LAPD

Jan 3 2011

Five people bound

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A home-invasion robbery suspect shot to death by an LAPD officer was armed with an assault pistol, and a second suspect was behind bars today, authorities said today.

The man with the assault pistol died at a hospital after the shooting, which occurred about 11:30 p.m. Sunday in the 8700 block of McKinley Avenue, said Sgt. Mitzi Grasso of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations office. His name was withheld pending family notification.

Dec 31 2010

Suspect sought

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Police today sought a gunman who fatally shot a 14-year-old boy as he was riding his bike in South Los Angeles.

The boy was pedaling his bike in the vicinity of St. Andrews Place and 87th Street about 7:25 p.m. Wednesday when the assailant came up behind him and started shooting, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section.

The teen dropped his bicycle and ran, but collapsed about a block later.

He died at a hospital.

Dec 29 2010

Community is outraged

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the killers of a woman who was gunned down Christmas night in front of her 3-year-old daughter—and the toddler herself made a plea for help in finding the people responsible.
 

Dec 29 2010

Three African American males

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles police sought the public's help to identify three men caught on surveillance tape robbing a South Los Angeles liquor store the day after Christmas.

About 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, three men entered a liquor store in the 6000 block of South Avalon Boulevard, where they found two employees working. Two of the men were allegedly armed with semi-automatic handguns, according to Los Angeles police.

Dec 27 2010

Daughter in the backseat of car

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Friends and family mourned the death of a 26-year-old woman who was gunned down in front of her daughter in South Los Angeles, in what police believe was a gang attack aimed at someone else.

The woman was getting out of her car at 85th Street and Western Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Christmas night when two men in a dark blue vehicle drove up and fired nine shots, striking her once in the head, before fleeing south on Western, said Lt. Peter Casey of the LAPD's 77th Street Division.

She died at the scene.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”