LA Mayor Karen Bass signs emergency declaration on homelessness in her first act as mayor.
Bass, the first woman and second Black person to lead the city, was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, a former California senator and the first woman to serve as the nation's second-in-command.Nearly every major city official, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom, attended the ceremony.
On crime, Bass sought a strategy to make neighborhoods safe ``that is informed by our communities,'' which includes launching an Office of Community Safety. Surprise performers at the inauguration included Stevie Wonder, who sang ``Keep Our Love Alive'' and ``Living for the City,'' and Chloe Bailey and Las Cafeteras. Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, who also delivered a poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration, said in her reading Sunday that ``the time of never before is officially past.''
City Council President Paul Krekorian, who swore in five new city council members and a new city attorney and city controller at Sunday's ceremony, said that there is no leader more capable of bringing the city together than Bass. Bass' father left the Jim Crow south during the great African American migration after World War II and found work as a letter carrier. His paycheck supported Bass and her siblings, and allowed her mother to choose to be a homemaker.
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