Cheryl I. Harris (UCLA Department of African American Studies Chair) and Zachary F. Price, Ph.D. (Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow UCLA Department of African American Studies), invite you to a special staged reading of Phillip Kan Gotanda's Yohen, featuring Danny Glover (actor, producer, activist, and humanitarian) and Karen Lew (actress), directed by Ben Guillory (Producing Artistic Director, Robey Theatre Company).   Please RSVP by Friday, May 22 Free and open […]

The UCLA Department of African American Studies will hold its Commencement Celebration on: *Students are recommended to come at least 45 minutes prior to the ceremony Additional Commencement Information: www.commencement.ucla.edu

You can watch the livestream here. Event Program For more information, click here.

ADMISSION Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Black Convocation is an annual event which welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. It is an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes […]

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, African American Studies Department, Institute of American Cultures, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and School of Theater, Film and Television present: "Beyond The Lights" – Film Screening and Discussion "“Beyond the Lights,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s occasionally silly, frequently stirring romantic melodrama... […]

The talk is titled "War Against All Puerto Ricans." Nelson Denis, the author of the new book War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, will be discussing his book, the history of colonialism in Puerto Rico, and the plight of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The talk will also feature an introduction […]

We are very excited to invite you to our upcoming Eighth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, Race and Resistance: Against Police Violence, on October 16th and 17th at UCLA School of Law.  Over a day and a half, we will convene academics, advocates and activists from around the country to explore the forms that police violence takes, […]

A multimedia performance of Langston Hughes' "Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz" comes to the UCLA Faculty Center on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m. A reading of the poem will be accompanied with live music performed by the Ron McCurdy Quartet and a slide presentation of Harlem Renaissance-era photos. The evening will conclude with a discussion […]