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The Okropong African Dance and Drum group will entertain during a Kwanzaa celebration, Monday,
Dec. 26 at the Matt Dishman Community Center.
50 Years of Kwanzaa
Portland
celebrates with
free events
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A full service flower experience
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• Birthdays • Anniversaries
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Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm
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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
P ublisher :
r ePorter /W eb e ditor :
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P ublic r elAtions : Mark
Washington Jr.
Week
in
Review
The
Jr., on Sunday for the2014 death
of Ervaeua Herring, a pregnant
A jury found
21-year-old woman who was
white suprem-
killed after a group of people
acist Dylann
opened fire on her apartment. Po-
Roof
guilty
lice have said that the shooting
Thursday on
tors and voted Donald Trump as was gang related.
33
charges,
the next president of the United
including hate
States. Protests at state capitols
crimes in the
around the country failed to sway
murder of nine
the electors to go with the popular
black parishioners at South Car-
vote, which Hillary Clinton won
olina’s historic Mother Emanu-
by 2.8 million.
el African Methodist Episcopal
Church. The jury will decide next ‘Not My President’ Protest
Rapid Fire Gun Confiscated
month whether Roof will serve Nearly 200 people gathered in
Police said they pulled over a mo-
life in prison or face the death downtown Portland Monday eve-
torist for a traffic infraction on
penalty.
ning to protest Donald Trump as Friday and found a Tec-9 rapid
a presidential victory last No- fire gun with a 32 round maga-
Bethel Prays for Victims
vember was sealed by voting in zine. The gun was linked to Andre
Bethel AME Church in northeast
the Electoral College earlier in Montgomery, 27, who was arrest-
Portland, the oldest historically
the day. After a rally in Pioneer ed for unlawful possession of a
black congregation in Portland,
Courthouse Square, the protesters firearm and possession of a loaded
held a special service Sunday,
began marching, chanting “not my firearm.
joining activists from Don’t Shoot
president” and “whose streets, our
Portland and Disarm PSU, to
Pilots Upset Oregon State
streets!”
pray for the victims of two horri-
Portland Pilots’ new head coach,
ble hate crimes, the 2015 church Sixth Arrest in Murder Case
Terry Porter, of Portland Trail-
shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Gang
en-
blazer fame, led the team to a big
in Charleston, S.C. and this year’s f o r c e m e n t
victory Sundy against Oregon
Pulse night club massacre in Or- o f f i c e r s
State University. The win marked
lando, Fla.
arrested
a
the first over a Pac-12 opponent
sixth
sus-
for the Pilots since beating both
Electoral College Votes
pect, Jeffery
Oregon and UCLA in the 2009-
The Electoral College largely ig-
L.
Sims
2010 season.
nored calls for “faithless” elec-
Church Shooter Guilty
Avalon Flowers
The community is invited to tional values.
Several free public Kwanzaa
celebrate the 50th anniversary of
Kwanzaa, the festival observed events are taking place in Port-
by many African Americans from land, starting Monday, Dec. 26 at
Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 as a celebration
C ontinued on P age 5
of their cultural heritage and tradi-
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