Month: August 2014 | UCLA Bunche Center

Hunt On ABC’s New Diverse Comedies

August 29, 2014/0 Comments/in Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

August 29, 2014 — Bunche Center Director Darnell Hunt discusses ABC’s new diverse situation comedies with The Wrap. At issue is the increasing diversity of American audiences and what this will […]

john a. powell’s 2014 Thurgood Marshall Lecture Now on Video

August 27, 2014/1 Comment/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

2014 Thurgood Marshall Lecture Now on Video To highlight the importance of celebrating and maintaining the civil rights tradition, in 1986 the Bunche Center inaugurated the Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series […]

2014 Emmy Controversy

August 26, 2014 — Despite what some have hailed as a recent renaissance in television, last night’s 2014 Emmy Awards offered more of the same on the diversity front. Bunche Center […]

Hunt Talks Racial Tension in Ferguson

August 20, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

August 24, 2014 — CBC radio’s Karin Wells interviews Bunche Center Director Darnell Hunt about the Ferguson unrest in Sunday Edition. Hunt connects the events to broader questions of race in […]

UCLA Libraries Grand Tour – August 20, 2014 – Haines Hall 135 1:30-3pm

August 19, 2014/0 Comments/in Library and Media /by SSC WebTeam

COME VISIT THE RALPH J. BUNCHE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies Library and Media Center (LMC ) […]

Race and Hollywood: Reel Black Men Film Festival 8/23/14

August 18, 2014/0 Comments/in Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

The Reel Black Men Film Festival is sponsored by the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center. The event showcases emerging African American male filmmakers. It also gives the audience an opportunity to […]

Crenshaw Discusses Race and the Legal Implications of Ferguson

August 18, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

August 18, 2014 – Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, UCLA professor of law, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and a Bunche Center affiliated scholar, discusses race and the […]

Hunt Discusses Ferguson Protests

August 14, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Scott Olson/Getty Images August 14, 2014 – Darnell Hunt, UCLA professor and director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies,discusses the protests in Ferguson which erupted following […]

Graduate Students Add Knowledge and Experience To SHI

August 11, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

August 11, 2014 – In June, the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies commenced its fourteenth and final Summer Humanities Institute (SHI). Funded through generous grants from the Andrew […]

UCLA Black Alumni Association Election Results

August 11, 2014/0 Comments/in News /by SSC WebTeam

The UCLA Black Alumni Association recently announced the results of this year’s UBAA elections. The new and/or returning officers and board are as follows: President Kelvin Tolbert VP Operations Tony […]