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Minorities' Influence Grows in Legislature
Karen Bass is part of a growing crowd - the African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans who have gained influence in the state Legislature. San Jose Mercury News 5/27/08
How Latinos Matter in the Election pdf
...for most Latinos — no matter how
engaging — politics is a part of life and not the purpose of life.
Kenneth C. Burt’s ...understanding how Latinos came to find a role
they could play in politics. Hispanic Link Weekly Report 5/26/08
Author Celebrates Political Victories of Latinos
More than 1,000 Latinos hold elected or appointed positions in local government throughout California, and there are more Latinos in the Legislature than ever, according to Kenneth C. Burt's new book. Stockton Record 3/10/08
Author's Corner: Kenneth Burt, Capitol Weekly 3/6/08 pdf
Rivals Focus on Latino Vote to Win Biggest Prize
...Mrs Clinton has the broadest base of support among Latino voters in California, according to Kenneth Burt,...But Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Obama [last week] could change that," says Mr Burt. Financial Times 2/1/08
New Book Highlights Asian-Latino Coalition - In his new book, The Search for a Civic Voice, former AsianWeek reporter Kenneth Burt charts the birth of Latino politics and discovered that Asians partnered with Mexican Americans in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. Asian Week 1/9/08
Black Politicians Reach Out to Latino Voters - ...African Americans have seen their ranks decrease from 17 percent to just over 11 percent. "In 10 years, there won't be a real 'black' district in Los Angeles," says Kenneth C. Burt, author of "The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics." Candidato USA 11/25/07
This Week, with Author Kenneth C. Burt - Christina Hoag, La Política’s Los Angeles correspondent, recently interviewed Kenneth C. Burt...11/5/07
En busca de una voz - La única manera de que el poder político latino avance en California es hacer que más latinos se registren como votantes y salgan a sufragar...dijo Kenneth C. Burt... La Opinión 10/29/07
Latino Politics - Listen 
to interview on NPR's KPCC fm
Guest host Jon Beaupre discusses the Latino vote both nationally, and in California, and how it will figure into the upcoming election. He talks with Kenneth Burt and Jaime Regalado, political scientist and Executive Director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles.
Latino Voters Loom Large in Presidential Primary
Radio interview with Kenneth Burt on NPR's KPCC
Latinos and the media, Burt...explains the long and difficult Latino rise to present day influence and shows the complexities and subtleties of the Latino community in a way missed by the mainstream news media.LA Observed, October 13, 2007
New book explores how coalitions and reaching out to others have expanded Latinos' political influence
Burt hopes to spread a history lesson he believes Latino activists should heed..., Ventura County Star, September 16, 2007
Despierta el poder ...Burt dijo que los activistas latinos se percataron de la importancia de volver a las bases organizativas de la comunidad, a reconectarse con...Mi estrella, Ventura County Star September 29, 2007
Church: A Central Player in Fighting Discrimination, Says Author?, Tidings, September 7, 2007
Who Speaks for Hispanics?, Sacramento Bee, July 18, 2007
Ed and Antonio: Ed Roybal and Latino Politics in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, November 3, 2005.
Edward R. Roybal: Reflección Sobre Un Pionero Latino, La Opinion, October 30, 2005.
LA Vladeck Center Could be Demolished for a New Police Station if Efforts to Preserve It Fail, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, May 13, 2005.
McWilliams Fellow Ken Burt Wins History Prize, Public Affair Report, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Fall 2004).
HSSC Awards Luncheon to Honor Eight Authors and a High School Teacher, The Southern Californian, Historical Society of Southern California, Vol. 16, Nos. 2-3 (Summer/Fall 2004).
You Don't' Have to be Jewish... The International Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2003.
Realidades: Los Soldados Americanos, 
a public television mini-documentary on Latino veterans, on PBS's American Family, August 14, 2002.
Meet Me At Brooklyn and Soto: A New History of Boyle Heights, Yiddishkayt: News of Yiddish Happenings in Los Angeles," Vol. 4, No. 2 (Sept. -Dec 2001).
Boyle Heights: Only in America, [Los Angeles] Eastside Sun, September 13, 2001.
Getting to 50-plus-1, LA Weekly, April 27-May 3, 2001.
Kenneth Burt to Explore the Role of Jews in Organizing Labor, [Long Beach and Orange County] Jewish Community Chronicle, January 24, 2001.
County Democratic Chairman Honored as Pioneer Activist, Ventura Star, August 15, 2000.
Common Thread, This Week's Yiddishkayt L.A. Festival Will Explore the Longtime, Complex Ties Between L.A.'s Latino and Jewish Communities That Many Say Might Determine the Shape of the City's Future, Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1999.
Film Details Jewish Laborers' Efforts Against the Nazis, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, April 2, 1999.
On the Archival Trail of the CIO and Hollywood's Labor Wars, California History, Spring 1996.