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Yards-long rainbow Pride flag is held up by four people below the front steps of the Supreme Court. Image source: Jordan Uhl/Flickr.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. @williamsinstitute.bsky.social shares how same-sex marriage has boomed since then, even as LGBTQ rights and protections are currently under threat.

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The Trump administration wants colleges to end DEI programs. But what do those programs do? Top public university leaders haven’t said whether they’ll challenge or comply with the Trump Administration’s calls to shutter DEI.

“There's no other entity that is more influential in shaping American society and arguably the global society than the [U.S.] college and university.”
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10 years out from #OscarsSoWhite and after steady progress, diversity has taken a dive in front of and behind the camera even as diverse films surged to the top of median global box office receipts worldwide.

From the latest Hollywood Diversity Report:
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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants The judge found the administration's mandate that grant recipients do not engage in "equity-related" programs was too broad.

JUST IN:

“A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.”

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He spent years shadowing smugglers in Mexico. This is what he learned | CNN Jason De León spent seven years shadowing smugglers who guide migrants through Mexico to the US. Their work, he argues, is dangerous and far more complicated than typical media portrayals suggest.

Jason De León, a UCLA College professor and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, recently spoke with CNN about his work shadowing human smugglers in the Mexican state of Chiapas, why Mexico is becoming more dangerous for migrants and more. www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/u...

Video Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Economist Kimberly Clausing joined ABC News Live to talk about the possible effects for Americans of Trump’s newly imposed tariffs.

“Tariffs are a tax, plain and simple. And there’s absolutely no way around that fact [...] it could cost US households more than a thousand dollars every year in terms of higher consumer costs,” said UCLA’s Kimberly Clausing.

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Homes destroyed by the 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena, with the data brief's title "LA Wildfires: Impacts on Altadena's Black Community" overlayed in white text.

Altadena’s Black community was disproportionately affected by the Eaton Fire, according to new data analysis from UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies with the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge and @uclalppi.bsky.social.

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First town hall is for UCLA faculty and staff today at 1pm 👇

A composite image that features a seated portrait image of Chancellor Julio Frenk (right) and a welcome message from UCLA to Frenk against a blue background (left).

New year, new quarter, new leader! ✨ Join us in welcoming UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to the Bruin family! 🎉 ucla.in/4j8aN8i

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Negative language can perpetuate feelings of doom. Don’t be a doomer | CNN Using doomer slang may be contributing to feelings of impending doom. Here’s how to manage it.

“I would say that millennials and below, but especially Gen Z, are feeling the effects of climate change, political instability and cynicism over politics and environmental efforts,” said Norma Mendoza-Denton, professor of linguistic anthropology at UCLA. 🧪

Image reads “UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report Presents: Streaming Television in 2023. Coming December 17, 2024”

This yr, we took a break from examining TV as we have traditionally for the past 10 yrs. With an industry in flux, we set out to examine what people were watching only on streaming and include BOTH library and current titles. So we examined the 250 most watched TV shows on streaming by total HHs. 1/

Hip Hop Caucus spotlights climate justice with film 'Underwater Projects' The film emphasizes the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities

UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science hosted a climate justice event with the the Hip Hop Caucus. For UCLA doctoral student Derrick Richardson, the event supported his climate plans: “My journey will be dedicated, definitely, to figuring out solutions." spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

🧐 Dive deeper into our enrollment numbers via UCLA Newsroom: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucl...

UCLA's fall class bucks trend of diversity decline at elite colleges after affirmative action ban UCLA enrolled one of its largest and most diverse classes for fall 2024, including record levels of Black and Latino students, bucking a decline in underepresented students at elite institutions after...

This is the result of DECADES of work across the university. Grateful for all the folks on the ground doing the student outreach, welcome programming, research, scholarships, fundraising and more that helped get us to this point - via @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...