Systemic racism is complex and multifaceted. Ira Dotson, Director of the ReJOYce in Jesus Campus Fellowship at the University of Southern California, will tell us about his feelings and experience as a black man in America. Rich Procida will describe how propaganda stokes racial animus and increases institutional violence. In conversation with Ira Dotson is Varun Soni, Vice Provost for Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention and the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. Dean Soni received his Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law where he also completed the Critical Race Studies Program. He earned his Ph.D. through the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town.