Crenshaw

Dominique Barton  |   OW College Intern
Oct 27 2011

Serves Dorsey, Crenshaw, Lennox communities

T.H.E Clinic unveiled its new mobile healthcare van on the Dorsey High School campus Wednesday. Outfitted with two complete treatment rooms and staffed by a physician assistant an/or a nurse practitioner, the van targets teens as well as the general public, and will be open Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at Dorsey High, 3537 Farmdale Ave.; Tuesday and Friday from 9 a.m.-6p.m. at Crenshaw High (5010 11th Ave., Los Angeles); and Thursday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Lennox Library, 4359 Lennox Blvd., Lennox).

Oct 5 2011

Teeters off edge of second floor

CRENSHAW - A car jumped the curbed and drove straight into the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza this morning around 9:15 a.m.  The car came to a rest teetering off of the second floor landing in front of Sears and the Chinese food buffet.  No injuries were reported at the scene.  It was not immediately clear what made the driver drive into the mall.  
 

Sep 18 2011

No injuries reported

A fire broke out in a bungalow at an elementary school in the Crenshaw area, a city fire official said.
 
The fire was reported at 5:31 p.m. at Hillcrest Elementary School, located at 4041 S. Hillcrest Drive, said Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
 
Rescuers arriving at the location reported light smoke showing from the structure, Scott said. With 20 firefighters on the scene, the flames were under control in 14 minutes, he said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
 
No injuries were reported.

Cynthia E. Griffin  |   OW Managing Editor
Jul 7 2011

Changes are a ‘mistake’

According to a new visualization pre-map published last weekend by the California Redistricting Commission, (CRC), South Los Angeles and Malibu have enough in common that they should be lumped together into one voting district.

That bombshell was released last weekend on the web site www.wedrawthelines.ca.gov, and has the African American community reeling and fuming.

Anthony Asadullah Samad, Ph.D.  |   OW Contributing Columnist
Jun 23 2011

Between the Lines

The California Redistricting Commission, the first civilian redistricting effort in the state’s history, has released the first map after of the 2010 census reapportionment.

The commission’s effort to address federal and state representation, while keeping out major party partisan politics of the usual manipulation and gerrymandering, immediately came under fire from without and within.

Across Black America

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

California
Allied Integrated Marketing recently announced it is launching a new African American marketing division, Allied Moxy. The new division will create innovative campaigns that integrate publicity, promotions, digital and grassroots outreach to speak directly to the full diversity of African American consumers. Spearheading Allied Moxy are industry veterans Kim Walters and Gloria Jones. Walters will oversee national strategy from Los Angeles, while Jones will oversee regional/local strategy from Washington, D.C. Walters brings more than a decade of marketing experience working with entertainment companies such as Codeblack Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and A&E Lifetime Television, as well as consumer brands such as KIA and L.A. Gear and awards programs such as NAACP Image Awards and Soul Train Music Awards. Jones has been with Allied for five years running publicity and promotional campaigns for clients, including Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Relativity Media, and previously worked for WBDC-TV in D.C. and MTV Networks’ Nick @ Nite and TV Land.

 

Representing Los Angeles and Center Theatre Group, Tyler Edwards, a senior at the Orange County High School of the Arts, placed third at the national finals of the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition (AWMC) at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre in New York City. “I am thrilled . . . I’m so glad that I took it for L.A. the first time we got up . . . that’s what we’re talking about!” said an elated Edwards following the competition. Edwards, an aspiring actor, describes the soaring, lyrical monologues found in the plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson as “very inspirational,” and said prior to the Los Angeles Regional Finals of the August Wilson competition, “I would love to share a bit of that inspiration with any audience, in hopes that they leave with more appreciation than they walked in with.”

 

Georgia
Bounce TV, the nation’s first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network for African Americans, will launch a second new original comedy series, “Uptown Comic,” on June 18, immediately after the series premiere of the just-announced sitcom “Family Time.” “Uptown Comic” is a half-hour series featuring stage and skit performances by some of the hottest up-and-coming comics in the country. The show is currently in production in front of a live studio audience at the longest-running African American comedy club in the U.S.—Uptown Comedy Corner in Atlanta. Actor and comedian Joe Torry (Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam) hosts. “Family Time,” a half hour situation comedy created by Bentley Kyle Evans ( “The Jamie Foxx Show,” “Martin,” “Love That Girl”) and produced by Evans and partner Trenten Gumbs is set to launch Monday, June 18, at 8 p.m. The series premiere of “Uptown Comic” will follow and be seen weekly at 8:30 p.m. (All Times Eastern.)