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Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang is a playwright whose plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical, 1978), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie award; off-Bway run 1981-83), Beyond Therapy (on Broadway in 1982, with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow), Baby with the Bathwater (Playwrights Horizons, 1983), The Marriage of Bette and Boo(Public Theatre, 1985; Obie […]
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Attorney Duane Folke, Esq.
In 1977 Duane R. Folke receive his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Pepperdine University. He received his Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University- Detroit College of Law in 1982 as the school’s first Trustee Scholar; this, after studying International Law during 1982 at Emmanual College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. Mr. Folke has served in […]
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5 black women have been found dead in jail in the last month
Officials found 44-year-old Raynetta Turner dead in a Mt. Vernon jail cell in New York State Monday morning, making her the fifth black woman to die in jail—that we know of—this month. ABC news affiliate Channel 7 reports that Turner was arrested on a shoplifting charge Saturday and taken to a local hospital after notifying officials of […]
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Black Students In The U.S. Get Criminalized While White Students Get Treatment
When black and white kids act up or display troubling behavior at schools, teachers and administrators often address it with differing responses split along racial lines, new research shows. Black students are more likely to be punished with suspensions, expulsions or referrals to law enforcement, a phenomenon that helps funnel kids into the criminal justice […]
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Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
Since he was overwhelmingly elected in November 2008 and reelected in June 2012 to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Mark Ridley-Thomas has distinguished himself as a strong advocate for the Second District’s nearly 2 million residents. He has promoted the district’s interests on a variety of fronts, including transportation, job creation, retention and […]
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Alex M. Johnson, Exec Dir. CDF-CA
Alex Johnson is the Executive Director for the Children’s Defense Fund-California. The Children’s Defense Fund-California is the state office for the Children’s Defense Fund; a national organization founded in 1973 by Marian Wright Edelman. In his capacity as Executive Director, Alex leads an organization with 16 full-time staff members and an annual budget of over […]
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Dr. David Horne
Dr. David Horne is a tenured full professor of Critical Thinking and African History, and is the former chair of the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State University Northridge. He also teaches graduate public policy and introductory political analysis, and is the graduate advisor for the department. He is the original Executive Director of […]
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Skipp Townsend, Intervention Specialist, 2nd Call
Skipp Townsend, Intervention Specialist, 2nd Call. 2nd Call is a community based organization designed to assist in the personal development of individuals, who are at risk youth, ex-felons, parolees and others who society disregards. 2nd Call believes that by enlarging the scope of individual’s lives and working a coordinated strategy with education, employment, housing, health insurance, […]
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MkCoi Zeno
About 7 years ago, major shift happen for MkCoi, one that he felt coming his whole life. The calling to be Universal, to be Whole, to amplify his Spirit. He moved to L.A. to pursue make up artistry and other business endeavors; however, success and fulfillment would come when he went into Simply Wholesome, and began the New […]
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Obama tells Africans to build democracy, create jobs to thrive
Barack Obama told African nations on Tuesday they needed to respect democratic rules and create jobs to avoid a slide into disorder. In the first speech by a serving U.S. president to the 54-nation African Union, he said violence unleashed in Burundi by the president’s bid for a third term in office showed the risks […]
