Baldwin Hills

Ribbon cutter
OW Staff
Oct 11 2012

Black Wings Children’s Museum

Kathy Crowe, principal of Windsor Hills Elementary, a math/science/aerospace magnet school in Baldwin Hills, cuts the ribbon on a new museum, Black Wings Children’s Museum, at the school dedicated to the exploration of Blacks in the aerospace industry.

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Home and car break-ins put Baldwin Hills on alert
Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jul 26 2012

Homeowners association to put surveillance cameras in place

Since the start of summer, while many families are enjoying vacations, time off from school, and great weather, the residents in the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles are enduring a spike in property crimes, ranging from home burglaries to vehicle break-ins. The community has banded together and partnered with the Los Angeles Police Department to remedy the problem through the Baldwin Hills Surveillance Project.

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Fracking: another view
David Quast  |   OW Guest Contributor
Jul 26 2012

Fear of falling into hydraulic fracturing

Merdies Hayes’ July 19 article (“Is Baldwin Hills ‘Fracking Up’?”) helps stir up anxiety about a hydraulic fracturing, but fails to provide context, or scientific facts, needed for Our Weekly readers to understand that this anxiety is unfounded and is being manufactured by out-of-state activists opposed to all oil and gas exploration.

Activists like Food & Water Watch of Washington, D.C., have been drafting purely symbolic resolutions across the country as a way to push an end to domestic oil and natural gas production.

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Is Baldwin Hills ‘fracking up’?
Merdis Hayes
Jul 19 2012

Some groups fret over likelihood of a major disaster

Fracking. It is a non-euphonius term that rhymes with cracking and whose sound connotes all kinds of unpleasant thoughts. But to certain residents of the Los Angeles area it is much more than just a unpleasant sound; it’s an oil-company practice that many in the nation and around the world consider both highly destructive and life-threatening, so much so that the Los Angeles City Council has passed a resolution against it, Culver City has called for a statewide ban against it, and at least one Assembly bill has been proposed limiting the practice. But it continues.

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Protesters fill the City Council chamber, but cannot sway the vote
Stanley O. Williford  |   OW Editor
Mar 22 2012

Members approve the maps 13 to 2

Richard G. Moore, a retired Los Angeles school teacher, told an early-morning special meeting of the Los Angeles City Council’s Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee that as a 50-year resident of Baldwin Hills he felt the redistricting maps had violated the 14th Amendment, which guarantees due process, equal protection and in fact was the amendment that made Black people citizens.

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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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