Retired FBI Official Takes Job as Bus Driver during Shortage
October 25, 2021
Mike Mason was one of the nation’s highest-ranking FBI officials. Now he drives students to school in a yellow school bus each morning and afternoon.
Breaking News
- LACMA Showcases ‘Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics’ Exhibit
- Sheenway School and Culture Center — Educating Youth to Lead the Future Over 50 Years
- Record-Breaking Hate Crimes Against Black Angelenos on the Rise
- Los Angeles Rams and LAPD Spread Holiday Cheer with Annual Sleigh Ride
- Heather Hutt Sworn-in as Councilwoman for L.A.’s 10th District
- Visit Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for Holiday Photos with Santa
- Homeless and Their Advocates Speak Out in New Film, ‘WE, the Vulnerable of LA’
- The Congressman Wore Sneakers: An Evening With Hakeem Jeffries
- Brotherhood Crusade Honors SEIU President April Verrett at 2024 Pioneer of African American Achievement Award Dinner
- Dashing & Dazzling Damon Wayans Jr. is Perfect Boyfriend in ‘Shrinking’
- Lakers Guard Max Christie Continues to Step Up
- Chargers Thwart Divisional Foe on Thursday Night
- No. 18 UCLA Men’s Basketball Defeats Prairie View A&M 111-75
Black History May
UCLA Study Shows Women Who Breastfeed Perform Better on Cognitive Tests
October 25, 2021
Women over 50 who breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests compared to women who never breastfed a new study led by researchers at UCLA Health revealed.
October 25: Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was Born in London, 1975
October 25, 2021
October 25: Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was Born in London, 1975
WATCH: LATEST NEWS SURROUNDING THE NATIONAL NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
October 22, 2021
WATCH: LATEST NEWS SURROUNDING THE NATIONAL NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
WATCH: Black People Made That! Intellectual Property and US Patents
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Black People Made That! Intellectual Property and US Patents
WATCH: Muhammad Ali Highlights – The Greatest
October 22, 2021
Muhammad Ali Highlights – The Greatest
WATCH: Kehinde Wiley On President Obama’s Official Portrait: ‘This Is The Real Thing’
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Kehinde Wiley On President Obama’s Official Portrait: ‘This Is The Real Thing’
WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
Civil Rights activist, Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
October 15, 2021
Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV.
Objection your honor: Bar Exam Comes Under Further Scrutiny
October 14, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam’s role in keeping people of color out of the profession.
Town Honors First Black Tow Truck Business Owner in Delaware
October 11, 2021
A flatbed tow truck from Harris Towing Group sat silently in front of Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover Thursday night, a solemn reminder that Delaware businessman and trailblazer Luke J. Harris Jr. had died at age 76 on Sept. 18.
Group Begins Work to Revitalize Africatown Community
October 11, 2021
Longtime residents of the Mobile community called “Africatown USA” recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes.
Couple Preserving Florida House Linked to Martin Luther King
October 11, 2021
A house connected to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now in the hands of a couple who plans to preserve it.
WATCH: Daniel Robinson’s Father Wants All Missing Persons Cases Treated Equally
October 8, 2021
Daniel Robinson’s Father Wants All Missing Persons Cases Treated Equally