Bunche Center Headlines

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and affiliated faculty have been featured in news media in Los Angeles, throughout the nation, and around the globe.  Please find a sampling of links to this news coverage below.

Bunche Center in the News 

September 15, 2015 – UCLA Today reports that Jazz legend Kenny Burrell, Distinguished Professor and director of jazz studies in UCLA’s departments of music and ethnomusicology and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, received the Los Angeles Jazz Society’s 7th Annual L.A. Jazz Treasure Award on September 4^th during a celebration at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

June 29, 2015 – On June 17^th, UCLA history professor and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member Scot Brown was featured on TV One’s Unsung DJ Quik.

June 12, 2015 – The Bunche Center’s 2015 Hollywood Diversity Report is cited in Deadline Hollywood as one of the reasons behind the industry’s growing interest in projects by and about African Americans.  The article details Alchemy Entertainment’s new multiyear joint venture with The Swirl Group, an entertainment production company focusing on urban projects. To read more, Click Here.

October 14, 2014 – Kimberlé Crenshaw, UCLA law professor and Bunche Center affiliated faculty, wrote a New York Times Sunday Book review of Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice, by Joan Biskupic. To read the review, Click Here.

June 12, 2014 – Public Radio International posts a recent interview with Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, on PRI’s Tavis Smiley Show. Hunt discusses the state of diversity in Hollywood.

May 20, 2014 – Huffington Post profiles Mignon Moore, professor of sociology and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, and her work on Marriage Equality and LGBT family building.

February 14, 2014 – KCRW discusses Hollywood’s diversity problem with Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies.

February 13, 2014 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, discusses how Hollywood is not keeping up with rapidly increasing diversity.  To read more, Click Here.

January 2, 2014 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is quoted in Aljazeera America about the success of black films in 2013.

December 16, 2013 – Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA assistant professor of social psychology and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed by UCLA TODAY about being selected to lead a three-year, $1 million project to create the nation’s first database on racial profiling.

November 18, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the Center’s analysis of diversity in the entertainment industry.

November 4, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is quoted in the Daily Californian about report findings that UCLA policies and procedures designed to deal with cases of racial discrimination were inadequate and failed to act as a deterrent.

September 3, 2013 – Brenda Stevenson, UCLA professor of history and African-American studies, and Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, were interviewed about the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on WURD Radio, Philadelphia. 

August 1, 2013 – Brenda Stevenson, UCLA professor of history and African-American studies, is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about her new book, “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the LA Riots,” and the parallels between the Harlins case and the Trayvon Martin case.

July 31, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is quoted in Salon.com article about Fruitvale Station and the counterpoint it offers to Hollywood’s usual narrative about race. 

July 25, 2013 – Scot Brown, UCLA associate professor of history and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, is quoted in Ebony Magazine in the piece, “Who Killed the Funk?  Michael A. Gonzales Reflects on P-Funk, The Ohio Players, Earth Wind & Fire, etc. and Wonders Where the Funk Have All the Funk Groups Gone?”  To read, Click Here.

July 23, 2013 – Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA and a Bunche affiliated faculty member, was quoted in a New York Times article about a lack of diversity in Connecticut’s public schools.

July 2, 2013 – Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA assistant professor of social psychology and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about race-related issues currently in the media and how we approach discussing racism, prejudice and inequality.

July 1, 2013 – Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, is quoted in New York’s Democrat & Chronicle about the Supreme Court’s Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case.

June 18, 2013 – Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of the Civil Rights Project, is quoted in The Democrat & Chronicle about school enrollment patterns and segregation.

June 10, 2013 –Darnell Hunt,  professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is interviewed on the KPCC Public Radio program, Take Two, discussing the Trayvon Martin trial.   

June 5, 2013 – Phillip Atiba Goff, assistant professor of social psychology, and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member is quoted in a New York Times article about federal statistics showing that black Americans are four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession.

June 4, 2013 – Phillip Atiba Goff, assistant professor of social psychology, and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member is quoted in an Associated Press editorial about golfer Sergio Garcia.  The piece focused on individuals who make racial slurs and then claim they are not racist.

May 14, 2013 – The May issue of the International Communication Association Newsletter features their inaugural public lecture, The Hollywood Shuffle: Exploring Race and Ethnicity Behind and in Front of the Camera.  The discussion looked at emerging research and firsthand accounts by prominent members in the entertainment industry.  Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is featured on the panel. 

May 13, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and director of UCLA’s Bunche Center for African American Studies, is cited in Jezebel for the 2013 Writers Guild of America–West report he authored which found that despite recent gains, female and minority television writers still lag behind their white male counterparts in employment.

April 26, 2013 – Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public policy, quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek  about Republican politicians’ changing immigration rhetoric.

April 23, 2013 – Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public policy, discusses L.A. mayoral race and Latino politics on NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

April 23, 2013 – Gail Wyatt, professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Sexual Health Program, was quoted in Bloomberg about a study on U.S. women and premarital cohabitation. 

April 22, 2013 – Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of the Civil Rights Project, quoted in The  Washington Post about school enrollment patterns and segregation.

April 12, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA’s Bunche Center and a professor of sociology, quoted in an Associated Press article about lack of racial and gender diversity in late-night t.v.

April 9, 2013 – Devon Carbado, professor at the UCLA School of Law and a Bunche affiliated faculty member, interviewed on public radio’s “The Takeaway” about his book “Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America.”

April 8, 2013 – Co-Director of the UCLA–Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and Bunche Center affiliated faculty, Antronette Yancey, quoted in a Herald Tribune article about fitness programs at work.

March 27, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, a professor of sociology and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, presents brief on television staffing that ran in the following publications:  Deadline Hollywood Staffing Brief; DeadlineHollywoodWritersAccessProject; Variety; The Hollywood Reporter; The LosAngeles Times; The Wrap; The Chicago Tribune; Indie Wire; IMDB; Getty Images.

March 22, 2013 – Police Commissioner John Mack to give UCLA Bunche Center’s Thurgood Marshall Lecture Click Here.

March 19, 2013 – Gary Orfield, professor of education, director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, and Bunche Center affiliated faculty, is quoted in a Slate article about schools in New York, Washington, D.C., and other cities making honors classes more inclusive.

March 11, 2013 – Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., professor of political science and public policy, interviewed about Los Angeles mayoral race on KNX-1070 AM.   Click Here.

February 27, 2013 – Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, and a former Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, discusses his book, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (University of California Press, 2013), co-authored with Berkeley history professor, Waldo E. Martin, on WORT-FM, Wisconsin Public Radio’s 2/26/13 edition of 8 o’clock Buzz. Click Here.

February 26, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, a professor of sociology and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, gives interview to Chicago Tribune about image problems for the L.A.P.D. after the Christopher Dorner manhunt.  Click here.

February 22, 2013 – Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, a professor of political science and public policy, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed in a KCAL-Channel 9 report on a student-led effort to restore a 40-year-old mural in UCLA’s Ackerman Union that depicts African American activism and history and that has been covered by a wall since renovations in the early 1990s.

February 6, 2013 – Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs,  a professor of political science and public policy, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was quoted in an Associated Press story on the how gay and Latino groups have formed an immigration alliance.

February 4, 2013 Scot Brown, UCLA associate professor of history and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed for a recent episode of the TV One program “Unsung,” exploring the history of the 1980s R&B group Midnight Star.  Click here.

January 31, 2013 Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, and a former Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, co-authored the book,  Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (University of California Press, 2013), with Berkeley history professor, Waldo E. Martin.  The book has recently been reviewed in various publications including the Los Angeles Times and Publisher’s Weekly.  To read the Los Angeles Times review, Click here.  To read the Publisher’s Weekly review, Click here.

January 24, 2013 Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, a professor of political science and public policy, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed Monday on KCET’s “SoCal Connected” about the politics of changing racial and ethnic demographics in Southern California.

January 23, 2013 Mark Sawyer, chair of the UCLA Interdepartmental Program in Afro-American Studies, professor of political science, director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed Friday on Minnesota Public Radio about America’s changing racial and ethnic demographics and President Obama’s second term Click here.

January 21, 2013 Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, a professor of political science and public policy, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, appeared on KTLA-Channel 5, providing commentary on President Obama’s inauguration Click here.

October 17, 2012 Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, a professor of political science and public policy, and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was interviewed by KTLA-Channel 5 about the second 2012 U.S. presidential debate Click here

October 3, 2012 Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, Antronette Yancey, a UCLA public health researcher, is co-leadinga  team that was awarded a $20M grant to promote health and fitness, fight obesity Click here 

August 1, 2012 Gail E. Wyatt, professor of psychiatry and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, received a $2.5 million grant for project aimed at African American couples affected by HIV  Click here

 April 30, 2012 Darnell Hunt, a professor of sociology and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, discusses the relationship between the L.A. riots and the media Click here

April 27, 2012 Sociology professor Darnell Hunt comments in L.A. Weekly about riot footage on YouTube Click here

April 27, 2012 Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt quoted in L.A. Weekly’s original coverage of 1992 Civil Unrest Click here

April 26, 2012 Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt quoted in L.A. Sentinel about 20^th Anniversary of Civil Unrest Click here

April 24, 2012 Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt discusses the L.A. Riots

April 5, 2012Clayborne Carson gives Bunche Center 2012 Thurgood Marshall Lecture Click here

April 1, 2012 Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt co-edits Amerasia Journal marking L.A. Riots anniversary Click here

March 16, 2012 Professor of Sociology Mignon Moore receives Undergraduate Mentorship Award

March 7, 2012 Professor of Sociology and Education Walter R. Allen lectures in Tel Aviv at the Mofet Institute

February 16, 2012 Hunt quoted on television’s coverage of Black History Month Click here

February 14, 2012 Orfield discusses state of higher education for minority students Click here

February 2, 2012 Gilliam interviewed on KTLA-Channel 5 about Republican presidentialprimaries 

January 30, 2012 Tucker appointed to head administrative hub for ethnic studies center 

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