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.
Co-published by The American Prospect Erin Aubry Kaplan speaks with economist Steven Pitts about the president's claim that he has reduced African-American unemployment to an historic...
Co-published by International Business Times Of all the national trendsetting ballot measures decided by California voters in the last generation, perhaps none was more divisive than Proposition...
Often called to television roundtables and policy conferences to speak about race, economic inequality and labor, progressive scholar Dorian Warren talked to Capital & Main last...
A sober New York Times headline last weekend described what many assume has been a dramatic change in fortune for Black Lives Matter, the de facto...
South L.A. is the neediest and most politically challenging part of the city that gets in the news chiefly for the story of its shifting demographics...