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Matt Barreto in YakimaHerald.com: “Redistricting commissioners confident they’ll meet deadline; Yakima area district unsettled”

They issued their proposals after commissioning an analysis by Matt Barreto, a political science professor and faculty co-director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project. His analysis found the initial maps proposed by all four commissioners would violate the federal Voting Rights Act, potentially opening up the state to lawsuits and court intervention.

UCLA Voting Rights Project in The Sacramento Bee: “Yolo County moves to protect Latino voting power after hearing redistricting appeals”

In an Oct. 27 memo from the UCLA Voting Rights Project, advocates argued three of the four originally proposed maps would dilute the power of Latino voters. Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, maps cannot dilute the representation of racial minority groups.

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…

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