In recent years, Los Angeles has invested mightily in its public spaces in efforts to create a “world class city.” From the loudly-hyped debut of Grand Park, to Mayor Eric...
In the last few weeks, colleges have been rattled by stories of racial tension on campus. This week, the president of the University of Missouri resigned after black...
Professor Laura Barraclough has published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times showing how laws banning events in the Mexican rodeo are feeding the anti-immigrant agenda.
To...
Laura Barraclough, Public Voices Fellow for 2015-2016, has published an essay connecting the rise of homelessness in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley to histories of...
Historian and Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway joins the Teach Better Podcast, episode 17 to talk about his acclaimed undergraduate lecture course on African-American...
September 21st, Professor Zareena Grewal’s relatives in Mosul, Iraq were drone-attacked in the middle of the night and four of them died and others were injured. For...
Congratulations to Megan Asaka (PhD 2014) for her outstanding dissertation, “The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape” in winning the...
