Maya Angelou Visits UC Riverside

Award-winning poet, playwright and producer Maya Angelou visited UC Riverside Thursday, Oct. 22 and is shown accepting a gift: an issue of the Journal of African American History celebrating the life and scholarship of John Hope Franklin. Photo: Michael Elderman

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African American Health Institute Board Members

Board members of African American Health Institute Alton Garrett, Olivia Swift-Ford, Artist Gilbert, Disop Ojukwu, and Veatrice Jews are shown during a recent celebration of their outreach into the Black community. Photo: Dowdy

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SB Plenty of Job Training, Not enough Jobs

By Dianne Anderson

Ask most anyone where the jobs are, and there’s not a lot of wiggle room for an answer. Unemployment is hitting 25 percent in some communities, bringing the surge of joblessness to over 14 million last summer, with over seven million in the past two years alone.

It’s a hard number for freshly trained Renee Abhold, mother of two small children, to get around. Soon, her Workforce Investment Act grant will run out, which got her through a nice summer job training at the Provisional Accelerated Learning Center, but that time is nearly over. “They cut my hours back already, it’s only 15 a week,” she said, adding that they’ve cut back her cash aid and food stamps to $300 a month, which she works off with 12 hours in community service.

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SB Black Professional Dads Doing More to Get Kids on University Track

By Dianne Anderson

Budget cuts and the poor state of education has African American dads banding together to cultivate a new fix to an old failing academic model that has somehow managed to miss two generations of black students.

Personal and impassioned, the professional dads are taking matters into their own hands.

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Consumer Health Protection Bill Signed Into Law

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law legislation authored by District 62 Assemblymember Wilmer Amina Carter that would require a health check and a written clearance before being allowed to undergo plastic surgery.

Assembly Bill 1116, named the Donda West Law, was inspired by the death of Kanye West’s mother.

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Cities can't bank on small businesses

UCI co-author says study validate efforts to attract and retain corporate headquarters

Locally owned small businesses don't insulate communities from layoffs and closures in bad economic times. Rather, corporate headquarters do the most to protect cities from employment reductions, reports a new study co-authored by a UC Irvine economist.

This debunks a popular argument that owners of "mom and pop" stores are less likely to lay off employees, relocate or close their businesses when the economy sours, said David Neumark, UCI economics professor and a Bren Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. The findings validate the efforts of many local governments to attract and retain corporate headquarters, he said.

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