Come to Main Library for a special panel discussion about antiracism and community organizing with authors Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowstern, hosts and editors of the the podcast and book It Did Happen Here. 

It Did Happen Here is an independent, collectively created and produced podcast , book and free high school curriculum centering an oral history featuring over 30 voices of disparate groups of everyday people in Portland, Oregon who came together after the terrible event, and chased overt violent white racist skinheads out of the music scene and off the streets of the Rose City.

Hiphop educator, artist, and author Mic Crenshaw—who as a teenage member of the Minneapolis Baldies stood up to the Klan in the Twin Cities and co-founded the national organization Anti Racist Action—joins writer, author, and longtime activist Moe Bowstern, to take It Did Happen Here to Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. Mic and Moe—along with special guests featured in the podcast—will hold important public conversations about root causes of racial violence in the United States, and what our histories and lived experience can teach us about addressing white supremacy today.

It Did Happen Here is the winner of a 2022 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award.

Please note that due to limited space, entry to this event will be first come, first serve. Registration is encouraged but not required.