On Valentine’s Day two years ago, film director Maria Giese met with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission staffers in downtown L.A. to talk about an issue she said was stalling her career — gender discrimination.
Giese, who directed the low-budget feature “Hunger” in 2001 and the British film “When Saturday Comes” in 1996, said the commission
Transgender issues are the next frontier of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights movement. A string of high-profile cases, such as a Kansas judge’s decision to allow Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to change her name to Chelsea and Olympian Bruce Jenner’s televised coming out as a transgender woman, coupled with a series of gay
The findings released Monday that Los Angeles County’s homeless population rose 12% since 2013 reflect a setback in the region’s recently heightened efforts to stem homelessness.
But city and county officials had no shortage of ideas about how to fix the problem.
L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin, who represents Venice, said he thinks there needs to be more shared
As the Obama administration prepares to alter how it enforces immigration laws, top officials have been conducting weeks of shuttle diplomacy, touring the country to try to reenlist police chiefs and mayors in the cause of deporting people convicted of crimes.
Local officials are skeptical because of a previous system that resulted in the detention and
When black friends come to visit, they inevitably ask Timothy Alan Simon the same question: Why are there so few African Americans?
A San Francisco native, Simon attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, the University of San Francisco and Hastings College of the Law. At one time, he saw other black faces in all of the city’s
When he was in college, nearly a decade ago, Javier Hernandez did not feel as though he belonged.
Even though he had paid to be there, he was afraid.
Because he was not a citizen.
And fearing deportation, he and his friends referred to themselves in code.
Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.
Hillary Rodham Clinton calls them “everyday Americans.” Scott Walker prefers “hardworking taxpayers.” Rand Paul says he speaks for “people who work for the people who own businesses.” Bernie Sanders talks about “ordinary Americans.”
The once ubiquitous term “middle class”
First came disclosures of racist and homophobic text messages exchanged by officers of the San Francisco Police Department. That was followed by the discovery that sheriff’s deputies had been gambling on forced fighting matches between inmates at a city jail.
Then on Thursday, the San Francisco district
MIAMI — Oklahoma’s governor this week approved a law extending to 72 hours the mandatory waiting period before a woman can have an abortion. Here in Florida, lawmakers enacted a 24-hour waiting period that requires two separate appointments — one for
Sometimes college and university leaders try to avoid the spotlight when a faculty member is under attack. Not so this week at Polk State College, which is standing behind a humanities professor accused of giving students anti-Christian assignments, even as the allegations were picked up by national conservative outlets.
The college’s leaders say the case raises