JUNE 22, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 38
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Opinion ...................................2 World News Briefs ........ 12
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO BY ARASHI YOUNG
FATHER’S DAY
A group of 75 protesters demonstrated before a
Portland Public School board meeting Tuesday
to demand the board ire superintendent Carole
Smith. Smith announced right before the meeting
that she plans to retire in a year.
Smith to
Retire in a
Year
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Demonstrators say lead,
civil rights issues show
deep problems in district
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
S
hortly before the Portland Public
School board met Tuesday night,
PPS Superintendent Carole Smith
sent a letter to parents and staf
announcing her retirement at the end
of the 2017 school year.
She outlined what she called the suc-
cesses of her last nine years at PPS. She
also stated that the PPS board had asked
her to stay to give them time to conduct
a search for a new superintendent.
But according to PPS School board
member Paul Anthony, there was no
discussion from the school board about
Smith’s retirement prior to her send-
Pastor Terrance Proctor smiles at his granddaughter Sade’ Proctor, age 7 months, before being honored at the 2nd Annual B.U.I.L.D (Brothers United In
Leadership Development) Father’s Day Event June 18 at Garield Community Center. Pastor Proctor was one of 21 men honored for their leadership in
the community by B.U.I.L.D, an organization whose vision is to empower Black men to be leaders and mentors in their community by instilling pride,
hope and perseverance.
Portland Black Pride Organizers Prepare
Organizers hope to see more discussion of safety of LGBT people of color
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
A
ll this week, PFLAG
Portland
Black
Chapter will host
events for Black
Pride throughout the Port-
land area. The festival is a
celebration of queer, les-
bian, gay and transgender
people of color and their
families and friends.
The Skanner News spoke
with the organizers of the
events who say Portland
Black Pride is needed now
and more than ever ater
the events of the Orlan-
do Pulse nightclub mass
shooting.
Renter
Nation
page 9
AP PHOTO/JOHN RAOUX
In this Thursday, April
14, 2016, photo, renter
Nicole Caverlyat gets
settled at her home in
Apopka, Fla., a former
agricultural hub now
crowded with housing
developments. Where
one in 10 homes was
once a rental, now more
than a third are. Her
home was purchased
by an investment group
in January and then put
on the rental market.
Kam Interviews Actor
Mahershala Ali
page 8
stand in solidarity with our
brothers and sisters down
in Orlando just to show
them that we are here, that
we are with them,” Ngcobo
said.
Ngcobo told The Skan-
ner News that being Black
and gay is a “double-edged
sword” in terms of dis-
crimination, and that Black
pride is a way to celebrate
despite these daily chal-
lenges.
Khalil Edwards, the
Black chapter co-coordina-
tor, said the racial violence
aspect of the Orlando mass
shooting has been largely
ignored by mainstream
media. Ninety percent of
the people killed at the
Pulse Nightclub were ei-
ther Latino or of Latino
descent, 23 victims were
from Puerto Rico. Nearly
one-sixth of the victims
were Black.
“A big part of the story
that is not being talked
about, is the fact that this
was Latin night [at Pulse]
— this was advertized as
a night for LGBTQ people
of color, speciically Black
and brown folks from the
LGBTQ community,” Ed-
wards said.
Edwards hopes the trage-
dy will bring about a larg-
See PRIDE on page 3
Portland to Host 62nd Tournament for Golfers of Color
Location for Western States Golf Association’s
tournament rotates
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
T
he 62nd annual Western States
Golf Association Golf Champi-
onships — a tournament that
speciically encourages peo-
ple of color to participate — started
Wednesday in Portland and contin-
ues through Saturday.
According to Vicki Nakashima,
public relations chair for the WSGA,
the WSGA formed in 1954 as a coa-
lition of smaller minority golf clubs
throughout the west. Nakashima’s
club, the Portland-based Leisure
Hour Club, was started in 1944 by
a group of African Americans who
liked to golf.
“African Americans and other peo-
ple of color were not welcome at even
See GOLF on page 3
PHOTO COURTESY OF WESTERN STATES GOLF ASSOC.
See SMITH on page 3
On June 16, Omar Mateen
killed 49 people inside the
gay nightclub before being
killed by the Orlando Po-
lice Department. The mas-
sacre is the deadliest civil-
ian mass shooting in the
history of the United States
and has been denounced as
both an act of terrorism
and a hate crime.
Zola Ngcobo, one of the
organizers of the Portland
Black Pride events, said
Black Pride will be a way
for Portland’s queer com-
munity to come together
and support the victims in
Orlando.
“It is important for us as
the LGBT community to
The Western States Golf Association’s annual
championship — featuring primarily golfers
of color — started Wednesday and continues
through Saturday in the Portland area.