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43 Years of MLK Tributes

43 Years of MLK Tributes
Jan 11, 2022, 4:45 p.m.
Activist Remembers King’s Lessons

Activist Remembers King’s Lessons
Jan 11, 2022, 4:34 p.m.
‘We have progressed, but so has racism’

‘We have progressed, but so has racism’
Jan 11, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
Portland Observer’s 50 Years

Portland Observer’s 50 Years
Nov 18, 2020, 8:59 a.m.
The Portland Observer: Did you Know?

The Portland Observer: Did you Know?
Nov 18, 2020, 8:55 a.m.

Latest News

Portland School Board members have rejected a request by City Commissioner Dan Ryan to turn a section of vacant property it owns at 5700 N.E. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. into a Safe Rest Site for the homeless. The land once housed Adams High School and then Whitaker Middle School before being demolished. (Photo from Google Maps)

Adams-Whitaker Site Rejected

January 20, 2022 | 11:08 a.m.

Amirah Chatman’s Heaven’s Probably in Phoenix (2020) is among the works from 20 artists featured in a Black Lives Matter exhibit at Portland State University.

Black Artists Matter

January 19, 2022 | 8:37 a.m.

Urgent, Funny and Intense

January 18, 2022 | noon

Retired Portland educator and World Arts Foundation co-founder Ken Berry at the controls of video editing equipment used to produce Keep Alive the Dream, a new historic film documenting 43 years of annual MLK tributes and showcasing the lives of African Americans in Oregon.

43 Years of MLK Tributes

January 11, 2022 | 4:45 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Amirah Chatman’s Heaven’s Probably in Phoenix (2020) is among the works from 20 artists featured in a Black Lives Matter exhibit at Portland State University.

Black Artists Matter

January 19, 2022 | 8:37 a.m.

Urgent, Funny and Intense

January 18, 2022 | noon

Retired Portland educator and World Arts Foundation co-founder Ken Berry at the controls of video editing equipment used to produce Keep Alive the Dream, a new historic film documenting 43 years of annual MLK tributes and showcasing the lives of African Americans in Oregon.

43 Years of MLK Tributes

January 11, 2022 | 4:45 p.m.

Portland’s Delphon "DJ" Curtis Jr. in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at The Armory.

Bold Take on Hit Musical

January 11, 2022 | 3:44 p.m.

Metro

Portland School Board members have rejected a request by City Commissioner Dan Ryan to turn a section of vacant property it owns at 5700 N.E. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. into a Safe Rest Site for the homeless. The land once housed Adams High School and then Whitaker Middle School before being demolished. (Photo from Google Maps)

Adams-Whitaker Site Rejected

January 20, 2022 | 11:08 a.m.

Jasmine Tolbert

‘We have progressed, but so has racism’

January 11, 2022 | 4:22 p.m.

A nurse cares for a critically ill patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Oregon Health and Science University. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 increased to 692 statewide this week, but hospitalizations were still about 40% below their peak during a summer surge. (Photo courtesy OHSU)

Impacts Grow from COVID Surge

January 11, 2022 | 4:09 p.m.

The annual Drum Major Celebration at Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church honors the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Given the public health considerations during the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s celebration will be held via a live Facebook broadcast on Sunday, Jan. 16 at 2 p.m.

‘Now is Still the Time’

January 11, 2022 | 3:59 p.m.

Law & Justice

Black community activist Laurie Palmer, a motivational speaker and founder of the Go Get Your Child Community Violence Prevention Coalition, attends an event commemorating the lives lost to gun violence.

Activist Remembers King’s Lessons

January 11, 2022 | 4:34 p.m.

Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown to give the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday keynote at Oregon State University.

Expanding Voter Access

January 11, 2022 | 2:32 p.m.

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks out on how racist rage animated the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. As she looked out on the crowds that day, she knew what was about to take place would be no peaceful protest, saying the Confederate flags and the makeshift noose and gallows erected on the Capitol grounds, spoke to a more sinister reality. (AP photo)

How Racist Rage Animated Jan. 6 riot

January 6, 2022 | 9:44 a.m.

Michael Johnson, 53, has been identified as the man found shot and killed on Dec. 23 inside a tent at a homeless camp next to Farragut Park in north Portland. (Family photo courtesy of Portland Police Bureau.)

Family Mourns Brother Killed

December 29, 2021 | 10:13 a.m.

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