Connecting Art & Law for Liberation (CALL) FELLOW POSITION After the success of the inaugural C.A.L.L. Festival (Connecting Art and Law for Liberation), the UCLA Prison Education Program and the Criminal Justice Program are hiring a student to be the 2019-2020 CALL FELLOW to continue efforts to link art and law for transformation! Please see the […]
The National Congress of Black Women, Inc., San Gabriel Valley Chapter (NCBW) 2019 Scholarship Application For more details: https://www.ncbw-sgvc.com/copy-of-youth-chapter
The Zygon Journal of Science and Religion recently hosted a debate over Professor Terence Keel’s book Divine Variations, which was just released on paperback. The debate includes entries from Professor Terence Keel. Take a look at the documents below: THE RELIGIOUS PRECONDITIONS FOR THE RACE CONCEPT IN MODERN SCIENCE RESPONSE TO MY CRITICS: THE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN RACIAL […]
The UCLA African American Studies Department would like to extend our sincere congratulations to costume designer, Ruth E. Carter, for winning‘Best Costume Design’ for Black Panther at the 24th Critics Choice Awards. We would also like to congratulate her for her Oscar nomination for ‘Best Costume Designer’ for Black Panther. #WAKANDAFOREVER
Ahead of its February 7th release, Professor Tananarive Due’s new documentary film Horror Noire (co-produced with Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele) will have its LA premiere February 1st at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. You can purchase your tickets here Check out the story as featured by Entertainment Weekly here. The official trailer can be found here.
Call for Participation Datafication and Community Activism: Redrawing the Boundaries of Research A workshop to be held in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine March 8 – 9, 2019 Organized by Roderic Crooks (crooksr@uci.edu), Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics. Yeshimabeit Milner, Executive Director, Data 4 Black Lives. People interested in participating should […]
Professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez has been selected as one of two 2018 Local Heroes honored by KCET and PBS SoCal, the channels of the newly formed Public Media Group of Southern California. The award honors the accomplishments of those who are dedicated to making a difference in their community, recognizing activists, educators, community leaders and visionaries doing […]
Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights, Also released this week is Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights- the report developed with the CIW Think Tank that Professor Bryonn Bain helped launch in 2015, and the UCLA Law School International Human Rights Law Clinic — which Professor Bryonn Bain began serving as a co-directer in 2016. Read the full report […]
The Women’s Law Journal just published the article Professor Bryonn Bain worked on featuring two women recently released from CIW prison. Wendy Staggs and Jennifer Claypool are formerly incarcerated women who helped launch Professor Bain’s first prison education pilot course and programs two years ago. Read the article here
Professor Scot Brown is featured in the Cinemax animated documentary “Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus” Check out the Episode on Bootsy Collins- Season 2, Episode 4
