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Our Features

Dec 20 2012

The sorority celebrates its centennial in Rose parade

When you watch the Tournament of Roses parade on Jan. 1, there will be a moment when history is being made. That moment will come when a float celebrating the 100th anniversary of Delta Sigma Theta sorority comes into view.

The 55-foot-long and 17-foot-high float, themed “Transforming Communities Through Sisterhood and Service” designed and built by Fiesta Parade Floats, represent the first time ever that an African American Greek-letter organization has entered a float in the 124-year-old Rose parade.

Kianna Shann  |   OW Contributor
Dec 13 2012

OurWeekly’s helpful guide to gift-giving

You take time to select the perfect Noble fir, dashing from one tree lot to another to find the exact look and size. Then you search all over for the proper lights and hand-crafted ornaments to adorn your tree.

Norman Richmond  |   OW Contributor
Dec 6 2012

Hailed one of the greatest R&B crooners, his early death is still being lamented

It may be that no one who is willing to talk knows the true circumstances of the death of R&B singer Jesse Belvin nearly 53 years ago, but the suspicion abounds that he and his wife were murdered.
Had he lived, Belvin would turn 80 on Dec. 15.

What is known is that Belvin, his wife JoAnn and their driver were involved in a horrific head-on collision in Hope, Ark., on Feb. 6, 1960, about four hours after the singer completed a concert in Little Rock, the state capital.

Hazel Trice Edney | Trice Edney News Wire  |   OW Guest Contributor
Nov 29 2012

George Fraser spoke at State of the Black World Conference

There are more than 9,000 Black public officials in America, yet African Americans remain at the rock bottom of every negative statistic in crime, health, economics and education.

This is the reason that one lecturer and award-winning author says the Black community must pay equal attention to business ownership, economic development and wealth as it does to political empowerment.

Stanley O. Williford  |   OW Editor
Nov 29 2012

The builder’s family aids in the work’s production

It was through the Leimert Park Book Fair that author and book fair founder Cynthia E. Exum was contacted to do the definitive book on Leimert Park. Arcadia Publishing, a well-known publisher of local history books, asked her to consider the project.

“I thought it was a wonderful offshoot of what I do at the book fair,” said Exum, who also felt it dovetailed nicely with her background in urban planning. Her partner in the venture would be retired librarian and Our Authors Study Club member Joyce Sumbi.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.