Click here for an archive of event info. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the underlying forces and the overarching narratives of race, gender, and class inequality that have been the bedrock of the US experience since Day One. Instead of providing...
Our Rise Up For Justice GOTV library is open to everyone! It contains digital GOTV content to encourage civic engagement in the 2020 election. The library, which includes image stills, memes, digital explainers, and short clips for use on Instagram...
On October 18, 2020, Director john a. powell spoke on a panel hosted by the House of Beautiful Business. The House of Beautiful Business is a global think tank and community organized around the goal of humanizing business in the age of machines. The...
On Friday, Oct. 9, 2020 we hosted a screening of Part III of Race—The Power of an Illusion followed by a one-hour panel discussion with experts. The panel explored issues of racial formation and citizenship as they unfolded in the early 20th Century...
This virtual, city-wide address features john a. powell. john is one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the...
On September 25, 2020, Director john a. powell spoke at an online panel discussion with Professor Nadine Strossen on "Current Free Speech Challenges on Campus and Beyond," as part of the Campus Speech Battles Conference hosted by the Andrea Mitchell...
On Friday, September 25 we hosted a screening of Part II of Race—The Power of an Illusion: The Story We Tell, followed by a one-hour panel discussion with experts. The panel discussion focused on the origins of the concept of race, an accounting of...
On Sept. 23, 2020 we hosted our third event in our Rise Up for Justice online event series, this one focused on the issue of voter suppression, 55 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act where witnessing organized and systematic campaigns across the country to keep people from casting their ballots.
On Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 we hosted the first in a three-part series of events which consisted of a screening of Race—The Power of an Illusion, Part I: The Difference Between Us followed by a live panel discussion. Read a recap of this event in...
About this event On Thursday, August 27 we explored the role of activist athletes and the struggle for social and racial justice. From Paul Robeson to Althea Gibson, from Muhammad Ali to Maya Moore, from Colin Kaepernick to Megan Rapinoe, athletes...
Introducing our new video series: (Ill)Logic: Rethinking the Covid-19 Story. Few things have illuminated the interconnected nature of our world as acutely as the Covid-19 crisis. The virus has not only triggered an urgent medical crisis, but also...
Watch a conversation from Tuesday, July 28, 2020, on poverty and inequity through the lens of a newly-published report on inequality in the Bay Area by the Othering and Belonging Institute and Tipping Point Community. Featured Speakers: Dr. Irene...
This animated short exposes how the unmitigated power of US corporations is bolstered by divide and conquer tactics wielded to distract from the harm these companies do to society and the environment—and generate enormous profits for the wealthy few...
On July 16, 2020, we hosted our second digital dialogue in our Toward Belonging initiative. The July webinar, "Hopes and fears in a COVID world" featured a conversation and new research about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fractures in societies across the globe.
At a time when the pandemic is being politicized, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars called on Friday for bridging among different social and racial groups to help recognize their common interests and to emerge from COVID-19 more unified.
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...
Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race...
