Submit your “virtual” workshop, presentation, or facilitated discussion proposal for the 22nd annual Campus/Community Dialogue on Race: Oct. 26 (Mon) - Oct. 30 (Fri). Submit your proposal here.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Monday, Sept. 21, 5pm

For more information: https://dialogue.humboldt.edu/

The Campus/Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) is an annual event at Humboldt State University that invites students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community members to present and attend programs that relate to racial justice and its intersections with all forms of oppression and resistance. Our objective is to create spaces and structures for reflection, analysis, dialogue and positive strategies for change.

The vision of Campus & Community Dialogue on Race is to achieve racial, social, and environmental justice. The program's mission is to promote and facilitate social and environmental change by engaging a diverse range of individuals, communities, and viewpoints to explore the impact of racism and its intersections with all forms of oppression. In addition, students can earn a unit of credit in ES 480, Campus & Community Dialogue on Race. This year's theme is Global Justice for Black Lives: Examining the Past and Reimagining the Future.

Celebrating 22 years of CDOR, this year's Dialogue extends beyond one week, running from October 26 (Mon) through October 30 (Fri) then a virtual keynote by author Claudia Rankine at 2pm on Nov. 7 (Sat) folllowing the U.S. Presidential election in collaboration with NEA Big Read.

HSU is one of 84 organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant.  An Arts Endowment initiative in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read facilitates ways for communities to share a good book.  Claudia Rankine's award-winning book Citizen: An American Lyric helps readers come to terms with the continued realities of racism in the U.S. The book demonstrates that anti-Black racism and white supremacy remain widely unexamined and unchecked.  Over a dozen local organizations in Humboldt County have committed to reading this book and to working for systemic change in our community.  More information is available on the program's website: www.literaryhumboldt.org.

We will be welcoming back Lawrence Ross who presented during Black Liberation Month earlier this year.  You can watch his February talk at HSU here: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215826  Ross will be presenting a virtual follow-up on the talk on the politics of race on America's colleges at 2pm on Oct. 26 (Mon).  Ross has written a total of seven books on the African American experience, including Blackballed: The Black & White Politics of Race on America's Campuses, that explores the present and historical issues of racism on hundreds of American college campuses, and how that ties into today's #BlackLivesMatter.

We are also excited that Dr. Bettina Love will virtually present for the "So You Want to Teach" event on Oct. 27 (Tue).  Dr. Love is an award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia.  She is one of the field's most esteemed educational researchers in the areas of how anti-blackness operates in schools, Hip Hop education, and urban education.  Her work is also concerned with how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classroom.

For more information, please contact:
CDOR Planning Team
Frank Herrera
Coordinator, Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Center (SJEI)
sjeic@humboldt.edu