Faith Petrie Contributing Writer

Equal Justice Now and Los Angeles Urban League Young Professional town hall discuss voting rights

Faith Petrie Contributing WriterJuly 30, 2020

Equal Justice Now and Los Angeles Urban League Young Professional’s hosted an online meeting via Zoom Saturday morning highlighting voter registration and social justice.

Retired judge and reality court show star Judge Greg Mathis moderated the more than two-hour long town hall that included speakers Andrew Lewis, Tai Savet, Trell Thomas, Mir Harris and Equal Justice Now Co-Founder Tony Smith.

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South LA music school White Hall Arts awarded COVID relief grant

Faith Petrie Contributing WriterJuly 23, 2020

“Congratulations…”

That’s all it took for Tanisha Hall to let out a scream in the lobby of White Hall Arts Academy, the music conservatory she founded over nine years ago.

Tucked into a brick-stoned building on 54th Street in South Los Angeles, the school was just granted a plethora of new opportunities thanks to the email announcing a $25,000 COVID-19 Community Response Fund through the Lewis Prize for Music. The organization awarded a total of $1.25 million to 32 programs in the U.S. targeted at teaching youths about music.