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Arts & Entertainment

  • The civil rights exhibit ‘Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women’s Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment’ draws visitors to the Oregon Historical Society in downtown Portland. History center to reopen with COVID protocols
  • A memorial bust of York, the black slave who was part of the Lewis & Clark expedition, emerged in Mt Tabor Park on Saturday.  (AP photo) Bust of York Appears in Park
  • Randi Stewart of Portland is running her own online business, 526 Beauty and Skincare Products, at 526beauty.com. Entrepreneur Inspired by Family
  • The new film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” now streaming on HBO Max, shines a light on the leadership and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1969, and Bill O'Neal, the young man who fed the FBI much of the information that made that assassination possible. Illuminating the Black Power Movement

Metro

  • Portland senior Barbara Bender answers the door for nonprofit Store to Door employee Nancy Murphy as she delivers an order of groceries. Nonprofits, churches and health care outreach workers are scrambling to reach older people who are falling through the cracks in efforts to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.   (AP photo) Vaccine Bypasses Some Older Adults
  • Bishop Stewart Minnieweather was the first to get his COVID-19 vaccine during a community clinic last Friday, Feb. 19. BIPOC-focused Vaccine Clinic Held
  • Jerry Granderson Elevating Racial Justice and Police Reforms
  • Leodis V. McDaniel at Madison High School in the 1980s. The northeast Portland school will be renamed Leodis V. McDaniel High School in honor of the highly respected Black educator who died in 1987. Madison Renamed for Black Principal

Law & Justice

  • At left, a historic photo from 1962 shows a swath of Portland centered at Broadway and Weidler that is cleared for construction of the I-5 freeway. At right, outdoor plazas as caps over I-5 at the Rose Quarter are envisioned as part of a new plan to increase the lanes of travel on the freeway. The proposal drew wide opposition for not addressing the economic development needs of the historic African American community which was first displaced by the freeway nearly 50 years ago I-5 Scar of Displacement Revisited
  • Sharon Risher Taking Aim at Gun Law Loophole
  • Jo Ann Hardesty Rethink Police Panel Forms
  • Lew Frederick Black Voices Grow Power in Salem

Opinion

  • Sam Sachs of Portland is founder of the No Hate Zone. On Gun Violence and Police Trust
  • Sirius Bonner,vice president of equity and inclusion at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. Black Women Seldom Get Support We Deserve
  • E.D. Mondaine Supporting New NAACP Leaders
  • Marc H. Morial Tamir Rice Decision Fails at Justice

Obituaries

  • Verna Mae Turner-Fisher In Loving Memory
  • Ora Lee Green, Sunrise: Dec. 28, 1933; Sunset: Jan. 6, 2021 In Loving Memory
  • Stanley Willis In Loving Memory
  • John Samuel Green In Loving Memory

Sports

  • Tiger Woods is pictured in this archive photo from AP. Lucky to be alive, Woods faces a difficult recovery after being seriously injured on Tuesday in a rollover crash in suburban Los Angeles. Tiger Woods Faces Difficult Recovery
  • Students participating in Portland Parks and Recreation’s EAGLE caddies program last year at the Rose City Golf Course in northeast Portland included (from left) Ava Arias, Lilly Varner, Kennedy Phillips and Daysi Narruhn. Sign-ups for new enrollees for 2021 are now underway. Early Adventures in Golf
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers inside linebacker Devin White (45) breaks up a pass intended for Kansas City Chiefs running back Darrel Williams (right), during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game, Sunday, Feb. 7 in Tampa, Fla.  (AP photo) Brady, Defense Propel Super Bowl Win
  • Temple head coach John Chaney, one of the nation’s leading Black coaches and a commanding figure during a Hall of Fame basketball career at Temple, has died. He was 89.  (AP file photo) Legendary Coach Remembered

Education

  • The house where slain African-American leader Malcolm X spent part of his childhood in Boston has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.  (AP file photo) Malcolm X home gets historic designation
  • Leodis V. McDaniel at Madison High School in the 1980s. The northeast Portland school will be renamed Leodis V. McDaniel High School in honor of the highly respected Black educator who died in 1987. Madison Renamed for Black Principal
  • Student Nahlee Suvanvej (right) and her career mentor Tracee Wells are pictured outside the Portland Metro Workforce Training Center, located at Northeast 42nd and Killingsworth. A Degree and a New Lease on Life
  • Students participating in Portland Parks and Recreation’s EAGLE caddies program last year at the Rose City Golf Course in northeast Portland included (from left) Ava Arias, Lilly Varner, Kennedy Phillips and Daysi Narruhn. Sign-ups for new enrollees for 2021 are now underway. Early Adventures in Golf

Health & Sustainability

  • Jo Ann Hardesty Hardesty Calls Allegations a Smear
  • Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are prepared at a drive-thru clinic in Portland. Gov. Brown, following public health guidelines, opened up vaccines to people 80 years or older this week, but reservations for the shots quickly outpaced supply.  (AP photo) Seniors Vaccine Signups Outrun Supply
  • Intel issues a report to renew its social justice, community pledge Intel Oregon Renews Social Justice Pledge
  • Worship in Pink volunteers working with Susan G. Komen Oregon and Southwest Washington on breast cancer prevention in Portland’s African American community gather for a group photo during a training summit in 2017. As the national Komen organization consolidates its operations to Dallas, Texas, the Portland-based Komen chapter is closing its doors after 29 years at the end of March. Komen Closing Portland Operations

Black Experience

  • The new film “Judas and the Black Messiah,” now streaming on HBO Max, shines a light on the leadership and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1969, and Bill O'Neal, the young man who fed the FBI much of the information that made that assassination possible. Illuminating the Black Power Movement
  • Sirius Bonner,vice president of equity and inclusion at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. Black Women Seldom Get Support We Deserve
  • Historian Melissa Williams will share the story of McCloughlin Heights and Vancouver’s African American community as part of a Black History Month YouTube event from the Clark County Historical Museum. Vancouver’s African American Roots
  • In this combination of photos, demonstrators (left), protest last June 4 in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., over the death of George Floyd and on Tuesday, Jan. 6, supporters of President Donald Trump rally at same location. (AP photos) Race Double Standard in Capitol insurrection
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