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Comment by Phoebe Macon on April 17, 2011 at 1:43am

From Compton, Ca.- American Idol Singer Jacob Lusk




Jacob Lusk (born June 23, 1987) is an American singer from Compton, California. Lusk is currently a Top 7 finalist on the tenth season of American Idol.

Lusk was born in 1987 and is from Compton, California. He began singing when he was four years old. He is a minister of music at his church. Prior to American Idol, he worked as a spa concierge.[1] In 2007, he joined a gospel group called InNate Praise formed by the late hip-hop singer Nate Dogg, and he performed with the group at churches around Los Angeles County.

Lusk auditioned for the tenth season of American Idol in Los Angeles, California. He received high praise from Randy Jackson for his performance of "God Bless the Child" during the Hollywood rounds as the best ever seen on Idol. He was one of the top five males in the semi-final round, and therefore advanced to the Top 13.

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I was told that Jacob is kin to and in the family of our fellow Classmate William Lusk'.

Apaches please show your support for Jacob and remember to cast your votes so that Jacob will continue to stay the whole way until the end; and win the American Idol competition. Apaches: Please keep this young man in your prayers as well. Thanks!!

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GOOD LUCK JACOB & GOD BLESS YOU!!

Love and Blessings, Phoebe

 

Comment by Phoebe Macon on April 17, 2011 at 1:41am

City of Compton: April 19, 2011 (Primary Nominating Election) Tuesday, April 19, 2011 is Voting Day!! The Following Candidates Are Running For Office This Year: ------------------------------------------- Candidate(s) District 1: 1- Barbara Calhoun (Incumbent) 2- Demetreal Lynn Boone 3- Robin Bradley 4- Jasper B. Jackson 5- Francisco J. Rodriguez 6- Janna Zurita 7- Otha Ray Scott ------------------------------------------- Candidate(s) District 4: 1- Lillie Darden 2- Willie O. Jones (Incumbent) ------------------------------------------- (Lillie Darden) (Barbara Calhoun) (Willie O. Jones) (Jasper B. Jackson) Greetings, Thank you, I look forward to hearing from you during my campaign for city council. With my past experience as a business professional and as an active community member, I feel that I have some unique qualifications for city council. I know how to make tough decisions and get things done. I am driven by setting and achieving goals and would work hard as your next city councilman to move the city forward. I am dedicated to efficient and effective government that creates opportunities for new business and job creation as well as providing essential service to our citizens. I also know that one person cannot accomplish anything that it takes cooperation and everybody working together and I will work hard to foster a good working relationship with other council members to make sure that you get the professional government that you deserve. Let's work together to make Compton the best hometown in the country. Feel free to call me at 310-497-6426 or email me at JasperBJackson@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions. Best regards, JASPER B. JACKSON

Comment by Phoebe Macon on April 17, 2011 at 1:39am

City of Compton Council 'Shelves Plans' To Create New City Police Department
April 12, 2011


After floundering for several months, plans to create a new Compton Police Department officially died Tuesday night.

Faced with a massive budget deficit and the prospect of layoffs, the Compton City Council rescinded last June’s vote to end its contract with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and form a local police force again.

Councilwoman Barbara Calhoun, one of the three who voted in favor of bringing the city's police department back, switched her vote Tuesday night, rendering the venture officially dead for the time being. Calhoun also announced her intention to place a measure on the ballot that would allow voters to mandate that the city keep the sheriff's contract.

Former City Clerk Charles Davis, with backing from the sheriff's deputies' union, has been circulating a petition that would place an initiative posing that question on the ballot. Calhoun is up for reelection April 19 and faces a field of six challengers. She said the revelation of "cash-flow problems,” not the impending election, led her to change her mind.

“In 2009, there was money. In 2011, there's no money. We're talking about layoffs," she said after the meeting.

The plans had been on shaky ground for several months, despite the $1.7 million the city has spent on preparations to set up the new department. The hiring of staff, including a police chief, was stymied in December, when a budget amendment failed to get the four votes necessary to go forward.

The council had reallocated $19.5 million in lease revenue bonds originally slated to build a senior center and transit center parking structure to the project. Because the bonds were tax-exempt, the funds could be used only for capital costs and not for staffing. As of January, Compton was facing a $33-million budget shortfall for the fiscal year, having already begun the year with a $20-million general fund deficit.

Mayor Eric Perrodin, a former Compton police officer and leading proponent of reviving the municipal department, said he believes the city would be better able to control costs if it had its own police department. But he said he will not continue to press the issue.

"I'm a realist, and I can see right now, the majority of the council doesn't believe that's the case, so I'm not going to expend any more energy on that," he said.

Comment by Phoebe Macon on April 17, 2011 at 1:38am

City of Compton's Latinos Want Council Elections Revamped by Krissy Clark- NPR Radio Lawyers representing Latinos in Compton, Calif., head to court Tuesday to try to postpone upcoming City Council elections. They're suing the city over political representation. Latinos want the city to change the way it votes for City Council members — from at-large to district elections. STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And I'm Renee Montagne. Let's go to Southern California now, to a city that has long indentified itself as African-American. In Compton, changing demographics have landed the city in court. Latinos have overtaken African-Americans there as the largest ethnic group, but blacks still dominate the city politically. Now, a group of Latinos is suing to change the way city council members are elected in Compton, to give Latino neighborhoods more power. Krissy Clark of member station KQED has the story. KRISSY CLARK: If you stand outside Compton's city council chambers, through the glass doors, you'll see a giant mural in the lobby. Mr. JOAQUIN AVILA (Attorney): Portraits of African-American elected officials. CLARK: Like the first black mayor, elected after years of segregation, in 1969. But Joaquin Avila sees what's not in the mural. Mr. AVILA: I think it's a very incomplete picture. Basically, we're invisible. CLARK: By we, Avila means Compton's Latinos, who made up just a small part of the city when he was growing up here in the 1960s. But in the last few decades, Latinos have grown to more than 60 percent of Compton's population, and 40 percent of eligible voters. At least eight have run for city office in that time. And yet, Avila says... Mr. AVILA: There had never been a Latino on the city council. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you have a problem. CLARK: But it could take a voting rights lawyer like Avila to solve it. He's representing three Latinos suing Compton under the California Voting Rights Act. They want to restructure city council elections so they give more opportunity for Latino candidates. The goal is ambitious and technical. To understand it, consider the city council campaign of one former candidate. Mr. PEDRO PALLAN (Bakery Owner): Pedro Pallan. I established a business here in Compton, the bakery. CLARK: In the early 1990s, Pallan almost won a council seat. He said he had lots of open support in the Latino parts of town where he lived and worked. But in the African-American neighborhoods, those who backed him were discrete. Mr. PALLAN: And they told me flatly, I cannot walk with you. My community would make me feel like a traitor for voting other than African-American. CLARK: This is what political scientist Lisa Garcia Bedolla calls racially polarized voting. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor LISA GARCIA BEDOLLA (University of California, Berkeley): If you can show that along racial lines, people are voting in particular ways and that that's consistent, that's the place where you need some sort of remedy, so that the folks who are continually losing have some ability to be represented. CLARK: In cities with racial polarization, where council members are chosen at large, it can be nearly impossible for minorities to win. Garcia Bedolla says in places from the Deep South to San Francisco, a move to district elections has opened the doors of city governments to minorities. And it could do the same in Compton. Prof. BEDOLLA: The fundamental difficulty is how do you honor the history of the African-American community in that city, while at the same time understanding that the city demographics have changed? Mr. BENJAMIN HOLIFIELD: Honorable mayor, city council staff, ladies and gentleman. CLARK: At a recent Compton city council meeting, silver-haired Benjamin Holifield stands at the microphone to comment on police issues. Almost everyone in the room, including him, is black. The mayor, the entire city council and most of the audience. At a break, Holifield describes a time when these meetings looked very different. Mr. HOLIFIELD: I used to go to the city council here when it was all white, and they'd run me out of there. They'd say we're going to go out to closed session, so I'd leave. Then when I leave, I'd find out later they came right back out and started the meeting over again. So really, they threw me out. CLARK: He says years of political organizing and a severe bout of white flight slowly changed things. Craig Cornwell, Compton's city attorney, says the same thing will eventually happen for Latinos. He's defending the city in the lawsuit. Mr. CRAIG CORNWELL (City Attorney, Compton): Having your vote count is a tenet of this country and what a lot of people of various ethnicities have fought for. CLARK: Cornwell argues the problem's not the structure of elections, but that only 7 percent of Compton's eligible citizens bother to vote. Mr. CORNWELL: I think what's really at issue here is increasing voter participation of all ethnicities for the city of Compton. CLARK: But voter apathy is a vicious cycle. In court today, the Latino plaintiffs will argue that the current at large election system actually heightens disengagement. Since Latinos are in the minority, even if every one voted for the same candidate, it wouldn't be enough. If the judge agrees, he could freeze Compton's city council elections until the lawsuit's resolved. For NPR news, I'm Krissy Clark.

Comment by Phoebe Macon on March 16, 2011 at 4:50pm

L.A. Sentinel LEGENDS: African American Mayors of Compton, Ca. (Thursday, March 10, 2011)

 

Comment by Phoebe Macon on March 2, 2011 at 7:46pm

Compton Native Serena Williams Hospitalized With Pulmonary Embolism





Hours after she dazzled the red carpet at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, Serena Williams was in a Los Angeles hospital receiving emergency treatment for a blood clot in her lungs.

People magazine was the first to report that Serena suffered a pulmonary embolism last week and was seeing doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for the problem. It was discovered after she returned from New York for doctor's appointments relating to her foot issues.

"Monday Serena Williams underwent emergency treatment at Cedars [Medical Center] for a hematoma she suffered as a result of treatment for a more critical situation," a representative for Williams, Nicole Chabot, told the magazine.

Chabot said doctors are continuing to monitor the situation.

Earlier in the week, Serena said she had been targeting the French Open as her return to tennis. She hasn't played since last year's Wimbledon because of a foot injury suffered when she stepped on broken glass.

For now, Serena has more important issues to deal with than the timetable of her return to the court. Getting her health in order is priority one. Tennis can wait.
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Update: Serena Williams released a statement about her condition later Wednesday:

"Thank you everyone for all of your prayers, concerns, and support. This has been extremely hard, scary, and disappointing. I am doing better, I'm at home now and working with my doctors to keep everything under control. I know I will be ok, but am praying and hoping this will all be behind me soon. While I can't make any promises now on my return, I hope to be back by early summer. That said, my main goal is to make sure I get there safely."
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In another statement, her agents said the clot was caught in time and that Serena is resting at home under doctor's care.

There had been reports that the 13-time Grand Slam champion could miss up to a year. Her timetable seems more optimistic.
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Serena,
We your City of Compton Family wish you well and wish you a speedy recovery. God bless!

Comment by Phoebe Macon on March 2, 2011 at 6:54pm

CITY OF COMPTON: MARDI GRAS 2011 CARNIVAL (FRIDAY, 3-4-11 & SATURDAY, 3-5-11)!!

 

Comment by Phoebe Macon on March 2, 2011 at 6:47pm

Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper Article: "STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON"!!

 

Comment by Tawnette Fulton- Gilbert on February 1, 2011 at 2:51pm

MAXCY FILER REST IN PEACE!!!

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID FOR THE CITY OF COMPTON.  YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED.

P.S. PHOEBE THANKS FOR THE POST AND FOR ALWAYS KEEPING US INFORMED!!!

Comment by Phoebe Macon on February 1, 2011 at 3:23am

Maxcy Filer: Mr. Compton and Ambassador of Compton His Legacy Will Live On !!!!!

Posted by Phoebe Macon on February 1, 2011, 3:16 am

The body of well-known former Compton City Councilman Maxcy Filer lies in state inside the City of Compton Council Chambers, as his wife Blondell Filer,left, and his daughter Tracy Filer,right, pay their respects Thursday January 13, 2011. (Stephen Carr / Press-Telegram) Dressed in an impeccable black suit, with a Thurgood Marshall pin on his lapel and a tie displaying the scales of justice, the body of Maxcy Filer lay in regal stillness Thursday in the Compton City Council Chambers. Filer, the popular former city councilman who died Monday, will lie in state today as well as before his funeral Saturday. While Maxcy's wife, Blondell, 81, sat quietly in the back row of the room, well-wishers came to pay respects to the late lawyer nicknamed "Mr. Compton" for his unabashed support of all things Compton. Filer, 80, died in his sleep Monday in his Compton, Ca. home, leaving a legacy of leadership in his city and taking with him a significant piece of the area's history. Filer is the third person to lie in state at City. Maxcy Filer, 65, a Compton attorney in his office in front of a painting of the most respected man in his life. (Matthew J. Lee)Hall, following former mayors Walter Tucker in 1990 and Douglas Dollarhide in 2008. "He was a kingmaker," said Doris Davis, the former mayor of Compton who was among those who came Thursday to view her old friend. She will deliver the eulogy Saturday. Davis said Filer not only helped her and Dollarhide become mayors, but he also was a central figure in her first foray into politics when she ran for city clerk. Although Filer was undoubtedly a major player in Compton politics, Davis said his interests were in all people. "As the president of the Compton NAACP, he made it his goal that we have fair, equitable representation of African-American citizens in this community," Davis said. "He believed in the community of Compton and in the people of Compton," said JoAnn Glasper, who first met Filer when he was a councilman between 1975 and 1990 and attended First United Methodist Church with the Filers. "He worked hard to improve Compton." Soloman Martin, another church member, remembers Filer's inexhaustible energy. "He was one of the nicest guys and one of the most active guys in the city," Martin said. "He was just involved in everything." Snippets of that involvement could be seen arrayed around the anteroom. Maxcy Filer ,center, as he protested outside a Woolworth's in the City of Compton in the early 1960's. the council chambers on six poster boards. There were photographs of Filer through the years. There were newspaper articles, including several that detailed how he took the State Bar of California exam 48 times over 25 years to finally gain his license to practice law. There were invitations to presidential inaugurations, including one from President Lyndon Johnson. There were photos of Filer picketing for civil rights in the 1960s. Missing on Thursday, but expected to be at his funeral on Saturday, is the California state flag that Filer carried in 1963 during the march on Washington, D.C., when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. Kelvin Filer, who shared his father's love of the law to become a lawyer himself and now a judge at Compton Superior Court, said his father was a source of inspiration to many and shared his visions with all who would listen. "He believed if you have a dream, pursue it and don't let anything stop you," Kelvin Filer said. Living most of his adult life in the old Henrietta Square neighborhood of Compton, Filer was a part of the fabric not only of Compton but of the national civil rights movement. Those who came by Thursday agreed that it was only proper that he be honored by the city. "It's a thrill to me to be able to come out and pay my respects," Martin said. "I think he deserves every moment (of respect) that's given to him," Glasper said. Kelvin Filer said his father "would be embarrassed and humbled" by the outpouring. But inwardly he probably would have smiled. Besides his wife and son Kelvin, Filer is survived by sons Duane, Anthony and Dennis; daughters Maxine McFarland, Stephanie Hoxey and Tracy Filer; 14 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and three sisters. A memorial service was held at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 17, 2011 at the Love and Unity Christian Fellowship, 1840 S. Wilmington Ave., Compton, Ca. Filer was buried in the City of Compton' Angeles Abbey Memorial Park. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s statement on the death of civil rights champion Maxcy Filer WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-CA 37) issued the following statement on the death of Civil Rights Champion Maxcy Filer also recognized as ‘Mr. Compton’ who died in his sleep on Monday January 12, 2011. He was 80 years old. “Today, the City of Compton, the Civil Rights community and the nation as a whole lost a friend, activist and a true champion for justice who fought with dignity to make the City of Compton a better place to live and work, but he also taught us the value of perseverance when he passed the California Bar exam on his 48th attempt at the age of 60. His iconic legacy inspired a television sitcom “Sparks” that honored the passion that he had for the legal profession which ultimately became the career paths for both his sons Kelvin, who is a Compton Superior Court Judge, and Anthony, who is a supervising attorney for the Norwalk office of the Legal Aid Society. I have had the privilege of knowing Kelvin for quite some time and my immediate thoughts and prayers are with him, his sibling and other family members. This is a tremendous loss for all of us, but Maxcy Filer left us with a vivid legacy to cherish and carry on.” __________________________________________________________________________________________________ R.I.P. Maxcy Filer we love you and we will never forget all you have done for the City of Compton!

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