Join us for the launch of the Oregon Black Pioneers Historic Photograph Collection, a collaborative project of the Oregon Black Pioneers and Portland State University Center for Black Studies’ Historic Black Archive class. OBP will present on the history and context of the Black Portland family albums at the heart of the project and PSU… Read More »The Black Bag Speaker Series: Oregon Black Pioneers

Hatfield Lecture Series: Mae Ngai Author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at 7pm At the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall or Online Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and a professor of history at Columbia University. She is a U.S. legal and political… Read More »Hatfield Lecture Series: Mae Ngai

In 2016 Oregon’s legislature designated March 28 Minoru Yasui Day to honor the state’s only Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee’s tireless fight for equality, justice, democracy, and civil rights. This year the Min Yasui Day program is scheduled for Saturday, April 1, from 1 to 3 pm. In person at the White Stag Building (70… Read More »Minoru Yasui Day

The Making of American Whiteness Presented by Dr. Carmen P. Thompson, in conversation with Dr. Darrell Millner Thursday, April 6, 2023, at 5:30pm At the Oregon Historical Society, Portland Free and open to the public Register Here The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins… Read More »The Making of American Whiteness

In partnership with the Clackamas County Historical Society (CCHS), Gail Mandel, Deputy Director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE), will deliver a presentation on Thursday, April 27, 7-8pm in the Murdock Gallery. She will provide an overview of the history of Jews in Oregon – where they came from and… Read More »Oregon Jewish History And Jews In Clackamas County