It was no idle political pledge when Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty threatened: "I haven't let loose on him yet." Yorty's target is City Councilman Thomas Bradley, 51, a black ...

Maureen Kindel, a close confidant, fundraiser and adviser for Mayor Tom Bradley and a years-long powerful figure at City Hall and in other Los Angeles political circles, died Thursday. Michael ...

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., speaks at an election night party in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) By The Associated Press ...

Ava DuVernay hopes to create a TV series about Tom Bradley, Los Angeles’ first Black mayor, ... Bradley was Los Angeles’ first liberal mayor, serving from 1973 to 1993, ...

Bass also becomes the city’s second Black mayor, following Tom Bradley whose record-setting tenure lasted from 1973 to 1993. The Associated Press, Los Angeles Time s and New York Times declared ...

Then-Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and LAPD Chief Daryl Gates emerged as Olympic heroes just shy of a position on the medal podium. Los Angeles netted more than $200 million in profit.

Richard J. Riordan, a Queens-born lawyer, businessman and former mayor of Los Angeles who led the city at a particularly divisive time and brought a free-enterprise approach to rebuilding the city ...