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The scandal that has rocked Los Angeles City Hall reverberates among many Latino communities in which anti-Black and anti-Indigenous attitudes prevail, experts tell Axios. State of play: Yesterday, Nury Martinez resigned as president of the city council after she and two other councilmembers were recorded making racist remarks.

Democrat Nury Martinez resigned as president of the Los Angeles City Council on Monday, one day after a racist leaked audio recording was released. Martinez issued a statement regarding her resignation as council president, although she will remain a council member. “I take responsibility for what I said and there are no excuses for those comments. I’m sorry,” she said. Martinez and Councilman Kevin de León faced widespread protests and calls for their resignation after they were caught on the recording making racist comments about Councilmember Mike Bonin, a gay white man, and his adopted black son. The conversation also...

The following are a few basic historical facts that every American should know. Fact: The Republican Party was founded primarily to oppose slavery, and Republicans eventually abolished slavery. The Democratic Party fought them and tried to maintain and expand slavery. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, passed in 1865 with 100% Republican support but only 23% Democrat support in congress. Why is this indisputable fact so rarely mentioned? PBS documentaries about slavery and the Civil War barely mention it, for example. One can certainly argue that the parties have changed in 150 years (more about that below), but that does not...

What Goes Around Comes Around: Democrats and Reparations Does the Democratic Party Owe "Reparations" Too? Efforts by certain self described civil rights activists to procure monetary payments to persons of certain skin colors in reparation for the wrongs of an institution that ended in America over 130 years ago recently turned its teeth on the private sector as its presumptive payee. Bolstered by calls from racial aggravators for legislation forcing companies to disclose their records involving the institution of slavery prior to 1866, the slavery reparations crowd recently began filing lawsuits seeking monetary reparations for slavery from private companies. FleetBoston...