Los Angeles World Airports

Apr 22 2013

Air traffic controllers furloughed

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Delays were reported at airports in the Southland and around the nation today as a result of the furloughing of air traffic controllers under federal sequestration budget cuts.

The average delay Sunday night was three hours in the Southern California Terminal Radius Approach Control (TRACON), according to National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokesman Doug Church.

Apr 4 2013

Must apply online

Los Angeles World Airports’ (LAWA) First Source Hiring Program is coordinating the first job fair for airport tenants planning to hire hundreds of employees for the new restaurant and retail complex opening this summer in the new Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

HMS Host will interview applicants for 125 fast-food attendant/cashier positions at the LAX Targeted Recruitment Job Fair to be held Saturday, April 6.

Mar 14 2013

March 30 conference planned

The Black Business Association of Los Angeles hosts its 2013 Salute to Black Women business conference, vendor fair and awards luncheon Saturday, March 30, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel.

The event is part of the national celebration of women’s history month and the theme is “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination.” The goal is to celebrate women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

May 24 2012

Remembering Bradley’s contribution to the airport

Rising about 132 feet above the tarmac, the new Tom Bradley terminal at Los Angeles International Airport—or el-a-ex (LAX), as it is more popularly known—evokes thoughts of a cresting wave breaking to the west. The new terminal is part of a $4.11 billion upgrade of one of the world’s busiest airports.

It could easily be symbolic of the great wave of prosperity and growth that swept over the city during Bradley’s 20-year term as mayor, from 1973 to 1993.

May 1 2012

Surgically implanted bombs suspected

Amid reports that terrorists may try to use surgically implanted bombs to get past security checkpoints, security was expected to be heightened at Los Angeles International Airport and other Southland airports today, May 1, on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”