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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King's fiancee said in a frantic 911 call that she threw a shovel to try to rouse him after she woke to the sounds of a fall and found him at the bottom of his swimming pool. Cynthia Kelley repeatedly implored authorities to hurry to King's Rialto, Calif., home early […]
Taking a page from Floyd Mayweather Jr., Dr. Conrad Murray is begging a judge to release him from L.A. county jail because it’s taking an extreme physical toll on his body, adding if he doesn’t get help soon, he believes he’ll die behind bars. Unlike Mayweather, Murray is not asking for house arrest. Instead, he […]
Name calling among politicians and their supporters and opponents is nothing new. The level of the venom, however, often is much higher when an underlying hatred based on race is at work. So when incumbent President George W. Bush made fun of opponent Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) for “flip-flopping” positions on the war in Iraq, […]
Just don’t buy it. Above or beyond that, you hardly need conjure up any additional paraphrased memories or comparisons of the classic, industry gold-standard Nike ad campaign of yesteryear to symbolize just how much heated rival Adidas has missed the mark with its latest blitz. Late Monday, the company still sought to justify the “handcuffs” […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together. But Killen's lawyer said the former inmate, James Stern, had no […]
It was all on tape and ultimately changed the way America witnessed and reported crime and official misbehavior, documenting it on video cameras and, today, camera phones. But at the time, the videotape of Rodney King’s beating by Los Angeles police did little more than spark black fear of and anger over brutality and racial […]
Michelle Obama’s ancestry has finally been traced and will be made public in a new book on Tuesday, reports the NY Times. A two-year project traces the first lady’s roots to the Civil War era. Author Rachel L. Swarns discovered many white relatives that are scattered across the South. “Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died, his publicist said Sunday. King was 47. King's fiancee, Cynthia Kelly, called 911 around 5:25 a.m., said Capt. Randy DeAnda. […]
Twenty years later, Rodney King's simple yet profound question still lingers, from the street where Trayvon Martin died all the way to the White House: "Can we all get along?" Spoken as fires of rage and frustration wrecked huge swaths of Los Angeles, the plea distilled centuries of racial strife into a challenge — and […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Parks Service has rejected a push for historic registry status for parts of the New Orleans levees that breached during Hurricane Katrina. The advocacy group Levees.Org has been trying for almost two years to get the sites placed on the National Register of Historic Places. They argued that the […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A teenager who died in a struggle with an off-duty police officer in Maryland was an athlete, church usher and mentor, family members said Thursday as they sought to piece together the circumstances of his death. Baltimore County police said the unidentified officer was at home Wednesday evening when he heard a […]
A new precise and exhaustive yearlong study finds that watching television regularly distorts and ultimately destroys the self-esteem of young black males who often find themselves comparing one another to the characters they view on air, leaving them feeling trapped and as if there are “very few positive life paths they can aspire to.” […]
