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Year: 2022

Los Angeles County votes to return beach property taken from Black owners in Jim Crow era

KCAL, KCBS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, BRUCE FAMILY, MANHATTAN BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MIRIAM MATTHEWS COLLECTION, UCLA, HANDOUT PHOTO, CNN, Miriam Matthews Collection/UCLA By Meron Moges-Gerbi and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A stretch of prime Southern California beachfront real estate was returned to the descendants of its Black owners Tuesday, nearly a century after the

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Federal judge won’t shut down case seeking to remove New Mexico county official from office over January 6 conviction

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by a New Mexico county commissioner to shut down state proceedings against him that seek to remove him from office because of his conviction for trespassing on US Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. Couy Griffin, an Otero County commissioner and a prominent

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