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Midwives and doulas work to improve birth outcomes for Black women and babies

Following up on an expansion of their community and new offices on Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard, the International Center for Traditional Childbearing hosts its second Afro-Centric Pregnancy Fair, Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lents Park at SE 92nd and Holgate in southeast Portland.

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Free food and drinks at Dishman Community Center July 6

A fundraiser for the Amiri International Development Union will entertain guests with African dancing and a variety of delicious food and drinks.

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Summer program helps youth make video telling stories of grandparents

Multnomah County library is taking applications for a five-week summer program where youth aged 13 to 18 will make a video about their grandparent, or another important elder in their lives.

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Crew is one year into a three year contract to transform Oregons education system

Farewell Rudy Crew. The New York educator who came to Oregon a year ago to transform the state's education system is leaving, to head one of the colleges in City University of New York's system.

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Volunteers say they will not help with the Alberta Street art festival this week

The Friends of Last Thursday committee resigned in a unanimous protest, Monday, saying the City of Portland is making unreasonable demands that will spoil Alberta Street's signature event.

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Seattle's Pioneer Human Services and Portland's SE Works won grants to help prisoners

Seattle and Portland will both benefit from $20 million in grants from the U.S.  Department of Labor. The grants will go to 16 prisoner re-entry programs across the country to support training and employment programs for prison inmates in pre-release employment programs.

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Only a few of potential jurors said they had limited exposure to guns

(CNN) -- The prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial in Florida asked 40 potential jurors about a wide range of subjects Wednesday, the eighth day of jury selection.

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Inmates at Oregon State Correctional Institution raised funds to donate graduation outfits

This year the Londer Learning center celebrates its 20th year of helping corrections clients pass the GED exam and go on to build careers and attend college. For the first time, the graduates wore caps and gowns donated by prison inmates thanks to a fundraising effort by Ezekiel Stroschein.

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Read and Rise will provide training and materials to parents of students from pre-k to third grade

Mayor McGinn is touting a new program, Read and Rise, to push students toward literacy by third grade.

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Meanwhile Ellis McCoy, Portland's most glaring example of corruption, remains unsentenced and out of custody

Local FBI officials Tuesday unveiled two new ways for members of the public to pass on suspicions of government fraud.

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