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Register  On Friday, May 14 from 12pm-1:30pm PDT (3pm-4:30pm EDT), UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix will feature a “Matrix on Point” panel discussion entitled, “America’s Pursuit of Racial Justice,” focused on the recent Black-led protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, situated within the broader historical context of social movements for racial justice in the United States. The panel will include Monica Bell, Associate Professor of Law & Sociology, Yale Law School; Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley; and Brandon M. Terry, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies, Harvard University. Christopher Muller, Assistant…

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Register here   Join a conversation with three authors on the history and politics of Black popular music. About this Event Black music has been a powerful force, expressing joy, pain, and speaking truths to a global audience. In this program, we will look more deeply into the history and politics of Black music through examining the career of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson, discussing the music of the Black Power movement, and by exploring the trajectory of the iconic 1990’s hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. The discussion features authors Hanif Abdurraqib (Go Ahead in the Rain:…

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…