RACE TALKS: Uniting to Break the Chains of Racism

Filling the spaces between races with compassion, conversation, and education

events

BLACK DRAG PDX

RACE TALKS: Uniting to Break the Chains of Racism, McMenamins History Department, Poison Waters and local Black drag queens, and sponsoring community partners are teaming up for a third year BLACK DRAG PDX

Petals and Thorns: Spoken Word as Activism

La Toya A. Hampton, MSW artistically known as The Poet Lady Rose brings her film Petals and Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey to the Race Talks community, using it as Petals and Thorns: Spoken Word as Activism

History Pub – A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940

McMenamins Edgefield Blackberry Hall 6:30pm doors, 7pm start Free All ages welcome More than 40 years after its original publication, 𝐴 𝑃𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒: 𝐴 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑛, 1788-1940, History Pub – A Peculiar Paradise: A History of Blacks in Oregon, 1788-1940