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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
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 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 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
More than an armchair historian, Joe Neal honors the multitudes within him, visiting classrooms and holding talks about the presence of Indigenous Americans on this soil and in his veins.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
Faith in hand, Jon Ponder has graduated over 2,000 ex-offenders from the nonprofit jobs and re-entry program he founded in 2009. Hope for Prisoners combines life skills training, job readiness and career planning classes with 18 months of mentorship.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
A vibrant connection to the past and a visionary of a community future, Helen Anderson Toland, 92. reads widely, cultivates a garden of sculptures collected during her many travels to Zimbabwe and practices yoga with the same grace-filled agility...... 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
Hasani Palacio knows the connection between rhythm and commitment. This past season marked two decades of drumming for the community, showing up on Saturday mornings at the West Las Vegas Cultural Arts center to teach.... Read full article