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  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Event Today to 'Talk Truth' About L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks' Dead Endorsers

    Bernard Parks.​Update: Bernard Parks' camp responds, says he had no role whatsoever in the mailer. After the Weekly broke the news that several dead people were listed in a mailer endorsing the re-election of L.A. city Councilman Bernard Parks, a rally took place in Baldwin Hills this afterno ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 20, 2010

    Willy Leventhal: Civil Rights Shortstop

    Bernard Parks.​Update: Bernard Parks' camp responds, says he had no role whatsoever in the mailer. After the Weekly broke the news that several dead people were listed in a mailer endorsing the re-election of L.A. city Councilman Bernard Parks, a rally took place in Baldwin Hills this afterno ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Mayor Villaraigosa Allegedly Snubs Black Leaders

    Rev. Eric P. Lee.​Earlier this month we had a little chuckle over Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's slippage into a form of black-speak during a ceremony kicking off L.A.'s African-American Heritage Month. Mayor V. jived it up and called Jamie Foxx "this brother." Well, it turns out some African-Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Overturning Proposition 8: In 2010 or 2012?

    Proposition 8, last year's successful ballot initiative overturning the existing right of gays to marry in California, was largely financed by out-of-state money and represented a resounding defeat for the cause of same-sex marriage here. Precisely, however, when Prop 8 opponents finished licking th ... More >>

  • News

    April 24, 2008

    Will Latinos Be the Swing Vote in the Tussle Between Parks and Ridley-Thomas?

    Proposition 8, last year's successful ballot initiative overturning the existing right of gays to marry in California, was largely financed by out-of-state money and represented a resounding defeat for the cause of same-sex marriage here. Precisely, however, when Prop 8 opponents finished licking th ... More >>

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Antonio's Black Problem

    Dissing the school board angers Maxine and other allies

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Who Goes There?

    L.A. security guards seek more security

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    Hard Lesson

    As it fights to regain accreditation, Crenshaw High may lose what it needs most — teachers

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Lessons From the Ruins

    Time to look within the community for solutions to our problems

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Breach of Security

    L.A.’s biggest property owners break with their own history and oppose security guards union

  • Art+Books

    September 4, 2003

    Invisible Man

    Bayard Rustin and the other civil rights struggle

  • Columns

    August 21, 2003

    Race to the Finish

    Battling civil rights regressions in the big shadow of the recall

  • Columns

    June 6, 2002

    Joe, We Hardly Knew Ye

    The fear -- and loathing -- of a black hat

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    The Devil and Mr. Hicks

    How one of L.A.’s leading lefties joined forces with David Horowitz and Southern California’s conservative elite

  • News

    August 9, 2001

    A Famed Reformer Resigns

    McKenna’s return to L.A. Unified lasts one year

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    One District, Under Genethia

    The descent of L.A. school-board president Genethia Hayes from mediator to tyrant

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    And Another Thing

    Little-known skirmish two years ago got canned school superintendent on the wrong side of Genethia Hayes

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Richard Riordan, Pol

    How the mayor got his charter and his school board

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    The Best School Board Money Can Buy

    Reform is the reason, but there’s little rhyme to Riordan’s school slate

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Lost Soul

    A lament for black Los Angeles

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Activists Turned Elected Officials

    A lament for black Los Angeles

  • News

    June 18, 1998

    Pomp Over Circumstance

    You're either with Councilman Ridley-Thomas, or he's against you

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