Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed in the Los Angeles Times about the ongoing crisis in the city council following the anonymous release of recordings of council members making racist remarks. "L.A. has seen this script before," says Lovato in the article by LA Times journalist Jean Guerrero. "The one in which people of color in positions of power increasingly become co-opted into a project of class-based oppression. Roberto Lovato, a former immigrant rights activist in L.A. and the author of “Unforgetting,” calls it “the rise of intersectional empire.”