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KATU Season 1/EP 10 - "Comcast Rise Award Recipients"
By: The Real Tra'Renee Channel
Posted May 23, 2021
Situation: We believe when ONE RISES, WE ALL RISE! Today, we are highlighting a program by #Comcast where local BIPOC small businesses are awarded technology makeovers!!! We are speaking to not one, but two #ComcastRise award recipients! Find out how you can get in on this too!!!
Black business owners fight to restore culture in Portland's historic Albina neighborhood
Albina was once hub for African Americans until gentrification
By: Alexa Liacko
Posted at 8:00 AM, Feb 26, 2021
and last updated 11:15 AM, Feb 26, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. — When buildings no longer tell the story of a neighborhood, we hold onto the photographs left behind. Yet, the real history lives on in the stories behind these pictures.
“I have vivid memories just right down the street here,” said Sharon Maxwell, pointing at an empty lot behind her, reminiscing on her childhood neighborhood.
The lot was once home to stores, businesses and family dwellings.
“Everything was just sort of like a roaring 20s, but in the 80s and in the 70s,” she said.