Luskin Lecture: David Simon on “The Audacity of Despair”
We are delighted to share the complete Luskin Lecture: David Simon on “The Audacity of Despair” that was part of the Institute’s inauguration on Friday, February 5, 2016 at UCLA’s James […]
Shining a Powerful Light on Social Injustice
By Stan Paul and George Foulsham In one of the poorest neighborhoods of Chicago, an African-American mother and her children face eviction amid a patchwork landscape of foreclosed and empty […]
David Simon: The Great Divide in the ‘Two Americas’
By George Foulsham Fractured. Rigged. Tragic. David Simon uses those words often as he describes what’s become of America, or, as he puts it, our “two Americas.” Simon, a former […]
UCLA Institute to Focus on Activists Tackling Inequality
In 2014, the Chicago Housing Authority opened its public housing waitlist for the first time since 2010, and its housing voucher waitlist for the first time since 2008. More than […]
Urban Color-Lines Event Challenges Racial Segregation
Scholars, artists and activists gathered Feb. 4 and 5 for the launch of the new Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. The launch event, “Urban Color-Lines,” took place on the […]
School of Public Affairs launched Institute on Inequality and Democracy
The Luskin School of Public Affairs will launch an interdisciplinary institute Thursday that aims to address social inequality issues by promoting social justice and democratic ideas.
New Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy to Launch with Series of Events Feb. 4–5
A new kind of Institute has come to UCLA. Led by Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs professor and center director, the newly established Institute on Inequality and […]
UCLA Luskin Professor Ananya Roy Has a ‘Clear Mandate’ for Social Justice
By Stan Paul On day one of teaching her first UCLA undergraduate course, “Democracy and Inequality,” award-winning scholar, author and teacher Ananya Roy wasted no time getting right to a […]
