News Archive
From Dorms to Dakar
WAC students experience language, culture of Senegal through UCLA Summer Session program.
Posted: 9/18/2006
UCLA Fowler Museum to Premiere 'Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World' Oct. 29
The first major U.S. exhibition on Tuareg art and culture examines the history of "the Blue People of the Sahara," so-called for their indigo turbans that at times stain their skin and define their identity as they ride on majestic camels.
Posted: 8/25/2006
'As a Teacher, I Have Power'
W. Michael 'Jelani' Hamm, the Coordinator for the Social Justice Magnet at Crescent Heights Elementary, discusses his experiences at a two-day K-12 teachers' workshop on the plight of African children.
Posted: 7/5/2006
Soccer, Nationalism, and Globalization
With the 2006 FIFA World Cup days away from kicking off, the African Activist Association staged their first conference of its kind, "Soccer, Nationalism, and Globalization" on the 31st of May 2006.
Posted: 6/26/2006
Diary Gives a Face to HIV/AIDS Battle
Woman records experience on radio to bring patients hope, erase stigma attached to illness.
Posted: 5/2/2006
Leading Ethiopian Historian Revisits Student Movement
Bahru Zewde of Addis Ababa University was a member and early observer of the movement that supplied ideas for transition after the 1974 revolution.
Posted: 4/4/2006
Beyond the Headlines
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Posted: 3/8/2006
Want to Promote Development? Fight AIDS
Director of World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program discusses magnitude of a long-term epidemic, strategies for saving lives.
Posted: 3/3/2006
Former Ambassador Emphasizes Africa's Centrality
Princeton Lyman, a Ralph Bunche senior fellow, visited UCLA to present a report by the Council of Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. policy towards Africa.
Posted: 2/15/2006
The Dead
In a series of up-close testimonies survivors of the Rwandan genocide tell their stories in Eric Kabera's film 'Keepers of Memory.
Posted: 2/2/2006
