UCLA SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE & CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SALLY CASANOVA PRE-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM Funded through grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of California Office of the […]
A special issue of the Journal of Pan African Studies entitled, Africans in Mexico: History, Race and Place, has just been released. The guest editor of this edition is […]
August 4, 2013 — Noted civil rights attorney Julius Chambers died Friday after a lengthy period of declining health. Chambers argued several landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning them […]
Salon.com article about Fruitvale Station and the counterpoint it offers to Hollywood’s usual narrative about race. To read the article, Click Here. For background information on the The Bunche Center […]
Coinciding with the release of last year’s feature film, Red Tails, actors Brian White, Richard Roundtree, Dondre Whitfield, and Phil Morris join former CNN commentator Roland Martin to discuss the […]
Hollywood veteran Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that hands out the Oscars each year. She is the […]
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, speaks on what she calls the “Zimmerman Mindset” on Democracy Now! Click HERE for the […]
UCLA and Columbia Law professor, and Bunche Center affiliated faculty member, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, discusses the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and the limits of the law with GRITtv. […]
July 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 […]
July 23, 2013 — A recent Pew poll finds a huge racial divide in opinions about the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin. Read […]
