David Mendez

by David Mendez It’s about 8:40 on Sunday night — well after when the Redondo Fun Factory was scheduled to close its barn doors to the public for the last time. Bob McCann was exhausted. He’d been running the horse race game (think Del Mar by way of…

Join us for Reflections on Race, a three-hour series of special coverage on Spectrum News 1, Tuesday, August 4 at 7 p.m. that addresses the important conversations around trauma, healing, activism, education, and allyship. Experts in psychology,…

As the video begins, a camera pans over a couple dozen people packed into a small white room before focusing on a young woman standing before them. She’s flanked by a man in sunglasses. It’s a hot mid-August afternoon, and she’s barely audible over…

"This fall, Roe is on the ballot," President Joe Biden said in June after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. On Aug. 2, Kansas became the first state to actually have the right to abortion on the ballot since the high court ended the…

Jon Danforth-Appell was walking his dog in his Los Angeles neighborhood one Thursday in October when the weight of the past few weeks pressed down upon him. For Jewish people with his politically leftward leanings, recent antisemitic remarks by Kanye…

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a collaboration between digital journalist David Mendez and anchor/multimedia journalist Kate Cagle. Click the play button above to watch the video report that accompanies this story. UPDATE: Los Angeles Police Chief Michel…