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UCLA scholars like Darnell Hunt, Robin D.G. Kelley and Kimberlé Crenshaw, among others, have shared their knowledge with media to help people understand what’s happening.

The heads of academic units dedicated to social justice renew their commitment to ensuring their research, teaching and service are not complicit with the expansion of the police state.

Zach Rutland, who is on track to graduate in June with his master’s in library and information science, has interned at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive.

The pandemic has highlighted our existing health disparities. Good data can prevent them from widening, says UCLA’s Ninez Ponce.

Report examines the number of homeless residents in Los Angeles, how this has changed over time, and how homelessness differs by race and ethnicity.

In online interviews with a professor, UCLA Luskin social welfare alumni reveal some fear, some frustrations and a whole lot of dedication.

The report was sponsored by the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Till von Wachter, director of the California Policy Lab, says that even with the CARES Act prolonged large-scale unemployment may still be hard to reverse.

UCLA junior Ahmad Elhaija used a Strauss Foundation scholarship to help provide access to affordable, quality medical care in low-income and refugee communities.

During a Zócalo/UCLA Downtown program panelists discussed what everyday Angelenos can do about homelessness.

Economic anthropologist Hannah Appel will focus on future of finance in new role at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

UCLA’s Dan Froot’s goal is to to have everyone start thinking about income disparity and the systems that conspire to create food insecurity.

In this Q&A, UCLA’s Jon Christensen discusses his new study of California’s Proposition 1, which was passed in 2014.

UCLA hosted scholars and activists to master the tools of research to advance safe shelter as a human right.

UCLA graduate students spent months studying ways to make sure a pending major redevelopment effort does not displace people already living there.

With release of new issue of UCLA Blueprint magazine, civic leaders, scholars and citizens discussed ‘the most pressing problem in this region.’

UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy hosts new course for graduate students across campus interested in battling housing injustice.

The professor of urban planning in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs challenges her students and lawmakers to rethink homelessness.

UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy welcomed community leaders to discuss Proposition 10 as part of the ongoing “Why History Matters” series.

Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center partners with other organizations to help Los Angeles-area women by bringing classes to locations convenient for them.

UCLA Magazine: For more than 30 years, the Riordan Programs in UCLA's Anderson School of Management have helped low-income high school students envision a brighter tomorrow.

El Sereno Middle School celebrates grand opening of UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind fitness center.

Event at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs served as a way to one day help diversify the ranks of urban planners.

Students and city leaders weigh policy options regarding homelessness during annual UCLA Luskin Day at Los Angeles City Hall.

UCLA students helping teach former gang members how to resolve their conflicts peacefully find themselves transformed by the experience.