March on Washington 50th Anniversary
On August 28th, 2013, the country will remember the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 people gathered on the steps of the […]
On August 28th, 2013, the country will remember the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 people gathered on the steps of the […]
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 […]
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 — 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]