Officer John Abel Baca charged for trying to sell a kilogram of cocaine An Inglewood, California police officer has been charged with trying to sell a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cocaine to a law enforcement informant, authorities announced Friday. Officer John Abel Baca, 45, of Whittier was arrested last week after a federal grand jury…
Climate change, vaccines, the recovery, international taxation among all themes Italy’s Premier Mario Draghi made a sharp call to pick up the pace in getting vaccines to poor countries as he opened a conference of the world’s powerhouse economies, calling the gaping global COVID-19 vaccine gap “morally unacceptable.” Draghi, the host for the two-day Group…
NAACP head Derrick Johnson and Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe release open letter asking athletes to avoid Texas due to unfavorable abortion, election and COVID-19 response policies NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson on Thursday published an open letter to professional athletes, urging them to steer clear of signing with franchises from Texas during free…
Claudette Colvin asks court to remove records stemming from her, others’ Civil Rights-era arrests The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King…
All songs of the soundtrack were produced by Jeymes Samuel, who directed and co-wrote the Black western; The album was released by Roc Nation As viewers await The Harder They Fall to hit Netflix on Wednesday, they are now able to enjoy the music from the film. The soundtrack of the film has been released…
Source: David Becker / Getty To say the COVID-19 vaccine mandate has divided us as a nation is definitely an understatement at this point, now even affecting how Hollywood chooses its lead movie stars. Seasoned rapper/actor Ice Cube is the latest to be made an example of that theory. He recently quit a film he…
New congressional district maps drawn by Illinois Democrats intend to eliminate two Republican-held seats In the neck-and-neck fight to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats need help from the few places where state lawmakers can make 2022 difficult for Republicans. Illinois Democrats delivered Thursday, using their dominance in state government to advance new…
The medical examiner ruled that the boy died from multiple blunt force injuries; Gloria Wiliams and Brian Coulter charged in case A Texas mother of six has been charged with injury to a child and her boyfriend is facing a murder charge for the death of her 8-year-old autistic son, whose body was left in…
Following a five-year run in the 1990s, the ABC-TV show ‘Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper’ may see a return in the form of a reboot. And co-stars, according to Holly Robinson Peete, are all for it. The series focused on PE coach and former NBA star Mark Cooper, played by Mark Curry, who lived with his…
OPINION: What is particularly noteworthy about the civil suit regarding the Unite the Right rally is the federal law it invokes, the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 More than four years after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the victims of the white supremacist mob are seeking justice. And the lawsuit they filed…
