Dorothy Roberts, author of “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World,” will be the next speaker on the ongoing series at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, on Zoom.
Marisol LeBrón, author and associate professor of feminist studies, critical race and ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, will discuss her latest book project “Up Against the Wall: Policing and the Making of Latinxs,” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
In addition to her legal work, Yoo is the president of the National Police Accountability Project, the country’s largest civil rights attorneys organization. Conversations on Race and Policing begins at 1 p.m. on Zoom and is free and open to the public.
Guesnerth Josué Perea will speak at the next program, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Max Felker-Kantor, author of “Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD,” will be the featured speaker at the 1 p.m. Sept. 20 program, which will take place on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Authors Robert Chao Romero and Jeff Liou will discuss their book, “Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation,” in a virtual presentation that begins at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
The free program, presented on Zoom, is open to the public and will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6. Conversations on Race and Policing, which began after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and its aftermath, enters its fourth year.
Teresa Velásquez (anthropology) discussed the violence associated with the extraction economy in Latin America, Jeremy Murray (history) was a panelist at the Wilson China Fellowship Conference, Meredith Conroy (political science) weighed in on who may seek the GOP presidential nomination and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for an article on some people of color getting involved in far-right extremist movements.
“Paid for by Crime: Civil Asset Forfeiture and the War on Drugs,” with Kenneth Alyass, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University, will be presented at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, on Zoom.