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.
Often, we hear people say, “if God is such a loving God, why does He allow bad things to happen?” The answer: He loves us so much that He gave us freewill and He won’t intervene unless we include Him in our affairs.
Over the years, there have been many recorded protest songs. Considering in the climate of today, these songs are still important.
In 1939, singer Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” – a song composed by Jewish American Abel Meeropol (under the pseudonym Lewis Allan). The story goes that the lyrics were taken from a poem Meeropol wrote which was published in 1937.
I just read an article about the Southern Baptist Convention cutting ties with Saddleback Church, founded by now retired Pastor Rick Warren, for defending women in the role of church leaders, particularly as pastors. This has been a long-standing controversial issue. There was a member in my own fellowship who had the same concern, so I had done some previous research on it. A lot of the controversy stems from Apostle Paul’s writings. On the one hand Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:12, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must
Jewish celebration of Purim was born out of the Book of Esther in the Bible.
Life is about choices. Either we choose to follow God’s precepts, or we don’t.
Paul Revere Williams, born February 18, 1894 with an orphan background, followed his dream of becoming an architect and by the early 1920s was designing homes and commercial buildings in and around Los Angeles. At the time of his death on January 23, 1980, he had created some 2,500 buildings in the United States and around the globe.
Thank God for freewill and that we are not robots, but let us use our freewill responsibly with love and goodwill according to what would be pleasing in God’s sight.
On the second anniversary of the January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill – on the very day that President Biden awarded the prized Presidential Citizens Medal to some election officials who were seriously threatened for taking a stance against overturning election results, and to those who risked their lives holding the front line to protect vice president Mike Pence and other representatives during the certification process – Congressman Kevin McCarthy won the majority House of Representatives leadership role after 15 rounds of contentious voting within the GOP. According to reports, not one Republican whose very lives hung in the
A few years ago, Reader’s Digest published an article about stage actor Charles Edward Hall who went from playing the character of Ebenezer Scrooge to the character of Santa Claus.
A retirement gala themed “The Man, The Ministry, The Legacy” was held Saturday, November 5, for Pastor Emeritus Dr. Edward L. Haygood of Agape Christian Fellowship ministries in Los Angeles.
The first half of the Bakewell Media Sounds for the Soul Stage was jumping at Taste of Soul on Saturday, October 15th!
The most common meaning of the expression “chickens coming home to roost” is that eventually, bad deeds or words come back to bite the source.
Sunday, September 11, 2022 marks the 21st anniversary of what’s commonly referred to as “911.” Americans for the most part hold their twenty-first birthday in high esteem. Age 21 in this country signifies that a person is officially an adult, who can now legally buy and drink liquor, and be looked upon as independently “grown.”
If leadership is openly committing infractions, what can be expected of the rank and file? So goes the head; so goes the tail.