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Written by The Skanner

Published: 30 January 2020

Bernadette Artharee-Scott, May 24, 1952 - January 22, 2020 

A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Bethel AME Church in Portland

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Published: 28 January 2020

Lorenzo Ghiglieri, Nov. 25, 1931 - Jan. 28, 2020 

Lorenzo Ghiglieri, one of the world's best-recognized and most successful sculptors and artists, died Saturday in Vancouver, Wash.

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Published: 06 January 2020

Nick Fish at The Skanner Foundation Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast 2018 (Photo by Julie Keefe) 

Commissioner Nick Fish died Thursday after a long battle with cancer

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Published: 13 December 2019

Nathan L. Jones 

Nathan L. Jones passed away from complications of a stroke on November 1, 2019. A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, December 22, 2019.

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Written by Marcy Gordon AP Business Writer

Published: 12 November 2019

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Bernard J. Tyson was the company's first African American CEO and under his leadership, they experienced major gains in revenue, jobs and their network of physicians

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Written by The Skanner

Published: 05 November 2019

 

Gaines’ poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation town germinated stories of Black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty

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Published: 04 November 2019

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Boyle took over the small outdoor clothing company in 1970 and helped build the struggling company into a national brand and retailer

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Written by Andrew DeMillo Associated Press

Published: 30 October 2019

In this March 25, 2015 file photo, Rep. John Walker, D-Little Rock, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston File) 

Walker, a Democrat, had represented a Little Rock district in the state House since 2011 and had been involved in some of the most high-profile discrimination and civil rights cases

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Published: 24 October 2019

Billy Easter Sr., March 21, 1939 - Sept. 30, 2019 

March 21, 1939 - Sept. 30, 2019

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Written by Allen G. Breed, AP National Writer

Published: 23 October 2019

In this May 1964 file photo, Associated Press journalist, Kathryn Johnson sits at her desk in Atlanta. (AP photo) 

She began covering Martin Luther King Jr. when he was a little-known Baptist preacher from Atlanta, and was the only journalist allowed inside the King home the day he was assassinated