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This year’s 34th Annual Jackson Turkey & Grocery Giveaway will go on as planned on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 8 a.m. at 3669 Slauson Ave. There is still a great need for donations and volunteers. For details, visit www.theejjacksonfoundation.com.
A number of organizations are planning events as well.

Retired Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully and former Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were among 21 recipients announced this week of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

New York real estate millionaire Donald Trump won the White House over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the biggest and most stunning upset victory for the White House in modern presidential politics.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week by a unanimous vote has decided on a civilian panel to oversee the Sheriff’s Department, appointing nine commissioners and an executive director.
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, an early champion of public oversight, said creating the Civilian Oversight Commission is “one more step in the movement for reform, a very important step that has been years in the making.”

Americans have generally tolerated the constraints of the two-party system by demonstrating civic duty and patriotism. And while even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson delivered strong cautionary words against the threat of permanent political parties, the nation has generally coalesced around the often bifurcated political system to select our Commander in Chief.

Two suspects were in custody Oct. 16 following a mass shooting that killed three people and wounded 12 others in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

One of the most successful television shows in recent years, the period drama “Mad Men” was alternately criticized for its accuracy and it’s exclusion of ethnic minorities in its depiction of the advertising industry of the 1960s.

The race for president heated up last weekend with two well-known surrogates standing in for the two leading candidates before a vocal and highly-engaged crowd during a debate held in at Inglewood’s Faithful Central Tabernacle.

Lagrant Communications, a multicultural integrated marketing communications agency, recently announced the promotion of Keisha N. Brown to executive vice president and chair of the new Health and Wellness Practice. As chair of the practice, Brown will drive creative solutions for all of the agency’s healthcare clients.