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Ebony Magazine celebrates 70 years with Power 100 Gala

Ebony Magazine held its annual Power 100 Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Dec. 2 in Beverly Hills. Celebrities, politicians, activists and humanitarians from across the country came to celebrate the accomplishments of the influential list of 100 African American women and men.

Buick premiers new 2017 LaCrosse at L.A. Auto Show

Every year the Los Angeles Auto Show draws in thousands of Angelinos who are car enthusiasts and hopeful automobile owners. This year’s auto show opened on November 20th and premiered some of the popular U.S. automakers’ key models.

Occidental College Students protest to end racial inequality on campus

  Student protesters at Occidental College occupied a sit-in at the campus’ Arthur G. Coons Administrative Center from November 16 to the 20th, in response to the racial bias at the small college campus. “We decided to do the sit-in because we have seen that in the past seven years the president of our university has never been able to fulfill the lists of demands that students have put forth, especially in concern to Black students,” said Abilasha Bhola, a student organizer for the OXY United for Black Liberation. Bhola is talking about a list of demands minority students have

This Week in Black History (November 19)

  November 19 1953- Roy Campanella was named Most Valuable Player of the National Baseball League for the second time. He has 142 runs batted in ’53 exceeding the record of 130.   November 20 1976- Olympic gold gymnast Dominique Dawes was born in Silver Spring, Maryland.  Dawes is also a three time Olympian.   November 21 1984- Trans Africa’s Randall Robinson, congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy, and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Francis Berry are arrested at a sit-in against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.   November 22 1989- Colonel Frederick Drew Gregory, the nephew of