Podcast: Trump attacks fair housing: What does the end of AFFH spell for integration?
Last week Trump announced he had eliminated an Obama-era fair housing rule put in place in 2015 to reverse patterns of residential segregation that have been in place for many decades. The move was widely seen as both an attack on integration and...
Podcast: Settler colonialism, the insurrections of the 1960s, and today
In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Gerald Horne, Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. Professor Horne has written on a spectrum of issues and events including the...
Podcast: Can we have a future without police?
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Erin Kerrison, an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, to discuss her thoughts on transforming social structures and imagining futures beyond police following the murder of George Floyd.
Podcast: Why are people around the world knocking down old statues?
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Adam Hochschild, a prominent historian, journalist, and a best selling author who wrote King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, among many other books. He's also a...
Podcast: "It's not just murder. It's terror." john a. powell on George Floyd
In this episode of Who Belongs? we’re bringing back john a. powell, our director at the O&B Institute, and professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley, to talk about the ongoing events in Minneapolis following the police killing of...
Podcast: 'Freedom v. Equality': john a. powell on the clash over shelter-in-place and its roots in slavery
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from john a. powell, a professor of Law and African American studies at UC Berkeley. He’s also the director of the Othering & Belonging Institute. In the interview professor powell offers historical context for...
Podcast: Racism and COVID-19: The historical, political, and social foundations
In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from a three-guest panel of Berkeley faculty who provide various perspectives on the different forms of racism we’ve been witnessing since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear about the experiences of...
Podcast: How this Bay Area food bank is responding to a surge in demand
In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Alex Boskovich, who is the Government Relations Officer at the Alameda County Community Food Bank based in Oakland, which collects and distributes food and other resources to about 300 partner...
Podcast: ICE raids, farmworkers, & the COVID-19 crisis
In this episode of Who Belongs? we look at the reality facing undocumented immigrants and migrant farmworkers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hear from three researchers who discuss some of their recent and upcoming articles that look at...
Podcast: Ian Haney López on Bernie Sanders & the Race-Class Message
Click to download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Ian Haney Lopez, a professor of law here at UC Berkeley, about his new book: Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. The book...
Podcast: Surveying Black Women Voters in Nevada
Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests, Erika Washington and Quentin Savwoir from a civic engagement group in Nevada called Make it Work - Nevada. In the interview they discuss a recent survey they...
Podcast: 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery Initiative at UC Berkeley
Download an MP3 of this episode.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from two guests about a year-long initiative at UC Berkeley marking the 400th anniversary of the start to slavery in North America. The initiative includes weekly events with...
Podcast: Alicia Garza on Identity Politics and 2020 US Presidential Election
Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs? we hear from Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement and the principal of the Black Futures Lab, which is an organization that engages Black voters year...
Podcast: Mobilizing Hard-to-Count Populations for Census 2020
Download an MP3 of this interview. In this episode of Who Belongs? we speak with Michael Gomez Daly, the director of the Inland Empowerment coalition, and Sky Allen, who is the coalition's census coordinator, about their efforts to mobilize people in...
Podcast: Journalist Lawrence Lanahan on Crossing Baltimore's Racial Divide
Download an MP3 of this interview.In this episode of Who Belongs?, we hear from journalist and author Lawrence Lanahan, from Baltimore, about his new book called The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore’s Racial Divide. The...

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