

Cases have been slowly rising in recent weeks amid the proliferation of even-more-infectious Omicron subvariants namely, BA.2. The announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for the coronavirus underscores the sensitive place in which Californians and the rest of the nation find themselves more than two years into the pandemic.Īfter the winter Omicron surge, the daily tally of new infections fell steadily for months, prompting California health officials to lift many restrictions.īut public health officials and experts have warned that California is not out of the danger zone. Kamala Harris testing positive for coronavirus underscores rising cases in California “Latinos were killers and the killed, assaulters and the assaulted, looters and the looted.”

Each old building is a testament to survival and community every empty lot, a eulogy.”

“In parts of Koreatown and South LA, each block tells different stories about the riots. And the narrative’s consequences live on - not just in neighborhoods like South L.A., but in the ways that Black and Asian American people think of themselves.” “It was a politically convenient story for the Los Angeles Police Department, which was glad to see headlines dominated by stories of racial conflict in which the police were not at fault. It was a palatable narrative of racial conflict in which white racism was not directly implicated,” writes Times columnist Frank Shyong. “The Black-Korean conflict was an enduring storyline during the violence that erupted after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King in 1992. What we got wrong about Black and Korean communities after the L.A.

and other Western defense ministers met in Germany amid Russian warnings that the threat of nuclear war “should not be underestimated” if NATO nations keep arming the embattled country.
