Department of African American Studies launches ‘Celebrate Us’ speaker series with talk by Kyle T. Mays

At the close of Black History Month, the UCLA Department of African…
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Collaboration with Howard University creates ‘Pathway to a Ph.D.’ for Black students of Egyptology

By Anushka Chakrabarti | February 25, 2022 To increase…
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UCLA audience hears insights about war from Ukrainian professor as rockets fall

The president of the Kyiv School of Economics joins discussion…
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A bird’s-eye view of history

Iconic aerial photo archives from the UCLA Department of Geography…

UCLA, Howard University launch summer program on race, ethnicity and politics

The new UC-funded Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will support…
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A legacy of confronting injustice

UCLA Professor Terence Keel’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary…
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She’s a catalyst: UCLA doctoral candidate Samantha Mensah, co-founder of BlackInChem

Samantha Mensah co-founded BlackInChem to help…