Politics
The Exonerated Five, once known as the Central Park Five, speaking at the Democratic National Convention, laid out a history of Donald Trump that has always favored vengeance over justice and racism over fact.
Aug. 22, 2024
Sports
Rashaan Salaam accomplished the improbable, rising from playing 8-man football at La Jolla Country Day in San Diego to win the Heisman Trophy in 1994.
Dec. 6, 2016
Rashaan Salaam accomplished the improbable, rising from playing 8-man football at La Jolla Country Day to becoming the fourth San Diegan to win the Heisman Trophy in 1994.
Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam killed himself after struggling with depression, an autopsy report confirmed Thursday, but investigators will never know whether the one-time running back suffered chronic head trauma from playing football because his family did not consent to those tests.
Dec. 29, 2016
Music
June 19, 2019
Salaam Remi & Terrace Martin, “Northside of Linden, Westside of Slauson” (Flying Buddha / Louder than Life).
World & Nation
Black leaders saw irony in Trump railing against his guilty verdict in a courthouse where the Central Park Five were wrongly convicted in a case he backed.
June 1, 2024
Tanzania’s prime minister says flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others.
April 25, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
“Musical theater can’t just go on and on being revivals and compilation shows,” Andrew Lloyd Webber muses.
Aug. 4, 2002
He grew up in San Diego, won the Heisman Trophy, was a first-round draft pick projected to be a star running back in the NFL, and now -- partly because marijuana was his constant companion -- his football career is kaput.
July 30, 2004