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Viewpoints on Resilient & Equitable Responses to the Pandemic. Carmen Gutierrez: Risk and Implications of COVID-19 among People on Probation and Parole in the US - Center for Urban and Regional Studies Carmen Gutierrez's research explores issues at the intersection of social stratification, the criminal justice system, and health, with an emphasis on how inequalities arise across race, ethnicity and citizenship. In this episode, she discusses the risk and implications of COVID-19 among people on p...

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"The recognition of the power of relationship, of collective power to mitigate harm, and to create safety, has been a critical and necessary aspect of Black place survival for the last 200+ years."
CURS Faculty Fellow Danielle Purifoy's CURS podcast: http://unc.live/2QeUHR6

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Viewpoints on Resilient & Equitable Responses to the Pandemic. Danielle Purifoy: Freedom is a Place - Center for Urban and Regional Studies Danielle Purifoy's research interrogates the racial politics of place development, particularly for Black communities seeking safety, refuge and autonomy from anti-Black violence of all forms. In this episode, she discusses freedom is a place.

ATTN: Pop-up Vaccine Site at YouthWorx on Main in on Saturday, May 22 from 12-4 pm.

UNC Health will offer both Johnson & Johnson (18+) and Pfizer (12+) shots.

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"The recognition of the power of relationship, of collective power to mitigate harm, and to create safety, has been a critical and necessary aspect of Black place survival for the last 200+ years."

CURS Faculty Fellow Danielle Purifoy in our latest podcast: http://unc.live/2QeUHR6

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Viewpoints on Resilient & Equitable Responses to the Pandemic. Danielle Purifoy: Freedom is a Place - Center for Urban and Regional Studies Danielle Purifoy's research interrogates the racial politics of place development, particularly for Black communities seeking safety, refuge and autonomy from anti-Black violence of all forms. In this episode, she discusses freedom is a place.

European Urban Research Association: Free Virtual Conference—May 6-7 - Urban Affairs Association An Invitation to Interact with European Urban Scholars Free virtual conference next week! May 6 – 7, 2021   The UAA has a longstanding sister relationship with the European Urban […]

EVENT: Tuesday, April 27 at 4:00 on Zoom. Susan Burch of Middlebury College talks about her new book from the University of North Carolina Press "Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions." Experiences inside/outside Canton Asylum, a federal psychiatric institution created specifically to contain American Indians.

Attendees of the talk will get a 40% discount on copies of the book ordered through UNC Press.

This event is co-sponsored by the Community Histories Workshop, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and UNC Press.

Register here: https://unc.live/3trL3co

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EVENT: Committed - Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions - Center for Urban and Regional Studies Susan Burch, director of the American Studies Program at Middlebury College, gives a talk about her new book, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions.

Apple Plans $1 Billion Investment, 3,000 jobs in Research Triangle Park Apple plans to build a new campus and engineering hub in the Research Triangle. The tech giant will invest over $1 billion in the facility and create at least 3,000 new jobs over a decade.

Congratulations to CURS Faculty Fellow Arturo Escobar!

Escobar elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences - College of Arts & Sciences Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill, was elected to the 2021 class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences on April 22.

Jaywalking Laws – Safer for Whom? Going forward, we must ask ourselves – what role do we want policing to play in traffic enforcement?