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*WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, National Prayer Breakfast Co-Chair, Congresswoman Janice Hahn (CA-44) – a 1974 graduate of Abilene Christian University – was recognized by the National Bible Association with the “2013 Capitol Hill Award.” Hahn was recommended for the annual award by the Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, Father Patrick J. Conroy [...]
*Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Janice Hahn (CA-44) introduced the “Port Opportunity, Reinvestment and Training (PORT) Act” a youth summer jobs bill that establishes a grant program to help young people from disadvantaged communities find summer work at our nation’s ports – powerful engines of opportunity and jobs. With the unofficial start of summer kicking [...]
*Without any fanfare – no official groundbreaking ceremony – the work began in April. The fence has been draped and the noise of the heavy equipment brought in has become the new neighborhood alarm clock. I wrote the following about the ‘Avalon Project’ six months ago: [The abandoned property located within the West Rancho Domiguez-Victoria [...]
*I’ve written many articles about the late great David Ruffin of The Temptations, and as I’ve said before, people hear his voice everyday on the Smokey Robinson-penned tune “My Girl,” and so many more like “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” but little do they know about the singer’s solo recordings besides “My Whole World Ended,” [...]
*Where are we going? I’ve been asking that question ever since I heard the song by Donald Byrd on his “Flight Time” album back in 1973. The other night I had a weird dream…no it was a nightmare! I woke up with a start at 1:30AM, and as I lay there going over the dream [...]
*Citing what he calls ‘the triangle of things that have to be done,’ former bankruptcy lawyer, Kevyn Orr – newly appointed Emergency Manager for the City of Detroit – spoke to the Detroit News editorial board to lay out immediate priorities when he hits the ground running on March 25th. He said in order: “we [...]
*Inside these last two weeks we lost two former members of The Temptations – Damon Harris, and Richard Street – and I could not help but think there goes a little more of the untold phenomenal Motown story that just went to the grave. I say that because everybody did not get around to writing [...]
*Seems these days a segment of Americans are brushing their teeth with gunpowder and just shootin’ off the mouth! Social media is becoming a shameful cesspool of shameless foul and damaging communication (‘e-mail netiquette’). So much for the phrase, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ Cowards and thugs [...]
*Democratic Congressman, Jesse Jackson Jr., who represents the Chicago area, has been re-elected. Jackson’s re-election comes in light of him being investigated for misuse of public funds and an illness that’s keeping him from being able to work and fulfill his duties as a member of Congress. Jackson, who has served in the U.S. House [...]
Dream Speaker Day! The sixth grade students at Daniel Freeman Elementary School, all “Dreamers” with the “I Have a Dream” Foundation – Los Angeles (IHADLA), were visited by Dream Speakers Rodney Gordy (fifth from right), and Larry Buford (center) on Monday, October 15th. Dream Speakers are invited to motivate the students and reinforce the importance [...]
*The abandoned property located within the West Rancho Domiguez-Victoria Community Standards District, a.k.a Willowbrook, is secured by a padlocked seven-foot fence. The abandoned houses – boarded up and nearly hidden from view by tree branches and other foliage – have not been a known problematic haven for crime and vagrancy. Still it was cited as [...]
*Announcing your baby at the MTV VMA’s is the new black. Last year, we learned about Beyonce’s pregnancy, while on the MTV carpet and again, this year–it happened. The ovaries in question, were Amber Rose’s. For weeks, we all speculated and were almost 100% sure and finally (well, it wasn’t really that long) Rose confirmed [...]
*Actor Baron Jay Littleton has just wrapped on a new role portraying Kanye West in Ermillio Ferrari’s comedy spoof ‘Not Another Celebrity Movie.’ It’s a hilarious new plot where Charlie Sheen becomes obsessed with the idea that Justin Bieber is his biological son. What makes it so refreshingly appealing and captivating is that the entire [...]
*Attorneys for developer A Community of Friends (ACOF) has requested that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors deny the appeal to stop construction of a ‘low to very low income’ apartment complex on Avalon Boulevard in South Los Angeles. The proposed site is located in the unincorporated community of West Rancho Dominguez-Victoria in the [...]
*Ever since President Obama announced his personal support for same-sex marriage, it seems the gay community has become more emboldened to speak out and to vilify anyone who expresses a different point of view. We’re now seeing more and more highly visible people announce their gay orientation. The president merely signed on to the idea. [...]
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