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In response to the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, issued the following statement:
Read More | January 19, 2022
A Franklin County Superior Court judge found on Jan. 3 that the Washington Voting Rights Act was constitutional in a case argued by the UCLA Voting Rights Project (UCLA VRP) due to concerns that the county’s at-large elections dilute the Latino vote.
Read More | January 7, 2022
Eric Avila, a historian of urban culture at UCLA, said the city’s “permissiveness, experimentation and some would say progressiveness” are features that “play into West Hollywood becoming the new Amsterdam of the U.S. in terms of cannabis.”
Read More | December 27, 2021
La investigación de la Iniciativa de Políticas y Pólizas Latinas (Latino Policy and Politics Institute) de UCLA, indica que en un periodo de 17 meses, entre enero de 2020 y mayo de 2021, que incluyó la elección presidencial en la que el voto latino fue crítico y la etapa en la que la epidemia devastaba a la comunidad latina, solo el 4% de los artículos de opinión publicados por el L.A. Times eran de autores latinos.
Read More | December 22, 2021
El doctor David Hayes-Bautista del Center for Study of Latino Health and Cultura de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA), dijo que debido a que el mayor número de latinos no ciudadanos en California están concentradas en las edades de 35 a 49 años, y de 50 a 64 años, y tienden a ser trabajadores esenciales, están más expuestos a covid.
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