August 13-14, 2013, 9:00a.m. to 12:00p.m.Join us as participating scholars present their exciting summer research. The event will take place at the UCLA Faculty Center.

A Tribute to Kenny BurrellSunday, Aug 18 @ 6:00PM The World Stage Performance Gallery is bringing the Jazz Masters series from their Leimert Park home to the Ford stage for a big band benefit concert and tribute to guitar legend Kenny Burrell.

5th Annual Leimert Park VillageAfrican American Art & Music FestivalSaturday, Sunday and Monday,Aug. 31, Sept. 1, and Sept. 2, 201310:00 am – 6:00 pm dailyAdmission FreeLeimert Park Village4318 Degnan Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90008

September 25, 2013, from noon until 2:00pm in Dickson Court North. The Academic Advancement Program, UCLA Division of Undergraduate Education, invites you to the annual AAP Awareness Day Fair.

This event is presented by the UCLA History Department Atlantic History Cluster. Bunche Center affiliated faculty Andrew Apter and Robin Derby assisted in organizing the event. Professor Derby was recently awarded a Bunche Center IAC reserach grant. Bunche Hall Room 6275. To read more about her awarded project, Click Here.

This annual event to welcome new and returning students to the UCLA campus will be held in Haines Hall 220. A reception will be held at 5:00pm with the event immediately following from 6:15pm to 7:30pm. The Black Convocation is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the Afrikan Student Union, […]

150th Emancipation Proclamation"Speakers: Alva Moore Stevenson, U.C.L.A. Program Coordinator and Archivist , Larry Earl, Director of Mayme Clayton Museum, Arthur Rolston, U.C.L.A. Lecturer in American History, Analena Hope, U.S.C. PhD Candidate in American Studies. This program is part of a series called “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” which is co-sponsored by the National Endowment […]

For many who actively participated in the protest, looting and destruction, and for the thousands who stayed at home, but understood all too well why others had gone, Rodney King was not the symbol of injustice that was being protested; Latasha Harlins was," writes Stevenson, a UCLA professor of history and African-American studies.Bunche Hall Room […]

David J. Leonard, Chair of the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University. Leonard will discuss his book-in-progress: Presumed Innocence: The Racial Profiling of Gun Violence.Leonard is the author of Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema; co-editor of Criminalized and Commodified: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary […]

Institute of American CulturesFall Forum & ReceptionTuesday, November 5, 20134:30 pm – 7:00 pmUCLA Faculty Center, California Room