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The past year has forced us to think differently about how our choices directly impact those around us. It challenged our perceptions of safety, risk, and uncertainty. Nevertheless, marginalized, oppressed, and displaced peoples around the globe continue to pursue justice. Join our virtual panel as we discuss the parallels between local, regional, and global voices and movements for social justice. This empowering event will emphasize recognition and dignity; but also acknowledges bias, marginalization, violence, and other limits to identification, association, and mobility. Dr. Antonio De La Garza will share unique perspectives on the intersection of migration and gender in the US/Mexico borderlands. Henry Edward Frank will share American Indian views from Northern California. Dr. Meshack Simati intends to discuss electoral rules, elections, election violence, and judicial independence in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Darren Byler’s expertise on the ongoing struggles for the Uyghur people in Western China will enlighten the audience on how this group of indigenous Chinese continue to pursue dignity in the face of an authoritarian regime. Date | Thursday, October 14 from noon to 2 p.m. Location | Virtually through Zoom Reserve your spot here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation For more information, please visit the CSUSM Arts & Lectures site or email Gina Jones at gjones@csusm.edu. 

In this dynamic presentation using poetry and testimonio, Irene Sanchez, Ph.D. will share her experiences as a high school Latinx Studies teacher. Teaching for the empowerment of our communities means training Teachers of Color to know and love the students they teach, while supporting their growth throughout their careers, particularly in those critical first years. Dr. Sanchez will share her experiences on how teaching history is not enough, and that in order to teach for social justice, teachers must connect the past to the present and to students' lived experiences, so that the next generation will realize they have the capacity to make a change for a better tomorrow, today.   Dr. Sanchez is an Ethnic Studies high school teacher in Azusa Unified School District and an instructor in Ethnic Studies Education for the Ethnic Studies Certificate with UC Riverside Extension. She is a writer, and her commentary has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, and Public Radio International. Dr. Sanchez was selected as a Spring 2021 Teaching Fellow for the Pulitzer Center and a member of the 2019-2020 Teacher Advisory Council for the National Humanities Center. Date | Tuesday, October 19 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Location | Virtual Reserve your spot here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation For more information, please visit the CSUSM Arts & Lectures site or email Gina Jones at gjones@csusm.edu.

The namesake son of an ousted dictator is sworn in as Philippine president in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history in the country.

Tennessee expects to soon disenroll about 300,000 people from Medicaid. But families like the Lesters have been entangled in bureaucracy and clerical mistakes, causing them to unfairly lose coverage.

The select committee has announced without explanation that the hearing scheduled for June 15 has been postponed. The next hearing will take place June 16.

Outdoor watering will be restricted to one day a week in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.

The group of women and girls say the bureau failed to properly follow up on credible claims against the sports doctor Larry Nassar in 2015, which allowed him to continue abusing victims.

Scientists in Monterey Bay, Calif., found a seldom-seen species of dragonfish swimming nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

The company that controls the name and image of Elvis Presley is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using "The King" in themed ceremonies. Some say the move could decimate their businesses.

Residents across the waterlogged Northeast began cleaning up while remnants of Tropical Storm Henri threatened further flooding in New England as the system made a slow trek back to the sea.