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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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Chad Dunn in Newsrust: “Justice Dept. Sues Georgia Over Voting Restrictions Law”

The legal director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, Chad Dunn states, “when the Department of Justice undertakes a case of this nature, it’s done its homework and is familiar with facts that are not even usually publicly reported… So I believe when the Department of Justice brings a case like this, it has what…

Professor Laura Gomez in Vox: “What the hysteria over critical race theory is really all about”

Critical race theory also highlighted how, even when the law changed to increase racial equity, institutions disrupted the intentions of those laws and tried to get around them, Laura Gomez, a University of California Los Angeles law professor who co-founded the school’s critical race studies program in 2000, told Vox.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in UCLA Newsroom: “UCLA receives $1.45 million bequest for research related to artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz”

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center has received $1.45 million in a bequest gift to support research and scholarship related to the art and life of Raphael Montañez Ortiz, a Puerto Rican American pioneer of the 1960s destructivist art movement, founder of the first Latino museum in the United States and recipient of the UCLA…

LPPI in Bluffton Today: “Federal unemployment programs end Saturday: Here’s what you need to know in South Carolina.”

Latinas hardest hit by job loss as economy recovers. Latinas have left the workforce in droves as a result of the pandemic. A report by the UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Initiative found that Latinas have the highest rates of unemployment and workforce departure of any demographic in the U.S. (June 16) AP

Statement From UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the For The People Act

Statement from Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on the failure of the U.S. Senate to move the For The People Act forward.

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