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New School Model Lauded

New School Model Lauded
Apr 18, 2018, 9:53 a.m.
Concert with a Cause

Concert with a Cause
Apr 18, 2018, 10:38 a.m.
50 Years of King

50 Years of King
Apr 18, 2018, 11:55 a.m.
Natural Grocers Opens at Alberta and MLK

Natural Grocers Opens at Alberta and MLK
Apr 18, 2018, 11:31 a.m.
Rapper First to Win Pulitzer

Rapper First to Win Pulitzer
Apr 18, 2018, 10:48 a.m.

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Jill Richardson

It’s Up to Grown-Up to Stop Bullying, ...

April 18, 2018 | 12:49 p.m.

Nate Bowling

Students of Color Need to See More ...

April 18, 2018 | 12:42 p.m.

Portland activist Skipper Osborne and Portland City Council candidate Julia DeGraw.

A Candidate Who Will Take on the ...

April 18, 2018 | 12:33 p.m.

Aubrey Gene Davis Sr.

In Loving Memory

April 18, 2018 | 12:27 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music for his album “DAMN.” which also won the Grammy for Best Rap Album this year.

Rapper First to Win Pulitzer

April 18, 2018 | 10:48 a.m.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to White Bird with two different programs on Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25, both culminating in Ailey’s masterpiece, Revelations. The performance will take place at The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Alvin Ailey Back in Portland

April 18, 2018 | 10:43 a.m.

Norman Sylvester overcome with emotion after singing in tribute to the late Janice Scroggins and Linda Hornbuckle at the Waterfront Blues Festival in 2015. A staple of the Portland blues scene for the past 40 years, Sylvester will front a Saturday benefit concert with more than a dozen of other musicians in a push for universal healthcare.

Concert with a Cause

April 18, 2018 | 10:38 a.m.

Poet and children’s author Kwame Alexander, the award winning author of the basketball-themed novel “Crossover” and other bestselling works, will appear at the Alberta Rose Theater on Friday, April 20 in a free event sponsored by the Multnomah County Library.

Celebrated Author at the Alberta Rose

April 18, 2018 | 10:25 a.m.

Metro

Yolanda Coleman, assistant principal at Martin Luther King School and Lisa Jarrett, a King Museum of Contemporary Art and Portland State University professor, raise a 50 year old poster that was used to rename the school 50 years ago.

50 Years of King

April 18, 2018 | 11:55 a.m.

Natural Grocers Opens at Alberta and MLK

April 18, 2018 | 11:31 a.m.

Former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden in Portland Saturday for Concordia University’s 2018 Gov. Victor Atiyeh Leadership in Education Awards. In her keynote speech, Biden praised Portland educational leaders for instituting new public and private partnership between Concordia University and Faubion Elementary that serves as a shining example of making powerful changes in education that can lift an entire community.

New School Model Lauded

April 18, 2018 | 9:53 a.m.

D. Bora Harris is joined by friends, family and supporters to formally announce her campaign to run for chair of the Multnomah County Commission at a campaign rally Friday outside the Multnomah County building in southeast Portland.

Running for County Chair

April 11, 2018 | 12:03 p.m.

Law & Justice

Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr. (left) and Dr. T. Allen Bethel of the African American Ministerial Alliance’s Coalition for Justice and Police Reform.

Shelter Shooting Draws Fire

April 18, 2018 | 12:08 p.m.

Cell phone video (left) from a bystander identified as Morgan Pickering and uploaded to Instagram captures police officers aiming their weapons at a man wielding a knife inside the City Team Ministries building in southeast Portland Saturday night. The sign “More Mental Care Not More Cops” (right) was posted by activists during a vigil Sunday night and remained in front of the shelter on Monday.

Knife wielding man killed in confrontation

April 10, 2018 | 5:36 p.m.

Portland actress Chantal DeGroat rehearses her role in “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” the pioneering theater production recounting personal accounts from people connected to the riots that broke out after the acquittal of four police officers charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. Shows for three nights only, Sunday through Tuesday, April 15-17 at 7:30 p.m. on the Alder Stage at the Artists Rep Theatre, downtown.

Voices from the Riots

April 10, 2018 | 5:26 p.m.

Free Legal Services Day

April 4, 2018 | 10:52 a.m.

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