Native Oregonian Nkenge Harmon Johnson on the city and ULPDX's past, present and future Nkenge Harmon Johnson’s legal and political career has taken her from her Pacific Northwest home across the United States and back again. A graduate of the Trinit ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
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
Artist and activist Tori Abernathy talks about housing justice and the activist role of Portland's arts community In February, local artist and activist Tori Abernathy decided to use her latest installation piece “Make Yourself at Home”— exploring id ...
25 May 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
What would a Portland for black people look like? The Portland African American Leadership Forum wants to know What would Portland look like if city policy were shaped with the experiences and interests of Portland’s black community in mind? That’s the qu ...
1 May 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The marketing of a drug scourge: ‘Dreamland’ explores how residents of a small town in Mexico built a heroin-trafficking enterprise on the back of pain-pill addiction in the U.S. When black tar heroin first reached Portland in the 1990s, you could buy it ...
9 Apr 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
High school student Nadya Okamoto formed Camions of Care to provide feminine hygiene products to women on the streets Menstruals, monthlies, menses, periods, “that time of the month”: Whatever you want to call it, menstruation is a natural and regular par ...
20 Feb 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Charles McGee III and I sit outside a coffee shop one late afternoon, but we are far from alone. We are interrupted multiple times by passersby who know him and can’t help but say hello. He greets each one like an old friend. “And how’s your mother doing? ...
22 Oct 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
It’s warm on this summer day in the Southeast Portland art gallery, but local artist Robert Collins stands unfazed — decked out in a slate blue three-piece suit complete with matching fedora. The sun streams through two walls of windows and lands on the o ...
22 Oct 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
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
Over the course of their careers Portland filmmakers Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald have travelled the country learning the histories and stories of Americans, but for their latest project, Whitelandia, the Emmy-award winning husband and wife team have t ...
8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot