Winston Cornwall is on the cover of the latest Corvallis Advocate. Read the story about his Civil Rights and Multicultural Issues in Education class. You’ll see a glimpse of why we are so fortunate to have him on our College of Education faculty.
After a summer hiatus, we’re now back to meeting regularly, including our first meeting of the fall that took place yesterday. Our next meeting will be on October 28 at 11-12 in Furman 100. Newcomers are always welcome.
We’ll start posting here again. We’d love to have more original content. If you are interested in writing for the blog, please contact Stacey Lee at stacey.lee@oregonstate.edu. Perhaps someone would like to write about Tim Wise’s lecture at OSU yesterday? Or a book review? Or an opinion piece about news items of interest to SEJ in Education?
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud recently featured an interview with Nkenge Harmon Johnson, Urban League of Portland President. She talks about the recent release of the State of Black Oregon 2015 report, about her work traveling around the state as Communications Director for former Governor John Kitzhaber, and about Oregon universities’ issues of recruiting and then graduating African American students.
The NY Times Opinion Pages are hosting The Conversation, a series of short films about race in America. The second film, A Conversation about Growing Up Black, is now available. The filmmakers are Joe Brewster of American Promise and Perri Peltz.
You might also want to check out Here and Now’s coverage of recent events in Baltimore: Baltimore: A Turning Point In this Generation’s Civil Rights Movement by Soraya Shockley of Youth Radio and Devin Allen’s story in Baltimore Photographer Captures Zeitgeist.