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THE BLIND SIDE
McMenamins Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave, Portland5:30pm doors • 6:15pm intro 6:30pm movie - Q&A to follow $6 adults/$4 children 12 and under • Ticket includes personal size popcorn • 2009 - PG-13 • Minor with guardian Based on the life of Michael Oher, a Black teenager who, in the movie, was adopted by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, a wealthy ... THE BLIND SIDE
The Day of the Gun
McMenamins Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave, PortlandJoin us for RACE TALKS Movies + Conversations on August 8th to commemorate Black August, an annual event that highlights political prisoners. The Day of the Gun documentary revisits the events leading up to the death of George Jackson in 1971, an incarcerated leader of Black liberation in the 1960s-70s. Featured community host Amber Boydston ... The Day of the Gun
Black Oregon Natives and Transplants Dinner (UNCUT)
The discourse around Black native Oregonians and transplants is often tense, evoking a history of anti-Black exclusion laws and gentrification, and the frustrations that arise in a small community where everyone knows each other. Are these tensions grounded in reality? Bruce Poinsette brings a group of Black lifelong Oregonians and transplants to the table to ... Black Oregon Natives and Transplants Dinner (UNCUT)