The first pastor of the Brookins Community AME Church, 4831 S. Gramercy Pl., has been assigned the presiding prelate of the Fifth Episcopal District. The Rt. Rev. T. Larry Kirkland, the pastor of Brookins for more than 20 years, is the chief pastor of the Fifth Episcopal District, which includes California.

After a whirlwind of controversy surrounding last month’s yearbook fiasco at Charter Oak High School in Covina, school officials have presented a small fix to a large problem that has spurred widespread discontent. Apparently, irresponsibility can be covered up with a simple sticker as Charter Oak afforded Black Student Union (BSU) members the opportunity to conceal attributed fake names like “Tay Tay Shaniqua, “Chrisphy Nanos, and “Laquan White” with mere labels of their correct names when the bloopers were discovered at the close of the school year.