Othering and Belonging Institute

A study done by the Othering and Belonging Institute, or OBI, and VietRISE revealed prevailing beliefs among nonpartisan Vietnamese residents in Orange County on topics related to generational cohesion, economic inequality and the role of the United States government.

For the past 50 years, the Black population in Berkeley has declined, according to census data compiled by Darrell Owens, a housing and transit activist with East Bay for Everyone.

The United States’ COVID-19 response has been ranked poorly among its global peers in an index created by UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute.

Months after former president Donald Trump lost his bid to reelection, five UC Berkeley professors addressed the implications and impacts of the Trump presidency during a virtual Berkeley Conversations event Friday.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to divide opinions across the nation, panelists discussed the ways in which white supremacists have used the pandemic to further their agendas during a Thursday event sponsored by UC Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute.

A poll released Thursday by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, or IGS, found that California Republicans are less likely to seek the COVID-19 vaccine.

On Thursday, Berkeley City Council heard a proposal to permit the construction of duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes in areas currently zoned exclusively for single-family homes in an effort to address the city’s “missing middle housing.”

While some Republicans are preaching unity right now and urging us to move past the Jan. 6 riots, we cannot truly have unity without accountability.

To spread awareness of racial segregation in Bay Area residential areas, UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute published its final brief of a five-part research series Aug. 11, providing solutions and strategies to encourage diversity and inclusion.

As part of a series of campus COVID-19 conversations, professors from UC Berkeley's School of Public Health met virtually Friday to discuss racial disparities and health inequities during the coronavirus pandemic.