Inglewood Church of Scientology dedicated
Religious services and humanitarian initiatives
David Miscavige, from left, chairman of the board Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of Scientology, who officiated at the dedication of the new Church of Scientology of Inglewood; Skipp Townsend, executive director 2nd Call, the gang intervention group; NAACP Los Angeles Branch President Leon Jenkins; Inglewood City Councilmember Ralph Franklin; Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks and the Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, former pastor of First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles and now professor of religious studies at USC. Church members, guests and city officials gathered for the dedication of a new Church of Scientology and community center. The church is located at 315 S. Market St. in Inglewood, while the community center is located at 8039 S. Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. “Together this church and community center provide for all Scientology religious services as well as its many humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs for the benefit of Inglewood and South Los Angeles,” said a church press statement.
Two community-based groups will attempt to take Los Angeles County government to task today for overlookinglong-simmering problems they say have not been dealt with.
Community members and residents of the area near the Baldwin Hills oil field, as well as the members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance, will hold a press conference in the Ladera Soccer Field today (Thursday) from 10 to10:45 a.m. over a five-year-old complaint concerning noxious fumes that they believe may be a health and safety hazard.
Fifty years ago, Nation of Islam Muslims Monroe X Jones and Fred X Jingles were reportedly taking a garment bag from their vehicle outside Mosque, No. 27, at 56th Street and Broadway late on the evening of April 27, 1962, when LAPD officers Frank Tomlinson and Stanley Kensic pulled up in their police cruiser and questioned the two men. The officers frisked the men and asked where the clothes came from.
States around the nation, in an effort to address what they allege are two issues of major concern—the flow of undocumented immigrants into their environs and the level of illegal voting—have passed a number of controversial laws that are galvanizing opponents.
In Alabama, the state Legislature is currently revisiting its anti-illegal immigration law House Bill 56 and has presented a list of revisions it plans to use to tweak the legislation passed in 2011.
COLUMBIA, S.C.—The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and individual Black college students have moved to join a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of South Carolina’s so-called discriminatory voting law.
Newt Gingrich is playing racial politics, and he is playing to win. First, he says that Black children should get jobs as janitors (Why not suggest they get the same consulting contract he did at Freddie Mac? I’m with Mitt Romney here. What did Gingrich tell Freddie Mac that was worth more than a million dollars?).
