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Bills that kill jobs and harm the environment
Adrian Love  |   OW Contributor
Apr 18 2013

SB 405 and AB 158

Civil rights, religious and local community groups are being forced once again to the front lines to protect low income and poor families as another attempt has been launched to tax and ban plastic grocery bags in California. The African American community should oppose Senate Bill 405 (Padilla) and Assembly Bill 158 (Levine), legislation that would ban plastic bags statewide and cause a negative impact on the economy, the residents of California and the environment.

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Our Weekly backs Wendy Greuel
OW Staff
Apr 18 2013

Visible involvement with the Black community

Mayor Tom Bradley has a good name in the city of Los Angeles, as well as in the Black community, and mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel has undoubtedly gained traction by using it.

In an interview with Our Weekly, published June 28, 2012, she spoke of receiving the Tom Bradley youth leadership award when she was a 17-year-old student at John Kennedy High in Granada Hills. That led to her serving on Bradley’s youth council for two years and an internship in his administration while a student at UCLA. After that, she worked on his staff for 10 years.

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Women: power of purchasing
Cheryl Pearson-McNeil  |   OW Contributor
Apr 18 2013

Expected to soon control two-thirds of U.S. consumer wealth

Depending on the day, what you’re reading or who you’re listening to, the economy is either still in the tank, in recovery, getting worse or is on the upswing. Whatever the fluctuating state of the American economy, money is being spent. And, guess what, ladies? The economic oil that keeps the wheels and workings of our world turning is largely controlled by us.

Want to know just how much purchasing power we pack in our purses? Any guesses?

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Don’t be offended by ‘Accidental Racist’
CNN News Service
Apr 11 2013

"The song is bad."

In 2009, Brad Paisley released the song “Welcome to the Future” from his album “American Saturday Night.”

In it, he sings about all the cultural changes he’s witnessed in his life, including the evolving demographics of the country. He includes glowing references to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. The election of Barack Obama inspired him to write it.

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Who bears the burden of unemployment?
Julianne Malveaux  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Apr 11 2013

Counting the Cost

Unemployment rates were “little changed” in March 2013; they were either holding steady or dropping by a tenth of a percentage point or so. The unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 to 7.6 percent representing a steady, if painstakingly slow, decrease. This declining unemployment rate was reported with some circumspection because even as the rate dropped, nearly half a million people left the labor market, presumably because they could not find work.

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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.

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