The 69-year-old congresswoman would become the first woman and only the second Black person in Los Angeles’ 241-year history to be elected mayor. Elhawary, 34, started screaming with joy.

Black voters only make up a mere 13% of the electorate in Los Angeles. And heading into the official close of voting on Tuesday, Bass is leading Caruso in the polls overall, 38% to 32%, signaling ...

As soon as footage of National Guard troops got back to Mayor Bass, she went down there to personally handle the situation.

Mayor Karen Bass and local leaders slam federal raids in LA, calling them unconstitutional attacks on the city’s immigrant communities.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson will be the city’s fourth Black mayor. Bass, the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles, is the second Black and first woman to hold that office. Adams, the 110th mayor of New ...

Karen Bass, the first Black woman elected Los Angeles mayor, left, is sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime friend and former California attorney general in Los Angeles, Sunday, Dec ...

Many of us learned it in history class. In 1781, 44 men, women and children traveled from Mexico under the banner of Spain, settling indigenous land to found what is now Los Angeles.

Who was Los Angeles' first black mayor? No, it wasn't Tom Bradley, who served from 1973 to 1993. Nearly 200 years earlier, Francisco Reyes, an Afro-Mexican, led the fledgling city of El Pueblo de ...

Ms. Bass, a former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, joins Eric Adams, who became New York’s second black mayor in January; Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who took office in 2019; and ...

Ms. Lightfoot had successfully navigated a similar political path in 2019, becoming the first Black woman to be elected mayor of her city, much as Ms. Bass was trying to do in Los Angeles.

Juvenile Hall ‘Gladiator Fight’: Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $2.67 million to a teenager who was beaten by several other juveniles in one of the so-called gladiator fights that ...