Every year around 5,000 kids are emancipated from California’s foster care system. ...
Music and Grace
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LA Townhall Meeting to Push for a Constitutional Convention
Although there have been certain thoughtful people warning against the idea, the push for a...
Conflicting Stories in OIS Case in Compton
A sixteen-year-old was shot and killed in Compton on Sunday by a Los Angeles sheriff’s...
Bernie Shops For Prisons
I tried to ignore this story yesterday, I really did. But find that I can’t do it. According...
Monday’s Social Justice Shorts
THE INCARCERATION GENERATION According to federal data, on any given day 1.5 million American...
Happy Independence Day!
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Could the City Attorney Keep an Eye On the LAPD?
When newly elected City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was sworn in on Wednesday, one of the more...
Closing the CA State Parks: 3 Reasons Why It Won’t Happen
The now familiar tango continues in the California state capitol in which the governor threatens...
The Arrest of Alex Sanchez: Part 3 – The Bail Hearing
Yesterday, Los Angeles gang intervention leader Alex Sanchez had his bail hearing at the US...
1 in 7 American Teenagers Think They’ll Die Young
In a brand new study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota pediatrics...
Got State Budget Problems? Hey, Just Cut Inmate Food.
For the last month, reports have been drifting in that various states have been trimming their...
Michael Jackson: the News Insanity & the Beauty
Michael Jackson – Black Or White (Official Music Video) – Watch more funny videos...
The Arrest of Alex Sanchez – Part 2
I am still in Washington DC. (I was at Bennington College going through the last ten days of my MFA...
Alex Sanchez Arrested: Dear FBI, WTF???! – UPDATED
NOTE: FOR UPDATES, scroll down My friend, Alex Sanchez, the executive director of Homies Unidos...
Forgive Them, William Osborne
No saint, but where’s the harm in a DNA test? Anyone with a trace of commonsense and...
Blog Weirdness…. All is Fixed
For those of you who might have had the unfortunate experience of logging into WitnessLA today...
Calling on Arianna and Co. to Do Their Part for California
Where’s Sacramento? Who cares? You’d find better ideas for solving the budget mess on...