Year: 2014 | Page 2 | UCLA Bunche Center

Giving Tuesday – Support @BuncheUCLA

December 2, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

We invite you to include the Bunche Center in your end-of-year giving plans. Contributions in any amount are welcome and all donations are 100%-tax deductible. End of year giving reduces […]

Ferguson Grand Jury Declines to Indict Police Officer Who Killed Michael Brown

November 24, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

November 24, 2014 — In an oddly-timed evening press conference, Ferguson, MO prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced Monday that the grand jury reviewing evidence in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager […]

Marvel Jumps Into Diversity Debate

November 19, 2014 – Marvel Comics announced dramatic changes coming simultaneously to two of the publisher’s classic marquee brands with the addition of a female Thor and a Black Captain […]

Race & Hollywood: Four-Part Interview with Darnell Hunt on Industry Diversity

November 17, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured Race and Hollywood /by SSC WebTeam

November 17, 2014 – Bunche Center Director Darnell Hunt discusses diversity in Hollywood as part of a four-part series on the Blacklist screenwriting blog, Go Into the Story. To read […]

Hunt Featured on Black Hollywood Think Tank

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

November 10, 2014 – Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and Professor of Sociology at UCLA, Darnell Hunt, is featured in episode 3 of Black […]

TODAY – Karin Stanford Book Talk – Nine Lives of a Black Panther – A Story of Survival

November 10, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Don’t miss this engaging discussion about the life of the late Wayne Pharr. To Download the Flyer, Click Here.

TONIGHT – The CBS Network and Diversity in Hollywood Event

November 4, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

Join Fern Orenstein (Senior VP for casting at CBS Entertainment), Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i (VP for CBS diversity and communication), Rick Najera (director, writer and executive producer) and Dr. Darnell Hunt (director of […]

Center Talk: Bloom Receives Award for Black Against Empire

November 3, 2014/0 Comments/in Center Talk! /by SSC WebTeam

Joshua Bloom, UCLA doctoral candidate in sociology, received an American Book Award on October 26th, 2014, in San Francisco, for his book, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of […]

Thanks for Supporting the Report!

October 31, 2014/0 Comments/in Featured /by SSC WebTeam

Thank you for your generous support of our crowdfunding project In October, the Center’s fundraising effort to raise research funds for the Hollywood Diversity Report yielded $10,081 dollars in a […]

TODAY Images in Blackness – Thomas Allen Harris Doc, Through a Lens Darkly

October 29, 2014/0 Comments/in Special Projects and Programs /by SSC WebTeam

PLEASE NOTE UPDATED TIME Images in Blackness Film and Discussion Series presents Thomas Allen Harris and his documentary, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. To […]