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Oct. 30, 2025 11:46 p.m.
A photograph of Kent Wong, the former director of the UCLA Labor Center and an advocate for workers’ rights, is placed on a memorial altar. Wong died Oct. 8 at age 69. (Izzy Greig/Daily Bruin)
Kent Wong, the former director of the UCLA Labor Center and an advocate for workers’ rights, died Oct. 8. He was 69 years old.
Wong was the director of the UCLA Labor Center from 1991 to 2023, during which he oversaw the 2021 development of its new MacArthur Park headquarters, said Toby Higbie, a professor of history and labor studies.
By Izzy Greig
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May 15, 2025 9:51 p.m.Sandra Harding, pioneering feminism scholar and former UCLA professor, dies at 89
Sandra Harding, a former distinguished professor of education and gender studies, died March 5. She was 89.
Internationally recognized for developing “standpoint theory” – which frames science as shaped by cultural and social contexts rather than as purely objective – Harding’s work critiqued classic academic theories that often overlooked the impacts of race, gender and ethnicity on knowledge production and the practice of science.
By Vivian Stein
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Aug. 10, 2024 7:07 p.m.The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights activist and labor educator, dies at 95
This post was updated Aug. 11 at 10:14 p.m.
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. – a civil rights activist, UCLA faculty member and the namesake of a UCLA Labor Center building – died June 9.
By Celia Powers
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