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Awarding winning writer and activist, Walidah Imarisha Coming to PCC – February 14

Miguel Arellano Sanchez

On Wednesday, February 14th The Sylvania Women’s Resource Center & Sylvania ImarishaMulticultural Center will be hosting critically acclaimed and awarding winning writer and activist, Walidah Imarisha, who will offer a lecture titled “Why aren’t there more black people in Oregon? A Hidden History Lecture”

Where: ST 100 (Sylvania Campus)
When: 1-3pm
The lecture and discussion will examine how history, politics, culture, and individuals have shaped the state of Oregon.

Walidah Imarisha- Historian at heart, reporter by (W)right, and rebel by reason.  She is the winner of 2017 Oregon Book Award  for creative Nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

For more information contact  Traci.Boyle-Galestiantz@pcc.edu or Miguel.arellanosanchez@pcc.edu