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Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Oct 2 2008

Essay contest enables youth to explore contributions of African American pioneers

It is said that behind every successful man is a woman. That was never more true than in the American Civil Rights movement, but in general the contributions women have made, except for a few notable examples, have been overshadowed by the good works of men.

Cynthia E. Griffin-  |   OW Managing Editor
Oct 2 2008

Journalist Nancy Hicks Maynard embodied diversity

Nancy Hicks Maynard, a pioneer in newsroom diversity and co-founder with her late husband Robert C. Maynard (and seven other journalists), of the Institute for Journalism Education, died recently at UCLA’s Medical Center. She was 61.

Oct 2 2008

Sept. 26-27, 2008, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Prairieview A&M Drum Major.

  Morehouse University Drum Major.
 

Prairieview A&M triumphed over the Morehouse Tigers, 28-17 at Saturday’s Angel City Classic.

Farmers Ins. Company national scholarship recipients, Daniel A. Nwachokor, Grambling State University; and Folasade Amanda Omogun, Clark Atlanta University are pictured with actor Nick Cannon at the Angel City Classic Gala.

 
 

Sep 25 2008

California NAACP to host forum on same gender marriage

 The California State Conference of the NAACP is hosting a Town Hall meeting on “Civil Rights and Marriage Equality: a Forum on Same Gender Marriage” on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 at the University of Southern California, Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room, 3415 South Figueroa St. in Los Angeles from 6-8 p.m.

Sep 25 2008

Intensive 5-week program offered at no cost

The Los Angeles Community College District, in association with Community Career Development, Inc., Wilshire-Metro Worksource Center, and the Logistics Working Group (LWG), announces, new orientation dates for its Logistics/Goods Movement Training Academy, offered at no cost to dislocated/laid-off, unemployed and underemployed individuals over 18-years-of- age.
 

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.