How LAUSD is responding to increased need for mental health support

Lester Solis was a junior at Belmont High School in Los Angeles when the pandemic caused his mother to lose her job and him to work full-time at Home Depot in addition to going to school. His story exemplifies the emotional strain COVID-19 continues to put on high school students, and how LAUSD is responding to an increased need for mental health support.

Writer Raquel Gutiérrez shares part of their personal essay about how taking the 704 bus from Silver Lake to Santa Monica in the late 1990s helped shape their identity in LA.

“Witch Hunt” — a new exhibition at the Hammer Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles — explores what it means to be feminist in the age of Donald Trump.