Martha Saavedra

The Berkeley City Council passed the first phase of Berkeley Reparations March 22 to address the economic injury made to descendants of slavery in Berkeley.

Among the thousands of undergraduates beginning their first classes at UC Berkeley this fall, 21 freshmen from sub-Saharan Africa will form the largest group of students entering the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.

Selam Sekuar, a UC Berkeley freshman and international student from Ethiopia, was fatally struck by a train at the Downtown Berkeley BART Station on Nov. 25. She was 19.

UC Berkeley students rallied on the steps of Sproul Hall Wednesday at noon to urge for the release of kidnapped Nigerian girls, who were allegedly abducted a month ago from their school.