The night basketball leagues of the 1980s and ’90s, aimed at social intervention, risk reduction and crime prevention, will be the topic of the next Conversations on Race and Policing. Open and free to the public, the program will be presented at noon, Wednesday, March 2, on Zoom.
The Feb. 23 Conversations on Race and Policing, on Zoom, will feature Tony Gaskew, University of Pittsburgh professor of criminal justice and author of “Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation.”
“Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race,” presented by Hannah L. Walker of the University of Texas at Austin, will take place beginning at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 16, on Zoom.
Henrietta Harrison, professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, will present the first Modern China Lecture for the spring semester when she discusses her new book, “The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire,” 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, on Zoom.
The panel presentation, which will include mental health specialists and CSUSB faculty, will examine the intersection of mental health, policing and race, and will take place beginning at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 9, on Zoom.
The first program of the spring semester, “Police Use of Excessive Force Against African Americans,” will take place at noon Wednesday, Feb. 2, on Zoom.
History in the Making: A Journal of History has been awarded third prize in the 2021 Gerald D. Nash History Graduate Journal competition, given by the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.
Antonia Gonzales and Rhonda LeValdo, two award-winning Native American journalists, will be the featured speakers at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, “National Native News and Black Lives Matter.”
“Kalief’s Legacy, Presented by Akeem Browder,” will examine the circumstances surrounding the three-year pretrial incarceration of Kalief Brown for a crime he didn’t commit – and for which he never appeared in court to argue his innocence. This next program in CSUSB’s ongoing series, Conversations on Race and Policing, is set for 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, on Zoom.