GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — A Southern California woman remained jailed Wednesday after authorities said she drugged her estranged husband, tied him to a bed, cut off his penis and put it through a garbage disposal. Garden Grove police Lt. Jeff Nightengale said Catherine Kieu Becker drugged a meal and served it to the victim, whose […]
In an echo of the billboards that were placed in Manhattan earlier this year targeting African-American women, a Latino pro-life group will launch an anti-abortion campaign on Friday targeting Latinas. The conservative group “Latino Partnership For Conservative Principles” is launching its anti-abortion crusade in California to coincide with a related conference — but the announcement […]
The majority of Oakland’s libraries are in danger of having their doors shut, as Mayor Jean Quan tackles with budget proposals to handle the city’s $58 million deficit. One of them is the African American Museum And Library, which is home to rare books, papers and memorabilia documenting black life in the Bay Area since […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative has awarded UC Riverside a $156,417 grant to encourage more African American undergraduates to enroll in UC graduate programs. A total of 18 African American students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) will spend eight weeks at the Riverside campus – six […]
CALIFORNIA — A woman was escorted off an Amtrak train on Sunday for speaking too loudly on her phone. Huffington Post reports: Lakeysha Beard, 39, was charged with disorderly conduct after she wouldn’t stop talking on the 16-hour trip from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon. The train was stopped short of its destination. Train operators […]
FONTANA, Calif.– A 9-month pregnant woman said she was robbed at gunpoint by an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Kohl’s. NY Daily News reports: The victim, who is nine months pregnant, said she was waiting in the parking lot of a Kohl’s department store in Fontana, Calif., at around 11:00 a.m. when […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) A 15-year-old boy may press charges against a San Jose police officer after the uniformed motorcycle cop pretended to arrest the young man for having sex with his 14-year-old stepdaughter. The teenager claims the officer’s rant and use of expletives and handcuffs was terrifying. He truly believed that he was going […]
Black voters in California have been blamed for the passage of an anti-gay marriage ban called Proposition 8. Here is yet another rebuttal of that argument, this time from noted poll interpreter Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com: “The notion that Prop 8 passed because of the Obama turnout surge is silly….”
Did Black voters propel California’s gay marriage ban to victory? Many angry opponents of that ban — a ballot measure known as “Proposition 8” — seem to think so.
