May 29 2009

A weekend of peace, love, and music

This Memorial Day weekend, UCLA kicked off its 22nd annual Jazz/Reggae Festival featuring well-known artists The Roots, Goapele, and Stephen Marley. The two day event, held on UCLA’s intramural field, attracted a large and diverse crowd while emphasizing an environmental friendly and socially sustainable atmosphere through the festival’s “go green” ideas.

May 28 2009

by Michele R. Wright, Ph.D., foreword by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D.

Failure is not an option.

When you put your heart and soul into something —a project, a career, a program—you want everything to go right. You don’t want to lose. And you don’t want to give up because nobody wants to fail.

But now you find yourself stuck. You’re at a crossroads. How can you find the guts to stay the course and keep on going in the face of adversity, loss, and a bad economy? You’ll get many words of strength for success when you read Dear Success Seeker, by Michele R. Wright, Ph.D..

May 28 2009

A very dark moment in African American history

Hollywood, CA -- Picture this; 88 years ago, May 31, 1921 to be exact, unsuspecting Black Americans were going about their daily business in one of the most prosperous Black communities in America known as “The Black Wall Street.” In less than 16 hours 300 people would be murdered and more than 10,000 law-abiding citizens would be displaced.

May 21 2009

by Raymond Arsenault

You do it without even thinking about it.

You hum around the house, sing to your babies, to your God, or to the radio. You catch yourself doing it while you’re relaxing with a hobby.

You sing wherever you want to lift up your voice.

In the new book Sound of Freedom (c.2009, Bloomsbury Press, $25.00, 310 pages, includes notes and index), by Raymond Arsenault, you’ll see that it wasn’t always so easy. Sometimes a song is more than just a song.

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