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Newsletter - May 2016
A few weeks ago Liberty Hill's President/CEO, Shane Murphy Goldsmith, and other foundation executives with the California Executive Alliance for Boys and Men of Color spent a day in Sacramento updating the California Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color.
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Newsletter - April 2016
Liberty Hill's 2016 Upton Sinclair Awards Dinner is just a week away and our awesome honorees will be onstage April 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
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Newsletter - March 2016
Q: What do Jane Fonda and Walter Mosley have in common?
A: It's no mystery! Actress and author are on L.A.'s coolest honor roll: the courageous, inspiring people who have been honored at an Upton Sinclair Awards Dinner, Liberty Hill's annual celebration of activist Los Angeles. -
Newsletter - February 2016
In honor of Liberty Hill's 40th Anniversary we share moments from four decades of grassroots organizing in L.A. on our website's new 40 Years of Change pages.
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Newsletter - January 2016
Wait! Don’t kiss 2015 good-bye 'till you’ve checked out this list of 10 Reasons L.A. is Better This Year. What’s not on it: El Niño. Hollywood.
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Newsletter - November-December 2015
Were you there? Liberty Hill's staff left the office for a day of diversity training and strategic planning. Organizers gathered at Community Coalition on the first anniversary of Prop 47. Our Advisory Council gathered for the annual Leadership Appreciation Brunch. Donors and organizers met for a briefing on Black workers. The Wally Marks Leadership Institute celebrated its newly minted Commissions Training graduates.
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Newsletter - September 2015
If you haven’t experienced wage theft, you can hardly believe it can happen in California. It’s a massive problem—in L.A., low wage workers lose $26.2 million each week.
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August 2015
L.A. Black Worker Center is part of an alliance to bring change to Ferguson, Missouri, by addressing poverty and the Black Jobs Crisis there. Can they help Black-led community organizations and labor unions work together to build power?