LAPD Is Using Israeli Surveillance Software That Can Track Your Phone and Social Media
The software, built by Cobwebs Technologies, uses AI to track, surveil, and create profiles of people based on online and phone data.
LA Sheriff Promised Reform and Accountability. Critics See Neither a Year Later.
After decades of broken promises and empty rhetoric, reform advocates have reason to be skeptical.
The View From Inside: On Surviving Solitary
When Mwalimu Shakur started associating with political radicals inside California prisons in the 1990s, he was classified as a “gang” member and held in solitary for 14 straight years. Now out of solitary, but still behind bars in Corcoran, he tells his story.
Mexican Cultural Institute Los Angeles Fights to Stay in El Pueblo
Since 1991, the Mexican Cultural Institute has provided programming to promote and support Mexican and Mexican American culture and art at the historic Biscailuz building. Now, they are battling the city to return to their original space.
A History of LGBTQ+ Cops in Film and TV
What does it mean for queerness to be villainized unless it’s serving the state?
The Women of Color on the Front Lines of the Hollywood Strike
The Hollywood strikes are a reminder of the inequities endured by women of color in Hollywood.
How the Los Angeles County Supplemental Budget Can Be a Game-Changer for Community-Based Organizations
LA’s War on Public Housing: What Will the Future Hold?
Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: Rancho San Pedro and Its Suitors
‘To Really Strike Gold’
Jordan Downs, We Meet Again
The Sacking of Dana Strand
Razing the Barrio
Pico-Aliso: We Shall Not Be Moved
No Gangs, No Blight, No Normont Terrace
Jordan Downs: A False Start for the Privatizers
LA’s War on Public Housing: An Introduction
LA’s War on Public Housing: The Era of Demolition and Privatization