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Sacramento Report: Ethnic Studies Dispute Pits CSU Against Lawmakers

The COVID-19 pandemic and recent racial justice movement have exacerbated systemic inequities, demonstrating the need for a policy agenda that focuses on issues impacting Latinos and other communities of color, said Sonja Diaz, the founding executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Read More | August 2, 2020

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A Black Trans Sex Worker Died After Paramedics Failed To Take Her To The Hospital

For Monocuco, that marginalization was deadly. “It was already a death sentence from even this moment many years ago when Alejandra was crying out against police brutality in her life,” said Amy Ritterbusch, who interviewed Monocuco in 2014 along with Salamanca, and is now an assistant professor in the Department of Social Welfare at UCLA.

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UCLA study underscores unequal impact of coronavirus by race, ethnicity

“We are now seven months into the pandemic, and we are starting to have clear information about the disproportionate health and economic impacts that communities of color are facing,” Sonja Diaz said. “It’s time to address the specific ways that COVID-19 hurts Latino and Black families and to protect our most vulnerable communities as the…

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In nation’s 2 largest metros, Blacks and Latinos are more likely to die from COVID-19

Sonja Diaz, founding director of the policy initiative, said two significant reasons for those trends are that low-income Black and Latino people in both regions tend to have a greater need to work outside of the home and a greater reliance on public transportation, both of which put them at a greater risk for exposure…

Read More | August 2, 2020

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Blacks and Latinos in LA Are Roughly Twice as Likely to Die From COVID-19 Than White People, UCLA Study Finds

A UCLA study published Monday underscores that Blacks and Latinos living in Los Angeles — as well as New York — are roughly twice as likely as white residents to die from COVID-19 and calls for more protections for essential workers and expanded economic assistance for high-poverty communities. Neighborhoods with high poverty rates in both…

Read More | August 2, 2020

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