Jun 12 2009

Hundreds gather to say ‘goodbye’ to victim of police gunfire

It was a death that stunned residents in Los Angeles and captured news headlines when 19-year-old Michael Wood Byoune was fatally shot on May 11 in the parking lot of Rally’s burgers at Manchester and Crenshaw Boulevards.

Byoune was allegedly slain by police gunfire as he sat in a friend’s car at the Rally’s hamburger stand at Manchester Blvd. about 1:40 a.m. Byoune was shot four times in what is being ruled an officer-involved shooting by an Inglewood police officer.

Jun 12 2009

Rev. Charles E. Blake will be honored this week at the 94th Annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference

The Most Rt. Rev. Charles E. Blake will be honored this week at the 94th Annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference. held on the Hampton University campus in Virginia.

The 74th Annual Choir Director’s Organists’ Guild Workshop is held simultaneously, with Dr. Roland M. Carter as director. Dr. Carter is the professor of music at the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee, and the president of the National Association of Negro Musicians.

Jun 11 2009

Teen shot in front yard

Hawthorne, CA -- Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators are searching for two suspects who fatally shot a teen who was standing in his yard.

The incident occurred in the 13300 block of Cordary Avenue in Hawthorne.

A sheriff’s department spokesman said that the boy was lifting weights in his front yard Monday when a dark colored vehicle pulled up. Two people exited the vehicle and asked where the victim was from. They then searched his pockets.

Jun 11 2009

Run-offs set for June 16

Inglewood, CA -- George Dotson and Danny Tabor have been here before. The two veteran Inglewood leaders are once again facing one another for a chance to represent residents of the first district on the city council.

Now they are competing once again for the council seat during the June 16 election and this match is winner take all. Also included on this ballot are the run-off races for Inglewood School District board seats.
 
Inglewood City Council

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Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
May 9 2013

Working to get others involved in educating young Black men

The Motivated Men of Dorsey High School is a nonprofit organization committed to community collaboration and social responsibility through its efforts to prepare the young men at Dorsey High School to be effective communicators, critical thinkers and life-long learners. As a collaborative of alumni, parents, faculty, staff and community members, the organization’s objective is to foster positive relationships with the young men in an effort to close the achievement gap, increase test scores, and lead them to a successful high school experience.

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