MARCH 30, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 26
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News ..................................3,12 A & E .................................... 6-9
Opinion ...................................2 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
Calendars ........................... 4-5 World Briefs .................. 12
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
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AFRICATOWN VANDALIZED
The Kevin Duckworth Memorial Dock will be moved
from downtown Portland to Swan Island for use by
Daimler staff and neighborhood residents.
By Lisa Loving
Special To The Skanner News
T
he Oregon State Marine Board
decided Tuesday to tow the Kevin
Duckworth Memorial Dock away
from downtown Portland and
relocate it to Swan Island for use by
Daimler Corp. employees and Overlook
neighborhood residents.
Now located at the Moda Center, the
dock was christened in honor of the be-
loved Portland Trail Blazer who passed
away in 2009.
See DOCK on page 3
Kam Gives
‘The Wake
of Vanport’
Four Stars
Read the review page 8
2016 Rose Festival
Court Princesses
pages 6-7
James Williams and his son wait to sign up to volunteer to help at the Africantown Center for Education and Innovation in Seattle following a break in
at the Center last week. The center was defaced with racist slurs and swastikas along with sustaining thousands of dollars in damage and theft to its
computer systems. A former volunteer has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Youth of Color Talk About Sanders
A capacity crowd turned out for Senator’s event last Friday at Moda
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
A
fter Austin Aviles
got off work Friday
morning, he went
directly to Moda
Center to hear Sen. Bernie
Sanders speak.
“He’s honest,” Aviles said
of the Vermont senator
and Democratic presiden-
tial hopeful.
“Even in his sentences,
when he talks, everything
is ‘we.’ It’s never, ‘When I
become president, when I
do this.’ It’s, ‘When we do
this.’”
Doors for the rally didn’t
open until 11 a.m., and it
wasn’t until 1 p.m. that the
U.S. Senator and Demo-
cratic Presidential hope-
ful took the stage — but
crowds began lining up as
early as 7 a.m. to hear him
speak.
Ennada Lagouit, an inter-
national student from Mo-
rocco, left Corvallis at 6:30
a.m. with her friend and
fellow Oregon State Uni-
versity student, Veronica
Gonzalez, to ensure they’d
make it to the rally on time.
“As an international
student, I stand for a lot
of what he says. He has a
lot of international fans,”
Lagouit said, adding she’s
not a fan of Hillary Clin-
ton, Sanders’ rival for the
nomination, due to her po-
sitions on foreign policy.
Sanders went on to win
Washington’s caucus Sat-
urday and clinched victo-
ries in Alaska and Hawaii
the same day.
Exit polls on the racial
breakdown of Saturday’s
caucuses are not available.
Critics have noted all three
states have notably smaller
Black populations than the
national average and that
Clinton’s wins in southern
states were apparently so-
lidified by Black voters.
On the other hand, Alas-
ka and Hawaii are two of
the most racially and lin-
guistically diverse states
in the nation, and Sanders
polls well with younger
voters of all races, enjoy-
ing a slight edge over Clin-
ton among young African
Americans.
According to the polling
firm Edison Research, 51
percent of African Amer-
ican Democratic voters
aged 17 to 29 said they sup-
port Sanders, versus 48
percent supporting Clin-
ton. Sanders leads 66-34
among young Hispanics
who are likely to support a
Democrat.
“For me as a young per-
son and a young Black per-
See SANDERS on page 3
‘Residue Years’ Author Jackson Wins Whiting Award
Mitchell Jackson talks to The Skanner about
success, gentrification and what’s next for him
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
M
itchell Jackson has come a
long way from dealing drugs
on the streets outside Jef-
ferson High School in North
Portland.
The son of a single mom battling a
drug addiction, Jackson felt the bur-
den of growing up without a father
while taking care of his younger
brothers. After a brief stint in pris-
on, Jackson devoted his life to litera-
ture. He achieved a master’s degree
in writing from Portland State Uni-
versity and an MFA in creative writ-
ing from New York University.
Last week the Whiting Foundation
announced Jackson’s autobiograph-
ical novel, “The Residue Years,” has
won the 2016 Whiting Award for
Fiction. This award goes to the best
See JACKSON on page 3
PHOTO BY JOHN RICARD
Marine board votes
on giving memorial to
trucking giant
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Duckworth
Dock:
Destined for
Daimler?
Portland native Mitchell S. Jackson has won the
Whiting Award for his novel “The Residue Years.”