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February 2014 Newsletter

 
 
Welcome to the February 2014 Newsletter. We enjoyed seeing many of you at this year's 22nd Annual Empowerment Congress Summit where we paid especial homage to two titans of civil rights and human rights: Dr. Martin Luther King and President Nelson Mandela...See message
 
 
 
Donning hard hats, shovels in hand and bulldozers behind them, federal, state and local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, an 8.5-mile light-rail line that will run between the Metro Expo and Green lines... Read More
 
 
Walking through the gleaming new hallways, inspecting the state of the art equipment and monitors of the new emergency/trauma and surgery building at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in January,  Dr. Timothy Van Natta could not stop smiling... Read More

 

 
 
Is it a part of Compton? Watts? Maybe Rosewood? The little unincorporated community of Willowbrook has, like so many neighborhoods in unincorporated Los Angeles County -long had a question mark hovering over its identity... Read More

 

 
 
Community engagement was the theme of the day at the 22nd annual Empowerment Congress Summit in January, where more than 1,000 people turned out to learn more about civic participation and becoming a leader in their community... Read More
 
 
Pressing ahead with the Slauson Corridor Revitalization Project, business owners on the south side of Slauson Avenue between Overhill Drive and Angeles Vista have agreed to a brand new uniform façade look,...Read More
 
 
For years, community activist Sinetta Farley saw too many young girls walking the streets of Long Beach Boulevard, a popular "track" for human trafficking. And so Farley was moved to help the young victims... Read More
 
 
This year, the Pan African Film Festival celebrates its 22nd year with a 12-day movie marathon featuring movies from around the globe. Movies will be shown daily at Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills 15, in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza – home to the event...Read More
 
 
Michael Tubbs was only 22 when he was elected to the Stockton City Council in 2012.  Entering politics at such a young age and in a city that had declared bankruptcy, Tubbs knew he was in for a challenge... Read More

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