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‘People of color’ are protesting. Here’s what you need to know about this new identity.

UCLA LPPI expert, Efren Perez, writes an op-ed on people of color protesting in today’s time. “But the many Latinos, Asian Americans and other nonwhites standing behind African Americans today are there in genuine support of their cause as “people of color.” They all have skin in today’s game of racial politics.”

Read More | July 6, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Latinos Back Black Lives Matter Protests. They Want Change for Themselves, Too.

“Many Latino youth, they are making the connection, they are pressing their families to have difficult conversations,” said Chris Zepeda-Millán, a professor of Chicano studies and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Read More | July 6, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

New reports assess mail-in voter fraud and propose election changes in NM

The report is part of ongoing advocacy by the UCLA Voting Rights Project, an effort led by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. The Project is pushing for the implementation of universal vote-by-mail for the November general election during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read More | July 6, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Education

Why Advocates Want Police Out Of LAUSD Schools

“When kids are under stress, they don’t perform as well,” said Pedro Noguera, most recently Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the incoming dean of the USC’s Rossier’s School of Education. “When kids are taken out of the classroom to be punished or to be processed in some way,…

Read More | July 6, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

California urges people to wear masks amid record Covid-19 hospitalizations

“It really hasn’t helped that you’ve had some of these groups thinking that wearing a face mask is the first step in tyranny or communism,” said David Hayes-Bautista, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Read More | July 6, 2020

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