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From left, Odilia Romero, Stan Rodriguez and Daisy Ocampo.
September 13, 2020

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," grafic
September 8, 2020

"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.

Daniel Gascón, a CSUSB alumnus, is the co-author of “The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles."
August 31, 2020

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.  

‘Cops on Film’ topic of next Conversations on Race and Policing at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25
August 24, 2020

The program, the 13th in the series, will feature two guest faculty panelists: Howard Henderson from Texas Southern University, and Frank Wilson from Indiana State University.

A rally in San Francisco on support of DACA. This week's conversation will focus on the June 18 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on DACA. Photo: Pax Ahimsa Gethen via Wikimedia Commons.
August 10, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this summer that prevented the Trump administration from immediately ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be the focus of the program.

Alex S. Vitale is an author and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College. He is also the coordinator of the college’s Policing and Social Justice Project.
July 30, 2020

The guest speaker is an author and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, and coordinator of the college’s Policing and Social Justice Project. The 10th event in the series hosted by CSUSB students will take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, on Zoom.

“Touch the Sky,” the fourth part of the documentary series “Black America Since MLK: And I Still Rise,” will be the focus of the next Conversations on Race and Policing series, set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 29.
July 27, 2020

The 9th event in the series hosted by CSUSB students will take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29, on Zoom.

Black Trans Lives Matter sign at the May Day 2017 in New York City. The eighth program in the university’s Conversations on Race and Policing series will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday on Zoom. Photo by Alec Perkins via Wikimedia Commons.
July 20, 2020

The panelists in the next conversation in the series, to be livestreamed on Zoom, will discuss issues related to policing, racial violence and the LGBTQIA community.

CSUSB Faculty in the News
February 1, 2021

Meredith Conroy (political science), Ryan Keating (history), and Barbara Sirotnik (information and decision sciences) were included in recent news coverage.