MARCH 7, 2018
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Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 23
News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Dr. Jasmine ......................9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES MANNING
ONYX GALLERY REOPENS
Democrat Oregon State Sen. James Manning of
District 7
As a newbie to state
politics, Manning is
channeling his unique
blend of community
service into his senate seat
By Melanie Sevcenko
For The Skanner News
A
fter closing out a 24-year career
in the U.S. military, James Man-
ning took the path less traveled.
Instead of slowing down, he
went into politics.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, the
Oregon state senator had been living
in Fort Lewis, Wash., when he retired
from the army in 2007. He and his wife
Lawanda relocated to Eugene, where
he took a job as an assistant plant man-
See MANNING on page 3
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
James
Manning is
on a Mission
Artist Al Doggett talks with Nancy Miller, one of hundreds of art lovers who wondered through the Onyx Fine Arts Collective’s new gallery space in
Pacific Place in downtown Seattle at its reopening in February. The collective which has showcased the work of over a hundred artists of African descent
since it formed 12 years ago, plans to host future exhibitions at their new gallery space on a rotational basis. The Pacific Place location will give people
an opportunity to see the works of renowned Seattle artists like Mr. Doggett, Esther Ervin, Ashby Reed, Earnest D. Thomas and Carletta Carrington.
A New Look at a Black Oregon Pioneer
‘Dangerous Subjects’ examines the life of James Saules and Oregon’s
history of Black exclusion
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
JUSTIN D. KNIGHT/HOWARD UNIV.
A
Roberte Exantus, a Haitian native and senior
political science major at Howard University,
returned home to help residents after an
earthquake destroyed much of the country.
new book by a Port-
land author takes a
closer look at the life
of James D. Saules,
an African American set-
tler of Oregon — and the
circumstances that led
Oregon’s provisional gov-
ernment to adopt a Black
exclusion law, later en-
shrined in the state consti-
tution.
Kenneth R. Coleman is
the author of “Dangerous
Subjects: James D. Saules
and the Rise of Black Exclu-
sion in Oregon,” published
in 2017 by Oregon State
University Press. Saules,
a free Black man born in
the 19th century, traveled
the world as a sailor and
eventually settled in the
Willamette Valley after
surviving a shipwreck off
the Oregon Coast.
In 1844, Saules was at
the center of two contro-
versies involving Native
Americans indigenous to
the Willamette Valley —
the latter of which resulted
in his arrest and banish-
ment from the area, and the
passage of Oregon’s first
Black exclusion laws. The
first incident, known as the
Cockstock Affair, involved
a dispute between Saules
and Cockstock, a Native
American associated with
the Wasco and Molalla
tribes, and culminated in a
clash between Natives and
White settlers that killed
Comstock and two White
men. Just two months lat-
er, a White man named
Charles Pickett accused
Saules of trying to incite
members of the Clackamas
tribe against him. Saules
was arrested, tried by a
jury that included a close
friend of Pickett’s, con-
victed and eventually ban-
ished from the region. 1844
was also the year Oregon’s
provisional government
passed its first laws exclud-
ing Blacks from emigrat-
ing to the area.
The Skanner News spoke
Howard
University
‘Trump Slump’ in Gun Sales Despite Control Debate
store owners say gun owners have faith
Students Assist Gun
Trump won’t impose more restrictions
in Puerto Rico
Oscar Recap
page 6
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gun store
owners called it the “Trump slump.”
Sales of firearms slowed dramat-
ically after the election of Donald
Trump as president in 2016 allayed
fears of a Democratic crackdown on
gun owners.
That trend has continued in recent
weeks even with talk of gun control
in Congress and among business
leaders following the Feb. 14 mas-
sacre of 17 people at a Florida high
school.
In the past, gun massacres gener-
ally led to an uptick in sales as peo-
ple worried about the government
restricting access. But with Park-
land, things are different.
“The day after the election, it’s just
like somebody turned a faucet off,”
See GUNS on page 3
AP PHOTO/KEITH SRAKOCIC
page 9
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Associated Press
See PIONEER on page 3
Wes Morosky, owner of Duke’s Sport Shop.
left, helps Ron Detka as he shops for a rifle on
March 2 at his store in New Castle. Morosky said
business has gone up recently, but that’s thanks
to the annual infusion of tax refund checks.