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California Black reparations task force to submit final report

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

California's first-in-the-nation slavery reparations task force wraps up its historic work Thursday with the official submission of a report two years in the making, one that documents the state's role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents and suggests dozens of ways to atone.The report heads to lawmakers who will be responsible for turning policy recommendations into legislation. Reparations will not happen until lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom agree. The recommendations include a formal apology to descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. and financial compensation for harms descendants have suffered, such as overpolicing and housing discrimination. The panel also recommended the state create a new agency to oversee reparations efforts. California task force votes in favor of reparation proposals for Black residents “It’s been a whirlwind, it’s been very work intensive, but also very cathartic and very emotional,” said Kamilah Moore, 31, task force chair and a...

Teacher who forced special needs student to eat vomit has license revoked

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

One of two licensed teachers police say were involved in forcing a 7-year-old special-needs student in Brownsburg to eat his vomit has voluntarily revoked her Indiana teaching license, KTLA sister station WXIN reports. Sara Seymour, a 27-year-old former Life Skills teacher at Brown Elementary in Hendricks County, was previously terminated at a Brownsburg Community School Corporation meeting in May. Seymour and four other educators working at the Brownsburg elementary school were criminally charged in April after investigators say they told a 7-year-old student to eat his own vomit and failed to report the incident. All five educators listed by Hendricks County prosecutors in the criminal case stemming from the incident have since resigned or been terminated by the school corporation. However, only two of the people charged criminally were licensed teachers in Indiana: Seymour and Julie Taylor.While Seymour is the one who police say told the 7-year-old Life Skills student that h...

Fireworks thrown into Hermosa Beach nightclub crowd may be a hate crime

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

Police are searching for a man who threw an exploding firework into a large crowd at an LGBTQ+ Pride event in Hermosa Beach.On June 17, the suspect was near a silent disco event at a bar/restaurant called Vista around 9:45 p.m. when he pulled out a firework, lit it and threw it into the crowd. The incident was captured on a video shared by police.Fragments of fireworks struck multiple people at the crowded restaurant, located at 11 Pier Ave., police said. Despite the "significant explosion," victims' injuries were not life-threatening.Video released by the Hermosa Beach Police Department shows a man throwing a lit firework into a crowd on June 17, 2023. (Hermosa Beach Police)Jeremy McDermott, the manager of Vista, said hundreds of people were attending the event celebrating LGBTQ+ culture and Pride month when the explosion went off."We had 400 people already here,” McDermott said. “It was pretty rough and a rude awakening for everyone enjoying a silent disco here. It was an unfortun...

Be Bright Coffee Comes To Paloma and A 4th Of July Pool Party – Here’s What’s Popping Up 

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

Starting today, Smorgasburg’s favorite roaster, Be Bright Coffee,  comes to Paloma for a  summer residency, kicking the summer off with an exclusive recipe for Paloma in Venice – a Mediterranean-inspired Baklava Latte, featuring a house-made honey syrup infused with cinnamon and orange peel, layered with a spiced foam, and garnished with crushed pistachios.  There’s also a Vivid Cream Latte with iced brown sugar, sweet foam, and cocoa powder as well as a standard coffee and espresso selection. Be Bright Coffee will be available at Paloma from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for counter service – at the coffee bar, with an entryway located off Abbot Kinney Blvd. This Friday, June 30, Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery will launch an expanded selection of new dishes and large format plates that focus on seasonal ingredients from local purveyors and family recipes.  Executive Chef Thomas Tilaka Kalb curates a menu that celebrates the restaurant’s two-year journey, showcasing the nostalgia...

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Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

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Painter Corey Pemberton’s Portraits Are a Personal Thing

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

In Person, place, thing, artist Corey Pemberton’s embrace of classical genres are anything but classical. His disarming portraits and still life paintings both build on and subvert expectations for such traditional categories, infusing wholesome scenes of ordinary life with a lexicon of layered patterns, intimate daily rituals, intimated emotions, hinted-at histories, and an irresistibly lively palette.Corey Pemberton: Time to break out Daddy’s plates, Acrylic, inkjet prints, and graphite on canvas, 48 x 72 in (Courtesy of UNREPD)An expansive suite of these paintings—most so large as to be all but life-size—is currently installed, along with luxe and jaunty pieces of design furniture in domestic vignettes and a host of Pemberton’s hand-blown glass objects, at UNREPD’s sunny and welcoming downtown space. The overall effect of the exhibition is a fantastic feedback loop in which paintings ennobling the narrative potential of the domestic sphere are set in domestic vignettes, int...

Sharks add big winger with second round pick in NHL Draft

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

The San Jose Sharks selected Finnish-born winger Kasper Halttunen with their second-round selection at the NHL Draft on Thursday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.The Sharks had the No. 36 overall selection and held onto it to draft the 6-foot-3, 207-pound Halttunen, who had 18 points in 14 games for Finland’s U18 team this past year.Still just 17, Halttunen struggled when playing against men in Finland’s top professional league, with just one assist in 27 games. He has to work on his skating, but he plays a heavy brand and possesses a big shot.“I’m satisfied with how he played for the team, and how he makes smart decisions with the puck,” Finland U18 head coach Lauri Merikivi said in April, per Elite Prospects. “I see him as a power forward. During these three years, I’ve loved the passion he has to score goals,drive to the net, and to win pucks.”Halttunen fits the bill as far as the Sharks wanting to have a bigger collection of forwards among the...

Read the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

By Ella Ceron | BloombergThe US Supreme Court sharply limited the use of race as a factor in university admissions. The decision rolls back decades of precedents that had allowed affirmative action programs in higher education.The case involved admissions policy at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Read the full decision, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. Related ArticlesEducation | Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, says race cannot be a factor Education | What does the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action mean for California? Education | Thousands more behind bars will get college assistance Education | Caltech’s win in Apple Inc. patent case is upheld after U.S. Supreme Court declines appeal Education | Controversial SJSU professor who posed with...

Hawaii man loses bid to keep license plate deemed offensive

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

The recall of a Hawaii man’s personalized license plate FCKBLM was constitutionally permissible, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.Edward Odquina argued that his rights of free expression were violated when Honolulu officials ordered him to return the plate they said had been issued in error. The appellate panel, however, said the restriction focused on the content — that is, vulgar language — rather than the viewpoint of the message, and as such was constitutionally valid.The ruling issued Wednesday in San Francisco upheld a federal judge’s denial of Odquina’s request for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against the recall of his plate.Odquina, 49, had requested the license plate in January 2021. When a Honolulu city services employee contacted him to ask its meaning, Odquina claimed it was an acronym for his business’s name. The employee approved the plate, though he later acknowledged that he shouldn’t have,...

Shooting at Oakland’s Jack London Square leaves wounded man under arrest

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:47:45 GMT

OAKLAND — An exchange of gunfire Wednesday night in Jack London Square left a 37-year-old man with a self-inflicted wound and under arrest, while the man who shot at him was being sought, authorities said.A 24-year-old woman with the man who was shot was also arrested for trying to hide his gun, authorities said.The shooting, which left several parked vehicles with bullet holes, happened about 7:05 p.m. Wednesday in the 90 block of Broadway, near the avenue’s southern end at the waterfront.Police said the 37-year-old man and the woman were walking on the sidewalk when another man ran up to them and began shooting at them.The 37-year-old man pulled his own gun, police said. It was believed he fired more than one shot at the other gunman but also shot himself in the foot, authorities said.The gunman who initially opened fire fled before a swarm of police got to the area.The wounded man was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was placed under arrest at the hospital on sus...