Two local Hamlets remain from the chain that made its mark in part by hiring African Americans in visible positions when many L.A. restaurants didn't.
Some Latinos were moved from Gloria Molina's district to Don Knabe's, and voila, there were four votes to leave the Board of Supervisors' districts pretty close to what they are today.
Mike Bonin, the chief of staff to Councilman Bill Rosendahl, posted to Facebook some illuminating census data about Los Angeles city council districts.
The former Los Angeles Times op-ed columnist talks about the post-civil rights generation of African Americans in Los Angeles and her new book, "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista."
Q&A with the director follows Saturday night's free film screening at the Hammer Museum of the 1973 documentary on "the black Woodstock," more properly known as the Wattstax Music Festival.
County supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky finally had something to say about the newly drawn election districts submitted by colleagues Gloria Molina and Mark Ridley-Thomas.
Add the National Association of Hispanic Journalists to those concerned about recent job shifts at NBC 4 here in Los Angeles.
BNill Boyarsky remembers the founder of the Los Angeles Tribune.
Video goes viral and sparks angry comments, death threats, official denunciations and mocking remixes.
Ralph Branca met Duke Snider in the spring of 1947, when they were both trying to make the Brooklyn Dodgers club. It was the year that Jackie Robinson was being...
Zocalo Public Square is joining with Arizona State University and the New America Foundation to launch the non-partisan Center for Social Cohesion, "dedicated to studying the forces that shape our sense of social unity."
Jane Fonda's third act, multi-racial America, The Dude in London and more.
A history teacher at Canoga Park High School graciously pointed me to this online evidence of Dr. Martin Luther King's 1961 appearance.
My column airing at 6:44 p.m. on KCRW revels in, and adds some historical backstory to, the awesome audio file the Daily News posted of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in 1961 in Canoga Park.

NPR host and reporter Michele Norris' new book is called "The Grace of Silence: A Memoir."
This graphic posted to Flickr by Eric Fischer maps Los Angeles using racial and ethnic data from the 2000 census. Each dot represents 25 people.
Radio talker Laura Schlessinger was counseling an African American caller the other day and somehow found a way to use the n-word 11 times.
he latest census data gathered at the request of Rep. Brad Sherman shows that Latinos are still the largest population group at 42.8%.
The new "radio and multimedia service directed to an ethnically diverse and underserved 25-40 year-old demographic" — funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and managed by Radio Bilingüe —...
This week's piece by Kelefa Sanneh starts out exploring TV and radio commentator Tavis Smiley's criticism of Barack Obama's candidacy and looks into Smiley's enterprises, which are based in Leimert...
Jill Leovy covers homicide and the police for the L.A. Times, often in South Los Angeles. She writes today at Salon.com that the recent uptick in murder stats and spreading...