Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

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…

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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…

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STREET BEAT: ‘What was the last movie you saw at a theater?’

Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Leimert Park.    

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Candy bunnies make best Easter gifts, rescue groups say

Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — With Easter approaching, animal rescue organizations in Southern California and elsewhere are once again…

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