NOVEMBER 22, 2017 Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 8 25 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 • • • • • 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.