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Selma director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo have joined forces to develop a Hurricane Katrina drama.

A former member of the Harlem Globetrotters has disappeared while traveling to Seattle. Rico Harris, 37, left his mother’s Alhambra, California home more than a week ago to visit his girlfriend. 

A never-before-seen video showing a woman getting pepper-sprayed by a California police officer has been released. A Riverside jury heard the case against former officer Enoch Clark, who is charged with using excessive force against Monique Hernandez during a traffic stop in 2012. 

California state government departments will be prohibited from displaying or selling items that carry the Confederate flag. The state’s Assembly passed the bill Monday. 

A judge threw out the conviction of a 53-year-old man who has spent the last 34 years behind bars for murder. Kash Delano Register was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for killing 78-year-old Jack Sasson in April of 1979.

A LAPD officer has been charged with assault for kicking a handcuffed woman seven times in the abdomen, upper thigh and stomach before she lost consciousness and died.

Students at the University of Southern California are fighting back against what they feel was a racially-biased, heavy-handed shutdown of an off-campus party.

You know what never goes out of style on college campuses? Kegs? Yes. But also: blackface. Last week, news broke that members of the UC Irvine outfit of Lambda Theta Dlta corked it up for a music video. Here we go again. Why is blackface such an enduring form of racism?

A chaotic, surreal standoff at a cabin in the mountains of Big Bear, CA may have brought an end to the nearly two week-long manhunt for ex LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.

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I’ve been nursing a lemon pound cake jones by going to Starbucks a bit more often than I’d like.  I know it is not a business that I should patronize with my graduate student funds, but a craving is a craving.  Anyway, I’m standing at the counter listening to the Starbucks employee recite my order […]