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Sonja Diaz in Los Angeles Times: “Showdown between reform and tough-on-crime policies in California attorney general’s race”

The attorney general’s job expands far beyond crime, said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and a former deputy under then-Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris. The state Department of Justice oversees the enforcement of environmental and housing laws and runs a civil rights division. California has also taken an important leadership role in recent years, she said, to fight efforts in Republican-led states that target reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community.

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Latino Rebels: “Reasons Why My Primos Didn’t Vote (Opinion)”

Important analysis conducted by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative detailed that the Latinx electorate voted for Biden over Trump by a 3-to-1 margin across critical states. Moreover, the impact of Latinx votes was felt in states with large Latinx populations and states where the Latinx population is smaller but whose impact is just as strong when participating in multiracial coalitions—perhaps best exemplified by Arizona and Georgia.

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Inside Philanthropy: “Latino Communities Continue to be Underfunded. Here are 5 Funders Looking to Make a Difference”

Between 2010 and 2020, Latinos accounted for more than half of the overall increase in U.S. population growth — more than any other racial and ethnic group. According to recent U.S. Census data, Latinos make up about 18% of the nation’s population. That’s 62.1 million people.

Laura E. Gómez in Colorado Boulevard: “When South Pasadena Was a Sundown Town”

Laura E. Gómez, director of UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies recognized that official proclamations condemning our own past were “definitely part of this larger trend…the desire in this present moment of national reckoning with our past racism…”

Michael A. Rodríguez in Los Angeles Times: “¿Los Angeles es testigo del fin de la ‘paradoja latina’?” (Spanish)

A los estudiosos les ha intrigado durante décadas la “paradoja latina”: el hecho de que, a pesar de los altos índices de pobreza y de no estar asegurados, “los latinos tienen una esperanza de vida mucho más alta de lo que cabría esperar”, dijo el Dr. Michael A. Rodríguez, profesor de ciencias de la salud comunitaria y de medicina familiar en la UCLA.

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