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How Trump’s Use of Federal Forces in Cities Differs From Past Presidents

“The through line here is not the protection of federal property,” said Kelly Lytle Hernandez, a historian at U.C.L.A. “It’s the effort to suppress the uprising for Black life. That sounds pretty familiar. That sounds pretty late 19th century.”

Read More | August 2, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Sacramento Report: Ethnic Studies Dispute Pits CSU Against Lawmakers

The COVID-19 pandemic and recent racial justice movement have exacerbated systemic inequities, demonstrating the need for a policy agenda that focuses on issues impacting Latinos and other communities of color, said Sonja Diaz, the founding executive director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Read More | August 2, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

A Black Trans Sex Worker Died After Paramedics Failed To Take Her To The Hospital

For Monocuco, that marginalization was deadly. “It was already a death sentence from even this moment many years ago when Alejandra was crying out against police brutality in her life,” said Amy Ritterbusch, who interviewed Monocuco in 2014 along with Salamanca, and is now an assistant professor in the Department of Social Welfare at UCLA.

Read More | August 2, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

UCLA study underscores unequal impact of coronavirus by race, ethnicity

“We are now seven months into the pandemic, and we are starting to have clear information about the disproportionate health and economic impacts that communities of color are facing,” Sonja Diaz said. “It’s time to address the specific ways that COVID-19 hurts Latino and Black families and to protect our most vulnerable communities as the…

Read More | August 2, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

In nation’s 2 largest metros, Blacks and Latinos are more likely to die from COVID-19

Sonja Diaz, founding director of the policy initiative, said two significant reasons for those trends are that low-income Black and Latino people in both regions tend to have a greater need to work outside of the home and a greater reliance on public transportation, both of which put them at a greater risk for exposure…

Read More | August 2, 2020

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