A team of investigators and researchers at the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health have launched a new study to better understand the current...
The recently-released data are shocking: COVID-19 is infecting and killing black people at an alarmingly high rate. An Associated Press analysis — one of the first...
In partnership with former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and China’s top climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, UC Berkeley announced the launch of a...
The rise of anti-immigration rhetoric and policies in the United States following the 2016 presidential election may be taking its toll on the health of California’s...
On Wednesday, June 19, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) celebrated Juneteenth — a national commemoration of the end of slavery in...
When the powers that be came to Paula Fass to ask her to take over as the faculty director at UC Berkeley’s The Magnes Collection of...
Cal Athletics has announced a new effort to prepare student-athletes for success after graduation with a three-pillar program of personal development. The new program, called the...
Explored the impact of African Americans on the Parisian cultural scene Participants in the Cal Discoveries Travel sponsored “Paris Noir,” an exploration of the indelible impact...
As UC Berkeley graduate students Nancy Freitas and Jake Duncan made their way recently toward the vaunted halls of the California State Capitol in Sacramento, they...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — As a professor with UC Berkeley’s Global Poverty and Practice Program, this is the book I have been waiting for, and...
For Ph.D. candidate Malika Imhotep, devotion to black studies is a life practice. She grew up in West Atlanta, rooted in a community that she calls...
More than 80,000 apply to be UC Berkeley freshmen Year after year, for more than a decade, applications for admission to UC Berkeley’s freshman class reached...
When we’re in pain, we have a hard time sleeping. But how does poor sleep affect pain? For the first time, UC Berkeley scientists have answered...
When photojournalist Wesaam Al-Badry, a first-year student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, went to rural North Dakota to photograph a Native American family struggling...
By Will Kane Kim Guess works for UC Berkeley. Her job is to make sure her colleagues — all 8,300 staff and 3,800 faculty — eat...
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Mayor Randall Woodfin said late Sunday he was “dismayed” by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s decision to rescind a Human Rights Award...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Whether you ask a parent, a teacher or even a college student like me, creating a better world for kids is...
League members Linda McClain, Lois Corrin, and Julie Chang saying “thank you” to David Thigpen, Director of undergrad journalism at UC, after his presentation Sunday at...
When monuments dedicated to a historic legacy of whiteness are being toppled, it is refreshing that UC Berkeley is honoring Dr. David Blackwell, the first tenured...
Young people age 5 to 14 and their parents are invited to enjoy a day of outdoor fun at Hoover Elementary School. The free event will...
California Senator Kamala D. Harris will give the 2018 commencement address to UC Berkeley’s graduates on May 12, 2018. Harris, the second African-American woman elected to the...
By Will Kane UC Berkeley’s newest residence hall will be named after David Blackwell, the first Black professor to ever receive tenure at UC Berkeley and...
Libertad Ayala, lead organizer for AFSCME Local 3299, delivers an emotional speech at a protest on UC Berkeley’s campus on Tuesday, February 6. Ayala joined with...
Aaron James Price along with Dr. Jowel C. Laguerre receiving the Chancellor’s Trophy at the Laney College Spring Commencement Ceremony on May 27, 2017. Photo Courtesy...
Vernard Lewis, an urban entomologist whose work has had a lasting impact on insect pests around the world, has retired. UC Berkeley’s first African American entomologist,...