Merdies Hayes
Feb 14 2013

Final resting place of many celebrities

Inglewood Park Cemetery has for 108 years been among the premier venues for interment in Southern California. Today, its Garden of Chimes is the newest completed project and provides additional mausoleum space as well as cremation columbarium, family estates and individual lawn crypts.

Feb 8 2013

Children forced into the sex trade

It wasn’t until relatively recently that the Los Angeles County Probation Department reviewed arrest data for prostitution and discovered that child sex abuse is no longer typically a Third World problem associated with immigrants from Mexico, Central America or Southeast Asia. In 2010, almost 200 cases of prostitution referred to the department involved American girls well under the age of 18.

Feb 7 2013

Based in Carson

The Hosanna Broadcasting Foundation has for six years delivered original Christian broadcast programs to some of the world’s most impoverished nations in effort to spread the gospel where it is perhaps least often recognized or accepted.

The foundation, which had a booth in the first West Coast Expo, preaches via satellite to the underserved in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe and on the African continent where scripture, they profess, can provide awareness of God and the life-changing teachings of Jesus Christ.

Feb 1 2013

Sales are skyrocketing in AV and the nation

 “Sales are through the roof,” said David Spillwell, an employee with The Gun Shop in Lancaster. “When Obama was re-elected on his anti-gun agenda, people seemed to go into a sort of panic. This happened when he was first elected—all the anti-gun talk—but it was nothing like it is now.
We can’t keep adequate supply, sales have been so good.”

What has the president wrought?

Jan 17 2013

Many police organizations regretted participation

In what was lauded a few years ago as “ . . . future of immigration enforcement,” local law enforcement agencies are no longer obligated to comply with the Secure Communities Program, a once federally-mandated policy of deporting individuals considered threatening to public safety.

Jan 10 2013

Both the 41st and the 43rd presidents once resided in the city

The last time most Angelenos remember seeing President George Herbert Walker Bush travel through the city’s southside was on May 7, 1992, following the path of the latest Los Angeles riot. Likely during that motorcade, the 41st president passed by his old neighborhood—in Compton.

You read correctly. Compton. The Hub City was the childhood home of baseball greats Ozzie Smith and Eddie Murray, rap stars Snoop Dogg and Ice T, and even actor Kevin Costner. Each hailed from or once resided the city.

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.