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The CSRD at ASU facilitates powerful and informed dialogues and transformative scholarship, teaching and civic engagement on race and democracy through innovative programming, partnerships, fellowships and internships.

Two authors. Two histories. One conversation.Join the ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy for Social Cohesion...
10/19/2026

Two authors. Two histories. One conversation.
Join the ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy for Social Cohesion Dialogues 2026, a public dialogue with:

Amy Bowers Cordalis [Yurok] is a fisherwoman, attorney and co-founder and executive director of the Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group. A United Nations Champions of the Earth Laureate and Time 100 climate leader, she is the author of “The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life.”

Dean Calbreath is a Pulitzer Prize and Polk Award-winning journalist and educator. His most recent book, “The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General, Slave of the Ottomans, Free Man Under the Tsars, Hero of the Union Army,” is the result of more than a decade of research.

📅 Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026
🕕 6 p.m. (small bites and beverages at 5:30 p.m.)
📍 Marston Exploration Theater, Tempe campus

A book signing follows the dialogue. Register at https://csrd.asu.edu/SocialCohesionDialogue/social-cohesion-dialogues-2026

One question: what happens after military service ends?Join us for a film screening and dialogue that is part of the CSR...
10/16/2026

One question: what happens after military service ends?

Join us for a film screening and dialogue that is part of the CSRD’s year-long series Life, Liberty & Pursuits of Happiness, inspired by the nation’s founding 250 years ago.
“This Is Not A Draft” is a sobering post-9/11 story of service, sacrifice and life after war that is told by the veterans who experienced it. Filmmaker and Arizona State University alumnus Jack Blair ‘23 started with the veteran stories podcast that became this film. Shawn Banzhaf and Lois Brown will join Jack Blair for a conversation after the film.

This event is in partnership with the Pat Tillman Veterans Center - Arizona State University and co-sponsored by the ASU Sidney Poitier New American Film School

Tuesday, Nov. 3, ASU Mix Center, Mesa
Thursday, Nov. 5, Marston Exploration Theater, Tempe

Check in and enjoy a free light supper at 5 p.m. Screening at 5:30 p.m. Dialogue at 7:30 p.m.
The event will also feature community organizations like MarcHing4Vets, Arizona Veterans Mission Group and Valors Veterans Community AZ

Free to attend. Register: https://csrd.asu.edu/film-screenings/this-is-not-a-draft

On Oct. 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee announced that Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He wa...
10/15/2026

On Oct. 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee announced that Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was 35 years old and at that time became the youngest person ever to receive the award.

The committee honored his commitment to nonviolent resistance in the efforts to achieve civil rights. Two months later in Oslo, King accepted the prize on behalf of the Civil Rights Movement and gave the prize money, more than $54,000, which would be just over $550,000 today, to the movement. In his acceptance speech, he said, “I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.”

The announcement came just months after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. One year later the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. Even with these historic events and Dr. King’s global recognition, though, the work was far from finished.

On , we honor the generations of Indigenous peoples whose knowledge, traditions, contributions, history and resilience ...
10/12/2026

On , we honor the generations of Indigenous peoples whose knowledge, traditions, contributions, history and resilience continue to shape our communities today.

Two books. Two histories.Two authors whose books reach across rivers, continents and centuries: Amy Bowers Cordalis, UN ...
10/10/2026

Two books. Two histories.Two authors whose books reach across rivers, continents and centuries:
Amy Bowers Cordalis, UN Champion of the Earth Laureate, author of The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life
Dean Calbreath, Pulitzer and Polk Award-winning journalist, author of The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said
The ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy invites you to listen, reflect and join the conversation about history, community and the ties that connect us.
📅 Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026
🕕 6 p.m.
📍 Marston Exploration Theater, Tempe Campus
Learn more at https://csrd.asu.edu/SocialCohesionDialogue/social-cohesion-dialogues-2026

On September 11, 2001, thousands of people went to work, boarded planes, and answered emergency calls, never knowing it ...
09/11/2026

On September 11, 2001, thousands of people went to work, boarded planes, and answered emergency calls, never knowing it would be their last day. We remember them, and we remember the brave first responders and service members who ran toward danger and those who fought in the decades of war that followed.

A quarter century later, we still owe them an honest reckoning, not just about what was lost that day, but about everything done in its name since.

We honor those who passed. We honor those who served. And we hold space for asking hard questions about the cost of how the nation responded.
#911

Labor Day honors American workers and their essential contributions to the nation’s economy and success. Workers from d...
09/07/2026

Labor Day honors American workers and their essential contributions to the nation’s economy and success. Workers from diverse trades and fields, along with social justice champions and organized communities, marched and sacrificed for fair treatment on the job and livable wages–all of which connect to efforts to achieve racial and democratic justice. Today, we pause to remember the legacies of labor that continue to support and advance our nation.

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University invites you to the Race, Place and Civic Gene...
09/01/2026

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University invites you to the Race, Place and Civic Genealogies Symposium on Friday, September 18, 2026, at the Tempe Center for the Arts.

This symposium builds on The Washington Post's revelatory series on the histories of US elected officials with ties to enslavement, and it explores the extensive, still understudied connections between sites of enslavement and freedom and the genealogical ties that link individuals of all races across diverse regions.

Speakers and discussants include Lois Brown, PhD, CSRD director and ASU Foundation Professor of English; L. Andrea Brownlee, PhD, CSRD Impact Arizona fellow and South Mountain Community College professor; Debra Bruno, memoirist and journalist, author of "A Hudson Valley Reckoning"; Carole Coles Henry, MSW, Director (ret.) City of Phoenix Office of Equal Opportunity; Eleanor Mire, family historian; Duane Roen, PhD, professor emeritus, Arizona State University and Julie Zauzmer Weil, reporter, The Washington Post.

Check-in begins at 4:30 p.m., and the symposium begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a book signing and reception. Register today using the link below. Registration is required and space is limited.

Learn more and Register:
https://ow.ly/oYEM50ZGFr4

The Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) will host its Race, Place and Civic Gen...
08/28/2026

The Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) will host its Race, Place and Civic Genealogies Symposium on Friday, September 18, at the Tempe Center for the Arts.

The 2026 symposium, like the inaugural gathering held at ASU DC in 2024, builds on a groundbreaking Washington Post investigation into 18th and 19th-century US congressmen with ties to enslavement and the family histories that the series brought to light.

Join us at the Tempe Center for the Arts for an evening of presentations and dialogue with CSRD director Lois Brown, CSRD Impact Arizona fellow L. Andrea Brownlee, Post reporter Julie Zauzmer Weil, City of Phoenix Office of Equal Opportunity Director (ret.) Carole Coles Henry, journalist and memoirist Debra Bruno, family historian Eleanor Mire and ASU professor emeritus Duane Roen.

Check-in begins at 4:30 p.m., the symposium starts at 5:30 p.m. and a book signing and reception will close out the evening. Delectable small bites and beverages will be available before the program. Register now to reserve your seat.

Register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-place-civic-genealogies-symposium-tickets-1993500708282

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy joins Arizona State University in honoring the life of Ira A. Fulton, who...
08/27/2026

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy joins Arizona State University in honoring the life of Ira A. Fulton, who died Aug. 21 at age 94.

Fulton's generosity opened doors for tens of thousands of students who might not otherwise have had access to higher education. That work speaks directly to what we study and believe here at CSRD: that access to education is essential for a healthy democracy, and that expanding access changes not just individual lives but entire communities.
"Becoming a billionaire means zilch to me," Fulton once said. "Now, to give away a billion dollars — that's important."

We're grateful for his powerful legacy and example.

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