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LAPD Community Forums

Yussuf Simmonds (Managing Editor)July 16, 2009

Commissioner John Mack Charisse Bremond-Weaver President, Brotherhood Crusade Andre Birotte Inspector General Chief William Bratton LAPD The Community Relations Section of the Los Angeles Police Department has been established to provide the department with timely information regarding police/community relations and concerns Last Thursday evening, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) held one of its community forums at the Crenshaw Christian Center’s Faithdome to continue its efforts to foster better relations with the African American community. The tone of the evening’s presentation was set by the welcoming remarks of Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese, commanding officer of Operations South Bureau, who replaced

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Lee and Culbreath Celebrate Birthdays

Cora Jackson - Fossett (Contributing Writer)July 16, 2009

(From left) Keisha Stewart, Faye Culbreath, Reginald Jone-Sawyer, Charisse Bremond and Rev. Eric Lee. Scores of well-wishers turned out on July 11 to celebrate the birthdays of Faith Culbreath and Rev. Eric Lee. The party, held at the home of SCLC Board Chairman Reginald B. Jones-Sawyer, was an upbeat, relaxing affair for the two legendary icons of the Los Angeles-area labor movement. Culbreath’s position as President of SOULA Local 2006 keeps her busy as she constantly advocates for increased benefits for members of Security Officers United in Los Angeles. Lee, who serves as President/CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference-Los

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TV News Icon Furnell Chatman Retires After 35 Years

Yussuf Simmonds (Managing Editor)January 8, 2009

He has been the weekend news anchor and a fixture at Channel Four news for three decades; now he is about to make his own news retiring to the Big Easy. Furnell Chatman has made reporting the news seems so easy and effortless that it's hard to imagine looking at the news without him or that in 1968, he was the first Black news reporter in Louisiana. Starting his television career in New Orleans as a weekend monitor and desk assistant at WVUE-TV, he graduated to becoming a reporter and by 1972, he was anchoring the noon news. Describing some

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Two Southland Labor Leaders Elected to AFSCME’s National Board

Sentinel Staff WriterSeptember 11, 2008

AFSCME ELECTS INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS:?Left to right, Ralph Miller, president of AFSCME?Local 685 with vice-president elect and honorees, Lakesha Harrison and Doug Moore. Two of Southern California’s rising African-American labor leaders will be playing a prominent role at the national level for the next four years with one of the country’s largest unions. Lakesha Harrison and Doug Moore were elected to represent California workers as international vice presidents of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. As officers of the AFSCME International Union, they will help guide national priorities of the largest union in the AFL-CIO national labor federation.

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Figures Don’t Lie, People Lie on Figures

CHARISSE BREMOND-WEAVERAugust 14, 2008

In reading the article entitled “Leader’s Kin get Union Business,” I became quite incensed. However, the provocation of my irritation was not that which the author intended. Instead, I was gravely disappointed because the writer, Paul Pringle, employed an under-handed, but effective strategy of intentionally misleading the reader in order to create a perception of impropriety. I will support this assertion in the text that follows, but let me be clear, I am formally accusing Mr. Pringle of employing this tactic. In contrast, if you read the article carefully, Mr. Pringle never accuses Mr. Tyrone Freeman or the Union of

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Obama Support Rally

Sentinel Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Brenda Marsh-Mitchell, 323/[email protected] Join thousands of African American Community Leaders, Elected officials and supporters in the historical “Obama-Get out and Vote Rally” on Monday, February 4, 2008 – 3800 Crenshaw Blvd. (Los Angeles Sentinel) (Los Angeles, February 1, 2008) Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., Executive Publisher and Danny J. Bakewell Jr., VP and Publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, recently voted the best Black weekly newspaper in the United States by the National Negro Publishers Association (NNPA), will announce the paper's coveted endorsement of Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, at a press conference at the paper's headquarters at

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Re-Igniting The Poor Peoples Campaign

Yussuf Simmonds (Managing Editor)April 4, 2007

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is commemorating the work and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by continuing along the path he laid out for all. It is no accident that SCLC chose the 39th anniversary of that tragic event to sound off the bugle and challenge society in a way that only King could have envisioned – the Poor Peoples Campaign. Reminiscent of Dr. King's call, "America is at a crossroads of history and it is critically important for us as a nation and a society to choose a new path and move upon it with