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What's happening for you in Portland 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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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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Rose Sanders joined hundreds of enthusiastic kids, parents and grandparents Sunday, Oct. 11, at Green Lake's Kids for Obama Parade.
Photo by Susan Fried


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Events planned to stop human trafficking in Pacific Northwest

Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery that impacts lives around the world – and in the Pacific Northwest....The U.S. government estimates are that there are now 600,00-800,000 people trafficked into this country to work against their will....


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More adults needed to share education, career success stories

Danela Butler,17, Kwame Kang,15, and Jordan Leonard, 16, participants in the Black Achievers Program at the Meredith Mathews East Madison YMCA practice a dance they choreographed ... at the first session of this years Black Achievers Program....
Photo by Susan Fried


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African American Affairs Commission meets to plan agenda

The Commission on African American Affairs focused on alarming new statistics on the persistent problems of unequal treatment, and the need to mobilize action to address the issues they raised at their meeting last week....


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The Burke Museum has partnered with Pacific Science Center to present a series of lectures inspired by Pacific Science Center's featured exhibit – "Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia." The lecture series, "Lucy Talks," brings five experts in the fields of human evolutionary studies, forensic anthropology and fossil conservation to speak...


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Leslie Jones, diversity manager for Sound Transit, will speak at the Community Coalition for Contracts and Jobs meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 21, at the Central Area Motivation Program, 722 18th Ave. in Central Seattle. Sound Transit is in the process of bidding the initial phases of the University Link sector of the light rail project.....


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WASHINGTON (NNPA) - As the Black unemployment rate leaped another eight percentage points last…


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Gathering together some of the city's best talent, dirty girl productions presents "Hot Grits"..."It's a concept band," McCloud says. The band itself is actually fictional; the women play and write their own songs and they play their own music, but they're within character....


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