🧵 In Portland, Oregon, unhoused people make up at most 2% of the population, but they account for nearly half of all arrests.
Reveal reporter Melissa Lewis (@iff_or) spent months talking with unhoused people in the city for this week’s 🎧 Reveal: https://t.co/FiXbsOoaUo
We were thrilled to see our former colleague @cecilbrownn's story in the most recent episode of @ThisAmerLife. Listen to find out how regular calls with her grandmother Dee during COVID led to her documenting a thing she never expected to https://t.co/Wbg2fALRLd #mustlisten
Turned on @ThisAmerLife life while biking home today and did not expect to get emotionally walloped. Cecilia Brown's story about her grandmother was heartbreaking and extremely relatable given that my grandmother also passed away from dementia in 2020. Thanks for sharing.
"We'd make excuses for Dee, say she was just having a bad day, or that it was her medication. We wanted to believe the old Dee would come back." @cecilbrownn on her family's daily phone calls with her grandmother during the pandemic lockdown. https://t.co/YLM5F2nnvO
In the first few months of lockdown, @cecilbrownn recorded her phone calls with her grandmother, who couldn't have visitors at her long-term care facility. Along the way, she ended up documenting the impact of isolation on people living with dementia. https://t.co/YLM5F2nnvO
And here's a documentary short about the move and restoration of the Mayo House to a cornerstone property for the Black community. The film was also in collaboration with Cleo & Kayin and co-produced by @cecilbrownn. » https://t.co/jpdHiwXkoY /3
Prior to the long weekend, consider loading your podcast player w/ the latest @sojcagora's Listeners epi. @cecilbrownn talks with Cleo and Kayin Talton Davis (@soapboxtheory) about homeschooling during COVID-19 and reimagining education » https://t.co/q1drMi730E /1