Opinion

Aileen Liu, Hernan Garcia, Christian Paiz and Arianne Eason sit in chairs on a dark stage and talk

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

Professors in psychology, biology and ethnic studies broach this deep question as part of a series for the College of Letters and Science course, Research, Discovery and You.

Photo illustration of a dark ocean and slave ships

Opinion

Does recognizing Juneteenth come at a cost?

candles in bags glow yellow as a person walks by

Opinion

powell: Does diversity matter? In Tyre Nichols’ case, it didn’t

RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, a man beaten by Memphis police who died on Jan. 25, 2023, is surrounded by people holding candles in the dark. She is wearing warm clothes.

Campus & community

Herd: Pain from police killings is never-ending trauma for Black communities

What does being energy independent really mean?

two youth and an adult dressed in traditional Ukrainian outfits

Student Vitaliia Yaremko: ‘I’m more proud than ever to be Ukrainian’

Jesus Nazario, a Ph.D. student in ethnic studies.

Keeping alive our Indigenous cultures on Mother Language Day

Michael Drake stands wearing a suit and tie, smiling

President Drake: We stand in solidarity with Historically Black Colleges and Universities

A person in protective clothing walks through an empty 2,000-bed medical facility for COVID-19 patients in Iran.

COVID-19: What we should learn from this pandemic

Various GBO leaders stand under Sather Gate with signs that spell out the names of their student orientiation groups.

Rothstein: Why UC Berkeley — not Harvard — is America’s top university

Protestors holding up a unity sigh at an anti-Asian hate protest

How can Black and Asian American communities build power? Unity.

Rose Wilkerson smiles for the camera as a teenager

After Thoughts: ‘I’m American, regardless of how my ancestors got here’

A small business, maybe a restaurant with an open for business sign on the front window

An ambitious plan for California’s post-COVID economic recovery

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier while officers hold onto the barrier and pull it back

Why were Trump loyalists allowed to storm the Capitol?

Trump supporters trying to break through police barrier at U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6

Berkeley scholars’ outrage, reflections on U.S. Capitol mob siege

Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, speaks in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov. 7.

Kamala Harris’s rise, multicultural roots and challenges

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