Join the local Jewish and African-American communities for
Uncovering Oregon’s Hidden History of Anti-Black Racism
In this time of reckoning with our state’s grim legacy of discrimination and hate, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland has partnered with allies to create a series of public programs to educate the greater community about the history of discrimination in our state and learn how, as people of good will, to come together to confront hate.
Guest Speaker
Walidah Imarisha
Educator, writer, public scholar, and spoken word artist
Walidah Imarisha co-edited two anthologies including Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. Imarisha’s nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption won a 2017 Oregon Book Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection Scars/Stars.
For six years, she presented statewide as a public scholar with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project on topics such as Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hip hop. Imarisha has taught in Stanford University’s Program of Writing and Rhetoric, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts’ Masters in Critical Studies Program, Portland State University’s Black Studies Department, and Oregon State University’s Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department.
