Los Angeles

Aug 21 2008

Skills parents can teach at home

 According to child development experts, youngsters often enter kindergarten afraid of the unfamiliar surroundings, and it can take weeks for them to relax enough to learn. 

Aug 21 2008

Mayor cuts ribbon on eco-friendly South L.A. branch

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cut the ribbon on the first “green” library in South Los Angeles – the new Exposition Park Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Branch Library, on Monday, at 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062.

Aug 21 2008

HELP FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS

 The following numbers can be contacted for drug and alcohol assistance.

Aug 21 2008

August 21
Construction Expo.

LAUSD will co-host a “going green” exposition to build green representatives throughout the construction industry. Los Angeles Convention Ctr., West Hall B., 1201 S. Figueroa St., L.A. 7 a.m.-4 p.m. (213) 241-2077 or CalConExpo.com.

Aug 21 2008

Mayor, city council confirm fourth term

Valerie Lynne Shaw was reappointed by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and unanimously confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council last week to an unprecedented fourth term as a commissioner on the Board of Public Works, the City’s only full-time non-elected policy-making body.

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.