Will Magnet Programs Lead to a Two-Tiered School System?

By Lida Dianti

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Keep Immigration Agents Out of the Classroom

 By Benjamin GrushLos Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Michelle King is expected this month to present a plan designed to help students who may be affected by stepped-up immigration

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Why do cops lie? Because they can.

A federal jury needed little time last week to convict two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies for beating an inmate with mental illness and filing false reports to cover up the assault. Convictions stemming from the scandalous abuse in the jails have become commonplace – 21 current or former L.A. County Sheriff’s Department members have now been convicted.

By Hector Villagra

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Asset Forfeiture Takes Wealth from Communities of Color

By Margaret Dooley-Sammuli

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Forced Sterilizations: A Long and Sordid History

[Eugenic sterilization] prevents the birth of children who would probably have a bad heredity, who could not be cared for properly, by their parents, and who would be likely to become state charges…Conservatively and sympathetically administered, it is a practical, humane, and necessary step to prevent race deterioration.

By Diana González

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Stop the Hate Now

Meet Pau and his family. See more videos and learn more about TRANSFORM California.

By Melissa Goodman

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Family Leave in California Just Became More Affordable

California created the nation's first paid family leave program for workers more than a decade ago, allowing for workers to get paid time off to bond with a newborn or adopted child or care for sick family members (a child, spouse, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, grandparent or grandchild).

By Melissa Goodman

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Banished from Their Own Country

By Lida Dianti

Stop Deporting Our Vets

The Cross Means What It Has Always Meant

By Reverend J. Edwin Bacon Jr.

Learn more about Davies v. County of Los Angeles.