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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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Op-EdOpinion

‘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.

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LocalNews

A Mother Speaks on the Murder of her Son: “I’m trying not to be bitter and not allow myself to wallow in grief or misery.”

Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Contributing WriterSeptember 9, 2015

Ezell Ford was shot and killed by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers Sharlton Warmpler and Antonio Villegas on Aug. 11, 2014. A 10-month investigation culminated in the Los Angeles Police Commission, the body that oversees the LAPD, ruling that Warmpler was “unjustified to open fire on Ford … wrong to draw his weapon, and had used unacceptable tactics” when the two officers observed Ford walking down 65th Street near Broadway in South Los Angeles, as reported by the L.A. Times.

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LocalNews

Six Years Later, Mitrice Richardson’s Case Still Haunts Her Family – and Los Angeles

Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Contributing WriterSeptember 9, 2015

This past summer saw the deaths of five Black women in police custody across the U.S. The deaths were a jolt to the collective Black community already reeling from the seemingly rampant (and unending) police shootings of unarmed Black men nationwide. Here in Los Angeles, the deaths of those five Black women preceded an anniversary in another young Black woman’s death after being in the custody of law enforcement: Mitrice Richardson.

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LocalNews

Support for Labor is Alive & Well in L.A.

Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2015

Some experts say the influence of labor has declined across the nation, but its impact in Los Angeles remains strong and vibrant, especially in the African American community.

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Earl Massey Educates Community about Earthquake Preparedness

Shirley Hawkins, Contributing WriterSeptember 9, 2015

Earl Massey will never forget the massive Anchorage, Alaskan earthquake that shattered his childhood.
“I was 12 years old at the time,” recalls Massey, who said that the 1964 earthquake–registered at 9.2—was the second deadliest recorded earthquake in Alaskan history.

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EntertainmentMovies

Award-Winning Filmmaker Discusses Kickstarter Campaign for Emmett Till Biopic

Kam Williams, Contributing WriterSeptember 3, 2015

Producer Keith Beauchamp is no stranger to the violent and unjust history of Emmett Till.

It was his Emmy-nominated film, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, which prompted the U.S. Justice Department to reopen the case in 2004. Since his production of Untold Keith has worked closely with the FBI, specifically its Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative, producing documentaries on other unsolved civil rights murders as the Executive Producer and Host of Investigation Discovery’s (ID) crime reality series, “The Injustice Files.”

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EntertainmentTV

Sesame Street Moving to HBO Angers Some

Stacy M. Brown, Special to the NNPA from The Washington InformerSeptember 3, 2015

Sesame Street will now be brought to you by the letters H-B-O.
The iconic children’s program is moving from the friendly confines of PBS to the adult world of Home Box Office and the move has left more than just Oscar feeling grouchy.