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So what brings you to Leimert Park Beat? Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am the administrator for Leimert Park Beat.

I moved to the Leimert Park area near Crenshaw and Martin Luther King about five years ago and was overcome with the culture that now surrounds me.

About two years ago I started an online community for my neighborhood as part of the master's program in online communities I am in at USC.

It was always a dream of mine to have a newspaper - and this is a better platform that I could have dreamed. The community decides what's important by contributing the content. Leimert Park Beat strengthens the community by providing a virtual town square. Leimert Park Beat also empowers the community by giving it a voice in this big city.

After spending most of my life working at newspapers, I found a home at the University of Southern California working as a media relations representative.

I'm proud to be the chaplain, an elected position, in the Sutro Avenue Block Club. Our yearly barbecue is in August, Holiday potluck is December and Yard Sale is in May.

I'm about to wrap up a master's degree in online communities at USC. As part of that, I've branched out to create neighborhood social networks:
University Park Family.com

Echo Park Online
Leimert Park Beat

Citilista a .com unity
Good times at:
Pete's Cafe at Fourth and Main Downtown, http://www.petescafe.com/
or to see the Zone, http://zonejams.com/, a friend's band. Or finding unknown adventures in Los Angeles and environs.
My other Website:
http://www.universityparkfamily.com
Last song:
Van Morrison, Keep It Simple.
Profession:
Media relations
Hometown
Louisville, Ky.
Block Club:
Sutro Avenue
Relationship Status
Married

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At 6:28am on March 9, 2010, ColoredPeople.net said…
Hi, i posted like all other blogs... will check the main page, but yesterday I alse experienced trouble logging in.
At 2:49pm on March 8, 2010, enhager said…
Of course - I'm trying to support you and your good cause. So I'm glad you responded because I'm having an issue with the site and trying to track it down. Your post was approved, and it's on the site somewhere, but it's not showing upon the front page. so I can't feature it.

Did you post it somehow from a different page or from your own profile so it's not a "community" post?
At 2:28pm on March 8, 2010, ColoredPeople.net said…
How have you been?! Just thinking of you. Thank you for approving my post. We hope our efforts with calendar for Haiti are successful!
At 11:48am on February 22, 2010, Lola Shalom said…
thank you for what you are doing and i did get to the source
At 11:42am on February 22, 2010, Lola Shalom said…
hi i just received another email sent to me at my private email and then i click and it is not there
At 11:35am on February 22, 2010, ColoredPeople.net said…
Hello Mr. Administrator! :O)
At 4:59pm on February 20, 2010, enhager said…
We've Been getting some spammers who move at breaknet speed after they get paste the spam filter. As soon as I am alerted of the breach I delete the member and their content. So although you get the email, their message is erased. I imagine these are why some comments you can't see. Sorry for the confusion. And if you get spam, sorry, but I'm very vigilant but ther are very sneaky. let me know If u get spam so I can take action.
At 4:28pm on February 20, 2010, Lola Shalom said…
i have received in my personal mail 2 comments and they say to see go this link i go to my mail here and nothing shows. thank u for responding are u the host
At 5:29am on February 12, 2010, Ernie Mixon said…
Thank you Enhager for your recent shout out for me on Facebook ... I really appreciated that greatly. I am still on my project on Facebook posting videos, articles, bio's, relating to Black History Month. I started this as a light project.. but it has grown intense for me over the last two weeks... I will continue it until the last day of February 2009.
At 7:04am on February 9, 2010, Lloyd-O said…
Yep! Thanks for coming last night.

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Goodmon fighting in concert with Cheviot Hills for safer Expo Line

Fix Expo leader Damien Goodmon keeps on fighting - this week in support of Cheviot Hills and Westwood.

He says just because at-grade crossings were forced upon the communities of color from Leimert Park to University Park doesn't mean that anyone should consider this the new standard to justify putting at-grade crossings in the more affluent and whiter areas closer to the beach.… Continue

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 12:04pm —

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Kwanzaa comes to Leimert Park Village and South Los Angeles

The last month of the year is a busy one in Leimert Park Village as the square is all lit up for the holidays, a peace and unity tree is decorated and snow is imported.

Oh yeah there's also a lot of Kwanzaa events - I know they are talking about a lot of the same events but the info, the contact numbers and websites all have slight variations.

It… Continue

Posted on December 23, 2009 at 10:00pm —

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Leimert Park's Africa By the Yard featured on cover of Shafiq Husayn's luscious new album

Shafiq Husayn grew up immersed in the hip hop of Leimert Park's Project Blowed and The Good Life.

He attended Uncle Jamm’s Army parties in the early ’80s at L.A. Sports Arena, hung out with… Continue

Posted on December 18, 2009 at 3:00pm —

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Remembering Mama: NPR tribute to the mother of the blues

"Everybody has played at Babe's and Ricky's."

Big Mama Thornton sang her original "Hound Dog" at the club when it was on Central Avenue. Bobby "Blue" Bland, John Lee Hooker, Deacon Jones, Ike Turner, Eric Clapton, T-Bone Walker and Albert Collins.

Thanks to Laura Mae Gross, the Blues live today in Leimert Park.

Tonight - Monday night - find your way over to Leimert Park.

"You'll stand in line, sniffi… Continue

Posted on October 26, 2009 at 3:11pm —

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Crenshaw Corridor one meeting closer to reality

About 50 people attended last week's meeting to discuss the $1 billion Crenshaw Corridor, a high-capacity transit system within a 10.5-mile corridor from Wilshire Boulevard south to El Segundo Boulevard, near the Los Angeles Airport.

Metro Project Manager Roderick Diaz presented transit options for Crenshaw Corridor… Continue

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Thanks Hosea, I'm glad you like it. Jazz has been where I live since I stumbled upon Trane when I was 12 years old. I was going through some records and the name "Coltrane" struck me as interesting, so I played it - "Africa Brass." By the time the…
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Harry James Elston was born into a musical family in Dallas, Texas and grew up in San Diego, California. In his mid teens Elston was part of a group called “Cel Foster and the Audios” which was chosen by the The Johnny Otis Rhythm & Blues Carava…
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Eric L. Wattree commented on Eric L. Wattree's blog post 'Mr. President: By Refusing to Look Back, You're Jeopardizing What Lies Before Us'
Well, as I said, Ernie. I respectfully disagree. Mainly because that is the exactly the rationale used to put off the issue of Black integration, and justified Jim Crow. We simply can't afford to turn our backs on the rule of law for ANY reason - e…
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I hear exactly what your saying... but how many battles can this President or any President for that matter ... take on and effective as he leads our nation. Your augument is strong and has merit... but I'll have to say ... we agree to disagree on t…
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