Third Thursdays

presented by: Third Thursdays and Locus

April 18th
7-9:30pm
Locus
1640 Post
San Francisco

The LA Rebellion drew national attention for the first time to APA/Black relations, as Korean store owners in South Central LA were particularly affected by the civil unrest. Despite the large number of African American and Latino owned businesses that were also destroyed in the Rebellion, the media focused on the differences and tension between the Korean and Asian Pacific American community and the African American community.

Our panelists will address this very relationship in Bay Area’s own “hot spot” communities such as Visitacion Valley/Bay View Sides Hunters Point, J-town/Fillmore District, East Palo Alto and the Telegraph Corridor where Asian and African American residents are now living side by side in increasing numbers. We are inviting leading academics, politicians and community organizers to discuss their experiences working in these racially diverse communities, to talk about both the history and the present collaboration that is occurring (or not occurring) to prevent racial tension and to promote healthy race relations.

Panelists include:

• Angela Glover Blackwell
  President
  PolicyLink
  co-author of Searching for Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions of Race in America
• Dee Uhila
  Founder and Executive Director
  Pacific Islander Outreach
• Gen Fujioka
  Staff Attorney
  Asian Law Caucus