With its $1,000 admission price, exclusionary Meet the Heat event promotes narrow agenda, protesters say Attendees to a fundraiser at the Portland Police Training Center in Northeast Portland the morning of Friday, April 1, were greeted by a group of prot ...
8 Apr 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Erick Lyle discusses the legacy of a five-week San Francisco art fair aimed at bringing a community together in the midst of increasing displacement In April 2011, when San Francisco risked losing one of its most valued residents, Twitter, to Silicon Vall ...
17 Mar 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Trans activists use performance art to express their views about gender, race, sexuality Trans performance art duo DarkMatter had quite the 2015. Composed of former Stanford schoolmates Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, the group’s unique brand ...
10 Mar 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
In new book, Ethan Michaeli tells story of one of the nation’s most influential African-American newspapers When African-American lawyer and printer Robert Abbott started The Chicago Defender newspaper from his landlady’s kitchen table in 1905, he had one ...
25 Feb 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Cascades Abortion Support Collective provides help before, during and after ending a pregnancy For Oregon residents seeking an abortion, finding a clinic or provider to perform one is easy. What is often harder to come by is the rest of the experience – t ...
7 Jan 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Living Stages examines homelessness, housing instability in Theater of the Oppressed performances On a cold Saturday morning in a dance studio under the Hawthorne Bridge, a group of a dozen or so amateur actors gathered for the first of a two-day Theater ...
25 Nov 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Director Stanley Nelson’s film 'The Black Panthers' sheds new light on the controversial party Before “Black Lives Matter” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” were chanted by activists across the U.S. “Black is Beautiful” and “Power to the People” echoed ...
1 Oct 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The nonprofit responsible for dozens of public murals is about to create more Since 2013, summers in Portland have have experienced a public art renaissance. Each August, contemporary public murals pop up on once-blank walls throughout the city. The trans ...
20 Aug 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Native Oregonian Nkenge Harmon Johnson on the city and ULPDX's past, present and future Nkenge Harmon Johnson’s legal and political career has taken her from her Pacific Northwest home across the United States and back again. A graduate of the Trinit ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Nkenge Harmon Johnson and Katie Sawicki, of the Urban League of Portland, share insights about the latest State of Black Oregon report June 2015: Last month, the Urban League of Portland released the State of Black Oregon 2015, the second iteration in its ...
30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot