Jasmyne Cannick has been a loud voice and an advocate for causes near and dear to her heart. She led a national campaign to retire white gay comedian Charles Knipp’s character Shirley Q. Liquor, a self-described inarticulate Black woman on welfare with 19 kids. In 2005, she used her voice to help make sure that the Los Angeles City taxpayers did not foot the bill to honor a homophobic Black pastor. That same year, she helped lead a protest against the”Tookie Must Die Hour” on KFI AM with talk-show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou. Stanley “Tookie” Williams was the founder of the Crips gang and scheduled to be executed after being convicted in the 1979 killings of four people. Cannick also was the last person to interview Williams before his execution.

She would go on to face off against KFI AM again after talk-show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou made fun of Whitney Houston after Houston was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton calling her a “crack ho.” A comment that resulted in their suspension from the station–a first in the duo’s 20 plus year career. Several years later Jasmyne took KFI AM morning show host Bill Handel to task for calling Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson a “cheap sleazy Democrat whore” on air that resulted in him having to make a public apology.

Jasmyne has always been an advocate of the Black LGBTQ community. When Proposition 8, a measure that made same-sex marriage illegal in California was on the ballot, she was one of the leading voices in the Black and LGBTQ communities calling out African-Americans for their homophobia and the white-led LGBTQ community for their racism against Blacks. She is known for her column “A White Gay’s Guide on Dealing with the Black Community for Dummies” where she would break down the pervasive and systemic racism in the white gay community towards Black people.

When Mitrice Richardson went missing after being released from a Los Angeles County jail in Malibu, Jasmyne worked with Mitrice’s family to call attention to the case and to challenge the Sheriff’s Department on the narrative they were spinning in the media.

In 2018, Jasmyne won a major victory on behalf of a dozen tenants in South Los Angeles facing homelessness after a transitional housing manager took their money, failed to pay rent, and abandoned the property. Through her advocacy for the victims, she was able to get them relocation assistance as well as call attention to a new practice taking place in Los Angeles where low-income renters are being taken advantage of with rent-a-room scams.

Most recently Jasmyne spent four years covering Ed Buck, a major Democratic donor, after two men died in his apartment of meth overdoses and countless other Black gay men came forward about the white man in West Hollywood who had a Tuskeegee Experiment like fetish that included injecting young Black men with meth. Ed Buck was finally arrested in September 2019 and charged with the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. He was convicted on all nine counts in a federal court on July 27, 2021, and sentenced to 30 years in prison on April 14, 2022.