In a typical year, more than 100,000 Medicaid patients depend on the emergency department at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles, in a predominantly Hispanic and Black community where residents have high rates of diabetes, heart failure and pneumonia.
In a plan made public for the first time, Los Angeles County officials have detailed how they would complete the unprecedented transfer of Bruce’s Beach to the descendants of a Black couple who were run out of Manhattan Beach almost a century ago.
Celebrations were held throughout Los Angeles County on Friday and Saturday to mark Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the date of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States and more were planned on Sunday.
After President Joe Biden declared Juneteenth a national holiday in 2021, it is now being recognized and celebrated with parades, parties and events across the country.
Responding to numerous incidents of discrimination against Black children in schools and adults in the workplace – predominantly women – a coalition of advocacy groups, Dove USA and California State Sen. Holly Mitchell came together in 2019 to craft the CROWN Act, which stands for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.” This legislation prohibits discrimination based on hair style and texture, including braids, locs, twists and bantu knots.
Holly Mitchell is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Second District. Among the cities within her district are Carson, Compton, Culver City and Inglewood and also part of the Westchester neighborhood. We spoke to her about her goals as a supervisor. Supervisor Mitchell was interviewed by email by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday, Jan. 11, to take steps to break up RV encampments that have proven to be hot spots for crime and provide safe overnight parking alternatives.
In November 2020, former California State Senator Holly J. Mitchell, was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The L.A. County Supervisor shares her own experience inside the state’s fractured medical system and the huge stakes in creating a better one.
L.A.’s popular open streets festival CicLAvia returned to the streets of South Los Angeles yesterday. The five-mile long route took place on portions of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard – historically and presently two of the most prominent streets in L.A.’s Black community.
The office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell joined El Camino College and health care organization Healing California for a veterans and community Thanksgiving celebration earlier that week.
L.A. tenants who lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been given a chance to apply for rent relief. Now, a new county program is offering relief to some small businesses.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell representing the Second District, joined KFI over the weekend, taking over the microphone to speak directly to the residents of Southern California..
Officials gathered at Clinton Elementary School in Compton last Friday to announce the on campus locations which will provide covid immunizations to children, aged five to 11. It’s hoped that locating the sites, staffed by St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, will make it easier for parents to get their children vaccinated.
Holly Mitchell is the Los Angeles County Supervisor for District 2. Her favorite thing about her job is delivering top-quality county services to the community she grew up in.
The biggest county in the nation just made moves toward stopping fossil fuel production.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has taken the first steps to phase out oil production in unincorporated areas, including the Inglewood Oil Field — a move that environmental justice advocates celebrated as historic after decades of fighting.
Los Angeles County supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated areas of the nation’s most populous county.
Los Angeles rents are on the rise, hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles renters still await rent relief, and now, Southern California home prices have hit a new all time high.
If South Los Angeles is going to reach its full potential, advocates believe that infrastructure will be at the heart of the community’s development and progress. That means moving people, information, and goods more equitably in Black and Brown communities.
El jueves por la mañana docenas de personas esperaban en línea para hacerse la prueba del covid-19 o para recibir su vacuna en una clínica del sur de Los Ángeles.
Breaking the cycle of poverty takes income in Los Angeles County, according to Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell who hosted a virtual community discussion on Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) Aug. 4, which focused on what GBI means for residents in the second supervisorial district, which comprises South Los Angeles and West LA.
St. John’s Well Child and Family Center hosted a popup vaccine clinic outside Our Lady of Victory Church in Compton Sunday after worship services.
America’s largest child welfare system will soon test whether race, ethnicity or neighborhood can influence social workers’ decisions to remove children from their homes.
We are at a promising, but fragile, time in our history. We’ve just experienced the utter devastation of a pandemic that took lives, jobs, security and hard-fought gains for millions.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell weighs in on this new holiday as well as the national backlash against what’s known as critical race theory.
State Sen. Holly Mitchell was appalled. Video of New Jersey high school wrestler Andrew Johnson having his dreadlocks chopped off as a condition of competing in a match was spreading around the country.
Homelessness, housing, health, and mental health. Those are the top budget priorities of concerned community members who live and work in the 2nd District of Los Angeles County and those key community concerns are included in portions of Los Angeles County’s pending fiscal budget, which is expected to be about $36 billion dollars.
It’s time to dive into local leadership and why it matters.
Helping us to address these questions and more are our very special guests: the badass women running the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors—the largest local government in the nation—making history with the first all-women board in its more than 150-year history.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell held her first virtual community check-in entitled, “We are the 2nd District” in late April, to discuss her first 100 days in office.
Former state senator Holly J. Mitchell was elected last year to a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, representing District 2.
“We are the health care providers, the grocery store workers, the service providers the people who most often are affected by this pandemic,” said Mitchell. “But, we are not getting our proportionate share of the resources. We need more testing, more vaccines because unfortunately we are also the ones most often dying from this disease.”
Supervisor Holly Mitchell discusses the need for an equitable distribution of the vaccine as outdoor dinning ban is lifted.
State Senator Holly Mitchell just got voted onto the LA County Board of Supervisors to represent District 2, which includes Carson, Compton, Culver City, Inglewood, Koreatown, and other neighborhoods. She talks to KCRW about “defunding the police,” Measure J, and homelessness.