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Overhead view of Destination Crenshaw’s Sankofa Park featuring designs for works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and Charles Dickson.Rendering by Perkins&Will, courtesy of Destination Crenshaw

Destination Crenshaw pays tribute to Black creativity and history in Los Angeles

UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks…
Photo credit: Courtesy of Ellen Sletten

Professor’s invention is a kid-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light

Ellen Sletten’s Photonbooth gives L.A. students a picture-perfect…
Image of Rev. James Lawson speaking to interns in the Dream Summer program, a fellowship opportunity for student immigrants and their allies.UCLA Labor Center

A perfect tribute: UCLA names labor center building in honor of Rev. James Lawson Jr.

By Madeline Adamo Civil and labor rights icon and 20-year…
An image of Judy Baca at “The Great Wall of Los Angeles” in the summer of 1983.Photo credit: SPARC Archives/SPARCinLA.org

A Legacy in Plain Sight: The Murals of Judy Baca

By Stacey Ravel Abarbanel In light of a retrospective at…
An image of Kyle Mays alongside his book coverPhoto credit: UCLA

Professor Kyle T. Mays spotlights Black–Indigenous solidarity in new book

By Jessica Wolf In ‘An Afro-Indigenous History of the United…

TV shows with diverse writers rooms, casts resonated with pandemic audiences

By Jessica Wolf The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published…
Photo of Urban oil drilling in Inglewood. Photo Credit: Ty Woodson/KLCS

UCLA environmental experts featured in PBS series about sustainability

Faculty and others play a major role in shaping stories of accountability…

UCLA internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble awarded MacArthur Fellowship

Professor Safiya Noble, director of an interdisciplinary…
Picture of Anastassia Alexandrova

Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives Max Planck-Humboldt Medal

Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA professor and vice chair of…
Picture of Richard Kaner

Richard Kaner wins award from American Chemical Society

  Richard Kaner, the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor…