Black Liberation in Higher Education Teach-in: Radical and Revolutionary Hope

Radical and Revolutionary Hope

A Virtual Racial Justice Teach-In in honor of the legacy and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Overview of the 2023 Event

The tradition of Black organizing is predicated on radical and revolutionary hope; the work of envisioning a better world that does not yet exist.​​ In keeping with this history, this year's event will engage with topics of power-building, collaboration, remembering, and grieving all those lost to police violence, pandemic, and environmental racism. Moreover, this year's event will focus on the liberatory practice of truth-telling. 

Black people have always been at the forefront of liberatory movements in this country. This teach-in celebrates four centuries of striving for freedom, and a community’s refusal to move anywhere but forward. 

Overview of the Day

• Welcome and Opening, 10:00am - 10:30am

• Opening Panel, 10:30am - 11:30am

• Break, 11:30am - 11:45am

• Morning Workshop, 11:45am - 1:00pm

• Art/Performance (Lunch Break), 1:00pm - 1:50pm

• Afternoon Workshop, 1:50pm - 3:15pm

• Wrap-up & Closing Reflection, 3:15pm - 3:30pm

Morning Panelists include: Ray (Equity Consultant), Zubbi (Executive Direct of Black and Beyond the Binary), Mireya (Director of Community Engagement), Alex (IRCO Policy Advocacy Coordinator), and Hollis (Deputy Director of Equity & Inclusion)

Morning Workshop: Hope As a Revolutionary Practice with Lamarra Haynes

As a child, adults taught me that hope – to believe that changes of miraculous proportions were not only possible but inevitable. This hope was simply a feeling, untethered from action, practice, and honesty about material conditions. In this workshop, we will apply a revolutionary lens to hope – exploring that hope is more than naïve optimism, but a practice that requires struggle and action.

Afternoon Workshop: What We Practice, We Live: Somatics & Black Liberation with Zubbi

In this workshop we will explore the necessity of somatic presence in service to Black liberation.

Performance featuring multi-disciplinary artist Maarquii

Registration

• Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community Members are invited to register and participate!

• Event registration will open January 11th, 2023 

• Links to Zoom and will be sent out to all approved registrants
  

Project Mission Statement

The MLK Racial Justice Campus Collaborative designs programming that celebrates the history and narratives of Portland’s Black community during and around Martin Luther King Day -- the only national holiday committed to a Black leader. The work of the Civil Rights Movement is far from over; we support community-based programming that centers ongoing narratives of Black activism, creativity, and liberation. 

Acknowledging that our society’s institutions and systems are inherently white supremacist and anti-Black, how do we hold institutions accountable, and collectively dismantle systems of oppression and inequity? What does institutional accountability mean? Furthermore, how can we seek liberation through Black epistemologies and ways of being?