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This UCLA Professor’s Books on Policing and Prison Used to Be Treated as Radical. Now, Everything’s Changed

In City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965, Kelly Lytle Hernández tackled L.A.’s sprawl of jails and prisons, explaining how the city came to create the largest prison system in the U.S. by systematically and intentionally “purging, removing, caging … and eliminating” immigrants and people of color.

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

Did Public Health Chief Barbra Ferrer Fail to Protect L.A.’s Most Vulnerable from COVID-19?

“In late April, a detailed 20-page LAC DPH report showed how COVID-19 cases and deaths were significantly higher among Black and Latino populations compared with white and Asian populations, with poverty another leading factor—findings mirrored in this more recent UCLA [Latino Policy & Politics Institute] analysis.”

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Aging

COVID-19 Deaths Among Working Age Latinos Skyrocket Over Three-Month Period

Research by Professors David Hayes-Bautista and Paul Hsu showed increased mortality rates in all Latino age groups: young adults, early middle age, and late middle age.

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Arts & Culture

How Los Angeles is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium

Artist Harry Gamboa Jr. and Times writer Carolina A. Miranda join a post-screening discussion with moderator Chon Noriega, director of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and author of “Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema.”

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

Muertes por COVID-19 entre latinos adultos se multiplican por 5 en California

“Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor and UCLA LPPI expert, said in a statement that in the early days of the pandemic, concern centered on the skyrocketing death rate of the elderly.”

Read More | August 29, 2020

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