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Growing up black in the increasingly white neighborhoods of Northeast Portland

Portland-raised author Renee Watson talks about her new young adult book, "This Side of Home" Author Renée Watson grew up in Portland and lived through the gentrification of her Northeast neighborhood. In 1990, more than 30 percent of Portland’s ...

4 Mar 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Mitchell S. Jackson remembers Portland's "Residue Years"

The author of “The Residue Years” talks about his memories of Portland, where his book is the 2015 Everybody Reads selection from the Multnomah County Library “It’s cold!” says Mitchell S. Jackson. “It’s really cold in Brooklyn.” Indeed. But in his native ...

3 Mar 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Let’s be real about the sacrifices, necessity in ending displacement

The recent announcement by the Portland Development Commission that Natural Grocers will be the new anchor tenant of the much-maligned and long vacant city-owned lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Alberta Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevar ...

6 Oct 2014 - M. Nels Johnson
George Mayes Remembers: A personal memoir of another Portland

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