Black Man

May 20 2013

Suspect maybe in Compton, South L.A. or Inglewood

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Los Angeles County probation officers asked for help today in finding a parolee who threatened to kill school children.

Frank Edward Edmonds, 40, who authorities consider “extremely violent and an imminent public threat,” may be in Compton, South Los Angeles or Inglewood, his last known address.

May 14 2013

Lashown Fils had no gang affiliations

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today reestablished a $10,000 reward for information leading to whoever fatally shot a 26-year-old Long Beach resident and left him lying in the street.

Supervisor Don Knabe, who recommended reinstating the reward, which had expired, called the shooting “heinous.”

Lashown Fils was killed on Jan. 11, 2012, at 3:55 a.m. in the 200 block of West 14th Street.

May 9 2013

Memorial service set for Friday

Daniel Lee Jones, a native of Dekalb, Texas, passed away on Thursday, May 2, in Inglewood. He was 71.

He was born to Leonard Clevland Jones and Ida Mae Bailey on Jan. 17, 1942, the third of seven children.

Jones attended Booker T. Washington elementary and high schools. He was active in the high school band and choir.

After graduation, Jones moved to Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles City College and UCLA.

Feb 19 2013

Wildly unreal

 
 

Jan 30 2013

Born in Nazi Germany but became an ex-patriate in the U.S.

It’s unusual to find a Black man who grew up in and survived Nazi Germany, but that is exactly what happened to Hans Massaquoi, who later moved to the United States and became the managing editor at Ebony magazine.

Massaquoi, 87, died Saturday, Jan. 19, his birthday, in Jacksonville, Fla., said his son, Hans Massaquoi Jr. His father, he said, had been hospitalized over the Christmas holidays.

Across Black America

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

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”