Helpline callers are connected to counselors who can talk through just about anything: romantic encounters when abuse occurred, concerns about being violent in the future, or that persistent feeling that others don’t like or love them.
The helpline, which expanded to L.A. in May with the help of the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, offers its interventions completely confidential and free of charge.
“If we truly want to end cycles of violence, we have to engage people who are at risk of causing harm.”
A Call For Change Helpline is working to curb #DomesticViolence before it begins by counseling people who want to reframe or interrogate violent thoughts or behavior without involving police.
For small business owners in #Altadena, the fire hit especially hard. Not only did they have to rebuild their lives, but also their livelihoods. Fortunately, grant funding is helping them get their doors back open to serve their neighbors.
If you think the "third space" is dead, this #Inglewood spot might just shock you back awake.
California has some of the strongest building fire codes in the U.S., ensuring homes built within areas at high risk of wildfire use fire-resistant materials that can withstand encroaching blazes. Roofs, vents, windows, and walls must meet standards.
But they only apply to homes built after 2008.
What if the trick to building back Altadena and the Pacific Palisades is already right in front of us?
Recovery from the Eaton fire looks different for everyone. Every family has its own pressing question that can stand in the way of #Altadena feeling like home again.
Reported in partnership with the LA Reporting Collective
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@sumitlakehornet.bsky.social Thanks! Asteroid Vinyl Cafe is a much-needed space in Inglewood as more locals are displaced and feel disconnected. Rock on!
Together, we’ll challenge our conventional thinking about what it will take to end domestic violence. Above all, we’ll be bringing you stories of hope. Listen to the trailer wherever you get podcasts. New episodes out this Spring.
Support comes from the Blue Shield of California Foundation.
Health equity reporter Elizabeth Moss is setting out to get answers to one really big question — how can we end domestic violence?
In a new limited podcast series from AfroLA, she’s putting this question to the people working on unique prevention solutions.
Gayle Nicholls-Ali, who runs Altadena Photographers from her current home in Montrose, California, take a call while vintage cameras ready for donation are strewn along her sofa.
Vintage cameras ready to be given to Altadena residents impacted by the Eaton Fire.
Dozens of people attended the vintage camera show hosted by Altadena Photographers in October 2025.
Sunny Mills demonstrates tintype photography for curious photographers during the Altadena Photographers camera giveaway
The cameras were given away through @denaphotographers.bsky.social, a group formed to get cameras back into the hands of those who lost them in the fire. Thanks to the group, dozens of Altadena residents left a fall event at the Altadena Library with at least one vintage camera.
📸 by Isaac Ceja
Altadena photographers are capturing new memories with the help of a camera giveaway
Volunteers pack produce during Zest Fest 2025. (Eliza Partika/AfroLA)
A quarter of all Angelenos were already struggling to get enough food before this year’s particular challenges began, according to a 2024 study from USC Dornsife. Black (31%) and Latine (32%) individuals were particularly at risk, being three times more likely to experience food insecurity.
The need for food aid just kept growing and growing in L.A. this year.
🚒 First it was the wildfires
🧊 Then the ICE raids
✂️ Pile on SNAP cuts
But community groups kept fighting to keep their neighbors fed.
See how they they did it
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How does an 83-year-old Eaton wildfire survivor rebuild her life? Alice McFerguson is figuring that out right now. An Altadena homeowner who lost everything, she said her church, Holy Assembly Church of God in Christ in Pasadena is keeping her feeling secure.
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And it's not just homes and businesses affected: Want to repair huge potholes along the airport runway? Better check your lease with LADWP first.
And wait.
And hope you don't need a medivac flight out of there anytime soon.
Curious what else LADWP has been up to? Read about the lives upturned by their changes to land leases in our first installment of Water And Power.
A series of tubes that suck up water from the sewage treatment plant to remove large contaminants before it gets filtered into drinkable water.
A county over in the O.C.? They implemented a recycled water program in 2008, an effort that was vetoed by L.A. leaders 25 years ago. With recycled water, O.C.’s residents would experience water loss for as long as the power remains out, or no more than a week, estimate earthquake experts.
A look at large blue pipes supported by smaller silver pipes that are used in the microfiltration process in recycling wastewater.
So how about solutions? Other water systems that service SoCal have successfully built brand new seismically sound infrastructure to sustain the region for months after a major quake.
When AfroLA reporter Katie Licari asked LADWP about the issues, they came back with a jargon-filled statement with details that didn't add up to the facts.
And as for a timeline for repairs? LADWP couldn't give one.
Timeline from an LADWP presentation slide which shows the full capacity of the L.A. Aqueduct system. It shows that months zero through 8 there will be no flow to the city. Then months 8-10 there will be 30% flow. Months 10-18 will have no flow and then after month 18 the system will return to it's full flow.
3.8 million Angelenos could be without drinkable water for months. Should the Big One knock out the aqueduct's path to L.A., LADWP has less than a month worth of fresh water reserves for L.A. residents. And aqueduct repair afterward could take up to 18 months.
The three aqueduct systems that supply water to Los Angeles (California Aqueduct, Los Angeles Aqueduct System and Colorado River Aqueduct) pictured with the San Andreas Fault.
88% of L.A.'s water comes from aqueducts that cross the San Andreas fault lines 32 times altogether. LADWP's earthquake plan? They'll rely on other water sources that aren't seismically sound. Worse yet? One source is on a combination of three Superfund sites.
Look, L.A. ... When the Big One finally strikes, we're cooked.
Public records pulled by AfroLA show the L.A Department of Water and power is years if not decades behind on getting our water sources ready for a major San Andreas earthquake. 🧵
Coverage That Matters: Black immigrant women face unique challenges in getting the health care they need.
AfroLA’s reporting exposes the gaps, and lifts up the urgent need for solutions.
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