race and ethnicity

Terrence Roberts, who earned an M.A. degree from UCLA and served as assistant dean of the then-School of Social Welfare, returned to campus to talk about his historic role in integrating a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas and the current protests over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police.

UCLA history professor Valerie J. Matsumoto looks at the social clubs that gave Japanese-Americans a chance to socialize, develop leadership skills and participate in community service.

Robin D.G. Kelley, distinguished professor of history at UCLA, served as a consultant on the new documentary "Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People."

Joshua Bloom, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in sociology, received an American Book Award on Oct. 26 for a history of the Black Panthers. He shares the prize with co-author Waldo Martin, a UC Berkeley historian.

UCLA education professor Sylvia Hurtado’s research on the effect of campus climate on student academic progress as well as on student and faculty retention has caught the attention of many in higher education.

The UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hope to increase the diversity of faculty by attracting high-caliber researchers and providing them with the professional development training and opportunities to help them compete for highly selective tenure-track positions.

Many white Americans are becoming less enthusiastic about diversity and multiculturalism as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation, UCLA psychologists report.

Tyrone Howard of UCLA’s Black Male Institute says that a failure to intervene to help boys and men of color may have disastrous consequences for them and the country.

A thick dossier of letters from faculty colleagues, administrators, students and alumni attesting to his devotion to diversity has led to Richard Yarborough's selection as the campuswide winner of UCLA's top award for diversity, equity and inclusion.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomed approximately 900 people to Royce Hall Tuesday night for the Los Angeles premiere of “Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football.”

Education professor Teresa McCarty says that decades of research shows that immersion programs promote language acquisition, increased graduation rates and college entry, as well as parent involvement and cultural pride.

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

Luskin Dean Franklin Gilliam says citing statistics about racial disparities can be persuasive for reform advocates, contrasting a recent Stanford study that said the statistics were an ineffective persuasive tool.

Minorities had not been well represented in clinical trials of these devices, and the large-scale, two-year study sought to bridge this knowledge gap.

UCLA geographer Judith Carney is part of an international team of interdisciplinary researchers who have sequenced the complete genome of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). The findings were reported online Sunday in the scholarly journal Nature Genetics.

Jack Rothman of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs writes that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act black families currently own just one-tenth the assets of their white counterparts.

Professor Brenda Stevenson, a scholar who looks into issues of gender, family and community during the slavery era, recalls her own family history and connections to slavery. Her work has earned her the 2014 Gold Shield Faculty Prize.

The profiles provide a reliable source of information for policymakers, advocates, researchers, media and others interested in understanding the health of Californians, particularly those from previously understudied ethnic and racial minority groups.

An important visual piece of UCLA history is back on display in Ackerman Union.

In less than 40 years, the number of Asian Americans elected or appointed to public office has jumped from just over 100 to more than 4,000, according to a new political almanac published by UCLA.

Despite the fact that early Japanese immigrants to California faced discrimination on multiple levels, one group that arrived in northern California showed little bitterness, according to a little-known documentary that recently resurfaced after 30 years.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools across the United States are becoming more segregated for African Americans and Latinos.

Before Angela Davis taught her first college course at UCLA 45 years ago, the UC Board of Regents tried to fire her because she was a member of the Communist Party. Now she’s returning to teach at UCLA as a Regents’ Lecturer and Distinguished Professor Emerita.

In a new book, a UCLA historian explores the vast network of social clubs that helped Japanese-American girls navigate the prejudice and exclusion that they faced in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1950.

New generation of UCLA students to see mural, painted 44 years ago by black art students, depicting the struggles and achievements of African-Americans.