Light streams through the skylights in De La Salle North Catholic High School's new premises and gleams from the pale hardwood floors. The private high school, which sends 100 percent of its – mostly low-income — students to college each year, has finally taken up residence in the former Kenton Elementary school.
The move is a huge change for students and staff after seven years ....

D'Norgia Price hands out journals to the four seniors in her writing class at the Multicultural Senior Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. She encourages them to write about their early lives, then listens intently as they share their memories: memories of running barefoot on Hawaiian sands; of a snowy Christmas on the Klamath reservation; of a time when a new dress was the best present in the world.
Director of Senior Programs at the Urban League of Portland for the last six years, Price treasures these stories the elders tell about the past. She also knows the value of keeping a journal ....

When Jennifer Nash began her studies at the University of Washington, majoring in Retail Management and American Ethnic studies, an athletic scholarship in track and field helped her pay for her education. But in her second and third year, she suffered serious injuries that brought her running career to a standstill. Without the scholarship money, Nash needed a job and the help of her Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters in order to continue her education.
Last Saturday, at the Bridging the Gap breakfast, organized by the university's ...

SEATTLE — Black soldiers court-martialed 63 years ago in the rioting death of an Italian prisoner of war at Fort Lawton were unfairly denied access to their attorneys and investigative records and should have their convictions overturned, the U.S. Army said Friday.
The ruling by the Army's Board of Corrections of Military Records applies to four soldiers who petitioned military investigators with the help of two congressmen, but could eventually cover two dozen more soldiers found guilty of rioting over alleged resentment of Italian prisoners' living conditions on the post.
Samuel Snow, 83, one of the petitioners who served a year in prison, said he was "elated" by the decision.
"It just knocked me off of my feet," Snow said from his home in ....

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney will speak about the Jena 6 case in Seattle on Nov. 10 at New Hope Baptist Church, 124 21st Ave., Seattle, 7 p.m. The speech will injustices in the case itself and whatever happens at the pre-trial hearing on Nov. 7....

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HONOLULU (AP) -- Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online.
"In evaluating the circumstances of the last few days, A&E has decided to take 'Dog The Bounty Hunter' off the network's schedule for the foreseeable future," the network said in a statement Friday. "We hope that Mr. Chapman continues the healing process that he has begun."
A&E officials said the series, one of the network's top-rated programs, has not been canceled.
Chapman, 54, has been under fire and accused of being a racist ever since the private conversation with his son, Tucker Chapman, was posted online Wednesday by The National Enquirer. Chapman used the N-word repeatedly ....

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Hundreds of people gathered at West Virginia's Capitol on Saturday to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six White people charged in the beating, torture and sexual assault of a 20-year-old Black woman. Authorities say the accused, three men and three women, held Megan Williams captive for days .....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture.
The decision by Sens. Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein to back President Bush's nominee came shortly after the chairman of the committee, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced he would vote against Mukasey .....