L.A. Kings to host events in honor of Black History Month
Will also promote street hockey
Today, Feb. 16, the Los Angeles Kings will feature three original Tuskegee Airmen (the first African American military aviators) as their “Heroes of the Game,” and will split 100 tickets between Brotherhood Crusade and Challengers Boys and Girls Club. Additionally, on Friday, Feb. 17, the Kings will conduct a Street Knights Clinic at Challengers Club.
In an effort to promote physical fitness and to help fight urban childhood obesity, the Kings alumni and current players will host a street hockey clinic and offer instruction on the game. Two street hockey rinks will be set up, as well as the Kings Puck Shoot. The Kings will also donate a set of street hockey equipment to both Challengers Club and Brotherhood Crusade.
“It’s important that the Los Angeles Kings both celebrate and raise awareness about the diversity of our sport, both on and off the ice as we promote physical fitness,” said Jonathan Lowe, Kings vice president of marketing. “In our third year of this event, we are striving to continue to demonstrate our commitment to celebrating the achievements of significant African Americans in the NHL, and let people know that hockey is truly for everyone.”
Inner-city youth aren’t to be confused with your average crop of zesty youngsters.
Sure, some have the admirable, albeit normal, aspiration to graduate from college, and many others have an equally common affinity for music, fashion and/or the latest sure-fire phenomenon, reality TV.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The planned sale of Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns Staples Center, L.A. Live and the Los Angeles Kings and is the driving force behind plans to build an NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles, was halted today.
AEG Chairman Philip Anschutz, said he plans to take a more active role in the company, while Tim Leiweke, AEG’s president/CEO who has often been the local face of the company, will be leaving “by mutual agreement.”
For the past 21 years the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) has been entertaining us with films, not only from America but around the world. For many of us it was our first look at films made for and by Blacks from Africa and other parts of the world. And 21 years later it continues to be an eye-opening experience that has helped broaden our scope of the world and the roles people of African descent play.
Carter G. Woodson’s initial 1926 “Negro History Week” included both the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. But even the now-expanded monthlong commemoration is too short to contain all the exciting goings-on. Case in point—the Pan African Film Festival.
Think Paris, and the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées and haute couture come to mind. But the City of Light also is rich in African American history. Keeping this history alive are tour companies that share it, up close and personal, with visitors to France.
