JANUARY 25, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 17
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CENTS
News ...............................3,9,10 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Trump Properties at Risk ... 9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
WOMEN’S MARCH
South Waterfront SW Moody MAX Station
Shaping
the South
Waterfront
Greenway
P
ortland’s breakneck growth can
be both a topic of protest or profit,
depending on who’s steering the
conversation. Yet as the city’s nu-
merous development projects trudge
forward — with or without communi-
ty input — some interested parties are
asking for your two cents.
A number of key players and urban
giants — Zidell Corp., Kaiser Permanen-
te, the Portland Development Commis-
sion, among them – have helped sculpt
Portland’s historical landscapes and
contemporary additions. And on Feb.
AP PHOTO/MARCO UGARTE
See GREENWAY on page 3
In this Dec. 23, 2016 photo, Tamara Alcala Dominguez
visits the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City,
during her first return to Mexico since she moved
to the U.S. as a toddler.
An
Emotional
Journey page 8
St. Andrew Church
Presents MLK Awards
page 10
An estimated 500,000 people converged on Washington, D.C. Jan. 21 --the day after President Trump’s inauguration -- to show their support for women’s
rights, civil rights and the environment. Another 3 to 4 million people are estimated to have attended hundreds of sister marches around the world.
Artists Bring the Soul of Philanthropy to Portland
Concordia College exhibit focuses on African Americans' contributions
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
S
tep into the elevator
at Concordia Uni-
versity’s library, in
Northeast Portland,
and you’re sure to absorb a
little wisdom. “If you want
to lift yourself up, lift up
somebody else” has been
artfully pasted onto the
cab wall. The clever place-
ment of this quote from
Booker T. Washington gets
to the very heart of the
university’s latest exhibit,
“Giving Back: The Soul of
Philanthropy
Reframed
and Exhibited”, which runs
until Mar. 31.
As an interactive trans-
lation of the 2011 book,
“Giving Back: A Tribute
to Generations of African
American
Philanthro-
pists”, by North Carolinian
writer Valaida Fullwood
and photographer Charles
W. Thomas, the exhibit ex-
plores acts of philanthropy
that are deeper than your
pockets.
Transcending
region,
race, and socio-economic
boundaries,
Fullwood’s
“giving experience” is con-
veyed through interactive
media, playful quotations,
traditional
storytelling,
and an emotive collection
of Thomas’s black-and-
white photographs. Print-
ed on aluminum, rather
than paper, the images
emit a shimmery patina,
expressing a sense of light
and weightlessness.
The effect, explained
Fullwood, helps to under-
score the very loving na-
ture of giving.
While the photos them-
selves are frameless, Full-
wood’s narrative here is
to “reframe” the notion of
philanthropy, from one of
wealthy European descen-
dents to a thriving tradi-
tion of generosity in the
African American commu-
nity — a story that is sel-
dom celebrated.
“This is meant to be a
counter narrative to what
you typically see,” said
Fullwood. “In conventional
philanthropy, when Black
Americans are featured,
March for Justice and Equality
Planned for Saturday
Albina Ministerial Alliance, NAACP, others to
march through Northeast Portland
The Skanner News Staff
T
he Albina Ministerial Alliance
Coalition for Justice and Police
Reform will sponsor a march
for justice and equality this
Saturday starting at 10 a.m. and cul-
minating with a rally at Maranatha
Church. The event will be followed
by a monthly meeting of the NAACP
Portland Branch, which has changed
its monthly meeting location this
See MARCH on page 3
it’s on the recipient side as
beneficiaries. While that
is a part of the story, we’re
also benefactors.”
The exhibit helps to high-
light the following facts:
according to figures by
the W.K. Kellogg Founda-
tion and The Chronicle
of Philanthropy, African
Americans give 8.6 per-
cent of their discretionary
income to charity.
African Americans also
donate 25 percent more
of their income than do
White Americans. Near-
ly two-thirds of African
American households give
to charity more formally,
to the tune of $11 billion
See EXHIBIT on page 3
PHOTO COURTESY OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY
By Melanie Sevcenko
Of The Skanner News
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
PDC, City, Zidell seek
input on the North Reach
of waterfront project
The Rev. Dr. T. Allen Bethel, shown here
speaking to the Multnomah County Board of
Commissioners earlier this year, is one of the
organizers of a march for justice and equality
this Saturday.