In Support of Black Lives

Posted by peterlunenfeld on June 22nd, 2020 filed in Uncategorized

My department at UCLA drafted a document in support of Black Lives. It opens: “In this moment, we want to state clearly that the Department of Design Media Arts stands against the continued acts of police brutality in Los Angeles and across the nation. We are sickened by the ongoing injustice against Black people, and acknowledge our own complicity in systemic racism. We have quietly ignored it for too long. Going forward, we commit to the anti-racist work needed to dismantle these systems, and commit to the ongoing learning and practice this work requires.” Continue reading.