Myrlie Evers-Williams, former NAACP chairman and widow of a civil rights leader, will be named a National Freedom Award winner Thursday by the National Civil Rights Museum.

The Portland Trail Blazers have signed star guard Brandon Roy to a multi-year contract extension

• Educational Resource, Clergy Leadership Forum
• Diversity Task Force Recruitment
• You Are Invited To the 'Say Hey' Aug. 27
• Seattle Schools Seeks Committee Members

Portland Community Media has been awarded a matching grant to extend multimedia and digital technology opportunities to underserved and diverse communities in every part of the city.

Allegiance Athletic Club javelin thrower, Kalaiza Mitchell, 10, took first place in turbo-jav at the Junior Olympics National Track and Field Championships in Greensboro, N.C. July 28-Aug. 2.  . . .

Bryant Terry, is coming to the King Farmer's Market and the Portland Farmer's Market at Portland State University for events with adults and youth Aug. 29 and 30 ...

Urban education was front and center as Seattle hosted the 2009 Hip Hop Congress National Conference, July 29-Aug. 2 in the Central District, in conjunction with Umoja Fest and the NW Urban Hip Hop Fest.

As of Aug. 1, members of the military who served on active duty after Sept. 10, 2001 will be eligible for the biggest government education spending supplement since the Montgomery GI Bill after World War II.

Essence magazine Editor-in-Chief Susan Taylor heard Rae-Lewis Thornton speak and immediately decided that her story needed to be shared with her magazine's readers. 

A Portland police officer accused of harassing woman on a department cell phone has resigned from his job.