Jaweed Kaleem

LOS ANGELES — In the days after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in September while speaking at a Utah college campus, stunned followers of his conservative movement mourned online, condemning political violence. From his Los Angeles home, Johnathan Perkins,... See more

From his Los Angeles home, Johnathan Perkins, a Black diversity, equity and inclusion director at UCLA, had a different take. "Good riddance," he wrote on Bluesky. In another post: "It is OKAY to be happy when someone who hated you and called for your peo... See more

JULIANA YAMADA Los Angeles Times KIM says he values "intellectual curiosity and engagement with different viewpoints." When USC announced that Beong-Soo Kim would serve as interim president after the retirement of Carol Folt last year, he was not in the c... See more

LILY FUGITA, 17, center, joins other students at a protest at Long Beach City Hall against President Trump's immigration crackdown. Across many school districts — from Long Beach to Los Angeles to Pasadena — throngs of students skipped school or poure... See more

THE GEFFEN School of Medicine is accused of engaging in “racial balancing.� (Google Maps) In documents filed Wednesday in California’s Central District, the Department of Justice alleges that UCLA's medical school uses a “systemically racist appro... See more