Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment, but abolition contained an intentional loophole. It ...

For their essential work saving lives, homes, & communities, they're paid $1.12 per hour.

For their essential work saving lives, homes, & communities, they're paid $1.12 per hour.

In the face of the fast moving blaze, officials issued more than 50,000 evacuation orders and warnings, causing more than 31,000 people to be evacuated on Wednesday, while remarkable firefighters and ...

In the last few minutes of his presidency, Joe Biden unexpectedly commuted the sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier has been serving a life sentence for the deaths of two FBI ...

Like many Angelenos, WitnessLA Editor, Celeste Fremon, and Assistant Editor Taylor Walker have each evacuated from our respective homes after hard evacuation orders were given on Tuesday, January 7, ...

Fresh from law school twenty years ago, one of my duties involved representing people who had been in violent relationships. Per standard practice, in each case the client and I went to court seeking ...

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