African American News

Shae Collins  |   OW College Intern
Jul 19 2012

Seeks to educate physicians and policymakers

The African American Health Institute of San Bernardino County, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build awareness of health disparities, as well as decrease premature deaths and disabilities among ethnic populations, recently released its statewide African American mental health report entitled, “We Ain’t Crazy! Just Coping With a Crazy System: Pathways into the Black Population for Eliminating Mental Health Disparities.”

Jul 19 2012

Four Tuskegee Airmen get awarded

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich honored four of the original Tuskegee Airmen at a recent meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The fighters—called Tuskegee Airmen because they trained in special “colored” facilities in Tuskegee, Ala.—were actually members of the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group, all-Black portions of the United States Army Air Corps.

Jul 18 2012

Taken to a hospital after falling

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry was taken to a hospital after falling and striking her head on concrete during a film shoot but was released once her injury was determined to be minor, it was reported today.

The 45-year-old Academy Award-winner fell around 10 p.m. Tuesday and was rushed by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to the celebrity news website TMZ.com.

Jul 18 2012

Botched robbery

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Two men charged in the shooting deaths of two USC graduate students from China during a botched robbery pleaded not guilty today to capital murder.

Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, are charged with the April 11 killings of Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23. The electrical engineering students were attacked while they sat in Qu's double-parked 2003 BMW in the 2700 block of Raymond Avenue, not far from the USC campus, during a downpour.

Jul 17 2012

Best in California and Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was ranked as the fifth-best hospital in the nation and the best in California and Los Angeles by U.S. News & World Report, which released its annual medical center rankings today.

The Westwood hospital earned high national rankings in 14 categories, including cancer, gynecology, psychiatry, geriatrics, nephrology, ophthalmology and urology.

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.