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May 3, 2021

A panel presentation on “Police Drug Raids: Context and Consequences in Public Health and Structural Racism” will be the focus of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, on Zoom.

Myles Yutaka Fukunaga, the focus of Raced to Death in 1920's Hawai‘i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case,”
April 26, 2021

“Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai‘i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case,” will examine how racism played into an infamous murder case in 1920s Hawai’i when the next Conversations on Race and Policing takes place at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, on Zoom.

Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
April 19, 2021

“The Anti Police-Terror Project: A Dialogue with Cat Brooks” will be the focus of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, on Zoom.

April 12, 2021

“A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South,” presented by award-winning author Ben Montgomery, will be the focus of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, on Zoom.

"CSUSB professor to speak at Harvard Immigration Initiatives"
April 8, 2021

Paloma E. Villegas, assistant professor of sociology, will present at the Immigration Initiatives at Harvard virtual Speaker Series on Wednesday, April 14, on Zoom. She will discuss her book, “North of El Norte: Illegalized Migrants in Canada.”

Kathryn Ervin
April 5, 2021

“The Pride of Lions,” presented by Kathryn Ervin, CSUSB professor of theatre arts, is the title of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, on Zoom.

Documentary film, ‘Let the Fire Burn,’ topic of next Conversations on Race and Policing
March 22, 2021

The film, which is about the 1985 incident in which the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a military-grade explosive on a row house during a standoff, leading to the deaths of 11 people (five of them children) and destroying 61 homes, will be shown at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, on Zoom.

The work of the Community Alert Patrol, formed in the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles, will be the topic of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, on Zoom.
March 15, 2021

“Reflections on Resistance: The Community Alert Patrol and the Struggle Against Police Terror,” which is open to the public, will be livestreamed on Zoom beginning at 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 17.

"Paloma Villegas, assistant professor of sociology speaking on a "A look back""
September 3, 2021

As part of our celebration of Womxn’s History Month, take a look back at our feature profile of Paloma Villegas, assistant professor of sociology, who encourages her students to think about a radical hope.