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Written by Avis Thomas Lester, Urban News Service

Published: 22 January 2016

Data show a continued slide in home ownership among African Americans. Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr. 

The NAACP sued against big banks for unfair lending in 2007 - but gaps in homeownership and wealth persist 

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Published: 21 January 2016

Charles Bonner was the keynote speaker at The Skanner Foundation's 2016 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast. Photo by Julie Keefe. 

Civil rights lawyer talks about the Civil Rights Movement, nonviolence and coming together

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Published: 21 January 2016

 

African Americans are five times more likely to develop the progressive eye disease

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Published: 17 January 2016

 

Should minimum wage be the same in depressed rural Oregon and fast-growing Portland     

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Published: 15 January 2016

Dr. Lisa Bates 

The PSU Professor won an award for excellence in urban and regional planning   

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Written by Arashi Young

Published: 14 January 2016

 

The new hiring standard, based on the NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule,’ requires city to interview at least one minority, female or disabled candidate   

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Published: 14 January 2016

 

Event has equipped the city’s young with life skills through hip hop since 2007   

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Published: 10 January 2016

 

Video: Dr William Li on healing animals and eating to beat cancer   

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Published: 08 January 2016

 

Series of short ‘video portraits’ attempts to capture the diversity of people of African descent   

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Published: 07 January 2016

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Petition to rehabilitate the never-used jail has 1,700 signatures