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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.”

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in The Sacramento Bee: “Did US Census undercount Latinos? Here’s how California found hard-to-reach residents”

“During the count, it was Latino communities that were having really high rates of infections and deaths, which also definitely impacted the way in which people view the priority of a census,” said Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, director of research for the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at UCLA. “When your community is dying, you don’t really care so much…

Laura E. Gomez in Los Angeles Times: “Op-Ed: ‘Other’ as the nation’s 2nd-largest race? Latinos and the 2020 census may make that happen”

“Until the census catches up to Latinos’ racial reality, we won’t truly know how they are faring compared with other racial groups when it comes to factors as varied as educational inequality, deaths while in police custody, COVID-19 disparities and so many other fundamental social issues of our time,” writes LPPI Expert, Laura E. Gomez.

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