Over 300,000 people gathered to experience world-class musical performances, services offered from home improvement to voter registration and of course a whole lot of food.
In its continuing fight to secure adequate ongoing funding to combat homelessness, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors reached out to the state’s top lawmakers in Sacramento for one-on-one talks.
Acting on a motion by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl, the Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to seek a change in state law that would keep all options open to fund the fight against homelessness.
“We celebrate the halfway mark of the Crenshaw/LAX project, a huge milestone for the community, for Metro and for the city,” said Metro CEO Phil Washington.
The Compton City Council has voted 5-0 to authorize a $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever was responsible for killing 1-year-old Autumn Johnson, and the total reward is expected to soon rise to $75,000. The vote by the Compton City Council came on February 16, when Compton Mayor Aja Brown announced that Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the FBI both plan to match the city’s reward. Autumn Johnson was asleep in her crib at home in a converted garage when a gunman got out of a car in the 300 block of North
On November 13, 2015, the YWCA Greater Los Angeles (YWCA-GLA) hosted their 14th annual Rhapsody Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Rhapsody Gala, the organization’s main fundraising event, provides assistance to the area’s most at-risk population; emancipated foster youth, and other underserved individuals in the YWCA GLA’s program areas: Workforce/Youth Development, Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Child Development, and Senior Services. This year, the YWCA-GLA celebrated the extraordinary achievements of Debra L. Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET Networks recipient of the Media Visionary Award, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas as Man of the Year, and