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The reckoning over Cesar Chavez signals the perils of building a movement around a single leader

The conflation of Chavez’s image with the fight for farm worker rights is partly because most books on the movement have been written by white people

The Guardian - US

The Los Angeles wildfires were ‘the perfect storm’. Is the city ready for the next one?

After the devastating fires, neighborhoods pledged to build back stronger and better than before. A year later, they’re still untangling issues

The Guardian - US

Big lithium plans for Imperial Valley, one of California’s poorest regions, raise a bigger question: Who should benefit?

Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. Its Salton Sea, the state’s biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the region’s politics have been dominated by a conservative white elite, despite its supermajority Latino population.

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700,000 Undocumented Californians Recently Became Eligible for Medi-Cal. Many May Be Afraid to Sign Up.

Advocates say outreach is needed to ensure deportation fears do not stop immigrants from applying.

Capital & Main

The Census Bureau sees an older, more diverse America in 2100 in three immigration scenarios

The Census Bureau is predicting an older and more diverse America in the coming decades, along with other projections through the year 2100

The Independent UK

Fewer Californians are moving to Texas, but more are going to Florida and Arizona

The number of former Californians who became Texans dropped slightly last year, but some of that slack was picked up by Arizona and Florida

The Independent UK

LA County leaders vow to continue supporting migrant Angelenos based on State of Immigrants report

Focusing on ways to serve immigrants better and give them more of a voice on a host of economic and social issues, local legislators, academics and nonprofit leaders gathered last week at the fourth L.A. immigration summit.

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Charges against Price draw outrage, sadness and sense of ‘Black loss’ in South LA

LOS ANGELES — Curren Price was sworn in for his third term on Los Angeles City Council last fall with a promise to mend rifts.

Los Angeles Times

Will Karen Bass’ Laser Focus on Tackling Homelessness Have a Cost?

Manuel Pastor, professor and equity advocate, says while staking her political capital on showing tangible progress, Bass must also address other daunting challenges.

Capital & Main

LA's Black-Latino tensions bared in City Council scandal

Cross-cultural coalitions have ruled Los Angeles politics for decades, helping elect both Black and Latino politicians to top leadership roles in the huge racially and ethnically diverse city

The Independent UK

What the city council scandal reveals about LA's racial divides — and solidarity

The leaked LA City Council recording underscores long-simmering racial tensions. But the city also has a history of Black-Latino partnership, which activists hope to build on in the wake of scandal.

WEKU

Racist comments. Corruption. City Hall in chaos. Welcome to LA politics 2022

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Hall has felt under siege the last few years.

Los Angeles Times

Jean Guerrero: In a 'Latinas First' strategy, everyone wins

The GOP has two words that give it strength: "America First."

Los Angeles Times

In LA mayoral race, Bass slightly ahead of Caruso in new poll

LOS ANGELES — Days before Los Angeles’ first open mayoral primary in nearly a decade, U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer, appear headed toward a November runoff, with Bass building a small edge as the campaign moves toward a close.

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