LAUL In The News
Karen Bass takes over a Los Angeles divided by crisis
Reis ThebaultDecember 11, 2022 LOS ANGELES ā It was one month before a momentous mayoral election here and the nationās second-largest city was in disarray. A now-infamous audio recording had just surfaced,...
How Black-Brown Unity In LA Can Survive City Council Racism Scandal
Oct 13, 2022Leslie Berestein Rojas The racist comments at a meeting attended by three Los Angeles City Council members and a local labor official, all of them Latino, that were revealed in leaked audio included...
Hate crimes on the rise: Urban League working to curb stats
September 15, 2022Lisa Fitch It has been 21 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that led to the fall of the Twin Towers in New York City, the destruction of the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania....
Ri-Karlo Handy Reflects On Disparity In Diversifying Hollywood, Barriers For New Talent & āHigh-Touch Solutionsā
June 18, 2022Ri-Karlo Handy Two years ago, following George Floydās horrifying murder and civil unrest that followed, every industry including Hollywood scrambled to solve for their lack of diversity. Various...
UC and CSU are unaffordable, and a 4-year degree isnāt the only way to succeed, Californians say in poll
MAY 9, 2022TERESA WATANABE Most Californians believe the University of California and California State University are unaffordable, and they highly value community colleges and vocational training as alternative...
30 Years After Devastating LA Uprisings, Black And Korean American Leaders Plan A Show Of Unity
Black and Korean American leaders on Tuesday announced plans to hold a joint event on April 29 ā thatās the anniversary of the acquittal of four officers accused of beating Rodney King. That verdict set off nearly...
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Los Angeles Urban League appoints Cynthia Mitchell Heard as its new Chief Operating Officer
The highly respected non-profit executive makes history by becoming the first woman Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the legendary civil rights organization as it begins its second century of service to...
Los Angeles Urban League Honors Civil Rights Leader Reverend James Lawson at 47th Annual Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Dinner
Rev. Lawson is one of the Civil Rights Movement's leading activists, theoreticians, and tacticians of nonviolence within the movement. He worked directly with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to train students and...
Urban League Leaders Urge Resignation of Todd Spitzer After Comments on Race in Death Penalty Case
Incident is Further Evidence that Capital Punishment Must End NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES (February 24, 2022) āĀ National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and Los Angeles Urban League President and CEO...