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Bass Lays Out Ambitious Agenda as LA Prepares for World Stage
Mayor highlights housing gains, homelessness progress, public safety improvements, and global events in State of the City Address By PACE NEWS Staff LOS ANGELES — Standing before thousands of Angelenos at the Expo Center — a deliberate choice over City Hall — Mayor Karen Bass delivered a sweeping State of the City Address that blended…
Read MoreThe Presence of Power: Why Mayor James T. Butts, Jr. Matters
By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Truth INGLEWOOD—When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood before thousands of Angelenos at the Expo Center for her State of the City Address, she could have begun anywhere. She could have led with policy, crisis, or celebration. Instead, almost instinctively, she looked out into the crowd and asked a simple but telling…
Read MoreThe Washington Post: Then and Now — A Pattern of Injustice
“Who wants to vote the (xxx)-emancipation ticket? Who wants Iowa covered with indolent blacks? Answer at the polls.” Stilson Hutchins[2 A Black History Month Reckoning By Gloria Zuurveen | The Southern Truth The Washington Post has just laid off one-third of its breaking news newsroom. On the surface, this reads like another corporate downsizing in…
Read MoreCasey, What Would Grandpa Lew Do?
A Southern Truth Editorial By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief In Hollywood, power has always moved by quiet decree. In another era, Lew Wasserman — the ultimate fixer of the film industry — could pick up the phone, speak a few measured words, and watch entire controversies evaporate before they ever reached the front page. Careers bent…
Read MoreTell It, Jelly
The Southern TruthBy Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief When a friend told me that she had watched the Grammys and heard Jelly Roll stand before the world and give glory to Jesus, I was not shocked. I knew, even before I saw it for myself, that if Jelly Roll had the microphone, he was going to tell…
Read MoreWho Took the Ride? From Robert Maxwell’s Shadow Games to the Trump-Era Cover-Up — and Why Black Newspapers Were Never Invited on the Jet
Southern Truth Investigates: Who Took the Ride with the Pediaphian Bonnie & Clyde By Gloria Zuurveen | Publisher, The Southern Truth In a week where America is reeling from the latest revelation — that the Trump administration actively sought to withhold thousands of pages of Epstein files — we at The Southern Truth ask an…
Read MoreThe Southern Truth: Journalist or Not, Don Lemon Was Outta Order for Disturbing a Place of Worship
“You don’t bring protest into a sanctuary while God’s people are praying. That ain’t journalism — that’s disorder.”— The Southern Truth By Dr. Gloria Zuurveen, BBS, MRE, D. Min., Editor-in-Chief There are some lines you just don’t cross.And one of them — from the time I was knee-high to a pew — is the threshold…
Read MoreThe Spirit of Slavery Still Walks Among Us
What John Hope Franklin Warned Us About — and What We Are Witnessing Today By Dr. Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief As Black History Month approaches, it is important that we do more than recite names, dates, and ceremonial victories. Black history is not a museum exhibit. It is a living record — one that speaks, warns,…
Read More1500 Day Brings Music, Meaning, and Legacy Together at WePlay Studios In Inglewood
By Gloria Zuurveen, Editor-in-Chief INGLEWOOD—“I don’t know what you came to do—but I came to lift Him up.” That spirit filled the air at WePlay Studios in Inglewood on Saturday, January 17, 2026, as 1500 Day unfolded into something far greater than a music event. What took place was not simply a celebration of sound—it…
Read MoreCounting the Symptoms While Ignoring the Infection
Why Black Homelessness Persists in Los Angeles — and Who Benefits From It By Dr. Gloria ZuurveenEditor-in-Chief, PACE NEWS | The Southern Truth LOS ANGELES — Once again, Los Angeles has launched its annual Homeless Count. Once again, officials gathered behind podiums, spoke of data, deployment, and digital mapping, and assured the public that this…
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