Stephen Lopate was just a boy when he first mentioned he wanted to vote someday in a presidential election.
It was 2008, and he told his mother he liked Hillary Clinton because she was a smart woman.
Years later, when he turned 18, Lopate’s mother sought a court guardianship of her severely autistic son so that she
There was a time when the two Los Angeles police officers would have cruised down Cesar Chavez Avenue in a black-and-white, scanning the sidewalks from their patrol car as they passed through Boyle Heights.
But on a recent morning, Officer Eric Perez and his partner spent their patrol time strolling past vendors selling brightly colored jeans
Cinco de Mayo is a low-key celebration at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black institution that began in the late 1800s to educate freed slaves and their children.
But it has taken on a more personal significance for a growing number of students at this small, private institution where one in five students today is Hispanic.
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Latinos, blacks and Asians wield significant spending power at independent grocery stores, according to a study released this week.
The report from the Center for Multicultural Science reveals that those populations account for $44.2 billion, or about 34 percent, of the total annual spending at independent grocery outlets.
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The U.S. has become significantly less Christian in recent years as the share of American adults who espouse no systematic religious belief increased sharply, a major new study found.
For what is probably the first time in U.S. history, the number of American Christians has declined. Christianity, however, remains by far the nation’s dominant religious tradition,
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