Becky Garrison
Becky Garrison is a freelance writer/storyteller based in Portland, OR. Follow her travels via Twitter or Instagram @Becky_Garrison
Articles by Becky Garrison
The cult TV show Portlandia pushed Portland, Oregon to hipster fame, but behind the city’s heralded “cool” veneer, lies a white supremacist history. Black people were explicitly forbidden from living in the city when the state entered the union in 1859.