Month: June 2014 | UCLA Bunche Center

Jazz at the Clayton Featuring Kenny Burrell

June 26, 2014/0 Comments/in News /by SSC WebTeam

On Sunday, July 13, 2014, from 2-5 pm, at the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, virtuoso guitarist Kenny Burrell will perform and reflect on his life and career […]

National Council for Black Studies 39th Annual Conference Call for Papers Deadline 12/31/14

UPDATED National Council For Black Studies 39th Annual Conference The Foundation and Future of Black Studies: Reaffirming Our Emancipatory Mission & Value The National Council for Black Studies 39th […]

Study Shows Multicultural Audiences Want Authentic Content

June 26, 2014/0 Comments/in Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

June 26, 2014 – Target Market News reports on a new study released by Horowitz Associates which reveals that multicultural TV audiences want to see more authentically relevant content. To […]

Bunche Center’s Hollywood Diversity Report Featured at 2014 ABFF in NYC

June 18, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured News Race and Hollywood Research /by SSC WebTeam

On June 21, 2014, the Bunche Center’s 2014 Hollywood Diversity Report was featured at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) in New York. Sponsored by the Time Warner Foundation, the panel titled […]

Actor and Activist Ruby Dee, Dies at Age 91

June 12, 2014/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by SSC WebTeam

June 12, 2014 – Ruby Dee, stage and screen legend, passed away on June 11, 2014, at the age of 91. Dee, a celebrated actress who continued to work into […]

Ford Receives 1.5 million from NIH to Study Disparities in HIV/AIDS Care Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Seniors

June 10, 2014/0 Comments/in News /by SSC WebTeam

June 10, 2014 – Chandra Ford, an Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, was recently […]

More Women of Color Breaking Through in Emmy Race

June 10, 2014/0 Comments/in Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

June 10, 2014 – As Emmy voting begins, Darnell Hunt, sociology professor and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, who each year leads […]

Hollywood Holds Black Films to Frustratingly Separate and Unfair Standard

June 10, 2014/2 Comments/in Featured Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

In an interview, actor Taye Diggs comments on the Hollywood studio system process for deciding whether to do black films or their sequels. To read more, Click Here. For […]

Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Herb Jeffries 7/12/14

June 10, 2014/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by SSC WebTeam

Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Herb Jeffries Hollywood’s First and Only African American Singing Cowboy Saturday, July 12, 2014 from 11:00am – 4:00pm Cinema’s original and only African-American […]

Hunt Talks Hollywood Diversity Report on Tavis Smiley Radio

June 6, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured News Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

June 6, 2014 – Bunche Center director and UCLA Sociology Professor Darnell Hunt discusses the Hollywood Diversity Report on Tavis Smiley Radio. To listen to the interview, Click Here. For […]