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On Thursday, Portland City Council approved a settlement for more than 20 people whose homes and businesses were destroyed in the name of urban renewal from the 1950s through the ’70s.

A long-vacant block on Portland’s North Russell Street and North Williams Avenue, which was once one of the epicenters of a thriving Black community, will finally house people once again.

Found artifacts from the segregated logging town of Maxville include personal domestic objects such as vinyl records fragments and a diaper pin.

The Albina Vision Trust is building momentum to restore the area. By joining forces with the Portland Trail Blazers, the trust hopes the Rose Quarter and its two large sports arenas, the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum, can serve as a hub for neighborhood revitalization.

An exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Museum in Stevenson, Washington, features a collection of quilts made by an enslaved woman and her family, carefully preserved for more than 150 years.

The Portland Art Museum is highlighting "Black Artists of Oregon" collectively for the first time. The exhibition captures Black diasporic experiences in the Pacific Northwest, dating back from the 19th century to present day.

Aaron C. Jones’ ‘Fighting for Albina’ tells a story of Knott Street Boxing Club, which the author says was one of America’s top amateur boxing teams decades ago.

The new Black Possibilities app is creating a “digital safe space for Black Oregonians to connect, organize, heal and advocate together,” according to Imagine Black, the organization which created the app.

Portland Community Reinvestment Initiative Inc. has come up with a plan to repopulate North and Northeast Portland with the African-American community that was displaced from there.

A boarding house in Eugene was one of the only places African American travelers could stay in the mid-20th century. Also, we'll learn what's on the docket for the Supreme Court that might affect Oregon. And the latest business news.