This post was updated June 9 at 2:51 a.m. Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican John Cox won the California gubernatorial primary election Tuesday. Newsom led with 33 percent of the vote; Cox won 26 percent. Former mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa came in third with 13 percent of the vote. Twenty-seven candidates […]
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California and UCLA restrict travel to Oklahoma in response to anti-LGBTQ law
UCLA will join California in barring employees from traveling to Oklahoma, which enacted a law that targets LGBTQ couples. The California Attorney General’s office announced Friday that it would ban public employees from work-related travel to Oklahoma after the state passed a law that allows adoption agencies to turn away LGBTQ couples based on religious […]
‘The Americans’ cast members discuss espionage with former CIA agents
Former CIA operatives recounted stories of Romeo spies and Cold War politics at a panel including actors from FX’s “The Americans.” The officers and actors compared their real-life and on-screen experiences Wednesday at an event hosted by UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations and moderated by Joe Weisberg, the showrunner and a former CIA officer. […]
UCLA School of Law receives $4.3M donation as part of Centennial Campaign
UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment received a $4.3 million donation Thursday to expand its research on environmental law and policy. The donation from the Emmett Foundation includes a direct gift of $1.8 million and the foundation’s commitment to match up to $2.5 million of gifts from other donors. […]
Student-created multimedia gallery tells stories of Holocaust survivors
Dana Schwartz was forced to say goodbye to her father without speaking or showing emotion, so as to not reveal her Jewish identity. Jacob Bresler searched for his brother for decades after World War II ended, reading countless letters and claims from all over the world. Schwartz and Bresler’s stories were featured at a multimedia […]
Photo: Students protest lack of representation at Indigenous Peoples Unite event
This post was updated May 24 at 10:55 a.m. Members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a protest at a Thursday event in which Jewish, Armenian and Kurdish students spoke about the histories of their peoples, claiming it did not acknowledge Palestinians as indigenous to the region. The event was meant to bring together […]
UCLA hosts panel discussing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar
UCLA experts in human rights and mass violence drew parallels between the ethnic cleansing currently occurring in Myanmar with past events, such as the Holocaust, at an event Wednesday. The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies hosted a panel about violence against the Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar. […]