Los Angeles, CA -- With her light brown dreadlocks, colorful Afrocentric dress and ivory bangles that tinkle when she walks, no one would guess that Asantewa Olatunji is one of the powerhouses behind the annual Pan African Film Festival, the largest African American film festival in the country.

Los Angeles, CA -- The Bus Riders Union (BRU) last Friday launched a series of actions designed to urge the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to use some of the $700 million the agency is expected to receive in federal stimulus funds as well as proceeds from voter-approved Measure R to expand the bus fleet, reduce the 2007 fare increases and to develop a county-wide bus-only project.

The action comes in the wake of the release of a report by MTA on what the agency plans to do with the 20% of the Measure R money allocated to improving the bus system.