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Researchers found little evidence of change 18 months after the landmark Humphrey decision by the state supreme court.

Members of the campus community can examine the events in Iran and the world reaction with leading scholars from the U.S. and Europe.

The new Initiative to Study Hate kicks off with 23 projects that examine how hate manifests in the brain, online, in communities and who is most affected.

Immigration scholar Chris Zepeda-Millán draws inspiration from his grandparents and the migrant workers he’s met along his career.

The nationwide database records and analyzes legislative, regulatory and administrative efforts at local, state and federal levels.

Researchers are lending their expertise to help make sure everyone in Los Angeles can benefit from the efforts.

The Institute on Inequality and Democracy is among four organizations to receive funding from the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

The longtime campus leader will become UCLA’s chief academic officer effective Sept. 1, 2022.

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.