- Home
- News
- Opinion
- Entertainment
- Classified
- About Us
MLK Breakfast- Community
- Foundation
- Obituaries
- Donate
10-02-2024 4:22 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
In this Jan. 20, 2011 file photo, Jean Kennedy Smith attends a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Though she never ran for office, Smith campaigned for her brothers, traveling the country for then-Sen. John F. Kennedy as he sought the presidency in 1960.
READ MORE
In this Sept. 14, 1978, file photo, Harry Glickman, general manager of the NBA Portland Trail Blazers, discusses events surrounding star player Bill Walton, who has been asked to be traded, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)
Glickman was part of the original ownership team and held a number of positions with the team, including general manager. Under Glickman, the Trail Blazers reached the NBA Finals three times, winning their lone title in 1977
READ MORE
In this Sept. 4, 1979 file photo, Bonnie Pointer poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. Pointer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, has died. Publicist Roger Neal says Pointer died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles on Monday. She was 69. (AP Photo/George Brich, FIle)
Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died Monday.
READ MORE
The R&B giant was gay, black and out to the max; he was also a father and a man of faith
READ MORE
Obrie Smith, Jr., November 24, 1940 - April 27, 2020
Obrie Smith, Jr. was born on November 24, 1940, in St. Louis, Mo. He was peacefully called home by our Heavenly Father on Monday, April 27, 2020.
READ MORE
This 2019 photo provided by Augusta Films, shows Richard Sobol in a still from the documentary "A Crime on the Bayou." (Augusta Films. A Crime on the Bayou via AP)
Richard Sobol arrived in Louisiana in 1966 as a volunteer for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee. Sobol said that assignment saw him enter "a new world from which I have never returned."
READ MORE
Herbert Lee Amerson
Herbert Lee Amerson, a long time Portland resident, leader and community activist passed Monday, March 1, 2020 with family by his side
READ MORE
This May 8, 1997 file photo shows Publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise Magazine Earl G. Graves Sr. in New York. Graves Sr., who championed black businesses as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black entrepreneurs, has died. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Graves was as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on Black entrepreneurs
READ MORE
Arlene Schnitzer
Arlene Schnitzer gave away more than $150 million to thousands of civic projects in Portland and helped bring arts in the city to another level
READ MORE
This April 28, 2019, file photo, shows Ellis Marsalis during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer, File)
Ellis Marsalis Jr., the jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan, died late Wednesday from pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus
READ MORE 
Would you like to run an Obituary Announcement classified ad with The Skanner News? Visit our online form to place ads online, in the printed newspaper, or both.
