On May 17th, Lula Washington, UCLA class of ’76, M.A. ’84, and member of the UCLA Black Alumni Association, was honored with the UCLA’s Chancellor’s Medal - the highest recognition awarded by UCLA to its alumni. Ms. Washington received the award for her community service, working and promoting dance for over 33 years in South Los [...]
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Below, listen to a clip from an interview with him following his trip to Mecca in April of 1964, less than a year prior to his assassination on February 21, 1965.
Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents Janira Teague On Thursday, May 23rd, the Bunche Center Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series presents Janira Teague, speaking on “I, too, Am America: Migrations, Identity and Citizenship in Black New York City, 1890s to 1930s.” The event will be held in the Bunche Library and [...]
UPDATE May 20, 2013 – Deadline Hollywood profiles the winners in last week’s television upfronts. Click Here. May 15, 2013 – Aspire, a new cable television network targeting African Americans and owned by Magic Johnson, launches the talk show, Exhale. Click Here. May 14, 2013 – TV By The Numbers reports Univision ranking higher than the Big Four networks. Click [...]
When Too Few Minorities are Too Many May 2, 2013 – Noliwe M. Rooks writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education, about our national debate over race and affirmative action at the college level. To read more Click Here. Report Finds Increased Enrollment of Out-of-State Students at Public Universities Tied to Generating Revenue May 1, [...]
Read our Director’s letter, “Our Success is Your Success.” Dr. Hunt thanks our Bunche Center friends for their ongoing support, reflects on the Center’s accomplishments in 2012, and previews the exciting year we are planning at the Bunche Center in 2013. Please remember the Bunche Center when you plan your Year-End Gifts and visit [...]
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The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, founded in 1969 as the Center for Afro-American Studies (CAAS), was renamed after Nobel Prize winner, scholar, activist, and UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche in 2003, in commemoration of the centenary of his birth. The Bunche Center is the result of the [...]
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UPDATE May 20, 2013 – Deadline Hollywood profiles the winners in last week’s television upfronts. Click Here. May 15, 2013 – Aspire, a new cable television network targeting African Americans and owned by Magic Johnson, launches the talk show, Exhale. Click Here. May 14, 2013 – TV By The Numbers reports Univision ranking higher than the Big Four networks. Click [...]
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BLACK LOS ANGELES American Dreams and Racial Realities Edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon “A true masterwork of urban studies. Taken together, these wide-ranging, diverse, original essays significantly expand our understanding of the African-American experience in Los Angeles. With breathtaking scope and vision, Black Los Angeles is a brilliant example of cutting-edge scholarship and [...]
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Check out the current issue of the Bunche Center News! DOWNLOAD Bunche Center Newsletter-May 2013
2012-2013 The academic year 2011-12 marked 42 years of university and community service for the Bunche Center. The year featured a provocative array of research and programmatic initiatives, including the Center’s Race and Hollywood Project ─ which aims to produce the definitive, on-going study of barriers to and best practices for diversifying the Hollywood entertainment [...]
34th Annual Afrikan Graduation Ceremony The 34th Annual Afrikan Graduation Ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 16, 2013 in UCLA’s Royce Hall (time TBA). The theme of this year’s event will be, “We Are the Architects of Our Future.” UCLA’s Afrikan Graduation began in 1979 through the tireless work and dedication of fourteen students [...]
Circle of Thought Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents Jordan Camp Interpreting the Housing Crisis in Los Angeles: Race, Class, and Dispossession Jordan T. Camp, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of American Cultures and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, will discuss “Interpreting the Housing Crisis in Los Angeles: Race, Class, [...]
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and affiliated faculty have been featured in news media in Los Angeles, throughout the nation, and around the globe. Please find a sampling of links to this news coverage below. Bunche Center in the News May 14, 2013 – The May issue of the International [...]
Plaque to Honor UCLA Freedom Riders The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council will dedicate a plaque in honor of the UCLA Freedom Riders on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM in Kerckhoff Hall 417, 308 Westwood Plaza. The event will take place on the same day as the burning of a Freedom Rider’s bus [...]
May 8, 2013 Black, Native, American: Narratives of Race, Place and History in ‘Black Town’ Tours” The Bunche Center Authors’ Series hosts Professor Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Slocum will discuss how contemporary tour narratives of historical black towns situate these sites within a multiracial, multi-locational [...]
Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai The Bunche Center Authors’ Series features Sohail Daulatzai, Associate Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California – Irvine, on Thursday, May 9, 2013, from 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM, in the Bunche Library and Media Center [...]
