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Three stories of hardship put a face on L.A.’s exorbitant housing costs

By | June 22nd, 2015|Employment & Housing|

In Reseda, an elderly couple fret about where they will go at the end of the month, when they are forced out of the one-room apartment they have lived in for 29 years.

In Tujunga, a retired woman lives in a backyard shed, treating her high blood pressure with tea made from her garden and bathing

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Seeking balance, L.A. council members may soften homeless ordinances

By | June 22nd, 2015|Employment & Housing|

After years of restraint, the Los Angeles City Council is embracing aggressive tactics against homeless encampments, setting the stage for sweeps aimed at eliminating tent cities and makeshift shelters.

But amid widespread criticism that they have gone too far, some council members are talking about softening two ordinances that give authorities wide latitude in confiscating and

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Op-Ed Dylann Roof and the white fear of a black takeover

By | June 22nd, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

I noticed the flags first.

In the most widely circulated image of Dylann Roof, who is charged with murdering nine African Americans at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the white 21-year-old sports a jacket emblazoned with flag patches from two failed white supremacist states — Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa. In another shot, Roof

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Black Americans grapple with unease in wake of Charleston shooting

By | June 22nd, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

As he tugged open the plywood door to his newsstand Saturday morning, Charles Tone turned to one of his customers with a question.

“How can they forgive him?” said Tone, 66. “Man, I don’t even know if it can be genuine.”

The newsstand at the corner of Manchester and Vermont — the heart of a historically black

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Charleston Shooting Reignites Debate About Confederate Flag

By | June 19th, 2015|Intergroup Relations|

On Thursday, hours after a white gunman killed nine people in a black church in Charleston, S.C., a Confederate flag continued to fly over the grounds of the state’s Capitol.

The Supreme Court ruled the same day that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to

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Why It’s So Hard to Gauge Level of Hate Crimes in U.S.

By | June 19th, 2015|Hate Crimes|

The fatal shooting of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., by a white gunman has been called a hate crime by the city’s chief of police. But a civil rights nonprofit that tracks hate crimes says chronic underreporting makes it impossible to determine the extent of racially motivated incidents in South

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‘We as a country will have to reckon’: Obama echoes gun violence worries

By | June 19th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Addressing the shooting deaths at a black church in Charleston, S.C., President Obama condemned the politics surrounding gun control legislation and called for Americans to do something about gun violence.

It’s a call he’s made before.

“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” the president said Thursday in the White House briefing room. Innocent

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Justice Kennedy practically invites a challenge to solitary confinement

By | June 19th, 2015|Police & Community|

Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in an unusual separate opinion in a case, wrote that it may be time for judges to limit the use of long-term solitary confinement in prisons.

His comments accompanying a decision issued Thursday marked a rare instance of a Supreme Court justice virtually inviting a constitutional challenge to a prison

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Mass shooting at church in Charleston resonates far beyond

By | June 19th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Uncategorized|

He arrived at the Calhoun Street church at 8:17 p.m., a pale, gaunt young man with a fishbowl haircut and putty-like features. He passed under the great steeple of Emanuel AME and opened the tall wooden door. He wore a gray sweatshirt and a dark pouch around his waist.

He was not entering just any church,

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Charleston Church Shooting Suspect Is Captured

By | June 18th, 2015|Hate Crimes|

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The gunman wanted in the killing of nine people at a prayer meeting at a historic black church in this city’s downtown area was taken into custody Thursday morning in North Carolina.

Charleston’s police chief, Greg Mullen, said the suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, 21,

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