Nat’l NAACP President to Give CSULB Black History Month Lecture

benjamin-jealous The Department of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) announced that its inaugural Black History Month Lecture will feature one of the country’s major civil rights leaders, Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP).

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L.B. Stroke and Osteoporosis Screenings

Residents living in and around the Long Beach community can be screened to reduce their risk of having a stroke or bone fracture. Grand Long Beach Event Center will host Life Line Screening on February 14. The site is located at 4101 East Willow St. in Long Beach. Richard Bennet from Woodland Hills participated in a Life Line Read more...

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Black History Music Tributes Strong Women

By Dianne Anderson

Students today can barely imagine the harrowing walk of nine black students into the Little Rock Central High School in step with the National Guard, past the jeering gnarled faces of white hatred, parents, teachers and the Klan.

Last week, Stone Houston sat through his first screening of the woman behind it

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CSUSB to Host Free Financial Series

Cal State Long Beach To Host Free Financial Series Focusing On Family Issues

Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Office of Gift Planning at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) will host a three-part series that will present practical strategies individuals can use when managing difficult family situations

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Community Panel: Voting Rights

By Dianne Anderson

Not taking any chances or wasting any time, civil rights advocates are already pumped up for the 2012 vote.

Royce Esters, founder of the National Association of Equal Justice in America, said his group is concentrating on new identification laws and how it will impact the Presidential election.

On January, 29, NAEJA is heading up a community panel and town hall to talk

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