Center Talk! Where Are They Now?
April 25, 2013 Summer Humanities Institute Participants Where are They Now? Funded through generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Office of the University of California, the […]
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Center Talk! Archive
April 22, 2013 Images of Blackness: Black Women Filmmakers and the Normalization of Inequality features filmmakers and scholars whose work explores the impact the absence of black women visual artists […]
Duke Ellington Celebration
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the Friends of Jazz at UCLA, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, […]
National Urban League 2013 State of Black America Report
National Urban League 2013 State of Black America Report The National Urban League (NUL) recently released its 2013 “State of Black America Report.” While the data showed some progress made […]
2013 Thurgood Marshall Lecture
(Reprinted from UCLA Today – Apr 05, 2013 By Ricardo Vazquez) Thurgood Marshall Lecturer Assesses Progress of Civil Rights Struggle On Thursday, a day that marked the 45th anniversary of […]
Black History Month 2013
Black History Month 2013 is particularly meaningful as we reflect back on key anniversaries of signature racial milestones. It was 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which […]
Inaugural Address 2013
On Monday, January 21, 2013, amid the pomp and circumstance that has accompanied the peaceful transfer of power for the last 224 years, the country watched as Barack H. Obama […]
Obama Wins
President Barack Obama is re-elected and the Democrats retain control of the Senate in the 2012 elections. California Proposition 30, which raises $6 billion to provide relief for battered public […]
Diverse Panel Considers 2012 Vote
Inside Out: Social Justice, Activism and the 2012 Vote With the upcoming presidential election only weeks away, the Bunche Center — in collaboration with the Institute of American Cultures (IAC), the […]
Mervyn Dymally (1926-2012)
When I think of Mervyn M. Dymally, two words come to mind: conviction and grace. When Mervyn Dymally took on a cause, he did so with a passion and a […]