This past Saturday, 48 families gathered at Grand View Elementary School in West Los Angeles, where we picked up paintbrushes and got to work helping to transform the campus.
Michael Boland | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
In down times, there isn't a leveling effect across the market but instead a weeding out of the weaker players, where the fittest not only survive but sometimes thrive.
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.22.2009 | World
In the wake of celebrating Dr. King's message of non-violence and inaugurating a US President that professes change, let us revisit the world's tendency toward a warring foreign policy.
Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.
Martin Lewis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
My problem with the service frame is simple: If I serve, someone else is being served. If I serve, I act, but the other -- the beneficiary -- does not. "Service" seems to create two classes: the givers and the receivers.
AP | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama is pitching in to help create thousands of care packages for U.S. troops. In keeping with President-elect Barack Ob...
ABC News | JENNIFER PARKER | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
Many civil rights leaders and prominent African-American activists who came to Washington, D.C., almost 46 years ago for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Mar...
AP | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A day after laying a wreath at the Tom...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama talked with wounded troops at a military hospital and then visited an ...
The Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living
Yesterday, we asked you to share where you plan to volunteer on Martin Luther King Day. Today, we woke up to hundreds of responses. Many of you will...
Eric Copage | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
What if black Americans recognized Dr. King's birthday on the actual day of his birth, today, January 15th? We would make a collective decision, without asking anyone's permission, to exercise our freedom.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
Communities and non-profits across the country are gearing up for what will undoubtedly be a record number of volunteers on this upcoming Martin Luthe...
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
I never thought as Martin Luther King Jr's former advisor and speechwriter that I would live long enough to ever publicly write or say these words.
Linda Bergthold | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
If you can't get connected with something organized Monday, January 19th, you could still have an impact by your individual actions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama, in a message being emailed out on Wednesday, is calling on supporters, as well as those who likely didn't back him in th...
Andrew Hauptman | Posted 12.10.2009 | Los Angeles