Veterans

Nov 24 2010

Program offered at UCLA

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—With the national unemployment rate hovering around 10 percent, many recent veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are finding it increasingly difficult to compete for jobs in the civilian workforce. 
 
If they’re disabled, the task is even more daunting. However, some disabled vets are finding a way to create their own job opportunities through a unique business boot camp offered at colleges and universities around the country. 
 

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Sep 23 2010

Three-day event provides valuable services

The city of Compton, the United States Veterans Inc. and other organizations are partnering, to provide assistance to local homeless veterans as part of their seventh annual Homeless Veterans Stand Down program.

Stand Down helps local veterans in need by providing services, support, information and assistance to enhance their quality of life. Volunteers and service providers offer clothing, sleeping supplies such as blankets and pillows, coats, food, health care, vision care, dental care, referrals to temporary and permanent housing, and other services.

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.