Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN

You can listen to Marta Valier's interview with Laura Gottesdiener here: Ep.12: What does it mean - asks Laura Gottesdiener for #Emancipated at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN - if you are an Honduran man/woman, and your town is run by a legally elected & corrupted official? Looking at the local & structural impact of corruption and drug trafficking on land use and employment. https://anchor.fm/emancipated https://anchor.fm//12--Laura-Gottesdiener-on-her-report--A

Marta Valier and Guillermo Márquez interviewed Honduran pastor, artist, and activist, Douglas Oviedo about the Central American Caravans. In Spanish. #podcast #Emancipated Also, visit the Museum of Social Justice and visit Ada Trillo's photographic exhibition, Caravanas del Diablo, at the Museum of Social Justice Trillo is our newest and brightest Bradley Center's affiliated photographer. https://anchor.fm//11--Douglas-Oviedo-on-his-play--Caravan

Our #podcast is back, with Marta Valier in conversation with photographer Ada Trillo about her upcoming exhibition, La Caravana del Diablo, at the Museum of Social Justice at the heart of Los Angeles in La Placita Olvera. Trillo focuses her work on the violence of the U.S. border policy on migrants. And she is now the @Bradley Center's affiliate. Congratulations to Ada. Listen to episode and attend the exhibition, opening on Sept. 16. https://anchor.fm/emancipated

The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN continues its ongoing dedication to visually documenting the historical events that occur in the often overlooked and under...served communities of Southern California. Historian/archivist Keith Rice embarked on a critical mission to capture history in the making at the Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles last year. "By the second week, I realized that I was probably the only archivist or historian capturing these events using archival best practices. I noticed there were very few African American photographers, if any, at most of the protests. That gave me a sense of responsibility in documenting this ongoing centuries-old movement to defend, protect, and give value to the lives of Black folks in this country. At some point early on, I began to feel that if anyone should be documenting these protests it should be somebody who looked like me. And from that point on I was on a mission as a photographer and videographer." Learn more about Keith's experience: https://saavmsblog.wixsite.com//if-history-calls-create-yo #CSUN #CSUNLibrary #Archives

Listen to the new episode of Emancipated, where Marta Valier talks with Todd Miller about his newest book, Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders. Miller has more than 20 years of reporting and writing about borders and in his latest book he exposes their fragility and debunks all of the typical justifications we hear about their legitimacy, making the case for their dismantling and abolition. We are in all #podcast platforms or you can go to our Anchor page: https://anchor.fm/emancipated #BradleyCenterCSUN #Border

Congratulations to Ringo Chiu for winning the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography with the AP team. Another #CSUN alum Julio Cortez was also part of the team. The AP team won "for a collection of photographs from multiple U.S. cities that cohesively captures the country's response to the death of George Floyd." The Center holds a small sample of Ringo's photographs of the aftermath of 9/11. https://www.pulitzer.org//photography-staff-associated-pre

The Bradley Center is a proud sponsor of the Museum of Social Justice annual Tardeada to celebrate the opening of the exhibition: "Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in the Modern Era," on Sunday, October 18, at 3:00 pm. At the event, the Museum will honor: Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles; Chancee Martorell, executive director of the Thai Community Development Center; Joy Prim, United Methodist Church deaconess and missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries. Tickets: Free for Museum members, $25 for students; $50 community organizers, $100 general.

Our founder, Dr. Kent Kirkton, wrote a tribute to photojournalist Julián Cardona, whose collection is preserved at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center https://www.csun.edu/bradley-center/blog

It is with great sadness that we at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center share the news that Julián Cardona passed away on Monday evening. Julián made us see and love Juárez, a city he loved and knew better than any other resident. He also made us see the reality of Mexico and see that the worst violence of alleconomic violencelies at the root of Mexico's and the world's problems. In his book Exodus, published in collaboration with journalist Charles Bowden, Julián gave us the mo...st important visual registry of the violence that fueled Mexican migration after Nafta, and the violence endured by the New Americans on this side of the border. Before his passing, Julián finished the manuscript of a new book, Abecedario de Juárez, created in collaboration with artist Alice Briggs, which will give us magnificent visual and written vignettes of a new lexicon that has emerged in Juárez. This lexicon’s keywords will help us understand the reality of the only industry that has experienced sustained growth in this border city during the last two decades: crime. Julián’s death is a huge loss for the people of Juárez and for all the working people of the border and the world. Through his photographs and his writings, Julián made them the subject of his best work. José Luis Benavides Director, Tom & Ethel Bradley Center

In San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, women were accustomed to peanut farming. The practice was both communal and intergenerational, as young children were invited along to pick nuts beside their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers. Photo by Richard Cross #BradleyCenter_RichardCross

Sat., Sept. 6. March for Dijon Kizzee, killed by deputies in South L.A. on August 31. | Keith Rice, archivist and historian at the Bradley Center, has been documenting some of the BLM demonstrations. #BradleyCenter_KeithRice #dijonkizzee #blmlosangeles