Keith Porter, 43, had been firing a gun into the air to celebrate before he was killed, family members say. If the shooter weren’t an ICE agent, “We would expect that there would be an arrest,” a community leader says.
David G. Brown, political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s oldest Black newspaper, reflects on the art of racial dissent. An exhibit at the Watts Towers showcases his work.
The Arc examines the persistent barriers to racial justice and opportunities for progress in an era of receding black presence in Los Angeles and California.