MAY 11, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 32
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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
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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
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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.