An East L.A. family leans on community during the pandemic as government lets down low-income immigrants.
“‘We need a society where anti-racism is hard-wired into every policy and practice,” says labor economist Steven Pitts.
Advocates ask supervisors to act now as fatalities mount and public health dept. allows COVID patients into facilities with poor track records.
Are peaceful protesters at Adelanto Detention Center being tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed?
Hospitals and clinics that recently faced financial collapse are reopening waiting rooms. But PPE shortages and staff-risk issues remain.
The Sunshine State shows there is more than one way to suppress the kinds of figures that reveal the virus’s true human cost.
Since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona’s detention centers.
Facing deportation to homelands they barely remember, formerly incarcerated Southeast Asians in L.A. are fighting in court to remain here.
A November initiative is the latest battle in a long war that has driven housing costs in the Golden State exorbitantly high.
While California was convulsed by COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death, the governor gave Big Oil a big gift.
They died in parking lots, in hospitals, in train stations and in encampments. Now the county’s homeless must face the coronavirus.
The Colorado Democratic Senate primary might be the most reliable bellwether of where voters in the Western states stand on climate.
Health experts worry that Los Angeles County officials might let COVID-19 “burn” through the population.
More than a third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression, a 300 percent increase over last year.
Protests over the killing of George Floyd have hastened teachers union calls to remove police from Los Angeles’ public school campuses.
The bleakest chapter of the history of COVID-19 in Los Angeles will be devoted to the demise of nursing home residents.
Los Angeles photojournalist Ted Soqui captured Sunday’s All Black Lives Matter march in Hollywood.
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s office on June 10.
A review of little-seen films that chronicle the African-American struggle for equality.
For two weeks the LAPD seemed bent on squashing protests – and on fighting the mayor and other critics in government.