Year: 2011 | UCLA Bunche Center

"Circle of Thought" Lecture Series

In the Spring of 1999, the Bunche Center re-introduced Circle of Thought, a lunchtime speaker series designed to provide a diverse campus audience with an opportunity to hear about the […]

Library Collection

October 6, 2011/0 Comments/in Library and Media /by SSC WebTeam

The Bunche Library and Media Center in 135 Haines Hall has a plethora of materials in various formats accessible to faculty, researchers, and students. Library materials are non-circulating. Materials may […]

Black Los Angeles Research Publication

September 18, 2011/0 Comments/in Black Los Angeles Featured Research /by SSC WebTeam

BLACK LOS ANGELES American Dreams and Racial Realities Edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon “A true masterwork of urban studies. Taken together, these wide-ranging, diverse, original essays significantly expand […]

Thurgood Marshall Lecture

April 30, 2011/0 Comments/in Special Projects Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

To highlight the importance of celebrating and maintaining the civil rights tradition, in 1986 the Bunche Center inaugurated the Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series on Law and Human Rights. Named for […]

Black Convocation

April 29, 2011/0 Comments/in Black Convocation Special Projects Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

The Black Convocation is an annual event programmed to expose the richness and breadth of the black community on campus to incoming freshmen and transfer students. It orients the new […]

Professor Kenny Burrell, KCET Special

March 7, 2011/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

On Thursday, March 8, 2012 , KCET will air a 90-minute special on Bunche Center-affiliated faculty member Kenny Burrell, UCLA Professor and Director of Jazz Studies. The special, “Kenny […]

Bunche Chair Lecture

February 28, 2011/0 Comments/in Special Projects Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

The Bunche Chair Lecture series was inaugurated in 2006 and is held most years to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. The Ralph J. Bunche Endowed Chair in […]

TODAY!!! 2012 Thurgood Marshall Lecture

February 27, 2011/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

Please join us on April 4, 2012 for the 23rd Thurgood Marshall Lecture, 5:30 pm Covel Commons, UCLA. This year we honor Clayborne Carson, Professor of History and Director of […]

Whitney Houston (1963 – 2012)

February 11, 2011/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

[vsw id=”xS-R7SM_-M4″ source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Whitney Houston Dead at 48

Black History Month 2012

January 31, 2011/0 Comments/in Featured Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Historian Carter G. Woodson initiated Black History Week in 1926. In 1976, during our nation’s bicentennial, the annual celebration was expanded to a month. A recent article in the Los […]