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Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in The Atlantic: “The New Swing Voters: Neither party should feel confident about how Latinos are going to vote in 2024.”

“We slice white voters to tiny little slivers, and we don’t do the same with Latino voters,” UCLA’s Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas said.

Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute Executive Director Sonja Diaz in Response to the Verdict of the Derek Chauvin Trial

Statement from Sonja Diaz, Executive Director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial:

Laura E. Gómez in The 19th: “How the pandemic has widened the Latina wealth gap”

“The very fact of treating Latinos as an ethnic group as opposed to as a racial group is part of the way Latinos have been racialized in the United States,” says Laura E. Gómez.

Efrén Pérez in The Columbus Dispatch: “Opinion: Could ‘cancel culture’ cancel structural injustice?”

Efrén Pérez, associate professor of political science and sociology at Vanderbilt, calls implicit bias “an umbrella term for a variety of attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and stereotypes that we all carry to some degree. They tend to be automatically triggered, hard to control and can often influence what we say and do without our awareness.”

Nicholas Espíritu in The Conversation: “Democratic bill attempts to undo voter restrictions of past 15 years”

LPPI Expert Nicholas Espíritu writes on the new voting rights legislation, For the People Act of 2021 (H.R.1), sponsored and passed in the House by Democrats and unanimously opposed by Republicans. He argues that H.R.1 aims to remove barriers and structural hurdles to voter participation and fairness (Also: Yahoo! News).

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