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Lying facedown in the dirt -- the place where young men netted by the Los Angeles police department's vaunted antigang sweeps frequently wind up -- Javier Gonzalez, 18, watched in terror as an officer slammed Lewayne Williamson's head into the ground. "The cop asked if he was in a gang...
Last month Gonzalez, who plans to attend college this fall, and 25 other Hispanic and black teenagers filed a $5.2 million suit against the L.A.P.D. claiming that their constitutional rights were violated during that incident in a Pacific Palisades park last February. The suit, which asserts that none of the...
Principal Nora Brandt, elected by the Bryan faculty to lead them in restructuring, began with the basics, repainting the rundown stucco building and starting a "Bryan Pride" campaign to boost children's self-image and team spirit. To pave the way for improvement, she hired several forceful, imaginative teachers. Today...
Though 33% of Los Angeles County is Latino and 13% is black, only non-Hispanic white males have ever been elected to its board of supervisors. That 115-year monopoly may end soon.
Federal Judge David V. Kenyon ruled last week that, in a 1981 redistricting plan, the five-member board had deliberately diluted the voting power of the county's 3 million Hispanic residents to protect their own incumbencies. Such gerrymandering, Kenyon declared, violated both the Voting Rights Act and the 14th...