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Justice is Served
This week, the Glynn County court found Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. guilty of the felony murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The verdict gave the Arbery family, Glynn County, the State of Georgia, the United States, and the world a just...
Prosecutors Need to Take Another Look at Excessive Prison Sentences
California houses the second largest prison population in the United States behind Texas and the largest population of people serving long-term sentences. Due to decades of tough-on-crime policies from over-zealous politicians, some of these long-term sentences are...
Racism Impacts Premature Birth Rates
According to a recent study by the March of Dimes, in the United States, African American women have a higher rate of infant and maternal mortality than other women regardless of socioeconomic status. In addition, a higher percentage of African American women...
Cal Grants Need Reform
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Urban League joined a broad coalition of student-led advocacy groups, California Community Colleges, higher education stakeholders, and the business community to call on Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the Cal Grant Reform Act into law....
LAUL Entrepreneurship Center Gets Investment From Wells Fargo Bank
This past Wednesday, the Los Angeles Urban League and Wells Fargo Bank held a joint press conference to announce Wells Fargo's grant of one million dollars to support the Los Angeles Urban League's Entrepreneurship Center and general operations. In the words of Los...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
In April of 2014 doctors diagnosed my sister with stage three breast cancer. She was only 31 years old at the time and had just left her job in banking to start her own business. Luckily for our family, California had recently expanded Medicaid coverage to include the...
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