(NNPA) - Arizona Senate Bill 1070 gives law enforcement officers the right to stop, question, arrest and detain any person they suspect is in the United States illegally. What gives rise to such suspicion? Give the climate and the content in which the l...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - In the late 80's Republican Governor Evan Mecham, set-off a bomb that cost the state of Arizona millions of dollars in tourist and convention business when he repealed the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. Some protesters of the ill...

Adults often start conversations with children by asking them what they want to be when they grow up. We tell them to dream big, and encourage them by giving them pretend doctor's kits, fancy dress-up clothes, and other toys that let them imitate adult li...

Harrison Elected President, Cooper Vice President Pasadena, CA – The Board of Education of the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) voted to elect Bob Harrison Board President for the 2010-11 school year, and Renatta Cooper as Vice President. As t...

Every year America will honor mothers on Mother's Day. However, mothers work for their children all year round. The least we can do is honor her on her day. And many will have their hands out for something from their mothers because that is what they do....

Golden Soror Elizabeth Boone was born on July 2, 1915 in Burlington New Jersey. She was raised on a farm in Beverly, New Jersey with her five siblings. Her early education took place in New Jersey. In 1936, Soror Boone married her high school sweetheart, ...

PASADENA, Calif. (April 30, 2010) It's that time of year again. when Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc (AKA) Pasadena Chapter, hosts its annual Fashionetta Scholarship Luncheon with the original DREAMGIRL Sheryl Lee Ralph as this years Mistress of Cerem...

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A historic Breakfast to highlight African American women brought together the leaders from local chapters of Black Women's leadership and service organization from the San Gabriel Valley. Leaders from the Links, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Deltas, Jack and...

We introduce the 2010 State of Black Pasadena Report with the same preamble as the 2009 report except to add Fannie Lou Hammer's famous line that we are "sick and tired of being sick and tired" of the same old treatment that guarantees Black American's th...

On Tuesday night, (May 3) PBS's "American Experience" series will premiere Road to Memphis, a 2-hour documentary on the interconnected final days of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassin, James Earl Ray. As one who has read every major book on th...

(NNPA) - Last week, I asked a young journalist why he decided several months ago to begin his career in Haiti. He told me that journalists must go where the silence is. For years I have been a student of Haiti, and I have observed the unbearable silence ...

Southern California Edison (SCE) and Southern California Gas Company (The Gas Company) have teamed up during the continuing economic crisis to provide help for customers having trouble paying their utility bills. As soon as customers recognize they may h...

To live a youthful life forever is but fleeting fantasy right? Well not according to the bible. Proverbs 14:27 states that " The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death". Sounds like God might have some inside ...

Benjamin L. Hooks, a civil rights leader who led the NAACP from 1977 to 1992, has died, said the vice president for communication at the NAACP. The cause of death was not immediately known, the NAACP's Leila McDowell said Thursday. Hooks was "a vocal ca...

"We African American Women seldom do just what we want to do, but always what we have to do. I am grateful to have been in a time and place where I could be a part of what was needed." This is the quote inscribed on Dr. Dorothy Height's Congressional Gol...

The Junior League of Pasadena, Inc. partnered with LA's Prom Closet to host a Prom Dress Drive which began in February 2010. The Prom Dress Drive organized by Victoria Williams & Nicole Sandoz, two members of the League's Done in A Day Committee, was ...

"Going green" is a hot topic these days. More and more people are trying to make changes that reduce energy usage, minimize the waste that ends up in landfills and support the sustainability of our environment. In fact, 90 percent of Americans say they bu...

Topics in this column include the need for estate planning, what estate planning consists of, and what happens when there is no plan. Following are a few of the basic concepts and definitions: Advance Health Care Directive - A written document in which...

(NNPA) - The coming resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens from the Supreme Court sets up a new fight for his successor and a question that I –and others – have is will President Obama appoint someone as liberal as Stevens has become. An indication...