Ten Portlanders who have changed the city for the better were honored Monday Jan. 27 at the 1^st Annual Salute to Black History Makers.

Last Friday, a busload of youths and teachers rode down to Oregon State University for a college tour and a long talk about future success, through Project HARVEST.

The Oregon Jobs reports shows one job vacancy for every six people looking for work. Progress, but it's slow, says economic analyst Charlie Wilson.

With just six weeks to pull together the Rob Ingram Youth Summit Against Violence, Multnomah Youth Commissioners are looking for help. If you are under 21, and you're interested in helping with the summit, that means you.

Black History and Williams Avenue

Special for Black History 2012: The Skanner News reissues critical articles from the past. Here, the Boise Neighborhood gentrification story of the Cleo-Lillian Social Club.

Emma Colburn is a Portland native who works with youth in the classroom, and has a passion for designing unusual educational projects to connect teenagers with their heritage and their neighborhoods.

Can reducing the use of kiddie racial profiling to discipline youth by kicking them out of class be the key to reducing the achievement gap – and the incarceration rate?

Mapping project looks for lost stories of Williams Avenue and the Civil Rights Movement in Portland