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UCLA Mellon Grant to Establish Archive About Mass Incarceration

The collaboration “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 Hernandez, director of the Bunche Center and a 2019 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the “genius…

The Pandejo Movement Destroyed California’s Pandemic Progress

“Let’s put it like this: It would be a surge for any [group] with these characteristics,” says David Hayes-Bautista, the director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture. “It just so happens that Latinos occupy that space” in Southern California.

Emory to host webinar to explore ‘kick ass’ views of undocumented scholars, activists

UCLA Professor Leisy Abrego is set to lead the Zoom webinar hosted by Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Jan. 25th from noon to 1 p.m. With a focus on the book, We Are Not Dreamers, the talk aims to compel migration scholars to move beyond a practice…

New UCLA Film & Television Archive director aims to diversify collection

The director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, Chon Noriega, said he believes HaDuong can expand access by analytically considering The Archive through both its structure and function. In particular, one of the most impactful ways that HaDuong can enhance The Archive’s mechanisms is to work closely with the staff and open them up to…

Meet the Press Blog: Latest news, analysis and data driving the political discussion

Matt Barreto, co-founder of LD Insights and an adviser to the Biden campaign, said Biden would have done better with Florida’s Hispanic voters if the campaign understood how Biden’s Covid-19 and economic message wasn’t direct enough for many Latinos.

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