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‘Black Friday’ Event Celebrates Love Stories and Black Business
‘Feeling Our Age’: Oregon Artist Explores Aging Through Portraiture
‘I Have No Doubt People Are Dying Because of Insufficient Staffing’: Portland Representatives Introduce Bill to Require Safer Hospital Standards for Staff
‘Mayor of NE Portland’ Honored With Affordable Housing Building
“Learning Differently from the Way Our Schooling is Handed to Us”
$20 Million in Measure 110 Grants Awarded for Addiction Services, Community Redress
$450 Million Awarded to Lower Albina Neighborhood
18 Candidates Run to Finish Out Fish’s Council Term
32% Rent Increases? Oregon Bill Takes Aim At ‘Rent Control Loophole’
38th Annual MLK Breakfast Returns To Convention Center
AI Symposium Explores Flaws and Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Albina Vision Trust Breaks Ground and Sets Up Permanent Headquarters
Applications for Comcast Funding of Black Businesses Now Open
Artist Rallies Support to Make Offer on Beatrice Morrow Cannady House
As Reparations Hit Roadblock, Oregon Lawmakers Look to U.S. Congress and Cities
As Vaccine Rates in Black Community Stall, County and Faith Leaders Team Up
Ballot Measure to Overhaul City Government Promises Minority Representation While Facing Controversy
Basic Guaranteed Income Program to Launch for Black Portlanders
Beaverton Hires Veteran City Manager to Lead Council Transition
Behavioral Health Director Steps in as Interim County Health Department Director
Billy Webb Elks Lodge Seeks Historic Designation Status
BIPOC Caucus Unveils Agenda for 2021
BIPOC Farm Collective Starts Strong with Two Major National Awards
BIPOC Providers Push Back Against Initiative to “Fix” Measure 110
Black and Jewish Community Join to Revive Historic Partnership
Black Artists of Oregon Exhibit Creates More Complete History of Contemporary Art in the Northwest
Black Business Association of Oregon Fights ‘Invisible Knee’ to Economic Equity
Black Candidates Call for Intervention in Clackamas County Ballot Count
Black Creatives to Open Old Town Studio Space and Music Venue for BIPOC Artists
Black Educators, Advocates Amplify Parents’ Anxieties About Sending Kids Back into Classrooms During Pandemic
Black Filmmaker Explores Oregon as a Backdrop, Lands at Sundance
Black Filmmakers Depict 90s Portland in Outdoor School
Black Food Professionals See Opportunities to “Scale Up” in School Cafeterias and on Store Shelves
Black Leaders Call For Change in Policing, Change in Media Coverage of Demonstrations
Black Leaders Urge County to Continue Funding Multnomah Mothers Trust
Black Lives Matters Protestors, Organizers Keep Up Momentum
Black Medical, Faith-Based Communities Drive Increase in Vaccinations
Black Mental Health Oregon Offers Free Computers, Internet Access
Black Oregon Pioneers Claim Their Space Thanks To Jeremy Okai Davis
Black Oregonians, Some Seniors Left Behind as Vaccines Made Available for 80 and Older
Black Renters in the Lurch, Even with Extended Rent-Payback Deadline
Black Restaurant Week Comes to Portland
Black Rodeo Comes To Town
Black Scholar Cynthia Dillard in as New Dean of Seattle University’s College of Education
Black United Fund Launches Emerging Entrepreneur Program
Black Voices United Hosts Portland School Board Candidates Forum
Black Volunteers Sought for Alzheimer’s Drug Study at OHSU
Board of Commissioners Sends Its Priorities to the State
Brikama Society Brings Gambian Community Together in Solidarity, Humanitarian Efforts
Broadway Books Kicks Off Year of Reading James Baldwin
Brown Throws Support Behind Highway Covers, Connectivity in I-5 Expansion
Bynum Talks Coalition-Building as House Passes Police Reform Package
Camp ELSO Gives BIPOC Students A Month of Science Learning in Nature
Candidates Run to Replace Retiring Commissioner Fritz
Capitol Bar Hosts Triumphant Reopening
Cascadia AIDS Project Opens Inclusive Health Care Clinic in Eliot Neighborhood
Cascadia Names New Chief Medical Officer
Cascadia Whole Health Honors Community Justice Leader, Fine Artist with Culture of Caring Awards
Childcare, Rural Investment, Wealth Creation, ‘Actually’ Affordable Housing: State BIPOC Caucus Talks Priorities at Start of Legislative Session
City Awards $548,000 in Cannabis Revenue to BIPOC-Focused Organizations
City Council Accepts 2020 Police Report Citing Staffing Shortages, Resource-Drain from Protests
City Council Strikes Down Gonzalez’s ‘Inhumane’ Suggestion for Blanket Ban on Public Camping
City Delays Decision on Role of Neighborhood Associations
City Elections Officials Explain Ranked-Choice Voting
City’s Budget Windfall Means More for Police, Despite NAACP Demands
Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Receives Honorary Doctorate from Lewis & Clark College
Civil Rights Leader Rev. Dr. T. Allen Bethel Dies
Community Leaders Heartened By Portland Response To Proud Boys Rally
Community Mourns Death of Young Musician, Man of Faith
Community Surprised at Police Chief’s Departure, Concerned by Quick Replacement
Compensating the Wrongly Convicted
Council Votes to Further Anti-Displacement Work for Black Residents
County Extends Rent Grace Period for Tenants Who Have Applied for Assistance
County Health Department Seeks Federal Funding to Head Off Violence in Schools
County’s First Afrocentric Women’s Transition Home to Open in Gresham
Democratic Leaders Push for $400 Million Investment in Preventing and Ending Homelessness
Democrats Voice Priorities for Coming Year in the Capitol
Don’t Shoot PDX to Launch Community Legal Referral Services Program
Don’t Shoot Portland, University of Oregon Team Up for Black Narratives, Memory
During Building Boom, Chair of Housing Advisory Commission Urges Equal Opportunity for Contractors
During Pandemic, Educators and Community Partners Hope to Bridge the Gap for Students of Color
Educators, Equity Leaders Urge Oregon to Get Rid of “Exit Testing” for High School Diplomas
Emmett Wheatfall’s Pandemic Poems
Environmental Justice Leader Vernice Miller-Travis on Fighting Racism and Climate Change
Faith Community, Activists Introduce ‘Evidence-Based’ Gun Control Measure to Ballot
Falsely Accused of Hit-And-Run, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty Looks for Redress
FBI Highlights Seven Unsolved Gun Homicides with Offers of Cash Rewards, Anonymity
Fine Art Meets Street Art in This Year’s Rose Festival Portrait
Five Candidates Run for Rare Open Bench on Multnomah County Circuit Court
Five Metro Council Candidates Discuss Equity
Five Running to Represent Northeast Portland at County Level Include Former Mayor, Social Worker, Hotelier (Part 2)
Fledgling Mental Health Program at Rosemary Anderson High Seeks Donations
Four Ballot Measures for Portland Voters to Consider
Free Legal Clinic Wins State Bar Award for Innovation, Expands Its Impact
From the Blazers to the Portland Art Museum, John Goodwin Promotes Black Artists
Future of Lloyd Center Includes Teardown, But Keeping the Ice Rink
Gordly Family Home to Become Center for Black Leadership
Gresham’s New City Council Member Pushes for Clarity on Black Lives Matter
Groundbreaking Renter Protections Go Into Effect in Portland
Group of Black Contractors Criticize Albina Vision Trust, Delays to Rose Quarter Expansion, in Letter to Governor

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