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Mayor of Compton, Aja Brown, has ended her run for the 44th Congressional District of San Pedro and Long Beach because she is pregnant, according to Daily News. She made the announcement Thursday night, April 5. “To date, one of my highest honors has been dedicating my time and life to serving my community,” Brown expressed. “However, […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — As Bernie Sanders contemplates making another president bid in 2020, the Vermont senator still is searching for the right way to attract more black voters who backed Hillary Clinton and effectively denied him the Democratic nomination in 2016. His challenge was on display in Mississippi this week, where he traveled to […]
ATLANTA (AP) — An employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was reported missing more than seven weeks ago was found drowned in a river not far from his house, with no sign of foul play, authorities said Thursday. Timothy Cunningham’s body was found Tuesday partially submerged in water and mud on […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police seeking to quell simmering anger over their shooting of a mentally disturbed black man on a New York City street released a montage of security videos Thursday that showed him minutes earlier thrusting a metal object that looked like a gun into the faces of several people — including a […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s latest nominee for chief justice of the state Supreme Court would be the first African-American to hold the judicial branch’s top job. The Democratic governor announced Thursday that he is nominating Associate Supreme Court Justice Richard Robinson for chief justice. If confirmed by the Legislature, Robinson […]
The California nurse who was fired after saying Stephon Clark deserved to be killed by police has raised more than $20,000 from a GoFundMe campaign that she set up to pay her bills. Faith Linthicum was fired from Kaiser Permanente after she posted a comment on Facebook about the March 18 Sacramento police killing of […]
MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — Another search for three children missing after their family’s SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff has turned up no sign of them. But authorities discovered a cell phone near the crash site that could have belonged to one of the family members. Sarah and Jennifer Hart were found dead at […]
Delilah Evans, a Detroit teen has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing her mother on Christmas day in 2016. WXYZ Detroit News reports Evans was found guilty but mentally ill of the first degree premeditated murder of killing 45-year-old Sonia Riang. Riang was wheelchair-bound after a car accident years ago. Relatives of Evans say that she had […]
BOSTON (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama is in Boston to address a forum devoted to empowering women to become leaders in their fields. Obama is scheduled to participate in a moderated conversation at Thursday’s closing session of the 39th annual Simmons Leadership Conference. The event is the longest-running women’s leadership event in the […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A jury of seven men and five women — 10 of them white, two of them black — was seated Wednesday to decide Bill Cosby’s fate in the biggest celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, after a day marked by defense accusations of racial discrimination. Cosby’s lawyers alleged a member of […]