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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
New York City born, Kim Russell is director of educational outreach for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. She is responsible for a number of programs, including the Southern Nevada Wolf Trap Educational Program.... Read full article
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Erica Vital-Lazare
on August 11, 2019
When Vogue Robinson became Clark County’s poet laureate in 2016, she joined the ranks of Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey and Tracy K. Smith, all women of color appointed to the post on either the state or national level.... Read full article