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Years of activism and organizing delivered the new Black Bruin Resource Center
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The students shown here at the opening of the Black Community Center, which is on the Hill with the residence halls, will have an additional space on campus with the new Black Bruins Resource Center. Delan Bruce |
May 24, 2021
When Alex Dunkwu, UCLA Afrikan Student Union co-chair, learned in an announcement from Chancellor Gene Block that UCLA would launch a Black student resource center, he said that he and other Black students’ reactions could be summed up in one word: “elation.”
“There’s a lot of excitement,” said Dunkwu, a third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology major, “especially from some of the upperclassmen who know the history of how long the Afrikan Student Union and Black students have been fighting for a center like this on our campus.”