john a. powell and Katie Nelson cited in San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 2, 2015
The Oakland community and city staff are receiving training from the Local and Regional Alliance on Race and Equity, housed at UC Berkeley’s Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. The alliance, headed by professors Katie Nelson and john powell, have conducted trainings across the country.
john a. powell quoted on Raw Story, August 10, 2015
“Through our practices, through our culture, and certainly through our policing, we send a message every day that black lives don’t matter,” he said. In the way we call white neighborhoods “good” areas and black neighborhoods “bad,” powell said that “we have institutionalized fear of the racial other and arranged society around it.”
john a. powell quoted on MLive.com, February 9, 2015
“We live in a deeply divided America,” Powell said. “The fear of the racial others, the fear of others, affects the structures of our economy and culture.”
john a. powell cited in OregonLive.com, November 3, 2014
In the documentary … john a. powell … [discusses] topics such as pediatric neuroscience, a 1971 universal childcare bill that was vetoed at the 11th hour, the economics of investing in early care and education, and childhood trauma.
john a. powell quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2014
Part of the mission of UC Berkeley, as a public institution, is “to help provide solutions for the state and the country,” powell said. “We’re trying to get back to that tradition.”
john a. powell quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2014
“There’s reason to be concerned about how fair of a trial you could get in Missouri,” powell said, citing McCulloch’s pro-police statements during the protests. A federal trial, he said, would draw jurors from a larger and more racially diverse area and would help to “restore public confidence.”
john a. powell interviewed on Democracy Now, August 19, 2014
“I think we actually should have a real systematic look at policing in the United States. We should make police accountable to their community. We should actually bring some of the stuff we’re learning about implicit bias into the discourse, so we move beyond ‘Is it racism? Is it not?’ And we should actually have a real conversation about race and what it means in the 21st century.”
john a. powell quoted in ProPublica, February 8, 2013
powell, who spells his name without capital letters, said this court has shown an eagerness to dismantle civil rights protections even when case law is well established…. “It is not waiting on controversy in the lower courts, which is the normal case. If it strikes down disparate impact that would be a huge change, but the Court is rewriting issues around civil rights and race.”
john a. powell cited in The Post News Group, June 4, 2012
A national voice on race and ethnicity and a civil-liberties scholar, john a. powell, has been selected to lead UC Berkeley’s Haas Diversity Research Center…. He joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Law and departments of Ethnic and African American Studies. Powell, who graduated from Berkeley Law in 1973 and chooses to use lower-case letters for his name, comes from Ohio State University.