Page 18 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.