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Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Valley Voice: “A California answer to Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans”

For example, researchers from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) reported in 2018 that the scarcity of Latino physicians in California has led to a deficit of 54,655 Latino physicians required to achieve parity with non-Latino White physicians.

David Hayes-Bautista in Radio Bilingüe: “True Origins of Cinco de Mayo – A Repeat.”

As scholar David Hayes-Bautista explains in his book “The Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition,” the holiday was originally created by Latinos in California in the mid-nineteenth century. It was fueled by a feeling of enthusiastic support for both the Union Army in the US Civil War against the Confederacy’s slave states, and for the…

Kelly Lytle Hernandez in Spectrum News 1: “Culver City’s history as ‘sundown town’ shades police reform debate”

While African Americans are 8% of Culver City’s population, they constitute 21% of residents arrested by Culver City’s police department, according to an analysis by UCLA professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez of arrests between Jan 1. 2016 through July 15, 2018.

Raúl Hinojosa & Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas in Univision: ““Tiene que hacer más sobre inmigración”: experto analiza los primeros 100 días de Joe Biden como presidente de EEUU” (Spanish)

Raúl Hinojosa, catedrático de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA), aseguró que el balance de la gestión del mandatario estadounidense es positivo en temas como la vacunación y la batalla contra la pandemia, pero que debe hacer más con respecto a la actual crisis migratoria. Por su parte, el analista Rodrigo Domínguez, dijo…

Dr. Yohualli Anaya in Telemundo 52: “Scars of COVID-19: Side Effects of a Pandemic”

“Maybe they were afraid to go to the doctor during the pandemic,” says Dr. Yohualli Anaya, of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute. “I am concerned about what we are going to be seeing in these months and years.”

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