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Northwest News

Details: Written by By Freddie Allen, NNPA News Wire Senior Correspondent; Published: 02 February 2016

70 percent of Black children are enrolled in prekindergarten or childcare centers that receive food subsidies compared to 28 percent of White children. Photo of New Porivence, N.J., elementary school by Tom Sulcer (CC0 1.0) via Wikimedia Commons.

Only about half of second-graders from households earning less than $50,000 have access to highly educated teachers

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 31 January 2016

Onyx Arts brings fine arts show to federal building starting Feb.11

Details: Written by Donovan M. Smith; Published: 28 January 2016

$40,000 in fines still loom over the building, one of the last remaining Black-owned properties on the street

Details: Written by Donovan M. Smith; Published: 28 January 2016

Community speaks out in the face of bigoted fear against the world’s fastest growing religion

Details: Written by NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS,TERRENCE PETTY, Associated Press; Published: 28 January 2016

FBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing reacts as he speaks during a press conference at the Harney County Community Center, in Burns, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. Bretzing was recounting the actions taken Tuesday night by police and federal authorities including the killing of one of the armed group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)

One of the last holdouts in the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge said the remaining occupiers will leave if none of them will be arrested

Details: Written by Arashi Young; Published: 28 January 2016

2015 was a landmark year for legislation affecting communities of color in Oregon, according to Nkenge Harmon John, president and CEO of the Urban League of Portland.

The report highlights an impressive year of racial equity progress from the state legislature

Details: Written by Keith Ridler, Associated Press; Published: 27 January 2016

In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum carries his rifle after standing guard all night at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. The FBI and Oregon State Police arrested the leaders of an armed group that has occupied a national wildlife refuge for the past three weeks during a traffic stop that prompted gunfire, and one death, along a highway through the frozen high country. The Oregonian reported that Finicum was the person killed, citing the man's daughter. (AP photo/Rick Bowmer)

One of the occupiers was killed by officers during a traffic stop and eight others were arrested

Details: Written by FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer; Published: 26 January 2016

In this Sept. 20, 2015, file photo, Tracy Morgan poses in the press room at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. Morgan will officially launch his "Picking Up the Pieces" standup tour Feb. 5, 2016, at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind., continuing through May. Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File.

Former ’30 Rock,’ ‘SNL’ star talks about his first tour after a gruesome 2014 accident that killed a friend and nearly cost him his life