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Topic Archive: Multicultural LA
The Rev. Eric Lee, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in L.A., today sent an apology to Daphna Ziman, the philanthropist who stalked out...
Posted April 10, 2008 10:55 PM
Rev. Eric Lee, president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, denies he said "the Jews have made money on us...
Posted April 10, 2008 08:31 AM
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, has been hammering away that there is a racial aspect to the gang murders sweeping South Los Angeles and...
Posted March 27, 2008 09:25 AM
Every so often we get a glimpse of how things really work, without the cautionary impulse and spinning that takes over when people are talking...
Posted March 26, 2008 11:55 AM
Just fyi, this is the day that heart surgery is scheduled at Children's Hospital for Davik Teng, the 9-year-old girl from rural Cambodia who was...
Posted March 24, 2008 12:53 AM
In his blog on the Times website, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that one of the most common perceptions of him when he played basketball — that...
Posted March 21, 2008 10:41 PM
Twelve U.S. journalists from ethnic media have been selected to take part in a week-long program, "Immigration: Reporting the Full Story," put on March 16-23...
Posted March 11, 2008 05:27 PM
The newspaper based in Monterey Park was hit with damages, penalties and interest in the class-action suit won by reporters and other staffers last year....
Posted March 2, 2008 01:53 PM
The Forward interviews Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and calls him "something of an honorary member of the tribe." “He’s basically treated as if he’s a Sephardic...
Posted February 26, 2008 12:17 PM
The new L.A. Times news blog looks and acts freakishly like LA Observed, often posting on the same news nuggets after we do. (And sometimes...
Posted February 20, 2008 08:34 PM
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's blog on the Times website seems to be working its way through his personal African American Hall of Fame — the latest...
Posted February 15, 2008 05:19 PM
President Felipe Calderón of Mexico was in Chicago and the Bay Area yesterday. Today he'll address the Legislature in Sacramento and visit the Napa Valley,...
Posted February 13, 2008 12:36 AM
In his last piece left in the can for the LA Weekly before taking his keyboard to Mexico, Daniel Hernandez uses Elizabeth Palacios's troubles with...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:18 PM
Trader Joe's will give up single-ingredient items from China, such as garlic and frozen spinach, by April 1. Products that include ingredients from China will...
Posted February 11, 2008 02:35 PM
This whole battle for the Latino vote between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama keeps getting more intriguing. Today, the state's biggest Spanish-language newspaper endorsed Obama,...
Posted February 2, 2008 10:10 AM
The most popular radio host in Los Angeles — and probably the nation — gave Sen. Edward Kennedy the royal treatment this yesterday morning, before...
Posted February 1, 2008 12:04 PM
In the midst of a spree of retaliatory shootings that has left two three dead and two other victims injured, the gang situation in the...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:15 PM
Irene Hirano will step down next year as president of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. But that's not her big news. She...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:05 PM
In this week's ¡Ask a Mexican! column in the LA and OC Weekly(ies) — and around the country, I presume — Gustavo Arellano delves into...
Posted November 21, 2007 09:29 PM
OK, just kidding about that. But who knew her older sister is a rabbi on a kibbutz in Israel? I guess you would if you...
Posted November 19, 2007 12:47 AM
An email correspondent caught me up with angryasianman.com by Phil Yu, a 27-year-old Korean American who was the subject of a story last month (!)...
Posted November 18, 2007 02:36 PM
Ciudad's culinary guide to Latin dining in the November issue ranges from La Casita Mexicana in Bell to La Super-Rica Taquería in Santa Barbara, and...
Posted November 13, 2007 01:20 AM
Jay Levin's forthcoming RealTalk LA (and RealTalkLA.com) will try to "reinvent the concept of a city magazine and create the next evolution of the local...
Posted April 2, 2007 08:08 AM
The now-18-year-old girl got probation and community service like the others, but did not receive sixty days of house arrest. She told the judge she...
Posted February 6, 2007 12:48 PM
Four of the African American juveniles found guilty of attacking three white women in a Halloween mob were sentenced to probation and house arrest for...
Posted February 2, 2007 06:15 PM
Allegations of felony assault against nine juveniles are found to be true, not true for the youngest accused. The hate crime allegations are also found...
Posted January 26, 2007 01:58 PM
L.A.'s Latino vs. black gang violence lands on the front page of the NYT, with a web slide show of photos. The county's choice for...
Posted January 17, 2007 01:12 AM
Suspected gang members backed into and nearly totaled the car of a black woman who has been testifying for several days in the racially inflamed...
Posted December 6, 2006 02:11 AM
On the occasion of the paperback release of his well-received first novel, The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia talks with guest blogger Daniel A. Olivas...
Posted December 1, 2006 11:39 AM
A Halloween night attack on three white women by 20 to 40 blacks (according to the Press-Telegram) is causing a lot of community upset in...
Posted November 17, 2006 12:31 AM
Jack Miles' essay asking if Lebanon is Israel's Iraq — and whether the war on Hezbollah is a miscalculation that might leave Israel worse off...
Posted August 4, 2006 02:20 PM
The impressive photos of the afternoon are the aerial shots of a solid string of marchers extending across all lanes of Wilshire Boulevard for a...
Posted May 1, 2006 06:15 PM
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