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Illuminating the Black Power Movement

Illuminating the Black Power Movement
Feb 18, 2021, 12:25 p.m.
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Black Women Seldom Get Support We Deserve

Black Women Seldom Get Support We Deserve
Feb 18, 2021, 10:34 a.m.
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Vancouver’s African American Roots

Vancouver’s African American Roots
Jan 26, 2021, 3:27 p.m.
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Race Double Standard in Capitol insurrection

Race Double Standard in Capitol insurrection
Jan 7, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
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Black Culture

The community is invited to celebrate Black History Month with a free concert by the University of Portland orchestra featuring ...
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‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise’

The first feature documentary about her life, “American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” premieres nationwide Tuesday, Feb. ...
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw brings depth to ‘Beyond The Lights’

Honored this past October with the “Emerging Icon” award from Elle Magazine at the celebration for their 21st annual “Women ...
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Moving Forward

J.J. Moore, the longtime owner of Affordable JJ Lock and Key in northeast Portland, was only a teenager when he participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that drew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders to Alabama and led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

‘I Marched in Selma’

52 years ago, Portland locksmith and business owner J.J. Moore participated in the historic Selma to Montgomery marches to protest ...
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Yolanda Rene King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s only grandchild, looks at his photo at the King Historic Site Visitors Center. She is Martin Luther King III’s daughter.

King Nobel Secrets Revealed

The mystery surrounding who nominated civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ...
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Dear White People satirizes on the black experience in a “post-racial” society.

Dear White People’ conveys complexity of contemporary race relations

“Dear White People, the minimum requirement of black friends to not seem racist has just been raised to two.
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Icon Profiles

Powerful Exhibit

A Legacy Preserved

Crossing Barriers to Emerge ...

Riveting and Inspiring

Dancer Misty Copeland inspires ...

Tony Dungy

Grandmaster Flash

Louis Gossett Jr

President Barack Obama

Sanya Richards-Ross

Hank Willis Thomas

Marcus Stroud

Louis Gossett Jr: Academy Award Winning Actor, Activist, Author

EPMG United: Louis Gossett Jr Sanya Richards-Ross: 4x Olympic Gold Medalist, Entrepreneur, Reality Show Star

EPMG United: Sanya Richards-Ross DJ Grandmaster Flash: DJ, Pioneer, Hip-Hop Legend

EPMG United: Grandmaster Flash Beverly Johnson: Super Model, Hair Guru, Businesswoman.
The first African American supermodel on the cover of American Vogue.