Mar 19 2009

General Manager-Pan African Film Festival

 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.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Mar 19 2009

Through Measure R funds

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.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Mar 19 2009

Chief Executive Officer-YWCA Greater Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA -- Avocation meeting vocation: That is how Faye Washington views her position as chief executive officer for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of the Greater Los Angeles.

She took on the job after retiring from the City of Los Angeles in 1998, where the Los Angeles native worked 32 years and moved up the ranks from a clerk to becoming the highest ranking African American woman in a number of areas in the city government.

Mar 19 2009

Teen identity theft, raising emancipation age

 Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has asked for a report on cases of identity theft targeting foster youths and ways to protect teenage wards of the county.

Supervisor Michael Antonovich asked for the report, on Tuesday, in light of a recently passed state law that requires county welfare agencies to ask for credit checks on foster youths who are 16 or older and to refer them to credit counseling groups if the credit check turns up negative information.

Honor Roll

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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