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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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 The center's exterior in 2022 | |
| Formation | 2005 |
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| Type | Nonprofit |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°33′13″N 122°40′33″W / 45.55365°N 122.67584°W |
| Website | pdxqcenter |
Q Center is an LGBTQ community center and nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, United States.[1] It was founded in part by former mayor Sam Adams.[2] The space has also housed Pride Northwest, which organizes the city's annual pride parade and other festivities.[3] In 2023, Q Center was the largest LGBTQ community center in the Pacific Northwest.[4]
The community center was established in 2005,[5] championed by then-city Commissioner Sam Adams. Kendall Clawson, an African American lesbian, served as its first executive director.[6] David Martinez, co-founder and chair of Portland Latino Gay Pride, was a founding board member.[7]
The center relocated to North Mississippi Avenue in 2009.[6] In 2012, Q Center and the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) announced "a yearlong community engagement and advocacy project to provide education and advocacy about housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity".[8] As of 2017, Q Center organized monthly Rainbow Walk in the Trees meet-and-greet events at Hoyt Arboretum in Washington Park.[9]
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Q Center is an LGBTQ community center and nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in part by former mayor Sam Adams. The space has also housed Pride Northwest, which organizes the city's annual pride parade and other festivities. In 2023, Q Center was the largest LGBTQ community center in the Pacific Northwest.
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center is an African-American not-for-profit social service agency located in the Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, US, founded in 1929. Its slogan is 'Lighthouse of the Community'. The Hallie Q. Brown Community Center (HQB) is one of the largest African American non-profit organizations in the state of Minnesota. The center is named for Hallie Quinn Brown (1849–1950) a famous Black educator, activist, orator and writer agitating for civil rights, and women's rights. She also called out the injustices of the convict lease system. The organization supports the community with a full range of services including early childhood education (preschool and daycare), before and after school care, basic needs (food shelf, clothing, supportive resources, etc.), senior programming, historical archives, and anti-racism and equity programming. HQB administers the Martin Luther King Service Center which consists of a little over half of the building and houses other agencies and organizations providing programming in the arts, recreation and other social and civic issues, including the nationally recognized Penumbra Theater Company. The City of Saint Paul administers the Martin Luther King Recreation Center, which consists of the remaining part of the overall building.
Hands Across Hawthorne was a rally held at the Hawthorne Bridge in the American city of Portland, Oregon, on May 29, 2011. The demonstration was in response to an attack, one week earlier, on Brad Forkner and Christopher Rosevear, a gay male couple who had been holding hands while walking across the bridge. According to the couple and the Portland Police Bureau, a group of five men followed Forkner and Rosevear along the bridge before physically assaulting them. The assault was condemned by Portland's mayor, Sam Adams, and its police chief, Mike Reese, and news of the attack spread throughout the Pacific Northwest and the United States. The attack prompted volunteers from the Q Center, a nonprofit organization that supports the LGBTQ community, to form street patrols as a means of monitoring Portland's downtown area. Several LGBTQ and human rights organizations sponsored Hands Across Hawthorne in response to the attack, with the purpose of linking hands across the entire span of the Hawthorne Bridge to show solidarity. More than 4,000 people attended the rally, which had been publicized on a single Facebook page 72 hours previously. Forkner, Rosevear, Mayor Adams, and other community leaders spoke at the rally. The event received attention throughout the United States. On June 5, residents of Spokane, Washington, held a similar hand-holding rally called "Hands Across Monroe", crossing the Monroe Street Bridge in Riverfront Park.
In geometry, the Chebyshev center of a bounded set Q {\displaystyle Q} having non-empty interior can mean two different things: it can be the center of the minimal-radius ball enclosing the entire set Q {\displaystyle Q} , or it can be the center of a largest inscribed ball of Q {\displaystyle Q} . To see that these are not equivalent, it suffices to consider as Q {\displaystyle Q} a triangle where one side is much shorter than the two others; the enclosed kind of Chebyshev center will be in the vicinity of the midpoints of the two long sides, whereas the inscribed kind of Chebyshev center will be in the vicinity of the short side, where the triangle is thickest. This article is mostly about the enclosing kind of Chebyshev center. In the field of parameter estimation, the Chebyshev center approach tries to find an estimator x ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {x}}} for x {\displaystyle x} given the feasibility set Q {\displaystyle Q} , such that x ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {x}}} minimizes the worst possible estimation error for x (e.g. best worst case). This is equivalent to the enclosing kind of Chebyshev center.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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