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COVID-19 Danger Now Rated Extreme

COVID-19 Danger Now Rated Extreme
Nov 30, 2020, 3:20 p.m.
Dynamic Justice Activist Joins PSU

Dynamic Justice Activist Joins PSU
Nov 30, 2020, 4:27 p.m.
Five Things Black Panther Taught Us

Five Things Black Panther Taught Us
Nov 5, 2020, 1:53 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.

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Free diapers and baby supplies are made available to young families impacted by COVID-19 with the help of Jane Stockbridge, one of the interns working at the Mother and Child Education Center, 1515 N.E. 41st Ave., a home that was converted into a free resource center for pregnant moms and mothers. It is one of four Northeast Portland organizations receiving donations of over 2,000 diapers and baby supplies to be distributed to families impacted by COVID-19, the wildfires and economic hardships.

‘Safe Moms, Safe Babies’ Help Arrives

December 1, 2020 | 12:06 p.m.

Walidah Imarisha, educator, writer, academic and spoken word artist, is an expert on problems with America’s prison system. Her nonfiction book, ‘Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption’ won a 2017 Oregon Book award.

Dynamic Justice Activist Joins PSU

November 30, 2020 | 4:27 p.m.

A health care worker wears protective clothing to test people at a COVID-19 testing site east of Portland. (Photo courtesy of Multnomah County)

COVID-19 Danger Now Rated Extreme

November 30, 2020 | 3:20 p.m.

Restaurants, food carts and benevolent groups in Multnomah County can apply for small business grants to offset the cost of restrictions from COVID-19. A photo from AP earlier in the year shows seating restrictions to control the disease taken at a Tigard Red Robin restaurant.

New COVID-19 Relief for Restaurants

November 30, 2020 | 2:43 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

A coronavirus rendering from the CDC

Dial Back Thanksgiving Plans, Officials say

November 24, 2020 | 1:38 p.m.

Chadwick Boseman in a scene from the Marvel superhero juggernaut "Black Panther" (Photo courtesy Marvel Studios-Disney)

Five Things Black Panther Taught Us

November 5, 2020 | 1:53 p.m.

Women's tackle football, a diverse team of players and coaches based in Portland, has been playing since 2002. Called the Portland Fighting Shockwave, they play in the Women's Football Alliance, the largest women football league in the world. Practices are at the Moore Street Salvation Army field in north Portland.

Women’s Football Charts Return

November 3, 2020 | 3 p.m.

A photo shows the AfroAmerican Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quit donated to the Oregon Historical Society that was crafted in the mid 1970s by 15 Black women from Portland. The quilt was stolen and then recovered in a nearby park with water damage after the Oregon Historical Society museum, downtown, was broken into and vandalized during a Oct. 11 protest sponsors billed as a day of “rage” toward Columbus Day.

Afro Heritage Quilt Saved

October 15, 2020 | 3:32 p.m.

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Free diapers and baby supplies are made available to young families impacted by COVID-19 with the help of Jane Stockbridge, one of the interns working at the Mother and Child Education Center, 1515 N.E. 41st Ave., a home that was converted into a free resource center for pregnant moms and mothers. It is one of four Northeast Portland organizations receiving donations of over 2,000 diapers and baby supplies to be distributed to families impacted by COVID-19, the wildfires and economic hardships.

‘Safe Moms, Safe Babies’ Help Arrives

December 1, 2020 | 12:06 p.m.

Sharon Gary-Smith

Portland NAACP Elects New Leader

November 24, 2020 | 11:33 a.m.

Dr. Guang Fan of OHSU demonstrates a specialized tube designed to collect saliva to Anthony Deloney, director of strategic initiatives for Self Enhancement Inc. OHSU and SEI are collaborating on a pilot COVID-19 study that combines wastewater screening with voluntary saliva testing of residents within four distinct Portland neighborhoods. (Photo by Erik Robinson/OHSU)

SEI Enlisted for COVID Study

November 23, 2020 | 11:47 a.m.

The Portland Observer, born in 1970, traces its beginnings to a need to cover issues from the African American community’s perspective. Photos show some of the turmoil the community was facing at the time, as two young African American men get arrested by white police officers while surrounded by a crowd (left) and Sandra Ford as a founder of Portland's Black Panther Party pickets in support of repressed peoples at the U.S. Courthouse, downtown. (Oregon Historical Society photos)

Portland Observer’s 50 Years

November 18, 2020 | 8:59 a.m.

Law & Justice

Walidah Imarisha, educator, writer, academic and spoken word artist, is an expert on problems with America’s prison system. Her nonfiction book, ‘Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption’ won a 2017 Oregon Book award.

Dynamic Justice Activist Joins PSU

November 30, 2020 | 4:27 p.m.

A health care worker wears protective clothing to test people at a COVID-19 testing site east of Portland. (Photo courtesy of Multnomah County)

COVID-19 Danger Now Rated Extreme

November 30, 2020 | 3:20 p.m.

Tracey L. Rogers

Black Voters Saved Our Democracy

November 25, 2020 | 9:27 a.m.

Portland Police officers walk enveloped by tear gas after a protest last March 29. (AP archive photo)

Jail Inmates Sue for Tear Gas Exposure

November 24, 2020 | 1:06 p.m.

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