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Equations For Liberation, A Conversation With Kelly Lytle Hernandez

LPPI expert Kelly Lytle Hernandez appears on Latino USA to discuss her research and how her work illuminates the connections between immigration detention, mass incarceration, reparations, and abolition. “I see incredible movement within the movement for Black Lives… and incredible capacity to think about all of the structures of racialized harm that run from our…

Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the Appointment of Alex Padilla to the United States Senate

Statement from Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on Governor Gavin Newsom’s nomination of California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to the United States Senate:

Where Do We Go From Here?

The Pat Brown Institute’s annual conference “Where Do We Go From Here?” centered on the discussion of policy for the nation’s future. The event featured LPPI’s Executive Director, Sonja Diaz. “Our research at UCLA made clear that Latinos made a difference… and sent Joe Biden to the White House. Latinos uniformly were able to flip…

COVID-19 is still ‘attacking Latino households’ in California eight months into the pandemic

“It’s attacking Latino households,” said Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. The scarcity of Spanish-speaking Latino physicians in California also adds to the problem, he said.

VIDEO: Is ‘POC’ Outdated? Maybe. But It Also Has A Measurable Superpower

“Part of the power of any group that influences our social or political behavior has to do with the fact that it homogenizes all of those differences, and that allows an individual member to essentially say, ‘I am part of this we’. By simplifying things you are better able to see yourself reflected in the…

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