Los Angeles Southwest College

David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Dec 9 2010

Practical Politics

Every year since 2002 the community-based group, Reparations United Front, RUF, has presented a comprehensive report to Southern California residents regarding the state of the reparations movement. This year that report will be presented on Saturday, from 11 am to 4 p.m., at Los Angeles Southwest College in Lecture Hall LL 103. The presentation is in conjunction with a class assignment for Pol Sci 101, and it is both free and open to the general public.

Brittney M. Walker  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 30 2010

Time to unite

Some would call the state of Black America desperate and dire. But, in order to begin to solve the problems, who do we run to? Where are the solutions? How do we unite? 

Black scholars across the nation believe they have an answer for us. World-renowned scholars and power couple Nathan and Julia Hare, who are both Ph.Ds., founded the Black Think Tank in 1979 in an effort to liberate African American minds and reconstruct the Black community with methods that stemmed directly from the home.

David L. Horne, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Sep 23 2010

Practical Politics

In November 2008 in New Orleans at one of the first major African American oriented conferences after the Obama election, Ron Daniels, Ph.D., the relatively new executive director of the Institute of the Black World, issued a call for the partnering of all progressive Black think tanks in the U.S.A.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Aug 7 2009

School officials to challenge decision

A decision by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) to put Los Angeles Southwest College on probation is being called puzzling and surprising by officials at the school and its governing body, and they are making plans to travel to Novato, Calif., in an attempt to try and change the commission’s action.

The ACCJC commission voted at its June 4-6 meeting to place the South Los Angeles college on probation on the basis of a progress report submitted in 2006 and a visit conducted in March of this year.

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.