A good time to hear stories of people of color | Opinion

When I attended the annual MLK awards luncheon Jan. 18 on the University of Oregon campus, I felt a warm sense of pride for my co-workers at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, where I have worked since the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009. This year the director of CSWS, a law professor from Jamaica, and the associate director, an English professor from India, were honored for ā€œtheir efforts to spark changes that help bring about the civil rights leader’s vision of a more just and tolerant community.ā€ This year’s celebration was followed by a

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Written by Alice Evans, coordinator of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, this op-ed was published March 3, 2017, in the Eugene Register-Guard.