A North Carolina man was arrested on Saturday after video showed him pushing and punching a girl at a local mall as he was surrounded by dozens of onlookers. Asheville, North Carolina, authorities arrested 51-year-old David Steven Bell shortly after video circulated on social media showing a man suspected to be him shoving a child […]

Aurea Montes-Rodriguez is the Executive Vice President at Community Coalition and has worked at the organization for more than 20 years. Born in Mexico and raised in South LA she developed a passion for creating change at the local level. Aurea has been a key leader responsible for building the organization’s youth programs to fight […]

Dr. Melina Abdullah is Professor and Chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Melina Abdullah sits as the leader of the Los Angeles Chapter of Black Lives Matter (#BLMLA). She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Southern California in Political Science and her B.A. from Howard University in […]