A starstruck Portland audience intently listened to NAACP Chairman and civil rights leader Julian Bond speak at Reed College on Friday, marking the first special event of Reed’s celebration of the 2007 Black History Month. Addressing a packed Kaul Auditorium, Bond reflected on the legacy and wayforward of the civil rights movement and its implications for future generations. Many of the most influential leaders of Portland’s African-American community were present at the event. Bond helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1960s. He has been Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1998. He served in the Georgia legislature as both a Representative and as a Senator. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia since 1990, and a professor there since 1998. In 2002, he received the prestigious National Freedom Award. The holder of 25 honorary...
Book reviews by Maileen Hamto focus on racial identity, social justice, decoloniality, indigeneity, and spirituality.