Mnr. Life D. Griffith serves as the Executive Director of Veteran Health Solutions (VHS). VHS is a non-profit association based in Los Angeles and specializes in educating the veteran community about the benefits of cannabis. Prior to creating Veterans Health Solutions, Mnr. Griffith served as a Legal Administrative Specialist & Minority Veteran Program Coordinator for […]
Andrene Scott is a 4-year Member Leader with the LA Black Worker’s Center and recent Graduate of UCLA has been involved in Social Justice Movement in LA for 30-years. John Acosta currently serves as President of the American Federation of Musicians Local 47 wat meer as 7000 professional musicians in the southern California area. John also […]
President Donald Trump finally delivered an unequivocal condemnation of anti-Semitism Tuesday in the wake of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers, winning him praise even from critics. But scores of people still took issue with how long the statement took. It left many wondering just why he delayed taking a seemingly obvious moral course for […]
The museum announced that it has more than 1 million visitors in the four months since it opened Sept. 24, 2016. Benewens, the museum’s restaurant, the Sweet Home Café, has been nominated for a James Beard Award. The cafe, whose culinary ambassador is celebrity chef Carla Hall, is one of 20 nominees in the category […]
During President Trump’s rather eventful press conference Thursday afternoon, he claimed that he “inherited many problems across government, and across the economy.” “To be honest, I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. By die huis, en in die buiteland. A mess.” Among the reasons Trump believes the country is a mess is because “jobs are pouring out of the country," […]
American hate groups — and particularly anti-Muslim groups — are on the rise, fueled in part by the recent presidential election, according to a new report from a liberal-leaning advocacy group that tracks domestic extremism. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attributed some of the growth to President Trump, who it described Wednesday in its […]
WASHINGTON — Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before…Lees meer
In a sharp break with the Obama administration, which distanced itself from harsh anti-drug rhetoric and emphasized treatment for drug users over punishment, President Trump this week reverted to tough drug war oratory and backed it up with a series of executive orders he said…Lees meer
Ayuko Babu: Last September Ayuko Babu was at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference sitting in the audience of a panel discussion about African films. He unquestionably has such an astute resume that would have qualified him to lead the panel, but on this day Babu was just listening and taking notes and in […]
If you were hoping to see a serious political statement at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, you had to wait a long time. Literally hours. You had to wait through Adele’s show-staring performance of “Hello,” a predictably excellent execution of a song that the Grammy voters love more than all the other songs from last year, […]