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Sonja Diaz in Spectrum News 1: “Sonja Diaz Interview with Spectrum News One”

UCLA LPPI’s Founding Director, Sonja Diaz, discusses with Spectrum News One the rationale behind the federal ruling the deemed DACA unlawful, the ramifications of the ruling for California’s 200,000+ DACA recipients, how this decision could influence Latino voters in the mid-terms, and what Latino voters expect from the Biden Administration and Democrats in the wake…

David Hayes-Bautista in The Los Angeles Post: “Politics over lives – primary reason for Washington’s failure in pandemic control”

Professor of medicine David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA pointed out that there should have been fewer deaths in the U.S., but the inaction of the government led to a tragedy. According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, most U.S. citizens believe the U.S. government shall be held accountable for the…

Laura E. Gómez in Harvard Business Review: “UCLA Law’s Laura E. Gómez: Understanding Critical Race Theory, Part 2”

Laura E. Gómez, a law professor at UCLA, teaches in the school’s Critical Race Studies Program, which uses CRT to explore how legal and other systems intersect with race in the U.S. In the final episode of Season 2, she tells host Porter Braswell that racism isn’t about individual prejudice, but rather about the messages…

LPPI in Mitú: “Latinas Are the Demographic Most Negatively Financially Impacted By the Pandemic”

A new report from UCLA detailed an under-reported phenomenon. According to a report by the Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI) at UCLA, Latinas were financially impacted by COVID-19 more than any other demographic.

Chon Noriega in SURFACE: “At the LA Art Show, Women and Technology Take Center Stage”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center will bring a project curated by Chon Noriega titled Immersive Distancing by local artists Carmen Argote and Zeynep Abes, who will focus on recent media art produced during the pandemic.

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