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SUMMARY:Gender\, Race\, and Age Behind Bars: Impacts of Long-term Sentencing
DESCRIPTION:UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN PRESENTS \nGENDER\, RACE\, AND AGE BEHIND BARS: IMPACTS OF LONG-TERM SENTENCING \n \nCO-HOSTED BY THE UCLA CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AND THE LA COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE \nDATE: Wednesday\, February 3\, 2021\nTIME: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM\nLOCATION: Zoom Webinar (RSVP) \nThis event is free and open to the public with registration. \nJoin us for a rare opportunity to hear from two formerly-incarcerated women activists on the compounded adverse impacts of long-term sentencing on the elderly\, women\, transgender people\, and people of color in prison and beyond. Jane Dorotik was incarcerated for almost 20 years on a wrongful conviction. She was released in April 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns\, and her conviction was reversed in July 2020. Romarilyn Ralston was incarcerated for 23 years\, and is now the Program Director of Project Rebound at the California State University-Fullerton. Both are organizers with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP). Dorotik and Ralston will be in dialogue with LA County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia\, and moderator Alicia Virani\, the Gilbert Foundation Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law. This event is hosted by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, and co-hosted by the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law and the LA County Public Defender’s Office. \nRead CSW’s 2020 Policy Briefs\, “Confronting the Carceral State\, Reimagining Justice\,” featuring briefs written by Jane Dorotik and Romarilyn Ralston. \nRegister Online \nThis activity is approved for 1 hour of general MCLE credit.\nUCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. \nEvent Flyer
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SUMMARY:Black Excellence: Celebrate and Network with Successful Professionals
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate on Thursday\, February 25th and celebrate with UCLA’s Black Bruin legacy & history in the making.\nFeaturing:\nCelebration of the history & legacy of Black Bruins through the formal recognition of historical icons\, contemporary alumni\, staff\, and faculty who have exhibited exceptional career success\nPanel of distinguished UCLA alumni\, staff and faculty focusing on Academic & Career Achievement and providing solutions to contemporary issues with focus on intersection with diversity and social justice\nNetworking with alumni\, staff\, faculty and select employers from a various industries including Business\, Entertainment\, Higher Education\, Healthcare\, Tech\, Law\, Policy\, and much more\nSpotlight of relevant university accomplishments and inroads such as AAP’s 50th Anniversary\, the establishment of the Black Bruin Resource Center and the inaugural year of the Career Center’s DOORS program\nAcknowledgement of “Rising Stars” among current students(undergrad/graduate)\, post docs and/or recent alumni\nEvent Details\nThursday\, February 25th\nHosted via Zoom\n6:00PM Welcome\n6:05PM Program Begins\n7:00PM Networking\n7:30PM Program Concludes\nBlack Excellence is being held in collaboration with\nAAP\nAdmissions\nAfrican American Studies\nAlumni Association\nASP\nBlack Bruin Resource Center\nCCCP\nCPO\nORL\nRalph Bunche Center
URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-excellence-celebrate-and-network-with-successful-professionals/
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SUMMARY:BLACK MINDS MATTER: Exploring Traumas Dispelling Stigmas and Promoting Wellness
DESCRIPTION:BLACK MINDS MATTER: Exploring Traumas Dispelling Stigmas and Promoting Wellness \n\nPlease join us for an engaging and thought provoking panel discussion on mental health in the black community.\n\nPanelists names and information is displayed in the flyer!\n\n\n\nRegister Now!!
URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-minds-matter-exploring-traumas-dispelling-stigmas-and-promoting-wellness/
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SUMMARY:The Elephant in the Room: BIPOC Artistic and Intellectual Presence in Music Studies
DESCRIPTION:February 10\, 2021 – Danielle Brown: “The Elephant in the Room: BIPOC Artistic and Intellectual Presence in Music Studies”\nThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and The UCLA Department of African American Studies are proud to welcome multi-disciplinary artist\, scholar\, and Founder of of My People Tell Stories\, LLC\, Danielle Brown. \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Brown will discuss her efforts to address issues of equity\, diversity and inclusion to create positive change through her work at My People Tell Stories and her social justice minded framework—Canon\, People\, and Pedagogies (CPP). Specifically focusing on the “People” portion of her framework\, Dr. Brown will share how addressing the “elephant in the room”—the minimization\, marginalization\, and devaluation of BIPOC artists and intellectuals—requires more than diversifying the canon and increasing “diversity hires.” Rather\, it requires a reckoning with the forces that ask BIPOC artists and intellectuals to be present\, even while denying their presence. \nAbout Danielle Brown\nDanielle Brown\, Ph.D. is a multi-disciplinary artist\, scholar\, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of My People Tell Stories\, LLC\, a company based on the premise that people of color in particular\, and marginalized people in general\, need to tell and interpret their own stories. Brown earned a doctorate in Music from New York University with a concentration in ethnomusicology and specialization in the music of Latin America and the Caribbean. \nShe is a former Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University and is certified in the Kodály method. Brown is the author of the music-centered ethnographic memoir\, East of Flatbush\, North of Love: An Ethnography of Home\, and the East of Flatbush\, North of Love: Teacher Guidebook. She is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts and was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Musicology at the University of Miami for the 2019—2020 school year. Brown will be a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University during the 2021 Winter Quarter. \nAbout the Still Waiting Speaker Series:\n“Our ancestors fought for what they expected to be a very different outcome than the one we are currently experiencing. The racial gulf has widened\, and we are fighting battles that are bewildering to those of us who know the struggles of others who came before us.” \nThe UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and its Inaugural Dean\, Eileen L. Strempel are proud to launch Still Waiting\, a new speaker series that invites the public to join UCLA students in conversation with prominent figures invited by the school’s Anti-Racism Action Committee (ARAC)\, to help us understand ourselves and our response to this deeply hurtful moment in our nation’s racial reckoning. Still Waiting invites us to demand better of our communities and better of our actions in response to the tangible effects of racist policing\, academic and institutional indifference\, and methodologies that may bridge the gap between feelings of alienation and feelings of sanctuary and refuge for us all. \nAbout the ARAC:\nARAC\, the Anti-Racism Action Committee of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\, is a non-hierarchical group of students\, staff\, and faculty members committed to changing the atmosphere of our Bruin community by addressing issues of bias\, marginalization and discrimination toward black\, Indigenous and people of color and other intersectional communities. \nRegister here! \n 
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SUMMARY:A Road Map to Black Homeownership & Black Entrepreneurship in Real Estate: How to Get Started
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning how to invest in real estate without a large down payment or getting your hands too dirty? Hear from our panelists\, who found creative ways to build generational wealth through real estate.\n  Join us on February 16th and 17th for this two part panel series on black homeownership and entrepreneurship! You don’t want to miss this incredible opportunity to get advice from successful black entrepreneurs and real estate agents. This event was organized by the UCLA Anderson School of Business’ Black Business Student’s Association. This event is apart of their Beyond Barriers Series!\n\nRegister now for Tuesday\n\nRegister now for Wednesday
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SUMMARY:‘Blues for the 1980s’: Funk Bands in Dayton\, Ohio
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to announce that one of our esteemed faculty members Dr. Scot Brown will be apart of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series. \nDr. Scot Brown is an associate professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. Brown is the author of the book Fighting For Us and has penned numerous articles on African American history\, social/political movements\, music\, and popular culture. He is a contributing author and the editor of the book\, Discourse on Africana Studies. Brown is in the process of completing a book project exploring the city of Dayton\, Ohio as a 1970s musical hotbed of soul and funk bands. Brown has appeared as an expert commentator on African American music and popular culture for many programs on television\, radio\, and social media: KLRU\, National Public Radio\, Sirius/XM Radio\, DATV\, BET/Centric\, TV One\, and VH1.  Additionally\, Brown has appeared in several documentaries on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements\, including the PBS documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. \nOn February 17th at 1:00-3:00pm join us on Zoom and watch the ‘Blues for the 1980s’: Funk Bands in Dayton\, Ohio lecture.
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SUMMARY:TED X UCLA and UCLA African American Studies present Bryonn Bain an IG LIVE Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us!! On our IG Live this Monday. We are collaborating with TED X UCLA to deliver a very special black history month event!! Prison activist\, actor\, hip hop theatre pioneer\, and @ucla_afam faculty member\, Bryonn Bain will be participating in a Q and A on the meaning of black history month\, prison reform\, resilience and more. Don’t miss out! This Monday at 12pm PST!!\n.\n.\n\n. Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn’s own hip hop theater innovator\, spoken word poetry champion\, prison activist\, actor\, author and educator. His work has been featured at the Apollo Theater\, Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, The Public Theater (NYC)\, National Black Theatre (Harlem)\, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark)\, the Actor’s Gang (Culver City)\, the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC)\, Festival de Liege (Belgium)\, M1 Theater Festival (Singapore)\, Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and Muteesa Royal University (Uganda)\, Rikers Island (New York)\, Marion Prison (Ohio)\, TEDX at Ironwood State Prison and Sing Sing Prison. After teaching the first hip hop and spoken word workshop in the Dramatic Arts at Harvard University\, Bain began consulting Columbia University’s Center for Justice and School of Law as a Visiting Scholar\, and founded the prison education program offering college degrees from NYU to men incarcerated in upstate New York. Bain co-supervises the UCLA International Human Rights Law Clinic\, and serves as faculty advisor for the Justice Work Group currently developing a Center for Justice at UCLA. With pilot courses and programs at the California Institute for Women (CIW) and Barry J. Nidorf (BJN) Juvenile Hall\, Bain is working with students\, faculty and administrators across the university to develop UCLA’s Prison Education Program. Celebrated as “poet laureate of the hip hop generation” by NAACP President Benjamin Jealous\, Bryonn’s discussions aired weekly in over 20 million homes worldwide on BET’s award-winning talk show My Two Cents. His interviews have included figures such as Mike Wallace\, Tavis Smiley\, LL Cool J\, Tricia Rose\, Dolores Huerta\, Tim Robbins\, Malik Yoba\, Snoop Dogg\, Nelson George and Harry Belafonte. His work has won grants from the Open Society Foundation\, the Ford Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWrongfully imprisoned during his second year at Harvard Law School\, Bryonn successfully sued the NYPD\, interviewed with Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes\,” and wrote the Village Voice cover story – “Walking While Black” – drawing the largest response in the history of the nation’s most widely-read progressive newspaper.  Bain’s grassroots arts organization\, Blackout Arts Collective\, developed the Lyrics on Lockdown Tour reaching prisons in 25 states and spawning university courses using poetry to build critical literacy in prisons nationwide.  His first book\, The Prophet Returns\, honors the legacy of Kahlil Gibran and the countless voices Bain has worked with behind bars nationwide for nearly three decades.  His second book\, The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America\, is published by Third World Press with a foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal and introduction by Lani Guinier.  His latest book\, Fish & Bread/Pescado y Pan\, is a bilingual\, hip hop education children’s book published by Brown Girl’s Books.  Winning coveted titles as the 1999 Boston Grand Slam Champion and 2000 Nuyorican Grand Slam Poetry Champion\, Bain ranked #1 in the nation and placed second in the world during the 2000 International Poetry Slam.  As Artist-in-Residence for the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education\, Bryonn founded the Lyrical Minded project — which has employed over 50 artists nationwide and brought hip hop\, theater\, spoken word poetry and film to public schools and detention centers in New York\, San Francisco and Boston.   Bain has taught courses and professional development for teachers and artists at Brooklyn College\, NYU\, The New School\, Long Island University\, and Columbia University ranging from hip hop and spoken word poetry to critical perspectives on the prisons and policing.  Bryonn has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges and correctional facilities in the U.S.\, Africa\, Asia\, Latin America and Europe. \nHis one-man multimedia production\, Lyrics From Lockdown – executive produced by Harry Belafonte – tells the story of Bain’s wrongful imprisonment through hip hop theater\, spoken word poetry\, calypso and classical music\, as well as lyrics and letters exchanged with fellow poet and friend\, Nanon Williams.  Sentenced to Death Row at 17\, and after more than 25 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit\, a federal judge finally ordered Nanon’s release in November 2010 — one year after the NYC premiere of Bain’s production at The Public Theater.  Developed in prisons\, public schools and universities nationwide\, the show has received extraordinary reviews\, sold out on three continents with standing ovations in Europe\, Asia and Africa. \nCheck out the webpage: www.LyricsfromLockdown.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPress \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n1308 ROLFE HALL\, LOS ANGELES\, CA 90095\nAs a land grant institution\, UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional la
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SUMMARY:Black Excellence: Celebrate and Network with Successful Professionals
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to participate on Thursday\, February 25th and celebrate with UCLA’s Black Bruin legacy & history in the making.\n\nFeaturing:\n\nCelebration of the history & legacy of Black Bruins through the formal recognition of historical icons\, contemporary alumni\, staff\, and faculty who have exhibited exceptional career success.\nPanel of distinguished UCLA alumni\, staff and faculty focusing on Academic & Career Achievement and providing solutions to contemporary issues with focus on intersection with diversity and social justice.\nNetworking with alumni\, staff\, faculty and select employers from a various industries including Business\, Entertainment\, Higher Education\, Healthcare\, Tech\, Law\, Policy\, and much more.\nSpotlight of relevant university accomplishments and inroads such as AAP’s 50th Anniversary\, the establishment of the Black Bruin Resource Center and the inaugural year of the Career Center’s DOORS program.\nAcknowledgement of “Rising Stars” among current students(undergrad/graduate)\, post docs and/or recent alumni\n\nThursday\, February 25th\, 2021\nHosted via Zoom\n\nBlack Excellence is being held in collaboration with\nAAP\nAdmissions\nAfrican American Studies\nAlumni Association\nASP\nBlack Bruin Resource Center\nCCCP\nCPO\nORL\nRalph Bunche Center\n\nRSVP here
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