A generation of rock’n roll fans mourned again this week upon the
death of Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey.
It’s been one year since the Republican Party began in earnest its strategy to retake the White House. And while the presumptive nominee was not who most people believed would hoist the mantle of party leader, the GOP is set for, arguably, one of its most contentious and controversial conventions—on the floor and in the street—in modern times.
Dr. Ralphe J. Bunche (1903-1971) was one of the great world statesmen of the 20th century and left an indelible mark of courage and confidence on millions of African Americans who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement.
He didn’t don a hometown jersey like Maury Wills, Elgin Baylor or Deacon Jones. He played for the world. That’s why his presence on my block 50 years ago was so memorable.
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was in town for a television appearance and had caught the eye of a neighbor, a lovely debutant and aspiring model/actress named Selestine Bennett. The news was out that he’d be stopping by Saturday afternoon for a date.
The authors may have said it best near the end of the book: Malcolm X “died in the struggle for Black power.” It was not the “Black Power” so fiercely espoused by more radical civil rights leaders of the 1960s but, rather, Malcolm X’s death being the result of a vindictive struggle within the upper echelon of the Nation of Islam that found sports icon Muhammad Ali caught in the crosshairs.
Triple-digit temperatures are expected in the Antelope Valley this weekend with county officials urging residents, particularly seniors, to protect themselves and stay safe during the heat wave.
Shaka Senghor’s riviting novel, “Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison” (Drop A Gem Publishing, 2013, $26), goes far beyond the typical inner-city narrative focusing on poverty, gangs, drugs and misspent youth.
El Nino is weakening along the western portion of North America. Climatologists suggest that the end of the stormy weather phenomenon will only mean continuing drought in Southern California, despite the fact that the northern portion of the state witnessed its wettest winter in five years. Now comes “La Nina,” the atmospheric sibling to the “Little Boy,” which is expected to bring with her a much drier-than-normal weather pattern for the foreseeable future.
Music fans will have an exciting menu to select from this summer as the Palmdale Amphitheater will present its summer concert series set to begin in early July. Also, a series of classic films will also be part of the schedule.
A joint resolution of Congress in 1971 signified one of those rare moments when both liberals and conservatives, persons of different races and religions and, most telling, members of both sexes were in uniform agreement: “… the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled to full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which are available to male citizens of the United States.
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