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MAY 11, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 32 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW 25 CENTS News ..........................3,9,10,12 A & E .................................... 6-8 Opinion ...................................2 Zika Virus ........................9 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 POHTO BY LOKYEE AU AND APANO NE SATURDAY MARKET The Portland Public School board has voted to add an ethnic studies curriculum to schools. PPS Adds Ethnic Studies Vote follows repeated calls for a diverse history curriculum See STUDIES on page 3 The Northeast Portland Saturday Market held its grand opening Saturday and hopes to continue through the summer. Sponsored by We Out Here Magazine, the vendor fair features more than 20 booths selling merchandise from local businesses. Northeast Saturday Market Launches Vendor market aims to offer alternative to downtown Saturday market By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/BRUCE SMITH L Judy Scott, mother of Walter Scott who was shot and killed while fleeing a traffic stop in April 2015, speaks to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Ex-Cop Indicted Man who shot Walter Scott is free on bail page 12 Movies Opening This Week Include ‘Pele: The Birth of a Legend’ and ‘Money Monster’ page 6 ast Saturday marked the grand opening of a vendor fair organiz- ers hope will present an alternative to down- town Portland’s famous Saturday Market — one focused on Northeast Port- land and minority-owned businesses. The Northeast Portland Saturday Market is situat- ed on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in a parking lot north of Prescott on the west side of the street, and runs from noon to 7 p.m. Saturdays. Sneakers, customized T-shirts, local art and food (including barbecue, soul food, shaved ice and pop- corn) were among the of- ferings at the small ven- dor fair, which currently has about 25 vendors but is accepting applications for more. The event is the brain child of Mac Smiff (also known as Fahiym Acuay), the editor-in-chief of We Out Here magazine, which covers Portland’s hip-hop scene, and Aar- on McConkey, owner of Sneaker Cart, a mobile shoe store. This past Saturday ac- tually marked the third weekend the vendor fair was open, and Smiff and McConkey hope to keep it going every Saturday this summer. Initially the mar- ket opened at 11 a.m., but Smiff said he found larger crowds gathering in the af- See MARKET on page 3 Sanders Takes Stage in Salem as Primary Wraps Up Speakers at Oregon rally included The Skanner publisher Bernie Foster By Kristena Hansen Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — Forging ahead with momentum from two wins in the past week, Bernie Sanders zeroed in on Oregon’s May 17 primary with a rally in the state’s capital city of Sa- lem Tuesday evening before about 4,000 devoted support- ers. It marked Sanders’ fourth Oregon rally — and the sev- enth stop by a presidential campaign across the state since March — and this time he arrived to another lively crowd that was enthusiastic over his win in West Virginia earlier that day, which followed another surprise win in Indiana a week prior. In Salem, he roused the crowd by predicting another big win next Tuesday in Oregon, which is self-pro- claimed Bernie Sanders country. “We are in this campaign to win. And we are going to See SANDERS on page 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF BERNIE SANDERS 2016 L ocal history and social studies courses will be getting a makeover thanks to a new policy to develop multicultural education in Port- land public high schools. On May 3, The Portland Public School board voted unanimously to bring eth- nic studies to all PPS high schools by 2018. This change is intended to reflect the shifting demographics of the Port- land area and to engage youth of color whose stories are often left out of stan- dard history lessons. The policy is a victory for the Asian PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY Arashi Young Of The Skanner News Democratic Presidential candidate poses backstage before his rally in Salem Tuesday with speakers Diego Hernandez (left), Orlando Lopez Bautista, Mark Medina and Bernie Foster, publisher of The Skanner News.
