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Basketball legend Lisa Leslie will be the 11th statue outside of the famous Staples Center in California and the first woman ever honored with a bust. Leslie’s statue will also be the first of a WNBA player outside of a team’s home arena. Leslie has a long and successful history…
New Jersey is poised to follow two other states — California and New York — in passing anti- hair discrimination legislation. Related story: CROWN Act: California Becomes First State to Ban Natural Hairstyle Discrimination Assemblywoman Angela McKnight is sponsoring a bill that will add hair as a category illegal to…
The college cheating scandal continues with the latest deplorable installment in the egregious saga. A wealthy white female high school student gained admission into three prominent universities by posing as a Black tennis prodigy. Her parents, Amy and Adam Bass, colluded with Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the college admissions…
Ryan Twyman, a 24-year-old father of three, was shot dead in the parking lot of an apartment complex at San Pedro and 132nd streets on the evening of June 6 in Los Angeles. Police officers approached a car Twyman was inside just before firing shots. Twyman was pronounced dead at…
Willie McCoy, age 20, was asleep in his car on Feb. 9 in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Vallejo, Calif. An employee had called the police to report someone unresponsive in their car when six officers surrounded McCoy’s car with guns drawn. The officers did not try…
Three months before the 2018 midterm elections, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, a congregation of about 450 in an affluent and mostly white part of town in California, flew Black Lives Matter banners in solidarity with people of color against police violence. But some white people in Fresno just could not…
In Stockton, California, on May 25, 26-year-old James Weaver was violently stopped in a road rage incident. Weaver said he feared for his life during the stop that stemmed from an alleged “traffic violation” with off-duty cop, Kevin Hachler. He was driving an SUV which hauled a U-Haul trailer along…
More people are killed by police in California than in any other state in the union. In response to the deaths, the California Assembly passed legislation Wednesday to change rules governing when police officers in the state can use lethal force. Using Assembly Bill 392: The California Act to Save Lives,…
Democratic California politicians hope to be the first state to offer government-funded health care to undocumented immigrants. According to The Washington Post, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is planning to spend about $98 million a year to cover young, undocumented, low-income immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 and elders…
While President Donald Trump gives engineers directions on how he wants the wall on the southern border to look, courts are considering the billions of dollars it would cost. A federal judge in Oakland, Calif., is considered arguments in two cases on Friday that are trying to block the White…
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