race and ethnicity

More than 10,000 adults offered their thoughts on health care reform, immigration, taxes, climate change, Black Lives Matter and other public policy issues.

UCLA’s Leah Boustan looks at how the influx of millions of black workers from the South reshaped labor markets and neighborhoods in the North and West.

Aomawa Shields studies the climate on distant planets. But she also earned an M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television and worked as an actress.

The percentage of black students who attend completely or almost-completely non-white schools has declined since the 1990s but remains above 70 percent.

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA is hosting a series of events held in honor of Black History Month.

A standing-room-only crowd gathered Wednesday, Jan. 18, in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles to hear two UCLA scholars with expertise in immigration law and the historic underpinnings of the Japanese-American incarceration.

A new book, "Nonviolence and Social Movements: The Teachings of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.," was recently published by the UCLA Labor Center and was written by UCLA students who were inspired by a class he and UCLA faculty members taught.

'Everything the senate does, every decision we make, has the goal of achieving excellence at UCLA,' says Susan Cochran, chair of the UCLA Academic Senate.

Ava DuVernay’s stirring documentary takes its title from the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery yet included a clause that laid the foundation for the long history of racial inequality in America’s prison industrial complex.

The number of Latino physicians in the U.S. has not kept up with the dramatic increase in the Latino population.

Local high school students learn about the life of a UCLA scientist and practical uses for nanotechnology.

Tyrone Howard's Black Male Institute at UCLA focuses on finding ways to propel black male youth to college and prepare them for success in academia and professional life.

Law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl asks what message the government was trying to send when it flagged his passport and held him for 40 minutes without questioning.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $415,000 to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to support a six-week summer program for incoming college sophomores, juniors and community college students who are interested in health professions.

Rogers Brubaker’s new book expands on public discussions of identity around Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal.

Part of the naming and dedication celebration of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, the exhibition examines Jewish history in one of L.A.’s most multiethnic neighborhoods.

They created a website and searchable database that highlights African-American actors, crewmembers, writers and other artists who were making films in the early 1900s.

Marjorie Kagawa Singer is the 2016-17 interim director of the Asian American Studies Center. Her appointment, announced Oct. 24, took effect immediately.

What can we learn from this election season and how can we use this knowledge to advance racial and political equity? A panel of UCLA scholars and researchers will discuss the election's impact on underprivileged populations.

“Police Killings of African Americans: What’s Law Got to Do with It?” will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 in Covel Commons.

Valerie Smith emphasized that universities must invite students to inhabit the ideas of people with whom they differ.

After reading the book over the summer, new students participated in activities last week aimed at deepening their engagement with it.

New website tracks incarceration by neighborhood where the inmate lives and totals how much is spent by community.

With support from UCLA, The Atlantic magazine will present the 2016 Race + Justice summit, bringing together civic leaders, artists, activists, academics and policy makers to share ideas and insights.

UCLA graduate student Osceola Ward leads Outward Bound trips for teens in underserved communities to give them the tools to make their voices heard on environmental issues.