Jul
24

Black Power Matters: Real Talk, Real Change

The Black Hub Team invites you to join us for some real talk about building Black political power through census, redistricting, civic and philanthropic engagement in CA. Date & Time: July 24, 2020 from 12PM to 1:30PM Location: This event...
Jul
13

Creating Opportunity: Incentivizing Low-Income Housing in High-Opportunity Areas

Creating Opportunity: Incentivizing Low-Income Housing in High-Opportunity Areas In an effort to increase the opportunities of its low-income residents, the State of California commissioned a task force to create a map of the neighborhoods most conducive to upward mobility. The...
Jul
9

The Power of Belonging: Conversations on Transformation

Advanced practitioners discuss the power of belonging as a key feature of liberating our world to one that works for everyone. Register for this event here. About this Event Please join us for a discussion about The Power of Belonging...

Expanding the Circle of Human Concern

This report illustrates examples of the work accomplished at our Institute over the first seven years since its inception in 2012. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but instead showcases projects that illustrate the way we approach our work as...
Jul
16

Toward Belonging Digital Dialogue 2: Hopes and Fears in a COVID world

Click for a video recording of this event. About this Event Join us for the second in our Toward Belonging dialogue series for a discussion on hopes and fears in a COVID world. This conversation will use new research findings...

Video: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color

On June 26, 2020, Director john a. powell joined in conversation with the Multnomah Bar Association. The discussion focused on the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 and the predicament of police brutality affecting communities of color.
Jun
26

Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide, Re-Opening the Society and Health Impacts on People of Color

This event will be broadcast live on this page. You can also watch this event live on the UC Berkeley Facebook page. Recent California data show that citizen perspectives on rolling back shelter in place and other public health provisions...

Blog: We only became half free on Juneteenth. Our fight for full freedom requires that we persist

Today we're observing the anniversary of Juneteenth—the day in 1865 when enslaved Africans in Texas learned that their enslavement was formally over. Yet they would exist in a world not quite enslaved, and not quite free. They then, as us now, would...

Blog: All lives can't matter until Black lives matter too

I’ve lived in and traveled to all corners of the country talking to people about race for many years. One question that many people new to understanding racism are asking is, “What’s wrong with saying all lives matter?” Sometimes the question is...