By Marie Y. Lemelle
Contributing Writer
Every four years, January marks the presidential inauguration. This year’s inauguration gave the country its female vice president. After the...
By Darlene Donloe
Contributing Writer
WEST ADAMS — COVID-19 can’t stop the music.
While some record stores in Los Angeles have had to close their doors, there...
County nears one million cases of COVID-19
Wave Wire Services
LOS ANGELES — Nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and with Los Angeles County pushing...
MLK Jr. Hospital managing the strain of COVID
Frontline workers
respond to surge
of cases with
creative measures
By Sue Favor
Conbtributing Writer
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — As coronavirus cases and...
By 2UrbanGirls
Contributing Writer
COMPTON — A coroner’s inquest into the June shooting death of Andres Guardado upheld the original conclusion of the county’s medical examiner...
By Alysha Conner
Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES — Superintendent Austin Beutner wants to use Los Angeles Unified School District campuses to administer coronavirus vaccines and help...
Wave Wire Services
LOS ANGELES — Two City Council members introduced a motion Jan. 12 to stop the city's mandatory cleanups of homeless encampments and...
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Contributing Columnist
There was national fury, outcry and indignation over the Capitol terrorist insurrection egged on by President Donald Trump.
There...
STREET BEAT
Mike Cooper
Baldwin Hills
“I’d like to see people be social and healthy. I also would like to see us be a community again.”
Issac Williams
Leimert...
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT
The Capitol riot won’t change anything
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Contributing Columnist
Three things happened within a day of each other that tell much about...
Trump’s vision put the country behind China
By John Grace
Contributing Columnist
“From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land,” President Donald Trump said...
Wave Wire Services
CALABASAS — Nearly a year after a helicopter crash killed Laker legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, the...
By Don Wanlass
Contributing Writer
Last summer, as the NBA playoffs began in a bubble in Orlando, Florida, many of us were anxiously anticipated the Lakers...
SPORTS DIGEST
With quarterback questions, Rams head to chilly Green Bay
By Don Wanlass
Contributing Writer
The NFL playoffs, like the postseasons for most professional sports, is often...
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
By Darlene Donloe
Contributing Writer
There are some disturbing statistics surrounding the ratio of Black mother/infant deaths in Los Angeles County compared to their...
By Bill Vaughan
Entertainment Writer
The stunning life story of Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award winning actress and trailblazer Cicely Tyson is detailed in “Just...
By Shirley Hawkins
Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES — Several years ago, actress Sarah Culberson was shocked to discover that she was an African princess.
Raised in West...
BOOK CORNER
By Marissa Wells
Contributing Writer
Kelly Benson has spent the last five years in Chicago, hiding from her childhood crush, Gabe, who brought a pregnant...
By Marissa Wells
Contributing Writer
Preston Gomez, a San Francisco-based jazz musician, finds himself having to relearn to play the piano following a hand injury caused...
By Jesse Jackson Sr.
Guest Columnist
Editor’s note: This column was written prior to Election Day.
Voters this week faced one big question: Has Donald Trump earned...
By Jesse Jackson Sr.
Guest Columnist
If a lie is repeated often enough, the truth may never catch up. Donald Trump understands this better than anyone,...
By Jesse Jackson Sr.
Guest Columnist
I join those who pray for the full recovery of President Donald Trump and the first lady. Whatever your politics...
By Jesse Jackson Sr.
Guest Columnist
As the presidential campaigns heat up, Americans are provided with a stark choice of leaders. The visits to Kenosha by...
By Jesse Jackson Sr., Guest Columnist
Lagging in the polls, President Donald Trump has launched a campaign to discredit the upcoming election and disparage the U.S....
By Jesse Jackson Sr., Guest Columnist
Donald Trump’s ignorance and incompetence have cost American lives in the pandemic.
Now his failure of leadership will add to the...
By Jesse Jackson Sr., Guest Columnist
Aug. 6 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
If the constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War —...