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Professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept excelling and UCLA showed how it helps make Los Angeles a world-class city.

Kelly Lytle Hernández and Marcus Hunter are among the participants at the 26th annual event UCLA Kelly Lytle Hernández, professor of history, African American studies and urban planning, will participate in the California MacArthur Fellows panel. Marcus Hunter, professor of sociology, moderated the Black Experience Across Genre panel. Maxwell Gordy | April 21, 2021 The 26th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which began on April 17 and will conclude on April 23, features mo...

With a $3.65-million grant and a trove of Los Angeles Police Department records dating back decades, scholars at UCLA have launched a new archival project aimed at independently preserving and dissecting the history of mass incarceration in L.A. The project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and called “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration,” will seek to reveal in new ways how the Los Angeles region became a global outlier for imprisonment — with the largest jail system in the ...