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Antonio Villaraigosa Speaks Out

Danny J. Bakewell Jr. Executive Editor By Kenneth D. Miller Assistant Managing EditorApril 16, 2015

Former Mayor Decided Against U.S. Senate Run to Focus on Family Courtesy photo Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa broke his silence on his decision to run for the United States Senate in an exclusive interview with the Los Angeles Sentinel this week. Villaraigosa, 65, served as the 41st mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013. He also served in the California State Assembly from 1994 to 2000, as the Democratic leader of the Assembly from 1996 to 1998, and  served as speaker of the California State Assembly from 1998 to 2000. His career in public office spans more

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March for Change

Amen Oyiboke, Staff WriterJanuary 14, 2015

South LA Activist request the community to unite for a march expressing change. (Danny Bakewell, Sr. spoke outside the Sentinel officer announcing a march that will take place Feb. 21/Valerie Goodloe)  Executive Publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper Danny Bakewell, Sr. and local community activists, clergy and politicians gathered at the Sentinel offices January 14to announce a march that will take place on the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s death. “This is not just a demonstration, but it’s a sense of outrage we have for a complete disregard about life. We are creating a movement demanding accountability for the

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New Orleans 9 Years After Hurricane Katrina

September 11, 2014

  From August 23-August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina ravaged through the state of Louisiana and the gulf coast leaving over a billion dollars in damages, hundreds of thousands of people displaced and over 1,800 lives lost many a result of drowning in storm water that was over twenty feet deep in some areas of the city. Nine years later, though the waters have receded, many homes remain abandoned, hundreds of bodies unclaimed and the city is still in the midst of rebuilding.      When I was first given the assignment of covering Hurricane Katrina: Nine Years Later, as a New

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Documentary Film Reveals Fatherhood in ‘Have You Seen My Father?’

Kenneth D. Miller, Assistant Managing EditorJune 12, 2014

Ronald Taylor is a statistical anomaly.  By his accounts he should be dead, in jail or a menace to society, but he survived the predicted outcomes for a youth raised without a father in South Los Angeles to become a model dad himself. Taylor,48, describes his cumbersome life experiences through the eyes and tales of others in similar situations in a gripping, compelling and insightful film documentary ‘Have You Seen My Father?’ which will be screened on Father’s Day June 15 at  Pastor Robert Cole’s Crusaders Temple Church of God in Christ  located at 9100 Hooper Ave. in Los Angeles.