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UCLA Voting Rights Project Issues Statement on Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision

In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee to uphold voting restrictions in Arizona, which could make it harder to challenge other voting laws moving forward and further weakens the Federal Voting Rights Act, Chad Dunn – co-founder and legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, a flagship project of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute – issued the following statement.

Professor Hayes-Bautista in The Sun of San Fernando Valley: “UCLA Study Shows Latinos, Other Non-Whites Hit Hard By Coronavirus”

“The epidemiology of diversity in California is plain: Overall, the curve for COVID-19 case rates observed in the white, non-Hispanic population, in each age group from newborns to 80 years and over, is consistently lower than the curve for all other racial and ethnic groups,” said co-author David Hayes-Bautista, professor of health policy and management…

Chad Dunn in Newsrust: “Justice Dept. Sues Georgia Over Voting Restrictions Law”

The legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, Chad Dunn states, “when the Department of Justice undertakes a case of this nature, it’s done its homework and is familiar with facts that are not even usually publicly reported… So I believe when the Department of Justice brings a case like this, it has what…

Professor Laura Gomez in Vox: “What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about”

Critical race theory also highlighted how, even when the law changed to increase racial equity, institutions disrupted the intentions of those laws and tried to get around them, Laura Gomez, a University of California Los Angeles law professor who co-founded the school’s critical race studies program in 2000, told Vox.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in UCLA Newsroom: “UCLA receives $1.45 million bequest for research related to artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center has received $1.45 million in a bequest gift to support research and scholarship related to the art and life of Raphael Montañez Ortiz, a Puerto Rican American pioneer of the 1960s destructivist art movement, founder of the first Latino museum in the United States and recipient of the UCLA…

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