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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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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…

Please register at https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zTUmEow3TbWSnIhAqq1dZw. In this dynamic artist talk, Gabrielle Civil discuss her own trajectory as a black feminist performance artists, highlighting key collaborations and inspirations, and promoting black feminist joy as a creative practice.  Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance works around the world, most recently with Wild Beauty at the Velocity Dance Center in Seattle (2020) and in the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017),…

The Future of California: People, Place, and Power Colloquium | April 13 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. |  Zoom Webinar Moderators: Marisa Lagos, Correspondent for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-host of “Political Breakdown” Speakers/Performers: California State Senator Steven Bradford; California State Senator Anna Caballero; Assemblymember David Chiu; Assemblymember James C. Ramos; California State Senator Nancy Skinner Welcome: Michael Drake, M.D, President of the University of California Sponsors: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Asian American Research Center, California Initiative for Health Equity & Action, California Nurses Association, Goldman School of Public Policy, Institute of Governmental Studies, Center for Native…

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…