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Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; This year, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

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Nearly 40 Unmasked LAPD Officers

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Exclusive: LAPD Launches Internal Investigation Into Photo of Nearly 40 Unmasked Officers Socializing in DTLA

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Christer Maxine Schmidt is a writer and musician from Thousand Oaks, California. She is currently a writer on The Echo newspaper published at California Lutheran University.

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Highland Park Taquero Behind ‘the Seven-Layer Taco of Your Dreams’ Has His Truck Stolen in Plain Sight

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Community members gather to protest Exide Technologies being allowed to declare bankruptcy and avoid paying for environmental damage done to the communities of East and Southeast Los Angeles cities.

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He Checked Into a UCLA Hospital While Suffering From a Mental Illness, and a Sheriff Shot at Him Nine Times While Trying To Use the Restroom

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Vernon Battery Plant May Be Able to Walk Away without Cleaning up Lead Thanks to Settlement with Trump DOJ

Protesters Gather in South L.A. Demanding Justice for Dijon Kizzee

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Faith Petrie is a freelance writer and &#8220;Criminal Minds&#8221;-enthusiast born and raised in Los Angeles. Her work can be found in the Los Angeles Sentinel, L.A. Watts Times, and her college&#8217;s student-run-newspaper, the Daily 49er.

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BIPOC Transwomen Suffered Vicious Attack in Hollywood as Crowd Mocked and Laughed at Victims, Marking Latest in National ‘Epidemic’