Black Girls in Archives presents: The Art of GLAM — A Close-Up Conversation ✨
We’re highlighting the voices, stories, and journeys of curators, archivists, historians, and museum professionals across the GLAM field. This series honors the work behind the scenes and inspires the next generation of GLAM professionals to enter, shape, and sustain this field.
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On June 16th 2025 the 96 panels that make up memorial murals from the 2020 Portland protests were returned to downtown Portland for temporary storage!! Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped us unload these precious materials and to all of the artist who memorialized the people and communities whose lives and futures have been stolen by the state.
End State Sanctioned Violence 🇺🇸
#mural #preservation #history #art #GeorgeFloyd #applestore #AppleStorePDX #applestoremurals #BLACKLIVESMATTER #portlandprotest #muralportland #muralpdx #PDXMurals #PublicArt #graffiti #PDX #PDXProtest
PDX, put this one in your calendar!! FreeQuency is stopping in the city as part of their (On |Un-)Becoming world tour.
I am excited to talk to overall STAR & my former slam teammate @freequencyspeaks on Saturday, May 30th at the @blackmemorylabpdx 🙌🏽⭐️⭐️
You can catch their feature performances at @thepeoplespoets on the 28th and @slamlandia on the 29th in preparation.
Free event :) You coming??
PORTLAND IN BLACK
Documenting Our Lives in: City of Roses Work on your personal archives projects with us!
(Register at Link )
The Black Memory Lab
510 SW 3rd Avenue
🗓️: May 23, 2026 | 10:00 - 12:00
𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐌? 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐧?
💪🏽 What Are Your DEMANDS?
This week the supremacist court removed voting rights for Americans vulnerable to systemic discrimination and state sanctioned violence.
Many of us have been witness to this dismantling as it’s been years in the making.
For decades we have organized, built intersectional partnerships and collaborated with civil rights groups.
We’ve used the justice system and its courts to protect our communities, and we still show up in solidarity with people and groups who do not share the version of SOLIDARITY that we have shown generation after generation.
We know what’s coming ☝🏽
In the entire history of the world at the center of injustice communities have always shown resistance…. this is a message!!
Common Unity is The RESISTANCE ✊🏾
May Day will kick off with a community fair at 12pm in Shemanski Park (1010 SW Park Ave) followed by a rally and march. See you there ✊🏾
Stop By Our Table and sign up to volunteer, make a May Day 💴 and Grab/Make your Sign to Show YOUR DEMANDS!!
WE DEMAND RESPECT AND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM OUR ELECTED LEADERS- Which Side Are YOU ON?
signs remixed by @looking_up_at_the_stars_ 🌹♥️
Truly loved my time at Black Memory Lab. Such a great space. Challenging conversations. Thank you! Looking forward to doing it again in September. @blackmemorylabpdx
Join Don't Shoot PDX and Portland City Archives for the next event in a series focused on building community, learning archival skills, and working to ensure community stories are accessible for future generations. Write identifying information for your family photos, create a file plan for your digital collections, or organize your important documents. This event is a chance to work on personal archiving projects and receive guidance from experienced memory workers. Join us on Saturday, April 25, 2026, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Link in bio for more information.
Join us at the Black Memory Lab for an afternoon with Dr. Shani Adia Evans, author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place.
🔗 in Profile for Registration 🗓️
This landmark study draws on dozens of interviews to show how longtime Black Portland residents experienced and responded to gentrification and racial neighborhood change in Northeast Portland neighborhoods.
Reading + Signing from 4:00-5:00pm
Interviewing Workshop with the Author from 5:00-6:30pm
Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest city,” Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of Northeast Portland, also called “Albina,” were a haven for and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina changed dramatically—it became majority White.
In We Belong Here, sociologist Shani Adia Evans offers an intimate look at gentrification from the inside, documenting the reactions of Albina residents as the racial demographics of their neighborhood shift. As White culture becomes centered in Northeast, Black residents recount their experiences with what Evans refers to as “White watching,” the questioning look on the faces of White people they encounter, which conveys an exclusionary message: “What are you doing here?” This, Evans shows, is a prime example of what she calls “White spacemaking”: the establishment of White space—spaces in which Whiteness is assumed to be the norm and non-Whites are treated with suspicion—in formerly non-White neighborhoods. Evans also documents Black residents’ efforts to create and maintain places for Black belonging in White-dominated Portland. While gentrification typically describes socioeconomic changes that may have racial implications, White spacemaking allows us to understand racism as a primary mechanism of neighborhood change. We Belong Here illuminates why gentrification and White spacemaking should be examined as intersecting, but not interchangeable, processes of neighborhood change.
🙋🏽♀️We’ve been using #AuditsMatter for years - it’s how we use data to investigate local city inequality on the record - from policies, to programs and bureaus.
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During this educational open house, we will have workers from the Auditors Office share recent report findings from the Arts Tax, Climate Justice, Parks and Citywide Asset Management audits and other recent systemic reviews.
🔎Learn about reporting government misconduct, the Good Government Fraud Hotline, how to suggest future audits and more.
A city audit is an independent, objective assessment of a municipality’s financial records, operations and performance, conducted to ensure accountability, efficiency and compliance with laws.
The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected office responsible for ensuring accountability, transparency and efficiency in city government. In addition to conducting performance audits of city bureaus and programs, the office also investigates complaints against city services.
Celebrate Women’s History Month and
Black Futures Forward!
👏🏾:👸🏾🦹🏼♀️👩🏻✈️🧘♀️👩🏾🎤👩🏽🍳🙇🏿♀️👩🏼🌾🦸🏼♀️👱♀️
Join Don’t Shoot PDX and Portland City Archives for the last day of SPRING BREAK OUT! This is an event in a series focused on building community, learning archival skills, and working to ensure community stories are accessible for future generations. Bring your personal archiving projects to work on, connect with community members, and receive guidance from the memory workers at Don’t Shoot PDX and Portland City Archives. Special guests Gahlena Avidan and Balinda Golden will be in attendance to record their oral histories. Join us Friday, March 27, 2026, from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Examples of items you may want to bring:
✔️ Family photographs
✔️ Albums
✔️ Scrapbooks
✔️ Clippings, publications, books
✔️ Quilts, textiles, family heirlooms
✔️ Posters, prints, other works of art
✔️ Letters, correspondence, diaries
🔗 Link in bio for more information.
On the last day of black history month I launched the newest issue of Arrival Mag- The Road Less Traveled I am so grateful for all the that came out to support.
I’m still trying to process as I pack for my next adventure but all I can say for now is Thank You 💕
For everyone who couldn’t grab a copy during the launch event I will be releasing the physical copies online soon.
I love you all
