'I'm not gonna sit in a corner and cry for him when I have so much to do,' Blanca Ortiz says. 'I need to figure out how to pay the mortgage, how to pay the bills, how to keep the shop running.'
Musicians perform on the Bakewell Media Stage. (Valerie Goodloe / Los Angeles Sentinel) Once a year Crenshaw Boulevard comes alive with music, food and celebration at the Taste of Soul Family Festival . What organizers bill as Southern California’s “largest free street festival,”...
LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · Oct 11, 2026
For the second election cycle in a row, the rights of transgender people have taken center stage politically, despite their accounting for only about 1% of the U.S. population and many voters identifying other issues as far more important....