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...

UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute changes name to Othering & Belonging Institute

BERKELEY, CA: UC Berkeley’s “Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society” on Monday changed its name to the “ Othering & Belonging Institute,” allowing the Institute to establish a unique identity at the university and position itself to more...

Othering and Belonging in the Criminal Legal System

On November 1 2019 , Director john. a. powell, along with Professor Rachel Godsil, presented to an audience of U.S. Attorneys and federal judges in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the morning session, powell shared his thoughts on belonging, the...

Tackling Public Health Possibilities and Misconceptions in Rural America

Haas Institute scholar Mahasin Mujahid considers rural communities the “neglected frontier” of the public health field.

It's Been 400 Years: Berkeley Commemorates Slavery Anniversary

A granite figure representing a slave on display at the UN headquarters in New York evokes sadness, but invites visitors to heal. It’s been 400 Years since the first African people were forcibly brought as slaves to the English colonies in North...

Making The Dream Reality: Talking School Integration With Rucker Johnson

Rucker Johnson, a Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, is a member of three Haas Institute faculty research clusters: Diversity and Health Disparities; Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy...

Intensive Fellowship Trains Policymakers and Advocates in Confronting Islamophobia

In a new partnership with the Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project and Our Three Winners Foundation, the Haas Institute piloted a fellowship program over the summer designed for people working in or studying public policy to recognize biases...

Message from Associate Director Denise Herd

The year 2019 is a momentous one in American history. Four hundred years ago marks the forced arrival of enslaved African people to the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia. In January of 2018, the “400 Years of African American History...

Blog: Is Trump the most racist president we've had?

I have been asked lately, more than a few times, whether our current president is the most racist president in the history of this country. But this is the wrong question.

Fall 2019 Magazine

Get up to date on our latest activities with the Fall 2019 Haas Institute News Magazine. Covering the first half of 2019, the magazine features an interview with Haas Institute scholar Rucker Johnson on school re-segregation, an illustrated review of...

Racial Segregation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 4

In this brief we turn to the question of the effects of segregation by illustrating the specific correlations with segregation and a variety of life outcomes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recent Writing on the Causes, Consequences, and Politics of Racial Segregation

Three new books tackle the problem of segregation with fresh solutions, deeper insights, and a firmer basis for understanding how this enduring problem polarizes our politics, just in time for the 2020 Presidential campaign. There has been a...

Study finds strong correlations between segregation and life outcomes in SF Bay Area

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 30, 2019 BERKELEY, CA: Residents of highly-segregated Black and Latinx neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area experience vastly poorer life outcomes than residents of white neighborhoods in income, housing equity...

Video: john a. powell keynote to Oregon's Community Action Agency

On October 25, 2019, Director john a. powell gave a keynote address in Beaverton, Oregon to members of the region’s Community Action Agency and members of the communities they serve. Director powell presented on the frameworks of belonging and...

Video: Judith Carney - In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World

This event was a part of the Haas Institute's Research to Impact Series, Co-Organized with The Geography Dept. 23rd Sauer Memorial Lecture, the Berkeley Food Institute and the African American Studies Department. About the Talk: A striking feature of...

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Bridging Partnerships for Scaling Housing Justice

Register now Housing justice for all. To truly be for all, we need housing solutions at scale. Scaling just solutions that match what our communities want and need is about more than building more affordable housing units. It requires building...

Blog: Gender, Goosebumps, Grace, and Grieving

Julia McKeown's tattoo inspired by the poetry of Andrea Gibson. “When I left my body I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” From Love Letter From the...