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Laura E. Gómez in Colorado Boulevard: “When South Pasadena Was a Sundown Town”

Laura E. Gómez, director of UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies recognized that official proclamations condemning our own past were “definitely part of this larger trend…the desire in this present moment of national reckoning with our past racism…”

Michael A. Rodríguez in Los Angeles Times: “¿Los Angeles es testigo del fin de la ‘paradoja latina’?” (Spanish)

A los estudiosos les ha intrigado durante décadas la “paradoja latina”: el hecho de que, a pesar de los altos índices de pobreza y de no estar asegurados, “los latinos tienen una esperanza de vida mucho más alta de lo que cabría esperar”, dijo el Dr. Michael A. Rodríguez, profesor de ciencias de la salud comunitaria y de medicina familiar en la UCLA.

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in The Hill: “Polls spell trouble for Biden with Hispanic voters”

A UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative study on Latino turnout in the 2020 election found that while a majority of Latino voters in Miami-Dade County in Florida backed former President Trump, Biden decisively won the Latino vote in other key areas, including in Arizona and Georgia, where those margins likely helped tip the states in his favor en route to narrow victories.

UCLA Voting Rights Project in Crosscut.: “What the fight for a Latino voting district means for Central WA politics”

He argued that the UCLA Voting Rights Project report presented during the redistricting process wasn’t sufficient. The organization had voiced concern that none of the maps commissioners initially proposed created a Latino majority district that would satisfy federal voting rights laws. The organization now co-represents plaintiffs in the Palmer v. Hobbs case.

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in The Enterprise: “As higher-ed enrollment drops, experts weigh options”

A new report by the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative found that before vaccines became widely available, roughly 11% of Latino students planned to cancel their college plans for fall 2021, nearly double the national average. While enrollment among all student racial demographics has declined sharply since 2019, Shapiro noted that students of color were disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

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