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What It’s Like Inside a Border Patrol Facility Where Families Are Being Separated
The dog kennel: That’s how the Border Patrol processing facility in McAllen is known, because of the chain-link fencing penning more than a thousand migrants inside. The 77,000-square-foot facility—often called “Ursula,” because of the street it’s on—lies just a few miles north of the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for […]
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Actor says racial profiling led to his wrongful detainment by sheriff’s deputies
Last Wednesday, Darris Love and his girlfriend, Ayesha Dumas, had just finished up a trip to the Apple Store in Glendale. They were in Dumas’ car waiting to pull out of the garage when Love realized they hadn’t gotten their parking ticket validated. So they pulled over and Love, dressed in shorts and a sweatshirt […]
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Dr. Tracy Shaw
Dr. Tracy Shaw is the Assistant Director and Training Coordinator of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program at Loyola Marymount University’s Student Psychological Services. She is also a licensed psychologist in the state of California. Dr. Shaw received her Masters and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a minor in substance abuse and sports psychology from Southern Illinois […]
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Freebie Friday
KOA Kids Camp Free Hey Dad’s KOA has covered you with your Kids Camp Free event this Father’s Day weekend, June 15-17. Participating locations include the Los Angeles/Pomona Fairplex, Ventura Ranch, and Acton/Los Angeles North KOAs. The GRAMMY Museum All dads get admission on Father’s Day. The Zimmer Children’s Museum If Dad just wants to see his kids happy, he […]
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For the first time, a black woman is elected mayor of San Francisco
San Francisco (CNN)For the first time, an African-American woman has been elected mayor of the city of San Francisco. London Breed reached the milestone on Wednesday, when her opponent conceded a tight mayoral race. Breed will serve until 2020, finishing the term of the late Mayor Ed Lee, who died in December at age 65. At a […]
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Teri Williams, OneUnited Bank
Teri Williams is President and Chief Operating Officer of OneUnited Bank. She is responsible for implementation of the Bank’s strategic initiatives, as well as the day to day operations of the bank. These operational areas include all retail branches, marketing, compliance, lending, information technology, customer support, legal, and human resources. Under her leadership, OneUnited Bank has consolidated the local […]
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L.A. County expands homeless services with toilets in Venice and overnight parking in Hollywood and North Hollywood
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to expand services for homeless people in areas where the city of Los Angeles has struggled. The supervisors approved the overnight placement of two portable toilets and hand-washing stations at the Rose Avenue beach parking lot in Venice Beach — the latest development in an ongoing […]
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Trump Administration Restricts Asylum Access For Victims Of Gang And Domestic Violence
Untold numbers of victims of violence, including women abused by their partners, could be denied asylum and deported back to danger at home because of a new ruling Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued Monday. Sessions, as head of the Department of Justice, oversees all immigration courts and has extraordinary power to overrule decisions of judges […]
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Melina Abdullah is Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and immediate past campus president and current Council for Affirmative Action Chair for the California Faculty Association (the faculty union). Abdullah is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, with subjects ranging from political coalition building to womanist mothering. Professor […]
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Black Charlottesville, Va., Flame Thrower Found Guilty of Disorderly Conduct, Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail
The Commonwealth of Virginia, not known to be the friendliest place for black defendants, has given the young man who used a spray paint can and lighter to defend himself against gun-wielding racists, 360 days for disorderly conduct (all but 20 were suspended). Corey Alexander Long, who was a counter-protester at last August’s Unite the Right […]
