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September 5, 2018
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Kali-Thorne Ladd, executive director and co-founder of KairosPDX, a public charter school working to
close the achievement gap for black children, leads a press conference with supporters and students
last week calling on Portland Public Schools to give the school stability by extending the district’s one
year lease of the former Humboldt school site to five years.
Supporting Tubman and KairosPDX
Thursday
meeting at SEI
to build coalition
ers to join them for a meeting on
Thursday at Self Enhancement,
Inc. to gather support for Tubman
Middle School and KairosPDX
Elementary, two public schools
that serve African American stu-
dents in north and northeast Port-
b y D anny p eterson
land.
t he p ortlanD o bserver
The open-to-the-public ses-
Education advocates in Port-
land’s black community are call- sion will be held at the non-profit
ing on parents and other support- SEI center, 3920 N. Kerby St.., on
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Nike has re-
vealed embat-
tled NFL quar-
terback Colin
Kaepernick as
the face of the
apparel giant’s
30th anniversa-
ry “Just Do It”
Thursday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m., hosted
by the African American Commu-
nity Coordinating Group.
The fate of KairosPDX, a ma-
jority black charter school that
uses evidence-based methods to
increase learning outcomes, as
well as incorporating a culturally
specific curricula, has been up in
C ontinueD on p age 14
The
Week
in
Review
campaign. Kaepernick has effec-
tively been unemployed since he
began kneeling during the nation-
al anthem before games to protest
racial injustice and police brutali- McCain Farewell a Rebuke
ty in America. He claims he is be- A memorial service for the late
ing formally blackballed from the Sen. John McCain on Saturday
turned into a clear rebuke of Presi-
league as a result of his protests.
dent Donald Trump’s divisive pol-
NAACP Against Kavanaugh
itics as his daughter, two former
The nation’s foremost civil rights presidents and political dignitaries
organization mobilized against used their tributes to call for a re-
Supreme Court Nominee Brett turn to civility. “The America of
Kavanaugh Tuesday as hearings John McCain has no need to be
on the nomination began in the made great again because Amer-
Senate. “His views on voting ica was always great,” daughter
rights, affirmative action, equal Meghan McCain said, setting the
employment, fair housing, and tone for eulogies by Presidents
criminal justice could shut the Barack Obama and George W.
courthouse door on justice for a Bush.
generation,” said NAACP Presi-
Boat Ramp Murder Arrest
dent Derrick Johnson.
Portland Police Bureau gang en-
Trump says No to Pay Raise
forcement officers arrested Jamias
President Donald Trump told law- L. Hart-Rasberry, 30, on murder
makers on Thursday he was scrap- and drug charges Saturday in con-
ping a planned pay raise for fed- nection with the Aug. 20 shooting
eral workers, saying the nation’s death of Andre D. Pennington at
budget couldn’t support it. In a the Gleasan Boat Ramp on Ma-
letter to House and Senate leaders, rine Drive. Police are still asking
Trump said the pay increase would for anyone who has a tip about the
amount to $25 billion, which he ongoing investigation or has more
described as “inappropriate.”
information to contact them.