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CSUSB professor’s book, ‘Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest,’ featured
Washington State Magazine

Marc Robinson, Cal State San Bernardino assistant professor of history and an alumnus of Washington State, explores late 1960s Black student activism in his urban hometown of Seattle and rural college town of Pullman in his new book, “Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest,” a well-researched look at the origins and influence of the Black Student Union in Washington state.

What’s a Hate Crime? Depends on Where You Live
The Marshall Project
Dec. 2, 2023

The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter quoted Brian Levin, founding director of Cal State San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, in an article about the complex maze of hate crimes laws that vary from state to state.
“We have vast data collection and prosecution deserts when it comes to hate crimes,” said Levin. “All of this really is reliant on not only what part of the country you were in, but what jurisdiction you're in.”

He says it’s important for government leaders to help set the tone during tense times like what we’re seeing recently amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, by establishing that violence and bigotry have no justification.

“We're at a time now when there are people doing somersaults to justify various positions,” Levin said, “and what that does is make people who are vulnerable in the United States potential victims.”

Hate crimes in LA County rise to highest level in 21 years
Spectrum News 1
Nov. 29, 2023

Reported hate crimes in Los Angeles County jumped 18% from previous year.  “Inside the Issues” host Amrit Singh is joined by Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at CSU San Bernardino, to break down the new report in a segment that leads off the newscast.

For years, the FBI quietly stopped tracking anti-Arab violence and hate crimes
NPR
Dec. 1, 2023

Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino and criminal justice professor emeritus, was quoted in a segment about a gap in the FBI’s tracking of hate crimes against Arabs, which were not recorded from 1992 and 2015.

After reporting resumed, Levin said that post-9/11 surveillance programs undermined the trust that Arab and Muslim communities otherwise might have built with local and federal law enforcement.

"Anti-Muslim hate crimes pose a real difficulty because of an attenuated relationship with law enforcement, with immigration authorities, language barriers among other things," said Brian Levin, former founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.

Levin said that post-9/11 surveillance programs undermined the trust that Arab and Muslim communities otherwise might have built with local and federal law enforcement.

"So I really think when we're looking at this, we have to remember that there are certain communities where underreporting, I believe, is far more rampant than in other communities," he said.

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