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Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León addressed his colleagues for more than eight minutes Wednesday, speaking publicly in council chambers for the first time since an incendiary leaked audio conversation upended local politics in October, propelling the legislative body into crisis.De León spoke out against a council proposal that would explore new penalties that could be imposed on censured council members.

I understand how you must feel right now.The possibility of being the mayor of Chicago, this massive, shiny and troubled metropolis, is likely intoxicating.I know my father, Bernard Epton, known as "Bernie," had such feelings in 1983.The way popular history characterizes him now, a consequence of his role in the '83 campaign against Harold Washington, is not who he was in the years leading up to that election.

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn endorsed U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García for mayor on Thursday, spurning his former gubernatorial running mate Paul Vallas.Quinn flirted with a mayoral run this campaign cycle but dropped the bid."'Chuy' García has an unrivaled record of delivering for Chicago, and he understands the urgency of now.

The powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1 threw its support behind Brandon Johnson on Wednesday as businessman Willie Wilson endorsed Paul Vallas, the latest jockeying for support by the two mayoral candidates ahead of the April 4 runoff election."Brandon is an organizer, a teacher, a Cook County commissioner and a longtime community activist, and most importantly for me and my union, he is one of us," Local 1 President Genie Kastrup said.

NBA "It just made my whole life, everything about my life, make so much sense.It was like a clarity, like, putting some 3-D glasses on."Tony Snell has always "felt different," but he couldn't pinpoint why.When his son, Karter, was diagnosed with autism, the 2022-23 Maine Celtic guard Snell's mind started racing.

Best College Try-In and Out of the Pool
In 2014, when Nicholas Askew became head coach of the swimming and diving teams at Howard University, the program had sunk to a low point.So the Howard alum, who swam for the Bison in the late 1990s, addressed every part of the program-from having the once-drab indoor pool freshly painted to recruiting and developing athletes.

Juneteenth is almost here and there are plenty of things to do around DC before, during, and after the actual holiday, which falls on a Monday this year.Here are some ways to celebrate the emancipation of African-Americans.When: Sunday, June 18th from 11 AM to 5 PM.Where: Brookland Artswalk (716 Monroe St., NE).

Lace up your sneakers and skates: Kraken Kourts -a sprawling pickleball venue and indoor roller skating rink with a bar serving food and drinks-opens today in Edgewood.Once a Forman Mills department store, the massive 70,000 square foot facility (which neighbors other entertainment spaces like Alamo Drafthouse, the Van Gogh Immersive Experience, and Metrobar) houses 14 pickleball courts, an indoor roller skating rink (currently the only one in DC), a bar with food, and lots of cozy courtside cabanas for kicking back.

The 11th annual Bethesda Film Festival kicks off this evening in downtown Bethesda.Seven short documentaries by local filmmakers highlight stories about history, nature, and social justice.Screenings of all seven films will take place on both Friday and Saturday evening at 7 PM at the Imagination Stage (4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda), and will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

Naomi Ackie in "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody."(Emily Aragones/Sony Pictures/AP) StarOutline StarOutline (1.5 stars) "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody," director Kasi Lemmons's frustratingly one-note biopic about the pop songstress, who died in 2012 at age 48, suffers from an egregiously ironic musical sin: It's all hooks and no bridges.

"Bored," from Thomas Holton's photographic series "The Lams of Ludlow Street."(Thomas Holton)Traditionally, national portrait galleries exhibit likenesses of people who are important to the country.The exhibition "Kinship" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery takes a different course.

Football's capacity to unite is routinely lauded, but Sunday's World Cup match between England and Senegal has already divided many west African families in London.The split is generational.Parents say they tend to support Senegal, the country of their birth, while their children opt to support the state they were raised in: England.

A South Carolina convenience store owner has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Black boy whom he falsely accused of shoplifting, chased and shot in the back on Sunday night, the authorities said.The store owner, Rick Chow, 58, who was charged on Monday, believed that the boy, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, had stolen four water bottles from his Xpress Mart Shell Station in Columbia, the Richland County Sheriff's Office said.

"The last two-and-a-half years, a meteor hit and we were just like, 'Whoa, what is this?'" Aria Christian says of the success she and her (nearly) identical twin sister Maya never saw coming.The people who know them best probably suspected they were destined for galactic success - maybe not as food entrepreneurs, though.

An Alexander Smalls's dinner party at his home in Sugar Hill is about more than the food, which, if you're lucky, is prepared by Smalls himself, or, if you're just as lucky, it's made by an emerging chef in Smalls's Black chef collective, bringing mentorship and visibility to up-and-coming cooks.A New York City icon, Smalls is in the middle of opening the city's first African food hall, Alkebulan, which will launch in Harlem later this year.

Black Spirits Legacy and Pronghorn present the Liquid Forum and the Taste of Black Spirits to highlight Black-owned brands and industry leaders, February 24-25.Many consumers are unaware of Black-owned spirit companies and their products.The Liquid Forum and TOBS will create more awareness and access to these underrepresented brands.

Four years later, Cynthia Appiah has conquered the sliding track in Igls, Austria, site of her World Cup debut as a bobsleigh pilot.The 32-year-old Canadian Olympian reached the medal podium in women's monobob with a two-run time of one minute 49.42 on Saturday."I've had a love-hate relationship since [2019]," Appiah told Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, referring to the 14-corner Austrian chute.

Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo has announced she's stepping down.Lindo said she will finish out the next session of the legislature before moving into a new role in July, in the philosophy department at the University of Waterloo.Lindo says she did not make the decision lightly and there were a couple of reasons behind it, one of which was wanting and needing to be home with her family.

Two sets of two in 2022.That's what this Brampton couple has been adjusting to this year  their hands full with two sets of twins born nine months apart.Reva Nicholson says it's been a whirlwind of a year.The 26-year-old had her first set of twins in February, 2022, with her husband, Romaine McFarlane.

Michael Tulloch was a Crown attorney in Toronto and Peel before he was elevated to the bench.He was the first Black justice to sit on a provincial appellate court in Canada (Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press) Michael Tulloch, the first Black justice to sit on a provincial appellate court in Canada, has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of Ontario.

Black people in the United States experienced 1.63 million excess deaths when compared to white people over a 22-year period, according to a new study published Tuesday.A Yale-led group of physicians and health equity scholars set out to analyze excess deaths for the U.S. Black population compared to their white counterparts, from 1999 through 2020.

A Chicago City Council ordinance to transfer a chunk of Englewood's roads to Norfolk Southern Railway was blocked Wednesday by the presiding alderman - the latesttwist in the freight company's multiyear plan to double the size of one of its rail yards despite pushback from local residents.Ald.Jeanette Taylor, 20th, and allies used a parliamentary tactic to defer the legislation that would allow the railroad to acquire the streets and alleys it doesn't already own between two existing sets of tracks from Garfield Boulevard south to 59th Street.

In 2021, Croydon recorded the most teenage murders of any London borough leading to it being called the city's knife crime capital.That year five teenagers, the youngest aged just 14, lost their lives on the streets of Croydon.However, in 2022 Croydon ended the year without any teenage deaths from knife crime.

When Whole Foods announced its plan to shutter the much celebrated and sorely needed Englewood store, I thought, here's another big retailer turning its back on the Black community.Then I quickly realized - we don't need them.We can find a better way that decreases dependence on corporate benevolence and increases our self-reliance: We can grow our own, for our own.

The list of winners of the 2023 Digiday Content Marketing Awards highlights how companies are leaning on immersive video and interactive social media content to create meaningful connections with growing Gen Z audiences.DE&I initiatives remain top priorities for brands as they develop new ways to share the voice of underrepresented groups.

James Russell is on a quest to restore 19 headstones buried at the Negro Burial Ground a cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake that dates back almost 200 years and have the small Ontario town foot the $59,000 bill.The Toronto filmmaker said 28 burial sites and 19 buried headstones were detected at the cemetery in May with the help of ground-penetrating radar.

A young Pickering man who has amassed a big social media following for his advocacy for blind people is set to receive a sight-saving gene therapy the first time the expensive procedure will be covered by OHIP.Adam Brown was born with a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa that significantly hinders his vision and could eventually leave him fully blind.

It was an hour into class, and the performers were feeling themselves.Thighs jiggled.Bellies bounced.Butt cheeks clapped.Twenty-three-year-old actress Sammy Mendoza tittered nervously, a chorus of giggles trailing her acrossa North Hollywood studio.Suddenly, the music stopped."There's nothing funny about how much ass is in this room, and how hot it is," instructor Cera Byer snapped.

The parents of a South Carolina ninth grader said in a federal lawsuit that a teacher pushed their daughter into a wall after she ignored demands to acknowledge the Pledge of Allegiance as it was broadcast over her high school's intercom.The 15-year-old student, Marissa Barnwell, and her parents said that the school district did not respond to their inquiries about the episode, prompting them to file a federal lawsuit last month.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged Black residents to support her campaign for reelection or risk losing the seat and told people who don't support her not to vote in a vivid display of the city's racial politics during appearances Saturday on the South and West sides.After a swift social media backlash, Lightfoot's campaign released a statement Saturday evening declaring that she "urges every Chicagoan to exercise their rights and get out to vote," a reversal from her prior statement.

By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large-
As the City of Oakland Councilmember At-Large who also serves on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority (OACCA) Board, I with pleasure share our interest to host cricket games at the Oakland Coliseum.The coliseum is a large and well-located venue, in the heart of a region with a strong and growing cricket fan base.

A University of Toronto student and his mother are suing three Toronto police officers alongside the Toronto Police Services Board and seeking damages of just under $3 million, alleging that Hasani O'Gilvie was unlawfully and violently detained back in the summer of 2021.Police disciplinary documents refer to the incident as a case of "mistaken identity" but a lawyer representing the family says it's instead a case of someone being assaulted for "walking while Black," after O'Gilvie was allegedly forced to the ground with a knee on his neck and repeatedly shocked with a Taser.

A year after San Jose's largest school district decided to bring police officers back to campus, residents say they are being left out of the conversation.A San Jose Unified School District committee charged with reviewing the use of law enforcement and evaluating potential alternatives has made little progress, advocates said.

There are umpteen reasons why an artist might choose to suddenly release a new album with little in the way of advance promotion or even warning.In the case of Little Simz, the sudden arrival of No Thank You, less than eight weeks after she won the Mercury prize for its predecessor, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, seems to mostly involve getting things off her chest.

For the Black community, the barbershop is more than just the place you get your hair cut or styled."If you've ever been in a Black barbershop, like, in that cultural space, anything goes," says Patrick Wallace, assistant director of the Student Success Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

MPs have demanded a school is investigated after a black pupil was injured in what police described as a serious racially-aggravated assault.Distressing footage shared widely online showed the girl being punched, kicked and having her hair pulled.It led to protests outside Thomas Knyvett College in Ashford by people concerned the school did not do enough to help her.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.San Francisco's only Black city supervisor, Shamann Walton, is facing attacks from all directions this week, from those opposing his work to uplift the Black community, to others who say he doesn't do enough.

U.S. Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García on Monday pitched an emergency property tax relief program funded through taxpayer grants, while Chicago mayoral opponent Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson released a safety plan that he said would address root causes of violence.García, who is making his second bid for the city's highest office, proposed finding money in Chicago's budget to hand out means-tested grants for more than 21,500 property owners struggling with high taxes.

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Viola Davis, left, and John Boyega in "The Woman King." "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" earned 12 NAACP Image Awards nominations on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, while "The Woman King" and "Abbott Elementary" will enter next month's ceremony as top nominees.

Author George M. Johnson wrote All Boys Aren't Blue, which is on the American Library Association's list of most banned books.Kaz Fantone/NPR This essay by George M. Johnson is part of a series of interviews with and essays by authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. It's been nearly 15 months since the first attempt to challenge and ban my book All Boys Aren't Blue from high school libraries.

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As of right now, the Toronto Maple Leafs are 2nd in their division with an 18-5-6 record - good for 42 points.They sit exactly one point back of the Boston Bruins who have 43 points.Now, Boston also has three games in hand to build on that lead, but the interesting thing is how close Toronto has closed that gap given how each of the two teams started their seasons.

It's been more than 50 years since hundreds of Black families were forcibly evicted from their North Portland homes to make space for Emanuel Hospital, now Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, under the guise of "urban renewal."Now, those Portlanders and their descendants are seeking restitution from the city for undermining their families' chance at creating generational wealth and social stability due to the color of their skin.