Month: May 2013 | UCLA Bunche Center

Diversity Issues Archive

When Too Few Minorities are Too Many May 2, 2013 – Noliwe M. Rooks writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about our national debate over race and affirmative action […]

Afrikan Graduation Ceremony – "We Are the Architects of Our Future"

May 23, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

34th Annual Afrikan Graduation Ceremony The 34th Annual Afrikan Graduation Ceremony will take place at 5:00pm on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in UCLA’s Royce Hall. The theme of this year’s […]

Lula Washington Receives UCLA’s Chancellor’s Award

May 23, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

On May 17th, Lula Washington, UCLA class of ’76, M.A. ’84, and member of the UCLA Black Alumni Association, was honored with the UCLA’s Chancellor’s Medal – the highest recognition awarded […]

Circle of Thought Lecture – Jordan Camp

May 22, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents Jordan Camp Interpreting the Housing Crisis in Los Angeles: Race, Class, and Dispossession Jordan T. Camp, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of […]

Happy Birthday, Malcolm!

May 21, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Below, listen to a clip from an interview with him following his trip to Mecca in April […]

Circle of Thought Series Presents Janira Teague

May 20, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents Janira Teague On Thursday, May 23rd, the Bunche Center Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series presents Janira Teague, speaking on “I, […]

Center Talk! UCLA Freedom Riders Honored

May 13, 2013/0 Comments/in Center Talk! Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Plaque to Honor UCLA Freedom Riders The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council will dedicate a plaque in honor of the UCLA Freedom Riders on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00 […]

Black Authors’ Series: Dr. Karla Slocum Visits LMC

May 8, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

May 8, 2013 Black, Native, American: Narratives of Race, Place and History in ‘Black Town’ Tours” The Bunche Center Authors’ Series hosts Professor Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, […]

Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai

May 7, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai The Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies […]

Sharon Luk – the Developing Field of Comparative Ethnic Studies

May 6, 2013/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Sharon Luk – The Developing Field of Comparative Ethnic Studies The Bunche Center Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series presents Sharon Luk, Stanford University Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, who will present […]