June 2011 Blog Posts (30)

Is the GOP Manipulating Black Intellectuals to destroy the First Black President?

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Is the GOP Manipulating Black

Intellectuals to destroy the First Black President?


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Added by Eric L. Wattree on June 9, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Juneteenth in Los Angeles Leimert Park

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The Juneteenth Heritage Festival in Los Angeles is Saturday and Sunday, June 18 and June 19 in the parking lot of Vision Theater in Leimert Park, the corner of 43rd and…

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Added by enhager on June 7, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Fight begins for Leimert Park stop on Crenshaw Metro Line

Leimert Park from Mark Ridley-Thomas on Vimeo.

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Added by enhager on June 7, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

What's New?

Hello everyone,

 

I am getting back into the swing of things these day. I guess I forgot how much having a baby takes out of you. Well, those newborn days are over and my new little boy is now 15 months old. He is running around my office as I type. I am excited to be writing and promoting again. Though, I am still figuring out how to juggle both career and a house full of children. I look forward to being in the Lemiert Park area this coming week. My book is now easily…

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Added by Shanet Dennis on June 3, 2011 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Culver City ArtWalk on Saturday

Justin Scupine of CulverCityTimes.com has done a fabulous job previewing the Culver City ArtWalk this week - first there was Wayne White's show at Western Project and… Continue

Added by enhager on June 3, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Sleepwalkin' in Leimert Park - LATimes feature on hip hopper Coss

Co$$ "represents Leimert Park, but not in a strident, flag-waving way. He hasn't tried to ride the skinny jean, jerkin' or hipster bandwagons. He has said that his favorite rapper is Rass Kass, and that makes sense," glows Jeffery Weiss of Pop&Hiss on LATimes.com.



Coss, raised in Carson, will drop a new record June 21's "Before I Awoke." But you can download the "Sleepwalking Mixtape" for free - outtakes and junk that you'll be lucky to have heard -…

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Added by enhager on June 3, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Leimert Park Neighborhood Council - ECWANDC - Town Hall Saturday

Empowerment Congress West Area Neighborhood Development Council,A certified City of Los Angeles neighborhood council serving the communities of Arlington Park, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills Estates, Baldwin Village, Baldwin Vista, Cameo Woods, Crenshaw Manor, Leimert Park and Village…
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Added by enhager on June 3, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

City Planning Director comes to South LA, Leimert Park - - tell him what you're really thinking

Los Angeles City Planning Director Michale LoGrande is coming to the transformed MLK Park at Western at 6 p.m. June 13.

Commiunity Coaltion Sut LA is organizing the "conversation" with the person in charge of planning for our neighborhood and priorities for the city.

This is someone who has power and he's here to listen to our needs for our community. Come and ask some questions and offer some opinions.

MLK Rec Center, 3916 S. Western Ave., is where NANDC holds it monthly…

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Added by enhager on June 2, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: The Reign of Fools is Over

BENEATH THE SPIN * ERIC L. WATTREE

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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: The Reign of Fools is Over
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Added by Eric L. Wattree on June 2, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments

Leimert Park Station/Crenshaw Underground



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On Thursday morning May 27 hundreds of people from the South Los Angeles community went to 1 Gateway Plaza in downtown Los Angeles to support LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas's proposal to build a Metro Station at Leimert Park and to run a section of the Metro along Crenshaw Blvd. underground. Metro board officials…

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Added by Susan on June 1, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

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