Online event|Racial Justice|Social Justice

Dr. Angela Davis -- American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author -- will speak from her decades of experience in social justice movements. Davis’ work as an educator and activist emphasizes the importance of building community action for economic, racial, and gender justice. Questions for Dr. Davis must be submitted in advance upon registration or online.

Did you know… Oregon’s Constitution prevented African Americans & Chinese Americans from owning any real estate and denied African Americans the right to live here? Until the 1950s most Oregon hotels, restaurants, theaters, and amusement parks refused to serve African Americans? Many cities and towns had “Sundown Laws” which threatened African Americans and Asians to…

This training connects the history of racial exclusion, discrimination, hate, and harassment towards specific communities that have resulted in the disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color from our two different current pandemics, highlighting the connections between racial exclusion and segregation with the COVID-19 pandemic and police violence.

Oregon’s early history of white supremacy laid the groundwork for the state’s lack of racial diversity today. While Black communities emerged in spite of this discrimination in Portland and the Willamette Valley, no such communities existed in Oregon’s rural counties. As a result, early Blacks in rural Oregon represented the most marginalized members of an…

Viewers will explore with Michael Eric Dyson the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation’s approach to issues of race, and hear his thoughts on reasons to hope for a better future as we reckon with our past. A distinguished professor of African American studies, ethics and society at Vanderbilt University, Dyson is…