Features

Jun 12 2008

California offers landmark worker legislation

Working class citizens of California have an opportunity to secure their financial futures, compliments of legislation recently approved by the California State Assembly and now working its way through the Senate.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Jun 12 2008

LAUSD approves budget and furloughs

With the specter of a $350 million funding shortfall looming, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Board of Education, Tuesday passed a provisional budget that slices $80 million from the central office (which represents 18 percent of the entire budget); requires most employees to take furlough days; defers the purchase of textbooks, and delays program improvements like future class-size reduction.

Jun 12 2008

HELP FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS

 The following numbers can be contacted for drug and alcohol assistance.

Jun 12 2008

The Most Rt. Rev. Charles E. Blake will be honored this week at the 94th Annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference.

 held on the Hampton University campus in Virginia.

Jun 12 2008

June 12
Wills & Trusts.

Seminar on wills, trusts and health care directives. Speaker Att. Joseph C. Girard. St. Bernadette Cath. Ch., 3825 Don Felipe Dr., L.A. Noon. FREE. (310) 823-3943. 

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.