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Biden reaches out to Latino voters with plan to tackle inequalities

With less than 100 days until the election, Biden’s campaign has ramped up its efforts to reach these voters. In recent weeks, the campaign has made several high-profile hires, including Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of Cesar Chavez, and Matt Barreto, the founder of Latino Decisions, a top Democratic polling firm. It also announced a $1m…

Read More | August 10, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

We Are California Calls on LA County to Address Health and Economic Inequality

We Are California / Somos California (“Somos California”) is a group of Latino leaders in Southern California originally formed to coordinate activities commemorating 25 years since the passage of Proposition 187. Somos California has since continued its work by focusing on emerging issues affecting California’s Latino communities. They include Sonja Diaz, Founding Director, Latino Policy & Politics Institute and Kevin…

Read More | August 10, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint

Rather than simply declaring that “illegal immigrant” is an unacceptable derogatory term, analyze Jason De Leon’s “The Land of Open Graves,” a vivid portrait that “pushes our understanding of how lives are lived and lost on the U.S.-Mexican border to a new level.”

Read More | August 10, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

How Arizona Latinos Could Help Turn It Blue for First Time Since Clinton in ’96

“The opportunity in Arizona is that Bernie did really well there, especially with younger Latinos, so those are voters that do not like Trump at all,” said Biden campaign pollster Matt Barreto, who recently joined the campaign.

Read More | August 10, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Southeast L.A. already faced many ills. Now it’s the epicenter of coronavirus

“We expected that the COVID cases would sweep out of Beverly Hills and Brentwood and Bel-Air and down into the more exposed areas,” said David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine at UCLA and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture. “It’s done that exactly, following the line of least resistance.”

Read More | August 10, 2020

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