President Barack Obama presents a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery in the East Room of the the White House in Washington, Aug. 12, 2009). Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File
The founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev Joseph Lowery was a powerful preacher and orator
READ MOREBishop Wells died March 14, 2020, at his home surrounded by Mother Mattie Wells and his family. Due to the recent Oregon State executive order, the public viewing scheduled for Saturday, March 28, 2020, will no longer be held.
READ MOREThis July 6, 2017 file photo shows pianist McCoy Tyner after performing at the botanical Garden Citta' Studi, in Milan, Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, FIle)
McCoy Tyner, groundbreaking and influential jazz pianist, was the last surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet
READ MOREIn this Feb. 26, 2017, file photo, Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film, "Hidden Figures," poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions has died. She was 101.
READ MOREHe played music professionally as part-time employment and worked for the Portland Fire Bureau for 14 years
READ MOREA Celebration of Life will be held Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:00 a.m. at Bethel AME Church in Portland
READ MORELorenzo Ghiglieri, one of the world's best-recognized and most successful sculptors and artists, died Saturday in Vancouver, Wash.
READ MORECommissioner Nick Fish died Thursday after a long battle with cancer
READ MORENathan L. Jones passed away from complications of a stroke on November 1, 2019. A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, December 22, 2019.
READ MOREBernard J. Tyson was the company's first African American CEO and under his leadership, they experienced major gains in revenue, jobs and their network of physicians
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