First Black woman to lead housing authority
Home Forward hires new executive Ivory Mathews will serve as the new executive director of Home Forward, the low-income housing authority...
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Jan 26, 20223 min read
Historic Designations Advance
Documenting Portland’s Black experience Mt. Olivet Baptist Church at 1734 N.E. First Ave. was built in 1923 for one of Portland’s first...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
Tributes Pour in for Reo Varnado
Entrepreneur was a great cook and storyteller By Michael Leighton A photo posted on Snoop Dogg's Instagram pays tribute to his late uncle...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
Events link Black Panthers past and present
All Power to the People A three-day celebration of Black History will look back at Portland’s past with the Black Panther Party and how...
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Jan 24, 20222 min read
Events link Black Panthers past and present
All Power to the People A three-day celebration of Black History will look back at Portland’s past with the Black Panther Party and how...
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Jan 20, 20221 min read
Black Artists Matter
Art born of social justice perspectives Amirah Chatman’s Heaven’s Probably in Phoenix (2020) is among the works from 20 artists featured...
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Jan 11, 20221 min read
Expanding Voter Access
MLK speaker an expert on political engagement Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown to give the Martin Luther King Jr....
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Jan 11, 20225 min read
43 Years of MLK Tributes
Keep Alive the Dream documentary ready for debut Retired Portland educator and World Arts Foundation co-founder Ken Berry at the controls...
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Jan 11, 20224 min read
‘We have progressed, but so has racism’
Vancouver NAACP president advances fight for justice By Beverly Corbell Jasmine Tolbert One year in as president of the Vancouver NAACP,...
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