Los Angeles

DWP ‘Doomed... with pay’
Cory A. Haywood
Jul 3 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dries up employee advancement opportunities, and shuts down morale

Bias, hatred, inequity, injustice: All words derived from a term that is representative of a socioeconomic norm in today’s society—discrimination.

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Games they play
Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Jun 26 2009

Social worker opens only inner city gaming center

Theodore J. Brown remembers growing up in Detroit’s inner city and always having to trek out to the suburbs, (more than an hour away), in order to play his favorite video games.

As an adult, those memories led Brown to make a vow that when he was able to open his own business, it would be one where he “wouldn’t have to work a day in his life,” but it would provide a positive outlet for inner city youth like he had been.

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Pillar of determination
Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Jun 26 2009

Local author takes control of her writing future

Los Angeles resident Evelyn Allen Johnson has been writing since she was five years old, thanks to a man who labored on the railroads for a living.

“My father was responsible for me reading and writing. He loved literature. He taught me to read and write by the time I was four,” explained Johnson who said she arrived in kindergarten with an interest in the arts, literature and poetry courtesy of her dad.

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Causes and consequences
Caleb King, Elijah Haskin, William Jimpson, William Monroe
Jun 19 2009

Gang violence in South Los Angeles

In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the creation of street gangs increased at a shocking pace throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, the Bloods and the Crips, are mostly African American. In addition to the growing number of African American gangs, there are approximately 600 Latino gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering around 20,000 members.

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Farewell to Michael Byoune
Shirley Hawkins
Jun 12 2009

Hundreds gather to say ‘goodbye’ to victim of police gunfire

It was a death that stunned residents in Los Angeles and captured news headlines when 19-year-old Michael Wood Byoune was fatally shot on May 11 in the parking lot of Rally’s burgers at Manchester and Crenshaw Boulevards.

Byoune was allegedly slain by police gunfire as he sat in a friend’s car at the Rally’s hamburger stand at Manchester Blvd. about 1:40 a.m. Byoune was shot four times in what is being ruled an officer-involved shooting by an Inglewood police officer.

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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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