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February 20, 2019
Trillium School May Close
The Portland School Board will
hold a public hearing Wednesday
to move forward with the termina-
tion of the district’s contract with
Trillium School, a kindergarten
through high school public charter
school, located at 5420 N. Inter-
state Ave.
District staff cited dwindling
academic performance and lack
of financial viability at Trillium
due to low enrollment for the
past three years as reasons for
the move, and the school board’s
charter committee agreed. Trillum
now faces having its charter ter-
minated effective June 30, 2019,
despite the school’s request to stay
open. The hearing occurs Wednes-
day at 4 p.m. at the district’s head-
quarters at Blanchard Education
Service Center at 501 N. Dixon St.
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Visitors to the Multnomah Board of County Commissioners check out a room adorned with more
than 60 portraits celebrating local black women in honor of Black History Month.
Portraits Honor Black Women
Celebrating
survival and
empowerment
The Multnomah Board of
County Commissioners have
proclaimed February Black His-
tory and Future Month and cele-
brated by displaying 60 portraits
celebrating local black women
and female artists.
The annual proclamation
honors the vital role of Afri-
can-Americans in the history and
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culture of Multnomah County and
beyond. It also acknowledges the
troubling history of inequity and
oppression that the black commu-
nity continues to face.
“What a joy it was this morn-
ing to walk in to this room in the
presence of these radiant power-
ful portraits, in the presence of
these radiant powerful women,”
said Commissioner Susheela
Jayapal, who sponsored the proc-
lamation. “I am so thrilled to be
celebrating this year’s Black His-
tory and Future Month in Mult-
nomah County, with a focus on
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the arts and our local black wom-
an/femme artists.”
During the recent board meet-
ing, the room was filled with the
24 by 30-inch portraits of “Albina
Queens,’’ women from the com-
munity solicited by the Portland
African American Leadership
Forum (PAALF) from more than
160 nominations and then photo-
graphed in colorful and intricate
head wraps.
The head wraps signify not only
a history of oppression, but also
the “resiliency, resourcefulness,
and creativity that black women
have employed as a method of
survival and self-empowerment
for centuries.” Rob Lewis, the art
director at the Portland creative
agency, Kamp Grizzly, was the
photographer on the project.
The Albina Queens photo proj-
ect represents a spectrum of ages,
genders, and abilities. They range
from Justice Adrienne Nelson of
the Oregon Supreme Court, City
Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty,
and poet S. Renee Mitchell, to
young girls in their mother’s arms.