When a group of UCLA students met in 1969 with an idea to found a publication that would address issues facing the Asian American community, even the term “Asian American” was considered revolutionary ...

This post was updated Aug. 29 at 8:39 p.m. When asked what his academic major was, alumnus Mike Murase jokingly replied, “Activism.” Murase, who completed his undergraduate degree in 1970, said he had ...

Puma, the German sportswear giant, is collaborating with the fashion designer Jeff Staple and his eponymous fashion label to release a brand-new collection, dubbed the "Gidra", to fight the ...

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series on the history of graphic design and social activism in California, with a focus on Los Angeles, published in partnership with KCET Artbound. On ...

Remember those radical underground rags of the late 1960s? The East Village Other. The Berkeley Barb. The L.A. Free Press. Gidra. Wait … Gidra? Wasn’t that a monster in those dumb Godzilla movies? Yes ...

PUMA has teamed up with streetwear label STAPLE for a new collaboration, this time focusing on a footwear and apparel collection inspired by Gidra, an Asian-American student-run newspaper created in ...

LOS ANGELES — Fifty years ago, a group of Asian American students at UCLA chipped in to form Gidra Magazine, one of the first publications to help frame Asian Americans as a self-defining political ...

One of the most enduring images of a Vietnam War protester is the controversial photograph of Jane Fonda, with short brown hair, sitting on an anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam. Dubbed “Hanoi Jane,” ...