“The King Center Timeline” features first publicly-available artifacts chronicling The Center’s History and the Legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King ATLANTA – Culminating the 2023 King Holiday Observance, The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Microsoft announced the launch of “The King Center Timeline,” an unprecedented collection of artifacts that chronicle its history, impact and the global contributions of its founder, Mrs. Coretta Scott King. In 1968, Mrs. King established The King Center. The Timeline is accessible at https://timeline.thekingcenter.org/dear-coretta/ The Timeline includes an inaugural collection of more than 75 years of documentary material, pictures, and…
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By Sawyer Kamal | California Political Review California legislators pass hundreds of laws every year. But sometimes, they free themselves from following them. On one emblematic issue, however, this may be the session when that changes: Lawmakers, who have pushed through major bills to support unions throughout California, may finally let their own staffers organize. For at least the fifth time in the last 25 years, the effort came to an anticlimactic end last year as a legislative unionization bill passed the state Senate, but failed in an Assembly committee on the last day of the session. Read the full article here.
By Gary Warth | California Political Review A $503,000 refurbishing project funded by the city and county of San Diego has created 20 additional shelter beds for youth and could end homelessness for about 60 young people each year, the head of the nonprofit running the program said Monday. The project expands the number of shelter beds at Urban Street Angels’ downtown program to 70, and youths ages 18-24 years old will begin moving in Feb. 23, said the nonprofit’s founder and CEO, Eric Lovett. The $503,000 to expand the shelter came from the $25 million County-City Behavioral Health Impact Fund created in…
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Tropare, Inc. (Tropare) filed suit on Friday in the Superior Court of New Jersey – Essex County against Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (D&B) and Lattice Engines, Inc. Adkisson Pitet is proud to represent Tropare, along with OlenderFeldman LLP, in its New Jersey lawsuit against D&B. The Amended Counterclaims, which is the result of recently obtained discovery, alleges egregious misappropriation and misuse of Tropare confidential information and intellectual property by D&B, a corporation that is known for safeguarding some of the world’s most sensitive corporate and consumer data. Tropare is a small software development company in Laguna Beach, specializing in the development of mobile applications, high performance…
By: Shaun Harper | Forbes Compton College was in serious trouble. Because of significant financial problems and reports of corruption on its governing board, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the institution’s accreditation in 2005. It took 12 years to get it back. There’s a real chance that reaccreditation wouldn’t have happened had its trustees not hired Keith Curry in 2011 to serve as the College’s 12th president. This proved to be a really smart business decision. “What Dr. Curry and the Compton College community accomplished in regaining ACCJC accreditation isn’t a miracle – it’s instead a…
The inaugural event provides resources, access and money for college! MIAMI – The inaugural Miami Black College Expo™, hosted by National College Resources Foundation (NCRF), is Saturday, February 11, 2023, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center, 711 Northwest 72nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33126. The dynamic event celebrates the rich heritage and NCRF’s long-term partnerships with black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The event provides students access to over 50 colleges, including historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities. https://youtu.be/KkOkdFJicLw At the expo, students can be accepted to…
LOS ANGELES – City officials cleared a large encampment in Skid Row Tuesday, with over 20 unhoused people living near the intersection of Third and Main streets placed into housing. Councilman Kevin de León’s office announced that the housing placement took place after “weeks of outreach.” https://2urbangirls.com/2023/02/authorities-id-woman-killed-in-front-of-dtla-homeless-encampment/ The intersection has been a known spot for serious crimes, including several in recent weeks, according to de León’s office.
Company Partners with Pat Tillman Veterans Center, Purple Heart Homes and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Valley to Create Lasting Positive Impact in Arizona Communities NEW YORK — Fox Corporation (“FOX” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: FOX, FOXA) announced charitable commitments totaling over $300,000, in conjunction with its ongoing FOX Forward and FOX Sports Supports corporate social responsibility initiatives, to create a lasting, positive impact in Arizona, the host community of Super Bowl LVII, airing on FOX (Sunday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. ET). These include a commitment to the Pat Tillman Veterans Center (PTVC) to provide scholarship funding and resources for student veterans, as well as…
By: Joe Erlinger, President of McDonald’s USA Whether you’re a lawmaker, a business owner or leader, or an everyday voter, one thing is clear: California has become a dramatic case study of putting bad politics over good policy. Last fall, the legislature passed a bill – AB257, or the FAST Act – almost entirely at the behest of organized labor’s firm grip on many of the state’s lawmakers. It makes it all but impossible to run small business restaurants, but the impacts are far beyond that. Under the FAST Act, an unelected council of political insiders, not local business owners and their…
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines announced today the completion of our transition to paper cups for inflight beverages, a move which eliminates more than 55 million plastic cups annually and replaces them with a more planet-friendly alternative. The change to paper cups makes Alaska Airlines the first U.S. airline to eliminate plastic cups. Combined with our Boxed Water™ partnership, these changes eliminate 2.2 million pounds of plastic waste from landfills every year, the equivalent weight of 24 Boeing 737s. Paper cups on board Alaska Airlines flights “Doing the right thing is one of our core values and nothing is more right and…