Ending Electoral Sharecropping

In his historic 1984 speech at Tindley Temple Church in Philadelphia, Rev. Jesse Jackson declared, “Our defeats are characterized by the margin of despair and the fracture of our coalitions.” In an effort to explain both the challenge and a way...

Symposium marks 400th anniversary of slavery in the US

Last Friday, UC Berkeley initiated a year-long initiative commemorating the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of enslaved Africans in the English colonies with a day-long symposium. It drew hundreds of attendees who heard from more than a dozen...

john a. powell on Building Belonging, at the Community Action Partnership conference

On August 28, 2019, Director john a. powell delivered the keynote address at the Community Action Partnership’s annual national conference in Chicago, IL. Community Action Partnership is a national organization that works in local communities across...

Video: john a. powell welcomes new UC Berkeley undergrads

Haas Institute Director john a. powell welcomed new UC Berkeley undergraduate students at a convocation, which was part of the Golden Bear Orientation, a week-long program that all 9,000 incoming undergraduate students participated in before classes...

Blog: Kashmir and Palestine share the struggle for self determination against colonial occupation

August 12, 2019 By Zainab Ramahi As a Kashmiri living in North America, I have been to Kashmir some twenty times. I have experienced the instability, power outages, curfews, and closures that are a cruel part of everyday life, and witnessed massive...

Blog: The road not taken: Housing and criminal justice 50 years after the Kerner Commission report

Last year, on the 50th anniversary of the “Kerner Commission” report, the Economic Policy Institute, collaborating with the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins University’s 21st...

On Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton: A call to recognize our shared humanity

We are in national mourning after a horrific week in America of mass murder. We extend our deepest sympathy to the families of those who have been killed and our hearts go out to the communities forever transformed by these acts of violence. We, as a...

Blog: Responding to Racial Demagoguery

President Donald Trump attacked four Congresswomen on July 14 in a Twitter tirade that culminated in a call for them to go back to countries they “originally came from” to “fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Three...

Podcast: Artist Christine Wong Yap on her Places of Belonging Project

In this episode of Who Belongs? host Sara Grossman interviews Christine Wong Yap, who became the Haas Institute's first Artist in Residence in the fall of 2018, about her "Places of Belonging" project, which was recently featured in a KQED report.

Blog: Single-Family Zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area

Editor's note (August 17, 2020): The author's have completed and published the full set of zoning maps and the accompanying Part 5 segregation report referred to at the end of this article In mid-June, the New York Times published ten zoning maps of...

john powell keynote at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Conference

On July 19, 2019, Professor john powell gave a keynote address at the Institute of Noetic Sciences' (IONS) 18th International Conference, entitled “The Possibility Accelerator: Creating Our Future, Now” in Santa Clara, CA. IONS has been bringing...

Blog: Revived debate over school busing highlights deepening racial segregation

When Senator Kamala Harris told former Vice President Joe Biden “that little girl was me,” she evoked a mostly-forgotten era, a half-century distant, when federal courts mandated busing of black children to schools in white neighborhoods. The court...

2019 Othering & Belonging Conference Report

We are pleased to present this report about our remarkable 2019 Othering & Belonging Conference, which was held April 8–10 in Oakland, California. This detailed summary of the conference was produced for all who were part of its execution and success...

Rights groups applaud SCOTUS ruling blocking citizenship question from 2020 census

A coalition of policy and civil rights organizations extend cautious praise for Thursday’s US Supreme Court ruling blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 US census as part of the Republican Party’s strategy to diminish the political representation of immigrant communities for its own political gain.

Blog: Tensions over Reparations Expose Crisis of National Identity

The question of reparations for African Americans has entered the political discussion in a way it has never before. A number of candidates for the Democratic nomination for the presidency have publicly declared their support for a reparations plan...

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Reimagining Allyship: Reflecting on Where We Are and Where We Can Go From Here

The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative is delighted to welcome Simran Jeet Singh to the UC Berkeley campus. Dr. Singh is Executive Director of the Religion and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national...

Videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference

See our playlist below which includes all our videos from the 2024 Othering & Belonging Conference, which took place April 25-27 in Oakland, CA! To select a video from the playlist click on the button in the top right corner of the video player...