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The Underground Scholars at UC Berkeley and Stanford University would like to invite you to Bridging the Gap, Incarceration to College a conversation with Dr. Nikki Jones and Samuel Maul.  The event will be held online on August 6th from 6-8 pm PDT.  Please take a moment to RSVP using this form. This is a fundraising event for the students of Incarceration to College and all proceeds go directly to the students.  Please share this flyer with your network and we hope to see you there.   If you would like to learn more about the Incarceration to College program…

Thursday, June 22, 2021 9:00 – 12:00 am PDT / 11:00 am – 2:00 pm CDT / 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT  EVENT DESCRIPTION Join us Tuesday, June 22, 9am-12pm PDT, for a half-day forum with fair housing advocates and leading race and housing scholars from across the United States for the unveiling of “The Roots of Structural Racism,” a groundbreaking new project from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley which details just how widespread and harmful racial residential segregation remains today, why it matters, who it impacts, and what can be done to reverse this dangerous…

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Streamtext (secondary location where live captions can be viewed) athttps://www.streamtext.net/player?event=UCBerkeley Facebook Chat will be enabled at https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley/ Event questions submission form at https://forms.gle/XPiYSc7TwvqQrnwGA The death of George Floyd, and the many black and brown people who have died at the hands of the police before and since, require careful examination of the long history of race and racism in policing in the United States. Is meaningful reform of policing possible? Is the answer abolition and what would that mean? Some of our leading experts on campus on this topic will discuss these important questions. Introduction: Raka Ray, Dean, Division of…

Stream event here How are the historical experiences of the Black and Jewish communities at once distinct and interconnected? Should we see efforts to combat racism and antisemitism as separate struggles? What are African Americans’ and Jews’ responsibilities to one another in America’s current racial reckoning? In this conversation, Eric K. Ward, a leading expert on the relationship between racism, antisemitism, and authoritarian movements; and Michael Rothberg, an eminent scholar of historical exclusion and its legacies, will tackle these questions and other pressing matters in contemporary Black-Jewish relations. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Tina Sacks of the School…

  The Honorable Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago Introduction by: Teresa Córdova, Director, Great Cities Institute, and Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago Moderator: Cheryl Corley, NPR National Correspondent Panelists: Nikki Jones, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley                  Cid Martinez, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego Sponsored by Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the Department of African American Studies (UCB), and the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago Co-sponsored by the Othering & Belonging Institute (for a complete list of co-sponsors,…

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