In September, Garfield High School celebrated their re-opening as a new modernized school focused on the needs of its students. Even as a grand re-opening of a historical community institution is celebrated, the recent NAACP Education Conference highlighted the continuing gaps and inequality that exist throughout the educational system for minority students....

Mix international award-winning dancers with Seattle's world music champions, add a stage director/story teller who pioneered diversity training, bring on a thousand-year-old griot and what do you have?  Comedy, drama, pageantry and all the magic of "Ozya: An Urban Odyssey." On Oct. 25, at 7:30 pm, the Rainier Valley Cultural Center presents...

What's happening for you in Seattle this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below.…

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Park(ing) Day, a "one-day, global event to highlight the need for more urban open space, rethink the way green space can happen, and improve the quality of urban human habitat." SEEDArts and volunteers from the Gateway Project helped organize the event on Sept. 19.

William Milton Bentley, Sr., died on Sept. 17. He was 88. William was born on Sept. 11, 1924 to Bee Bentley, Sr. and Underee (Howell) Bentley in Stephenville, Texas. ...

Josephine "Jo" Jenkins has died. She was 83. Jo was born May 23, 1925 to KC & Mary Virgil in Marigold, Miss. She was the younger of two children who attended school in Mississippi....

Lawrence Lowe died on Sept. 12. He was 65. was born July 22, 1943, in Warren, Ark. to Sam and Dorris Lowe. He was the fifth child of 12 children. Their family moved to Portland, Oregon when Lawrence was a baby. He attended Boise Elementary School and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1962....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ In Florida alone, some 600,000 blacks haven't registered to vote, Michelle Obama told a rally on Saturday.
She and Jill Biden capped a two-week voter registration drive that included stops at several schools on the Florida A&M campus.
"We've seen young people finding their voices and casting their votes for the first time,'' Obama said. "And not-so-young people who haven't felt this way about an election in years.''
The Obama campaign will need those relatively untapped voter pools _ the young, and new minority voters _ to prevail in November.
"Every day, every hour, every second counts,'' Obama said. "We're down to 39 days before folks go down to the polling place to make this choice.''
Obama said the issues at stake _ such as the Iraq war, financial crisis and health care system _ were personal for people, not just political.
"That's why we're all so pumped up and fired up and ready to go,'' Obama said. "This is personal, and I know everyone here feels how personal this is. We're feeling it every day, all of us.''
Biden, a community college professor, sympathized with students who aren't getting enough public funding. She said several at her college have had to quit because they couldn't buy books or afford tuition.
"My students cannot afford another four years that look like the last eight, and I know you can't either,'' Biden said. "Michelle's husband and my husband get that, and they will fight for the change we all need.''
Obama has pulled ahead in recent polling as the economic meltdown takes center stage.

Actor Danny Glover warned Friday that other American Indian tribes will follow the example of the Cherokee Nation if it succeeds in blocking tribal citizenship for freedmen descendants.
Speaking at a forum hosted by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Glover called on the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to allow freedmen descendants into the tribe with full citizenship rights, the Tulsa World reported from its Washington bureau.
A March 2007 vote by Cherokee Nation voters to remove freedmen descendants from tribal rolls has been challenged in court. Freedmen are descendants of former slaves owned by the Cherokee Nation.
Glover described the relationship linking American Indians and black people as one of the most pivotal in the nation's evolution.
"I've always embraced that relationship,'' he said. "My own grandmother was part Choctaw.''
He cited the history of black people who escaped their captors and found refuge among the Indian tribes, as well as the strategic help black people offered the Seminoles in their war against the tyranny of the colonies.
Both groups, Glover said, have seen genocide and exploitation....