Antelope Valley Human Relations Commission

Success, service focus of summit at Knight High

This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Friday, March 14, 2008.

By JULIE DRAKE
Valley Press Staff Writer

PALMDALE – Lancaster Mayor Henry Hearns on Thursday urged about 400 students at Knight High School to define their own destiny.

Hearns was the keynote speaker at the school’s Teen Summit, themed “Knight Hawks Soaring Towards Success.”

The daylong conference was co-sponsored by the Antelope Valley Human Relations Commission and Antelope Valley Union High School District.

Darren Parker, president of the task force, and Emmet Murrell, who is the executive director for Knight’s Violence-Free Zone, also spoke.

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Greetings,

The next AV Commission meeting will be on Monday March 17 at 6:30 PM at
the Larry Chimbole Cultural Center in Palmdale. See you there.

Thank you,
Bob Forshay
vice chair-AVHRTF

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“Knight Hawks Soaring toward Success”
Keynote Presentation begins at 7:30 AM on March 13, 2008

Opening Remarks:

Mr. Darren Parker, President
Antelope Valley Human Relations Commission

Keynote Speakers:

Bishop Henry Hearns, Mayor, City of Lancaster
Steve Knight, Councilman, City of Palmdale

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This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Tuesday, March 11, 2008.

LANCASTER – Antelope Valley College, 3041 West Ave. K, will present a public forum titled “My Color is Not My Name,” to be presented by the college at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 20, in the college boardroom, SSV 151.

A panel of community members will examine the question of whether there is a “race” problem and, if so, how community members can work together to resolve it.

“During the civil rights era, Hispanics and African Americans cooperated, but that’s no longer true, as we see in national politics,” said AVC English professor Charles Hood, organizer and moderator for the event. He cited instances of Jesse Jackson and César Chavez walking side-by-side in protest marches in years past.

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Anti-crime measure plays on fears, says Black Caucus leader.

An anti-crime initiative about to hit the streets is “racially loaded,” says the California Legislative Black Caucus’ incoming chairman, who plans to lead opposition to the measure if it qualifies for the ballot.

The measure “overreaches,” “gratuitously criminalizes people” and is “pandering to fear rather than offering reasoned public policy,” Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, a Los Angeles Democrat, said in an interview last week.

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