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Who’s
Campaign is
it Anyway?
Aug. 16 •• A Portland
mother is slung by a Jammin
95.5 charity promotion that
uses the memory of her
son’s death, but doesn't
benefit the foundation in his
name. Christeen Johnson is
the mother of Eddie Barnett
Jr., a talented 16-year-old
w ho collapsed and died
during a high school
basketball game.
Too Little, Too Late
May 10 - Claudia Rhone is murdered on the front lawn of her Iris Court apartment and her ex-boyfriend
is eharged. The community is left to wonder why more wasn't done to prevent her death.
Devoted to
the Uninsured
Sept. 6 - Pastor Mary
Overstreet-Smith and Dr. Jill
Ginsberg, a family practice
doctor w ith Kaiser
Permanente open the free
North by Northeast Commu
nity Health Center, a new no
cost primary care clinic at
4725 N. Williams Ave.
Swastikas
Trail Hate
Oct. 4 - Swastikas and
racist messages hit the
small town of Longview,
Wash, where for months
they have targeted
minority places of
worship and businesses
that hire black people.
Rosa Parks School Opens
Sept. 13 - Rosa Parks Elementary, a brand new school named in honor of the civil rights heroine,
welcomes its first class from the New Columbia neighborhood, a mixed-use development in north
Portland built to replace Columbia Villa.
Zoo Workers
Apologize
Oct. 11 - Oregon Zoo employees
are put on notice for actions
considered racially offensive.
Apologies were issued from
workers who displayed a
confederate flag on the zoo train
and another worker who had a
racist bumper sticker on his car.
The zoo's director assured the
theme park was welcoming for all.
Justice Spoken Here
Alberta-S Racial Lines
Nov. 1 - Portland Boulevard becomes Rosa
Parks Way in tribute to the woman who refused
to yield her seat on a segregated bus in
Alabama in 1955, and became known as the
mother of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Oct. 25 -A Portland State University professor completes a study finding that black businesses and
organizations are less happy than their non-minority counterparts when it comes to opinions of
Northeast Alberta Street. Among all people, there was a general sense the neighborhood is losing its
diversity, especially longtime African American businesses and organizations.
NEW SEASONS
M A R K E T
STA RT
C h a m p a g n e o r s p a r k lin g
w in e ? B r u t o r e x t r a
d r y ? R o s é o r b la n c d e s b la n c s ? H o w d o y o u
c h o o s e ? W e h a v e a n in tr ig u in g a s s o r t m e n t o f
C h a m p a g n e a n d s p a r k lin g w in e s o n s a le - fr o m
s im p le , in e x p e n s iv e s ip p e r s to lim ite d c u v é e s o f
g r o w e r C h a m p a g n e s . A n d to h e lp y o u d e c id e
w h a t to s ip fo r y o u r N e w Y e a r’s to a s t, w e 'll b e
p o p p in g th e c o r k s o f s o m e o f o u r fa v o r ite s fo r
y o u to s a m p le . J o in u s f o r s o m e b u b b ly b a s ic s
Political Imprisonment
Dec. 6 - Kent Ford thanks friends and supporters of
civil liberties for their prayers as a federal appeals
hearing takes place for his son Patrice Lumumba Ford,
a political victim in the war on terror who was sen
tenced to 18 years in prison for trying to enter Af
ghanistan before the U.S. invaded the country.
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