June 19th, known as Juneteenth, commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States in 1865. That is the day that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the slaves were now free. This occurred two and a half years [...]
June 11, 2013 – Huffington Post article recounts the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s historic Civil Rights Address which called for legislation that later became the Civil Rights Act Of 1964. Click Here. To read a blog by Huffington Post contributor, Reverend Byron Williams, about the events leading up to and after Kennedy’s address, [...]
June 11, 2013 – Los Angeles Times article addresses controversy over new Marc Cherry Show, Devious Maids, based on a Spanish-language soap opera. Click HERE. For background information on the Race and Hollywood Project, Click HERE.
June 9, 2013 — The highly anticipated trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin is set to begin in a Florida courtroom. Defense efforts to place the deceased teen on trial for alleged marijuana use and other run ins with authority thus far have been barred by the trial judge. [...]
2013 Leimert Park Village Book Fair Join the Bunche Center at the 2013 Leimert Park Village Book Fair on Saturday, June 29, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Bunche Library and Media Center will co-host a booth with UCLA’s department of Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools on the Vision Theatre back lot [...]
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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June 11, 2013 – Los Angeles Times article addresses controversy over new Marc Cherry Show, Devious Maids, based on a Spanish-language soap opera. Click HERE. For background information on the Race and Hollywood Project, Click HERE.
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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, [...]
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July 6, 2012 — The Los Angeles Times features a story on the major renovation of a Black Los Angeles landmark, the Dunbar Hotel. You can access the story by clicking HERE. A fuller discussion of Los Angeles’s historic Crenshaw Corridor is presented in Chapter 2 of the Bunche Center’s edited volume Black Los Angeles: American [...]
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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 [...]
Wake Forest University Free MBA program – Still accepting applications for Summer 2013! Wake Forest University offers minority students opportunity to attend its MBA program for FREE! The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only. The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional [...]
Summer Humanities Institute Funded through generous grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Office of the University of California, starting this month, the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies will host its thirteenth Summer Humanities Institute (SHI) from Sunday, June 23 to Saturday, August 17, 2013. SHI caters to high-achieving students from [...]
Afro-American Studies Graduation The Afro-American Studies Graduation Ceremony will be held Saturday, June 15th, 2013, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Fowler Museum – Lenart Auditorium. Unlike the Friday university commencement, graduates at the Afro-Am ceremony will be individually recognized with their names called. Refreshments will follow the ceremony. Please note – [...]
UPDATE June 10, 2013 – Tyler Perry on why Hollywood lacks roles for Black actresses. Click Here. June 6, 2013 — Huffington Post reports that a recent Cheerios commercial with a bi-racial family has sparked vitriolic comments on YouTube. General Mills, the parent company of Cheerios, stands by effort to present “…an American family,” by casting actors who [...]
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 June 10, 2013 – Darnell Hunt, professor of sociology and [...]
