Top 10 National News Stories of 2024
January 1, 2025
A list of the top 10 national stories reported in the Los Angeles Sentinel in 2024.
Breaking News
- Coliseum and SoFi Stadium Named Official Ceremony Venues for LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins Hires Police Chief William ‘Bill’ Scott as New Police Chief and Head of Emergency Services
- Celebrate Power of Moms at Mother’s Day Music Festival in South L.A.
- The DEI Deception: White Women Benefit, Black Americans Blamed
- National Japanese Museum Board Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Immigration, Civil Rights and DEI
- Kendrick Lamar enters BET Awards with a leading 10 nominations for the ceremony’s 25th anniversary
- Lawmaker from Detroit joins crowded race for US Senate
- Judge Says Former Disney Worker’s Racial Discrimination Suit Can Proceed
- Black Money Matters Podcast: Mortgage Forbearance for Wildfire Survivors
Lisa Blunt Rochester
2 Black women could make Senate history on Election Day
September 15, 2024
The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago.
UNCF Celebrates 75 Years of Investing in Better Futures at National DC Gala
March 15, 2019
During an historic night—in more ways than one—UNCF (United Negro College Fund) celebrated its 75th anniversary at its national UNCF “A Mind is…” Gala in Washington, DC, March 7. The event helped the storied organization reach new fundraising heights, raising more than it ever has during a single event—$3.4 million—for UNCF’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The event, whose title echoes the group’s iconic motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,”® celebrated the founding of the organization by Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) president Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson with backing from corporate leaders led by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Coca Cola President Robert W. Woodruff.