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Diversity in the Workplace Page 2 Week in Review The Established 1970 USPS 959 680 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submis- sions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All created design display ads be- come the sole property of the newspaper and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage with- out the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultur- al Publication--is a member of the National Newspa- per Association--Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Pub- lishers Association P ublisher : Mark Washington, Sr. E ditor : Michael Leighton E xecutive D irector : Rakeem Washington A dvertising M anager : Leonard Latin Office Manager/Classifieds: Lucinda Baldwin C reative D irector : Paul Neufeldt R eporter /P hotographer : Olivia Olivia CALL 503-288-0033 FAX 503-288-0015 news@portlandobserver.com ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 June 24, 2015 Warriors arrived on six floats with the championship trophy they won after the team bested LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers. Flag Flies in Oregon Park In Oregon, a black lawmaker wants a symbol of the confederacy re- moved from a park near the State Capitol in Salem. The Mississippi flag, the last state flag to include the confederate battle flag, is part of an installation of flags represent- ing all 50 states in the park. Rep. Rapper ‘Diddy’ Arrested Hip-hop music mogul Sean “Did- Lew Frederick of Portland says the dy” Combs posted bail and was flag represents racism and hate and released from jail Monday night is asking that it taken down. after being charged with assault involving a weight room kettle- Charleston Unity March ball at the athletic facilities of On Sunday thousands of people the University of California, Los joined members of the Emanuel Angeles, where his son is on the AME Church in Charleston, S.C. football team. No one was seri- for a unity march to support the vic- ously injured and campus police tims of the shooting attack that took the lives of nine African-American are investigating. members during a Wednesday-eve- ning bible study group. Confederate Flag Debate The Confederate flag may be see- ing its last days at South Caroli- ‘Mass Extinction’ Forecast na’s statehouse, as activists, civil A study published Friday in the rights leaders and politicians call Science Advances journal said for its removal in light of last the planet appears to be entering week’s massacre at a historic the first mass extinction since di- black church in Charleston by a nosaurs perished over 65 million years ago, citing the disappear- white supremacist. ance of vertebrates, which include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphib- Basketball Victory Lap NBA Championship players ians, and fish, at a rate 114 times graced the streets of Oakland in faster than normal. Human activ- a victory parade Friday that drew ity related to development and hundreds of thousands of fans. climate change is exacerbating the Members of the Golden State problem, the study argued.