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6th Annual Champions of Education Golf Classic.

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 19, 2012

Allison Bracy Allison Bracy of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt hadn’t played golf in a long time, and when she rolled out with one of the teams for the recent 6th Annual Champions of Golf Classic at Pacific Palms Resort in the City of Industry, she admittedly felt a little rusty. “That was a foul,” she said, when the ball banked in the direction of the trees. “That was another foul,” she said, when her next drive sent the ball nearly straight up in the air. But by the end of the day, Bracy’s team was singing her praises.

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Community Salutes Herb Wesson’s Leadership

Sentinel News ServiceMay 24, 2012

Herb and Fabian Wesson Photo credits: MALCOLM ALI As the first Black president of the Los Angeles City Council, Herb Wesson was serenaded by a broad section of the community including elected and public officials, representatives from the business, religious and grassroots communities, community organizations and members of the community. One of the hosts, Charisse Bremond-Weaver, president and CEO of the Brotherhood Crusade, said, “It was really a coming-together of the African American leadership coming together to celebrate the first African American president of the Los Angeles City Council. In addition to the Brotherhood Crusade, there was Los Angeles Urban

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Mayor confirms his commitment to jobs in South L.A.

Sentinel News ServiceMay 3, 2012

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (center) meets with (L to R) Greg Irish, Charisse Bremond-Weaver, Timothy Watkins and his assistant. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, working with a recommendation from the Community Development Department (CDD), has taken the bold step of funding a myriad of agencies whose work focuses on much-needed services in communities where unemployment runs rampant. With the summer fast approaching, focusing services on out-of-school summer youth is critical, notwithstanding the already-high school dropout rate. It is all part of a comprehensive program that was funded for out-of-school youth in 2011 and it seemed to have had a measure of success; hence

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Councilman Parks hosted a successful Gospel-fest as part of Kingdom Day Parade

Brian W. Carter Sentinel Staff Writer and Jennifer Bihm, Sentinel Contributing WriterJanuary 18, 2012

The first family of the Eight District, (l to r) Bobbie and Bernard Parks, and Bernard Parks Jr. photo by Brian W. Carter As the parade reached Leimert Park, another festival was happening: an array of booths and stages including two stages that appealed to a variety of musical tastes Before 11:00 am thousands of Kingdom Day Parade fans had already packed the sidewalks along King and Crenshaw boulevards Monday to see city officials, celebrities and, high school bands play out this year’s theme “The Dream Continues to Live and Grow.” January 16, 2012 marked the parade’s 27th trek down

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The Brotherhood’s Soccer for Success program

Jason Lewis (Sports Editor)December 5, 2011

SOCCER FOR SUCCESS KICK OFF Soccer took center stage in the Los Angeles area recently: At Carson’s Home Depot Center, the Galaxy won the MLS Cup, while in South Los Angeles officials from a number of local and national organizations gathered at Challengers Boys & Girls Club to celebrate the expansion of Soccer for Success (SFS)—an after-school sports program that will ultimately serve upwards of 1,500 Southern California youths. Charisse Bremond-Weaver of the Brotherhood Crusade, Ed Foster-Simeon of the U.S. Soccer Foundation, Robert K. Ross, M.D. of the California Endowment, and Shellie Y. Pfohl of the President’s Council on

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The Brotherhood Crusade: Yesterday, Today, Forever

Pamela Johnson, Special to the SentinelNovember 3, 2011

Will Downing The Story continues as Will Downing Serenades Attorney General Kamala Harris as the recipient of the Bremond-Bakewell Pioneer of African American Achievement Award Starting in 1975, the Brotherhood Crusade’s annual award has became an much anticipated event in the Los Angeles community, and beyond. This year, the honoree will be California’s first African American Attorney General, the Honorable Kamala Harris and Will Downing will provide the entertainment. But how did it all get started? Charisse Bremond-Weaver, the current president and CEO remembers the days when the Brotherhood Crusade met in her family’s living room. The times were explosive.

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Giving Halloween A Makeover

Pamela K. JohnsonOctober 28, 2011

An avatar mills about in the crowd of roughly 800 people who attended last year’s Very Healthy Happy Halloween Party, where fresh fruit and healthy foods were served instead of candy. When you’re a kid, the recipe for a great Halloween includes three ingredients: Dress up as your favorite superhero or princess, carve a jack-o-lantern, and score as much candy as you can from the neighbors. Over the last two years, however, Brotherhood Crusade has added something fresh to the mix. Family members still dress up as President Obama, an avatar, or a witch, and there are still plenty of

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Attorney General to be honored

Pamela K. JohnsonOctober 27, 2011

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, the honoree Charisse Bremond-Weaver, president of the Brotherhood Crusade A/G Kamala D. Harris will receive the prestigious Bremond-Bakewell Pioneer of African-American Achievement Award at the Brotherhood Crusade’s annual dinner Attorney General Kamala Harris’ roots are planted in northern California soil, where her parents met as graduate students at the University of California Berkeley in the 1960s. “My sister and I grew up around adults who pretty much spent full time marching and shouting about this thing we call justice,” the career prosecutor said recently. Harris’ body of work continues to center around ‘this thing we

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USC Plans to Hijack Coliseum From Community

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 29, 2011

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Community leaders meet to voice their concerns and to discuss plans for the community to attend the next commission meeting Last Tuesday a group of community leaders met to discuss a ‘scheme’ set in motion months ago to give the University of Southern California (USC) control of the historic and publicly-run Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The group included Charisse Bremond-Weaver of the Brotherhood Crusade; Leon Jenkins of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Eric Lee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Blair Taylor of the Los Angeles Urban League; Danny

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