Long Beach, CA – Long Beach youth are registering their parents and the community to VOTE in the upcoming mid-term elections. Il successo nelle sfide (SIC) Youth Volunteers ages 13 attraverso 21 are leading the way. Inspired and authorized by the power of the national “When We All Vote” campaign, SIC Youth will engage their own […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law. A series of decisions by the Obama administration loosened the legal concept […]
Michael’s father Jacques and uncle Bernard immigrated to the United States. as teenagers in 1947, having lost their entire family during WWII. After serving in the U.S. Army in the Korean Conflict, Jacques met and married his wife Lois and they settled into a working-class neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley to raise a family. […]
Alfred graduated from Cal State Los Angeles in 1979 with a B.S. in Environmental Health Science. He began his career working full time as an aerospace engineer for Rockwell International Space Systems Division on the Space Shuttle Program. While working full time he began law school in 1982 e in 1986 he graduated from Western […]
Veronica grew up in Lakewood, California, one of ten children born to parents who immigrated from Mexico. She attended public schools from K-12 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies. Veronica mentored young women in the Raza Women de UCLA program, helping […]
Although the first, and only attorney in her family, Patti knew her calling was to be a lawyer from the time she was very young. To this day she loves the practice of law. As a prosecutor in the LA City Attorney’s office, Patti spends nearly every working day in a courtroom and has […]
Dr. David Horne is a tenured full professor of Critical Thinking and African History and is the former chair of the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State University Northridge. He also teaches graduate public policy and introductory political analysis and is the graduate advisor for the department. He is the original Executive Director of […]
In 2013 Sam Polk, a former hedge fund trader, founded a nonprofit called Feast (originally called Groceryships) to address food-related health problems in South LA, where the average income is $13,000 un anno, life expectancy is 10 years lower than more affluent areas, and diseases like obesity and diabetes are alarmingly high. Feast began helping […]
Boston (CNN)A lawsuit against Harvard brought on behalf of Asian-American students who failed to gain admission goes to trial on Monday in one of the most consequential race cases in decades, with affirmative action policies across the country at stake. The lawsuit was crafted by conservative advocates who have long fought racial admissions practices that traditionally benefited […]
The white woman nationally known and locally heckled as “Cornerstore Caroline” now says she’s sorry for falsely accusing a 9-year-old black boy of sexually assaulting her. The delayed apology came from Theresa Klein on Friday night, after she watched surveillance footage from the Sahara Deli clearly showing the boy’s backpack brushing up against her as […]