According to the Greenlining Institute, the California Public Utilities Commission’s supplier diversity program generated an all-time record $8.1 billion in contracts for businesses owned by minorities, women and disabled veterans last year.
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Larenz Tate to keynote 6th annual Fatherhood Solution Conference
Larenz Tate, whose acting credits include the television show “Rescue Me” and films such as “Ray,” “Love Jones,” “Crash,” and “Menace II Society,” will keynote the 6th Annual Fatherhood Solution Conference hosted by the Children’s Institute Inc.
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Antioxidant berry blend recalled
Townsend Farms Inc. of Fairview, Ore., is voluntarily recalling certain lots of its frozen Organic Antioxidant Blend, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Hepatitis A virus, based on an ongoing epidemiological and traceback investigation of an illness outbreak by the Federal Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.
Posted inAcross Black America
Brownie eating contest, Summer Jam XX and Congresswoman Waters
Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
Posted inNational
Former Washington Post editor succumbs to cancer
Crenshaw High graduate Lynne Adrienne Duke, described in the Washington Post as a journalist “who brought an emotional clarity to the most trenchant stories, from the crack epidemic that terrorized a Miami housing project once known as ‘the Graveyard’ to the legacy of apartheid South Africa,” died April 19 at her home in Silver Spring. She was 56.
Posted inEducation
Local school wins GRAMMY acknowledgement
Compton High School’s music program is one of the top six in the nation for 2013, according to a Grammy Signature Schools Enterprise Award the campus recently won.
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Coliseum Commission changed
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission Wednesday approved a series of reforms to make governance of the historic facility more streamlined and accountable.
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June forum to take on the issue of juvenile justice
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), the leading Democrat on the Congressional Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations, will be the featured guest at the Criminal Justice Forum: Undo Mandatory Minimums scheduled for June 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bethel A.M.E. Church, 7900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles.
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NAACP applauds restoration of voting rights to Virginia ex-felons
RICHMOND, Va.—Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has announced that he will automatically grant, on an individualized basis, voting rights to people with nonviolent felony offenses upon completion of all the terms of their sentence.
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Construction jobs at Inglewood Forum set
Madison Square Garden, the owner of the Inglewood Forum, and Clark Construction are inviting local…
