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February 5, 2021 The MLK and Common Reading Programs invite you to attend the keynote presentation by Harvard scholar Anthony Jack who will present “The Privileged Poor: How Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9.  Jack’s 2019 book on this topic was described by the Washington Post as breaking “new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” This talk is the second of three keynote events that are collaborative efforts by the MLK and Common Reading programs to highlight issues raised by Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. The third...

February 4, 2021 English faculty member DJ Lee will present “How Not to Be the Hero of Your Own Story: The #1 Rule of Memoir Writing” as part of the Common Reading Faculty Lecture Series. Drawing on this year’s Common Reading text, Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, and other successful memoirs, Lee will offer strategies for how to tell your own story honestly while creating a genuine self your reader can relate to. Lee also brings her own experience writing memoir, including her recently published book Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots.

WSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. and Common Reading programs hosted an event Thursday, featuring a well-known activist.  Activist Bree Newsome Bass said she grew up in a diverse area of Columbia, Maryland. The area had mixed-income housing and both her parents were teachers.  “When I was growing up, my mom in particular, her work really focused on disparities in education,” she said. Newsome Bass  said she grew up with an awareness of the inequality that is present in education. She became involved in activism in 2013 and in 2015, she went to the South Carolina State House to remove th...

January 22, 2021 By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities Washington State University Tri‑Cities will host a free seminar discussion on exclusion and segregation in the mid-Columbia region on Tuesday, Jan. 26, as part of the WSU Common Reading Program. This event, which takes place from 4–5:30 p.m. online, coincides with the launch of the third book in the “Hanford Histories” series that documents historical accounts and realities of the Hanford Site and surrounding regional area. Both the book and event parallel themes in this year’s WSU Common Reading book, “Born A Crime” by Trev...