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Beyoncé, Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Bruno Mars (right), perform during halftime of Sunday’s
Super Bowl game between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers in Santa Clara, California.
Unapologetic Blackness
Beyoncé makes
a statement
Super Bowl was marked by a
stunning display of unapologetic
blackness and political activism
during one of the most-watched
events of the year.
Sunday’s halftime performance
featuring Beyoncé, watched by
an estimated 112 million people,
highlighted connections to famous
moments in African American his-
tory and contemporary issues fac-
ing the community.
Beyoncé and her dancers
donned berets, rocked Afros, and
wore all black, showing off what
many are calling a homage to the
Black Panther party founded 50
years ago by Huey P. Newton and
Bobby Seale in the Bay Area – the
location of this year’s Super Bowl.
The show was complete with
the dancers raising their ists to
the sky, the black power salute
made popular internationally by
Tommie Smith and John Carlos,
who raised their ists to the sky af-
Week
Review
The
in
Cop Killed in Seaside
ter winning gold and bronze at the
1968 Summer Olympics.
Beyoncé fans were also treated
to a surprise video drop one day
earlier for “Formation,” the sing-
er’s latest track that is now the title
of her world tour.
Although tour dates do not in-
clude a Portland location, Beyoncé
has announced she will be throw-
ing a show in the Paciic Northwest
– in Seattle. The pop songstress is
set to play at Centurylink Field on
Wednesday, May 18. More tour
dates are up at beyonce.com.
Food Carts Displacement
A massive new development deal
planned around downtown Port-
land is scheduled to displace near-
ly 70 of the city’s beloved food
carts. The proposal would bring
as many as 11 new buildings to
the area, and force about half of
the downtown area’s food carts to
close or ind new locations.
A police oficer was shot and
killed Friday night while attempt-
ing to serve a warrant in down-
town Seaside. The 13-year veteran
oficer was identiied as Sgt. Jason
Body found in Willamette
Goodding, 39. The suspect, Phillip
Deputies pulled a body out of the
Ferry, 55, was taken into custody.
Willamette River in North Port-
land Monday after two ishermen
Glassmakers Dirty Air
Another company announced Mon- spotted it around 4 p.m. The re-
day they would voluntarily suspend mains were identiied as an adult
using known dangerous chemicals male and turned over to the medi-
like cadmium to make colored cal examiner.
glass, days after state environmental
PDC Director to Step Down
regulators released a map showing
Patrick
Quinton,
high concentrations of cancer-caus-
the director of Port-
ing metals nearby. Uroboros Glass
land’s urban renewal
in southeast Portland and Bullseye
agency, announced
Glass in north Portland have both
he was leaving his
stopped using cadmium and arsenic
position on Monday.
in their production.
Quinton will leave this spring
after over ive years leading the
Singer Files Against Ex
Famous soul pop singer Ciara Portland Development Commis-
iled a $15 million sion. His inal day will come in
lawsuit
against either May or June.
her ex-boyfriend,
House ire in Southeast Portland
hip-hop artist Fu-
A ire that broke out early Tues-
ture, the father of
day morning on Southeast 42nd
her son. Ciara is
Avenue was electrical in nature,
suing for libel and
authorities are saying. The ire
slander and requesting that Fu-
was contained and all occupants
ture delete some of his past tweets
escaped without injury, but a cat
that discussed the former couple’s
is missing.
feud, new outlets reported.