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Mitt Romney, Single Parents and Gun Violence

Monique Ruffin | Posted 12.19.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Gun Violence, Education, Single Parents, President Obama, Gang Violence, Inner Cities, Mitt Romney, Presidential Debates, High School Dropouts, Nra, Mitt Romney Gun Violence, Mitt Romney Debate, Mitt Romney Single Parents, Watts, Black Voices News
Monique Ruffin

When Mitt Romney speaks of single parents contributing to gun violence, I believe he is speaking to me, not to white, single parents whose suburb-dwelling kids have good schools and enthusiastic teachers.

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USC Students Hope To Save L.A. Community High School

Posted 08.03.2012 | Home
Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Indiegogo, Watts, La Community High School, Usc, Fundraising, Los Angeles, Usc Students, Los Angeles Schools, Compton Los Angeles, Video, Home News

Two University of Southern California students have launched an Indiegogo campaign in hopes of raising $10,000 by Aug. 10 so Los Angeles Community Hig...

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A Musical Portrait of LA

Tom Teicholz | Posted 08.18.2012 | Arts
Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Aretha Franklin, Sunset Strip, The Beach Boys. The Doors, Grammy Museum, Annenberg Space for Photography, Lapd, Sam Cooke, La Bamba, Los Angeles, Watts, RIchie Valens, James Brown, Elivs, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

"Trouble in Paradise" and "Who Shot Rock & Roll" serve to remind of us of how much music can shape the very landscape of our lives and our times, through journeys that both define and transcend the place where we live.

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Big Willie Robinson, 69, King of the Street Racers

Steve Parker | Posted 07.25.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: New Orleans, Crips and Bloods, Bloods, Green Berets, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, Ktla/tv5, Mayor Tom Bradley, Inglewood, Vietnam War, Watts, Big Willie Robinson, Carroll Shelby, Crips, International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers, Brotherhood Raceway, Compton, Los Angeles News
Steve Parker

"Big" Willie Robinson, founder and president of the International and National Brotherhood of Street Racers, died this past Saturday. He was 69.

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Bringing Hope Back

Caroline Giegerich | Posted 04.30.2012 | College
Read More: Hope, Brown University, Kickstarter, Tommy Jordan, Obama, College, Shepard Fairey, Los Angeles, Watts, Saul Williams, Jeremy Lin, Tavi Gevinson, College News
Caroline Giegerich

With Sara's special brand of enthusiasm and perseverance, she reminded me of how inspired some in this world really are. Young people are bringing hope back into business.

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The U. S. Government's Largest Means-Tested Anti-Poverty Program Has Severe Problems

Robert Auerbach | Posted 11.12.2011 | Politics
Read More: Milton Friedman, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Douglas Schulman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, John Kennedy, Nina Olson, University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A., Beverly Hills, George Mcgovern, Lyndon Johnson, Watts), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Auerbach

During these dire times for millions of people, many of whom have been unemployed for long periods, the nation's safety net is mangled and inefficient.

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Southern California Black Panthers Tell Their Stories in A New Documentary

Anthea Raymond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Police Brutality, Crenshaw, Black History, 1960s, Lapd, Civil Rights, Los Angeles History, Black Panther Party, Watts, Los Angeles News
Anthea Raymond

Director Gregory Everett didn't know his father growing up. But he did know that he had been a Black Panther.

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Green Dot: Proponent of Educational Reform

Micheal McElveen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Charter Schools, Watts, Green Dot, School Reform, Los Angeles, Alain Leroy Locke High School, Education Reform, Cameron Diaz, Politics News
Micheal McElveen

After Green Dot turned my Watts, L.A. high school into a charter, I felt a sense of inspiration in witnessing and living the transformation process. I should not be the exception.

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"Driving While Black," "Negro Riots," and Two Nations

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Driving While Black, Negro Riots, Riots, Race Riots, Watts, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

On August 11, 1965, an all-too-frequent stop of a black man by a white police officer exploded into one of the worst urban riots in American history.

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Can a hostile takeover help a desperate inner city high school?

Christal Smith | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Education, Steve Barr, So Cal Connected, Charter Schools, Angela Shelley, Education Reform, Green Dot, LA Unified School District, Watts, Locke High School, Kcet, Healthy Living News
Christal Smith

Take one run down high school near Watts, California, that straddles two rival gang territories and has a 75% dropout rate for incoming freshmen; add...

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