NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 8
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CENTS
News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Rhodes Scholars .............8
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
THANKSGIVING TAKEOVER
YOUTH EVENT
Cheryl Grace, Senior VP of U.S. Strategic Community
Alliances and Consumer Engagement at Nielsen
Grace to
Speak at MLK
Breakfast
Nielsen vice president
focuses on the power of
the Black dollar
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KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY/
KOREA NEWS SERVICE VIA AP
See GRACE on page 3
In this undated photo provided Nov. 21 by the
North Korean government, North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un visits the the Sungri Motor Complex
in Pyeongannam-do, North Korea. The Trump
administration announced new sanctions on North
Korea on Nov. 21. Independent journalists were not
given access to cover the event depicted in this
image, which was distributed by the North Korean
government.
World News
Briefs page 11
Della Reese,
Dead at 86 page 7
Seattle Seahawks running back C.J. Prosise serves potatoes at the BeProsise Thanksgiving Takeover Youth Event Nov. 15 at the Southwest Boys & Girls
Club in Seattle. The event he hosted — with help from Premera Blue Cross, Zappos and The Seattle Seahawks — served Thanksgiving dinner to 300 youth
from four greater Seattle area Boys & Girls Clubs: Federal Way, Renton/Skyway, Rainier Vista, and Southwest. The kids also received souvenirs from the
event, a chance to win valuable prizes in a raffle and an opportunity to meet the Seahawk running back.
Black Pioneers’ New Exhibit Tell Stories of
the Civil Rights Era
‘Racing to Change’ will be on display at the Oregon Historical Society
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
A
t the start of a new
year, the Oregon
Black Pioneers will
invite Oregonians
to join them in what they
do best – looking to their
shared past.
The historians’ newest
and largest exhibit to date,
“Racing to Change: Ore-
gon’s Civil Rights Years,”
will open on Jan. 15 at the
Oregon Historical Society
and will offer visitors an
opportunity to experience
the struggles and achieve-
ments of the 1960s and 70s
in their home state.
For the past two years,
the all-volunteer non-prof-
it organization based in
Salem has been collecting
stories and overturning
artifacts to compile an im-
age of conflict, courage and
change at a volatile time in
history.
The exhibition picks up
chronologically where its
last one, “Community on
the Move” -- which exam-
ined Black Portland life in
the 1940s and 50s – left off.
Triggering a movement
“We had just come out of
the ‘50s, where there were
certain (protective) laws
that had been enacted, but
the discriminatory prac-
tices were still roughly the
same as they had been be-
fore,” Black Pioneers sec-
retary Gwen Carr, told The
Skanner. “And so people
were still struggling with
trying to get an education
and a job and a home.”
It was those racist atti-
tudes and policies of ex-
clusion faced by Oregon’s
Black population that
spurred the civil rights
movement, which was
largely reflective of what
See EXHIBIT on page 3
PPS Says it Will Reopen Tubman
Middle school scheduled to reopen in 2018
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
P
ortland Public Schools super-
intendent Guadalupe Guerre-
ro announced last week that
Portland Public Schools would
reopen Harriet Tubman in 2018 as a
fully functioning middle school.
The school district is also exploring
a Right to Return preference policy
that would enable families who have
been displaced from inner Northeast
Portland to send their children to
school in the district. Self Enhance-
ment Inc. is conducting an anony-
mous survey — available at https://
ppsk12.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/
SV_do3AIbZfwDsbppr — asking par-
ents if they’re interested in sending
their children to school in the area.
SEI is also distributing paper copes
of the surveys.
The Right to Return school prefer-
ence policy is part of a larger push
giving displaced Black families pref-
erence in housing in historically
See TUBMAN on page 3
PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY
C
heryl Grace urges Black consum-
ers to ask themselves five ques-
tions before considering a pur-
chase:
Does the company or business that
I’m about to do business with, do they
hire people who look like me?
Do they support causes that are im-
portant to me?
Do they represent people who look
like me in a positive way?
Did I have to go outside of my neigh-
borhood to get this product or ser-
vice?
If the answer to any of these ques-
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
Joe McFerrin (center), president of POIC speaks
at press conference last week to discuss the
reopening of Harriet Tubman middle school.
Also pictured are Portland Public Schools
superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero (left),
Albina Head Start director Ron Herndon, the Rev.
Leroy Haynes of Albina Ministerial Alliance and
Tony Hopson, founder of Self Enhancement Inc.