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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Demonizing the victim, as Chauvin’s lawyers have done, works particularly well when the victim is Black, because it activates unconscious racial biases.
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Can Black Americans and Asian Americans make common cause in battling white supremacy?
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Calculating how many people have been infected isn’t a simple matter, which is why estimates of local infection rates vary widely.
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As the mother of girls, I felt my daughters were perpetually at risk because of gun-wielding young men. But what if I had been the mother of boys?
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Pista: Tienen mucho en común con las cinco etapas del duelo
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Hint: They’ve got a lot in common with the five stages of grief
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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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Padre e hija participaron en un ensayo de vacuna en el hospital Kaiser. El lunes, Pfizer anunció su éxito
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Father and daughter partook in a vaccine trial at Kaiser hospital. On Monday, Pfizer announced its success