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 A new exhibit explores the pain and pride of the Black experience in New Rochelle. New Rochelle is focusing on the future with record downtown development, even as a new exhibit acknowledges those who laid its very foundation . "When the French Huguenots, the Protestants fleeing their homeland , first came to New Rochelle, they brought enslaved individuals with them," City Historian Barbara Davis said. "The enslaved individuals that did the heavy lifting." Davis worked with the New Rochelle Council on the Arts to produce the extensive exhibit called "New Rochelle's Black History," which covers four centuries of local Black history.

  LL Cool J Says It Hasn't Been 'Hard' Saying Goodbye to 'NCIS: LA' (Exclusive) LL Cool J is opening up about saying goodbye to NCIS: LA.  The star of the outgoing CBS procedural spoke with ET's Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner on the GRAMMYs carpet on Sunday about closing one chapter of his career. On Jan. 20, CBS announced that the current 14th season would be NCIS: LA's last. "Well, I gotta tell you it's not hard at all," LL Cool J told ET about wrapping up the show. "CBS did an amazing thing with us; it's been an amazing run. We talking about 14 years. We not talking about two-and-a-half, three years and 'Oh it was fun while it lasted.' This was 14 years." "So, I think that the show has done tremendous numbers. I mean, our last [NCIS] crossover did tremendous numbers," he said, referencing the Jan. 9 three-show crossover between NCIS, NCIS: LA and NCIS: Hawaii. "I couldn't complain, I have nothing....