Singing Herself
into History
Cash Incentives
for Vaccines
Jennifer Hudson
stars in new
Franklin movie
Outreach targets
Black community
hesitancy
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Volume XLVV • Number 15
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‘City
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Wednesday • August 18, 2021
Committed to Cultural Diversity
Hero’s Welcome
Parade to honor
homegrown
Olympic champion
The community is invit-
ed to come out and celebrate
as Vancouver hosts a parade
on Sunday, Aug. 22 for 2020
Olympic Games silver medal
winning gymnast Jordan Chil-
es, a 20-year-old elite athlete
from Vancouver’s Black com-
munity.
The parade will start at
the Dairy Queen in Uptown
Village, 2707 Main St., trav-
el down Main to West Sixth
Street, downtown, and contin-
ue west where it will stop at
Vancouver City Hall. Specta-
tors are encouraged to stand
on the sidewalk along Main
Street to cheer Chiles during Vancouver’s Jordan Chiles, a silver medalist with the U. S. gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympics, will be given a parade in
her honor and a key to the city on Sunday, Aug. 22, starting at 1 p.m. from the Vancouver Dairy Queen in Uptown Village,
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and then proceeding downtown. (AP photo)
Where Jazz and Soul Lived
New tour explores Portland’s black culture
A new self-guided tour of Portland’s
historic Albina area of inner north and
northeast Portland where jazz and soul
were central elements of Black culture
from the 1960s through 1980s is being
celebrated with a new self-guided au-
dio tour that features rare local music
intersperses with oral history accounts
from musicians at the time.
The Albina Soul Walk is presented
Promotional materials announce the
release of the Albina Soul Walk, self-
guided audio tour exploring Albina’s
musical culture of the 1960s-1980s.
Presented by Albina Music Trust and
available on a mobile application,
the tour features rare local music
interspersed with oral history accounts
from musicians of the time.
by Albina Music Trust and will be re-
leased in full on Saturday, Aug. 28 on
the mobile application ECHOEs.
An in-person kick-off event on the
same day will be held from 10 am. to
noon at 2125 N. Vancouver Ave, the
former site of the legendary Cotton
Club venue. It will be a free outdoor
event where you can use the app and
tour where historic jazz and soul ven-
ues once stood.
Participants are invited to experi-
ence these historic landmarks, reflect
on decades of urban renewal and gen-
trification, and consider how to pre-
serve this community’s legacy for fu-
ture generations.
The audio tour was produced by
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