Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, shown in his Bakersfield office, told local media that deputies had been “appropriately disciplined” for killing a cat. Now, they’re back on the job, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said Sunday. Youngblood also told KGET that he had “met with animal rights groups; they’re content with what we’re doing.” “That’s very interesting,” said Barbara Hays, …
Ulysses Jenkins’ work has long made prescient use of technology. Theorist Gene Youngblood is seen giving a lecture in a still from Ulysses Jenkins’ “Televiews and Cable Radio,” 1981. “Televiews and Cable Radio” is now on view at the Hammer Museum as part of the artist’s ongoing retrospective, “Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation.” The show was organized by Hammer associate …
LaShone and RaeShawn Middleton of Laurel, Md., created R&L Crab after they both lost their jobs during the pandemic. Finally, many of the Black-owned businesses that formed last year were what are called “necessity” startups — that is, firms that people started to survive a layoff, or a cut in hours or income. “They had a moment of pause induced …
