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News Articles & Media Coverage → Central Americans

Communists, Criminals and Caravans: The Social Construction of Central Americans as Crisis

On March 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM via Zoom, Dr. Leisy J. Abrego, the author of the award-winning book Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders, will be leading a conversation that provides the political and social context for U.S.-Central American relations from the 1980s to the present to better understand how U.S….

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

Cal Lutheran Economists Win Bank of America Research Grant

The Bank for America Charitable Foundation has awarded California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, or CERF, a $250,000 research grant to identify the total economic contribution of Hispanics by U.S. state. CERF Executive Director Matthew Fienup and Director of Economics Dan Hamilton head the research institute’s team, which includes Dr. David Hayes-Bautista,…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Vaccine equity for Latinos + Church as an essential service + API caucus on hate crimes

Over 50 Latino leaders in California sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom urging the state to expand vaccine access to Latino communities who have been hard hit by the pandemic. The letter was signed by representatives from varying groups like the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute, the National Association of Latino Elected and…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Investigation finds Latino ballots in WA more likely to be rejected

“Every voter should have an equal right to their mail ballot being counted; however, we know well that Latinos are more likely to have their ballots rejected for signature issues,” said Matt A. Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project.

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

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

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