In an area that displays polarized voting, like the Yakima Valley, Latino-majority districts aren’t enough to ensure Latino voters elect their favored candidates, UCLA’s Voting Rights Project director Matt Barreto said in the report. Mapmakers need to consider the number of Latino voters, not the total number of Latinos, when drawing political boundaries, Barreto said.
Read More | October 25, 2021
Aparece Esmeralda Melgoza, una experta en salud pública y coautora de un nuevo reporte de UCLA ‘s Latino Policy and Politics Institute en esta entrevista con Voz de América. Hablan de las reformas recomendadas para mejorar los servicios médicos de emergencia para la comunidad latina.
Panelists for the hearing included: California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower, Executive Director of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls Holly Martinez, Founding Director of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Sonja Diaz.
Read More | October 22, 2021
Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project and an expert on Latino voting patterns, said that’s a problem because the Yakima Valley has both a large Latino population and a well documented history of racially polarized voting, in which Latino voters consistently choose different candidates than white voters.
Read More | October 21, 2021
Last year marked the beginning of a racial reckoning, spurred by the tragic murder of George Floyd and a pandemic that disproportionately ravaged the wealth and health of non-white Americans. Across the country, white Americans found themselves pressed to recognize inequities that, for years, communities of color have been screaming into a void about.
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