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Sixty Years Ago This Week: Republicans and Democrats alike came forward to pay their respects to Philip Hornbein Sr., a Denver attorney, philanthropist and civil rights campaigner who died at

Magic Johnson Park in South Los Angeles and the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach are among the projects being recognized tonight at the 17th Annual Green Gala put on by the Los Angeles Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Gov. Newsom asked Californians to cut usage by 15% to alleviate drought conditions, but usage was only cut by 1.8%

Two Brothers Get In-School Suspension For Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirts to School Image via John Holmes/Facebook 80 Two Black brothers from Oklahoma were removed from their elementary school classroom and isolated from students because they wore Black Lives Matter shirts. Ben Stapleton, 8, and his 5-year-old brother spent their entire day at school in the principal’s office at an Ardmore elementary school, Complex News reported. A week before this incident, Jordan Herbert, their mother, w...

An Oklahoma mom said her 8-year-old son was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school. Ben Stapleton, a third grader at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore, was told by the principal during gym class to turn his Black Lives Matter shirt inside-out on April 30. “It made me mad and sad,” he told KXII. “They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt inside out and then I started playing.” Ben’s mother, Jordan Herbert, said she contacted the school on Mond...

as Ben Herbert, discusses what happened when he wore a BLM shirt to school in Oklahoma. Two Oklahoma elementary school students were pulled out of their classrooms last week and forced to spend the remainder of the day in an administrative office after they came to school wearing “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts, the New York Timesreported on Sunday. Bentlee Herbert, 8, and Rodney Herbert, 5, who are brothers, were removed from separate classes in the Ardmore school district because the sup...

By: News 9 Some Ardmore parents are upset after an elementary school made a student turn their Black Lives Matter shirt inside out. When Jordan Herbert sent her 7-year-old son Ben Stapleton to school at Charles Evans Elementary in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt last Friday, she said it wasn’t to make a statement or cause problems. However, when school officials saw the shirt, they made Ben turn it inside out for the rest of the day. “And pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt out a...

  An 8-year-old Black elementary student in Oklahoma was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school, his mother says. Ben Stapleton wore the BLM shirt last week at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore and was instructed by the principal to turn the shirt inside out during P.E. class, according to local outlet KXII. But when Stapleton wore the shirt again, the child was allegedly taken out of class and forced to sit in the principal’s office for hours in what his moth...

For eighty years, the state historical society had two thick ledgers in its possession that went largely unnoticed by anyone other than researchers who knew what they were looking for. The ledgers belonged to a private organization and included details about the men whod attended meetings of that organization, including their names, addresses, professions and whether theyd paid their membership dues. "The sort of thing you would expect any organization to keep," explains Jason Hanson, chief cr...

Photo of the author courtesy of Miles Simmons Powell “Say it again!” I yelled, staring Billy T. down. Though there was a hot, prickly itching behind my eyes, they stayed dry. He chanted in a taunting schoolyard singsong. “N**ger, N**ger, N****ggger.” I was 11 years old in Boulder, Colorado, the only Black kid in the schoolyard. All the kids gathered around to watch me cry. Again.                                                       �...