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Good in the
Hood celebrates
neighborhoods
See page 8
Volume XLIV
‘City ö/Roses’
Number 25
See Local News, page 3
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• June 25. 2014
Established in 1970
Committed to Cultural Diversity
Revisiting Alberta
Proposed new look
at issues comes
with racial lens
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îople were very much present on
and around Northeast Alberta Street
in 1992. Even if the surrounding neighbor­
hoods were some of the most economically
depressed in the city, there were opportuni­
ties and resources, some hidden in plain
sight.
Fast forward to 2014, and two Portland
educators Mike Grice and Bob Zyback, are
looking, to resurrect a student-led study
that examined the now heavily gentrified
areas around Alberta Street, but with some
new considerations for the new millen­
nium.
During the year of the original study,
several inner north and northeast Port­
land neighborhoods were majority black
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