African American News

Trayvon Martin’s family settles with homeowners association
CNN News Service
Apr 5 2013

Zimmerman awaiting trial

The parents of Trayvon Martin have settled a wrongful death claim against the homeowners association of the Florida neighborhood where the teenager was fatally shot, the Orlando Sentinel reported Friday.

The report of the settlement comes more than 13 months after neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Martin in Zimmerman’s neighborhood in Sanford, Florida.

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Reggie Theus named Cal State Northridge men’s basketball coach
City News Service
Apr 4 2013

Boasts impressive resume

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — Former NBA star and coach Reggie Theus was named today as Cal State Northridge’s men’s basketball coach in what athletic director Brandon E. Martin called “a game-changing hire.”

“His pedigree as an NBA player and coach, as well his ability to elevate a college program made him stand out from a competitive pool of candidates,” Martin said.

Theus succeeds Bobby Braswell, who was fired March 19 after 17 seasons as the Matadors’ coach.

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Bob Teague, a trailblazer in TV, dead at 84
CNN News Wire
Apr 4 2013

'Smart, competitive, driven’

Bob Teague, one of New York’s first Black television reporters, has died. He was 84.

His former employers WNBC and The New Tork Times reported that Teague died Thursday. His wife, Jan, told the Times that he lost his battle with T-cell lymphoma.

Teague left the Times to join WNBC in 1963. In its April 18 issue that year, Jet magazine noted that with Teague’s hiring, all three television networks had pulled even with “Negro newswriters.” Mal Goode was at ABC and Ben Holman at CBS.

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Across Black America
Apr 4 2013

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 
California
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) announced that the Los Angeles City Council has confirmed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s appointment of the Rev. Kevin Sauls to LAHSA’s Board of Commissioners. Sauls is senior pastor at Holman United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles. He is also an ordained elder in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. He serves as a mentor, coach and advocate in the areas of transformational leadership, multicultural/ethnic/racial/lingual congregational development, community and economic development, and justice ministries for equality and dignity.
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The courtyard at the California African American Museum (CAAM) will be filled with dazzling style and creativity during the annual fashion show, “Haute Couture with Hatitude.” Taking place during Target Sundays at CAAM on April 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Haute Couture with Hatitude” will be co-hosted by performing artist and choreographer, Ingrid Graham and actor Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter. This marks CAAM’s 9th annual “Hatitude” event where guests have the opportunity to showcase unique hats from their personal collections, as well as designing them while attending the event. Mauva Gaciua, a wardrobe stylist for StarHold Images, will lead a special fashion show.

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

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Magic Johnson supports son ‘in every way’
CNN News Wire
Apr 3 2013

“We’re very proud of him”

Magic Johnson loves his kids, no matter whom his kids choose to love.

The 53-year-old basketball legend and co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers said as much to TMZ after the celebrity website posted a video of Johnson’s son, Earvin Johnson III, out in Los Angeles with his reported boyfriend.

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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.

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