It isn t the same : Cities host muted MLK Day celebrations after year of loss for many Black Americans Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY
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This year, the campus of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, will be eerily empty on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Gone will be the children and families enjoying the day’s activities – as many as 12,000 visitors on a good-weather day – and the crowds donating food or giving blood.
“With the pandemic, it’s hard to do that,” said Faith Morris, chief marketing and external affairs officer for the museum, which is marking the holiday online. “We will try to give those feelings virtually, but it’s not lost on us that it does in some form take away from the sentiment of the movement.”
This year, the campus of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, will be eerily empty on Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Gone will be the children and families enjoying the day’s activities – as many as 12,000 visitors on a good-weather day – and the crowds donating food or giving blood.
“With the pandemic, it’s hard to do that,” said Faith Morris, chief marketing and external affairs officer for the museum, which is marking the holiday online. “We will try to give those feelings virtually, but it’s not lost on us that it does in some form take away from the sentiment of the movement.”
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Sarah Iannarone Has a New Job: Executive Director of The Street Trust The former mayoral candidate will now have a platform for her active-transportation ideas. Sarah Iannarone. (Mick Hangland-Skill) Updated January 10 Sarah Iannarone, the two-time Portland mayoral candidate, will become the new executive director of The Street Trust, the Portland active-transportation nonprofit previously known as the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. The Street Trust has always geared toward community, advocacy, and the intersection of transportation and social justice, said Thomas Ngo, board member of both The Street Trust and its advocacy arm, The Street Trust Action Fund, in a statement. Iannarone brings the global expertise, commitment to equity, and passion for the work these times demand.
Black Lives Matter activists in Portland claim double standard in police response to violence at US Capitol I don’t think had that been a mob of Black individuals that it would have played out the same way, said activist Greg McKelvey. Author: Kyle Iboshi Updated: 7:35 PM PST January 7, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. As pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday by knocking down barriers, smashing windows and ransacking congressional offices, Black Lives Matter activists wondered why law enforcement showed so much restraint compared to the heavy-handed tactics that officers have used on them.
“There’s definitely a double standard and I don’t think had that been a mob of Black individuals that it would have played out the same way,” said Greg McKelvey.
Who Speaks for the Black Lives Matter Movement in Portland? Itâs Complicated.
Portlandâs Black community is relatively smallâand yet, it certainly does not speak with a single voice.
By
Jagger Blaec
12/19/2020 at 5:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Portland Monthly
Portlandâs Black community is relatively smallâand yet, it certainly does not speak with a single voice.
For months in 2020, Portlandâs Black Lives Matter movement took international center stage, underscored by jarring images of local and federal law enforcement agents descending on protesters with tear gas and excessive force in the cityâs streets.