On Jan 14, 2014, Azam attended the Sustain Dane and YWCA meeting at the
Madison Central Library. Of particular interest was a special video
screening John A. Powell entitled “Beloved Community: Inter-being, Race, Class, and Personhood.” Prof.
Powell made this presentation at the 2014 Annual BIONEERS Conference at
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Prof. Powell is an internationally recognized
scholar in areas of civil rights, civil liberties, ethnicity, housing,
poverty, and democracy. He is Professor of Law, African American Studies
at the University of California, Berkeley and leads Berkeley’s
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, holds the Robert D.
Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, and is author of Racing to Justice. Prof. Powell’s main emphasize was "As humanity faces global environmental and social collapse, our fear of the “Other” can be magnified by unstable contracting economies, radically shifting demographics, and new social norms. Can humanity overcome these divisions and come together to protect our common home?”
