By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer It’s reigning cats and dogs at the Pet Adoption Fund, an all-breed, private, nonprofit, no-kill, cat and dog rescue organization and […]
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This Week in Black History
April 13, 1964 Sydney Poitier, who died earlier this year, became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his […]
BOOK CORNER: New book of poetry promotes healing of invisible war wounds
By Marissa Wells Contributing Writer “Coming Home in Vietnam,” by Edward Tick, is a moving collection of poetry chronicling the author’s decades long journeys to […]
STREET BEAT: ‘What was the last movie you saw at a theater?’
Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Leimert Park.
Alliance to pursue homeless lawsuit against county
Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — After tentatively settling its lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights has signaled […]
Latest poll shows Bass, Caruso leading mayor’s race
Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles mayoral candidates Rep. Karen Bass and real estate developer Rick Caruso are nearly tied in a UC […]
Pan African Film Festival kicks off April 19
By Cynthia Gibson Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — As a Black teenager in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the 1950s, Ayuko Babu didn’t see himself in any […]
Latest variant increases county COVID-19 numbers
Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — Amid slowly rising infection numbers and continued spread of the BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19, Los Angeles County health officials […]
Freeway task force proposes changes to vision, goals
By Alfredo Santana Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — The task force assigned to develop a plan for the southern corridor of the Long Beach (710) […]
Video-game maker to purchase Hollywood’s Magic Castle
Wave Staff and Wire Report HOLLYWOOD — The exclusive Magic Castle, home to the Academy of Magical Arts and one of Los Angeles’ most storied landmarks, […]