SACRAMENTO–Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a package of bills encompassing a broad variety of policy areas that are important to the state’s boys and men of color.
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Computer Glitch Gives EBT Rceipiants Hundreds of Thousands Dollars in Food
This weekend (Sunday morning) while parked outside a hair care product store on Rodeo and La Cienega I overheard two African American woman complain about their EBT cards malfunctioning, not allowing them to purchase groceries.
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Get help with a food-based business
Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC) operates a number of programs designed to help people interested in creating a food-based business start-up and grow.
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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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Carson tires of waiting for Shell Oil to clean up housing tract
The Carson City Council this week took the unusual step of declaring a “condition of local emergency” over toxic contamination in the Carousel housing tract which sits above an abandoned Shell Oil tank farm.
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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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An open letter to Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin
Dear Miss Fulton,
I agonize over your loss, the loss of your precious Trayvon. I am the White mother of two sons. And I too am Trayvon Martin. I too am Trayvon Martin’s mother.
I imagine the anxiety Trayvon must have felt the moment he realized George Zimmerman was targeting him—the tremendous fear that soon engulfed him. The desperation.
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Palmdale Nov. 5 municipal election filing period to open
The official filing period for the Palmdale Nov. 5, 2013, general municipal election for the seats of mayor and two councilmembers will open on Monday, July 15, and will close on Friday, Aug. 9, at 5 p.m.
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Palmdale’s Tiny Tots courses now accepting registration
Palmdale’s culture and recreation department is accepting registrations for the next sessions of Tiny Tots, an early childhood recreation program that offers an educational curriculum for children ages 3-5 years old.
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African American Chamber to hold 2013 black-tie installation dinner
The Antelope Valley African American Chamber of Commerce will hold its 2013 Black Tie Installation Dinner—“Celebrating Community Leaders and Legends” at the Hellenic Center Lancaster on Nov. 23, beginning at 5 p.m.
