The President of the United States of America, Barack H. Obama, signed into law a new health care reform bill that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans.
It was a long time coming. Almost 100 years. The construction of health care reform in America started at the root with a need for the world’s richest nation to do something very fundamental in fulfilling a basic right to provide treatment for the sick, the infirm and the aging.

The Crenshaw/Expo Line light rail project, part of Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)’s  long-awaited railway to the LAX Airport, finally “turned dirt” this week, nearly 25 years after it was first proposed. Rail transit has been a kicker for economic development throughout the region. It will be the largest economic development project in the history of South Los Angeles at $1.7 billion and will create 7,800 jobs in what may be one of the most economically depressed areas of the city.

There has been much ado about the very public feud television commentator Tavis Smiley is having with civil rights activist Al Sharpton over Tavis’ criticism of Black leadership reportedly saying that President Barack Obama doesn’t need a “Black agenda” after recently visiting the White House. It’s caused a firestorm of controversy  and a revival of the annual State of the Black Union conference that Smiley had discontinued.

The first round of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Public Choice Resolution was completed last week, where it was determined who would operate 30 new and existing school sites. The Public Choice Resolution was a backdoor game from jump street, as several of the school board members passed the resolution to get more charter school operators in the district, particularly those who have LAUSD school board members on their board of directors. Inherent in the conflicts was the opportunity for communities to take control of their failing schools and the dismal test score outcomes.