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Article on Walidah's PSU MLK Tribute Keynote

The Portland State University Vanguard ran a story about Walidah's Jan. 22, 2018 PSU MLK Tribute keynote - Afrofuturism and the Legacy of Race in Oregon:

https://psuvanguard.com/walidah-imarisha-returns-home-to-psu/

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Walidah to be Portland State 2018 MLK Tribute Speaker

Walidah will be the 2018 MLK Tribute speaker at Portland State University. The last three were Janet Mock, the founders of Black Lives Matter, and Angela Davis.

The tribute will be Jan. 22nd at 7 pm, and is titled "Afrofuturism and the Possibilities for Oregon." 

It is free and open to the public but tickets are required. 

https://www.pdx.edu/diversity/mlk-tribute-2018

Walidah Featured in CBS Documentary

Walidah Imarisha was interviewed for the CBS News documentary on race and Portland "Portland | Race Against the Past," which aired nationally Oct. 30, 2017.

You can watch it here, and read the accompanying article: 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-race-against-the-past-white-supremacy/

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Listen to Walidah's Liberated Archives Keynote

Writer/activist/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha delivered the opening keynote address at The Liberated Archive: A Forum for Envisioning and Implementing a Community-Based Approach to Archives at ARCHIVES 2017 in Portland, OR. Imarisha discussed the role of a community archives in telling community stories—and making sure that all stories are told.

You can listen to the keynote as an audio file (and download it) here:

https://www.pathlms.com/saa/courses/5062/audio_presentations/79197

 

Angels With Dirty Faces on Oregonian's Summer Reading List

The Oregonian included Walidah Imarisha's book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption in their summer reading list.

'Angels With Dirty Faces'

Activist, historian, educator, writer, humanities scholar: Portland’s Walidah Imarisha defies easy categorization, and so does her book “Angels With Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption,” which won the Oregon Book Awards’ 2017 Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction. It’s a must-read for anyone concerned about how readily we put our fellow Americans, particularly young black male Americans, behind bars. “America used to make cars. Now we make prisoners,” Imarisha writes in this compelling blend of personal narrative and reportage. She said by email, “I hope the book unsettles, in a way that allows for a questioning of what we think we know, and asking of questions with no easy answers.”

 

 

 

Angels with Dirty Faces is an Oregon Book Finalist

Walidah Imarisha's nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption is a finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Awards.

https://literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/