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The AME Church Fifth Episcopal District installed a new Bishop this summer — Bishop Theodore Larry Kirkland...


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Otis Ghant who was one of the first Black car dealers in the state of Oregon, owned O.G. Motor Car Company. He died peacefully in his sleep....


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In partnership with The Oregon Community Foundation, the Portland Trail Blazers have established the Kevin Duckworth Memorial Scholarship Fund...


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Hold Onto Your Memory: Aging & Memory in the African American Community....


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Reggie Watts performs his shows "Transition" and "Occurance" next week as part of Time-Based Art...


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The Oregon Black delegates include from left Gail Rasmussen, John Cuff, Karen Lonon-Jones, Loretta Smith, Shirley Minor and Bob Williams....


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As world class athletes competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, displays of strength, agility and fruit of hard work and sacrifice were apparent. However some American athletes showed their activism with protests....


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Journalists among those arrested; video footage indicates many arrests unprovoked

Self-described anarchists vowed Tuesday to hit the streets of St. Paul, Minn. every day this week, even as police were hoping for calm after violence near the site of the Republican convention led to more than 280 arrests....


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FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between the his agency and civil rights organizations. The goal: To bring justice in long-ignored murders from the civil rights era....


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Jamarie Payton, 17, needs life-saving heart surgery at a specialty clinic in Minnesota – and his mother, Rhonda, seeks help in getting herself and her son across country....


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