California
Union Bank’s minority lending record challenged by African American chamber
The San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce told regulators that it opposes Union Bank’s acquisition of the parent of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, criticizing the San Francisco bank’s track record lending to African Americans and doing business with African American suppliers. Union Bank, part of Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Group that has national banking [...]
Black surgeon’s claim details racism among UCLA doctors
A highly regarded African-American surgeon and UCLA associate professor recently filed a lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents and the administrators of the UCLA Medical Center for implementing a decade-long campaign of discriminatory acts against him — the most egregious being the public depiction of him as a big black gorilla being [...]
NAACP holds rally for Trayvon Martin in LA
Civil rights leaders and relatives of Trayvon Martin and a slain California teenager joined together at a Los Angeles rally Thursday, urging justice and tolerance and called for action to stop the violence. A photo of Martin wearing a hooded sweatshirt sat at the podium at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ with [...]
Rodney King reflects on an up-down life since riot
We saw his face a bloody, pulpy mess. And in 1992, when the four Los Angeles police officers who beat him after a traffic stop were acquitted, it touched off anger that affected an entire generation. Now, 20 years later, this is the face of Rodney King, and this is what has happened to him [...]
In Years Since the Riots, a Changed Complexion in South Central
When racially charged riots blazed here two decades ago, South Central became a national symbol of rage in a poor black neighborhood. But the population of the area has changed significantly in the time since the acquittal of white police officers in the Rodney King beating inflamed racial tensions across this city. Today, immigrants from [...]
