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Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration

“This new collaboration between Million Dollar Hoods and UCLA’s ethnic studies centers will preserve the documentary evidence of mass incarceration and its impact on people’s lives in Los Angeles while building a new digital bedrock for racial justice scholars and scholarship at UCLA,” said Kelly Lytle Hernández, director of the Bunche Center and a 2019…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Coronavirus: They ask the governor of California that the Latino community be vaccinated as soon as possible

Professors from the University of California in Los Angeles sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom calling for action for authorities to increase the investment of resources and information necessary for vaccines to reach Latinos, because “we know they are not getting equitable access,” assures Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas. “The letter is a call to action for…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Latino leaders demand COVID-19 vaccine access be equitable especially in vulnerable communities

UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute, along with a group of nearly 70 Latino leaders, sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, imploring the implementation of measures, since the Latino population is at a disadvantage when it comes to receiving the vaccine.

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Even with Biden stimulus, US minority entrepreneurs fear for survival

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, a co-author of the study, said minority-owned businesses tended not to have relationships with banks or lacked experience with such massive government programs, meaning by the time they applied for the PPP, the funds were depleted. “All those things combined meant that minority-owned businesses had less access to the loans, and it ended…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Iconic Mexican Music Stars Back Immigration Reform

A poll by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute reports that a record number of 16.7 million Latinos voted in 2020, increasing almost by one-third compared to the 2016 election.

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