Responding to the fatal police shooting of Ezell Ford in South Los Angeles, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that all of the department’s officers will be trained in the next month on ways to de-escalate potentially violent encounters as part of a “national conversation” on police use of force.
The five-hour-long training session, which will
WASHINGTON — Black children were almost four times as likely as white children to be living in poverty in 2013, a new report has found, the latest evidence that the economic recovery is leaving behind some of the United States’ most vulnerable citizens.
The share of American
When Donald Jones Anspauch Jr. first started fighting for gay rights in the 1980s, there was an urgent, unifying cause for activists: AIDS.
His friends were dying. Devastated, Anspauch penned a coming-out letter to his parents saying, “Gay is OK,” and began marching, picketing and protesting for his and others’ survival. The fight eventually shifted to
Yolanda Garcia’s grandparents migrated from Mexico and worked multiple jobs — in farm fields and school cafeterias — to save money to send all six children to college.
Garcia’s father attended Brown University and had five children. In turn, she graduated from UC Santa Cruz, worked as a teacher and now runs a gallery and boutique
Latinos’ emergence as California’s largest ethnic group is casting new light on an enduring paradox: Many do not vote, limiting their influence on government decisions that have a profound impact on their lives.
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WASHINGTON — Republican leaders on Thursday abruptly yanked an environmental spending bill from the House floor before a final vote amid a storm of protest over an amendment that would have allowed Confederate flags at federal cemeteries. The action came hours after South Carolina lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State Capitol’s
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules to combat segregation in federally subsidized housing, a piece of President Obama’s effort to address the racial disparities he argues are helping fuel unrest in cities across the country.
The long-awaited regulations, which are to be detailed
During an evening service titled “Stop, Look and Listen” in the spare fellowship hall of Mt. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church, after dire Scripture readings about plagues and last days, the minister rose before a sign that proclaimed, “Jesus saves!”
“I wanted to come by today to keep encouraging you to hold on,” the Rev. Max A.
The demographers agreed: at some point in 2014, Latinos would pass whites as the largest ethnic group in California.
Determining when exactly that milestone would occur was more of a tricky question. Counting people isn’t like counting movie ticket receipts.
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With transgender identity thrust prominently in the national spotlight in recent months, researchers at the University of Chicago and Rice University report that among transgender individuals there may be limited support for the inclusion of a transgender category in the U.S. Census.
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