Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation," The New Yorker (June 15, 2020).
Keisha N. Blain, “Violence in Minneapolis is rooted in the history of racist policing in America,” Washington Post, Made by History (May 30, 2020).
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., “George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More that we Cannot Wait for White America to End Racism,” Time (May 29, 2020).
Robert Greene II, “We Are Living in a Red Spring,” Jacobin (May 31, 2020).
Kali Nicole Gross, “By Remembering Our Sisters, We Challenge Police Violence Against Black Women and Legacies that Eclipse these Injustices,” Association of Black Women Historians (May 31, 2020).
Saidiya Hartman, "The End of White Supremacy: An American Romance," BOMB (June 5, 2020)
Nikole Hannah-Jones, "What Is Owed," New York Times Magazine (June 30, 2020).
Elizabeth Hinton, “The Minneapolis Uprising in Context,” Boston Review (May 29, 2020).
Kellie Carter Jackson, “The Double-Standard of the American Riot,” The Atlantic (June 1, 2020)
Ibram X. Kendi, “The American Nightmare,” The Atlantic (June 1, 2020).
August H. Nimtz, Jr., “It’s a big deal that the outrage expressed over George Floyd’s death was massive and multiracial,” MinnPost (May 28, 2020).
Imani Perry, "Racism is Terrible. Blackness is Not." The Atlantic (June 15, 2020).
Claudia Rankine, "Weather" (poem). New York Times (June 15, 2020).
Melvin Rogers, “We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters,” Boston Review (May 30, 2020).
Starkey, Brando Simeo, "This Is What White People Can Do to End Racism," The Undefeated
(July 2, 2020).
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Of Course There Are Protests. The State is Failing Black People,” New York Times (May 29, 2020).
Jesmyn Ward, "On Witness and Repair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic," Vanity Fair (September 2020).
Celeste Winston, "The Everyday Black Life of Abolition," Black Perspectives, August 5, 2020.
Simon Balto, “Why Police Cheered Trump’s Dark Speech,” Washington Post, Made by History (July 31, 2017).
Black Liberation Collective Demands to Universities (2020)
Jericho Brown, “Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry” (poem), New York Times (June 15, 2020).
Marcia Chatelain, “Teaching the #FergusonSyllabus,” Dissent (November 28, 2014).
Ashley M. Howard, “Why Ferguson Isn’t the Tale of Two Protests,” The Black Scholar (August 18, 2014).
Walter Johnson, “Ferguson’s Fortune 500 Company,” The Atlantic (April 26, 2015).
Austin McCoy, “When Whites Riot, Humanity is a Given,” Nursing Clio (October 30, 2014).
Miller, E. Ethelbert. "If You Don’t Know Me by Now." The Writer's Chronicle (Summer 2020).
Allissa V. Richardson, “Why cell phone videos of black people’s deaths should be considered sacred, like lynching photographs,” The Conversation (May 28, 2020).
Stuart Schraeder, “An Empire of Patrolmen,” Jacobin (October 18, 2019).
Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain, #CharlestonSyllabus, African American Intellectual History Society.
Policy Recommendations
May 29, 2019 - "The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years after the Kerner Commission Report" + See our updated 2020 statement on the Kerner recommendations
Recent TV and Radio Interviews with Faculty & Staff
June 11, 2020 - john a. powell on The Greater Good Magazine podcast "From Othering to Belonging"
June 10, 2020 - john a. powell on KALW: "How Can We Use This Moment To Create Systemic Change?"
June 9, 2020 - john a. powell on KALW: "City Visions: The Kerner Report And Missed Opportunities For Racial Justice"
June 4, 2020 - john a. powell on KTVU
June 3, 2020 - Stephen Menendian on the Ryan Jespersen Show
June 2, 2020 - john a. powell on The Pat Thurston Show
June 2, 2020 - Nikki Jones on CNN
Op-eds and Articles
June 16, 2020 - "Blog: All lives can't matter until Black lives matter too"
June 10, 2020 - "Blog: Moving beyond police reform to addressing structural racism"
June 5, 2020 - "Police killing black people is a pandemic, too"
June 5, 2020 - "‘Black Lives Matter’ merece todo nuestro apoyo" (Spanish-language article from faculty member Cristina Mora)
June 4, 2020 - "George Floyd’s death is a reminder that black voices are still ignored"
June 2, 2020 - "We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope"
May 29, 2020 - "On George Floyd and the struggle to belong"
April 23, 2020 - "Among the reasons COVID-19 is worse for black communities: Police violence"
August 7, 2019 - "Housing and criminal justice 50 years after the Kerner Commission report (Blog)"
August 2, 2019 - "The Bad-Apple Myth of Policing: Violence perpetrated by cops doesn’t simply boil down to individual bad actors—it’s also a systemic, judicial failing."
December 15, 2016 - "We can’t meaningfully integrate schools without desegregating neighborhoods"
July 18, 2016 - "john a. powell on Alton Sterling and Philando Castile"
May 9, 2016 - "Housing segregation undergirds the nation’s racial inequities"
August 15, 2015 - "How Many Black Boys Have to Die?"
July 15, 2015 - "When we fully claim Black Lives Matter, we move closer to All Lives Matter"
January 27, 2015 - "'I Can't Breathe': Racial Injustice, Segregation, and Health Disparities"
March 4, 2015 - "It’s not George Zimmerman, It’s the System"
October 20, 2014 - "The Black Record: Why we don't know how often police kill"
August 22, 2014 - "Another Rip in the Fabric: History Repeats Itself in Ferguson, Missouri"
Videos and Podcasts
June 9, 2020 - "Police Violence and Racism Panel l Cambridge Union" featuring Associate Director Denise Herd
June 9, 2020 - "Berkeley Law Conversations: Race & Policing" featuring Professor Osagie Obasogie
May 29, 2020 - "'It's not just murder. It's terror.' john a. powell on George Floyd"
May 8, 2020 - "john a. powell on Ahmaud Arbery"
September 12, 2019 - "Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Antiracist"
February 27 - March 1 2018 - "Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference"
August 7, 2015 - "Black Lives Matter, A Year After Ferguson (featuring john a. powell)"
August 19, 2014 - "'Overpoliced and Underprotected': In Michael Brown Killing, Neglect of Black Communities Laid Bare"
Research
March 25, 2020 - "Civic Engagement for Empowerment and Belonging"
October 1, 2019 - "Roots, Race, & Place: A History of Racially Exclusionary Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area"
July 2019 - "The Endogenous Fourth Amendment: An Empirical Assessment of How Police Understandings of Excessive Force Become Constitutional Law"
May 29, 2019 - "The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years after the Kerner Commission Report"
March 25, 2019 - "The mismeasure of Terry stops: Assessing the psychological and emotional harms of stop and frisk to individuals and communities"
February 29, 1968 - "Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report Executive Summary)"
Talking Points
June 2, 2010 - Police violence and uprisings talking points (developed by OBI and partner organizations)
Other Media Coverage
June 18, 2020 - "What does ‘defund the police’ really mean? Experts say confusion harming progress"
June 9, 2020 - "'A War of Words.' Why Describing the George Floyd Protests as 'Riots' Is So Loaded"
June 4, 2020 - "Why Vallejo is now the center of unrest in Bay Area over police treatment of blacks"
June 3, 2020 - "The Price We Have Paid for Not Confronting Racism"
May 29, 2020 - "Berkeley study: Protests in Minneapolis, country rooted in systemic racial issues"