Notable Stories
Express humorist Alice Kahn claimed to have coined the word "yuppie" in a 1983 column. This claim is disputed, but no definitive origin for the word has been determined.
In 2002, the paper's coverage played a crucial role in uncovering the Your Black Muslim Bakery scandal.
The Express placed actor Gary Coleman on the ballot for governor in the 2003 California recall election as a satirical comment on the recall of Democratic Governor Gray Davis.
In February 2009, the paper uncovered an alleged extortion scam by the user review website Yelp, Inc.. After the story's publication, several lawsuits were filed against the company.
A 2005 profile of the environmentalist Van Jones noted that he had, in his youth, identified as a "communist" and been a member of the activist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or stories:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)