Turner Construction will hold a prequalification information session for people looking to subcontract on the $650 million Wilshire Grand Hotel Project. The meeting will be held Aug. 13 from 4-6 p.m., at the Los Angeles Convention Center in West Hall, Room 502, 1201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles. The deadline to register is today at 5 p.m.
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Mere weeks after releasing his latest album “Dream Weaver,” and a little more than a year after the death of his wife, Corine, veteran jazz musician George Duke died Monday at St. John’s hospital in Los Angeles. Private funeral services are planned.
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Compton’s Jr. Posse rides in on a good horse story
In families, siblings often support one another without question. That was definitely the case with Michele Ervin and her younger sister Sheila McKinnon.
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Watts Summer Festival: ongoing effort to highlight the positive
The 47th annual Watts Summer Festival is a free, two-day event that offers residents a mixture of entertainment, conversations and information.
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President lays out strategy for more middle-class jobs
Speaking in an address that lasted just a little more than 30 minutes before a audience at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Amazon fulfillment plant, President Barack Obama laid out what he called a framework and a national strategy “to make sure that every single person who’s willing to work hard in this county has a chance to succeed in the 21st-century economy.”
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Trayvon Martin: his presence may be gone, but the name lingers on
The nation is still talking about the verdict in the Trayvon Martin murder trial—in songs, teach-ins, panel discussions and legislative proposals. In Congress, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced the End Racial Profiling Act Tuesday alongside longtime supporter Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who is sponsoring the Senate version of the bill.
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Does the president’s remarks help soothe pain of the Trayvon Martin case?
In a move that appeared to respond to calls within the Black community for a comment, President Barack Obama talked about the Trayvon Martin verdict in the Friday White House daily briefing.
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Garcetti gets face-to-face with community youth
They are the young African American and Latino students participating in the Community Coalition (CoCo) Freedom School program, and they were on the way from their morning session to a meeting with Mayor Eric Garcetti to discuss an issue that has captivated the attention of America—the Trayvon Martin verdict.
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High Black unemployment continues 50-year trend
The Black unemployment rate for June 2013 continues at 13.7 percent, which according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics is essentially unchanged from the May 2013 rate of 13.5 percent; the April rate of 13.2 percent and the 13.3 percent rate for March.
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Panel discussions offer gravity to the BET Experience
Despite the heat, more than 500 people turned out Saturday for a seminar on eliminating gun violence in urban areas.
