Bend Bulletin Article about Angels with Dirty Faces
Transcript of Walidah's Liberated Archives Keynote
Listen to Walidah's Liberated Archives Keynote
Writer/activist/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha delivered the opening keynote address at The Liberated Archive: A Forum for Envisioning and Implementing a Community-Based Approach to Archives at ARCHIVES 2017 in Portland, OR. Imarisha discussed the role of a community archives in telling community stories—and making sure that all stories are told.
You can listen to the keynote as an audio file (and download it) here:
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/courses/5062/audio_presentations/79197
Angels With Dirty Faces on Oregonian's Summer Reading List
The Oregonian included Walidah Imarisha's book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption in their summer reading list.
Activist, historian, educator, writer, humanities scholar: Portland’s Walidah Imarisha defies easy categorization, and so does her book “Angels With Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption,” which won the Oregon Book Awards’ 2017 Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction. It’s a must-read for anyone concerned about how readily we put our fellow Americans, particularly young black male Americans, behind bars. “America used to make cars. Now we make prisoners,” Imarisha writes in this compelling blend of personal narrative and reportage. She said by email, “I hope the book unsettles, in a way that allows for a questioning of what we think we know, and asking of questions with no easy answers.”
Walidah's Oregon Book Award Acceptance Speech
Angels with Dirty Faces is an Oregon Book Finalist
Walidah Imarisha's nonfiction book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption is a finalist for the 2017 Oregon Book Awards.
Walidah on The Spine Podcast
Video of Talk at Stanford University
Walidah Writes Foreword For New Horror Anthology
Walidah wrote the foreword to a powerful new horror anthology, Sycorax's Daughters.
Sycorax's Daughters, a horror anthology of fiction & poetry by Black women, edited by Kinitra Brooks, Linda Addison, and Susan Morris will be out February 2017 from Cedar Grove Publishing!
