Young community activist Adonis "AJ" Douglas Walker, 9, left, helps Asa and Jermain Atherton, right, both of P.O. Soul Entertainment, clean-up a section of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Killingsworth Street on April 28.

It's taken one year and $6 million, but students and staff at De La Salle North Catholic High School hope a new location will raise the private school's visibility and give De La Salle ample room to grow.
"I'm hoping we're there for the next 100 years," said Tim Hennessy, De La Salle's vice president of advancement.
Enduring rain and hale, De La Salle staff hosted a groundbreaking ceremony May 2 to celebrate their move into the old Kenton Elementary School at the corner of North Interstate Avenue and North Lombard Street.

After a long period of inactivity, the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has elected a new leader.
Named president this week, Charlene McGee, 25, will lead the chapter after attending only a handful of meetings.
"I definitely didn't think I was going to walk out as president," said McGee.

The city of Portland voted Wednesday to approve a settlement in a civil rights case against the Bureau of Development Services. Employees Lisa Washington and Roxie Granville, both African American women, say they were unfairly targeted for being seen together outside of the office.
The women's attorney, Portland civil rights lawyer Dan Snyder, said what bureau administrators called an "incident" amounted to nothing more than two co-workers meeting for lunch. At the time of the alleged discrimination, in February of 1997, the women were the only Black inspectors in the bureau, Snyder said. He contends the women were victims of veiled racial bias.

Playing on the detective theme at the 49th annual Ebony Fashion Fair, "Stylishly Hot," held April 20 at the Oregon Convention Center, a male model is blown over when he discovers the sexy dress revealed under his partner's trench coat.

If it passes, an Oregon House bill would be the first of its kind to require lawmakers to think about how a law might contribute to Oregon's disproportionate minority prison population.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Chip Shields, D-Northeast Portland, said the bill would keep imprisoned minorities in the spotlight.
"There's no doubt minorities are disproportionately impacted by sentencing and criminal justice policies," Shields said.

The Portland Schools Foundation has awarded Faubion Elementary School its prestigious "Sustaining Excellence in Education" award for having closed the achievement gap and for having maintained that level of excellence for the past six years.
The awards are given to Portland schools with large minority or low-income populations that have greatly improved their reading and math scores.

Toinette Foster wasn't happy when she learned her son had been picked up for a curfew violation, but she wasn't pleased with the way police treated her either.
During the first Saturday of spring break, Foster's son, 13-year-old Jyel, was picked up by a Portland police officer about 15 minutes after the 10:15 p.m. weekend curfew on his way back from a Gresham skate park. It was the teen's birthday celebration and Foster said it was one of the only times she's let him go out on his own.
"I understand what they're trying to do," she said. "It also upsets me. I feel our kids were targeted unfairly."

Brian Rohter, CEO of New Seasons Markets, talks with members of the news media alongside Rev. Matt Hennessee, of Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church, T. Allen Bethel, president of the Albina Ministerial Alliance, and Mayor Tom Potter before presenting a check for $10,000 to the Morning Star Baptist Church rebuilding fund. Johnasen Pack, of New Generation Revival, accepted the check for members of Morning Star's leadership, who were out of town at the time. Over 1,000 people attended the benefit barbecue on Saturday, March 3 to raise money for the church that burned to the ground in February.

Seattle Firefighter Matt Hartl helps (from left) Jacob Samol, 5, Karen Valencia, 3, and Fernado Valencia, 1, sit in the driver's seat of a fire truck at an open house at Fire Station 28, 5968 Rainier Ave. S., on April 21. Firefighters at Station 28, which is scheduled to be reconstructed in 2008, held the open house as a way to get input from the community during the design process.