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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death of a 24-year-old black man whose body was found hanging from a tree earlier this week in Palmdale, California. City Manager J.J. Murphy addressed the tragedy in a statement on Thursday, describing Robert Fuller’s death as a possible suicide related to the COVID-19 crisis: “Many people […]
Top Dawg Entertainment is linking with the Think Watts Foundation to host “Above and Beyond,” a one-day event in which they will distribute free healthy food to people in the Watts community. Beyond Meat, The Harold Robinson Foundation, and HACLA are sponsoring the event, which will go down on Wednesday June 10. Aqua Equity, Community Healing Gardens, GodissLove, […]
Kendrick Lamar, whose “Alright” remains an uplifting protest anthem amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations, was among those who participated in this weekend’s Compton Peace Walk. The protest took place on Sunday, with those gathered marching from Gateway Towne Center to the Martin Luther King Jr. monument by City Hall. “Thousands came together—men, women,and children—to peacefully march for […]
A man who has spent years training San Jose police about implicit bias and procedural justice has been severely injured during a protest against police brutality. ABC 7 reports that Derrick Sanderlin was hit by a riot gun in a protest last week, and he had been working with the San Jose police chief for three years. […]
13-year-old California boy Jack Rico has just acquired his fourth associate’s degree, adding his name to a small but distinguished list of peers who also made headlines for snagging college diplomas at young ages. Not bad. People, citing his mother (Ru Andrade), adds that the teen got degree No. 4 from Fullerton College this past […]
Over 150 firefighters are fighting to save a San Francisco pier from a four-alarm warehouse fire. A quarter of Pier 45, the pier at Fisherman’s Wharf, was “lost to the flames,” Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department, said per CNN. The warehouse was consumed in the fire. The […]
Denzel Washington was spotted helping a homeless man in West Hollywood on Thursday. According to a report from TMZ on the inarguably kind move of compassion, Washington was driving in West Hollywood on Thursday afternoon when he passed the man in question in the street and “in some peril with oncoming traffic.” Per the report, […]
On Monday, governors from the U.S.’s three most populous states (California, Texas, and New York) all indicated that pro sports could actually come back to those places at some point soon, but without fans. Soon being a relative and subject-to-change term, of course. Those three states have 32 big four sports teams between them. And, […]
It appears that Gilbert Arenas’ quarantine has been a lucrative one. On Sunday, the former NBA player took to Instagram to reveal the story behind how he won $300,000 playing the Powerball. Arenas wrote that on May 12, he rushed out of the house to play his lottery numbers at his favorite gas station before it closed. However, […]
One of the most obnoxious things about modern living is the fact that any time you leave your home you run a risk, albeit a small one, that someone will take a picture/video of you for the purpose of shaming you on the internet. That said, there’s a little bit of poetic justice in somebody […]
