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Good in the
Hood celebrates
neighborhoods
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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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on page 4