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On Aug. 23, the Urban League of Portland brought legislators and community members together virtually to share victories and unfinished business from this year’s last legislative session. The one-hour event was streamed on the Urban Leagues Facebook and YouTube platforms.

PORTLAND – Gov. Tina Kotek laid out a challenge: Within the next three months, the group will come up with a plan to save downtown Portland.

Here’s what we learned about Portland from the summer tournament.

The Hattie Redmon Apartments has 60 units geared to help Black people with disabilities, who struggle with homelessness, find a stable place to live.

The building is named after Harriet “Hattie” Redmond, a Black civil rights leader, who advocated for voting rights for Black Portlanders and fought racist laws.

A new affordable housing complex offers more stability to Black Portlanders than plans laid out by the city, according to project leaders.

Potholes can form when precipitation moves into an area and freezes, causing it to expand and poke holes in the pavement.

Today, Senator Akasha Lawrence Spence (D-Portland) and Representative Janelle Bynum (D-Clackamas) join Black women leaders across Oregon in releasing a statement celebrating Nataki Garrett, who has served as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s (OSF) Artistic Director since 2019. The leaders join in denouncing the racist death threats made against Ms. Garrett.

Ron Wyden, a champion of mail ballots since his initial election to a vacant U.S. Senate seat in early 1996, is defending their use against attacks from 2020 election deniers.

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