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A new University of Los Angeles (UCLA) analysis of data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found discrimination leads transgender individuals to contemplate and attempt suicide at high rates. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center of Transgender Equality included responses from 27,715 transgender people from all 50…
LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo Ball, one of the three UCLA basketball players who were detained in China for shoplifting, said President Donald Trump needs a pair of hisBig Baller BrandZO2 shoes “so he can calm down a little bit.” “I sent Trump his shoes,” Ball told TMZ Sports…
The exclusion of Black writers and other writers of color from television writers’ rooms has far reaching consequences, especially when it comes to the scripts of crime procedural shows, Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color Of Change, told DiversityInc. “Race In The Writers’ Room: How Hollywood Whitewashed the Stories that…
Ahead of the 89th Academy Awards show on Sunday, UCLA has released its annual Hollywood Diversity report, which highlights that diversity means higher financial returns on productions. The report, generated through the university’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, examined the 200 top-grossing theatrical film releases in 2015,…
College students, professors, alumni and other leaders on campuses nationwide from at least 80 schools are standing in solidarity with one another and against President-elect Donald Trump and his anti-immigration policies. “Things are really raw for a lot of students,” said Danny Siegel, president of the student government at UCLA,…
By Michael Nam Photo by Shutterstock There are currently 5.9 million voters of Asian-American descent. And according to a report from the UCLA Center for the Study of Inequality and the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, that number will double to 12.2 million by the year 2040. The…
By Sheryl Estrada According to “2015 Hollywood Diversity Report: Flipping the Script,” which makes a correlation between diversity and revenue in Tinseltown, business as usual “may soon be unsustainable” as “diversity sells.” The report is the second in a series from the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies…
By Julissa Catalan A Black UCLA student is receiving racist hate mail after trying to bring attention to the lack of diversity within the university’s law programs. Alexis Gardener and some of her classmates produced a nine-minute video titled 33, in which students speak candidly about their experiences as the…
By Julissa Catalan Photo by Shutterstock With a $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a newly formed alliance plans to change the demographics of students in STEM-related (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduate programs. The University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Stanford University…
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