SoCal Edison Slapped With Discrimination Lawsuit -- Its Third Since The 1970s
Utility juggernaut Southern California Edison was being sued this week by eleven former and current African-American employees who claim to have been discriminated against while working for the...
View ArticleJamillah Moore, President of Los Angeles City College, and Others Buy Time...
Los Angeles Community College President Jamillah Moore has managed to push back her trial for wrongful termination for the third freaking time -- now the show (set for yesterday) will go on March 30....
View ArticleCongressman Peter Kings' Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicals Kickstarts...
New York congressman Peter King, who once claimed that more than 80 percent of Mosques in the United States are controlled by fundamentalists, "an enemy living amongst us," is catching a lot of heat as...
View ArticleStephen Bainbridge, Conservative UCLA Prof, Under Fire For 'Third World...
Well-regarded UCLA law Professor Stephen Bainbridge was under fire this week after he wrote on his blog about a bad experience with FedEx customer service. The comments were called out by some on...
View ArticleSex At Work: LA and Other California Cities Lead Nation in Gender Equality
Sure, California may be a terrible place to find work these days, with the third worst job market in the nation. But for women looking to be treated equally in the workplace, there's apparently no...
View ArticleUSC's Freshman Class Most Diverse Ever: 1 Out of Four New Trojans is Asian
When we think USC freshman, we think white guy with a letterman's jacket, a mullet, a Mustang and a somewhat rich dad (says the Bruin). But it turns out that not only are Trojans smart but they're...
View ArticleLatinos Invade UCLA For Fall 2012: Applications up For All Ethnic Groups
Sorry, you AM-talk-show-listening Latino-haters out there, but the brown nation is busting down the doors at UCLA. In fact -- gasp -- minorities are largely responsible for the Westwood campus' 12.7...
View ArticleLatinos Now Biggest Minority at Four-Year Colleges
When we announced last year that Latinos are now the largest minority group on college campuses, some of you Hispanic-haters were quick to latch onto the fact that many of these places were two-year...
View ArticleTV Shows with All-White Casts Get Lower Ratings?
The population of Los Angeles is roughly half Latino these days. But you wouldn't know it within some business communities, like Hollywood's, where many of the brown folks you see are working craft...
View ArticleHollywood Is Very White (L.A. ... Not So Much)
Los Angeles county is "majority minority." Whites make up a little more than one in four of us. Latinos comprise nearly half of the population. The rest? Also minorities. But you surely wouldn't know...
View ArticleGoogle's Sorry Diversity Numbers Decried by L.A.-Based Latino Group
Latinos, surpassing the number of white people in March, now comprise the largest ethnic group in California. One of every two of us in Los Angeles County, the most populous county in America, is...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2015
2015 was a big year for billionaires in Los Angeles. Eli Broad opened a new museum on Grand Avenue. David Geffen sprinkled more of his money around, donating $100 million to UCLA for a new private...
View Article"Boycott Is Not Off the Table" Despite Oscars' Dramatic Diversity Effort
A local African-American leader says an Oscars boycott that has been gaining steam after the nominations for Hollywood's highest honors snubbed actors of color is still on despite a move by the Academy...
View ArticleShifting Demographics Keep Los Angeles an Interesting Place to Live
In Los Angeles, the only constant is change, as demographics shift as folks are constantly moving to, settling down or leaving the Golden state. For those of us who decided to call the City of Angels...
View ArticleShut Out of Golden Globes, Latinos Take on Hollywood Diversity in 2017
This years boycott of the Oscars could center on the underrepresentation of Latinos.
View ArticleWhy Is City Hall Celebrating the Racially Divisive La La Land?
The film has been criticized for its privileged, white view of a metropolis where nearly three out of four people are a minority.
View ArticleFilm Academy's Leader Exits, Renewing Concern About #OscarsSoWhite
As leader of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs opened the door to a more diverse Oscars. Her exit had activists concerned.
View ArticleCrazy Rich Asians Represents a "Future Forward" at LAAPFF
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival gives an entree into the diversity of Asian and Asian-American storytelling. And we need more of it.
View ArticleSoft Power: David Henry Hwang's "Political Fantasia" Envisions Democracy's...
Celebrating its world premiere at the Ahmanson on May 16, Soft Power, the new musical written by M. Butterfly's David Henry Hwang, powerfully takes on The King and I, cultural appropriation, identity...
View ArticleCelebrate Ramadan With 2 Contemporary Iranian Art Shows
“In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art” is on view at LACMA, where it graces the BCAM building through September; and beginning at downtown gallery the SPACE...
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