race and ethnicity

OD mortality rates increased during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis for all groups studied and were highest among Native Americans.

Sparked by the national reckoning with racial justice, Samantha Mensah co-founded BlackInChem to help other students of color and women advance as chemists.

The event revolves around the four exhibitions on view, which feature art from Africa and Australia.

Bruins recommend works for education and enjoyment to celebrate throughout February.

Student artist Maia Hadaway created a cafeteria-like scene of generations of important Black Bruins and civil rights leaders for the center.

The past becomes personal for UCLA students studying the experiences of Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II.

A new pilot program aims to help low-income, first-generation and historically underrepresented students pursue graduate studies and research careers.

Q&A with historian Miriam Petty about “Stormy Weather,” which the UCLA Film & Television Archive will screen on Feb. 19

The professor examines the cultural and theological backgrounds of traditional thinking.

UCLA legal scholars have long used these methods to examine shifting attitudes toward racial justice throughout U.S. history.

UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks to the $100 million revitalization project.

For two decades, Rev. James Lawson Jr. — one of King’s close friends and a fellow civil and labor rights leader — has taught a course on King’s signature method for social reform.

A UCLA-funded study models the toll of heat and dehydration on the human body along the unforgiving routes used by Latin American migrants.

A new UCLA study has found that Latinos, who comprise nearly half the county’s population, pen less than 5% of the paper’s op-eds.

A multigenerational mural lights up UCLA’s new Black Bruin Resource Center.

In an era filled with challenges, Bruin gymnasts celebrate their individuality and evolve their sport ― as a big, multiethnic family.

The UCLA alumna couldn’t find the kinds of stories she wanted to read to her daughter, so she wrote her own.

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.

In “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States,” Kyle Mays reframes U.S. history.

The writer and Latino Film Institute CEO touts the importance of UCLA’s research on inclusion in TV, movies.

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

A report from UCLA’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers looks at the intersection of race, class and social mobility in shows popular with teens.

In a pre-event Q&A, the entertainer and Obama White House staffer speaks about how both jobs have shaped his worldview.

The study also found that many felt that immigrants would be prevented from gaining legal U.S. immigration status if they used certain government benefits.