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Prop. 16: Why is affirmative action measure struggling in woke California?

“Baby Boomers and Generation X lived with the official policy of affirmative action until it was stricken off the books in 1996,” said former state Senate leader Kevin de León, who campaigned for affirmative action as a young activist 25 years ago. “Now the challenge is, how do you connect this highly technical government term…

Read More | October 23, 2020

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Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Poll after poll shows that the issues most important to Latino voters are COVID-19, which will be discussed, but also unemployment and how to generate jobs with better pay… and immigration….

Read More | October 23, 2020

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Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Tonight, we expect that the candidates will not talk about immigration policy, but one important thing we must remember is that immigration policy is important to the Latino community. In many…

Read More | October 23, 2020

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The final Presidential debate

Sonja Diaz, the Executive Director of UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, appeared as a political analyst on the final presidential debate. “Last night there were actual topics from the pandemic to immigration that were discussed… President Trump still made a lot of ambiguity as to what his plan on the COVID-19 pandemic is actually…

Read More | October 23, 2020

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Why is progress so slow for Latinos in Hollywood?

Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, said decades of attempts at media reform and market-based arguments haven’t yielded significant gains for Latinos in film and TV. “The approach to media reform over the last 50-some years has always been either the carrot or the stick. Initially, it was the stick —…

Read More | October 23, 2020

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