By Stephen Oduntan Contributing Writer


WATTS — Local residents, including children and senior citizens, are grappling with a growing crisis as lead-contaminated water threatens their health and safety. 


Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, described the situation as “a Flint-like crisis” during a press conference Nov. 22 at the Nickerson Gardens Housing Project. He questioned whether the response would have been faster if the crisis occurred in wealth...

By Stephen Oduntan Contributing Writer


LOS ANGELES — A program that will provide $1,000 a month for 250 students in the Los Angeles Community College District to assist with basic living expenses was launched this week by the district with support from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the California Community Foundation.


The BOOST program, short for Building Outstanding Opportunities for Students to Thrive, is the largest guaranteed basic income initiative for community college stude...