The Metro Board of Directors voted today to increase the transit agency’s current contracts with law enforcement agencies, while approving a motion aimed at pursuing alternatives to police through recommendations from the Public Safety Advisory Committee.
Devastating news broke on Wednesday, December 1, detailing the murder of Jacqueline Avant. The Beverly Hills Police Department held a conference on Thursday, December 2, 2021, to report the arrest of the suspect connected to the shooting.
African Americans know that color matters in regard to almost everything in this country. Medical care is no exception.
At 41 years old, the world-renowned luxury designer lost his life to a rare form of cancer, however, his influence and pioneering legacy will hold eternal flames of inspiration.
Infrastructure improvements are planned to beautify the Manchester-Broadway corridor located in Council District 8 in South Los Angeles.
On November 17, rapper, YG teamed up with Dion Rambo of Rambo House Foundation, the City of Hawthorne, Oracle and UCLA Health to launch his new initiative, the TeleHealth Van. The first fleet of vans were designed to offer free services to low income and unhoused individuals and families.
David Massey, the first African American Filmmaker ever Oscar-Nominated for “Best Live Action Short Film” (for 1992’s “Last Breeze of Summer” which he Produced,) along with Producer Sandra Evers-Manly, have presented Massey’s newest Short Film Project: “Passage” at two very recent events: The first screening was held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY, on November 19, and the second screening took place at Raleigh Studios’ Chaplin Theater in Hollywood on November 23.
David G. Brown Weekly Cartoon December 12-18
Words cannot express the pain and devastation we felt this morning over the senseless murder of our beloved friend/family member Mrs. Jackie Avant. Her brutal murder is not only a loss to her entire family but is a terrible loss to everyone who met her.
A California city has apologized to Black and Latino residents and descendants of a tight-knit community that was torn down more than half a century ago.
A lawyer who represented the city of Los Angeles following the botched rollout of a Department of Water and Power billing system in 2013, but was simultaneously representing a DWP ratepayer suing the city over the system, has agreed to plead guilty to receiving a $2.2 million kickback from another attorney stemming from the arrangement, federal prosecutors said today.
Authorities today sought the public’s help to find a 17-year-old boy who was last seen in Compton and may be in Manhattan Beach. Jasyre Robinson was last seen about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 2400 block of East 126th Street, according to Deputy Eva Jimenez of the Sheriff’sInformation Bureau.
Again claiming the numbers are proof of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, Los Angeles County health officials reported in its latest data a sharp decline in the number of virus infections among residents and staff of skilled nursing facilities, where inoculations and booster shots have been widely administered.
A Temple City-based COVID-19 testing firm that contracts with Los Angeles County vehemently denied allegations today by Sheriff Alex Villanueva that the company shares patient DNA data with the Chinese government, a concern that prompted the sheriff to announce his department will no longer use the county’s chosen testing provider.
Today is Mayor Eric Garcetti’s last day as chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a network of 97 mayors working together to address the climate crisis and reduce emissions.