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January 18, 2017
The
Week
in
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says she will attend the inaugura-
tion and the anti-Trump Women’s
March on Washington the next
morning.
Americans Honor King
As Americans celebrated the leg-
Homeless Woman’s Baby Dies acy of Martin Luther King Jr. on
A baby born to a woman living in
a homeless camp near Southeast
91st and Powell died Monday.
The 36-year-old mother may be
mentally ill. Authorities say she
showed a man waiting at a bus
stop the infant hidden under a
winter coat. Doctors tried to resus-
citate the infant, but a later autop-
sy declared the child was stillborn.
John Lewis Rejects Trump
photo by
M ark W ashington / the p ortland o bserver
Seattle to the Rescue
Inauguration Boycott Grows
Seattle’s Department of Transportation arrives in Portland with 11
snow plows and 15 crew members on Thursday to help plow the
streets and clear downed trees after a foot of snow falls. The extra
help was a welcome sight in north Portland where the crews were
greeted by Dylan Rivera of the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Established 1970
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 :
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U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights
icon who was
beaten in a
march
with
Dr.
Martin
Luther King
Jr. in Selma,
Ala., told an
NBC report-
er Friday that
he would not
be attending
President-elect
Trump’s inauguration, saying
Trump’s election was not legiti-
mate, citing Russian interference
with the election and the Republi-
can Party’s campaign of misinfor-
mation against Hillary Clinton.
A group of Democratic members
of Congress announcing they will
not attend the presidential inaugu-
ration on Friday grew to over 50
on Tuesday, including Oregon’s
U.S. Representatives Earl Blu-
menauer, Kurt Schrader and Peter
DeFazio. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici
the national holiday Monday,
civil rights leaders and activists
were trying to reconcile the tran-
sition from the nation’s first black
president to a president-elect still
struggling to connect with most
non-white voters. King’s daughter
encouraged Americans to fight for
the slain civil rights leader’s vi-
sion of love and justice “no matter
who is in the White House.”
Inmate Found Dead
A black inmate was found dead
in his cell at Oregon’s maximum
security prison in Salem Tuesday.
The cause of death has not been
determined. Dtanyum Arnold
Huey, 45, was serving time for an
escape from the Klamath County
Jail.
New Lady Liberty Minted
On Thursday, the Department of
the Treasury unveiled a new $100
coin which portrays Lady Lib-
erty for the first time as African
American. The coin is the first in
a series to be released in the com-
ing years, in addition to plans for
Underground Railroad Abolition-
ist Harriet Tubman to replace An-
drew Jackson on the front of the
$20 bill.
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