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News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

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 —…

Prop 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote

“Prop 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote,” a new documentary that traces the history of this demographic shift to an anti-immigration bill in the state more than 25 years ago, depicts UCLA LPPI’s support with the event on Latino voter mobilization and Prop. 187 held this year, We Are CA, Somos CA.

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Race in America: A Candid Conversation

NBC Sports primetime broadcast special series “Race in America: A Candid Conversation,” which is focusing on the Latino community during Hispanic Heritage Month. UCLA LPPI expert Laura Gomez joined the show virtually for a 30-minute conversation about current relevant topics.

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

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“Because of COVID-19 and people being conscious about interacting with others, companies have started accelerating the replacement of people with machines,” says UCLA LPPI Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez, on the impact of COVID-19 and Latinos.

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

An innovative data storytelling project reveals the dirty secrets of LA policing

Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s work sheds new light on this moment in which the nation is confronting racism embedded in policing, mass incarceration, health and other systems. Through Million Dollar Hoods, an innovative data and storytelling project based on police booking reports, Hernandez and her team revealed that Los Angeles residents were most often arrested for…

Read More | October 19, 2020

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