Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known as bebop, flowered into the swinging and accessible modern jazz.
In oral arguments on Monday, comments by the six justices who comprise the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court suggested they would overturn a lower court injunction that protects unhoused people in Grants Pass, Oregon from being arrested for sleeping in public.
Based on questioning during oral arguments Tuesday, the right-wing Supreme Court majority appears poised to rule in favor of dismissing some or all criminal charges against January 6 insurrectionists for violating a federal statute that prohibits obstructing official proceedings.
The highest state court ruled that a criminal law dating from 1864 can be used to imprison doctors who perform abortions.
The entire police department of a small town in Kansas raided the local newspaper and home of its owners, one of whom died the next day, apparently due to stress.
According to a recent County Commission report, violent deputy gangs remain rampant in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
Under threat of reversal by the Ninth Circuit, Federal Judge Michael Liburdi reversed last Friday’s ruling that vigilantes who were intimidating voters at ballot drop boxes were protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech.
A federal judge denied a request for an injunction against fascists who are intimidating voters at Arizona ballot drop boxes, ruling that the First Amendment protects their threatening conduct.
The Supreme Court invalidated a state tuition subsidy program for rural students that excludes religious indoctrination, further dismantling the wall of separation between church and state.
The Supreme Court has ruled that immigrants detained for six months or longer have no right to request a bail hearing and Border Patrol agents cannot be sued by US citizens for excessive force.
Villanueva announced Tuesday the criminal investigation of the Los Angeles Times reporter responsible for articles exposing his personal role in covering up a video depicting deputy violence similar to the George Floyd murder.
Senate Democrats made little effort to curb the appeals to racism and religious bigotry at the hearings for Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court.
Lee Daniels’ film, with Andra Day, does a disservice to the memory of the music legend.
The LAPD issued several statements via Twitter confirming that a police officer had filed a personnel complaint regarding a valentine making fun of the 2020 Minneapolis police killing.
A body camera recording released by the Modesto Police Department in California shows an unarmed man gunned down, and then shot a second time while trying to surrender with his hands raised.
Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva continues to lay blame on demonstrators and critics for the shooting of two deputies one week ago by a still unidentified assailant.
After the shooting of two deputy sheriffs by an unknown gunman in Compton, California, Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva threatened anti-police violence protesters and deputies roughed up and arrested a local reporter.
Today, fans throughout the world are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Charlie Parker, an inventor of bebop and one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz.
COVID-19 has claimed the life of Lee Konitz, one of the foremost improvisers of post-war jazz.
Lindh, an American captured with other foreign Taliban fighters in 2001, was released from a federal penitentiary Thursday, having served his full sentence for carrying arms on behalf of the then government of Afghanistan.
