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Area students demonstrate for days after election
EAST LOS ANGELES — Seventeen-year-old Destiny Pineda of Garfield High School says that she and the hundreds of students in East L.A. who walked out of class Nov. 14 are not demonstrating against Donald...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Trump’s win is a troubling oddity
Back in July, there was great laughter and knowing nods when some polls showed that then Republican presidential contender Donald Trump would get 0 percent of the black vote. That seemed about right at...
View ArticleNAJEE’S NOTES: Trump appointee has checkered history
President-elect Donald Trump has richly rewarded his campaign’s CEO, Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor. That has created a firestorm of...
View ArticleStudents join protests over election results
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of students from area high schools — mostly on the Eastside — walked out of class Nov. 14 and took part in a peaceful march in protest of Donald Trump’s election as president....
View ArticleElectoral college target of bill in Congress, lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., introduced a bill Nov. 15 that would scrap the Electoral College and determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of the popular...
View ArticleBeck says LAPD won’t change immigration policies
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department will not change its immigration policies, despite pledges by President-elect Donald Trump to toughen the nation’s immigration laws and deport million of...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Attorney General Sessions is a nightmare
Here is the full hideous point-by-point list of the major votes of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions on civil rights issues complete with the dates he torpedoed them. Banning the Pledge of Allegiance is...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Clinton is right to support recount
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is right to back a vote recount in the three states — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — that gave Donald Trump the White House. But there’s a big...
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Authorities condemn letters targeting area mosques
LOS ANGELES — Law enforcement authorities and Muslim community leaders condemned a series of letters sent to area mosques denouncing Muslims and warning of a pending “cleansing” of America under...
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A broken friendship and a divided nation
This nation rests upon division. Division of human beings who are categorized by what color their skin is, what nationality they are, what sexuality they are, what gender they were born as. This nation...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Affordable Care Act tops Obama’s legacy
Two weeks after he was sworn in to office in January 2009, President Barack Obama was frank. He said that if he didn’t deliver he would be “a one-term proposition.” He knew that as the nation’s first...
View Article$10 million legal aid fund proposed for immigrants
LOS ANGELES — The county Board of Supervisors voted Dec. 20 to contribute $1 million, growing to $2 million next year, to a legal aid fund for immigrants facing deportation proceedings. County...
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Police violence and Rams return are top stories in 2016
Years from now, 2016 will be remembered as the year Donald Trump was elected president and the city and county of Los Angeles finally began to address the homeless problem. But 2016 also will be...
View ArticleBILL VAUGHAN’S TASTY CLIPS: Vivica A. Fox cooks up ‘Black Magic’ for Lifetime
“There’s no reality show like it,” proclaims Vivica A. Fox about her new Lifetime male dancer competition series, “Vivica’s Black Magic.” “We’re a breath of fresh air. Most of these reality shows are...
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BOOK CORNER: Remembering Obama’s legacy
With two weeks left until Inauguration Day, the question of how Donald Trump’s presidential victory will impact President Barack Obama’s legacy remains. In “The Obama Legacy,” author Earl Ofari...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: How Obama should be remembered
On Jan. 14, 2014, a plainly worried President Barack Obama convened a meeting of his cabinet in the White House. The cabinet meeting had extra special, even, grave, importance. The Democrats had lost...
View ArticleSupervisors vote to establish Office of Immigrant Affairs
LOS ANGELES — Immigrants rights advocates faced off with anti-immigrant groups outside the county Hall of Administration Jan. 10, trying to shout each other down, before the Board of Supervisors voted...
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Lewis just repeated Trump’s illegitimate call
The attacks by Donald Trump, his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and other Republican leaders on Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis for flatly calling Trump’s presidency “not...
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Americans, not Moscow, elected Donald Trump president
Let’s distinguish fact from fiction and separate out whining from winning. Vladimir Putin did not elect Donald Trump to serve as the next president of the United States. The American public did. Like...
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Don’t expect help from the economy
The economic philosophies of Democrats and Republicans are drastically different. While neither party is interested in dismantling the predatory capitalism that extracts surplus value from workers,...
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