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New analysis shows Latino law students relied more heavily on federal loans, received less grant aid, and were more likely to turn to credit cards to finance legal education.

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Republican National Convention: Night One

Sonja Diaz joins KTLA as a political analyst for the Republican National Convention. “The allegations on vote-by-mail are baseless. These are attacks on the right to vote, particularly on voters of color.”

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Press Call: New Report Reveals Inconsistent Racial/Ethnic Data Categories at State-Level Youth Justice Agencies, Minimizing Latinx Youth Within the Justice System

On Tuesday, August 25, Alianza for Youth Justice and the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative are releasing a new “Call to Action” report detailing The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System. The report shows that inconsistent data collection methods complicate race and ethnicity tracking across different stages in the youth justice system.

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Juvenile justice system undercounts, ignores Latinos, new report finds

“As our country undertakes a long overdue reckoning on race and justice, it is critical that Latinos be included in the conversation,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute and one of the report’s co-authors. “Far too often we are overlooked, but to effectively address inequities in the justice system,…

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Republican National Convention: Night Two

Sonja Diaz joins KTLA as a political analyst for the Republican National Convention on night two. “We find ourselves no better off with the pandemic and its response. We find ourselves not only dealing with racial reckoning, made top of mind with what happened in Wisconsin, but with climate change. We see wildfires in California and…

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Where Does President Donald Trump Stand With Voters Of Color?

Sonja Diaz, the founding executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA appeared as a guest speaker on AirTalk. “President Donald Trump participated in a naturalization ceremony last night despite the last four years of an administration that saw kids in cages, families separated at the border, a Muslim ban, and public charge rules….

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Study finds juvenile justice system undercounts Latinos

A new study from UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute indicates the juvenile justice system either is not collecting data on Latinx youth or is failing to collect the data consistently. CBS News contributor Maria Elena Salinas joins CBSN to discuss how it is possible that members of the country’s largest ethnic group are being undercounted.

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

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

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Diaz on Trump’s Speech, COVID-19 and Racial Justice

“Sonja Diaz, executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA Luskin, provided live commentary on the Republican National Convention as a political analyst on KTLA News. On the convention’s final night, Diaz noted that President Trump’s speech did not meaningfully address two issues important to Americans: the COVID-19 crisis and nationwide calls for racial justice.”

Read More | August 29, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Civil Rights

Black Lives Matter goes big on policy agenda

“During a virtual panel hosted by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute in July, CBC Chair Karen Bass told POLITICO that elements of the BREATHE Act are already in existing legislation. However, parts of the sweeping proposal, she said, are ‘more challenging.’”

Read More | August 29, 2020

Press Release & Media Advisory → Criminal Justice

New Report Reveals Inconsistent Racial/Ethnic Data Categories at State-Level Youth Justice Agencies, Minimizing Latinx Youth Within the Justice System

On Tuesday, August 25, Alianza for Youth Justice and the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute are releasing a new “Call to Action” report detailing The Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System. The report shows that inconsistent data collection methods complicate race and ethnicity tracking across different stages in the youth justice system.

Biden pledge on police immigration contacts would largely make US a sanctuary country

Amada Armenta, who teaches urban planning at UCLA, went on ride-alongs with police in Tennessee during the street-enforcement phase of 287(g), and later wrote a book about it. She said most of the immigrants officers held for deportation were stopped for driving without a license.

Read More | August 22, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Commentary: Can L.A. escape the cage of ‘Chinatown’?

That’s why, for L.A., achieving true justice will require not just transforming systems but also forging a new identity, free of the powerlessness embodied in “Chinatown.” And the best attempt at a new narrative comes from the best L.A. book of the 21st century, “City of Inmates,” by UCLA historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez.

Read More | August 22, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Democrats head to convention united against Trump, but expecting conflict once the election is over

“What explains Bernie’s strong numbers is he did a lot of outreach,” said Democratic pollster Matt Barreto, who is working with the Biden campaign. “Not every Latino that Bernie got to vote for him was a super-progressive. For some, that was the only outreach they got.”

Read More | August 22, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Can Joe Biden win over the young Latinos who flocked to Bernie Sanders?

The Biden campaign recently made other high-profile hires including Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of civil rights hero Cesar Chavez, and Matt Barreto, the founder of Latino Decisions, a top Democratic polling firm. The campaign has also hired Republican strategist Ana Navarro.

Read More | August 22, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Voting Rights Project

Elizabeth (Buffy) Riley: Wisconsin must prepare for a pandemic election

The necessary public health steps are clear: A recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, UCLA Voting Rights Project, and the Voting Rights Lab found that the safety of voting during the 2020 elections depends on expanding absentee voting, eliminating polling place congestion, and reducing wait times at polling stations.

Read More | August 22, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Op-ed: Democrats must engage and advocate for Latino community to win 2020 elections

UCLA LPPI fellows, Diana Garcia and Nick Gonzalez, write on the importance of Democratic candidates finally treating every issue as a Latino issue. “As already shown by some 2020 candidates, mobilizing Latinos to vote blue in November will come when we see our needs reflected in the party’s policy priorities.”

Read More | August 22, 2020

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