Erika D. Smith is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times writing about the diversity of people and places across California. She joined The Times in 2018 as an assistant editor and helped expand coverage of the state’s housing and homelessness crisis. She previously worked at the Sacramento Bee, where she was a columnist and editorial board member covering housing, homelessness and social justice issues. Before the Bee, Smith wrote for the Indianapolis Star and Akron Beacon Journal. She is a recipient of the Sigma Delta Chi award for column writing, a graduate of Ohio University and a native of the long-suffering sports town of Cleveland.
Latest From This Author
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Why is California putting an insurance company in charge of vaccinating millions of uninsured people anyway? Will this really help achieve equity?
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In a post-pandemic world, will L.A. be a city of empty buildings and homeless people sleeping on the ground outside of them? Not if Rose Rios has a say.
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The problem isn’t the order in which people can book their appointments online. It’s the fact that people have to get online at all.
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Top organizers have released a “Black mandate” for the Biden administration, putting Kamala Harris under new pressure to deliver.
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Noel Jones knows his congregants at City of Refuge Church are worried about vaccine safety. But he also knows they are at high risk for COVID-19.
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Dado que el cannabis se considera desde hace tiempo un medicamento en California, los trabajadores de la mayoría de las tiendas de marihuana pueden recibir la vacuna COVID-19 como personal sanitario.
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With cannabis long deemed a medicine in California, workers at most marijuana shops are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations as healthcare workers.
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Dozens of people shut down the COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium last week. Sen. Richard Pan says it’s time to crack down on the extremists.
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Si Los Ángeles va a seguir dependiendo de los latinos y los negros que tienen un alto riesgo de contraer el COVID-19, la equidad de las vacunas tiene que ser un imperativo mayor.
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If L.A. is going to keep depending on Latino and Black people who are at high risk for COVID-19, then vaccine equity has to be a bigger imperative.