Father Gregory Boyle, the founder of Homeboy Industries, a gang intervention program in Los Angeles, will discuss his latest book, “Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times,” at the March 11 Conversations on Race and Policing. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at noon on Zoom.
Journalist and author Eric Lichtblau will discuss his latest book, “American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate,” at the Jan. 28 Conversations on Race and Policing. The free program on Zoom kicks off the series’ spring 2026 slate.
Minxin Pei, professor of government and the George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, will discuss his new book, “The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism,” with copies to be given away to Zoom attendees. The talk will be at noon Thursday, Dec. 4, on Zoom.
Brianna Nofil, assistant professor of history at William & Mary, will discuss her book, “The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration,” at the Nov. 12 program, which will begin at noon on Zoom.
Scheduled to present this month are Rahim Kurwa on Oct. 8, Stefan M. Bradley on Oct. 15, Alec Karakatsanis on Oct. 22, Menika Dirkson on Oct. 29, and Brianna Nofil on Nov. 12. All have recently published books on the topic of race and policing. The programs will be streamed on Zoom and are free and open to the public.
A presentation by Elaine Hall, founder of The Miracle Project and star of HBO’s two-time Emmy award-winning film “Autism: The Musical,” marks the start of the 2025-26 lecture series at CSUSB, which provides access to world-class scholarship and expertise in the vital multi-disciplinary field of critical disability studies.
The presentation, “Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality,” will take place at an earlier time, 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Simon Balto, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of history, is the author of “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.” His talk, free and open to the public, will begin at noon Wednesday on Zoom.
“Reducing Community Violence to Close the Racial Gap in U.S. Imprisonment” will be presented by Thaddeus Johnson, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, beginning at noon Wednesday, April 16, on Zoom.