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The Centinela Valley Union High School District is slashing 88, or 24 percent of its 363 teachers, prompting protests from students, parents and teachers, who argue that the measure is detrimental to educational programs across the district's high schools.

More than a year after a bust of Breonna Taylor was vandalized and went missing from...

Commemorating our sacred Alkebulan-Afrikan Story January 31, 2021 A bust memorializing Breonna Taylor, who was murdered by police in Louisville, Ky., was recently destroyed in downtown Oakland. The artist, Leo Carson of Oakland, has said he will try to piece it back together or build a new one. Asé. – Photo: Baba Jahahara by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at 6261 AAAK, February 2021, JC-PG Africans deserve Reparations! ‘Cause Black Lives Matter! Blessings of Imani (faith) victorious ...

BLACKS BLAST BUSTED BUST 2020 was many things, all of them bad. It was the year of COVID, the year of George Floyd, the year of riots and looting, the year of economic downturn, the year of mass retail bankruptcies, and the year of dodgy mail-in voting. But it was also the year that social justice activists wanted Americans to know that property is, well, just property. From “progressive prosecutors” decriminalizing property crimes in cities across the nation to leftists defending the mass ...

ByPost Staff Sculptor Leo Carson placed a bouquet of flowers on the column where his statue of Breonna Taylor had been installed on December 12. Photo by Auintard Henderson Wanting to create a ‘symbol of joy,’ in memory of Breonna Taylor, Oakland sculptor Leo Carson installed a head-and-neck bust of her at Latham Square on Dec. 12, 2020. On Tuesday, the bust of the emergency services worker killed in Louisville, Ky. last March in a botched police raid was stolen after...

Gingerbread monolith appeared at Corona Heights Park + more good news around the Bay By Unfortunately, the mysterious monolith—or "gingerlith"—crumbled in just a day. Plus, Leo Carson will build another bust of Breonna Taylor; a San Francisco Symphony horn player is researching COVID-19; and more good news to start the new year. Sculptor Vows To Rebuild After Vandalized Breonna Taylor Bust In Oakland Goes Missing, CBS SF In less than 24 hours, the community raised $21,000...

Updated: 4:18 PM PST, December 31, 2020 Detective Myles Cosgrove, one of the officers who opened fire during the raid and Detective Josh Jaynes, who was not at the raid, but the person who obtained the search warrant for Taylors home, have both received pre-termination letters their attorneys Two Louisville, Kentucky police officers involved in the botched raid that led to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in March will likely be terminated, according to the attorney for one of the officer...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The Breonna Taylor sculpture that was vandalized over the weekend in Oakland has now gone missing. The artist, Leo Carson, told ABC7 News that the bust was stolen and that he has no leads yet on who took it. Carson plans to hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Oakland where members of the Black Lives Matter movement will fill the base of the sculpture with concrete. Carson first installed the ceramic bust of Taylor in Latham Square earlier this month...

LOS ANGELES — A ceramic bust in Oakland honoring Breonna Taylor that was smashed the day after Christmas has now been stolen, the artist said Tuesday. Leo Carson, the artist who created the sculpture, discovered the bust missing Tuesday morning – a day after he had raised more than enough money thro

Oakland police are investigating the latest incident involving a Breonna Taylor sculpture that was vandalized and then went missing days later.