Kevin Johnson

Obama came under muted criticism — most of it from Republicans — in 2009 when he fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who had pursued an investigation of Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star and mayor of Sacramento, California. The administration even questioned Walpin’s mental capacities in defending the decision.

Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks Coffee, will reportedly step down as the company’s executive chairman on June 26. 

Megyn Kelly — host of NBC’s ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ — took aim at Starbucks’ new policy on Tuesday, allowing anyone to use its bathrooms regardless of whether they made a purchase.

Rapper T.I. has joined in calls for a boycott of Starbucks after two black men were arrested at one of the coffer giant’s Philadelphia locations.

The political activist who threw a coconut cream pie in Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s face last week did not enter a plea during his arraignment hearing on Monday, and has demanded that the charges against him be dropped.

Mayors from five California cities on Friday signed a letter urging Congress not to reject vetted refugees, including those from Syria, that seek to come to the United States.

On Tuesday, beleaguered Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson announced he will not seek reelection for a third term.

Despite the fact that a law firm investigating a sexual harassment claim against Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson found it unsubstantiated, the same law firm wrote a memo to the city attorney warning Johnson should “be advised as to how his actions (i.e. hugging and being flirty) are being perceived by some city employees,” and that he should “refrain from hugging or touching anyone in the workplace or at city-related events.”

On Tuesday, Kerri Asbury, chairwoman of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County, called on Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson to resign.

ESPN suddenly canceled the nationwide release of a film lauding Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson after a video was released showing a teenaged girl whom Johnson has been accused of having molested nearly 20 years ago.

The girl who may have been the first in a series of alleged sexual assaults perpetrated by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is finally going public with her story, 19 years after Johnson allegedly molested her when she was 15 years old.

The Sacramento NAACP has blasted the Sacramento News & Review, the same weekly newspaper that requested emails Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted kept secret, for running a cover featuring a cartoon of Johnson that the NAACP says is racist.

Despite his best efforts to suppress the evidence, information divulged by thousands of emails suggest that Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson may have used his aides and volunteers to cement a coup in the National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM).

Johnson filed a restraining order request against the city of Sacramento to prevent the Sacramento News and Review from gaining access to e-mails he sent as mayor. Johnson claims that the release would harm him and the National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM), of which he was once vice president and president. He named the NCBM as a co-plaintiff.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a Democrat who has praised Barack Obama for his efforts to “improve policing” in America and lauded him by saying “he’s hip, he’s a smooth president,” decided to flatter a GOP candidate for president on Monday, praising Ben Carson in Sacramento at a gathering of Johnson’s “Indivizible” African-American empowerment organization.