Portland Community College's 24th Cascade Festival of African Films brings 19 films and two African directors

After a fierce search for the right name for the new light rail bridge under construction over the Willamette River, ...

Teressa Raiford kicked off a new political campaign to the backdrop of heavy nostalgia, and promises of a stronger community ...

Scholar Khalid el-Hakim brought his Black History 101 Mobile Museum to Jefferson High School Thursday to help shine a light ...

Multnomah County Library’s Everybody Reads 2014, the library’s 12th annual community reading project began last week with the distribution of ...

Decades ago, Harris left her African-American hub of Harlem, N.Y., for Portland, a town she had barely even heard of ...

In a land where sunny days and black bodies are sparse in numbers, California-bred activist Ahjamu Umi sees 35,000 rays ...

Too many lives have been cut short by violent confrontations with Portland Police and a northeast Portland activist has made ...

The Rockwood neighborhood in Gresham will soon become home to two of the most prolific youth-service programs in the country.

What’s that flying in the air? Well, it very well could be you, momentarily denying the laws of gravity, if ...

Portland giants in their work to make for a better community were honored by family, friends, and civic leaders at ...

The FBI Portland Division has presented Big Brothers, Big Sisters with its annual Community Leadership Award for a second chance ...

How do you heal hurt people? Dr. Alicia Moreland-Capuia would like to think she has an answer for young men ...

Spending money is a familiar scene from one of America’s favorite past times. But shopping for Christmas in an economy ...

Portland’s Hip-Hop community came out in full support to help victims of the Philippines disaster Typhoon Haiyan. They typhoon, which ...