Honor Roll

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Apr 21 2011

Sonsonate Grill denied license

For decades, residents of South Los Angeles have suffered from an over-concentration of stores that sell liquor. While many community-based organizations have sought to address the problem, few have been successful.

This history, however, did not discourage local resident Bruce Patton from fighting the attempt by Sonsonate Grill—a restaurant in close proximity to his home—to secure a liquor license that would allow them to sell a full line of alcoholic beverages.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Apr 14 2011

P.S. ARTS

P.S. ARTS recently announced the launch of the Take PART (Public School Arts Regional Team) program in the Lawndale, Lennox, and Wiseburn Los Angeles County school districts. Take PART is an expansion of the Lawndale district arts initiative that has been supported with $1.7 million in grants from the Herb Alpert Foundation, and its goal is to facilitate arts education programs to benefit students and families in the districts. P.S. ARTS will lead the Take PART task force with school district leaders and other community stakeholders.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Apr 7 2011

Renewing Your Spirit reaches 250 ladies in red

Born and raised in Southern California, Erinn Davenport is an entrepreneur to the core. That’s obvious by all the enterprises she lays claim to. She is owner of Erinn’s Creations Inc., which houses KEBN Online Radio Network, Unlimited Outreach Christian Programming, Treat Yourself Travel Agency, and Oak Tree Tours, and is also the founder of Renewing Your Spirit and ‘R’ Girls Social Network.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Mar 31 2011

Providing support for prisoners and their families

A group of lifers made a pledge when they left prison after 22-30 years that they would begin the process of restoring to the community some of what they took decades before. As these men came out of prison they formed an organization with the intent of doing their part to ensure that youngsters would steer clear of the path that led them into destructive lives which were full of bad choices. That organization was the Fair Chance Project, which is a program of FACTS-Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Mar 24 2011

Morningside High School uses theater to create change

Inglewood’s Morningside High School (MHS) had not had a drama department for more than a decade but that changed in September of 2010, when Joshua Grant-Konegni was hired as the new director of the school’s department of theater.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Mar 17 2011

The Company Store gives back for 100th anniversary

In recognition of The Company Store’s 100th anniversary, representatives recently announced the launch of it’s Kids’ Design Contest, a program geared at inspiring creativity while supporting art education and charitable work among America’s youth. Under this initiative, The Company Store will accept original artwork from children 12 years and under, and then select one winning piece, whose design will be transformed into a comforter print for their ongoing Buy One, Give One (BOGO) comforter donation program.

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.