On June 3, 2020, three scholars at the University of California, Irvine reflected on the persistence of anti-Black violence and harm during the COVID-19 pandemic: Jessica Millward, associate professor of history; Sabrina Strings, associate professor of sociology; and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, associate professor of African American studies. The event was moderated by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, faculty director of the UCI Humanities Center. The event was covered in the Daily Pilot here.

"In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh." - Toni Morrison, Beloved

Books by the speakers:

Cover	Title
	Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (New York University Press, 2019) by Sabrina Strings
	Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (University of Georgia Press, 2015) by Jessica Millward
	Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press, 2015) by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Articles & resources mentioned:

• "Afro-Pessimism and Black Feminism" by M. Shadee Malaklou and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
• "Black Women's History and the Labor of Mourning" by Jessica Millward
• "It's not obesity. It's slavery" by Sabrina Strings
• Complete the U.S. Census

Books mentioned:

• First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) by Damien M. Sojoyner
• No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) by Sarah Haley
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2018) by Monique W. Morris