Our Ontario office has moved to a brand new location! Grateful to our staff and volunteers who made it possible during COVID 19.
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We are devastated by this latest attack on the AAPI community, and our hearts are with everyone who is suffering. We are donating to @APANONews, @colorcoalition and @IRCOnews as an initial step to help them advance their mission. Learn more: bit.ly/3sbnVP2
IRCO stands in solidarity with the people of Myanmar, seeking democracy, human rights, and peace. We strongly condemn Myanmar's military violations of human rights and unconstitutional arrests of democratically elected leaders.
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A big shout out to our Pacific Islander Team and our very own Kolini Fusitua, Pacific Islander Program Coordinator for all the tireless work they do for thee community!
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We are excited to announce the Unemployment Helpline for our Latinx Community!
This service is free of cost and will help support the community members with their unemployment claims.
You can call the helpline number and ask for support in Spanish. Open to everyone!
Check out Iman Abdi the new African Immigrant Outreach worker for IRCO representing our Somali Community in this Portland Trail Blazers video! #ivegotastorytotellpdx #blackhistorymonth
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And then, be sure to click on our link to learn about the I've Got a Story to Tell poetry movement featuring poems written by young Black community ambassadors in Portland: mywordisbond.org/shop/ive-go…
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IRCO Connect Line is here! IRCO Connect is our newest program, serving 237 languages, connecting clients with language disparities to bilingual/bicultural navigators to engage with staff over the phone.
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"I'm really glad that I took the initiative. I'm very blessed to be able to work with people in IRCO."
Watch career coach, Surya, and his client testify earlier this month with the funding provider, Prosper Portland. Skip the video ahead to minute 45:00: youtube.com/watch?v=ivjAAhst…
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celebrating black history day 2:
"I am a big guy. I'm African American. I'm Jewish. And I'm gay. And I feel like those are not uncommon identities, just the fact that - all in one person," - Michael W. Twitty, on The Cooking Gene for @NPR .
Photo courtesy of @gardenandgun
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Check out the full NPR interview with the 2018 James Beard Foundation's Book Of The Year Award recipient and his book, "The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South"
npr.org/2018/05/06/608942108…
“Then everywhere, everywhere, throughout the South, there are hundreds of dark mothers who live in fear, terrible, suffocating fear, whose rest by night is broken and whose joy by day in their babies on their hearts is three parts pain.” Excerpt from "Rachel" by Angelina Grimke.
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"Rachel" was a play written in 1916 and the first play to be written and performed by an entirely African American Cast. The author, Angelina Weld Grimke, wrote this play in response to glorification of the Klu Klux Klan and widely accepted hate speech and actions towards
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the black community. For more on this story, and others just like it, please visit: community.antiracismdaily.co…
Playbill for Angelina Grimké’s play, "Rachel". Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University. (DC Historic Sites)
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