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L.A. Watts Times: UCLA Labor Center Celebrates Lola Smallwood-Cuevas as the Only Black Woman in the California State Senate
The UCLA Labor Center hosted a homecoming celebration on Friday in honor of Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) for her recent election to the California State Senate.
Before winning her election in November, Senator Smallwood-Cuevas spent 15 years working for the UCLA Labor Center, where she directed the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work and co-founded the Los Angeles Black Worker Center, the nation’s first Black Worker Center.