Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the third and final joint MLK/Common Reading keynote talk tonight at 6 pm. Oluo’s work on social issues such as race and gender has been published in The Guardian, The Stranger, Washington Post, ELLE magazine, NBC News and more. She is the author of the bestselling 2018 book So You Want to Talk About Race and the 2020 book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America.
Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race is both accessible and thought provoking, arranged around a series of questions such as “What if I talk about race wrong?” and “What are microagressions?” that provide advice and insight into how to have the kinds of conversations about race that are so necessary in the United States. Thanks to the generous support of the CougParents Program, the first 75 WSU students who register and attend will receive a free paperback copy of this book.
For more on Oluo and to register for the talk, see https://mlk.wsu.edu/mlk-keynote-series/
