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    Trouble at the Workplace

    Jun 19, 2013, 11:24 a.m.
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    Reaching Out for Equity

    Jun 19, 2013, 11:17 a.m.
  • More than a Decade in the Making

    More than a Decade in the Making

    Jun 19, 2013, 11:08 a.m.
  • Black Fatherhood

    Black Fatherhood

    Jun 12, 2013, 10:47 a.m.
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    History Museum presents ‘For All the World to See’

    Jun 14, 2013, 1:17 p.m.

Latest News

As an African-American, Ivery Mays Jr. is certainly `underrepresented’ in his profession as an Apprentice Pipefitter, but he never thought he would encounter racism on the job. Trouble at the Workplace

June 19, 2013 | 11:24 a.m.

Portland's Procurement Services continue striving to forge strong relationships with local minority and women owned businesses. (From left) Tiffani Penson and Christine Moody of Procurement Services and to the right Jacqueline Lawson owner of social media startup Hot and Mobile. 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.

Mel Jones (center) of Skanska USA, accepts a construction industry award to the company's Portland office from the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, represented by Jorge Guerra (left) and Sam Brooks (right). Minority Business Growth Honored

June 19, 2013 | 11:04 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

As an African-American, Ivery Mays Jr. is certainly `underrepresented’ in his profession as an Apprentice Pipefitter, but he never thought he would encounter racism on the job. Trouble at the Workplace

June 19, 2013 | 11:24 a.m.

Portland's Procurement Services continue striving to forge strong relationships with local minority and women owned businesses. (From left) Tiffani Penson and Christine Moody of Procurement Services and to the right Jacqueline Lawson owner of social media startup Hot and Mobile. 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.

Mel Jones (center) of Skanska USA, accepts a construction industry award to the company's Portland office from the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, represented by Jorge Guerra (left) and Sam Brooks (right). Minority Business Growth Honored

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

Law & Justice

As an African-American, Ivery Mays Jr. is certainly `underrepresented’ in his profession as an Apprentice Pipefitter, but he never thought he would encounter racism on the job. Trouble at the Workplace

June 19, 2013 | 11:24 a.m.

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.

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    Stress Position Movie Trailer

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    Welcome to Portland, Oregon

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  • Filmmaking and torture collide in premiere film coming to the Northwest Film Center, Thursday, June 13 Zoom

    Stress Position Movie Trailer

  • Promotional video promoting Portland, Oregon and the African American Chamber of Commerce. Zoom

    Welcome to Portland, Oregon

Most Recent

  • Trouble at the Workplace
    As an African-American, Ivery Mays Jr. is certainly `underrepresented’ in his profession as an Apprentice Pipefitter, but he never thought he would encounter racism on the job.
  • Reaching Out for Equity
    Portland's Procurement Services continue striving to forge strong relationships with local minority and women owned businesses. (From left) Tiffani Penson and Christine Moody of Procurement Services and to the right Jacqueline Lawson owner of social media startup Hot and Mobile.
  • More than a Decade in the Making
    A new welcoming frontage is fashioned at Jefferson High School on North Killingsworth Street thanks to funding from the Portland Development Commission.
  • Minority Business Growth Honored
    Mel Jones (center) of Skanska USA, accepts a construction industry award to the company's Portland office from the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, represented by Jorge Guerra (left) and Sam Brooks (right).
  • Crime Laws May Get Racial Review
    Rep. Lew Frederick and Sen. Chip Shields

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