Racial Injustice
CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the protests that have resumed across the country after the shooting of Jacob Blake. “It just seems like we’re stuck in this racial injustice Groundhog Day,” he said. Full broadcast here
The Violence Could Get Much Worse
The Atlantic featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the need for police and political leaders to crack down on armed vigilantes monitoring protests. This week’s violence suggests that “you’re going to see more people arming themselves and deciding they’re going to police the environment,” Erroll Southers, the Read more…
protests & unrest
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV interviewed on-air Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the relationship between law enforcement and people of color in America. “We have a long way to go as it relates to police relations and people of color. Having served most of my career Read more…
Stop Whining About the NFL Protests Already
Fortune published an op-ed by Jody Armour of the USC Gould School about the continuing NFL protests for social justice and against police brutality. Armour points out that public opinion was against civil disobedience and protesting leading up to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and current polling does not reflect the potential long-term Read more…
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist imagines what it means to be empathetic within the institutional violence of our system and the violence humans can commit against each other. Listen to our discussion about power and the necessity of protest within our democratic structure, and how protests should, and can, peacefully engage to solve the world’s “wicked problems.”
Beyond police protests, a push for dialogue in black communities
Raphael Bostic spoke to Daniel Wood of the Christian Science Monitor about recent protests for police reform. “These past few months have coalesced an unprecedented amount of concern by community leaders, law enforcement, youth, and clergy alike to really come together, roll up the sleeves and come up with substantive, Read more…