Since she was 11, Rafiat Animashaun spent every other summer with her family visiting relatives in London and Nigeria. “Those experiences, hearing stories from my grandfather and mom, and understanding the history of my culture and what it means to be Yoruba and Nigerian, led me to realize, ‘Wait, there’s more to the world than the U.S. and being American,’” she said. “It helped me be more...
USC Annenberg Dean Willow Bay has appointed Hector Amaya , one of the country’s top scholars of transnational media, as director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication, effective July 1.
Amaya’s prolific and influential research examines the conceptual...
As nationwide protests against police violence and racial inequality continue in the U.S., K-pop fans, famous for their social media savvy , are using their collective...
Simi Situ tried her hand at a lot of things growing up in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She participated in Girl Scouts from the age of 6, performed musical theater and was the first-chair violist in the Downingtown STEM Academy High School orchestra. The international baccalaureate public high school is located about an hour west of Philadelphia, and Situ was one of three Black students in...
To the Annenberg Class of 2024,
Happy middle of June. I hope this finds you happy, healthy and not too hot if you are experiencing the recent, unusual heatwave here in Los Angeles. For those of you who are new to California, L.A. usually goes through what’s called “June Gloom,” a time where the sky is San Francisco-level overcast and the beach weather is subpar.
With less than...
Calls about loud parties, fireworks, road hazards, take up a lot of LAPD time.
What do the roughly 10,000 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department actually do?
The Los Angeles City Council is now considering some sweeping changes to the way LAPD officers operate, potentially pulling them away from responding to many non-emergency situations and replacing police officers...
Henry Jenkins has been a collector since childhood — everything from comics, to horror posters to books and papers. “We’re all surrounded by things that we’ve chosen to hold on to,” he said. “We curate our surroundings and to some degree we construct our memory around objects that weren’t made with us in mind and yet they become...
The world watched an American police officer murder a Black citizen in the vilest way while he cried, “I can’t breathe.”
Large-scale protests erupted as a result, not just across all our 50 states, but also across the globe in over a dozen countries. The scale and spread were notable despite a global pandemic that kept many at home. These are not images and memories that the world can...