Learn about Black Lives Matter movement
Lower Columbia Diversity Project presents conversation
ASTORIA — Historian, author
and activist Walidah Imarisha
will lead a conversation on the
meaning and importance of
Black Lives Matter from 2 to
4 p.m. Sunday, March 13.
Joinging Imarisha will
be Adrienne Cabouet, from
Black Lives Matter Portland,
and Leila Hofstein, co-director
of the Portland PFLAG Black
Chapter.
This community discussion
will take place in the Judge
Guy Boyington Building lo-
cated at 857 Commercial St.
The event is sponsored by the
Lower Columbia Diversity
Project and is free to the pub-
lic.
Imarisha is a writer, educa-
tor, organizer and performance
poet. She has taught in Port-
land State University’s black
studies department where she
has created classes about top-
ics as diverse as the history of
the Black Panther Party, race
and the history of prisons,
Hurricane Katrina and hip-hop
as literature. She has facilitat-
ed writing workshops for stu-
dents in third to 12th grades,
in community centers, youth
detention facilities and wom-
en’s prisons. She is the author
of “Scars/Stars,” “Angels with
Dirty Faces” and the co-editor
of the acclaimed anthology
“Octavia’s Brood.”
Black Lives Matter PDX is
a femme-centering, queer-af-
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ical black-led group inspired
by a legacy of revolutionary
She also serves on the board
of In Other Words, a feminist
bookstore and radical commu-
nity-organizing space in north
Portland.
Hofstein is the co-director
for PFLAG Portland Black
Chapter and a radical social
justice activist. As a gen-
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she is dedicated to educating
communities on the nuances
of intersectionality, the nature
of systemic oppression and the
practice of empathy.
For more information on
this Lower Columbia Diversi-
ty Project presentation, email
lcdiversityproject@gmail.
com, or call 503-325-1895.
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Submitted photo by Peter Shaw
Walidah Imarisha will lead a conversation
March 13 in Astoria about the meaning
and importance of the Black Lives Matter
movement.
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