Democrat Bass takes charge as Los Angeles mayor

Karen Ruth Bass, the first Black woman elected Los Angeles mayor, is sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime friend and former California attorney general in Los Angeles.  

A progressive Democrat, Bass becomes the first woman and second Black person to hold the city's top job and will formally assume her duties Monday amid multiple crises in the nation's second most populous city.

Bass spoke about the problem of so many people living on the streets and said her first act as mayor will be "to declare a state of emergency on homelessness."