Celebrating Reverend Lawson’s Enduring Contributions at UCLA
By Kent Wong Director, UCLA Labor Center Rev. James Lawson Jr., a nationally known and celebrated leader of the civil rights movement, turned ninety years old on September 22. The […]
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A Case for Teaching Critical Media Literacy
By Rhonda Hammer, Lecturer, UCLA Department of Gender Studies We are in the midst of a Digital Revolution that many scholars find comparable in scope to the Industrial Revolution of […]
When They Call You a Criminal
By Rosie Rios, Administrative Director, UCLA Prison Education Program “We, the people. We are not criminals. I am not a criminal. I am Arlena. I am beautiful. I am stardust.” […]
Storytelling For Self and Community Healing – UCLA Event Tomorrow 9/27
A Conversation with Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Repair and UCLA Lecturer in Gender Studies and Disability Studies By Lara Drasin TOMORROW, September 27, from 6:30 to 8:30 […]
Do Legislative Bills Build Housing?
By Jan Breidenbach Senior Fellow, UCLA Department of Urban Planning This was the question addressed by the 2018 Community Scholars project. A joint initiative of UCLA’s Institute for Research on […]
Reading Between the Battle Lines: Decoding Values in Tweets About Gun Control
By Lara Drasin UCLA Master of Social Science 2018 Every day we’re influenced by the news, television and the movies we watch, and even family legends and community lore. In […]
Helping Turn Seaweed into Biofuel
By Kyle Cavanaugh Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Geography As efforts to move from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources intensify, scientists, government organizations, and corporations are eyeing a new […]
“Janus” Challenges Unions to Organize
By Kent Wong Director, UCLA Labor Center The Supreme Court decision in the Janus case is being celebrated by the Trump Administration as a major setback for the US labor […]
First-Generation Students In Graduate School
By Berto Solis, UCLA Master of Social Science, 2018 First-generation, or “first-gen,” students are the first in their families to go to college. When a first-gen student graduates from college […]
Policing’s Role in Racial Segregation: 50 Years After the Fair Housing Act
By Rahim Kurwa Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago “…They came in with shotguns. They came in in vests. They came in in riot gear, and they held guns […]
