruling on homeless encampments

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed cities across the country to enforce homeless camping bans is facing a fresh lawsuit over its camping rules, as advocates find new ways to challenge them in a legal landscape...

Western Oregon women's basketball players allege physical and emotional abuse

MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) — Former players for the Western Oregon women's basketball team have filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging emotional and physical abuse. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Marion County, seeks million damages. It names the university, its athletic...

Slaughter leads Missouri against No. 5 Texas

Missouri Tigers (12-10, 1-6 SEC) at Texas Longhorns (20-2, 6-1 SEC) Austin, Texas; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Missouri visits No. 5 Texas after Grace Slaughter scored 31 points in Missouri's 78-77 victory against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The...

Slaughter leads Missouri against No. 5 Texas after 31-point game

Missouri Tigers (12-10, 1-6 SEC) at Texas Longhorns (20-2, 6-1 SEC) Austin, Texas; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Missouri visits No. 5 Texas after Grace Slaughter scored 31 points in Missouri's 78-77 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The...

OPINION

The Courage of Rep. Al Green: A Mandate for the People, Not the Powerful

If his colleagues truly believed in the cause, they would have risen in protest beside him, marched out of that chamber arm in arm with him, and defended him from censure rather than allowing Republicans to frame the narrative. ...

Bending the Arc: Advancing Equity in a New Federal Landscape

January 20th, 2025 represented the clearest distillation of the crossroads our country faces. ...

Trump’s America Last Agenda is a Knife in the Back of Working People

Donald Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just how brutally he went after our country’s working people in the first few days – even the first few hours – after he was...

As Dr. King Once Asked, Where Do We Go From Here?

“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall...

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NEWS

Trump consoles crash victims then dives into politics with attack on diversity initiatives

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to the deadliest American aviation disaster in more than two decades by blaming diversity initiatives for undermining safety and questioning the actions of a U.S. Army helicopter pilot involved in the midair collision with a...

US Supreme Court rejects likely final appeal of South Carolina inmate a day before his execution

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car. Marion Bowman Jr.'s request to stop his execution until a...

Trump's orders take aim at critical race theory and antisemitism on college campuses

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money. A separate plan announced Wednesday calls for aggressive action to...

ENTERTAINMENT

Black Excellence Is Front and Center on Vogue’s Newest Met Gala Issue

Carver Clark Gayton, Local and National Education and Civil Rights Leader, Writes Autobiography: Odyssey of a Seattle Native Son

Paul Tazewell Becomes First Black Man to Win an Oscar for Best Costume Design

Meet the Compton Teacher Who Sparked Kendrick Lamar’s Love for Words

U.S. & WORLD NEWS

African American Mayors Set to Convene in Nation’s Capital for Landmark Conference

Sharpton Secures Meeting with PepsiCo on Equity Rollback

National Park Service Restores Original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Webpage

Target Continues to Pay the Price for Breaking Promise to Black America

By The Skanner News | The Skanner News

Portland State University's Black Studies Department will be holding a free forum on "Civil Rights in Portland: Leadership and Community Building" on Thursday, March 11.
In conjunction with the History Department and the PSU Library, the forum will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in room 218 of the Ondine Building, 1912 SW 6th Ave. between Hall and College.
The slide show and student presentations that will be shown are the culmination of a semester's worth of research by students of Avel Gordly and Patricia Schechter's community-based research course. A public discussion session will follow the presentations. The public is invited to attend.

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