Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — Emmy-winning television host, writer and producer Conan O’Brien will make his debut hosting the Academy Awards ceremony next year, […]
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Rio Hondo College renames quad in honor of Napolitano
U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano, center, celebrates the dedication ceremony of Río Hondo College’s new Grace F. Napolitano Quad with local police officials, including RHC Police Academy Director Walter Allen III, second from left. Napolitano is retiring after 26 years in Congress in December.
Legislature advances four reparations proposals
By Antonio Ray Harvey Contributing Writer SACRAMENTO — Three reparations bills authored by state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Inglewood, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee […]
LAPD releases video of fatal police shooting
By Emilie St. John Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES -—The Los Angeles Police Department has released video footage showing the fatal shooting of a teenager in […]
African Angel Art Gallery becomes community art hub
By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — For more than 30 years, Luke Angel, founder of African Angel Art Gallery, has been traveling from […]
STREET BEAT: ‘What grade would you give the U.S. government?’
Billie J. Green Los Angeles “C. It was the government who took all the business to China because they did not want to pay American […]
BILL VAUGHAN’S TASTY CLIPS: Coco Jones, Mary J. Blige deliver new music
By Bill Vaughan Entertainment Writer On the heels of her third season debut as Hillary Banks on Peacock’s “Bel-Air,” Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Coco Jones […]
This Week in Black History
August 24, 1950 Chicago attorney and social worker Edith Sampson is named the first Black person to be appointed a U.S. delegate to the United […]
Legislature honors Lakers legend Michael Cooper
Former Los Angeles Lakers star Michael Cooper speaks at a reception for him at the California State Museum Aug. 5 in Sacramento. Cooper was honored by the Assembly and Senate at the State Capitol earlier that day. He will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in October.
Photo by Antonio Ray Harvey
Sacramento State is home to first Black Honors College
The inaugural class of the Sacramento State Black Honors College, shown here along with campus and national leaders, was introduced at a ceremony Aug. 8 marking the opening of the new first-of-its-kind education initiative.
Photo by Andrea Price courtesy of Sacramento State