They risked their lives in the fight for a better economic future for farmworkers and recognition that the men, women and children who picked produce in America’s fields were human beings and deserved to be treated with respect.
“Esperanza y Dignidad: The Farmworker Movement”, comisariada por el Tom & Ethel Bradley Center de la Universidad Estatal de California en Northridge, capta los rostros de cientos de hombres y mujeres que integraron el movimiento. La exposición se inaugura esta semana en el Museo de Justicia Social, en el centro de Los Ángeles.
California State University, Northridge marine biologist Peter Edmunds has been able demonstrate, with data meticulously collected over nearly 40 years along the coral reefs off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, that those “acute” events, combined with the “thousand cuts” caused by rising ocean temperatures are damaging the marine ecosystems that once helped corals thrived.
A team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder partnered with hundreds of volunteer naturalists to reconstruct how 120 years of climate change has affected Joshua trees.
Legendary DJ Nic Harcourt spent months in 1994 lining up local bands, juggling schedules and helping to pull off what many thought impossible: Woodstock ’94, a three-day music festival marking the 25th anniversary of the music festival that changed the world.
Art comes in many forms — paintings, ceramics, photography or even collages. Regardless of the medium, it can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, create beauty from the profane, evoke emotions and inspire the imagination.
As coverage of the race for president of the United States continues to escalate, California State University, Northridge journalism professor José Luis Benavides urged members of the news media to remember the vital role they play in the contest.
It isn’t enough to want their students to succeed, higher education leaders have a responsibility to identify and uproot the vestiges of historic racism that permeate academic spaces and can stand in the way of their students’ success, according to a team of researchers at California State University, Northridge.
California State University, Northridge associate professor of Chicana/o studies Xóchitl Flores-Marcial’s work to document and preserve the Indigenous languages of Mexico has received recognition from the National Archives.