LOS ANGELES – City volunteers cleaned streets and removed graffiti in Wilmington, North Harbor Gateway and South L.A. during the latest round of Shine L.A. […]
Category: South Los Angeles
Rescue groups scramble as 400 abandoned guinea pigs overwhelm South L.A. home
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — An animal rescue group that took dozens of guinea pigs from a home where hundreds of the animals were found last […]
Watts residents demand answers as $850,000 pollution settlement sits idle
WATTS — In 2023, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office secured a $2 million settlement from Atlas Iron & Metal, a metal recycling yard […]
South L.A. leaders, patients fight federal health cuts at Planned Parenthood
LOS ANGELES — As the Trump administration advances an effort to gut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, elected officials rallied July 21 in defense of […]
Leimert Park draws record Black Lives Matter crowd, spotlights Wakiesha’s Law
LEIMERT PARK — Twelve years after Black Lives Matter was born, Los Angeles remains at the center of its most enduring demand: that Black families […]
LAPD nearly matches last year’s police shootings just halfway through 2025
LOS ANGELES — A week after it was announced the homicide rate in Los Angeles was down 20% this year, it was reported that Los […]
California’s largest youth grant backs South L.A. film apprenticeships
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, visited an innovative apprenticeship program last week aimed at opening up more career […]
At Crenshaw summit, Black Lives Matter commemorates 12 years and international growth
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — Black Lives Matter has reached its 12th anniversary, and the organization’s co-founder and prominent scholar-activist, Dr. Melina Abdullah, says the movement […]
L.A. protests planned for John Lewis Day of Action on July 17
LOS ANGELES – More than 20 events across the county will join the fifth annual “Good Trouble Lives On” John Lewis National Day of Action […]
South L.A. residents frustrated as new ‘parks’ mean more concrete, little shade
SOUTH LOS ANGELES — In 2016, Los Angeles County voters passed Measure A with the hope of transforming the region’s neglected parks. Framed as a […]