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The Big C(ommunity) Referendum 2.0 failed to meet the 20% voter turnout required to pass during the 2024 ASUC elections, although Senator Kailen Grottel-Brown said it could be back on

The Big C(ommunity) Referendum 2.0 failed to meet the 20% turnout requirement to pass during the 2024 ASUC elections, although the Elections Council announced otherwise last Friday.

UC Berkeley doctoral candidates Ataya Cesspooch and Sierra Edd and doctoral student Breylan Martin published a collective statement Nov. 11 about campus associate professor Elizabeth Hoover, who released a statement Oct. 20 rescinding her previous claim to Native American ancestry.

UC has not been sufficiently accessible to the very people whose dispossession was core to its founding

California Native American students tribes will have their university tuition and fees waived for the 2022-2023 academic year. 

Cafe Ohlone opens for a sold-out preview event Saturday at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of...

At a college with thousands of students, it can seem difficult to find a community. However, communities on campus have coalesced to offer support.

On a patch of land at the northwest corner of campus, a garden brimming with indigenous plants has sprung to life and connected students to their heritage.

OLUFEMI “FEMI” OGUNDELE PRUDENCE CARTER KYNDALL ELISE DOWELL CALEB DAWSON WALTER J. HOOD JOHN A. POWELL Professor, Berkeley Law, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies You can read a lightly edited version here or watch the full conversation on our YouTube channel.  TAKIYAH FRANKLIN: Before we get started, I’m going to take this moment to give a brief background on the trajectory of the struggles of Black and brown people at UC Berkeley. In 1968 there was a five-month strike that d...

Della Keahna Uran When High Country News published “Land-Grab universities” last April, the two-year-long investigation shed new light on a dark open secret: One of the largest transfers of land and capital in the country’s history had masqueraded as a donation for university endowments. HCN identified nearly 11 million acres of land, expropriated from approximately 250 tribes, bands and communities through more than 160 violence-backed treaties and land cessions. Now, in the wake of the...