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Keenan Anderson, not only a 10th-grade teacher at Digital Pioneers Academy in D.C but also the cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder, dies from cardiac arrest after being tased by Los Angeles police.

Brown Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene. Lee said police believe no foul play was involved and additional details on the death weren’t immediately released.

The hearse carrying Hussle’s coffin from the Staples Center will then travel deep into the neighborhood where the deadly Rodney King race riot began in 1992 and on past the property where Hussle had planned to turn an aging strip mall into new businesses and affordable homes. Finally, it will arrive at a funeral home in the city’s hard-scrabble Crenshaw district, where the rapper was born on Aug. 15, 1985.

Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore has scheduled a briefing Tuesday morning in which he will discuss how detectives came to identify Eric Holder as the man suspected of killing Hussle Sunday afternoon and wounding two others. No additional details, other than that Holder is suspected of fleeing in a 2016 Chevy Cruze with the license plate 7RJD742, have been released.

And social media-based firings are not just for the prominent. Many others from public-facing institutions and businesses have been sanctioned, demoted, suspended or fired for impolitic statements online in recent days.

Actress Lauren London posted a solo picture of Hussle along with other images that included her, the rapper and their family on her Instagram account Tuesday. She captioned her photos writing: “I’m lost without you.”

The home of Beyoncé’s mother Tina Knowles-Lawson has been broken into most recently. The mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles’ vault containing millions of dollars’ worth of cash and jewelry was stolen, and the Los Angeles Police Department has opened an investigation.

The family of the late Kobe Bryant has agreed to a 28.5 million dollar settlement with Los Angeles County.

After achieving many accolades, records, and successes following her critically acclaimed sophomore album SOS, contemporary R&B singer SZA will be awarded the honor of “Woman of the Year” at the Billboard Women in Music Awards held in Los Angeles on March 1st.

As of February 5th, 2023, Viola Davis has become the third black woman and the 18th person in history to achieve EGOT status after winning her first Grammy at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Shannon Sharpe has apologized for his behavior at last Friday’s Grizzlies-Lakers game in Los Angeles. Sharpe got into a shouting match with the Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks and Ja Morant, as well as Morant’s father.

Gospel legend Kirk Franklin’s son Kerrion Franklin was arrested in Los Angeles without bond. 

Issa Rae’s Sweet Life: Los Angeles is returning for a second season.

Washington and Los Angeles will hit the field Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock.

A Black family moves to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood where malevolent forces, next door and otherworldly, threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.

A list of the winners at the 2020 American Music Awards, held Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his Los Angeles home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said.

In the weeks since the Los Angeles Lakers emerged victorious as NBA Champions, there has been a lot of discussion around one the team’s players Dwight Howard. First, there were accusations from Royce Reed, Howard’s ex and mother of his child. She claimed that despite being in the same city as his children, Howard has made no effort to be a part of his son Braylon’s life.

The Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2, with musical performances and dancers along with models, was filmed in September in Los Angeles and will drop Friday exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories. It’s the line’s second turn on the streaming platform.

Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante told The Associated Press.

“As I tried to get (the lyrics) out, I couldn’t get them out,” Trey Songz said. “My voice would break, or tears would fall.”
So he went into the Los Angeles streets to protest in solidarity alongside thousands grieving Floyd’s death and demanding reforms to policing in America.

Among the show’s canceled was a July performance that would serve as the opening of Los Angeles’ new SoFi Stadium, the new home of the San Diego Chargers. Swift would have become the first woman to open an NFL stadium, organizers said.

Since last night 9PM EST, Willow Smith has been staying inside a box for 24 hours with her boyfriend Tyler Cole at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles.

Zaya Wade made her first red carpet appearance, accompanied by father Dwyane Wade and stepmother Gabrielle Union, at the sixth annual Truth Awards in Los Angeles this past Saturday.

The first park will open this summer in Tokyo, Japan with the second opening in Los Angeles in 2021 and the final opening in Orlando in 2023.

Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, moved to Los Angeles in July of 2019 before his October marriage. Sex offenders are legally required to update their registration any time they get a new job, commit a federal crime, move or go to school.

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek has donated $100,000 to Los Angeles homelessness non-profit Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission.

A week-long comedy festival held across multiple venues in Los Angeles. Comedy stars such as Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart and Martin Lawrence will perform at the festivities, which include more than 100 live shows.

“Our client, Vanessa Bryant, is absolutely devastated by allegations that deputies from the Lost Hills Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles County Fire Department publicly disseminated photos from the helicopter crash site.”

Report: Los Angeles deputies shared Kobe Bryant crash photos

Amazon plans to open another type of grocery store in Los Angeles sometime this year, but the company said it won’t use the cashier-less technology at that location and has kept other details under wraps.

Monday’s A Celebration of Life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant, a special memorial ceremony put on by the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe’s Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation

Randy Waldman, a helicopter flight instructor who lives in Los Angeles, said the radar tracking data he’s seen leads him to believe the pilot got confused in the fog and went into a fatal dive.

The Recording Academy announced Thursday that “Let’s Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute to Prince” will tape at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Jan. 28, two days after the 62nd annual Grammy Awards. The show will air on CBS later in the year.

A list of the winners at the 2019 American Music Awards, held Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

The 2019 American Music Awards are exactly one month away. Voting is open for all categories on Google by searching “AMA vote.” Voting closes November 20 and the show will air live from Los Angeles on November 24 at 8 pm on ABC.

The Los Angeles Times reported Netflix paid well above the speculated $500 million NBCUniversal paid to retake “The Office,” and the reported $130 million Hulu parent Walt Disney Co. paid for “Seinfeld.” Both of those deals are for U.S. streaming only — Netflix has bought the global rights to show “Seinfeld.”

Tracee Ellis Ross, one of the leading actors on “black-ish,” was also the star of “Girlfriends,” which ran from 2000 to 2008 and chronicled the lives of four black women living in Los Angeles.

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards will air Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. ET at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

The 6.4 magnitude quake struck at 10:33 a.m. Thursday in the Mojave Desert, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles, near the town of Ridgecrest, California.

A list of winners at the 2019 BET Awards, which aired live Sunday from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

The new season, which launches Sunday, May 4, will include widely known films like “West Side Story,” ″Dog Day Afternoon” and “Gandhi” as well as films that may not be as familiar, like “Losing Ground.” The Associated Press got a front-row seat to the conversations between DuVernay and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz at the taping last month in Los Angeles.

Police said Hussle was one of three men shot Sunday outside Marathon Clothing, his store in South Los Angeles; the other two were in stable condition. A large crowd gathered outside the store as night fell. Detectives were canvassing the area for witnesses and looking to see if any surveillance video captured the shooting, police Lt. Chris Ramirez said.

Perry was surrounded by family and friends when he died, publicist Arnold Robinson said. The actor had been hospitalized since last Wednesday, after a 911 call summoned medical help to his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles.

Dr. Renee Harrison, a former Los Angeles police officer who now teaches African American and U.S. religious history at the Howard University School of Divinity.