Conversations on Race and Policing - California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB)
This series began in response to the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. In this work, we hope to explore, enlighten, and engage ourselves and the campus community with ongoing panel discussions, lectures, presentations, and film screenings related to the history and current context of race, policing, and criminal justice. We invite leading scholars, journalists, lawyers, healthcare professionals, current and veteran members of law enforcement, faith-based leaders, the formerly incarcerated, artists, activists, students, and more to share their experience, expertise, and passion with our university community and beyond. Our aim is to have an ongoing conversation about the way criminal justice operates – especially in communities of color – in order to empower and inform our students, faculty, staff, and residents of the Inland Empire. We have hosted over 110 weekly events to date. Please see our Lecture Series Archive (https://www.csusb.edu/corp/lecture-series-archive) for past events and recordings, and plan to join us online for Upcoming Events (https://www.csusb.edu/corp). Recordings of most events will be posted on their event pages after editing. We recognize that these are long and sometimes difficult conversations, as we continue the series into 2024-25, our fifth year.
Episodes
A conversation with Mac Muir, co-author of "Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing" (2025).
Mac Muir was raised in Oakland, California. From 2016 to 2022 he rose to become a Supervising Investigator at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board. From 2023 to 2025, Mac served as Executive Director of Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency.
Book Description for Cop Cop, from the publisher's website:
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A conversation with Father Gregory Boyle, author of Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-corp2026
From the book's webpage:
In a world increasingly marked by division and discord, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle offers a transformative vision of community and compassion—a perfect message for readers of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richa...
From her faculty page: "A native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Dr. Yelana Sims received her undergraduate d...
Join us in conversation with Gisela Perez Kusakawa, Executive Director of the Asian American Scholar Forum, and Mike German, formerly of the Brennan Center and the ACLU, and former FBI special agent.
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-corp2026
Our guests will discuss the so-called "China Initiative," launched in the first Trump administration. Of this effort, German wrote, "Ostensibly designed to combat economic espionage and in...
Peggy Cooper Davis is John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics Emerita at New York University. She joined NYU in September 1983 after having served for three years as a judge of the Family Court of the State of New York and having engaged in the practice and administration of law during the preceding 10 years. Her scholarly work has been influential in the areas of child welfare, constitutional rights of family liberty, ...
Join us for a conversation with two-time Pulitzer prize winning author and investigative reporter, Eric Lichtblau, who writes about national security and law enforcement affairs. Find his website here, and find his most recent book here: American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate (Hachette, 2026). Lichtblau was featured in an extended interview on Jan. 7 on NPR's Fresh Air at this link.
From Lichtbl...
Tuesday, February 10, 1pm PST (3pm CST) Join us in the Conversations on Race and Policing series for a discussion with author, Shannon Gibney, and scholar, Dr. Myrl Beam, two voices from Minnesota who have experience in movements for justice and can help us understand recent developments there including mass detentions and killing of protestors by federal agents. Veteran activist and artist, Cat Brooks, will also join...
Dr. Bocar A. Ba is Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is an applied microeconomist studying law enforcement, crime, and inequality. His research examines policing as a critical entry point into the legal system, particularly for marginalized communities, and explores how different stakeholders—police, civilians, unions, media, firms, and policymaker...
Join us in conversation with Georgia State's Dr. Thaddeus Johnson, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
Reducing Community Violence to Close the Racial Gap in U.S. Imprisonment
Drawing on a comprehensive analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice (covering 2000–2020), this session will offer an in-depth examination of racial disparities in imprisonment at both the n...
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Simon Balto (University of Wisconsin-Madison, History). Find Dr. Balto's personal page here, and more information about his extensive scholarly writing and journalism. Dr. Balto's book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (U. of Chicago, 2019) won the 2019 Hooks National Book Award from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memp...
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presentation and discussion with Professor Alison Phipps (Sociology), Newcastle University, UK, on "Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality."
Professor Alison Phipps is a political sociologist and scholar of gender with interests in feminist theory and politics, the body and violence and neoliberal racial capitalism. She has pursued these in various areas including sexual violence, sex work, reproduc...
Join us for a screening and discussion of "Breaking Barriers," a short film
Danny Murillo, who is featured in the film and is a co-founder of the Underground Scholars at Berkeley will join us to discuss the film.
Notes below from the film website, and find the Berkeley Underground Scholars Initiative here.
"Breaking Barriers follows a group of system-impacted students at Cal-Berkeley who face significant challenges as formerly inca...
In Conversation with Drs. Madeline Stenersen (Psychology, Saint Louis University) and Cassandra Young (Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies; University of Denver)
Join us on Zoom for a discussion with Drs. Madeline Stenersen (Psychology, Saint Louis University) and Cassandra Young (Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies; University of Denver). Drs. Young and Stenersen are experts in a wide range of topics related to gender, race,...
Join us for a conversation with Cat Brooks on the eradication of state violence and a pathway to true public safety.
Cat Brooks is host of Law & Disorder on KPFA (link) and a long-time performer, organizer, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ...
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