Luskin Innovators: Chasing Water

Water scarcity is intensifying around the world, with dire consequences. Water expert Brian Richter argues that sustainable water sharing can only happen through open, democratic dialogue and local collective action.

Coffee & Talks with Author, Brian McCabe

Room 5391 Luskin School of Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a talk with Brian McCabe about his book on the challenges associated with a commitment to homeownership.

There goes the neighborhood.

Public Affairs Building, Luskin Commons 337 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A teach-in on protecting data on race and affordable housing with Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center.

From Colorblindness to White Nationalism?: Emerging Racial Formations in the Trump Era

California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA Campus 570 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, CA, United States

Critical Race Studies Ninth Annual Symposium From Colorblindness to White Nationalism?: Emerging Racial Formations in the Trump Era Friday March 3rd, 2017 / California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA Campus Donald Trump’s political rise has been marked, and fueled, by a resurgent and explicit white nationalism. This would have been significant even had he merely been nominated […]

Women Veteran’s Mental Health Issues

UCLA Student Activities Center, Conf. Room #2 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Former Massachusetts First Lady, Kitty Dukakis, shares her seventeen-year battle with a disabling depression coupled with drug & alcohol addiction.

Making of a Movement: Origins of Black Lives Matter

Room 5391 Luskin School of Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Activist-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy discusses the inception of Black Lives Matter, the importance of recalling and writing this history, and social justice activism today.

The Folklore of the Freeway

Westbound 300 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Professor Eric Avila for drinks & discussion on the freeway revolt and how urban minority communities have used cultural expression to reclaim their place after they were divided by the interstate highway.