Art meets activism: How Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’ sings for radical empathy
Cutting Room Floor
“Jazz” may be back on my bookshelf, but it’s shown me the sharp edges of violence and the soft contours of harmony — which will not leave me.
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2020 Activism Impact Issue: Editors’ Note
This June has been a month of change. More than ever before, the world’s attention is focused on the critical injustices marginalized communities face.
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Quirks at UC Berkeley that new students learn to love
We have created a list of all of the little UC Berkeley quirks that, when you ultimately decide to come here (because it is obviously the correct choice), might throw you for a loop.
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Female environmentalists paving the way for a better, greener world
What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than by acknowledging the women whose names aren’t as well known. And what better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than by acknowledging their achievements in environmental advocacy, literature and science?
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Marcus Books is bastion of Black literary community
Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black bookstore, first opened its doors in San Francisco in 1960. Tucked away in the back of a print shop, the store originally was called Success Book Store and was often visited by icons such as Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Oprah Winfrey.
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Following Berkeley, San Francisco leads in ethical production practices
We have skin and we have hair; to kill someone else to take theirs and wear it as decoration is clearly greedy and unjustifiable.
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Meet Berkeley’s sex activists
One of the most common questions Patel receives from students at the clinic is how to access birth control without seeing a clinician.
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A lesson in democracy
Berkeley Got Back
DeCals create a space for diversity in teaching — a space where student voices can be heard in regard to what they believe is pertinent, important and largely ignored in academia.
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‘Resistance School @ Berkeley’ will connect, engage progressives
I remember sitting with my classmates at the Goldman School of Public Policy in our 8 a.m. economics class the morning after the 2016 presidential election, feeling frustration, fear and hopelessness as we tried to process what happened. As students committed to positive social change, many of us felt lost
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Berkeley activist Elisa Cooper dies at 47
Elisa Cooper, an activist and resident of South Berkeley, died unexpectedly in her home last June. She was 47.
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