Nathaniel Williams and his friends created Unify Portland to provide positive role models for youths The prevalence of gangs in Portland is a symptom of a community torn apart, said Nathaniel Williams – and it’s only part of the problem. “The black commun ...
26 May 2016 - Emily Green
Nkenge Harmon Johnson and Katie Sawicki, of the Urban League of Portland, share insights about the latest State of Black Oregon report June 2015: Last month, the Urban League of Portland released the State of Black Oregon 2015, the second iteration in its ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator of how much Black Lives Matter in Portland — then we are failing, badly. The latest 2015 Multnomah County Homeless Count was released in early June. If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator ...
29 Jun 2015 - Israel Bayer
Born and raised in Northeast Portland, Street Roots vendor George Mayes has been an eyewitness to the many changes Portland has undergone in the past few decades. One of seven children of a longshoreman father from Texas and a railroad worker mother from ...
8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The controversy about the Portland Development Commission’s decision to sell property on the northwest corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and NE Alberta to an out of state developer opens up a ton of questions about the economic future of Portland& ...
30 Jan 2014 - James Posey