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PDX Black Rose Podcast
by PDX Black Rose
PDX Black Rose is a grassroots media platform formed to share information and promote North/Northeast Portland created by the Soul District Business Association. Coined the “Voice of N/NE Portland”, the PDX Black Rose podcast brings in members of the community that push the envelope of equality and equity, we shed light on programs and events aimed at combating gentrification, and we connect with people in the area to foster a sense of community that fills gaps in the N/NE Portland webspace. All content is produced in collaboration with Flossin Media, Soul District BA and community partners.
Episodes
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Key Knowledge to Start your Business
“if you don't know what to do with your money and your time in between getting your money, it's gonna leave” Developer of the Emerging Entrepreneurial Program, a dynamic business accelerator dedicated to supporting BIPOC entrepreneurs, Emmanuel Williams joins Alex Gebreab and Jurell Scott to...
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Public Servants for Multnomah County
With the mission to provide meaningful representation to Multnomah County, Jessie Burke joins Alex Gebreab and John Washington to talk their sports career, the development of North Portland and ChinaTown, and more on PDX Black Rose Podcast Living in North Portland, Jessie has a long history of...
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Food for the Soul in the Soul of Portland
Andrea Bontemps has an inspiring story from childcare service to opening her own restaurant and catering business called LeBontemps in 2021. She has had many successes, some struggles, like all business owners, and job opportunities for chefs. The redevelopment of Portland has an impact on all...
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Food for the Soul in the Soul of Portland
Andrea Bontemps has an inspiring story from childcare service to opening her own restaurant and catering business called LeBontemps in 2021. She has had many successes, some struggles, like all business owners, and job opportunities for chefs. The redevelopment of Portland has an impact on all...
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The Council to Represent All of Portland
In this episode of the PDX Black Rose Podcast, Debbie Kitchin joins to discuss her intent to run for the City Council in District 2 NE Portland, Oregon. PDX Black Rose Host, Alex Gebreab talk with Debbie Kitchin about: The new Portland City Council format Her plan to engage and represent with...
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March into City Council, Bring Back the Roses
In this episode of the PDX Black Rose Podcast, Terrence Hayes joins Alex Gebreab and Fawn Aberson to announce his intent to run for the City Council in District 1 SE Portland, Oregon! Hayes, a Chicago native, chairs the Focused Intervention Team Community Oversight Group. The advisory group...
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Job Opportunities with TriMet
John Washington, Executive Director of the Soul District Business Association interviews Scott Erickson & Trevaun Myrie of TriMet at the October 19th Soulful Thursday event. They come together to talk about job opportunities with TriMet on this episode of PDX Black Rose. This video is produced by...
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Designing Art for the World with Edmund Mundo | PDX Black Rose Podcast
In this episode of PDX Black Rose Podcast, Edmund "Mundo" Holmes gives us the run down on: Growing up in Detroit Being a designer for Nike & Jordan The value creating art and it's impact on people The evolution of art with 3D Printing Designing the new Soul District Business Association Banners!...
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The Portland Rose Festival 2023 Black Entertainment Experience
The first Black president of the Portland Rose Festival Leslie Goodlow talks with us about the history of the Rose Festival, Rose Festival Princesses, the annual Grand Floral Parade, City Fair, and more on PDX Black Rose Podcast. You can listen to PDX Black Rose Podcast on YouTube through Flossin...
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Bankers Guide to Financial Independence | PDX Black Rose Podcast
Chief Lending Officer Aben Hill joins the conversation to teach us how banking has evolved and how your business can get a piece of the pie. The PDX Black Rose crew talk about: Small businesses in need of a loan Equal opportunity for Black owned businesses First time homebuyers Working towards...
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Williams and Russell Project | PDX Black Rose Podcast
Learn about the Williams and Russell project managed by Bryson Davis and Anyeley Hallova, happening in North Portland on Black Beat Podcast
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Dylan Muldrew⎜Nu Africa Comix
Dylan Muldrew (@nuafricacomix ) joins us on the Black Superheroes Matter Podcast. Dylan is a rapper turned underground comix connoisseur hailing from Portland, Oregon. His science fiction, horror drawings, and stories are meant to be your surreal escape from the pressures of being Black in…
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AJ McCreary⎜Equitable Giving
AJ McCreary (@equitablegivingcircle ) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast. Aj is on the founding team as well as the executive director of the Equittable Giving Circle, an organization formed to address glaring inequities created by years of institutional bias, discriminatory policy and...
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Shant'e Hayes⎜972Eleven
Shant’e Hayes (@Shop972Eleven) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast. Shant’e is a mother, an entrepreneur, and works with the Portland School District from 9-5. We got the chance to sit down and talk about owning a business in Portland during a pandemic and finding a good balance to help juggle...
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John Washington⎜Deliberation
John Washington (@flossinmedia) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for the second time. We had a powerful conversation while sharing some of the similarities and differences between systemic racism back in the day, and how it looks now, especially in the middle of a pandemic. John is the…
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Kenyatta Trice⎜TRICE Occupational Consulting Solutions, LLC.
Kenyatta Trice joins us on the podcast to talk about TRICE Occupational Consulting Solutions, LLC., designed to assist clients with career goals and opportunities in Employment and Business Development. With first hand experience dealing with the struggle of finding employment, Kenyatta set out…
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(Bonus) I Made an Augmented Reality App that Triggered Racists | Stuck E in Augmented Reality
So This Summer has been a very interesting one indeed. During the hiatus, I started an activism project with emerging technology. To make a long story short, I Made an Augmented Reality App that Triggered Racists. With all this stuff going on in the world: COVID, Social Unrest, Police Brutality…
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(Bonus) Does America Need College Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Does America really need college football right now? With everything going on with COVID-19, the last thing I though I would be spending my time weighing in on whether we should have College Football this season. For those that are unaware, I played college football for 6 years. 4 years at…
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Ayeesha Hankins | Black Women Achieve More with Agency
Dr. Ayeesha Hankins is originally from Anchorage, AK. She and her husband have been living in Portland, OR since 2018. Her family has roots in both cities, but Anchorage is the place she calls home. Dr. Hankins runs an online business that provides research-based individual and group coaching...
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Esperanza Tervalon-Garrett | Dancing Hearts, Consulting Power (Juneteenth Special)
Esperanza Tervalon-Garrett from Dancing Hearts Consulting (@Dancingheartsconsulting) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about the Census, Blackness in Oregon, and adapting Juneteenth to a livestream during COVID-19. She is a queer, Afro-Puerto Rican woman, and a native...
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Torrey Dooley - Hood Nurse-ology
Torrey Dooley aka the Hood Nurse (@Thehoodnurse) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast. As a father, nurse, and entrepreneur, Torrey Dooley has been keeping pretty busy since the Coronavirus hit. Now working towards his masters as a nurse practitioner, Dooley finds himself back and forth from…
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Lillian Green - To the North Star Forward
Lillian M. Green is CEO and founder of North Star Forward Consulting LLC. She has worked as a teacher, school district leader, professor, and state agency director. Most recently, she led the integration of equity and inclusion into the early learning system for the state of Oregon as the Equity...
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Vincent MaGee - Porte de VNPRT
Vincent MaGee (@vnprt) joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast. If you’re familiar with the local music scene in Portland you’ve probably seen Vincent around. Whether he’s djing, building relationships with artists and business owners, or coordinating events for DUG,he’s steadily on the move. Even...
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Tavares Hubbard - Beyond the Books
Tavares Hubbard joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about what it is like navigating the educational space of Portland during the Corona virus. Tavares Hubbard is originally from Pennsylvania and have been living in Portland for the past 3 years. He is currently working…
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Deena Pierott - Pushing S.T.E.A.M. with iUrban Teen
Deena Pierott from iUrban Teen joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about Promoting science and technology in the Black Community. Deena Pierott is committed to her family and her community. In her own words, it’s “ family and community over everything.” But you don’t…
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Amir Morgan - Aesthete Society by Design
Amir Morgan from Aesthete Society joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about being creative in Portland. Amir Morgan has an inventive spirit. Growing up playing baseball and basketball, Morgan always knew he wanted to work with fashion. But going to school and studying...
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Lisa Alexander - Branch Out
Lisa Alexander joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about traveling and branching out of your comfort zone. Lisa Alexander has an enthusiasm for people. There is an openness and an encouraging spirit that accompanies her tone. You could say this is a part of what led her…
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Brandon Lawrence - Heavy Denim
Brandon Lawrence joins us on the PDX Black Rose Podcast for great conversation about what it is like to move to Portland from New York and navigate the tech space as a consultant for popular brands and rising companies. Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist at…
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Tia B. Coachman - True 2 You
Tia B. Coachman describes herself as “that cool Aunty mothers go to for guidance and help.” Coachman, a Strategic HR Partner for different companies (the mothers), helps these mothers get their house in order as it relates to the people that work for them. She makes sure the workplace is a safe...
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Egodi Ulinwa - Kaizen Creed
Kaizen Creed is a self-defined internet explorer. No, not the browser but an “explorer of the internet industry” as he describes it. It’s path or future projection he can’t even quite pin down since the field is so new except to describe it as a field that encompasses media: gaming, music, video,...
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Micah McCrary-Dennis - Mentor This
At the age of 5 or 6, McCrary began taking apart vacuum cleaners because he figured out that anything with a phillips head screw could be taken apart with a phillips head screwdriver and put back together again. From grandmothers, parents and a community that supported his tinkering and…
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Paula Hayes - Mother Tinker
Paula Hayes is a science geek, a fiddler, and a tinkerer. Hayes is also a product development chemist who knew that she had to be herself in whatever she did or it wouldn’t work out. So when it came time for Hayes to pursue a degree in science, she still knew being a doctor or a researcher didn’t...
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Jasmine Streeter - Black People Have Pets Too
Jasmine Streeter has had a love for animals since she was 11 months old. That was the first time her parents put her on a horse. From then on, Streeter was hooked whether it was dogs, cats, you name it. Her parents nurtured that gift and encouraged Streeter to think not just about if she would...
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Abriana McKinney - Give a D.A.M.
Abriana McKinney has always loved providing resources and services to her community, especially kids. While studying to go into health as a nurse practitioner, McKinney began mentoring kids through dance at Matt Dishman, SEI and a number of other community centers around Portland. McKinney was…
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Nicole Robinson - Just Make It
Being a tall Black child, Nicole Robinson would always get asked if she was going to play basketball. In protest of the questions and assumptions, Robinson started drawing. In her words, all she wanted to do was draw and learn Japanese. As her skills developed so did another interest: comics.…
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Rosalie Lee - Constant Hustle
Rosalie Lee knows how to hustle. As a behavioral interventionist serving kids with chronic illnesses and disease, Rosalie’s lived experience prepared her for the rewarding yet gut wrenching work that was to come. Working her way through school as a model, volunteer, and student researcher at OHSU...
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Jeff Martin - Finding Clarity
Jeff Martin, a sports writer of two decades has had to stay the course to find his voice and his unique offering to the world. His love of sports began early on as a consummate consumer of sport’s pages. Even though his love of sports ran deep, Martin always knew his entry into sports would be...
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Allan and Andrew - Take Action
Allan Njoroge and Andrew Olemgbe from Action Healthcare Staffing join us on the podcast. Follow Allan: LinkedIn | Facebook | Behance | Instagram Follow Andrew: Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist. Learn more about our partners: Iltopia...
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Lametrius Davis - Going Pro
Lametrius Davis joins us on the podcast. He is a former football player at the University of Hawaii that is now in the education sector in Portland. He is also a new father navigating the world of COVD-19 with a toddler. He is a Portland native who graduated from Roosevelt Highschool. After...
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David Walker - Bad Azz Mofo
David Walker joins us on the podcast. David is a big player in the comic book industry with his runs on Bitter Root at Image Comics, Young Justice with Brian Michael Bendis at DC, Luke Cage at Marvel, and many more. He has been in the game for 25 years. He is also a professor at Portland State...
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Justice Rajee - Ask the old head
Justice Rajee joins us on the podcasts for a conversation about his own podcast, Ask Your Old Head Podcast, and how he is dealing with the COVID-19 lockdown. He started podcasting in 2015. He was a fan of podcasts prior and loved listening to sports and tech shows. He jokes about being a retired...
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Andre Middleton - Bring the Noise
Andre Middleton joins us on the podcast. He is another Black Portlander doing big things in the city. He is the Executive Director of Friends of Noise. It is a non-profit whose mission is teach kids the technical skills to produce and put on events. They not only give them the tools to succeed…
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Donovan Smith - Keep Portland Weird
Donovan Smith is a native Portlander doing big things in the area. You may know him from his clothing line Ignorant Reflection or the slogan "gentrification is weird". The idea started from a college project that he made with his friends that stemmed into him finding his own creative voice. He is…
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006 - Donell Morgan | Elevating Others
Donell Morgan joins us on the podcast to talk about the wonderful work he does with Elevate Oregon. Through the nonprofit, Donell works with 6th-12th grade kids in the Park Rose School District to mentor and inspire change. Donell is a former basketball phenom turned community leader that lets…
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Season 2 - PDX Black Rose 2020
We have made some tweaks for season 2 because of COVID-19. PDX Black Rose (@pdxblackrose) is a grassroots media platform formed by Steven Christian to share information and promote movers and shakers in Black Portland. By movers and shakers, I mean entrepreneurs, community leaders, and other…
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005 Andy Stokes | Count your blessings
Singer Andy Stokes joins us for a conversation about finding his purpose with his talents, and how Portland was influential in his career. Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist. Follow us on Social Media @PDXBlackRose Twitter – https://twitter.com/pdxblackrose Instagram –...
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004 Maurice Rahming | Bring them up with you.
Maurice Rahming, Owner of O'Neill Construction Group, joins us for a chat about developments, the black experience, and equity in Portland. Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist. Follow us on Social Media @PDXBlackRose Twitter – https://twitter.com/pdxblackrose Instagram –...
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003 Dr. Steven Holt | Speak it into existence!
Dr. Steven Holt joins us for a chat about what it was like to grow up as a black Portlander post segregation. We talk about why it was so important to have a seat at the table. Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist. Follow us on Social Media @PDXBlackRose Twitter –...
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002 Hailei Aberson | Can you be white-washed if you are half-white?
Hailei Aberson, a native of Northeast Portland, Oregon, joins us on the podcast this episode. Being of mixed race, she talks about her identity as a biracial kid growing up in one of the whitest urban areas in the nation. Learn more at our blog, podcast, and video playlist. Follow us on Social...
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001 John Washington | Flossin' in the Soul District!
For the first episode of the Black Rose PDX Podcast, we honored with the presence of John Washington. John is the CEO and Editor-in-chief of Flossin Media, and the Chair of the Soul District Business Association. On top of that, John also spearheads many initiatives in North/Northeast Portland…
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PDX Black Rose is a grassroots media platform formed to share information and promote North/Northeast Portland created by the Soul District Business Association. Coined the “Voice of N/NE Portland”, the PDX Black Rose podcast brings in members of the community that push the envelope of equality and equity, we shed light on programs and events aimed at combating gentrification, and we connect with people in the area to foster a sense of community that fills gaps in the N/NE Portland webspace. All content is produced in collaboration with Flossin Media, Soul District BA and community partners.
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