Type Weekly newspaper Publisher Mark Washington City Portland, Oregon | Founder(s) Alfred L. Henderson Editor Michael Leighton | |
Headquarters 4747 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Portland, OR 97211 | ||
The Portland Observer is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1970, it is published weekly (on Wednesdays), in Portland, Oregon.
Rev. Alfred L. Henderson founded the paper in the 1970s, in the tradition of the People's Observer, a 1940s publication that had ceased publication in 1950. (That paper also originally went by the name of "Portland Observer.") Joyce Washington was the publisher from the mid-1980s until her death in 1996. Her son Charles Washington, a Portland native and a graduate of Jefferson High School, then took over as publisher, and he died in December 2012. Portland politician, radio host, restauranteur, and veteran Bruce Broussard has held a leadership position at the paper.