Waiting in line for food in Portland, Oregon, isn’t an unusual experience. But being surrounded by Black faces that reflect your identity is absolutely out of the ordinary in the whitest city in America. It’s a phenomenon, though, that people queuing up for Love Letters to Black Folks can finally experience. Love Letters is a special event run by Black Feast, a Portland-based pop-up dinner collective that describes itself as “a creation of Black narrative and Black lineage that brings