The murder of George Floyd in May, 2020 sparked a re-emergence of anti-racist activism in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, exhausting people across the country — especially those directly impacted by racial injustice. UCSB Library archivists have mounted an exhibition that highlights the Santa Barbara community’s experience during the pandemic, in an effort to maintain the momentum of social justice movements and narrate history as it happens.
Blushing is an uncontrollable physical response to embarrassment, erotic desire, anger, and other emotions. In a recent lecture hosted by UC Santa Barbara's Early Modern Center, the author and scholar Valerie Traub explained how a bodily function which is shared by all races was denied to literary characters of color throughout the 15th to 18th-century early modern literary era.
Fighting a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis prompted UC Santa Barbara alumna Ashley Ratcliff to inspire others and publish her first book, a memoir titled “Jesus Year.”
