Center Talk! Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje Retires
After thirty-four years on the UCLA faculty, Dr. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, professor and former chair of the Ethnomusicology Department at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, retired in […]
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SHI and Graduate Division Symposium
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Graduate Division cordially invite you to the 2013 UCLA SUMMER HUMANITIES INSTITUTE & CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SALLY CASANOVA PRE-DOCTORAL […]
Race and Hollywood: Commentary – Why White People Don't Like Black Movies
In his commentary, Andre Seewood writes in Indiewire about why white people don’t like black movies. Click Here. For background information on the Race and Hollywood Project, Click HERE. Andre Seewood […]
Race and Hollywood: Washington 1st Black Actress Since Tyson In 1995 To Earn Drama Lead Actress Emmy Nomination
This morning’s Emmy nominations were handed out, but few blacks working either in front of or behind the camera were recipients of the coveted nominations. Congratulations go to Kerry Washington, […]
Center Talk! 2013 Recipients of Moore Scholarship
The 2013 Recipients of the Roxane Chisholm and Jeannette Chisholm Moore Endowed Scholarship Fund In April 2007, Jeannette Chisholm Moore established an endowed scholarship in honor of her deceased daughter, […]
Center Talk! Stevenson Book Traces Role of Gender in ’92 Riots
New Book by Brenda Stevenson Traces Role of Gender in 1992 Los Angeles Riots In her new book, Brenda Stevenson, professor of history at UCLA and a Bunche Center affiliated […]
Commentary: George Zimmerman and Me
George Zimmerman and Me By Eva Patterson The twelve members of my Black women’s reading group had just sat down to dinner outside at the end […]
Center Talk! Reactions to the Zimmerman Verdict
Last February, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot an unarmed teen, Trayvon Martin, after getting into an altercation with him in his Florida neighborhood. Zimmerman claimed Martin attacked him and […]
Race and Hollywood: Washington and Cheadle Discuss Race
Actors Kerry Washington (Scandal) and Don Cheadle (Iron Man, House of Lies) discuss race in Variety‘s “Primetime Emmy” series. To read the article, Click HERE. For background information on the […]
Center Talk! Hector Myers to Join Faculty at Vanderbilt
Hector F. Myers, recently left UCLA and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to take a position at Vanderbilt University. Professor Myers will join the faculty in the Medicine, Health & […]
