Kelly Lytle Hernandez awarded 2018 Freedom Now Award
Please join us in congratulating Kelly Lytle Hernandez as her Million Dollar Hoods project has been awarded with this year’s 2018 Freedom Now Award from the Los Angeles Community Action […]
Please join us in congratulating Kelly Lytle Hernandez as her Million Dollar Hoods project has been awarded with this year’s 2018 Freedom Now Award from the Los Angeles Community Action […]
David Stein is featured in a write up in The Intercept the past and future of struggles for guaranteed jobs featuring our chair Marcus Hunter’s research and authored an op-ed on Coretta Scott […]
Tananarive Due is the recipient of the illustrious Octavia E. Butler Award from the National Conference of Black Writers for her continued and distinguished body of work.
Karida Brown is the recipient of the highly-coveted Fulbright Award in the Global Scholars program for her comparative international project on racial education segregation in the United States and South […]
Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (University of North Carolina Press), is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 James […]
Read Banking on a ‘shithole’: US-led racial capitalism in Haiti began long before Trump by Professor Peter J Hudson
Introducing the Department’s first online course- “Af-Amer 1: Introduction to Black Studies” Take the first Department of African American Studies online course this summer! Sign up for our Summer Session […]
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As part of Black History Month, UCLA’s ‘Why History Matters’ event series bears witness to stories of black women. Read more here
Read Tananarive Due’s essay that is featured in Global Dystopias here