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As scholar David Hayes-Bautista explains in his book โThe Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition,โ 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 Confederacyโs slave states, and for the…
Read More | May 5, 2021
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.
Read More | May 2, 2021
Raรบl Hinojosa, catedrรกtico de la Universidad de California en Los รngeles (UCLA), asegurรณ que el balance de la gestiรณn del mandatario estadounidense es positivo en temas como la vacunaciรณn y la batalla contra la pandemia, pero que debe hacer mรกs con respecto a la actual crisis migratoria. Por su parte, el analista Rodrigo Domรญnguez, dijo…
“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.”
Read More | May 1, 2021
โDuring 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,โ saidย Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, director of research for theย Latino Policy & Politics Instituteย at UCLA. โWhen your community is dying, you donโt really care so much…
Read More | April 29, 2021
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