Just see NO!

Eleven years in the making, this ground breaking, feature length documentary - NO! - explores how the collective silence of acts of sexual assault adversely affects African-Americans. The Portland premiere also includes a panel discussion featuring community leaders addressing the unique issues that women of color face around the issue of sexual assault and encouraging dialogue, healing and reconciliation

When: Monday, July 16, 9 a.m. - Noon
Where: PCC's Cascade Campus, 705 N. Killingsworth St., Moriarty Arts & Humanity Auditorium (Room 104)

Sponsors: Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, PWCL, PCC, Healing Roots Center, and the Tri-County Sexual Assault Task Force

Here's what other community influencers have said about the film:

“If the Black community in the Americas and in the world would heal itself, it must complete the work [NO!] begins.” Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, The Color Purple

"Heartbreaking, personal and ultimately empowering... NO! is a painstaking compilation of Black women's testimonies about sexual assault and domestic violence. Not only does Simmons' groundbreaking film breaks a pervasive deadly silence, it reaffirms the power of a Black woman's truth." Joan Morgan, Author, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

''’NO!’ is a film that is about more than sensational exposure. ‘NO!’ seeks resolution to a painful crime that has been shrouded in silence for too long in the Black community." Dwight Williams, Executive Producer, ‘Hustle & Flow’ and ‘Baby Boy’