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Sonja Diaz talks to Marcos Gutierrez from Hecho en California about the lack of representation in the selection of the first eight members of California’s 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission.

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Opinion: An Increasingly Diverse California Deserves Both Black and Brown Leaders

“We look forward to the time when it will no longer be historic or breaking news to name the “first” for any substantive office because our preeminent political posts will start to reflect the new majority. Now the attention on California must shift to Georgia and then to Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania so that … Continued

Read More | January 11, 2021

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Law professor with Roswell roots wins national honor

Laura E. Gómez, a professor with the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) received the 2021 Outstanding Scholar Award in December and will be honored during a Feb. 16 virtual awards banquet.

Read More | January 11, 2021

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Upcoming Congress will have a record number of women

“We saw that Donald Trump increased his vote share from 2016 to 2020 among white women. And so, ensuring that these voters who have consistently, despite billions of dollars to persuade them not to vote for Donald Trump, still voted for him, will have other people to vote for a party that has now seen … Continued

Read More | January 11, 2021

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ROBOTS AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WOULD DISPLACE 7.1 MILLION LATINOS FROM THEIR WORK

“Now that Latinos are receiving a disproportionate financial hit from the COVID-19 crisis, it is a good time to focus on increasing training opportunities and strengthening the social safety net to rescue those workers who have been left behind,” said Rodrigo Domínguez Villegas.

Read More | January 11, 2021

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