Harley Morgan

Los Angeles Metro’s D Line is now extended from Koreatown all the way to Beverly Hills just in time for the FIFA World Cup, with three new stations at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. The extension connects Downtown Los Angeles to Beverly Hills in about 20 minutes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced the opening of Phase 1 of the D line extension on May 8 at a press event. Throughout the morning, multiple speakers including Metro Board Chair Fernando Dutra, state Sen.

Santa Monica College’s softball team fell in a high-scoring game to Los Angeles Valley College at home on Thursday evening. SMC’s non-conference game against LAVC ended in a 25-15 loss after the Corsairs held a small lead at the end of the fourth inning.

Jesse Jackson, prominent civil rights leader and state senator, who passed away on Feb. 17, had a visit to Santa Monica College in 1988 to inaugurate a statue still on campus today. Jesse Jackson’s life began in Greenville, South Carolina in 1941 during the Jim Crow era. As a top student in the late 1950s, he faced immense racism and segregation in his early schooling that continued into college.