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Group portrait featuring (left to right): Julia Schaletzky, Smriti Mehta and Will Fithian, against the carved-stone backdrop of an elegant old campus building.

Campus & community

With right and left deeply divided, emerging UC Berkeley groups embrace the ‘vital center’

According to a popular, if inaccurate, caricature, Berkeley is an ideological monoculture. Now three growing campus organizations are working to expand the space for diverse political perspectives.

Campus & community

How the Free Speech Movement and Third World Liberation Front transformed Berkeley scholarship

Jack Weinberg sits in a police car in 1964 with his arms folded out the window, surrounded by police and protesters

Campus & community

How Freedom Summer activists brought the Free Speech Movement to Berkeley

Condoleezza Rice speaking into a microphone while looking into the audience

Campus & community

How the Berkeley Liberty Initiative champions free speech in divided times

A woman with long hair stands at a podium and smiles at people seated nearby.

How UC Berkeley researchers are making online spaces safer for all

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

How the Berkeley Liberty Initiative champions free speech in divided times

Chancellor Carol Christ smiles in an informal portrait against a dark background

Carol Christ: Years of challenge, years of historic progress

Harry Edwards stands on the sidelines of a football field speaking joyfully to a group of people.

From UC Berkeley to 49ers sidelines, Harry Edwards dreams with his eyes wide open

Berkeley Talks: Free speech on campus in times of great division

panel discussion with chancellor christ, new yorker reporter andrew marantz, ed wasserman and dan mogulof

Berkeley Talks: Author Andrew Marantz on the hijacking of the American conversation

Robinson, in a suit and tie, looks at the camera

If you ask for help, UC Berkeley’s attorney might come visit

The student-sponsored Free Speech Week event in September 2017 drew hundreds of demonstrators to the campus. (UC Berkeley photo by Khaled Sayed)

Author Andrew Marantz talks trolls, tribulations and tumult

Carol Christ smiling in front of the campus

Chancellor Christ: ‘We aspire to a culture of belonging’

UC Berkeley police identify suspect in Sproul Plaza assault

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