The president’s targeting of D.C., L.A. and other Black-led cities isn’t a coincidence. It’s rooted in a history of white supremacy.
In his first term, Trump promised to build new roads, bridges, airports and railways. This time he seems more invested in tearing things down.
Black-led groups in Southern California demonstrate the urgency of continuing to invest in the fight for social justice.
President Trump’s actions may ultimately spur the return of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles and beyond.
Reports that the new leader of the Catholic Church has mixed African ancestry offer a fascinating antidote to President Trump’s attacks on diversity in America.
President Trump’s English-only directive makes clear the connection between Black and brown here in California and beyond.
The Trump administration’s high-profile anti-DEI campaign aims to do more than shut down programs in California and beyond.
From uprising to fires, Blacks in L.A. continue the fight against erasure.
Black people will continue to give the U.S. progress, whether it wants it or not.
After working through the growth and decline of Black enrollment, and assaults on racial equity, the outgoing LAUSD board member says the fight going forward is...
Journalist Marc Haefele was one of the keenest analysts of Los Angeles politics. Capital & Main columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan knew him as a colleague who...
Roughly half the country, the majority of it white, has opted out of the multiracial democratic experiment.
One-third of the region’s unhoused are Black. Funding services could be a start to investing in the equality we all need, instead of seeing it as...
As rents rise and owners change, longtime tenants say they may lose their leases.
Are the Intuit Dome and Inglewood’s sports and concert venues what the last significantly Black city in Los Angeles County needs?
A flurry of funding that went to Black nonprofits after George Floyd’s 2020 murder is being pulled back amid a right-wing backlash.
Kamala Harris will run as a fighter, not a healer, punching back at Trump’s blows to long-established rights.
Leimert’s Godfather leaves a legacy of Black permanence.
The civil rights leader showed that even in Los Angeles, color drives class divisions and racial justice drives economic justice.
A co-founder of the activist organization's Los Angeles chapter explains the distance between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd.