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Black-led advocacy group pushes to reclaim Portland’s former Albina Arts Center
Black-led advocacy team Don’t Shoot Portland is generating a press to reclaim the former Albina Arts Heart, after a important cultural hub for Black communities in North and Northeast Portland. Found at 8 N.E. Killingsworth St., the heart supplied arts, songs and cultural courses to the citizens of the traditionally Black Albina community beginning in the early 1960s. Do not Shoot Portland held a press conference Dec. 20 as portion of a press to reclaim the previous Albina Arts Center, a considerable cultural hub for Black communities in North and Northeast Portland. Mika Martinez In December, leaders with Really do not Shoot Portland demanded the developing be returned to a…