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Photo of police lights at night.
September 15, 2023

Max Felker-Kantor, author of “Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD,” will be the featured speaker at the 1 p.m. Sept. 20 program, which will take place on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Illustration of diversity
September 8, 2023

Authors Robert Chao Romero and Jeff Liou will discuss their book, “Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation,” in a virtual presentation that begins at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Illustration of police and people
September 1, 2023

The free program, presented on Zoom, is open to the public and will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6. Conversations on Race and Policing, which began after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and its aftermath, enters its fourth year.

Chained Benjamins
April 27, 2023

“Paid for by Crime: Civil Asset Forfeiture and the War on Drugs,” with Kenneth Alyass, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University, will be presented at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, on Zoom.

People at a police line during a demonstration.
April 21, 2023

“From Rhetoric to Action: Police Reform in a ‘Post’ Racialized America,” by Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former ranking law enforcement official in Memphis who is now an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, will be presented at 1 p.m. on Zoom.

Illustration of policing and citizens of color
April 14, 2023

“In Conversation with Dr. Craig Futterman,” the founder and director of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, on Zoom.

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April 7, 2023

Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham, authors of “The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland,” will discuss their work at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, on Zoom.

Policing illustration
March 10, 2023

“IE to Ph.D. & Policing The Inland” will be presented by Humberto Flores, a doctoral candidate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara. The program is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed on Zoom at 1 p.m. March 14.

 

J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI who ran the agency for 48 years.
March 3, 2023

Yale University professor Beverly Gage will discuss her biography on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to until he died in 1972, at the next Conversations on Race and Policing.