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UCLA Voting Rights Project (LPPI) in Voice of OC: “OC Supervisors Get Close to Picking New Election Maps Without Much Public Debate”

Map 5 is supported by the ACLU of Southern California, Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) and the UCLA Voting Rights Project.

Kelly Lytle Hernandez: “Bunche Center for African American Studies receives $5 million from state of California”

It’s the largest amount of support the center has received in a single year from the state, said Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the center’s director and a UCLA professor of history. The funds will support a range of initiatives, including stipends for student research, the Black Policy Project and Million Dollar Hoods, an ongoing study of…

Kelly Lytle Hernández in El Paso Matters: “Opinion: Challenging the racist underpinnings of laws criminalizing undocumented immigration”

On the evening of June 26, 2019, Castro told the world about the law and the need to abolish it. Next day, the Washington Post published a long article describing 1325’s Jim Crow origins, with stomach-turning details about its sponsor. The source for the revelations was a history professor at UCLA, Kelly Lytle Hernández. She…

Paul Barragan-Monge in Cal Matters: “Newsom, make history, appoint a Latina to the Supreme Court”

There is no shortage of legal talent here in California that can rise to the occasion. The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, where I work, recently joined a group of Latino leaders and legal experts to advocate for a Latina appointment and recommend qualified Latina lawyers across the state including experts in housing, immigration,…

David Hayes-Bautista in Calexico Chronicle: “Latino GDP in US Ranks 8th in World”

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, co-author of the study and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, says the report puts the lie to the idea that Latinos come to the United States to commit crimes or live on public assistance: “We are not lazy or criminal, we come to…

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