Making the Grade

Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting early Sunday at a warehouse party in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles police said.  [More]

Expecting such regular occurences is only “common sense.”

[Via bondmen]

Can We All Get Along?

The harm to African Americans that started with slavery persists to this day through systemic discrimination that requires California to make “comprehensive reparations” and extensive reforms in housing, education and the justice system, according to a sweeping report released Wednesday by a first-in-the-nation state reparations task force. [More]

What are your options when your government tells you your very existence is an offense?

[Via Geordan]