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Local cinematographer Michael J. Christopher partners up with the United Nation to make a difference in Haiti

Amen Oyiboke, Staff WriterSeptember 17, 2015

Aid projects that help foreign countries aren’t hard to find when well known organizations put forth the effort to help a country in need. However, solo projects organized by individuals can be a challenge and tricky to fund. But that didn’t stop cinematographer Michael Christopher from making an impact in Haiti’s educational system. In July, he made a trip to Haiti to donate his time to help school children, learn more history and work alongside the United Nation’s (U.N.) Coordination of Humanitarian office in the city Croix des Bouquets.

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Silvers Appointed New EVP at Brotherhood Crusade

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 17, 2015

Curtis R. Silvers, Jr. has joined Brotherhood Crusade as it’s newly appointed Executive Vice President. Founded in 1968, The Brotherhood Crusade’s principal mission is dedicated to building and sustaining an institution that raises funds and resources from within the community and distributes those funds directly back into the community. Brotherhood Crusade has a history of building alliances with other organizations, corporations and understands the tremendous need for helping our community and people grow and prosper.

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EntertainmentMusic

BB Jazz Festival Warms up Huntington Beach

Troy Tieuel, Contributing WriterSeptember 16, 2015

A sunny and hot day at Huntington Beach ushered in the BB Jazz Festival at the Huntington Beach Central Park on September 12 and 13 and featured headliners Faith Evens, Eric Benet and Joe. Corky Bennish and his wife Betty Bennish have been putting together the BB Jazz Festival and concerts since 2001 and for this year’s festival they arranged one of the best line-ups of the summer with a wide variety of artists such as Anthony David and Shiela E.

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EntertainmentTV

Iyanla Vanzant Returns for New Season of “Iyanla: Fix My Life”

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw, Contributing WriterSeptember 16, 2015

Iyanla Vanzant is back! The award-winning self-help series, Iyanla: Fix My Life returns to the OWN network on Saturday, September 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. In the three-part season premiere, Vanzant travels to Louisville, Kentucky to help two African American pastors, whose lives have been based on lies and deception, face their true identities and come out to their families and congregations. With her help, both Pastors take bold steps towards confessing their truth, after years of keeping their sexuality a secret from those they love.

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Entertainment

Sanaa Lathan talks about her new movie “The Perfect Guy”

Kam Williams, Contributing WriterSeptember 10, 2015

Tony-Award nominee Sanaa Lathan delivers a striking presence and undeniable energy to each project she takes on and continues to build on an already impressive career.

She recently announced that she will star in and executive produce the screen adaptation of Omar Tyree’s “Flyy Girl” trilogy. She also was seen in the smash hit “The Best Man Holiday” alongside Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut.

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LocalNews

Helping Sickle One Cell At A Time:The Misty Melony Sickle Cell Disease Foundation aims to make life better for sickle cell patients.

Brian W. Carter, Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2015

Sabriya’s Castle of Fun Foundation’s (SCFF) blood drive was created due to the need of blood for life-threatening diseases and conditions. It’s for this reason that SCFF is asking everyone to come out and donate blood on September 19, from 10-3 pm in honor of Sickle Cell Disease Month at the Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper. Misty Williams Marshall started the Misty Melony Sickle Cell Disease Foundation (MMSDF), a non-profit, to help those suffering with sickle cell. She knows from personal experience how painful and difficult life with sickle cell can be.

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InternationalNews

More heartbreak for Ebola survivor after baby boy dies

KABBA KARGBO and KRISTA LARSON, Associated PressSeptember 9, 2015

It was the new beginning that Sierra Leone’s first Ebola survivor, Victoria Yillia, had yearned for after losing 21 of her relatives to the disease: a newborn who would allow her and her husband to start a new family.

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Leimert Park Festival takes Labor Day Weekend

Shannen Hill, Contributing WriterSeptember 9, 2015

The sounds of jazz, blues, reggae, r&b, neo soul, spoken word and comedy along with smells of different types of food filled Leimert Park this past Labor Day Weekend as hundreds came out to the 7th annual Leimert Park Village Festival.

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Opinion

To Be Equal– The Value of Labor

Marc H. Morial, NNPA ColumnistSeptember 9, 2015

Despite the dizzying array of clearance sales and bargains to be found in our nation’s malls and department stores, Labor Day is no creation of our retail industry. It is our nation’s annual tribute to the working class, American worker whose physical, and largely manual labor, built this country’s infrastructure and built a labor movement that spurred social and economic achievements for all American workers – regardless of job sector.

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Opinion

Misty Copeland Danced Her Way to the Top By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA ColumnistSeptember 9, 2015

Fighting for freedom and equality comes in numerous different forms, vessels and vocations, particularly in a society with a history of stereotypical distortions about human capacity and ability based on race and ethnicity. Therefore, it is important to note whenever there is an irrefutable exposure of some of those false myths and caricatures.

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Opinion

Demonizing ‘Black Lives Matter’ By George E. Curry

George E. Curry, NNPA ColumnistSeptember 9, 2015

Led by Fox News, conservatives are trying to discredit the #Black Lives Matter Movement by claiming incorrectly that it is a Black hate group that encourages the killing of police officers.
On the Aug. 31 edition of Fox & Friends, Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked, “Why has the Black Lives Movement – Black Lives Matter Movement – not been classified yet as a hate group? I mean, how much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?”

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‘Angry Black’ Gunmen By Julianne Malveaux

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA ColumnistSeptember 9, 2015

Alison Parker, a rookie news reporter at WDJB, the Roanoke, Va. CBS affiliate, had turned 24 just days before she was murdered on August 26. Her work partner, cameraman Adam Ward, was about to move to Charlotte, N.C. because his fiancé, a producer at WDJB, had a new job.