News of the shuttering of the 76-bed Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center has been met with an uproar by concerned citizens and critics of the county’s mental health system […]
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Posted inGovernment/Politics
Attorney General Aaron Ford announces candidacy for governor
Attorney General Aaron Ford (D-NV) has officially announced his candidacy for governor of Nevada. Ford made this announcement on Monday, July 28 at the East Las Vegas Community Center, a […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Entertainment, Local
Showing up to help out
A full six months have passed since the devastating fires decimating the neighborhoods of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. In the interim, multiple incidents on the national and international news spectrum […]
Posted inNational, News
LGBTQ+ activist Jewel Thais-Williams passes at 86
Advocate and businesswoman Jewel Thais-Williams has passed away on July 7th, 2025, of unspecified causes, according to her sister Carol Williams. Considered the matriarch of Los Angeles’ Black LGBTQ+ community, […]
Posted inEntertainment
‘Bad Girl’ Luenell starts comedy residency in Burbank
Multi-talented comedian Luenell Batson, known mononymously to her adoring public as Luenell, was born a poor Black child in the nondescript hamlet of Tollette in deepest, darkest Arkansas, a town […]
Posted inCovers
Culture, Change, and Sly Stone
Greek mythology holds that Icarus achieved the ability to fly with a pair of wings fashioned by his father from a concoction of feathers and beeswax. Icarus became so caught […]
Posted inNews
Disgraced singer R. Kelly reportedly overdosed in federal prison
Singer-songwriter R. Kelly, whose salacious legal proceedings have been preempted by the ongoing trial involving Sean “Diddy” Combs, has returned to the media spotlight after years in confinement. The 58-year-old […]
Posted inNews
Travel ban confirms Trump’s long term agenda
In the latest preoccupation for Making America Great Again, the question of immigration has never been off the table for the Trump administration. Now that tensions have mounted to the […]
Posted inEntertainment
Funk soul pioneer Sly Stone is dead at 82
Sly Stone, the iconoclastic frontman for progressive soul band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82 in an undisclosed location in Los Angeles. The cause of death was […]
Posted inGovernment/Politics, National
Pardon Mania!
As his first 100 days in office have come and gone, Trump 2.0, or the second iteration of Donald J. Trump’s tenure as chief executive of the U.S. is in […]
