Takiyah Jackson

Founded as a collaboration between the African American Student Development and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Black Lives at Cal was founded in fall 2021 to do research and archive the untold and unearthed stories of Black history here in Berkeley. 

In 2022, Cal women’s basketball players Cailyn Crocker and Sierra Richey’s work to strive for a more equal, inclusive society continues.

The city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, have several virtual events planned to celebrate Black History Month, allowing community members to educate themselves on Black history.

Despite budget cuts faced by UC Berkeley, the African American Initiative, or AAI, hopes to continue its efforts to increase Black recruitment and retention rates, bolster support systems and cultivate a better campus climate.

Lasting change is long overdue. Two Cal women’s basketball players are seeing to it that change is finally made.

The UC Berkeley African American Student Development Office wrote a proposal July 9 to the Building Name Review Committee demanding that Barrows Hall be denamed.

UC Berkeley is considering a proposal to dename Barrows Hall, a building on campus that has long received criticism due to its namesake's racist history.

Tucked in the corner of the Hearst Field Annex building is the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, one of the various resources for the Black community at UC Berkeley. As a part of UC Berkeley's African American Student Development, the center serves the academic, social, cultural and political needs of the campus Black community.

At the chancellor’s second annual Black graduate student reception Tuesday, many Black UC Berkeley graduate students had the opportunity to be surrounded by a Black community for the first time since joining the campus.