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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

GUEST APPEARANCE: Your vote can aid the forgotten essential workers

Sonja Diaz, director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute, has said that it is “clear that we cannot rebound from this crisis if we leave them behind,” on the COVID-19 pandemic and essential workers.

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Why is progress so slow for Latinos in Hollywood?

Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, said decades of attempts at media reform and market-based arguments haven’t yielded significant gains for Latinos in film and TV. “The approach to media reform over the last 50-some years has always been either the carrot or the stick. Initially, it was the stick —…

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Prop. 16: Why is affirmative action measure struggling in woke California?

“Baby Boomers and Generation X lived with the official policy of affirmative action until it was stricken off the books in 1996,” said former state Senate leader Kevin de León, who campaigned for affirmative action as a young activist 25 years ago. “Now the challenge is, how do you connect this highly technical government term…

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Poll after poll shows that the issues most important to Latino voters are COVID-19, which will be discussed, but also unemployment and how to generate jobs with better pay… and immigration….

Read More | October 23, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Decision 2020

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute’s Research Director, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, appeared on Telemundo to discuss the Latino vote and the last presidential debate. “Tonight, we expect that the candidates will not talk about immigration policy, but one important thing we must remember is that immigration policy is important to the Latino community. In many…

Read More | October 23, 2020

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