Events & Classes

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Feb 22

Black History Month: Liberated Parenting for Black Families

Sat Feb 22
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Central Library

Learn strategies for raising mentally and emotionally healthy liberated Black children. Discover tools for anxiety, generational trauma and unlearning harmful child-rearing beliefs and practices. Holistic healing exercises will help caregivers reclaim their right to parent from a place of peace.

Feb 22

Black History Month: 450 Years of Oregon's Black History

Sat Feb 22
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
North Portland Library

People of African descent have lived and worked in Oregon since before the founding of the earliest English-speaking settlements in the Americas. Despite this, the popular narrative of our state's history excludes the experiences of African Americans before the mid-20th century.

Feb 22

Black History Month: Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty

Sat Feb 22
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hillsdale Library

Join us for this compelling workshop with leader, educator, and speaker Amber Starks on Realizing Black and Native Futurity Through Solidarity and Kinship.

Feb 23

Black History Month: Soul food at the Sunday Table

Sun Feb 23
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Gresham Library

Stones, Bones and Blacked-Eyed Peas presents: Family recipes, a seat at our family table, and the importance of Sunday dinner in the African American community. Join chef and owner of Finer Things Events and Catering, Michelle Guinn, along with her daughter, Sable Askew and take a trip back into history.

Feb 26

Black History Month: Buffalo Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts

Wed Feb 26
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Hollywood Library

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting On Two Fronts recounts the laudatory and complicated legacy of African American soldiers who sought a better life in the United States Army after the Civil War. Join us for this riveting documentary screening with the award winning film maker, Dru Holley.