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Kelly Lytle Hernández in Reno Gazette-Journal: “Opinion: While Nevada makes anti-racism history, Biden administration pushes back”

To speak to the 1929 law, Gorman presented the testimony of Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Chair of History at UCLA. Professor Lytle Hernández recounted the anti-Mexican sentiment pervading America during what historians describe as the “tribal ’20s,” including the “Juan Crow” regime, a racialized system of legal oppression of Latinos in the U.S. mirroring Jim Crow laws targeting Black Americans in the south.

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.”

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