race and ethnicity

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave...

UCLA psychology professor and director of the university’s Center for Policing Equity to lead project that was initiated by police chiefs.

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

So many of the indelible scenes of the L.A. riots featured men, but there was also an important women's story behind the unrest, a UCLA historian argues: the case of Latasha Harlins.

Joshua Bloom's "Black Against Empire" recasts the Panther Party, known primarily for its approach to black self-defense, as a pioneer in worldwide revolutionary politics.

In a step toward justice, commencement came for Japanese American former students who had been forced to leave UCLA and enter internment camps during World War II.