Here are three articles I wrote for the Portland Observer, one of the country's oldest African American newspapers. I'm a reporter on staff there and we have a printed newspaper which comes out every Wednesday. The Portland Observer has a special annual Martin Luther King, Jr. edition published near the date of the national holiday. I spoke with one faith leader and two young black activists about their work.
Pastor Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran is a faith leader and activist. He's a founder of the New Sanctuary Church Movement and one of the few to give sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant in the last few years. You can read my article here.
Margaret Jacobsen is a writer, mother, photographer and lead organizer of Let's Talk. This week after addressing inter-sectional issues with the Portland's Women March on Jan. 21 to protest the Trump inauguration, Jacobsen was handed the reigns as the lead organizer. Read about Jacobsen here.
Cameron Whitten is the executive director of the non-profit Know Your City, an activist, citizen journalist and member of Portland's Resistance. Learn about his citizen journalism here.
King speaks to Malcolm X at a press conference on March 26, 1964.