Join Justin Simien, the director of Dear White People, for a Q&A following the reception and screening. *The event will be held at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology and the Friends of Jazz at UCLA presentThe annual celebration at UCLA (and around the world) honoring Duke Ellington and the music of EllingtoniaandBilly Strayhorn’s 100th year anniversaryTwo concerts featuring the music of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and othersFREE ADMISSIONWednesday, April 29, 2015 (Ellington’s birthday) […]

Dr. Robeson Taj Frazier will discuss his recently published book, The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination (Duke Univ. Press, 2014). The book explores African American leftist radicals' political relations with the People's Republic of China from 1949-1976. Frazier is an Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and […]