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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
All events are FREE and Open to the Public
Exception: Taste of Soul & Vendor Marketplace on February 25th is CASH ONLY to vendors and first come first served.
Tuesday, February 1 @ Noon
FILM: George Washington Carver
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
His journey was extraordinary: though born a slave, by the end of his life, presidents and corporate titans valued his friendship. Millions of Americans benefited from his innovations. His scientific genius is legendary, but less known is his remarkable path to greatness,
defined by a life-long passion for serving others.
Wednesday, February 2 @ 9:00 AM
Black History Month Proclamation
City Council, City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Avenue
Wednesday, February 2 @ Noon
Jazz with Thara Memory
The Portland Building, 2nd Floor, Auditorium, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Wednesday, February 2 @ Noon
FILM: Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the whirlwind
Columbia Blvd. Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP), Mt. Hood Room, 5001 N Columbia Blvd
He was a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs, and was eventually deported.
Thursday, February 3 @ Noon
FILM: Rob Williams Biography
Water Pollution Control Lab (WPCL), Bybee Conference Room. 6543 N Burlington Avenue
Dramatic biography of the often-forgotten civil rights leader who urged African Americans to arm themselves against violent racists. In doing so, Williams not only challenged the Klan-dominated establishment of his hometown of Monroe, North Carolina, he alienated the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, which advocated peaceful resistance.
Monday, February 7 @ Noon
SPEAKER: Professor Felicia Williams, PSU Black Studies Department – presenting a lecture on the Emanual Hospital Expansion
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Tuesday, February 8 @ Noon
FILM: Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the whirlwind
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
(See description above)
Wednesday, February 9 @ Noon
FILM: Hughes’ Dream Harlem
Columbia Blvd. Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP), Mt. Hood Room, 5001 N Columbia Blvd
Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance and is often referred to as Harlem's poet laureate. This film shows how Hughes successfully fused jazz, blues and common speech to celebrate the beauty of Black life
Wednesday, February 9 @ 5:30 PM
COMMUNITY EVENT:
Guilds Lake and Vanport Community
Kaiser Town Hall, 3704 N Interstate Avenue
Thursday, February 10 @ Noon – YOUTH DAY
SPEAKER: Gwen Trice: Loggers Daughter
The Portland Building, 2nd Floor, Auditorium, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Thursday, February 10 @ Noon
FILM: George Washington Carver
Water Pollution Control Lab (WPCL), Bybee Conference Room, 6543 N Burlington Avenue
(See description above)
Monday, February 14 @ Noon
SPEAKER: Dr. Karen Gibson, PSU Urban Planning Dept. – presenting a lecture on Albina – a Vice District
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Tuesday, February 15 @ Noon
FILM: For My People:
The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
This film gives the long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki Giovanni as the "most famous person nobody knows."
Wednesday, February 16 @ Noon
FILM: In Search of History: The Night Tulsa Burned
Columbia Blvd. Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP), Mt. Hood Room, 5001 N Columbia Blvd
Eyewitness accounts, archival film, and dramatizations recount the 1921 race riots in Tulsa.
Thursday, February 17 @ Noon
FILM: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Water Pollution Control Lab (WPCL), Bybee Conference Room, 6543 N Burlington Avenue
It presents a vivid drama, combining the personal and the political, about one of the most enigmatic figures in 20th-century American history. One of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the march on Washington, intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Bayard Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason - he was gay.
Tuesday, February 22 @ Noon
FILM: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (1st Half)
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
(see description above)
Wednesday, February 23 @ Noon
FILM: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2nd Half)
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
(see description above)
Wednesday, February 23 @ Noon
FILM: George Washington Carver
Columbia Blvd. Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP), Mt. Hood Room, 5001 N Columbia Blvd
(see description above)
Wednesday, February 23 @ 4:00 PM
Reception and Musical Tribute to Black Jazz Music in Portland - honoring Sweet Baby James, Bobby Bradford and others with special guest, Esperanza Spalding!
City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Avenue
Thursday, February 24 @ Noon
FILM: Fatal Flood
Water Pollution Control Lab (WPCL), Bybee Conference Room
6543 N Burlington Avenue
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage. Racing south from Cairo, Illinois, the river blew away levee after levee, inundating thousands of farms and hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving nearly a million homeless. By the time it reached New Orleans, the flood had not only altered the landscape of 27,000 square miles-an area the size of four New England States-it had widened the abyss of race relations in the Deep South.
Friday, February 25 @ Noon until 2:00 PM
CASH ONLY – First Come First Served
Taste of Soul & Vendor Marketplace
The Portland Building, 2nd Floor, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Monday, February 28 @ Noon
SPEAKER: Dr. Ethan Johnson – presenting a lecture on the Anti-apartheid movement and Black politics in Oregon
The Portland Building, 10th Floor, Lodgepole Room, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue
Friday, February 18 through Sunday, February 27
Sherman: A Jazz Opera
7:00 PM, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays
Ethos @ IFCC – 5340 N Interstate Avenue
Tickets are $15 general admission; Seniors & Students are $10
For more info: www.ethos.org
Black History Month events at the City of Portland are sponsored by:
Bureau of Human Resources, Portland Bureau of Transportation, Bureau of Environmental Services, Portland Water Bureau, Office of Management & Finance, City African American Network (CAAN), Portland Police Bureau, and
Diverse and Empowered Employees of Portland (DEEP)
For more information regarding Black History Month events:
Donny Adair at 503-823-4169 or donny.adair@portlandoregon.gov
Donna Hammond at 503-823-2558 or donna.hammond@portlandoregon.gov
Karyn Hanson at 503-823-6993 or karyn.hanson@portlandoregon.gov
Angela Henderson at 503-823-7376 or angela.henderson@portlandoregon.gov
