All of Jeffrey Wright’s acting skills can’t quite elevate O.G. beyond being a solid and dignified tale.
The closure of an immigrant detention center could represent a setback for the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.
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Parsing who is a company employee and who is an independent contractor is no mere academic exercise: Contractors typically lack the workplace benefits and security enjoyed by traditional employees.
Meanwhile, Oakland teachers break out the picket signs and LAUSD discovers the joys of transparency.
Playwright Boni B. Alvarez dramatizes the experience of six Filipinas temporarily inhabiting a one-bedroom flat near Los Angeles’ well-to-do Hancock Park neighborhood.
“We must nominate a solid progressive,” says New York’s mayor about the Democrats’ next presidential candidate. “That’s the only way we can change the country. It’s also the only way we can win.”
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A homeless California man was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly punched and threw hot coffee on a 7-Eleven employee.
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Angry immigrant rights activists say the generous ICE funding flies in the face of many Democrats’ stated desire to put the brakes on the Trump administration’s deportation surge.
The iPhone-shot High Flying Bird comes across as less a feature film and more like a pilot for a TV series. (Think The West Wing meets Ballers.)
Also this week: Governor Gavin Newsom chooses a new state education board president, Oakland teachers move closer to a strike and the money continues to flow in an L.A. school board race.