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Investing in Youth

Investing in Youth
Jan 27, 2015, 5:43 p.m.
Combating Displacement

Combating Displacement
Jan 28, 2015, 2:41 p.m.
Healthy Babies Ahead!

Healthy Babies Ahead!
Jan 28, 2015, 3:15 p.m.
Homeless Youth Stories

Homeless Youth Stories
Jan 28, 2015, 2:50 p.m.
Historic Drama Reflective of Modern Reality

Historic Drama Reflective of Modern Reality
Jan 28, 2015, 2:57 p.m.

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A group of women become childbirth educators through a program run by the International Center for Traditional Childbearing.

Healthy Babies Ahead!

January 28, 2015 | 3:15 p.m.

Marc H. Morial

Historic Drama Reflective of Modern Reality

January 28, 2015 | 2:57 p.m.

Transitional youth rehearse for the production ‘Maybe It’s Because…(I’m So Versatile).'

Homeless Youth Stories

January 28, 2015 | 2:50 p.m.

A parcel of property owned by the Portland Housing Bureau and proposed for construction of housing affordable to low income and disadvantaged residents is situated on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between Northeast Cook and Ivy Street.

Combating Displacement

January 28, 2015 | 2:41 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Transitional youth rehearse for the production ‘Maybe It’s Because…(I’m So Versatile).'

Homeless Youth Stories

January 28, 2015 | 2:50 p.m.

‘Minority Retort’ producers Jason Lamb (left) and Jeremy Eli prepare for the first show in their new people of color comedy series.

The Minority Retort

January 21, 2015 | 4:45 p.m.

An accomplished author of black poetry and other books, Reed College Professor Samiya Bashir, is changing the narrative on what it means to be part of the black experience in Portland.

Changing the Narrative

January 20, 2015 | 5:46 p.m.

The co-producers and filmmakers of the Portland documentary ‘Arresting Power,’ (pictured from left) Erin Yanke, Julie Perini and Jodi Darby. The film, which premiers on Thursday, Jan. 15 at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 7 p.m. speaks to the history of police violence in our society and the history of Portland’s exclusion laws, racial profiling, red-lining and gentrification practices.

Arresting Power Documentary Hits Movie Screen

January 14, 2015 | 1:44 p.m.

Metro

A parcel of property owned by the Portland Housing Bureau and proposed for construction of housing affordable to low income and disadvantaged residents is situated on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between Northeast Cook and Ivy Street.

Combating Displacement

January 28, 2015 | 2:41 p.m.

‘Minority Retort’ producers Jason Lamb (left) and Jeremy Eli prepare for the first show in their new people of color comedy series.

The Minority Retort

January 21, 2015 | 4:45 p.m.

Nelson Gani and his wife Jazmin and their three children stand in front of their new home with Cobi Jackson (left) of Wells Fargo and Dana ingram (right) of the non-profit Portland Housing Center.

Down Payment Lifeline

January 21, 2015 | 4:34 p.m.

An accomplished author of black poetry and other books, Reed College Professor Samiya Bashir, is changing the narrative on what it means to be part of the black experience in Portland.

Changing the Narrative

January 20, 2015 | 5:46 p.m.

Law & Justice

Like Martin Luther King Jr. before him, Portland activist Glenn Waco is on the front lines in the battle against racial inequality, leading members of his generation and others to protest, and then face a violent response from police.

New Leaders Emerge in Struggle for Police ...

January 14, 2015 | 2:54 p.m.

The co-producers and filmmakers of the Portland documentary ‘Arresting Power,’ (pictured from left) Erin Yanke, Julie Perini and Jodi Darby. The film, which premiers on Thursday, Jan. 15 at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 7 p.m. speaks to the history of police violence in our society and the history of Portland’s exclusion laws, racial profiling, red-lining and gentrification practices.

Arresting Power Documentary Hits Movie Screen

January 14, 2015 | 1:44 p.m.

Larry Morgan

History Making in Office

January 7, 2015 | 1:08 p.m.

Lucy Mashia (left) and Perlia Bell, both mothers of gun violence victims, hang ornaments in memory of their lost loved ones, during a gathering of community members at the Office of Youth Violence Prevention in northeast Portland.

Lost to Gun Violence

December 23, 2014 | 3:41 p.m.

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