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Are Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws going to help Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid win re-election? In 1994, when California Republicans passed the anti-immigrant Prop. 187, Latinos started voting Democratic in overwhelming numbers. JOHN NICHOLS will comment; he’s Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com — now redesigned and re-launched.
Also: Greil Marcus on Van Morrison, the wild and turbulent Northern Irish singer-songwriter who recorded the songs “Wild Night” and “Brown Eyed Girl” and the albums “Astral Weeks” and “Moondance.” Greil’s new book is When That Rough God Roes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison. Greil will be reading and signing Friday at 7:30pm Skylight Books , 1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Plus: yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Kent State killings; and we’ll also have Your Minnesota Moment: St. Paul’s mayor takes action against Arizona for its new anti-immigrant law.
Daniel Widener talks about culture and black struggle in postwar L.A. — he teaches history at UCSD and his new book is Black Arts West. We’ll also talk about the recent racist activity at UCSD — and the compendium of documents about it, ‘Another University is Possible.’ Danny will be speaking at Eso Won Books on Fri. May 7, 7pm in Liemert Park.
The Arizona legislature has passed a bill that will end ethnic studies classes in the state, according to the state’s top education official.
Los Angeles’s Liberty Hill Foundation will honor Walter Mosley with its Upton Sinclair Award on May 20. Mosley, author of more than thirty books, is celebrated worldwide for his Easy Rawlins mysteries. Set in inner-city Los Angeles after World War II, they feature an out-of-work black war veteran who reluctantly becomes a private detective and confronts the city’s racism and corrupt police force. The best-known volume is probably Devil in a Blue Dress, which was made into a film in 1995 starring Denzel Washington as Mosley’s protagonist: “In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line.”
But the odds are still against real reform –And the problem isn’t just Republican opposition; there are also the Democrats.
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Also: politics and photography – DOROTHEA LANGE took the photo called “Migrant Mother,” the iconic image of the Great Depression and the New Deal -0- and a lot of other photos the government censored. 
Stephen Ambrose, the best-selling historian who wrote or edited more than a dozen books about Eisenhower as general and president, based his fame in large part on what he said were his interviews with Ike – but now, eight years after Ambrose’s death, an official at the Eisenhower Library in Abeline says the interviews never took place.
A prominent British historian has found a new way to get in trouble: Orlando Figes, a historian of Stalin’s Russia at Birkbeck College, London, and a contributor to the New York Review, has admitted that his wife has been publishing hostile comments about rival historians at Amazon.co.uk under a pseudonym.
Plus: China today has more millionaires, more skyscrapers, and more internet users than any other country. But what happened to Mao? What happened to the Cultural Revolution? Everything you need to know about China – but were afraid to ask: UCI historian 
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Plus: TOM FRANK asks, When will the GOP stop whining about the ‘elites’? Glen Beck & Co. claim to be victims — of those darn liberals who control everything. Tom is the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and he writes
