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Parent Trigger Hits Again in Los Angeles’ Watts Public School

by Julianne Hing on May 14 2013, 6:30AM

The controversial school reform tactic is picking up steam as it moves through Southern California.

‘Sa-I-Gu’ Documentary Explores How Korean Women Remember the L.A. Riots

by Jorge Rivas on April 29 2013, 5:07PM

Today is the 21st anniversary of the uprising in Los Angeles shortly after the Rodney King trial verdict was announced. “Sa-I-Gu”, Korean for April 29, opens a window on Korean American women in Los Angeles whose stores — and lives…

Topics: History, /NOW Blog

L.A. Food Culture Offers a Glimpse Into ‘The New America’

by Julianne Hing on April 26 2013, 6:00AM

The U.S. will be “majority-minority” in a few decades, but in the City of Angels the future is now. In fact, you can literally taste it.

Topics: Arts & Culture, How We Eat

Los Angeles School Board OK’s Landmark Parent Trigger Proposal

by Julianne Hing on April 17 2013, 8:21AM

The controversial school reform tactic just picked up a big win in Los Angeles.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth

Is California’s ‘Parent Trigger’ Schools Movement Finally Growing Up?

by Julianne Hing on April 15 2013, 6:00AM

With powerful outside help, parents are dramatically restructuring Los Angeles’ predominantly Latino 24th Street Elementary School. Will the school give the controversial ‘parent trigger’ technique the makeover it needs?

Topics: Schools & Youth

Las Cafeteras Bring Activism and (Good!) Music to SXSW [VIDEO]

by Jorge Rivas on March 14 2013, 11:02AM

Their mission is to learn, share, and practice the beauty, culture and energy of Son Jarocho music for the purpose of building autonomous communities.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog, SXSW

L.A. DA: Chris Brown Likely Faked His Community Service Hours

by Jorge Rivas on February 5 2013, 2:17PM

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey says Chris Brown has given no “credible, competent or verifiable” evidence that he has completed any of his court-ordered community labor LA Times reports: > Prosecutors noted “significant discrepancies” and are asking that…

Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog

After Newtown, School Communities Brace for Another Influx of Police

by Julianne Hing on January 10 2013, 10:33AM

School advocates that are already fighting a school to prison pipeline warn against the assumption that you prevent violence by adding cops.

Topics: Guns, School-to-Prison, Schools & Youth

Huell Howser Redefined Who Could Become a Californian

by Jorge Rivas on January 9 2013, 11:45AM

Howser took his camera where no other broadcast television show dared to go and allowed many Californians to see fair representations of themselves on television for the first time.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog

L.A. May Send Hundreds of Foreign Teachers Back to Their Home Countries

by Jorge Rivas on December 12 2012, 12:26PM

Foreign teachers who have been teaching in L.A. schools for more than six years are being forced home.

Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog

National Korean American Museum Coming to Los Angeles

by Jorge Rivas on December 10 2012, 3:15PM

The largest ethnic Korean population in the U.S. is in Southern California.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog

LAPD Apologizes to Biggie Smalls’ Family for Autopsy Lapse

by Jorge Rivas on December 10 2012, 12:37PM

The detectives had intended to notify the rapper’s family, but the report was released prematurely “due to an administrative error.”

Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog

Los Angeles Sheriff Will No Longer Turn Over Low-Level Offenders to Immigration

by Jorge Rivas on December 5 2012, 5:04PM

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Wednesday he will no longer honor federal requests to hold some undocumented immigrants.

Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog

Los Angeles Finally Gets Korean-Language Lakers Games

by Jorge Rivas on November 19 2012, 11:04AM

Last Friday, for the first time ever, Koreans in Southern California were able to watch Lakers games in their native language.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog

L.A. Mariachis Woke Up Latino Voters With Serenades at 7:30am

by Jorge Rivas on November 9 2012, 2:45PM

The mariachis serenaded Sun Valley voters to wake up and vote for those who can’t.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Politics

Jackie Lacey Becomes Los Angeles’ First Black District Attorney

by Jorge Rivas on November 7 2012, 3:04PM

On Tuesday night, Jackie Lacey became first woman and African American to ever hold the office.

Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog

Honoring Ancestors, Loved Ones As We Celebrate Day of the Dead

by Jorge Rivas on October 29 2012, 10:15AM

Watch as Colorlines.com joins the celebration in Los Angeles and asks participants to explain what the traditional Mexican holiday means to them.

Topics: Arts & Culture

Latino Worker Cooked to Death in Bumble Bee Tuna Cooker

by Jorge Rivas on October 17 2012, 1:05PM

Jose Malena died last Thursday when he became trapped inside the industrial-size pressure cooker and his family claims the company has offered no explanation to them.

Topics: Economy, /NOW Blog

L.A. City Council Committee Unanimously Approves ID Cards for Undocumented Immigrants

by Jorge Rivas on October 16 2012, 3:49PM

A “key vote” to move ahead with the official city ID cards.

Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog

Romney Will Pledge to ‘Fix’ U.S. Immigration System in Los Angeles

by Jorge Rivas on September 17 2012, 10:57AM

According to excerpts of the speech released to the media, Romney will court Latinos by reminding them about Obama’s inability to pass immigration reform and calling it a failure on his part.

Topics: /NOW Blog

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