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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

‘Champion of the underdog’: Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley history professor emeritus, dies at 91

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Leon Litwack, who taught at UC Berkeley for 43 years, died Aug. 5 at the age of 91.

Despite being a historian, Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the department of history, was a man far ahead of his time.
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
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More than a professor: The enduring impact of Leon Litwack

Leon Litwack, historian emeritus at UC Berkeley, became a cult figure on campus by bringing his leftist intellectual fire to American history.
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Visual Art

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Photojournalist’s exhibit draws connections between movements in Ferguson, Missouri, Gaza Strip

Despite being geographically separated by thousands of miles, the movements sparked by events in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Gaza Strip are closer than one might think. In the new exhibit at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco, the work of renowned photojournalist Jeffrey Blankfort explores the
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