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De Leon Announces District Appointment to Los Angeles Redistricting Commission

Councilman Kevin de Leon Wednesday named Sonja Francine Diaz, a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles, as the Council District 14 representative on the city’s redistricting commission. “Sonja has long been an advocate for equity in Los Angeles, using her voice to protect the civil rights of countless Angelenos,” de Leon said. “As we redraw the invisible lines…

Millions of Americans feel their status is threatened.

“Social scientists who have been studying race in America are not surprised at all. There is much work to do in bringing the nation together and pursuing a path toward unity, but that must start with a recognition of the historic institutional racism, and an acknowledgement that so many millions of white Americans proudly agreed…

Op-Ed: Look to the local to understand the ‘complex’ Latino vote

These groups were worried about the effects of COVID-19, economic inequality and the treatment of immigrants — pressing local issues. Yet their efforts had national ripple effects. UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute called the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also: Yahoo News.)

Falling Through the COVID19 Cracks

Without any protection, COVID19 finds gaps in care in the social services umbrella and the healthcare maze that marginalized communities have to navigate, and “the coronavirus falls upon them like rain,” says David Hayes-Bautista.

Alumna Elected President of Sociological Association

“It was a natural thing to study sociology, to have a more critical approach to study social life, to study why things happen. I’ve always been interested in those questions, and sociology answers them,” says Cecilia Menjivar as she is elected President of the Sociological Association.

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