Two business leaders joined KGW’s “Straight Talk” this week to talk about their efforts to shape Oregon policy and empower other Black business owners.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s Black business community has never had a coordinated development agenda — until now.
In an interview on KGW’s “Straight Talk,” leaders with the Black Business Association of Oregon, or BBAO, outlined a new Strategic Roadmap designed to translate years of coalition-building into concrete policy wins ahead of the 2027 Oregon legislative session.
The organization, officially formed in 2022, grew out of a question few people were asking in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, they said:
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