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Eric Avila in WWNO Public Radio: “Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership”

At the time, highway planners used the language of science to justify building freeways through communities of color, says Eric Avila, a professor of urban studies at UCLA. “They presented a kind of dizzying array of charts and graphs to insist that this was the most economically efficient route for this particular freeway. They denied…

Sonni Waknin in Tri-City Herald: “Franklin commissioners move forward with redistricting despite voting rights lawsuit”

An attorney with the voting rights group said the county will not be able to make any changes to the boundaries without court approval. “The Washington Voting Rights Act requires Franklin County to obtain our client’s approval and court approval for any changes to the election system now,” said Sonni Waknin with the UCLA Voting…

Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Valley Voice: “A California answer to Covid-19’s devastating toll on black and Latino Americans”

For example, researchers from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) reported in 2018 that the scarcity of Latino physicians in California has led to a deficit of 54,655 Latino physicians required to achieve parity with non-Latino White physicians.

David Hayes-Bautista in Radio Bilingüe: “True Origins of Cinco de Mayo – A Repeat.”

As scholar David Hayes-Bautista explains in his book “The Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition,” the holiday was originally created by Latinos in California in the mid-nineteenth century. It was fueled by a feeling of enthusiastic support for both the Union Army in the US Civil War against the Confederacy’s slave states, and for the…

Kelly Lytle Hernandez in Spectrum News 1: “Culver City’s history as ‘sundown town’ shades police reform debate”

While African Americans are 8% of Culver City’s population, they constitute 21% of residents arrested by Culver City’s police department, according to an analysis by UCLA professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez of arrests between Jan 1. 2016 through July 15, 2018.

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