The Hood Half Marathon through the streets of historically Black Los Angeles taught me important lessons about fear, anxiety and fellowship.
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 still about setting high expectations for Black students.
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 a luxury we can’t afford — or some don’t deserve.
As rents rise and owners change, longtime tenants say they may lose their leases.
Los Angeles program helps patients navigate the complexity of early Alzheimer’s and dementia care.
South Los Angeles churches invite doctors, researchers and government representatives to bring help to those who need it.
Gary Phillips’ newly reissued mystery novel of that name is set in post-riot Los Angeles.
South L.A. churches craft dementia-friendly services aimed at providing solace to a community disproportionately affected by the disease.
Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled.
Participants who received an average of $850 per month used it for paying bills, reducing debt and improving credit.
A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.
A report from the front lines of California’s Black mental health crisis.
Medical professionals are tackling health care disparities affecting Black men by providing services at barbershops.
The civil rights trailblazer gets some much-deserved attention in a documentary streaming now on Amazon Prime.
The civil rights activist is remembered for fighting on behalf of the most vulnerable.
Five decades after his murder, America could use another dynamic unifier.
Shaka King’s riveting new film looks at the charismatic Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and the man who betrayed him.
Black Lives Matter activists bring Ava DuVernay and Los Angelenos together on Election Day to celebrate organizing and voting.
The disparate impacts of COVID could ensure this battleground state stays blue in 2020.