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Guest Commentator

Tanya K. Hernandez

Tanya K. Hernandez is a professor of law at Rutgers University Law School.

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Guest Commentary

Roots of Latino/Black Anger: Longtime Prejudices, Not Economic Rivalry, Fuel Tensions

By Tanya K. Hernandez Guest Commentator

The acrimonious relationship between Latinos and African Americans in Los Angeles is growing hard to ignore. Although the New Year weekend’s Black-versus-Latino race riot at Chino state prison is unfortunately not an aberration, the Dec.15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang,…

The acrimonious relationship between Latinos and African Americans in Los Angeles is growing hard to ignore. Although the New Year weekend's Black-versus-Latino race riot at Chino…

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