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Black History of Oregon with Walidah Imarisha Webinar

Black History of Oregon with Walidah Imarisha Webinar

May 12th, 2022

Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Walidah Imarisha will speak about Oregon Black history, and the history of race, identity, and power in the Northwest.  Imarisha is a transformative speaker who has presented statewide as a public scholar with Oregon Humanities Conversation Project on several topics, including Oregon Black history. She is also author of the nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award.