LOS ANGELES – In connection with the Board of Supervisors’ unanimous approval to establish an anti-racist policy agenda for Los Angeles County, Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas will hold a virtual conversation on the role of LA County in redefining systems and structures to create a more equitable environment.
The “Anti-Racist Agenda” virtual forum will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3. To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AntiRacistLA.
Guests include:
- Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity and Director of Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at USC;
- Fesia Davenport, Los Angeles County Chief Operating Officer;
- Paul Ong, Professor and Director of the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge at UCLA;
- Mark-Anthony Johnson, Director of Health and Wellness at Dignity and Power Now.
For more information, contact the office of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas at 213-974-2222.
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The Anti Rex says
Let us hope a certain mayor who likes to send out racist hit mailers calling African American veterans ‘gang candidates’, has commissioners who make anti Semetic and homophobic statements, declares war on Section 8, demonizes the homeless and mentally ill, and supports councilwomen who make anti Muslim posts on Facebook listens in and learns something.
Billy-Bart says
Whacked out Chinese virologists mindlessly kill a robust economy, snuff 25 million jobs, and murder a half million people, but the only thing the black community care about is, playing the race card, cashing in on white-on-black violence –
Alex says
stfu stop whining
Agenda says
The authorities need to do something about anti-White racism in this country.
Diane says
Mainstream television news has a de facto moratorium on black-on-white violence. All black-on-white violence, buried by television news, the only violence television news reports on is, white-on-black violence.