The NBA Playoffs are exciting, even when the Lakers are not playing as well as we would like. They did survive in the Series against the Thunder, although it was touch and go for a whole. Watching the 21-year old Kevin Dunlap was a scary pleasure. To par...

Dr. Harry Edwards was the keynote speaker at UCLA's Bunche Center's 21st Thurgood Marshall Lecture on Law and Human Rights. His accomplishments and influence has transformed professional sports, as we know it today.The scholar activist, best known for adv...

Congratulations to the Sue B. Dance Company performance team for their successful participation in the Starpower Talent Regional Competion held on March 12-14 in Upland, CA. The team took five-1st place trophies, two-1st place overall highest score award...

On Saturday May 15, from 3:00-6:00 p.m. over 100 youth and adults will gather at the Western Justice Center for a creative celebration of youth in the Los Angeles region who is actively building peace in their communities. Peace is an ART will feature doz...

The 2nd Annual NATHA (Neighbors Acting Together Helping All) Golf Tournament will be held Monday, May 17, 2010 at the exclusive and private La Canada Flintridge Country Club. Registration begins at 10:00 a.m., a delicious BBQ lunch will be served at 11:00...

Talented young people from a wide variety of disciplines were recognized as local winners in the 2010 Altadena NAACP ACT-SO Awards Celebration held Sunday, April 25, 2010 at the Altadena Community Center. The celebration draws interest from the local com...

The social-religious policy of Jesus was met with fierce oppositional resistance by the religious establishment who also happened to serve as the governmental/civil officials of late Second Temple Palestine. It was a century prior to this (circa 150 B.C. ...

I recently received a call from a lady who asked me, "Are you a mother?" My reply was "yes". She then proceeded to say, "Well, you understand. You know how a mother feels." She was referring to her grown daughter who she had expressed concern about tr...

Like a relentless tide, foreclosures are pressing people into corners; closing in and eroding their ability to keep their homes. This is the reality confronting millions of American homeowners – many of them over 50 and many of them people of color. Sad...

(NNPA) - On April 29, the Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee met to address the shortfalls of current federal programs intended to stem still-unfolding foreclosures. The session led by subcommittee chair, Illinois' ...

The first annual Dress for Success fundraising event held April 27th at Lovebirds Café celebrated outstanding Muir Business & Entrepreneurship Academy students who presented business plans and described job shadowing experiences to PUSD officers, Mui...

(NNPA) - Like everyone else who read Professor Skip Gates' piece in the New York Times asserting that Africans were just as responsible for slavery as Europeans, I was aghast because he is one of the most acclaimed scholars in the country and his position...

(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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