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Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 03 March 2016

Demonstrators gathered in front of the Apple Store last week to ask the company continue to protect their privacy. Photo by Arashi Young.

The rally draws the connection between surveillance and harassment and killings

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 29 February 2016

Judge Adrienne Nelson accepts an award during the Black History Month Presenting Author Michael Eric Dyson event at Portland Prime

The Black History Month event featured a talk with the author and the honoring of Judge Adrienne Nelson

Details: Written by ANDREW SELIGMAN, AP Sports Writer; Published: 28 February 2016

Watch highlights of Portland's 103-95 victory

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 26 February 2016

In a Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo,Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Snyder has released some, but not all, of his government emails related to Flint’s water emergency. The 274 pages cover 2014 and 2015. That includes the 18-month period during which the city switched its water source while under state financial management until it reconnected to Detroit’s system because of lead contamination blamed on state regulatory failures. Snyder has withheld the emails of others in the executive office along with his own emails from earlier. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Advisor Mike Gadola expressed concerns about Flint's water in October 2014

Details: Written by Lisa Loving; Published: 25 February 2016

Data will be used to study ways to minimize racial profiling

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 25 February 2016

The Oregon Department of Education plan focuses on closing the achievement gap

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 25 February 2016

The Portland Playhouse event brought together Black and White neighbors to talk about gentrification

Details: Written by KRISTENA HANSEN, Associated Press; Published: 21 February 2016

Republicans opposed the increase and voted against the proposal

Details: Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press; Published: 19 February 2016

In this Feb 12, 2015 file photo made from video and released by WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, Albert Woodfox walks into a courthouse in Louisiana. Woodfox, the last inmate of a group known as the "Angola Three" has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and a lesser offense in the 1972 death of a prison guard and is expected to be released Friday after more than four decades in prison. (WBRZ-TV via AP, File)

Albert Woodfox consistently maintained his innocence in the killing of guard Brent Miller

Details: Written by Lisa Loving; Published: 18 February 2016

Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says arsenic and chromium discharged into the air are among an array of cancer-causing poisons in the air that have been watched in North Portland for more than a decade without any meaningful action by state regulators. Photo courtesy of Intel Free Press (CC BY-SA2.0) via Flickr.

Mary Peveto, founder of Neighbors for Clean Air, says communities of color disproportionately affected