The California Latino Legislative Caucus (CLLC) announced new leadership last week as the community celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month. The CLLC elected Sen. Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach)...
The job of the District Attorney’s Office is to do justice, not revenge. Since I was an NAACP leader and then a Congress of Racial Equality...
It’s no secret that too many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. What appears to be a secret is that an industry that is casting lifelines...
On Aug. 15, the Assembly Appropriations Committee voted 11-3 to pass a bill Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) authored requiring state-funded contractors hired for large-scale infrastructure...
The last first day of school. The last homecoming, the last Christmas program or sports event you'll have to attend. The last spring break, the final...
“The Biden Administration’s CHNV Parole Program provides a safe pathway to apply for protection for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, or Venezuelan migrants fleeing violence and upheaval. We...
When Bass arrived at LAX on Monday afternoon, she joined Angelenos and other well-wishers to celebrate the Olympic Flag’s official return to Los Angeles for the...
Between January to July, the Healthy Streets team, a coordinated response department for homelessness, engaged with 2,961 people living on the streets, but less than a...
The California Civil Rights Council proposed rules that prohibit the use of artificial intelligence (AI) during the job recruitment process last week. The amendments to FEHA...
California has the largest state economy in the United States with a nominal Gross domestic product (GDP) of approximately $3.9 million in 2023, reported the U.S....
Californians’ personal income increased by 8.2% in the first quarter of 2024 due to higher wages, salaries, and property income, stated the July report released by...
California must act now to confront today’s Black job crisis. The Bureau of Labor Statistics last year reported that 90% of the nation’s unemployed U.S. citizens...
Before being elected to the State Assembly, I spent nearly three decades of my career as a public employee, serving the Los Angeles County Department of...
Forget alternative facts and political spin: the first presidential debate of 2024 was an overwhelming flood of falsehoods. The twice-impeached and 34-times convicted felon former President...
For 20 years now, at a small center in North Richmond, Men and Women of Valor (MVOV) has been helping to rehabilitate ex-felons, giving them a...
Republican lawmakers gathered outside of the Employee Development Department in Sacramento on Jan. 23 to call for the repeal of AB5, the five-year old California law...
OPIC CEO Pastor Raymond Lankford expressed his enthusiasm for the event, stating: "This Career Fair is not merely a gathering of employers and prospective employees; it's...
One of the candidates was former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, who the mayor fired in February over mishandling and minimizing the importance of Internal Affairs investigations...
“It's not enough to build the infrastructure in low-income neighborhoods, the people in those neighborhoods need to have access to the jobs installing and maintaining that...
In 2015, the CBC launched Tech 2020 to ensure that Black Americans would be better represented in the industry by 2020. However, Lee says those tech companies that pledged...
Advocates in California committed to improving the skills of individuals to meet the human resource needs of the state want to see more diversity among young...
The city of Oakland is taking steps to streamline permits for businesses to entice them to stay and bring new projects to the city. Additionally, the...