It's no secret that the creative arts are a great vehicle for bringing people together to engage with insightful, often difficult discussions about issues like race. The Clackamas Repertory Theatre will be hosting such an opportunity with the west coast premier of "Queens Girl in the World." The play, written by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, directed by Damaris Webb, and featuring Lauren Steele will be showing from Sep. 5-29 and will feature post and pre-show lectures on select d

Author's Note: Since posting this video, one of the panelists, Pharoah Bolding, reached out to us to let us know that the fairly rosy picture I painted of the event only told a small part of the story. In reality, the panelists dealt with a deluge of micro-aggressions and general unwelcoming, anti-POC behavior during their time in LO. Bolding details some of these incidents in a blog post that is a MUST READ. For my part, I would like to apologize to Bolding and the other pan