With the world’s focus on terrorism, Iraq, Israel and the continuing conflict in the Middle East, President George W. Bush has entrusted Dr.

In April 1949, President Harry S. Truman offered Ralph Bunche a coveted position as the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern, South Asian and African affairs. The position would make ...

Ralph Bunche was a man of many firsts. He was the first African American valedictorian at UCLA. The first African American in the country to receive a Ph.D. in political science. And the first African ...

Bunche Hall's namesake, Angeleno and UCLA grad Ralph J. Bunche, was the first Black person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, for bringing about an armistice in Palestine.

WHAT WOULD Ralph Bunche do? It’s a question I have been pondering as the violence in the Middle East continues unabated and unmediated. It’s natural to think of Bunche, the renowned American ...

Danette Mitchell: The legacy of Ralph Bunche… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) ...

The first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Ralph J. Bunche, was a Detroit native.

Most of this blog’s readership was not around when this amazing man won the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950. I wasn’t born yet, either, but in my house growing up, my brother and I knew Ralph Bunche’s name ...

Ralph Bunche Host Tavis Smiley talks to filmmaker William Greaves and African American studies professor Charles Henry about the life and work of Ralph Bunche. Bunche was an under-secretary ...

What would Ralph Bunche do? It's a question I have been pondering as the violence in the Middle East continues unabated and unmediated. It's natural to think of Bunche, the renowned American ...

A remarkable career in activism is methodically traced in "Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey," vet documentarian William Greaves' portrait of the late U.S. statesman/scholar. Important but ...