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An Audience at Last

An Audience at Last
Jun 12, 2013, 10:50 a.m.
Black Fatherhood

Black Fatherhood
Jun 12, 2013, 10:47 a.m.
Mayor Aide Baruti Artharee Investigated for Comments

Mayor Aide Baruti Artharee Investigated for Comments
Jun 11, 2013, 5:21 p.m.
History Museum presents ‘For All the World to ...

History Museum presents ‘For All the World to See’
Jun 14, 2013, 1:17 p.m.
Open to the Neighborhood

Open to the Neighborhood
Jun 4, 2013, 4:59 p.m.

Latest News

Portland's Procurement Services continue striving to forge strong relationships with local minority and women owned businesses.

Reaching Out for Equity

June 19, 2013 | 11:17 a.m.

A new welcoming frontage is fashioned at Jefferson High School on North Killingsworth Street thanks to funding from the Portland Development Commission.

More than a Decade in the Making

June 19, 2013 | 11:08 a.m.

Minority Business Growth Honored

June 19, 2013 | 11:04 a.m.

Rep. Lew Frederick and Sen. Chip Shields

Crime Laws May Get Racial Review

June 19, 2013 | 10:57 a.m.

Arts & Entertainment

The documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' is about a 1970s musician known as Rodriguez whose career gets lost in a dominant culture.

An Audience at Last

June 12, 2013 | 10:50 a.m.

Portland filmmaker Jordan Thierry is working to empower men of color with his documentary ‘The Black Fatherhood Project’ which explores fatherhood past, present and future.

Black Fatherhood

June 12, 2013 | 10:47 a.m.

The Northwest Film Center presents “Stress Position,” the latest work of a Vancouver, B.C. based filmmaker, which begins as a bizarre and darkly humorous reality TV show and gradually spirals out of control.

'Stress Position' movie premiere at NW Film ...

June 10, 2013 | 3:30 p.m.

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were wrongfully convicted of attacking and raping a white female jogger in New York City’s Central Park. The story of injustice is told in the Ken Burns documentary ‘The Central Park Five.’ in the photo on right, Antron McCraya, one of the defendants and his mother walk to the courthouse.

Attention Must be Paid When Injustice Rules

June 6, 2013 | 9:29 a.m.

Metro

A new welcoming frontage is fashioned at Jefferson High School on North Killingsworth Street thanks to funding from the Portland Development Commission.

More than a Decade in the Making

June 19, 2013 | 11:08 a.m.

Minority Business Growth Honored

June 19, 2013 | 11:04 a.m.

Postal workers gather outside the US Postal Service’s Air Cargo Center near the airport on Saturday protesting increased privatization of jobs.

Postal Workers Battle Privatization

June 19, 2013 | 10:42 a.m.

Portland filmmaker Jordan Thierry is working to empower men of color with his documentary ‘The Black Fatherhood Project’ which explores fatherhood past, present and future.

Black Fatherhood

June 12, 2013 | 10:47 a.m.

Law & Justice

Rep. Lew Frederick and Sen. Chip Shields

Crime Laws May Get Racial Review

June 19, 2013 | 10:57 a.m.

Sanitation Workers assemble for a solidarity march on March 28, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.

History Museum presents ‘For All the World ...

June 14, 2013 | 1:17 p.m.

Ivanice "Ivy" Harris on the beach in Hawaii.

Suspect Arrested in Ivanice's Death

June 6, 2013 | 12:22 p.m.

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were wrongfully convicted of attacking and raping a white female jogger in New York City’s Central Park. The story of injustice is told in the Ken Burns documentary ‘The Central Park Five.’ in the photo on right, Antron McCraya, one of the defendants and his mother walk to the courthouse.

Attention Must be Paid When Injustice Rules

June 6, 2013 | 9:29 a.m.

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