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...look at it from a demographic viewpoint, my district is 50 percent Latino, and they’re not electing Latino representatives. The representatives are Jewish or African-American,” Bernace said, adding, “I’m trying to represent the whole neighborhood...
African-American students comprise 9.2 percent of the incoming freshman class, a slight increase from 8.9 percent in the class of 2008. Asian Americans make up 18.7 percent of the class of 2009, down from 19.9 percent. Latino students constitute 7.4 percent of the incoming class, falling from last year’s figure of 8.8 percent. Native Americans hold 0.9 percent of the spots, slightly down from 1.1 percent last year...
Looking back on her own experiences, Cepeda says the administration has always been willing to invest its academic and administrative resources, even helping her jump-start a forum on Latino politics at the Institute of Politics while she was an undergraduate...
When the call is over and the fire alarm silenced, this former child of the poor, gang-ridden Latino neighborhood of East L.A. stretches out his arms and says, "Me, mayor of this great city? I can't believe I am standing here." Villaraigosa is poised to become the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. Made of equal parts passion and personal charm, he acted during the campaign as if he wanted to shake hands with every one of the city's 4 million citizens. He could not be more different from the man he trounced...
...politician, Villaraigosa--who in this race assembled a coalition of black, white and Asian voters as well as Latinos--has long sought to reach beyond his own community. But as mayor of L.A., which is 47% Latino, he is destined to become an icon of the nationally emerging Latino political class. There are two Latino U.S. Senators and 22 Latino mayors in cities with more than 100,000 residents...