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A post-election report by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative of 13 key states found that Biden won the Hispanic vote three to one in nine states. “Only in Florida was Biden’s margin among Latino voters less than 2 to 1,” it said.
Read More | June 11, 2021
Chon Noriega, professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television and former director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, said that “In The Heights” is a welcome counter to Hollywood’s decades-long tendency to not only stereotype Latinos as maids, gang-bangers and sex symbols but also to homogenize the various cultures of Latin…
Read More | June 10, 2021
Rodrigo Dominguez’s appearance in Estudio D.C. discussing Biden’s immigration plans and the urgency for Congress to pass an immigration reform that is inclusive of the entire undocumented population.
As the pandemic raged through California for the past year, Latinos died in disproportionate numbers due to structural inequalities such as lack of bilingual physicians, greater exposure to the virus in the workplace, crowded housing, and lack of health insurance. Dr. David Hayes-Bautista and researchers warn that if these structural inequalities are not remedied, the…
Read More | June 7, 2021
Rodrigo Dominguez, originally from Mexico City and currently resides in Los Angeles, cast his vote online for the midterms elections. He points out that, unlike other people, he has been attentive and active about the Mexican elections, so the Facebook algorithm helped him to find out the registration dates and deadline to cast the vote….
Read More | June 5, 2021
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