The Skanner has been named the recipient of a first-place A. Philip Randolph Messenger Award in the Responsibility category for Helen Silvis' article, "Group Offers to Help Desperate Parents," published in the March 9, 2005 edition of The Portland Skanner. Ms. Silvis' story details the efforts of Parents Anonymous, an organization dedicated to aiding families who have been ravaged by addiction.

New York Knick and former University of Washington hoops star Nate Robinson, in red cap, poses for pictures with some of the kids who participated in the T-Mobile Courtside Coach Shootout, part of the 2006 NBA Rhythm-n-Rims tour, held July 23 at the annual Bite of Seattle.

Soul Stay Shun performs at the annual Central Area Community Festival, held July 22 at the Garfield playfield.

The elite U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron is once again the star of the KeyBank…

WASHINGTON—After a conspicuous five-year absence, President George W. Bush last week addressed the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the first time in his presidency.
Acknowledging his administration's bumpy relations with Black voters, Bush said he wants to change the Republican Party's relationship with African Americans.

Editor's note: The following are excerpts from President Bush's recent address at the NAACP national convention.

Editor's note: The following are excerpts from a speech by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at the recent NAACP national convention.

When Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King went to India to learn more about nonviolence, they learned a translation of the word "nonviolence" in Sanskrit is "truth insistence." To insist on the truth — and isn't that what they were doing?

Monique Meade, left, comments to Charlotte Roach about a hat — modeled by Marilyn Dixon, background — at the Hattitude Tea, held July 23 at Bethesda Christian Church.

Leon Dudley, a high school principal in Dallas, Texas, who says he loves a challenge, will be Jefferson High School's new principal beginning Aug. 14.
Dudley was hired this week by Vicki Phillips, Portland Public Schools superintendent. Phillips also hired Cynthia Harris, a school administrator in California, to serve as area director for all schools in the Jefferson cluster, as well as the elementary and middle schools in the Wilson area.
"Leon Dudley and Cynthia Harris are outstanding school leaders,"
Phillips said. "While new to Portland, they are not new to the work at hand: providing a world-class education for students in urban schools."
Dudley, a principal at Dallas Independent School District's Roosevelt High School, has a track record leading urban middle and high schools and closing the achievement gap, according to Phillips.