📣 We’re presenting alongside our UO cohorts at the Oregon Museums Association in September!
We are honored to be official presenters at this years’ Oregon Museums Association in Coos Bay this weekend. Our focus on community preservation, archival research and memory work is one of our most crucial methods of enacting long-term social change. Following our presentation of Liberated Archives last year at the Society of American Archivists conference in D.C., we are excited to once again join our cohort Danielle Mericle (UO Special Collections) Morning Star Padilla (Berkeley Public Library)!
Thank you to Urban League’s Cancer Survivor support group for making a visit to The BLACK Gallery this past weekend. It was a privilege to host our communities’ elders while speaking about the generational effects of systemic discrimination brought to light in the current exhibit. The BLACK Gallery was created as a safe space for intentional dialogue and community learning, and every time we receive visitors it strengthens and affirms this vision! We are also grateful to Converge 45 for selecting our gallery as a spot on their August Contemporaries Gallery Walk. It was wonderful to spend part of our evening guiding some of the cities’ most avid arts advocates and enthusiasts through the new exhibit.
Resistance Is Happening Now: Archiving the Black Lives Matter Movement honors the ongoing struggle for human rights by centering the solidarity and advocacy work of local organizers in Portland, OR. Visits are by appointment only and can be made at theblackgallerypdx.com Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 5pm.
Add us to your First Thursday stop next week if you’re in the Pearl - we’ll have open doors from 5 to 7pm with light refreshments available. Free registration here!
Resistance is Happening Now, 2024
On September 14, we are proud to co-present a free legal advocacy event to highlight racial discrimination within housing as well as provide on-site resources on how to fight foreclosure and preserve Black homeownership. This presentation will feature discussions on the history of Black homeownership exclusion and provide information for homeowners on how to fight foreclosure and pass their homes on to the next generation.
Presenters will include Don’t Shoot Portland, African American Alliance for Homeownership, the Oregon Homeowner Legal Assistance project, The Commons Law Center and Taking Ownership PDX.
From Exclusion to Preservation: A Community and Legal Resource Event to Save Black Homeownership Now!
Where: Portland Covenant Church
When: Saturday, September 14, 2024 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Food, drinks and prizes will be provided!
Event is wheelchair accessible with ASL interpretation provided.
Free registration is at www.homeownershipPDX.com.
