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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
Moderating the NAACP’s Black and Blue forum, a dialogue between law enforcement and the public, Ak McMorris opened the floor with a simple declaration, “We have questions, and we want answers.”... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
As director of Oral History Research Center for UNLV Libraries, Claytee White stitches together the voices and events of Southern Nevada into a living tapestry.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
Before the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice shut down operations in 2014, a Friday night might find publishing-editor and reporter Ramon Savoy, camera in hand, covering a Jack and Jill formal. ... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
Every fall, activist-performer China Hudson guides a circle of young women through the ancestral ritual of becoming members of the village. Chicago-born, she is a Disney Musical Theatre teaching artist.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
Brooklyn raised in the hip hop age when brand was everything, Shaundell Newsome mastered the art of wrangling image into powerful message.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 12, 2019
Debilitating on-the-job injury propelled Ruby Duncan out of work in the hotels and into the life of an activist. As cofounder and director of OPERATION LIFE, an anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, Duncan fought...... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Holding the bedazzled Nikes presented to him as ruby slippers in celebration of the Broadway in the HOOD’s 2016 production of The Wiz, founder and executive director Torrey Russell is entering his tenth season as a nonprofit theatre company.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
With justice as her ministry, Judge Karen Bennett-Haron is the first black woman appointed to the bench in the state of Nevada.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
He is often mistaken for governor or urged by his former Ward 5 constituents to run for that office, which is to say that Commissioner Lawrence Weekly has been recognizably active in the valley since his appointment to Las Vegas City Council in 1999.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
The smell of incense and often the quiet beat of live djembe align to coax the limbs into the challenge of poses that Maticia Sudah has traveled throughout Egypt and parts of the Caribbean to master.... Read full article