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April 27, 2016
Soul District Leader Retiring
A neighborhood business
association serving the Soul
District of northeast Portland
welcomes business owners and
neighborhood advocates to its
annual Excellence in Business
Awards banquet, Thursday,
April 28 at 6 p.m. at the Co-
lumbia Edgewater Country
Club.
The North/Northeast Busi-
ness Association event will
present merit awards to 12 lo-
cal businesses and provide the
community an opportunity say
good bye to Joice A. Taylor, the
group’s longtime dynamic and
dedicated leader who is retiring
Joice A Taylor
after serving as NNEBA board
chair for over 10 years.
Kenneth Doswell, owner of
Betty Jean Couture, a north
Portland fashion and cloth-
ing design house will serve as
the new board chair, and John
Washington will continue to
serve as vice-chair, Ernest Har-
ris as secretary, and Richard
Harris as treasurer.
For tickets to the annual
banquet, call Fawn Aberson at
503-841-5032
Activist Acquitted
Jury rules
in favor of
protester
Portland activist Teressa Rai-
ford was unanimously acquitted
Thursday on a charge of criminal-
ly obstructing trafic for a protest
last year on the one year anniver-
sary of the death of Michal Brown
in Ferguson, Mo.
The not guilty verdict was seen
as evidence of police bias and
abuse of power by activists for
police reform in Portland. The
American Civil Liberties Union
of Oregon applauded the Portland
jury’s decision.
Raiford maintained in a three-
day trial that she was lawfully
protesting last August when police
oficers caught her by surprise and
suddenly crossed Southeast Divi-
sion near 82nd Avenue and arrest-
ed her. She was leading a crowd
of about 100 protesters in chants
at the time.
Raiford is the founder of the
Teressa Raiford
Don’t Shoot PDX movement
which began after Brown’s death
by a white police oficer in Mis-
souri, and mirrors many of the ide-
als for justice in the Black Lives
Matter movement.
In a message to police after
the trial, Raiford said, “Leave us
alone. Stop targeting black people
in Multnomah County…End ex-
cessive force. Stop proiling.”
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