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Eric Avila in PBS: “How infrastructure has historically promoted inequality”

“I think that the conversation we’re having now about race, inequality and infrastructure at this level is new, and to me that’s encouraging,” said Eric Avila, an urban cultural historian and professor at UCLA.

Ana Christina Ramon in California State Assembly: “Select Committee – Unseen Latinas in Hollywood Hearing 4/23”

LPPI is partnering with the State Assembly’s #UnseenLatina Initiative. On April 23rd, Dr. Ana Christina Ramon testified in the informational hearing: Unseen Latinas in Hollywood. A livestream can be found here.

Kelly Lytle-Hernandez in UCLA Newsroom: “Eight UCLA professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences”

LPPI’s Kelly Lytle-Hernandez is one of eight UCLA professors to be elected onto the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hernandez is a professor of history and African American studies and the director of UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Hernandez was also awarded a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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:

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