LA Clippers

Apr 11 2013

Opening of Clippers FIT Campus Playground

About 250 youths, adults and officials gathered at St. Andrews Recreation Center on Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the third Clippers FIT Campus Playground. The center, at 8701 St. Andrews Place in Los Angeles, was refurbished in conjunction with the Clippers NBA Basketball team, the California Endowment and Kia Motors, the Seoul, Korea-based automotive company. Three Clippers players—Eric Bledsoe, Willie Green and Ronny Turiaf—plus four members of the Clippers Spirit Dance team attended the ceremony. St.

Sep 25 2012

Matt Barnes

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Matt Barnes pleaded no contest today to misdemeanor unlicensed driver and resisting arrest charges.

The 32-year-old basketball player—who has signed with the Clippers—was immediately sentenced to two years probation, ordered to complete 30 hours of community service and attend anger management classes for three months, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Anthony Asadullah Samad, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
May 21 2009

Los Angeles NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award: Still crazy (controversial) after all these years

I had a déjà vu moment last week while watching Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, receive the Los Angeles NAACP Chapter’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Watching Sterling try to find the words of why he merited the award was like watching George Wallace try to convince Black voters that he had changed from his segregationist ways in the 1972 Presidential election.

May 14 2009

Elgin Baylor lawsuit claims racial discrimination by real estate mogul

Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles branch of the NAACP will honor Donald T. Sterling, Clippers owner and alleged racist, with one of the organization’s highest accolades. On May 14 at the Roy Wilkins Freedom Fund Awards Gala, Sterling will be given the Humanitarian Award. The honor is granted to community activists, contributors, and those who have shown outstanding leadership in the campaign for civil rights. The event will be held at 5:45 p.m. at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown L.A.

May 7 2009

SportsBeat 5-7-09

Notes, quotes and things picked up on the run from coast-to-coast and all the stops in between and beyond.

Locally fans are glad Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers are facing Yao Ming and his Houston Rockets rather than the Nate McMillian coached Portland Trailblazers. For years and especially this season the Trailblazers have virtually owned the Lakers.

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.