Racial Issues

Paula Deen's Guilt-Free Admission of Using N-Word, Hiring 'Slave' Waiters

Paula Deen has found the one problem that can't be solved with butter, y'all. And that problem is her casual racism when planning wedding parties. As reported first by the National Enquirer (and picked up just about everywhere else), the celebrity chef and patron saint of all things deep-fried gave ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Wins Mayor's Race By Rebuilding The Villaraigosa Coalition, Plus San Fernando Valley Republicans

Eric Garcetti was elected mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday, reassembling the coalition of Westsiders and Latinos that carried Antonio Villaraigosa into office eight years ago.But as this L.A. Times map shows, Garcetti also carried the northwest San Fernando Valley, a largely Republican area that Vill ... More >>

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Black Kids at LAUSD Suspended at Alarming Rate: Are Teachers, Principals Guilty of Racial Profiling?

In reaction to the L.A. riots, black flight from Los Angeles whittled the K-12 population down to only 9 percent African-American, as of the 2009-10 school year. But those roughly 61,000 black kids are being punished much more harshly than white, Asian or Latino kids, according to new data from the ... More >>

Angela Davis Says Black People Have a Responsibility to Support the DREAM Act

Angela Davis, former Black Panther, is the go-to commentator on any protest or political uprising these days. (And, apparently, the go-to stencil for "street artists" designing nostalgic protest fliers.) So why hasn't anyone asked her how she feels about the DREAM Act -- the national push to grant ... More >>

Azusa 13 Gang Terrorized Blacks, Monopolized Drug Sales, Sent 'Taxes' to Mexican Mafia, Feds Allege

​The feds cracked down today on a San Gabriel Valley Latino gang they say has been on a war path against African Americans for 20 years. Sixteen people were arrested, 23 were already behind bars, seven were arrested on state drug allegations, and 12 others were on the loose as authorities act ... More >>

Calabasas High Graffiti: 3 Boys Who Sprayed Swastikas Say They Were Bullied

Jewish JournalSheriff: Not hateful, just bitter​The three male Calabasas High School students who admitted to tagging their campus in swastikas, racial slurs and personal attacks will not be prosecuted for a hate crime. Why? L.A. County sheriff's officials say the graffiti was not, despite ap ... More >>

A Magic Johnson Theatre Era Ends

Its South Los Angeles flagship was a game changer in black business and film

Groups Prepare To Counter Neo-Nazi Protest At L.A. City Hall

nsm88.org​Several groups are preparing to demonstrate against a purported neo-Nazi organization that is planning a rally outside City Hall downtown on April 17. Over the weekend a self-described "coalition of grassroots Los Angeles groups" announced a counter-protest at 10 a.m. that day at Te ... More >>

Defamation: Real and Imagined

Yoav Shamir’s new documentary on anti-Semitism finds the middle ground

Queer Town: Jeffrey King Calls Out Power Gays

Queer Town talked with Jeffrey King the other day, and he was not happy. A prominent figure in the gay community and founder of In The Meantime Men's Group, a South Los Angeles outreach organization for gay black men, King was frustrated with power gays -- black and white -- the gay mainstream as a ... More >>

Prop 8: Blacks and Gay Marriage — The Wrong Kind of Unity

A messy new alliance — tag team for intolerance

L.A.'s Racial Redlining of Black Children

When a horribly tortured boy enters child protection, does skin color hurt his safe ticket out?

The Slow Death of a Chocolate City

Geeks in the 'hood and L.A.'s black exodus

What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?

A dog-food prank gone bad wrecks careers and morale as Tennie Pierce demands millions

Long Beach Hate-Crime Verdict

Not-so-innocent kids split the black community and confound the media

Long Beach Hate Crime

Many media stumble over a man-bites-dog story of black suspects and white victims

The Disinvited

How Fences divided a community

Avenues Gang Members Meet the End of the Road

But is Highland Park safe for blacks?

The Friendly Pulpit

Aaron D. Iverson

Founding Father

Ayuko Babu

Colors of Optimism

The immigrants’-rights movement energizes a nation

Letters

Blurring the Color Lines

On the eve of the primary, Villaraigosa, Parks and Hahn win endorsements from black groups

Shedding Light on the AIDS Blackout

The first-ever national African-American summit on AIDS grapples with the record numbers of blacks contracting the disease

The Coondocks

Cartoonist Aaron McGruder’s parody irks the white powers that be

Pastor, Present, and Future

After 27 years at the pulpit, and 12 as South-Central’s ranking ambassador, Cecil Murray, resigns as pastor of First AME

Black Power(less)

The decline of black politics in America

Aristide Development

A black population with a slave past is done in by killing indifference. Sound familiar?

Disassembling the 47th

One of L.A.’s truly diverse districts may be on the verge of big — and unwelcome — change

A Prayer for Rev. Al

Let him buy his soul back from the Republicans

The Interregnum Riots

Was the uprising of ’92 the end of black power?

Black Like I Thought I Was

Race, DNA, and a man who knows too much

The 10th District's Negro Problem

Deron vs. Martin: Who’s the darling of the black establishment now?

Which Black L.A.?

Tuesday’s election gives the African-American community the chance to reclaim its roots

What They Said

More from the interviews with Stanley 'Tookie' Williams and prosecutor Robert Martin

Black on the Block

Can Degnan have its world stage and Wal-Mart, too?

What’s Black, Green and Not Yet Over?

Donna Warren wants African-American voters to defect from the Democrats

Hahn's Choice

The mayor goes trolling for a twofer

Bernie and We

Visible Men

The Wrong Battle

L.A.’s black political elite bamboozles itself

Black AIDS: 'Our People, Our Problem, Our Solution'

Behind Hahn’s Lines

Villaraigosa in South-Central

Held Back

The Miserable State of Black Education

Unsocial Studies

The real lessons of Hamilton High

The Shock of the Old

Nate Holden vs. the Future

Why You?

Writing about race

Lost Soul

A lament for black Los Angeles

Malign Neglect

A Weekly Roundtable discussion on black L.A.