Mayor Karen Bass announces an initiative to ‘House Our Vets’ at a Nov. 16 luncheon at the Getty House that honored veterans who were housed […]
Category: Lead Stories
Lakers’ legend spreads early holiday cheer
Abdul-Jabbar’s foundation gives shoes, backpacks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives a high five to a student at UCLA Community School Nov. 17. About 100 fourth, fifth and […]
Boys to men, L.A. style
LAUSD brings male students into nationwide mentor program A mentor adjusts a student’s tie during the induction ceremony for the 5000 Role Models of Excellence […]
MLK Parade organizer weighs next steps
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 […]
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 […]