South Seattle Community College, in partnership with the Seattle Electric Vehicle Association, is offering a number of non-credit electric vehicle classes, including a six-day Electric Vehicle Conversion workshop. Team-taught by a group of experienced instructors who have converted over two dozen vehicles, the six-day workshop guides students through the complete process of converting a vehicle from a gasoline engine to electric power.  By the end of the workshop, the group will have completed one running electric car conversion capable of highway speeds, with a 30-60 mile range on one charge ...

• Eyes on the Prize
• Antonio Edwards and Brick City Krumpers
• Poets Mahogany Browne and Robert Lashley
• Bobby Seale appearance
• ALCAN
• Soul Food Lunch

Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks Wednesday, Feb. 4 on  "Africa on the Edge," at the First Congregational Church, 1126 S.W. Park. Doors Open at 6:30 p.m. Program begins at 7:30 p.m.
This is an amazing opportunity to hear this global, award-winning ambassador, especially during Black History Month. Only about 50 tickets remain....

Unemployed workers in Washington and the rest of the country are targets for crooks posing as headhunters, the Attorney General's Office warned this week. Scams include bogus job offers and realistic-looking e-mail messages that contain links to computer viruses or phishing sites. "More people are looking for work and scammers are looking for them; it's despicable ... Threats targeting at-home workers include ...

OAKLAND (NNPA) - The arrest and filing of murder charges against the former transit officer, whose New Year's Day shooting of an unarmed Black man was captured on cell phone videos and spread around the world, brought a small measure of relief to a diverse, national group demanding his full prosecution....

DETROIT (AP -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick emerged from jail after serving a 99-day sentence. He was greeted in the cold by about two dozen reporters and a handful of onlookers.
Kilpatrick and his ex-chief of staff admitted to lying during a 2007 whistle-blowers' trial about a romantic relationship and their role in a police official's firing. Sexually explicit text messages contradicted their testimony .... He stood for a minute or two outside the jail amid swirling snowflakes, smiling occasionally to those in the crowd who called his name and shouted: "We love you, Kwame. Detroit loves you baby!".....

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Despite earlier efforts by Republicans to hold up his confirmation, Eric Holder met Senate committee approval, approval of the full Senate and was sworn in yesterday.
He becomes the nation's chief law enforcement official and America's first Black attorney general ...

BALTIMORE (NNPA) - Defeating the incumbent party chief and three other challengers after six rounds of balloting, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele was elected Friday to chair the Republican National Committee (RNC), becoming the first African-American to lead the GOP....

Professor Cornel West of Princeton University, center, speaks Friday to President Preston Pulliams of Portland Community College and Sylvia Welch, director of Affirmative Action and equity for PCC, at the Heathman Hotel. West was in Portland to discuss politics and race in the era of President Obama.

This week, a consortium of Portland-area agencies announced grants totaling $5.4 million dollars, and 16 Section 8 project-based vouchers, had been awarded to six housing projects. 
They were selected in part because the majority of these projects will be able to provide leased units for the area's most vulnerable homeless population by July 1.  
Together, the projects provide 37 new units of permanent housing while creating or preserving an additional 160 units of housing affordable to low-income households.    
"Until every person in our community has a safe, stable home, we need to make sure that our limited resources are serving the people who need our help the most ...