Adrian Dove, longtime organizer of Los Angeles’s Kingdom Day Parade, stands with Mayor Karen Bass during a 2024 event. Dove is still angry over losing […]
Category: Lead Stories
New Venice hotel celebrates Black heritage of community
Mike Clinton; left, and Kamau Coleman are two of four principles involved in the Redline Venice, a new hotel near the Venice Beach Boardwalk, the […]
Gang intervention worker Aquil Basheer dies
Aquil Basheer, founder of the Stop the Violence Foundation and the Peace and the Professional Community Intervention Training Institute, speaks Oct. 4 at his organization’s […]
9th District preparing for political shift
Jose Ugarte Jorge Nuño By Stephen Oduntan Contributing Writer SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A quiet but consequential transition is underway in the 9th City Council […]
Local leaders jubilant after Prop. 50 victory
State voters overwhelmingly back new maps; GOP files suit U.S. Rep Sydney Kamlager-Dove was one of the many local Democrats celebrating Proposition 50’s victory in […]
At 91, altruist Betty Price looks back on life of service
Betty Price, the widow of Apostle Frederick K.C. Price, former head of the Crenshaw Christian Center, talks about her latest memoir, ‘A Victorious Life of […]
Proposition 50 ballots due by Nov. 4
Cal State Los Angeles offers one of more than 100 voting centers in Los Angeles County for the Nov. 4 special election. The center is […]
New coalition tackles racial wealth gap
Black leaders seek to build pipelines for small businesses Sarah R. Harris, president and CEO of the Black Business Association, speaks at the launch of […]
New project targets digital divide in South L.A.
A woman works on her computer in the lobby of an office building. A new initiative launched last week is designed to provide internet connectivity […]
Promoting her book, Jayne Kennedy appears at CAAM
Jayne Kennedy, right, talks about her career with Jemele Hill at the California African American Museum Oct. 16. Kennedy is on a book tour promoting […]