Firefighters struggled against rugged terrain, high winds and an August heat wave Tuesday to slow the spread of the biggest wildfire ever recorded in California, an inferno that exploded to be nearly the size of Los Angeles in just 11 days. The blaze, centered near the community of Upper Lake, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) […]
Needles to say, the video above shows a “very disturbing” incident caught on camera where a (white) man is seen dragging unconscious (black) passenger from a commuter train in Southern California. The situation is under investigation. A 6-minute video shot by a passenger earlier this week (08-01-18) on a Metro train shows the unconscious […]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Ella Pham said it was a painful thing to see. Pham, 20, and her boyfriend were walking in a parking lot Sunday when they saw a twin-engine Cessna crash, she told the Los Angeles Times. “We looked up to see the plane falling nose first,” she told the Times. “It […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Ron Dellums, a fiery anti-war activist who championed social justice as Northern California’s first black congressman, died Monday from cancer, according to a longtime adviser. He was 82. Dellums died at his home in Washington. A former Marine who got his start in politics on the City Council of the […]
Frederick Taft, 57, was attending a family reunion in a Long Beach, Calif., park over when he was shot and killed inside the restroom. Relatives told the Los Angeles Times that they believe the doting grandfather was targeted because of his race. The murder occurred at about 4:30 p.m. July 21 at Pan American Park, […]
Roland Martin talks to California billionaire and leader of the Impeach Trump movement, Tom Steyer. Martin says that Democrats are too nice, and Steyer agrees. According to Steyer, the Democrats in DC would like to have a polite conversation and they don’t want the people’s voices to be raised up. The push back that they […]
Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal are lifelong friends who co-wrote and star in the story of the intersection of race and class in rapidly gentrifying Oakland. It has been a 10 year process to get Blindspotting to the big screen and Sybil says that the end result is great. The movie is timely and relevant to […]
A car burst into flames when a suspended drunken driver crashed into the back of an SUV. After the man was safely out of the vehicle he ran back to the burning car to light his cigarette, reports Fox 40. Robert Quigley, 25, allegedly crashed into the back of an SUV that was stopped on […]
Mayor Michael Tubbs is confident he’s not gambling on people who need a leg up.
Civil rights activist Najee Ali CEO of Project Islamic Hope and a coalition of community leaders calls for the immediate termination of Michael Selyem who is the lead San Bernardino County hard core gang prosecutor. Selyem is under internal investigation for a series of offensive posts on social media accounts that have now been deleted. Deputy District […]
CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California. The Pawnee Fire that broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional 600 as it burned out of control across about […]
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Children removed from a squalid California home described acts of intentional abuse that resulted in puncture wounds, burns, bruising and injuries consistent with being shot with a pellet gun, authorities said Monday. Sharon Henry, chief deputy district attorney for Solano County, said she was “horrified” by the statements from the children […]
