Dr. Gerald Horne is an African American historian, author, and Communist who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a frequent contributor to Political Affairs […]
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to move forward on a permanent rent control ordinance for unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. About 100,000 people would be affected by the ordinance, which would cover only the unincorporated areas of the county. Dozens of rent control advocates assembled before the Tuesday board […]
It took 24 years, but Sundhe Moses is finally free. Moses was just 19 years old when he was forced into confessing to a crime that he never committed. At the time, the teenager said Louis Scarcella, a New York police detective who has had more than a dozen cases connected to him that were later overturned, […]
Judge Kevin Ross is an American host of the syndicated court show America’s Court with Judge Ross, a producer, communications strategist, and former judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California. A Los Angeles native, Ross attended Gardena High School, where he was student body president and president of the District-Wide Association of […]
African Focus, Inc. is a registered non-profit organization based in California that focuses on the growth and well being of Africans all around the world. Our focus is to promote growth and well being of Africans all around the world through knowledge and appreciation of one another as well as building a bridge of love […]
An extreme case of “fussy eating” caused blindness in a United Kingdom teenager, according to a report published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. When Denize Atan, the study’s lead author, met the 17-year-old boy at Bristol Eye Hospital, his eyesight had been deteriorating for two years. But what shocked her most was “how long the […]
Saharah Ali Urban Psychic LA 3rd Eye Thursday Today, I open myself to the power of prayer. I trust the wisdom of divine intelligence moving through me guiding my path to change. I release opening my heart to the evolution of prayer exercising faith in my personal power. I embrace with gratitude a shift in […]
Serena Williams clinched the win Tuesday night, beating out Wang Qiang 6-1. 6-0 in the Quarterfinals and securing her 100th US Open match win. “I never thought I would get to 100 wins and still be here but I love what I do,” she said to reporters after her match at Flushing Meadows. Williams beat Qiang, the highest-ranked player in China, effortlessly, The […]
Janel Bailey is the Los Angeles Black Worker Center’s new Co-Executive Director of Organizing and Programs alongside La Tonya Harris. Born and raised in Chicago, Bailey is a campaigner who has devoted her time to organizing to improve the lives of working people, especially queer and Black workers. Before joining the LA Black Worker Center, Bailey […]
Actor-comedian Kevin Hart may require back surgery after suffering serious injuries in a crash of a vintage muscle car in the hills above Malibu on Sunday morning. Hart, 40, was a passenger in his own 1970 Plymouth Barracuda that veered off Los Angeles’ winding Mulholland Highway and into a ravine about 10 feet off the street around […]