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ith enrollment increasing every year, the question and debates around housing are only growing, and with them, the conversations around the problems students face living in Berkeley.

The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, has become embroiled in controversy recently, with its latest application wielded to block UC Berkeley’s housing plans for People’s Park.

Founded as a collaboration between the African American Student Development and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Black Lives at Cal was founded in fall 2021 to do research and archive the untold and unearthed stories of Black history here in Berkeley. 

When Ifafunke Oladigbolu moved to Berkeley from Nigeria in 1991, she missed the vibrancy and vividness of Nigerian fashion.

As we remember all that Black communities have fought for, we should also celebrate Black excellence, whether it be in our city, our campus community or our culture.

As millions tuned in to watch the highly anticipated halftime performance by Rihanna, viewers watched another performer steal the show with her energetic and passionate American Sign Language renditions of the setlist.

Born out of Indigenous American and African textiles, the Gee’s Bend quilts have come to represent the fortitude of African American culture.

Black student-athletes succeeding in school doesn’t just depend on resources and inclusivity within the classroom: Athletic stakeholders such as coaches, administrators and even loyal fans all influence how educational institutions may or may not advocate for these players.

The NFL hasn’t done enough to show that the policy is anything more than a performative guideline. Can the NFL impose quotas on the number of head coaches of color?

As England’s knight — both literally and metaphorically — in shining Mercedes armor, Hamilton has dominated the racetracks in recent Formula 1 memory. But as the history books would suggest, glory and solitude are just two sides of the same coin.