NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 5
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CENTS
News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Fall With Your Pet ...........8
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
WWW.CENSUSHARDTOCOUNTMAPS2020.US
UNCF BLACK COLLEGE FAIR
A new map shows census tracts that may be harder
to count in the 2020 decennial census count.
Tracts with higher populations of people of color –
including tracts in East Multnomah County – may
be at particular risk, researchers say.
By Christen McCurdy
For The Skanner News
A
new, searchable online map
shows Oregon’s communities of
color are in danger of being un-
dercounted in the 2020 census —
and flattened funding could make that
worse.
The map, produced by the Center for
Urban Research at the Graduate Cen-
ter of the City University of New York
(CUNY), highlights census tracts where
less than 70 percent of households
mailed back their census forms in 2010
See CENSUS on page 3
Linda
Tillman,
professor emeritus of
education leadership
at the University of
North Carolina at
Chapel Hill served as
moderator at a recent
panel discussion on
the challenges faced
by African American
teachers and leaders.
Educators
Discuss the
New Jim
Crow Era page 9
Kam Previews
New Movies Opening
This Week
page 6
A recruiter from Virginia State University talks to a prospective student and his aunt during the UNCF Black College Fair Oct. 29 at Garfield High School.
The college fair gives students an opportunity to talk to representatives from historically Black Colleges like Southern, Spellman and Morehouse as well
as other out of state colleges like Santa Clara University. College-bound students could also talk to recruiters from local schools like the University of
Washington, Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University and Eastern, Western and Central Washington Universities.
Children of Color and Immigrant Children
Face Uphill Battle in Oregon
A new report unveils the tough barriers faced by children of color
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
R
eleased by the Annie
E. Casey Foundation,
the national report,
“2017 Race for Re-
sults: Building a Path to
Opportunity for All Chil-
dren,” reveals how limited
access to education, along
with poverty and family
separation, contribute to
unhealthy child develop-
ment.
For children of color and
those of immigrant fam-
ilies in Oregon, the risks
are high, with the majority
grappling for stability and
opportunity.
The report measures
children’s progress in key
milestones — education,
health and economic —
across racial and ethnic
groups, based on a scale of
1 (lowest) to 1,000 (highest).
In Oregon, Latino and
American Indian children
fared the worst at 397 and
452. African American
children scored slightly
higher at 473; while White
and Asian and Pacific Is-
lander children scored the
highest at 654 and 702 re-
spectively.
“This is not a new reality
that we’re just now aware
of,” Tonia Hunt, executive
director of Children First
for Oregon, told The Skan-
ner. “But the trick is we’ve
got to get a wider group of
Oregonians to be aware of
these disparities and the
systemic barriers that ex-
ist for immigrant families
and children of color.”
To move towards a solu-
tion, Hunt said it starts
with looking back.
“First we — and our pol-
icymakers — have got to
acknowledge that these
disparities are rooted in
a deep, historical, painful
past in Oregon, and it’s still
bearing poisonous fruit to-
day.”
“Race for Results” high-
lights how Oregon’s his-
tory of racial exclusion as
a White-only state — and
later its denial of services,
jobs and homes to people
of color — have had a deep
effect on the well being of
children of today. More re-
cently, traces of Oregon’s
See CHILDREN on page 3
Danielle Bainbridge Explains the ‘Origin of Everything’
The host of the new digital series invents her
own style of delivering unexpected history
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
H
ow you ever wondered about
the true origins of free speech,
hashtags, healthcare and ro-
bots? As the host of PBS’s new
digital series, “Origin of Everything,”
rising star Danielle Bainbridge un-
packs the stories behind little-known
histories.
Produced by Kornhaber Brown
and uploaded weekly to YouTube and
Facebook, the series explains how all
aspects of modern life emerge from
the past. Each show of “Origin of Ev-
erything” tackles a different subject
in less than 10 minutes.
Researched, written and presented
by Bainbridge — a doctoral candi-
date at Yale — the series uses humor
and inventive storytelling to enliven
history. From her home in New York
City, Bainbridge spoke to The Skan-
ner on how to illustrate the past by
See BAINBRIDGE on page 3
PHOTO COURTESY OF PBS
Research notes ‘hard-
to-count’ communities
could be hard hit by
flattened census funding
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Advocates
Eye Census
Funding
Danielle Bainbridge is the host of PBS’s new
digital series “Origin of Everything.”
