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16-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Black Pilot to Fly Across Country
On July 18, 16-year-old Isaiah Cooper made history by becoming the youngest black pilot to fly around the country. His journey was 8,000 miles, starting in California, then on to Washington state, Maine and Florida, before heading back to the California city of Compton, according to the Huffington Post. And this is just the beginning for…
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Fresno, Calif., Police Release Video of Fatal Shooting of Unarmed White Man
Fresno, Calif., Police Chief Jerry Dyer has publicly released body-camera footage taken during the fatal shooting of an unarmed white man in June, acknowledging that “some of this video will answer many of the questions out there in this community,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Dyer said during a Wednesday news conference that he decided to…
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Calif. Police Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Man Yells Racial Slur, Throws Rock Into Home of Black Family
Huntington Beach, Calif., police are investigating a possible hate crime after a black family was allegedly targeted by a man who yelled racial slurs and threw a rock into their apartment’s sliding-glass door, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, the attack occurred around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment complex. The resident…
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Oldest US Park Ranger Beaten and Robbed in Her Home; Presidential Coin Stolen
The nation’s oldest full-time park ranger was brutally attacked in her San Francisco Bay Area home after a robber broke in and stole a coin she received from President Barack Obama. According to Fox News, 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front…
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Oakland, Calif., Mother Devastated After 16-Year-Old Daughter Shot, Killed at Vigil
An Oakland, Calif., mother is demanding justice after her 16-year-old daughter was shot and killed in a Tuesday-evening shooting in the city’s downtown, KTVU reports. “If anybody out there knows anything out there, please, please, let me know anything. I need justice,” the teen’s mother, Onika Wilson, said. Reggina Jefferies had performed a praise-and-worship dance at…
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Calif. Pastor on Orlando, Fla., Mass Shooting: ‘The Tragedy Is That More of Them Didn’t Die’
Mere hours after the Orlando, Fla., club shooter took the lives of 49 people, a Sacramento, Calif., pastor turned to his pulpit, delivering a hateful, violent speech saying that he was upset the shooter “didn’t finish the job,” the New York Daily News reports. “The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die,” the pastor, Roger…
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Calif. Attorney General Kamala Harris Scores Comfortable Win in US Senate Primary
California Attorney General Kamala Harris easily came through as the victor in the state’s Senate primary, beating out her competition with 40 percent of the vote, based on 76 percent of precincts reporting, the Washington Post reports. These means that Harris will be facing fellow Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County, who trailed Harris with…
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Hillary Clinton Claims Victory as 1st Woman to Claim Presidential Nomination of Major Party
Hillary Clinton has officially staked her claim as the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, taking her place in history as the first woman to claim the presidential nomination of a major U.S. party after capturing primary victories in California, New Mexico, South Dakota and New Jersey Tuesday, Al-Jazeera reports. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached…
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Los Angeles Serial Killer the 'Grim Sleeper' Should Be Sentenced to Death, Jury Decides
A Los Angeles jury has decided that the serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” should face the death penalty for murdering nine women and a teenage girl in a 23-year killing spree, the Associated Press reports. Lonnie Franklin Jr., a 63-year-old former city trash collector and garage attendant for the city’s Police Department, was…