The Compton High School Alumni Association (CHSAA) and the Compton Unified School District Governing Board of Trustees will host the 21st Annual Alumni Family Reunion on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Benjamin O. Davis Middle School, located at 621 W. Poplar in Compton.
The Holliday’s Helping Hands Foundation hosted their inaugural Basketball Tournament to raise funds for their organization and promote their annual scholarship.
On Wednesday, September 20, NAF, a national non-profit organization, together with RTX, the aerospace and defense company, and the Compton Unified School District (CUSD), launched a NAF Academy at Centennial High School.
Alyce Joe Crump passed away on August 25, closing out a lifetime of Christian service to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A fourth generation AME member, Alyce was also the proprietor of Vernon Escrow in Los Angeles for 40 years.
Harlem Lacrosse-Los Angeles (HL-LA) is primarily a school-based, wrap around program in collaboration with the Compton Unified School District (CUSD). School-based girl and boy team programs at Walton Middle School, and Davis Middle School, feed into the Compton High School program, which has a sanctioned girl team and boy team.
Lady Angel Price, the daughter of a prison outreach minister, has been attending CCC since the tender age of three. It is where she grew in her faith, met her future husband, and marked many blessed milestones in her life, including her baptism, nuptials, and the baptismal of her children.
Longtime high school football coach Jason Miller now is the head coach of the Bellflower high school football team. Miller has led the Bellflower Buccaneers to a 6-1 overall record during this season.
A 17-year-old was charged with murder today for allegedly killing a 14-year-old rising basketball star in South Los Angeles.
Compton High School 2019 graduate Majesty Goodlow is currently attending Compton College nearly free of cost through the Oliver W. Conner College Promise Program, which provides two years of waived enrollment fees for local high school graduates, among other benefits.
There are lots of notable things about the city of Compton. It has a rapidly improving school system. It’s a stable, multi-racial community with a long history of African American empowerment and a growing Latinx population. Above all, Compton is a city where neighbors take care of each other. That’s the spirit behind a newly launched public health campaign, Compton Healthy, that aims to improve the health of the 100,000 people who call Compton home — because despite the community values which make Compton so strong, there are troubling health trends that must be addressed.
Fourteen high school seniors were surprised with $2,500 each, on the spot. Jalen Noel was thrilled when his name was called among the winners. “This scholarship will not just help me financially, but will be a step towards my career as an aerospace engineer,” says the graduating senior at King-Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science. “My only source of income is my mother which makes college hard to afford and that is why this scholarship has such a heavy impact on me. I’ll be the first-generation college student in my family,” he adds.
Tenured basketball coach Rod Palmer was starting a new chapter in his career when UCLA men’s basketball hired him as an assistant coach. This new face on the coaching staff has a background in coaching in Southern California on the high school and college level.
As a part of the new Compton High School, the center will offer a variety of activities to youth.
Palmer broke the gender barrier in 1997, along with Dee Kanter, by becoming one of the first female referees in the NBA. Palmer’s NBA career lasted for 18 years.