Los Angeles

Jun 12 2009

Hundreds gather to say ‘goodbye’ to victim of police gunfire

It was a death that stunned residents in Los Angeles and captured news headlines when 19-year-old Michael Wood Byoune was fatally shot on May 11 in the parking lot of Rally’s burgers at Manchester and Crenshaw Boulevards.

Byoune was allegedly slain by police gunfire as he sat in a friend’s car at the Rally’s hamburger stand at Manchester Blvd. about 1:40 a.m. Byoune was shot four times in what is being ruled an officer-involved shooting by an Inglewood police officer.

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.

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.”