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Black people can’t keep dying for the sake of whiteness
Director john a. powell recently published an op-ed in Berkeley's DailyCal newspaper about the system that allows police to harass and kill with impunity. Prompted in part by the grand jury decision not to prosecute the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, the op-ed speaks to every instance of police violence and killings that demand justice, including the most recent cases of Marcellis Stinnette in Illinois, and Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia. Director powell explains that unless we change the system which is designed to benefit white society and protect police while casting other groups as threats to safety, this pattern will persist. Read professor powell's article here.
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Be a Super Voter for Halloween this year! New GOTV content available for shared use in our #RiseUp library
A new digital short available on our Rise Up for Justice GOTV library invites viewers to be a "Super Voter" for Halloween this year by preparing early: Get your mask, grab your water, check if you need an ID, and bring your squad, because there's power in numbers at the polls. Download this short and other GOTV content in our presskit.
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Reminder: We have issued a Call for Papers to commission content that examines belonging in the European region. This work is part of our Toward Belonging initiative, a partnership effort with More in Common, Counterpoint UK, Queen Mary University in London, SciencesPo in Paris, along with an emergent network of social change actors in the European region. Learn more about this project here.
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News & Media
Associate Director Denise Herd is quoted in this Christian Science Monitor article, titled, "Pressure builds for US police to change military mindset."
Osagie K. Obasogie, our faculty scholar and a professor of bioethics at Berkeley, is featured in this LA Times story, titled "UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out."
Taeku Lee, our faculty scholar and former associate director, is quoted in this Wall Street Journal article about a ballot measure in California to revive affirmative action.
Research by our faculty scholar Michael Reich, an economist, on the what classifying Uber and Lyft drivers as employees would look like economically has been cited in articles in Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, Market Watch, and the Fresno Bee.
Faculty scholar Lisa García Bedolla was interviewed on the NPR program "It's Been a Minute, with Sam Sanders" about Latino voter outreach in this year's election.
Senior fellow Richard Rothstein was interviewed for an RT program called "Renegade Inc." about his book, The Color of Law, on the history of racial residential segregation in the US.
Karen Chapple, an urban planner and faculty scholar, is quoted in this Cal Matters article, titled, "How would Prop. 15 impact California’s housing crisis?"
OBI director john a. powell was interviewed in this episode of an NPR podcast. Listen to the episode, titled, "Courageous Conversations Across a Growing Divide: One Small Step."
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