Los Angeles Urban League Centennial Nights

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Atop of the Roosevelt Hotel, which offered a panoramic view of Los Angeles, key Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL) supporters gathered to celebrate the historic civil-rights organization at its “Centennial...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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...
Despair over gentrification reaches new depths in South L.A.

Despair over gentrification reaches new depths in South L.A.

SEPT. 24, 2021ERIKA D. SMITH Gina Fields talks almost wistfully about one her favorite activities growing up in “The Jungle,” the part of South L.A. that most Angelenos now know as rapidly gentrifying Baldwin Village. “I used to walk through Leimert Park as a kid to...