Campus Abolition Media

Recordings of CARL public programs and media appearances
by lab associates and affiliates in higher education news outlets.

Advancing Race-Conscious Community-Center Understandings of Safety

Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III, a 2022-2023 Anti-Racism Collaborative Research & Community Impact Fellow, discusses his project "Advancing Race-Conscious Community-Centered Understandings of Safety." This project was funded by the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Becoming Campus Abolitionists

Activists, community organizers, and policymakers have attempted police reform for more than a century. Derecka Purnell joins Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III in conversation about America’s policing problem and the possibilities for police-free futures, on campus and beyond.

Between the Carceral University and Police-Free Futures

This panel brings together concerned campus and community stakeholders to discuss the many and varied ways contemporary colleges and universities create the conditions that necessitate policing and prisons.

Campus Policing and Student Activism for Black Lives

Dr. Heather Shea discusses how campuses and racial justice activists are grappling with issues of campus policing with four panelists who sit at various vantage points–scholars, activists, students–in the Black Lives Matter movement.

CARL Director Comment at U M Regents Meeting

On December 7th, during the meeting of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, the University’s eight-member governing board, lab director Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III offered public comment regarding campus racism and political repression of student activism by Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and their supporters.

The Current State of Campus Policing

Dr. Charles H. F. Davis, III, Nadine Jones, Wisdom Cole, Marlon Lynch, and Jael Kerandi join
”Today’s Student, Tomorrow’s Talent” to discuss how communities are working together to address campus safety. Lumina Strategy Officer, Katherine Wheatle, joins as co-host.