Former President Barack Obama is getting his own street in Los Angeles.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted Tuesday night that a 3.5-mile stretch of Rodeo Road in southwest Los Angeles will be renamed Obama Boulevard.
"We're thrilled that Angelenos and visitors will forever be reminded of the legacy of President Barack Obama when traveling across L.A.," Garcetti tweeted.
The city council unanimously approved the tribute on Tuesday. Council President Herb Wesson is behind the idea.
I'm still not sure if this is a real campaign ad or a rejected Chapelle Show sketch intended to troll us all, but Kyle Greene, a candidate running for a state House seat in Minnesota, used the N-word in a campaign ad released earlier this month to describe himself.
Greene told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that he used the racist slur because he wants citizens in the state to focus on “the real issues at hand.”
“We need to unify as a society, and we need to stop dealing with trivial matters,” Greene told the Tribune.
Watch the video and check out the poll below:
Prior to Thursday night’s preseason finale between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, superstar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., fresh off signing a five-year, $95 million contract extension, stopped to greet several survivors of the Paramus NJ school bus crash.
.@OBJ_3 stops to meet survivors of the Paramus school bus crash who are here for tonight’s game. pic.twitter.com/MWrSxOD5L5
— New York Giants (@Giants) August 30, 2018
During an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo Mayor Andrew Gillum, Florida's first African American nominee for governor, said that his opponent Ron DeSantis' "monkey this up" comment was used as a way to "incite" his base. He also discussed his victory in the Florida Democratic Primary.
On Tuesday, a Dallas County jury convicted the former Balch Springs police officer of murder for shooting Jordan Edwards an unarmed 15-year-old as he left a party with his brothers and two friends in April 2017.
Roy Oliver, 38, was found not guilty, however, on two counts of aggravated assault for firing his rifle into the car full of teens.
The former officer, who was fired from the force not long after the shooting, was immediately taken into custody, and his bond was revoked.
He faces up to life in prison when testimony resumes Wednesday in the trial's punishment phase.
The mother of Jordan Edwards thanked jurors Tuesday for convicting her son's killer rather than letting him "walk away."
"The police just walk away and don't have to give account for anything," Charmaine Edwards testified in the punishment phase of Roy Oliver's trial. "I'm forever grateful that y'all seen it in your hearts to see that it was wrong."
