The Los Angeles City Council today will begin its portion of the redistricting process with a presentation from the City Council Redistricting Commission and a vote to create an Ad Hoc Redistricting Committee.
A Los Angeles-area man is expected to plead guilty this morning to a federal charge for his alleged involvement in a ring that collected ransom from people whose family members had been kidnapped in Mexico.
The number of coronavirus patients in Los Angeles County hospitals continues to fall, declining from 1,480 on Sunday to 1,463, according to the latest state figures.
August 31: Adrian Dove, former White House Staff member and current CEO of the Kingdom Day Parade in Los Angeles, was born, 1934
August 30: Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first African American to experience space travel, 1983
August 29: Mal Goode became the first African American news correspondent on t.v., 1962
August 28: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, was originally published in eighteen parts, 1844
August 27: W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan Africanist, author, historian, & Harvard grad, passed away in Ghana, where he was a citizen, 1963
August 26: Artist Hale Woodruff, whose famous works include, Amistad Mutiny murals and The Negro in California History, was born in Cairo, IL, 1900
August 25: Nurse Mary Mahoney co-founded The National Association of Negro Nurses was formed in 1908
August 24: LA City Councilman Herb Wesson Jr. announced that a portion of Figueroa St would be renamed Kobe Bryant Blvd, 2020
August 22: Abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet made a “Call to Rebellion” to all enslaved Africans to strike, 1843
August 21: Revolutionary, Nat Turner, led a two day African revolt in VA, which resulted in the deaths of sixty whites, 1831
August 20: 20 Africans arrived in Jamestown, VA They were the first Africans to be sold, on record in America, 1619
August 19: The National Negro Business League’s 15th Annual Conference began in Muskogee, OK, 1914