Leslie Berestein Rojas

Susana Moncada is a “promotora” — a health promoter. She and her husband Jose Luis Torres walk the streets trying to persuade reluctant people to get immunized against COVID-19.

We feel it’s time to reopen our conversation that we started with RACE IN LA. We’re asking for your help.

As more Afghan refugees arrive in Southern California, resettlement agencies are hurrying to find them permanent housing — no easy task in one of the country’s toughest rental markets.

Some local Catholic churches are marking the observance this year with special memorials and services honoring those who died during the pandemic.

For decades, the rival football teams of Roosevelt High in Boyle Heights and Garfield High in East L.A. have duked it out in the East L.A. Classic. The pandemic forced the cancellation of last year’s game.

Officials say thousands of kids have been reunited with family or sponsors since, and they expect to finish the job by Oct. 26.

The Trump administration canceled the Central American Minors program in 2017, leaving thousands of kids in limbo. Now it’s been revived and expanded — and the first of these young people began arriving in L.A. last week.

As the legendary Dodgers broadcaster retires we look back at how the former high school soccer player from Ecuador become one of the most recognized voices in Major League Baseball.

Bashir and Naseema Kashefi left Anaheim with their three kids in June to visit relatives in Kabul, and got stuck there after the Taliban takeover last month. Finally, they're home safe.

Hundreds of Afghan refugees will soon be resettling in Southern California. But there are few local refugee resettlement agencies left to help them.

Bashir and Naseema Kashefi traveled to Afghanistan to visit relatives this summer with their three kids, their first trip back after arriving as refugees in 2017. They were stranded there when the government fell to the Taliban last month.

The deadline is May 7, 2025, for U.S. citizens to show a federally approved document, such as a REAL ID or a passport, in order to board a domestic flight.