Race & Diversity

VSA’s culture shows are also using their performances to address heavier issues like LGBTQ+ rights, the BLM movement, and mental health. Their goal with this production is to lead cultural change within the Bay Area.

A study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, UCSF and Kaiser Permanente Northern California, or KPNC, has found a strong association between early onset puberty and young women born into neighborhoods of less racial and economic privilege. 

The paper, which was published Jan. 4, is a reflection on the anti-racist framework that was introduced to the School of Public Health’s foundations of maternal and child health practice policy course in fall 2020.

By analyzing the change in forest cover between 1985 and 2019, researchers found that forest cover change was 0.77 percent points higher each year for Indigenous tenured lands compared with those without tenure, signaling a steady decrease in deforestation after tenure.

UC Berkeley is continuing their plan to demolish Clark Kerr Campus’s building 21. Chancellor Carol Christ announced a plan to build a beach volleyball facility next to the currently existing facility in 2018 as part of an effort to address issues surrounding gender equity in sports.

A proposal that would make ethnic studies an A-G requirement for California schools has been formally on the table since October 2020. Now two years later, the discussion continues with a working group assigned to tackle implementation concerns in July.

32 years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, UC Berkeley has repatriated 1,000 of approximately 10,000 Indigenous remains.

Starting this fall, the UC Berkeley School of Law, or Berkeley Law, will offset tuition and student service fees for qualifying Native American students.

The UC Berkeley community and the city of Berkeley marked International Women’s Day Tuesday by recognizing activists both locally and internationally.

The city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, planned several events in honor of Black History Month.