Spotlight on 2020 Scholarship Recipients!
A few of our Africana Studies Majors!
A few of our Africana Studies Minors!
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Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award-winning, freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, CA. She has written for the Los Angeles Watts Times, the Los Angeles Sentinel and the Los Angeles Wave newspapers; the Final Call; Black Agenda Report; Ebony; Truth-Out and CounterPunch, and she is a former radio reporter for the KPFK Evening News (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and Free Speech Radio News (FSRN).
A creator or co-creator of independent, grassroots media (newspapers, cable tv, radio) for over 20 years, her activism has ranged from electoral organizing; anti-police terror work; freedom for political prisoners and prisoners of war; to organizing against violence against women.
"No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant," released in February 2014, is her first book.
She is a contributor to Fertile Ground: Memories and Visions (Runagate Press, 1996); UCLA's Amerasia Journal in tribute to Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2014); Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence (CounterPunch Books, 2014) and the forthcoming Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Collected Essays /Stories on the Racialization of Murder (2015).
Chimurenga is also a bi-monthly commentator for Hard Knock Radio, a daily public affairs show for the Hip-Hop generation heard in Berkeley, CA (KPFA); Bellevue, WA (KBCS); Portland, OR (KBOO); Seattle, WA (Radio X); East Orland, ME (WERU); Decorah, IA (KPVL); Peoria, IL (WAZU); and Atlanta, GA (WRFG).
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