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Martin Luther King Jr.
2018 special edition
January 10, 2018
Walidah Imarisha
College Hosts
Keynote Scholar
The community is invited to
hear Portland scholar and ac-
tivist Walidah Imarisha speak
at Western Oregon University
for their annual Martin Luther
King Jr. commemorative din-
ner on the school’s campus in
Monmouth on Wednesday, Jan.
17 at 6 p.m.
“We chose Walidah Imarisha
because of her scholarship and
background,” said Emmanuel
Macias, educational advisor for
the college’s student enrichment
program. “Walidah brings in-
sights and perspectives to issues
facing communities most mar-
ginalized by systems of oppres-
sion. We look forward to learning
and growing from her address.”
Imarisha is an educator,
writer, public scholar and spo-
ken-word artist. She has pre-
sented statewide as a public
scholar with Oregon Human-
ities’ Conversation Project on
topics such as Oregon’s Black
history, alternatives to incar-
ceration and the history of hip
hop. Her nonfiction book An-
gels with Dirty Faces: Three
Stories of Crime, Prison, and
Redemption won a 2017 Ore-
gon Book Award.
Tickets are $3 for students
and $5 for general admission
(including dinner) and can be
purchased at the Werner Uni-
versity Center front desk or in
disability services.
That old law about
‘an eye for an eye’ leaves
everybody blind.
The time is always
right to do the
right thing.
--Martin Luther King Jr.