Los Angeles

Jun 12 2009

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

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.

The 74th Annual Choir Director’s Organists’ Guild Workshop is held simultaneously, with Dr. Roland M. Carter as director. Dr. Carter is the professor of music at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee, and the president of the National Association of Negro Musicians.

Jun 11 2009

Teen shot in front yard

Hawthorne, CA -- Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators are searching for two suspects who fatally shot a teen who was standing in his yard.

The incident occurred in the 13300 block of Cordary Avenue in Hawthorne.

A sheriff’s department spokesman said that the boy was lifting weights in his front yard Monday when a dark colored vehicle pulled up. Two people exited the vehicle and asked where the victim was from. They then searched his pockets.

Jun 11 2009

Run-offs set for June 16

Inglewood, CA -- George Dotson and Danny Tabor have been here before. The two veteran Inglewood leaders are once again facing one another for a chance to represent residents of the first district on the city council.

Now they are competing once again for the council seat during the June 16 election and this match is winner take all. Also included on this ballot are the run-off races for Inglewood School District board seats.
 
Inglewood City Council

Jun 11 2009

NNPA Special Correspondence

 New York, NY -- On the 45th anniversary of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has honored Microsoft Corporation for excellence in diversity at its 10th Annual A. Leon Higginbotham Award Dinner in New York June 3rd.

Jun 5 2009

Owners of substandard buildings to be held accountable

AB 2925, targeting owners of substandard properties by holding them accountable has passed the Assembly.

The bill’s author, Assemblyman Mike Davis (AD48), states that AB2925 will require an owner of a property that is uninhabitable or otherwise found to be in substandard condition, to provide their local enforcement agency with current contact information and a plan of correction.

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.