An investigation is underway within the Los Angeles Unified School District after a math homework assignment for second graders used slavery as its setting during Black History Month.

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NBC News Los Angeles reports the Los Angeles United School District is investigating a teacher who gave a word problem to 7-year-olds that featured slaves, cotton picking, “masters,” the "missus," and the “Big House.”

Homelessness is a huge, growing problem in the United States, and especially in Los Angeles. 9-year-old Khloe Thompson L.A. native noticed this on her walk to school every day, and after her mom answered a few questions on the topic, she decided to do something about it. The young lady decided to put bags of […]

Three first graders in Alaska were suspended last week after allegedly planning to poison and kill one of their classmates, plus more

Bill Cosby has already been charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania.

A 2014 Equal Employment Opportunity report shows that Black woman make up zero percent of Twitter’s employees. Only 14 Black women are currently employed at…

Diddy has earned a win after assaulting his son Justin‘s UCLA assistant football coach, as the L.A. District Attorney has rejected the case. According to…

LOS ANGELES-Police shot and killed a man armed with a crowbar outside of a Carl’s Jr. restaurant in Monterey, California. Police were called to the restaurant after reports that a man was breaking windows with a crowbar. At first, police officers tased the individual, which resulted in the unidentified man approaching a police officer with […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four more car fires broke out in the Los Angeles area New Year’s Eve, leaving authorities to probe for any links to a series of arson blazes that burned dozens of cars and spread to some structures in recent days. SEE ALSO: America’s Drunkest Cities In a sobering counterpoint to the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who shot four people, killing two, at a utility office east of Los Angeles before turning the gun on himself was a 48-year-old company employee from Southern California, authorities said Saturday. RELATED: Round Up Of Gene Marks “Poor Black Kid” Critiques Investigators identified the shooter as Andre Turner of […]