As America celebrates Black History Month, Dr. Dianna Ferguson is an example of how a Black woman with a difficult past who faced many challenges growing up overcame them all against all odds.
SB 58 was authored by Sen. Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco) and co-authored by several leaders of the California Black Legislative Caucus (CLBC). It aims to decriminalize the possession and personal use of plant and fungus-based psychedelics such as psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (“DMT”), mescaline, and ibogaine – drugs that can cause temporary changes in consciousness and perception.
Watts native, Chef Corbin, is set to open a new restaurant while continuing to serve the community at Alta Adams.
Researchers in the NYU study noted that suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teens from all demographics.
A trusted advisor once told me, “Never reach over a dollar to pick up a dime.” It’s a metaphor I’ve lived by as a social entrepreneur and president and CEO of talent development accelerator LeadersUp for the last five years. It reminds me not to play small if I want to make transformative impact, which leads me to ask: Why can’t South L.A. be 100 percent employed?
Success On “The Way”… Ask Dr. Jeanette Parker
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas recommended leveraging technology to reach more people whose lives have been hampered by prior convictions for now-legal acts.
Most shortages involve low-profit generic pills and injections
The City Attorney’s Office sued a South Los Angeles church Monday in an effort to halt alleged drug, gang and firearm activity at a home owned by the house of worship.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has created a new unit dedicated to training law enforcement personnel on how to investigate and prosecute driving under the influence cases involving marijuana and other drugs.
California proposed on Friday November 6, to allow corrections officials to choose one of four types of barbiturates to execute prisoners on death row depending on what’s available, as states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs. The single drug would replace the series of three drugs that were last used when Clarence Ray Allen was executed in 2006, strapped to a gurney in what once was the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison. Eight states already have used a single anesthetic drug for executions, and five others have announced plans to switch to the method, according to
After being in a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada for almost a week, the two-time NBA Champion and former Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom is scheduled to be transported to a Los Angeles hospital via medical helicopter, according to ESPN. He had regained consciousness on Friday, according to CBS Sports. Odom’s health has made an improvement since being found unconscious in a Nevada brothel on Oct. 13, according to CBS Sports. Odom was found in bed with “pinkish fluid coming from his mouth and nose,” according to CNN. He went from having a “50/50 chance of survival” on
In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, Kenneth Evans holds a composite of photographs of his son Tuan Evans, as he poses for a photograph at his home in Temple Hills, Md. Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an Associated Press review of court records. Tuan Evans is scheduled for early release from prison, the result of new sentencing guideline ranges that trim punishment lengths for convicted drug criminals. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) A push to overhaul
Bill Cosby finally lets the truth be known that he acquired drugs for the purpose of giving them to women so that he could sleep with them.
On July 6, Jill Scott took to Twitter to talk about her previous support of her “mentor” Bill Cosby.