Eugene’s own Eastern European non-profit ArtLinks hosted the 2020 Father Frost Winter Festival on Jan. 18 – 19. ArtLinks, a nearly two-year-old non-profit, held its all-day multicultural winter celebration at the Wheeler Pavillion. The primary focus of the non-profit is outreach: educate locals on customs, practices and languages of Eastern European cultures from the Caucasus…
Close to 500 people showed up on Jan. 20 to celebrate Eugene’s 34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. March. “We have members in the audience who helped bring forth that first march in 1984,” explained Eric Richardson, the Executive Director of the Lane County NAACP chapter. The hour-long march started at Autzen Stadium, traveled through…
“I didn’t come here to be a speaker to entertain…” On Jan. 15, Lane Community College warmly welcomed LaTosha Brown, the keynote speaker for the college’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, for her first visit to Oregon. Brown is a co-founder of the Black Voters Matter campaign, a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government,…
