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Four candidates are running for Oregon attorney general and hope to get their party’s nod in the primary to compete in November to succeed Ellen Rosenblum. Rosenblum, Oregon’s Democratic attorney general, will retire after finishing her current and third four-year term. She was first elected in 2012, becoming the state’s first woman in the role. […] The post Four candidates running in attorney general primaries to replace Rosenblum appeared first on Oregon Capital Chronicle.

Four candidates are running for Oregon attorney general and hope to get their party’s nod in the primary to compete in November to succeed Ellen Rosenblum.

Bringing the history and art of drag to the northeast side of Portland, Race Talks: Uniting to Break the Chains of Racism hosted its second annual History of Black Drag event after a large success last year. The History of Black Drag in Portland is a two-night event featuring conversations and performances by local Black drag queens. The first night, BIPOC night, took place on Thursday, July ...

Today, Senator Akasha Lawrence Spence (D-Portland) and Representative Janelle Bynum (D-Clackamas) join Black women leaders across Oregon in releasing a statement celebrating Nataki Garrett, who has served as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s (OSF) Artistic Director since 2019. The leaders join in denouncing the racist death threats made against Ms. Garrett.

Though often omitted from history books, African American people had feet on the ground side by side with early explorers of the Oregon Territory—from Markus Lopius, a "servant" on the Lady Washington in 1788 with Robert Gray, to York, a slave on the Lewis and Clark expedition, to Moses Harris, a free black mountain man and legend in the fur trade and later a sought-after wagon train guide. There's also James Douglas, chief factor at Fort Vancouver in the 1840s and concurrent governor on Vancouver Island and British Columbia.  Somewhat simultaneous with Douglas' rise to ...