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Sonja Diaz in Los Angeles Times: “Orange County hasn’t had a Latino supervisor in more than a decade. Will redistricting change that?”

But “cracking” — dividing adjacent cities with ethnic majorities, as happened with Latinos in Santa Ana and Anaheim — has been a major factor, said Sonja Diaz, a civil rights attorney and founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Paul Barragan-Monge in Times of San Diego: “Opinion: Newsom Should Make History By Appointing A Latina Supreme Court Justice”

There is no shortage of legal talent here in California that can rise to the occasion. The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, where I work, recently joined a group of Latino leaders and legal experts to advocate for a Latina appointment and recommend qualified Latina lawyers across the state including experts in housing, immigration,…

Matt Barreto in Yahoo! News: “As redistricting deadline nears, commissioners work to reach final decision”

One of the biggest issues still being determined is how to create a majority-Latino district in Yakima. After an analysis released last month by Matt Barreto, faculty director at the UCLA Voting Rights Project, commissioners Sims and Walkinshaw proposed redrawing the 14th Legislative District centered on the Yakima area and including the Yakama Nation Reservation.

Eric Avila in Los Angeles Times: “The human toll of freeway expansion”

“Black neighborhoods were considered to be blight. They were considered to be slums,” Eric Avila, a history and Chicano studies professor at UCLA, told The Times. “The dominant perspective of the time was to eradicate blight, to get rid of slums. These neighborhoods were simply wiped out without any efforts to remediate the damage that…

David Hayes-Bautista in Capital Outlook: “Buying Power: Latino GDP In U.S. Ranks 8th In The World”

Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, co-author of the study and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA, says the report debunks the idea that Latinos come to the United States to commit crimes or live on public assistance. “We are not lazy or criminal, we come to work, and these…

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