Calendar of Events

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs presents "A Conversation with Chelsea Manning." As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now an advocate for government transparency and queer and transgender rights, Manning will speak about topics including resistance in the age of artificial intelligence; activism and protest; transgender issues; and the intersection of technology and people’s lives.

The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy presents "Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy Workshop" featuring David Stein.

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk explores and deconstructs black political identity, foregrounding the forms of ideological conflict and difference that exist within what can be understood to be black radicalism. It calls into question the coherence and singularity of the political category, “woke black folk,” demonstrating the deep differences and divides within black communities and within black mobilization.