photography

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Feb 3 2011

Brings the arts to at-risk youth

Annual fundraiser helps make after-school programs possible
Hands for Hope (H4H) is an after-school and single-parent resource program based in the North Hollywood music and arts district. H4H serves predominantly low-income minority youth by providing a safe and supportive environment where at-risk youth are nurtured and given room to evolve.

Joseph Wright  |   OW Senior Staff Writer
Apr 15 2010

Highland High School crime scene unit class knows about it.

Palmdale, CA - Used motor oil, busted television sets, worn-out sofas, abandoned cars and shredded tires. If it has been illegally abandoned in the Antelope Valley, the Highland High School crime scene unit class knows about it.

Jun 18 2009

Book, show delves into photographer’s essence

 Los Angeles, CA -- In two decades of marriage, it is inevitable that a couple learn something from one another.

What Deborah Charles learned from her late husband, Roland, was nothing physical, yet it had a profound, almost spiritual, impact on her life.

May 7 2009

Alvin Burton exhibit at the Washington Irving Library

 Los Angeles, CA -- Alvin Burton began to seriously pursue photography in 1944, the year he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles.

The L.A. native started his journey with the now iconic Speed Graphic camera, the industry standard for press photographers for half a century.

Feb 7 2009

Local photog gained international acclaim

California native Steve Grayson was born July 12, 1960 and died on Jaunuary 26, 2008. Steve’s passion for photography brought him to WireImage, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Allsport USA and also served as contributing/contract photographer for the Associated Press, United Press International, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters News Pictures.

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.