social justice

In recognition of the holiday, UCLA Newsroom shares insights from UCLA professors Eddie Cole, Karida Brown and Brenda Stevenson.

Ahmanise Sanati has worked at L.A.'s Twin Towers Correctional Facility for 11 years, during which time she’s brought in books for the people incarcerated there.

A UCLA study finds those who have been undocumented experience even greater levels of unequal work conditions.

Theo Henderson hopes to use the position to encourage more active, mobile research methods.

The building, which is named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, will house labor research, teaching and service for decades to come.

Civil and labor rights icon and 20-year labor studies faculty member to be linked with UCLA in perpetuity at a ceremony on Dec. 11.

An international study co-led by UCLA’s Graeme Blair found that community policing did little to improve trust in law enforcement.

UCLA’s Brad Sears has observed how the current pandemic has been shaped by what we did and did not learn in the past 40 years.

Centering Tribal Stories will train University of California scholars on collaborations with Native American communities.

The globetrotting UCLA professor explores shipwrecks to study the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the former Danish West Indies.

The funds will support UCLA students, policy reports and big-data projects such as the Million Dollar Hoods initiative.

A new report by the Luskin Center for Innovation provides a framework for environmental justice in disadvantaged communities.

UCLA-led critical mission studies program creates a new model to understand the past, present and future.

Cushing studies the disproportionate impact of environmental exposures and climate change on low-income populations and communities of color in the U.S.

Kian Goh has been named the associate faculty director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

Award recipients’ projects are published on eScholarship, UC’s open-access research repository.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive led the restoration of the film, which is available to stream.

To celebrate and honor LGBTQ Bruins the iconic building became a stunning kaleidoscope of colors.

Anne Nguyen saw how work in the classroom can help communities in need.

Q&A with UCLA’s inaugural assistant vice chancellor for civil rights, whose office helps ensure that everyone can learn, teach or work free from discrimination or harassment.

New social media campaign was created by Professor Renee Tajima-Peña and alumnus Jeff Chang.

A proud Northern Cheyenne Indian and Chicana sociologist, she says building community with and encouraging others is fundamental to her scholarship.

Abigail Saguy has long been committed to understanding and articulating how our culture frames identity, and human vulnerabilities.

Courses will pair social justice teaching with community engagement and instruction in data literacy, statistics and computational research methods.

UCLA sociologist Cecilia Menjívar explains that today’s plagued system began taking shape well before the Trump administration.