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Chrissie Castro, Diné and Chicana, is the Chairperson of the Los Angeles City County Native American Indian Commission, and co-led the change to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in the City and County of Los Angeles.

This interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leading experts on the American response to COVID-19, explores what the country is doing to control the disease's spread. Dr. Fauci is the Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and a current member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Dr. Fauci will discuss how the coronavirus could affect the ability of colleges to re-open safely and the broader impact of the virus on our country.

This lecture looks at social movements and culture in history through three theoretical models of social, political and historical change: Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism as expressed in the "base-superstructure" model, Antonio Gramsci's theories of intellectuals and of consent and coercion in the shaping of hegemony, and Black feminism as expressed by Combahee River Collective.

This lecture opens with the breaking news of Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis and the super spreader event that broke out in the White House last week.