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NORTHWEST NEWS

PHOTOS: The World Arts Foundation Presents Lifetime Achievement Award on MLK Day in Portland

Bernie and Bobbie Foster, The Skanner News founders, were presented with the award.

Cascade Festival of African Films Celebrates 35th Year

The Cascade Festival of African Films runs from Jan. 31 through March 1, featuring more than 20 films from 14 countries

Q & A With Heather Coleman-Cox, Who’s Bringing Full-Service Water Stations to Rural Ghana

Drilling, pump, storage tanks and solar panels provide potable water to villages at under ,000 per project.

'Orchestrated Attack' on Portland Elections Office Shatters Dozens of Windows, Police Say

The attack happened just before 2 a.m. Monday and suspects fled as police arrived at the office, which was not occupied at the time, police said.

NEWS BRIEFS

LDF Condemns Trump’s Executive Order Expanding Federal Death Penalty

The order urges the U.S. Attorney General to pursue the death penalty for individuals who murder a law enforcement officer or for...

Biden Lauds STEM Award Winners

President Joe Biden has awarded STEM NOLA the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering...

MLK Day Events 2025

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time that we celebrate, commemorate and honor the life, legacy and impact of Dr. Martin...

Gov. Kotek Delivers 2025 State of the State Address

“This new year, 2025, carries a clear charge for all of us: to summon our unyielding spirit of resilience, to tackle problems with...

North Portland Library to Reopen in February

Grand opening celebration begins February 8 with ribbon cutting, cultural events, food and fun ...

Democratic states weigh more support for immigrants as Trump administration cracks down

As President Donald Trump tightens the nation's immigration policies, lawmakers in Democratic-led states are proposing new measures that could erect legal obstacles for federal immigration officials and help immigrants lacking legal status avoid deportation. The resistance efforts in...

Man says he was behind some of the viral googly eyes on public art in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A resident of the central Oregon city of Bend says he was the person behind some of the googly eyes that appeared on sculptures around the city in recent months and sparked a viral sensation widely covered by news outlets. Jeff Keith, founder of a Bend-based...

No. 22 Missouri Tigers host No. 16 Ole Miss Rebels

Ole Miss Rebels (15-4, 4-2 SEC) at Missouri Tigers (15-4, 4-2 SEC) Columbia, Missouri; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -3; over/under is 143.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. 22 Missouri faces No. 16 Ole Miss. The Tigers have gone 14-0...

No. 22 Missouri Tigers host No. 16 Ole Miss Rebels

Ole Miss Rebels (15-4, 4-2 SEC) at Missouri Tigers (15-4, 4-2 SEC) Columbia, Missouri; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 22 Missouri plays No. 16 Ole Miss. The Tigers have gone 14-0 in home games. Missouri averages 83.2 points while outscoring opponents...

OPINION

As Dr. King Once Asked, Where Do We Go From Here?

“Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall...

A Day Without Child Care

On May 16, we will be closing our childcare centers for a day — signaling a crisis that could soon sweep across North Carolina, dismantling the very backbone of our economy ...

I Upended My Life to Take Care of Mama.

It was one of the best decisions I ever made. ...

Among the Powerful Voices We Lost in 2024, Louis Gossett, Jr.’s Echoes Loudly

December is the customary month of remembrance. A time of year we take stock; a moment on the calendar when we pause to reflect on the giants we have lost. ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NEWS

Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent

President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States. This week he issued an executive order that would eliminate it, upending more than a century of precedent. On...

Conservatives of color have lofty expectations for Trump's second term

WASHINGTON (AP) — Delivering his first address as a reinaugurated president, Donald Trump spoke directly to communities that had historically shunned his party. “To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you...

Iowa immigration law remains blocked, US appeals court says, but second lawsuit to be dismissed

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Biden administration's Department of Justice and kept a temporary block on an Iowa law that makes it a state crime for a person to be in Iowa if they are in the U.S. illegally. But a second order from the 8th...

ENTERTAINMENT

Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though the justices could still send it back to a lower court for more consideration of how the age verification measure affects adults' free-speech rights. ...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1: Jan. 26: Actor Scott Glenn (“Secretariat,” “The Right Stuff”) is 86. Actor Richard Portnow (“Trumbo,” ″The Sopranos”) is 78. Drummer Corky Laing of Mountain is 77. Actor David Strathairn is 76. Musician Lucinda...

'Anora,' 'Dune: Part Two' and 'September 5' among nominees for Producers Guild's top award

NEW YORK (AP) — The science-fiction sequel “Dune: Part Two," the doomed fairy tale “Anora” and the Munich Olympics drama “September 5” are among the 10 films nominated by the Producers Guild for its top award, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award. The Producers Guild announced its...

Morehouse Students Appear in ‘Vogue’ To Reflect On Legacy of Style in Honor of MLK Day

Movie Review: ‘One of Them Days’ Will Convince You Keke Palmer Is a Star

Prince to Be Honored Posthumously With Lifetime Achievement Award at Grammys

‘Afro Unicorn’ Plush Toys Are Now Available at Build-A-Bear

U.S. & WORLD NEWS

King Family Seeks Review of Files on MLK Assassination, Bernice King Addresses Public Disrespect

Everything Trump Did in the First Executive Orders and Actions of His Presidency

Trump Administration’s Blackout on Federal Health Agencies Reason for Public Health Alarm

Trump Defends Pardons for Rioters and Suggests Proud Boys Could Have Place in Politics

Democratic states weigh more support for immigrants as Trump administration cracks down

As President Donald Trump tightens the nation's immigration policies, lawmakers in Democratic-led states are...

Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent

President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a...

Ukrainian winemaker, US vets team up on a mission: showing the best of Ukraine, one glass at a time

MONTCLAIR, Va. (AP) — In a wine shop an hour outside of Washington, owner Arthur Lampros sampled a wine from a...

Tens of thousands protest in Slovakia over pro-Russia policies of populist leader Fico

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people in Slovakia gathered at squares and street across the...

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration...

Freedom is bittersweet for Palestinians released from Israeli jails

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — When Dania Hanatsheh was released from an Israeli jail this week and dropped off by...

By The Skanner News | The Skanner News

NEW YORK — The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he killed the civil rights leader.
Thomas Hagan was freed from a prison where he spent two days a week in a work- release program, state Correctional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.
Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965. But Hagan has said two men convicted with him were not involved. They were paroled in the 1980s.
Malcolm X was slain because of his split with the leadership of the Nation of Islam, the Black Muslim movement for which he had once served as chief spokesman, Hagan said.

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