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Historic Artist in Black Smithsonian
Portland niece
thrilled with
aunt’s selection
C ervante P oPe
t he P ortland o bserver
The Smithsonian Museum has
taken notice of a historic and
distinguished black artist from
Portland.
Last month, the prominent in-
stitution bought Thelma Johnson
Streat’s “Medicine and Trans-
portation” mural” to be part of
the new African American Mu-
seum of History and Culture in
Washington D.C. Carlene Jack-
son, Streat’s niece, was invit-
ed to D.C. to participate in the
viewing reception.
“Our family was just so
thrilled that they chose one of
her works to represent the Af-
rican American art for that per-
manent collection in the muse-
um,” says Jackson. “I felt very
touched because I knew she
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A forecast for a “history making”
storm fell short Saturday. High
winds did hit the metro area but
did not result in a lot of damage.
Several cloudbursts did cause
some street flooding. Around
40,000 PGE customers lost power.
Teen Suspect in Custody
Police arrested Richard Jay An-
derson, 19, on Friday for murder
in connection to last month’s death
of Marquis Taylor, 18, who died
from a gunshot wound near Cesar
Thelma Johnson Streat and her ‘Medicine and Transportation’ mural.
would have been so honored and
Streat’s work garnered much works program meant to give
so proud that her work would attention and success during artists employment. She contrib-
be in the new African American the Great Depression. She par-
C ontinued on P age 4
Smithsonian.”
ticipated in a New Deal public
Chavez School in north Portland.
Court records show Anderson is
homeless and has no prior crimi-
nal record.
who were forcibly held captive
by Islamic extremist group Boko
Haram for the last two and a half
years. The girls are among 300
that were taken from Chibok,
Delta Racial Profiling Case
Nigeria in one of Boko Haram’s
Delta Airlines said Friday they mass kidnappings. As of the time
will investigate a racial profiling of their release, around 197 re-
complaint by a black doctor who main captive.
said she tried to help another pas-
senger who was suffering a med- Inmate Fights for Rights
ical emergency aboard a flight The American Civil Liberties
from Detroit to Minneapolis, but Union of Oregon (ACLU) filed
was rejected because a Delta flight a federal lawsuit against the Or-
attendant refused to believe she egon Department of Corrections
was an ‘actual physician.
Monday on behalf of Michale
(Michelle) James Wright, a trans-
Nigerian Girls Set Free
gender inmate who says the state
A few Nigerian families joyous- is inflicting cruel and unusual pun-
ly celebrated Sunday after be- ishment for segregating her in sol-
ing reunited with 21 school girls itary confinement and denying her
requests for hormone treatment,
despite her gender dysphoria di-
agnosis.
Chuck Berry Releases Album
Rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry
is set to release his first new stu-
dio album
in more than
35
years.
The St. Lou-
is Post-Dis-
patch reports
that Berry’s
album, titled
“Chuck,”
will
be
available in
2017 and feature mostly original
works by Berry who turned 90 on
Tuesday.