Stories matching tag 'Mark Ridley Thomas'
The opening of new public health center brings preventative care and hope to a community plagued by an ominous medical past.
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Thousands of South LA residents rely on government funded health care. But some of that funding may be in jeopardy. South LA patients, health care workers and residents gathered last night at the Child and Family Resource and Development Center in a push to protect community clinics.
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Government and community leaders hope new at-home testing kits for STDs will make a dent in some of the worse chlamydia and gonorrhea numbers in the nation.
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MTA board members are scheduled to vote on put the Crenshaw Boulevard portion of the Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Line entirely underground.
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A summit hosted at USC focused on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King as inspiration for L.A. activists, politicians and residents.
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Hundreds gathered for the 2nd annual South Los Angeles Health & Human Rights Conference to strategize on how to fulfill the promises of its Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Los Angeles County has the largest number of young people on probation in the country and a high recidivism rate.
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