During more than three decades at the Los Angeles Times, Sandy Banks has served as reporter, editor, editorial writer and internship director. But she’s best known for her personal columns, which focus on private lives, public policy and people who inspire and infuriate us. She returned to The Times in 2019 after a four-year hiatus. A Cleveland native, Banks has three grown daughters and lives in Northridge.
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The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters shouldn’t have been a surprise. It puts on full display the divisions that have split this country for most of its history.
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Black people are the overwhelming victims of sickle cell anemia. An experimental gene therapy being tested on Evie Junior, 27, gives him reason to feel positive.
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Father and daughter partook in a vaccine trial at Kaiser hospital. On Monday, Pfizer announced its success
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At first, columnist Sandy Banks was offended after a man yelled at her to put on a mask, but getting to know him, she came to understand his point of view.
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Sandy Banks arrived in Los Angeles to work at The Times at 24, never having known anyone who wasn’t Black or white. The polyglot dynamic she encountered both fascinated and bewildered her.
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Education instead of enforcement is a nice sentiment, but maybe it’s time to raise the stakes for those determined to flout public safety rules.
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Worried about the spread of the coronavirus, a Canoga Park woman asked her apartment neighbors to wear masks. Then, racist scrawls appeared in the elevator.
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I’m glad that books about antiracism have zoomed to the top of bestseller lists, but I wonder how many will actually be read.
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I was optimistic enough to believe that the spread of protests across the country signified a long-overdue national reckoning with the plague of police brutality. But looters and troublemakers hijacked some of the efforts.
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A Los Angeles high school student fights cornonvirus isolation and distance learning struggles with help from his teachers.