Walk into Northeast Killingsworth juice bar Drink Mamey and you’ll see a bright orange neon sign screaming “Drink ya juice’’ sitting on a faux-grass-lined wall above an abundance of potted plants. Noetic Plants — a Portland-based, Black-owned business — sells its monsteras and dracaenas out of the shop, opposite a wall of other beautifully packaged products from other Black-owned businesses: sea moss from the Hussle Way, moon candles from Onya’e Naturals, and bottles of Ella Dean hair oils, carefully lined on shelves below another neon sign that reads, “Mamey’s Faves.”
The wide array of Black-owned businesses and artists on display at Drink Mamey is intentional: Co-owner Cydnie Smith-McCarthy only
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