Events

Saturday, Feburary 8, 2025

7:00 - 9:00 pm

International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA

The College of Letters and Sciences University Development and Relations office presents the premiere of John Burris: Godfather of Police Litigation, a documentary film by Doug Harris. The film profiles the life of Berkeley Law graduate John Burris, one of the country’s premiere civil rights attorneys specializing in cases involving police misconduct and brutality. Some of Burris’ landmark cases include representing Rodney King, Oscar Grant, and the victims of the...

Location: 820 Social Sciences Building, Social Science Matrix at UC Berkeley

Join the Department of African American Studies for a talk from our first...

Monday, September 16, 12:00 - 2:00 pm

675 Social Sciences Building, Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, Department of African American Studies

Join the Department of African American Studies for an informal lunch with Geo Maher, Coordinator of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction. All UC Berkeley students are invited to discuss abolition, political organizing, and more with Geo.

Lunch will be provided, vegetarian and vegan options will be available. Please contact Barbara Montano at ...

We stumble through 2024 in search of new political coordinates. Long gone is the myth of the end of history, and today we instead confront sharp questions about the fraught tangle of race, class, and gender. Explosive struggles against racist police brutality and colonial domination worldwide remind us that the work of the past remains largely unfinished. Our moment needs urgent decoding, and we have no Rosetta Stone better suited to the task than W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction. This presentation, the product of a forthcoming collective volume on Du Bois' text, provides a...