Looking the part: history's power to change the view.A conversation between Professor Brenda Stevenson, UCLA, the newly-appointed Hillary Rodham Clinton Prof...

A panel discussion that put the election in historical perspective and discussed where we are heading with Ellen DuBois, Emeritus Professor of History and Gender Studies at UCLA, Brenda Stevenson, the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in the Department of History and Professor of African American Studies at UCLA, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.

For the first time, on October 14, 1920, the University of Oxford granted degrees to women, many of whom had successfully completed the work necessary to ear...

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. It wasn't easy, but through marches, protests and advocacy, the fight was won. A century...

Jon Wiener (Set the Night on Fire) and Brenda Stevenson (The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins) discuss the legacy of protest in Los Angeles. Buy a copy of...

With the onset of a global pandemic, a mass movement arises in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement. UCLA students share personal experiences, whi...

On March 16, 1991, Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year-old African American girl, entered the Empire Liquor Market in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the count...

Racial injustice courses deeply through American history. In 2020, demands for rights and racial equality are at the center of renewed calls for decisive policy action in response to law enforcement brutality and systemic racism. The size, composition, and sustained nature of nationwide protests suggest it’s different this time. Is it? What kind of moment is this? The social movements of today build on a long legacy of movements dating to the country’s formation, Reconstruction, and 20th century civil rights era. How does the current movement compare with those preceding it, and how useful are the comparisons? How have struggles extending from abolition to Black Lives Matter intersected with institutional and electoral politics, the evolving roles of women and youth generations, other contemporaneous social movements, and the prevailing culture? What conditions and alignments will help shift momentum from the status quo to the pursuit of a more equitable, inclusive, and moral political economy?

Marlborough's Brian K. Smith, Dean of College Counseling and English Instructor, and Jonathon Allen, History and Social Sciences Department Head, have a Juneteenth Conversation with Courtney Joseph, Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies, Lake Forrest College, and Brenda Stevenson, Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in the Department of History and a Professor of African American Studies, UCLA.

Wednesday on the NewsHour, a conversation with Sen. Tim Scott about the Republican police reform bill he is leading. Plus: Robert Gates on how the U.S. can o...

Protests erupted across the U.S. following the death of George Floyd. Many looked back Los Angeles riots in 1992 triggered by four LAPD officers' acquittal f...

Curators Tyree Boyd-Pates and Taylor Bythewood-Porter and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson discuss the exhibition, which examines California's under-recognized involvement with slavery in the 19th century. On view through April 28, 2019. Music by Sunny War from her album "With The Sun," courtesy of Hen House Studios.

A provocative documentary look into the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. Don't miss the premiere on Friday April 21st at 9 PM ET/PT. Subscribe to the SHOWTIME channel for more clips: http://goo.gl/esCMib Get SHOWTIME merchandise now: http://sho.com/store_yt_showtime Don't have SHOWTIME? Order now: http://s.sho.com/1HbTNpQ Don't miss groundbreaking documentaries on SHOWTIME.

"L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later" tells the story of the civil unrest that shook the nation from the perspective of those who lived through a week of upheaval following a jury's acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers charged in the 1991 beating of African-American motorist Rodney King.

The Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History at UCLA reflects on the civil rights leader's legacy.

Brenda E. Stevenson's lecture "Performing Social Status in Slavery and Freedom: Southern Black Marriage Rituals, 1840-1900" explores antebellum slave marriage rites/rights in contrast to some of the ways in which the first generation(s) of freedmen and women interpreted and experienced their emancipation in marital ritual, performance, and celebration during the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Brenda Stevenson discussed her book, "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins," about the 1991 killing of a 15-year-old African-American girl by a Korean store owner in Los Angeles. Prof. Stevenson argues that this event and the outcome of the trial that followed acted as a catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Brenda Stevenson, Ph.D., Professor of History at UCLA, spoke about "the Civil Rights Movement and Contemporary Society" for an audience of distinguished guests who were equally sympathetic to the subject.