“My family came here in pieces.” Valerie* sits at a table on the Kerckhoff patio, folding and refolding the napkin she had just used for lunch. Read more...
Photo: Jessica Colotl unwittingly became an activist for the undocumented student movement after she was arrested for a minor traffic violation in 2010, and immediately placed into deportation proceedings.
Reporter Natalie Delgadillo, opinion columnist Ryan Nelson and photojournalist Angie Wang spent eleven months piecing together the full picture of what it means to be an undocumented student in the United States, from California, where policies are comparatively lenient, to Georgia, where students are subject to some of the harshest higher education policies in the country. Read more...
Participants and supporters of a new fellowship program that will train transgender and cisgender women to lead international social justice movements gathered Saturday at the UCLA Labor Center in downtown Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: The Women Rising Fellows Program, a two-year leadership development training course, was launched Saturday at the UCLA Labor Center in downtown Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Rachel Torres)
A crowd of over 200 gathered outside the Wilshire Federal Building on Sunday to demonstrate solidarity with Israel, after rising tensions in the region have left dozens dead. Read more...
Photo: About 200 people gathered outside the Wilshire Federal Building on Sunday, waving the flags of Israel and the United Staes to demonstrate solidarity with Israel. (Alejandra Reyes/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In 2013, Sy Stokes released a spoken word video, “The Black Bruins,” that garnered national attention. The video featured Stokes and members of the Black Male Institute, an organization dedicated to researching educational opportunities for black men, who cited statistics about the number of black students at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Sy Stokes, who graduated from UCLA in March, released a spoken word video, “The Black Bruins,” that garnered national attention. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)
UCLA researchers released a report Thursday which found 45 percent of all same-sex couples in the United States are now married, compared to 21 percent in 2013. Read more...
Marco Ferreira’s recovery process has been a long one, consisting of three surgeries, ongoing physical rehabilitation and numerous visits from therapy dogs. In 2008, Ferreira was involved in a motorcycle accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury and left him in a coma for six weeks. Read more...
Photo: Gigi Schiller, a staff member for People-Animal Connection, pets Larry, one of the program’s 70 therapy dogs. The program, which was founded in 1994, has dogs visit patients, staff and families in different UCLA Health centers to help them in recovery. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)
