“Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis: What It Means and Where Do We Go from Here,” a panel presentation, will take place virtually at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30.
The panel on Sept. 23 will feature Vida Johnson, associate professor of law at Georgetown University; Michael German, former FBI special agent and now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program; and Sam Levin, Los Angeles correspondent for The Guardian.
Shawn McMurran (mathematics), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and David Yaghoubian (history) were included in recent news coverage on a variety of topics.
The panel of activists and community-based scholars will discuss issues ranging from the Los Angeles Police Department, access to translators for indigenous people, the way race shapes the American justice system, the policing of indigenous people across the border and other topics.
"Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder," directed by Emmitt H. Thrower, a retired New York police officer, chronicles disabled victims killed by police as well as the activists/artists who are fighting to end police brutality against people with disabilities.
News media tapped the expertise of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Kevin Grisham (associate director of research and chair of geography and environmental studies) was interviewed by European news media about the QAnon conspiracy theory, and Brian Levin (director and professor of criminal justice) will be a panelist for a Sept. 8 online discussion of the documentary ““The One and Only Jewish Miss America.”
Tony Coulson (information and decision sciences), Terri Nelson (world languages and literatures), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Brian Levin (criminal justice) and David Yaghoubian (history) were included in recent news coverage.
Daniel Gascón, a CSUSB alumnus who is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, will present “The Limits of Community Policing,” 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, on Zoom.
Anthony Silard (public administrator) discussed mental health in the midst of the pandemic, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) will be a guest panelist discussing the documentary “The One and Only Jewish Miss America” on Sept. 8.