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Eric Avila in Beacon Journal: “‘It was … devastating’: The Akron Innerbelt destroyed Black-owned businesses in its path”

Wealthier Black families who could afford to move to other places after highways bisected their neighborhoods did so, said Eric Avila, an urban planning professor at UCLA. Those who stayed behind were left with declining job prospects. “Highway construction fueled the disappearance of jobs in the cities, which left these neighborhoods bereft of any kind of economic opportunity,” Avila said.

UCLA LATINO POLICY AND POLITICS INSTITUTE ISSUES STATEMENT ON FAILURE OF THE U.S. SENATE TO PASS VOTING RIGHTS LEGISLATION

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:

STATEMENT ON VICTORY IN FRANKLIN COUNTY CASE THAT PROTECTS THE WASHINGTON STATE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

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.

Eric Avila in Press Herald: “With celebrity backing, West Hollywood aims to become global cannabis destination”

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.”

(Latino Policy and Politics Institute) de UCLA en La Opinion: “Estudio de UCLA denuncia falta de voces latinas en páginas de opinión de L.A. Times” (Spanish)

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.

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