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St. Eugene Place 1st Overall at the Annual Academic Decathlon INGLEWOOD—St. Eugene

School won first place overall, and third in logic and the super quiz at the Deanery 16 Academic Decathlon held at Junipero Serra High School on Saturday, Febru-ary 22.

In individual competitions, St. Eugene students earned first place ribbons in religion, science, and English, and third place in current events and fine arts. St. Eugene School is an archdiocesan Catholic elementary school in South Los Angeles, serving boys and girls in Jr. Kindergarten (age 4) through 8th grade. Middle

school students from 6th, 7th, and 8th grade participated in the De-cathlon.

The Decathlon team was coached by Vice Principal and 6th grade teacher, Dr. Celynda Kingsby, and 8th grade teacher, Ms. Songye Parker, under the direction of Mrs. Leona Sorrell, Principal.

Erica Edward, St. Eugene's spokesperson and Director of Marketing & Development said, "Dr. Kingsby really poured her heart and soul into this."

St. Eugene has open enroll-ment and welcome parents and students to come in and find out how they can become members of the St. Eugene family.

For more information visit the school at 9521 S. Haas Ave-nue in Los Angeles, call 310.266.2391 or visit them on the web at www.steugene.net.

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Courtesy photo by Erica Edward St. Eugene Middle School Students won first place overall during the Annual Deanery 16 Academic Decath-lon on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at Junipero Serra High School.

California Banks Buy Little from Minority-Owned Businesses, New Study Finds

SAN FRANCISCO – Cali-fornia’s largest banks buy few goods and services from minor-ity-owned businesses, reports a new study from The Greenlining Institute, released recently in San Francisco.

In a state where people of color make up 60 percent of the population, banks obtained less than eight percent of the goods and services they procured in 2012 from businesses owned by African Americans, Latinos, Asians or Native Americans.

ESCAPING THE OLD BOY NETWORK: The Banking Industry and Supplier Diversity is the first study to ever examine in detail the degree to which banks with the largest California market share contract with diverse-owned businesses.

”Banks are a key engine of our economy, purchasing over $51 billion in goods and services in 2012,” said Greenlining Insti-tute Economic Equity Director Sasha Werblin. “It should not be considered acceptable that their supplier networks so completely fail to reflect the diversity of California.”

Key findings of the report include:

Entrepreneurship is essential to the health of communities of color. Minority business enter-prises (MBEs) outpaced the growth of their counterparts be-tween 2002 and 2007. When MBEs do business with major institutions like banks, they gen-erate wealth and create jobs in their communities, but these firms still face challenges break-ing through “old boy networks” and obtaining contracts.

Banks are major purchasers of goods and services, and thus a

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Raymond Bell Celebrates Birthday Bash at La Louisianne By Tamara G. Lewis

LOS ANGELES—Oh how we engaged in such a quaint and warm celebration on behalf of our finest “Mr. Raymond Bell.” Yes! W e c e l e b r a t e d R a y ’ s “BIRTHDAY” on Friday Febru-ary 21, 2014.

An “Emmy Winning” Sports Producer, the savvy Ray Bell is also an independent featured News Producer at KCBS 2 / KCAL 9. He is currently working on a documentary with Award winning Film Maker/Producer Doug Harris titled “CALLED UP; The Emmett Ashford Story.”

Family and friends joined Ray Bell at the famous local res-taurant in Los Angeles - “La Lou-isianne,” to partake in an evening of great fun! We certainly enjoyed the delectable Cajun food, and live entertainment fea-turing singer “Mr. Greg Rose,” who has the most wonderful and enchanting sound.

Truly, an all-time favorite of the town! We were all filled with great laughter and lifted spirits. Simply, a very wholesome and joyous experience!

Those in attendance were myself, Ms. Tamara G. Lewis Columnist/Writer for PACE NEWS and Executive Director of “We Are Our Brother’s Keeper”, Frank Stephens (UCLA 1976 Rose Bowl Champions, Stacy and Sean Cook, Joseph Simpson,

Anita G. Finley, Owner –“Love Yourself Beautiful”, Sphear Collins, Film Director ”County

General”, Angele Elise, Rainey-Lewis Collins,

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Obama Gets Support for Brother’s Keeper Initiative California philanthropic and community organization make a big investment in President Obama’s initiative to boost young men of color. By Olu Alemoru From California Black Media

S A C R A M E N T O -California public and private stakeholders are backing a his-toric, national call to arms by President Obama that will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in providing opportunities for young men of color. On yesterday at the White House, Obama and mem-bers of his cabinet announced an initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. It is a partnership of lead-ing organizations teaming with the administration to lay out a non-partisan, strategic plan to address the challenges faced by male African-American, Latino, Native American and Asian Pa-cific Islanders who live in inner city communities.

A broad spectrum of experts agree that this demo-graphic is largely disenfranchised, a reality consistently reflected in its iron grip on the lowest levels of academic achievement and highest incarceration rates.

New data on the state of young males of color in California is nothing short of alarming: Only about half of African-American, Latino and Native American boys graduate from high school on time. The expulsion rate for Afri-can-American males is three times higher than for White males, and Latino males are 6.7

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Hello Readers, Well, well here we are one more time. We made it and you know what? That’s a blessing because we did what the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi didn’t do. No, the sad news of his passing on Tuesday hit many by surprise. He was only 66 years old. Chokwe Lumumba for a short period of time brought the city of Jackson together. So while we are still here let us work in the spirit of Lumumba and endeavor to bring peace to our diverse city of Los Angeles and the world for that matter. We as Christians follow after the examples the Prince of Peace laid for us. Jesus Christ who is the Prince of Peace has given us a great example to follow in His footsteps. We are not to take one single moment for grant and use it wisely and with the love we have in our hearts to share with others and to give like you have never given before to show the love of God toward all whom you come in contact with. We are to walk in the newness of our mind when we have been transformed. Let us do this by loving one another. Praise God!

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"Run, Jesse, Run" – 30 Years Later By George E. Curry (NNPA) The recent Wall Street Project conference in New York City was old home week for many of us who were involved with Jesse Jackson’s first presi-dential campaign in 1984. There was Frank Watkins, the former candidate’s longtime press secretary and the driving force behind Jackson’s decision to run. Also present were Emma Chappell, the campaign’s national treasurer; Rev. Herb Daughtry, senior pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn and an

early supporter; economist Julianne Malveaux, who worked in Jackson’s presidential campaigns and four key parts of the 1984 rainbow – Jim Zogby, Butch Wing, Steve Cobble and Robert Borosage. Former Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields shared memories as did former New York City Mayor David Dinkins.

I was asked to moderate a discussion about the impact of the 1984 campaign on the nation and, yes, an African American now sitting in the White House. I covered Jackson’s first presidential run while working for the Chicago Tribune. I knew most of the major players, but it wasn’t until we sat down as a group with Jesse Jack-son that we had collectively reflected on the historic events of three decades ago.

Cleo Fields recounted what the campaign meant to him in deeply personal terms.

“When I was in the fifth grade, I was going through a lot of depression,” Fields said. “The first day of school you had to state your name and what you wanted to be in the future. At the time, I wanted to be a police officer, but everyone before me had said doc-tor, lawyer or engineer. My mom had 10 children, my daddy had died and I had hand-me-downs.

“I stood up – I wanted to say something bigger than everyone else – so I said, ‘My name is Cleo Fields and I want to be (and the only thing I could think of was president) president of the United States of America.’ Everybody laughed, including the teacher. I didn’t want to go back to school because they thought it was a big joke and I was depressed about it.”

Two years later, Fields was present in the audience when Jack-son asked students to repeat his trademark “I am Somebody” exhor-tation.

“It was at that moment that I started believing I can be anything I wanted to be,” Fields said. “I became a state senator at the age of 23. And that was because of Jesse Jackson. And a congressman at the age of 28. I became the Democratic nominee for governor at the age of 33. And that’s only because of the inspiration from Rev.

Jesse Jackson and I just want to say thank you.” While working as a student organizer for Jackson, Fields was invited to join Jack-son’s national staff.

Jackson’s presidential runs also represented a breakthrough for James J. Zogby, an Arab-American.

“For me and my community, what was historic about this was it brought together two parts of my life,” he said. “I had always been involved in civil rights and anti-war work. But when you be-came an Arab, when you put on the Arab hat, then allies you had in those movements wouldn’t talk to you anymore.”

Zogby told of politicians, including former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode, returning campaign contributions donated by Arab-American groups.

“He [Jackson[ said, ‘Our time has come.’ It was my commu-nity’s time, too. We felt welcome and included for the first time in an American political campaign.”

David Dinkins, New York City’s first Black mayor, said he would not have been elected without the ’84 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson. He said, “I know what Jesse did for me.”

Frank Watkins, the former press secretary, had urged Jackson to run for president against Jimmy Carter in 1979, but Jackson de-clined. But this time around, Jackson was willing to listen. “I wrote a memo outlining the reasons for Rev. Jackson to run: increase voter registration, to increase political awareness of people and to galvanize the Black community to get more involved in politics,” Watkins remembered of his 1982 document. “I didn’t necessarily think that we would win, but I tried to put together a strategy where we could win.”

Jackson said a number of Black leaders were urged to run be-fore he made his decision to enter the contest, including former Atlanta mayors Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young. When they declined, Jackson stepped forward.

“It really was not running for office, I was running as an or-ganization,” Jackson stated. “…We kept trying to pull the party back to the moral center, which we called the Third Rail. What be-came clear was that civil rights, social justice, gender equality, workers’ rights were not on the agenda. Somebody had to get to the stage to get the cameras to hear us. We had no platform on which to stand to make our case. In the end, that was driving the situa-tion.”

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

Blacks Have More Reasons to be Fearful than Whites By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA) In the years after enslavement, South-ern Whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No White “owned” a Black person, but many Whites behaved as if they did. Theoretically, Blacks were free to come and go as they pleased, but if they went to the wrong store, sat in the wrong part of the bus, or failed to yield narrow sidewalks to Whites, they

could expect a physical confrontation. All a White woman had to do was cry “rape” for a Black man (and usually the wrong man) was beaten or lynched. Whites expected deference from Black peo-ple, and when they didn’t get it, they demanded it with physical threats or worse.

In the months after World War II, 12 million soldiers returned home. Seven percent of them – nearly 800,000 Black soldiers – got something less than a hero’s welcome. Indeed, thousands of Black World II veterans were beaten, often because these men wanted the same rights at home that they fought for abroad. Their sense of dignity and equality seemed to embolden the Ku Klux Klan, which was responsible for soldiers in uniform being pulled off busses, beaten and shot. In some cases, these soldiers had their eyes gouged out; in some cases they were castrated, tortured and lynched.

Whites engaged in the writing of Jim Crow laws that were im-posed on Blacks such as vagrancy laws that made it possible to jail a Black man because he had no money. These unequal laws made it as easy to find a nearly free labor market as it had in slavery. There was no relief from this unfairness until the late 1960s and early 1970s. And Whites attempting to reinforce the myth of White supe-riority by reinstituting the practice of deference found a Black population less ready to defer, more willing to engage the courts (and in some cases the streets) in a quest for equality.

When the myth of White superiority does not work, too many Whites hide behind their so-called fear as a way force deference or provide penalties for those who will not engage in White people’s fantasies. If Michael Dunn were so afraid of Jordan Davis and his friends, why did he get out of his car and confront them about their loud music?

None of us of a certain age loves loud music, but most of us know how to close a window and tolerate it for a moment or two. Dunn says he was afraid of teens playing “thug” music. Those teens might well have been afraid of him, just as the World War II veterans had been afraid of the KKK. Jordan Davis and his friends might have been as frightened as formers slaves were, when they refused to cross the sidewalk into the streets so that Whites could go first. Some of these Black folks ignored their fear and attempted to exercise their citizenship rights. Some were lynched because they would not defer to outmoded customs.

Gary Pearl could be Michael Dunn’s evil twin, with a pecuni-ary twist. In 1983, Pearl left his job as a city sanitation supervisor in Louisville, Kentucky because he says he had a nervous break-down, which he attributed to having to work with Black people. A psychiatrist testified that Pearl was suffered from paranoid schizo-phrenia; judge ordered that he be paid $231 per week. The state appealed the award, it was eventually overturned, and Gary Pearl returned to the obscurity he had before the “fear” defense.

What would happen if every Black person fearing White peo-ple got to file for unemployment compensation, or carry a gun around to assuage himself of his safety? Would a jury be as lenient toward that Black man as they were with Michael Dunn? Would they acquit just like the jury acquitted the men who killed Medgar Evers (it took decades for a jury to finally do the right thing). A hard read of history suggests that Blacks have more to fear from Whites than the other way around, but it is Whites, rationalizing their fear, who get to shoot without justification.

A thorough read of history, however, would remind us of the Dred Scott case where the Supreme Court ruled that Black people have no rights that Whites are bound to respect. Clearly, Michael Dunn, George Zimmerman and the others who have Klan sensibili-ties and invisible hoods, believe a 19th century Supreme Court rul-ing instead of 21st century realities. For folks like Dunn and Zim-merman, however, the 19th century is not very different than the 21st.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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St. Eugene Place 1st Overall at the Annual Academic Decathlon

(Continued from page 1) Middle school students from St. Eugene proudly displays their 1st place trophies won during the annual Deanery 16 Academic Decathlon held on Sat-urday, February 22, 2014. They took 1st overall. The students, as shown in the picture below left took time to pray for success and it paid off with big wins and tro-phies to prove it as shown on the right. The St. Eugene Cou-gars has a lot to shout about because they are mighty in academic excellence

Joint Statement in Support of White House Initiative: My Brother’s Keeper

revenue and economic productivity as well as decreased costs associ-ated with poor health or incarcera-tion. “California has led the way by investing in the success of boys and men of color to ensure our state’s shared prosperity,” said Rubén Lizardo, Senior Director at PolicyLink, an Alliance partner. “We are thrilled that the White House is committed to aligning the federal government's leadership and resources to achieve success in this important endeavor."

My Brother’s Keeper will be supported by a coalition of philan-

men of color.” Investing in young men of color can reap huge divi-dends for California. According to the 2010 Census, over 70% of young people in California identify as people of color.

A 2007 study by the Califor-nia Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara concluded that African-American and Latino men graduating high school generate $681,130 and $451,360 more per person in additional dollars for the state than those who do not gradu-ate high school.

This is due to increased tax

The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color and California As-sembly’s Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color congratulate President Obama on the launch of My Brother’s Keeper, a new White House initia-tive that will help young men of color stay on track and gain oppor-tunities to reach their full potential.

The initiative will build on the work of proven community ap-proaches that help put boys and young men of color on the path to success.

Some of these proven ap-proaches have been developed through collaboration between the Select Committee and Alliance for BMoC member organizations, such as Fathers & Families of San Joa-quin (FFSJ), a Stockton commu-nity organization lauded by the White House as a successful model.

The solutions-oriented organi-zation ensures that youth have the support they need to change the direction of their lives after release from the juvenile justice system through organizing, leadership development, and mentoring.

The results of the program are staggering – 90% of youth who

receive FFSJ services do not re-cidivate back into the juvenile jus-tice system.

“We are honored to be nation-ally recognized as a successful program,” said FFSJ Executive Director Samuel Nunez. “We hope that the White House initiative can help build healthy families and communities throughout the na-tion.”

The partnership between the Alliance for BMoC and Select Committee, forged over the past three years, aims to improve out-comes for California’s boys and men of color, many of whom face unique barriers to opportunity and are more likely to grow up in pov-erty, live in unsafe neighborhoods and go to under-resourced schools.

“We have learned a lot about the problems facing our young black and Latino men, and what they need to succeed,” said Select Committee chair Assemblymember Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), who attended the White House an-nouncement.

“Young people are our great-est resource. Unfortunately, too many of our policies—from educa-tion to criminal justice—disproportionately punish young

thropic institutions committed to leveraging philanthropy’s role in improving life outcomes for boys and men of color, including The California Endowment, a key part-ner of the Alliance for BMoC and Select Committee. “All of our sons and brothers need support and op-portunities to be successful,” said Dr. Robert K. Ross, President and CEO of The California Endow-ment.

“As tomorrow's leaders, young people of color will help define America's future. Now is the time to work together, invest in these young people, and provide them what they need to be respon-sible and healthy adults.” The Alli-ance for BMoC and Select Com-mittee will continue to work with the White House to promote prom-ising efforts and practices to be identified by the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

“We need to do everything we can to empower these individuals to reach their fullest potential,” said Bradford. “I am pleased that the White House has taken the initiative on this issue, and I look forward to sharing what we have learned in California to help make this national program successful.”

President Barack Obama and Assemblyman Steve Bradford

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Los Angeles County Prepares for Heavy Rain Storms

Need Milk? By Dean L. Jones, CPM

Advertisers are constantly pushing potential consumers to buy their respective products. The news media recently picked up on how the milk-processing industry is retiring their twenty year old ad campaign Got Milk and replacing it with a new one called Milk Life. The milk-processing industry sug-gests that a change in advertising slogans can help reenergize slow sales. In view of lower sales, I wonder whether or not if we even need milk at all?

For starters, milk sugar or lactose is difficult for some people to digest which is a condition called lactose intolerance.

The milk-processing industry does not openly discuss this but roughly 65% of the world's human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy.

Lactose intolerance in adult-hood is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90% of adults in some of these communities. Lactose intolerance is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent.

Consuming a lot of cow's milk at a young age has been linked to a number of childhood ailments from minor to very seri-ous. A number of risks including iron deficiency, colic, and in-creased risk of type I diabetes have been studied by a large num-ber of medical universities. Mother's breast milk is best, be-cause even after the first year, food allergies to cow milk and milk products are common.

Cow's milk consumption has caused chronic constipation in children, all the way to teens who have contracted irritable bowel syndrome, autism, asthma, and allergies from drinking cow's milk.

Since lactose is quite suitably part of human breast milk, one has to question the need to force con-sume a disproportionate amount of lactose sugars contained in cow and goat milks.

The plain cow’s milk at the grocery store does not contain added sugar, however, a number

of families do opt for the flavored milks, such as chocolate or straw-berry, where processed sugar is added to the beverage for sweet-ness.

Even the more health con-scious alternative milks such as almond, soy or oat milk may also contain added processed sugar for enhancing the sweet taste.

So, do we really need milk at all? The scientific evidence sug-gests that the human body does not need it.

Ironically, it is the physical activity that improves bone health in early life, and the amount of cow's milk or perceived calcium derived from drinking it appar-ently does not help with healthy bone growth.

Plant foods are naturally packed with nutrients that improve bone strength, strengthen immune function, and protect against can-cer and heart disease.

For instance, complex carbo-hydrates, vitamin C, fiber, folate, iron, and antioxidants are not found in dairy products, but are plentiful in vegetables, fruits, and beans. Plus, plant food sources of calcium are always low in satu-rated fat and are free from choles-terol.

w w w . S u g a r A l e r t . c o m Dean Jones, Ethics Advocate, Southland Partnership Corporation (a public benefit organization), contributes his view on consuming various unwholesome packaged foods and beverages.

Photo by Gloria Zuurveen Dean L. Jones

Los Angeles County first responder agencies and Coordinated Agency Recov-ery Effort (CARE) partners are monitoring two major rain storm systems forecasted to impact the region later this week, and are coordinating emergency response and re-covery contingency plans.

The agencies are ready to respond to any storm-related incidents coun-tywide and foothill commu-nities, including the cities of Glendora, Azusa and Mon-rovia, and the southwest area of the Antelope Valley, are on a heightened state of alert following recent wildfires that have left the areas at an elevated risk for mud and debris flows.

The LA County Pub-lic Works Department com-pleted annual storm season preparation last summer. The countywide flood control system is fully operational. Following the recent Colby Fire, the Department com-pleted additional preparations in Glendora and Azusa, cleaning out regional debris basins, working with the city on the placement of k-rails, and providing advice to homeowners on measures they should take to help pro-tect their properties from mud and debris flows. Resi-dents are advised to stay in-formed of local weather con-ditions and to follow all in-structions from local law en-forcement agencies. The flood control channels, as

well as rivers, creeks, and lakes should be avoided when fast-moving water or flooding is present. Additionally, bicy-cle paths located adjacent to the channels will be closed until after the storms have passed.

Other storm prepara-tions that are currently under-way include:

• The Department of Parks and Recreation is sand-bagging flood-prone park ar-eas and is prepared to deploy lake lifeguards to County parks where heavy rain may create fast-moving running water

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•In the event of Red Cross shelter openings, staff from the Department of Pub-lic Social Services will be on hand to provide services and assistance

•The Department of Public Social Services will be conducting safety checks on any current Adult Protec-tive Services clients in the affected areas

•For animals that need to be temporarily relo-cated, the Department of Animal Care and Control will be housing dogs, cats, and reptiles at the Inland Valley Humane Society in Pomona and horses and other large animals at Cal Poly Pomona

County residents are urged to remain vigilant dur-ing the storms and to monitor radio and television news broadcasts, County and city

websites, and official Twitter accounts @LACountyCEO, @ L A C O O E M , a n d @dpwCARE for important information and updates throughout the rain events. Information from all of the CARE partners, including official press releases and other notifications will be a v a i l a b l e a t www.dpwcare.org.

Individuals with ac-cess or functional needs may also call 2-1-1 for LA County information and re-ferral services regarding post disaster resources that are available to those affected by the floods and debris and mud flow.

The toll-free 2-1-1 number is available 24 hours a day and seven days a week. 211 LA County Services can also be accessed by visiting www.211la.org.

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California Banks Buy Little from Minority-Owned Businesses, New Study Finds (Continued from page 1) huge potential engine of eco-nomic activity. In 2012, the participating banks in this report spent over $51.05 billion on goods and services.

Nationwide, contracting with minority business enter-prises was nominal, with median spending at just 5.96 percent of total contract dollars and rang-ing from 3.46 percent to 8.37 percent.

Bank of America was re-sponsible for nearly half of all total dollars spent with MBEs.

California MBE contracting was only slightly better, and pales in comparison to the state’s diverse population.

The banks’ 7.72 percent median spending with diverse businesses fails to represent a state that is 60 percent people of color. Only five banks currently track state-specific spending in substantial detail, and many with substantial California mar-ket share do not.

Currently, no uniform stan-dard exists for how to measure banks' investment in supplier diversity, making "apples to apples" comparisons impossible. The federal Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion should create standard reporting regula-tions to create transparency and assist the financial sector, advo-cates and small businesses as they work together to improve opportunities for minority busi-ness enterprises.

Overall, contracting with California MBEs is extremely low. A total of $486.79 million was spent with MBEs in the state in 2012. Only $33.5 mil-lion went to Tier 2 MBEs, that is, subcontractors hired by Tier 1 suppliers to supply goods and/or services. JPMorgan Chase does an impressive percentage of its business in California with MBEs.

All of Comerica’s Califor-nia MBE spending went to Tier 1 suppliers, but Comerica had the lowest percentage of MBE spending in the state.

Compared to their national figures, most banks spent a lar-ger percentage with diverse businesses in California, likely a reflection of California’s diverse population.

Overall Recommendations 1. The financial sector must

increase the transparency of its supplier diversity spending. Lit-tle publicly available data exists on individual companies’ con-tracting.

This is a key element in promoting accountability and establishing supplier diversity goals for like institutions. Regu-lation that promotes transpar-ency in California’s utilities has produced unprecedented levels of procurement with MBEs, and new reporting requirements for insurance companies promises to do the same.

“Sunshine” in the financial sector has the potential to repli-cate these successes.

We are encouraged by the high participation rate of this first report and hope that other stakeholders begin utilizing in-formation on supplier diversity to positively impact communi-ties of color.

2. Banks must work to-gether to create thorough, uni-form metrics. Sharing data is just the first

step towards seeing real progress. Banks should support, and lend their expertise to, the creation of common metrics to allow for streamlined compari-son.

On a micro level, thorough metrics allow key staff to under-stand purchasing trends and re-fine MBE outreach.

In a macro sense, uniform metrics allow banks to share best practices and analyze mar-ket trends, opportunities, and challenges throughout the sec-tor. Regulators like the Offices of Minority and Women Inclu-sion have started this effort and we encourage supplier diversity professionals to collaborate with them.

3. Banks should disaggre-gate their supplier diversity data by multiple categories, including ethnicity, tiers, gender, geogra-phy, and industry. Contracting dollars are not distributed equi-tably in procurement, even among diverse businesses. Documenting procurement by ethnicity is essential. Analyzed data showed consistent dispari-ties in investments between eth-nic groups, with procurement from African American and Na-tive American businesses espe-cially lacking.

Tracking spending by tiers gives information on vendor size, dollar value of contract, and business engagement with the bank. While tracking woman-owned businesses is common across all banks, gen-der breakdowns within each diverse category are needed. Only three out of the eight par-ticipating banks in this report did this.

Figures by geography are necessary to evaluate how con-tracts affect local economies, though only five banks employ this metric in detail. Banks must also track their spending by in-dustry. This report did not cap-ture MBE spending by industrial category, but data from the CPUC’s supplier diversity pro-gram indicate a lack of contracts for diverse firms in professional service industries.

10 Furthermore, providing this level of data allows for companies to better understand contract forecasting for future business relationships.

Establishing metrics in these categories will allow banks to develop strategies to contract with consistently low-spend categories and ensure that all diverse businesses get a piece of the pie.

4. Companies should strate-gically contract with Tier 1 and

Tier 2 vendors.We are pleased by the high levels of contracting with Tier 2 businesses and en-courage banks to increase con-tracting with Tier 1 companies to increase competition among “big box” companies.

Banks can and should en-courage their Tier 1 vendors to subcontract with diverse busi-nesses, but must keep their inter-nal standards high as well.

Finally, we support the “unbundling” of larger contracts

so more diverse businesses can compete for bids. THE GREENLINING INSTI-T U T E A Multi-Ethnic Public Policy, Research and Advocacy Institute www.greenlining.org

California Launches First U.S. Lottery Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Website

SACRAMENTO – Selling Lottery tickets isn’t the only thing the California Lottery is concerned about. We also prize what we do for the community, its businesses, and our public schools. With that in mind the California Lottery is proud to be the first U.S. Lottery to launch a website dedicated to its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts.

“The site provides our players and stakeholders with information as to who we are outside of the products we offer,” said Paula LaBrie, Acting Director of the Cali-fornia Lottery. “CSR touches on every aspect of our business and it demonstrates our commitment to being a good corporate citizen.”

T h e n e w w e b s i t e , www.californialottery.com, gives

users the opportunity to learn more about the Lottery’s impact on Cali-fornia public schools, responsible gaming programs, and other pillars of our CSR program. Our CSR web-site focuses on the following areas:

· Responsible Gaming · Contribution to Education · Integrity and Transparency · Consumer Protection and

Security · Stakeholder Engagement · Environmental Impact The California Lottery is one of

two states to hold a level three certi-fication from the World Lottery Association (WLA). Over the past year, the Lottery has undergone evaluation and improvements to its responsible gaming programs as it prepares to seek a level four certifi-

cation from the WLA later this year. A level four certification would make the California Lottery the only U.S. lottery to hold this designation, the highest level from the WLA.

The mission of the California Lottery is to provide supplemental funding to California schools while simultaneously supporting local communities. More than 95 cents of every dollar spent by our players goes back to local communities in the form of contributions to public schools and colleges, prizes and retail compensation. The California Lottery urges its customers to play responsibly and within their budg-ets. If you feel you have a gambling problem, or know someone who does, you can get help at 1-800-GAMBLER. www.calottery.com

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Ridley-Thomas Authors Bill To Sell, Dispense CNG for Cars In Gallons Equivalents LOS ANGELES – As-

semblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas has introduced, AB 1907, a bill that would regulate the retail sale of com-pressed natural gas (CNG) and

liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuels for use in cars and trucks in gallon equivalents compara-ble to the sale of gasoline and diesel fuels currently sold at filling stations throughout Cali-fornia.

“Cars, trucks and buses

running on CNG and LNG fuels are much better for our state’s air quality than gaso-line and diesel. But consumers who drive CNG and LNG vehicles need to know they’re

getting their ‘gallon’s worth’ when they fill up at the pump at a CNG or LNG station.

AB 1907 will take the guesswork out of buying cleaner burning fuels for your passenger car or truck,” As-semblymember Rid ley-

Thomas said. If AB 1097 becomes law,

CNG and LNG fuels sold at natural gas vehicle filling sta-tions statewide after January 1, 2015 would be required to dis-

play all natural gas fuel sales at the dispenser in gallon equivalents of gasoline or die-sel fuel rather than units of measure – such as cubic feet, pounds, or kilograms – that

may make it difficult for con-sumers to easily compare fuel prices. AB 1907 is the first bill authored by Assembly-member Ridley-Thomas.

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We were delighted to acknowledge Mr. Gary Payton, Basketball Hall of Fame, who was rockin’ the house too!

Greg Rose Performs at La Louisianne

(Top) Ray-mond Bell and Tamara Lewis (Center) Ray-mond Bell and Rainey Lewis-Collins and (Below) Anita G. Finley c e l e b r a t e Bell’s birth-day at La Lou-isianne restau-rant in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb-ruary 21, 2014.

Photos by Gloria Zuurveen Greg Rose, the Song Stylist, performs at La Louisianne during Raymond Bell’s birthday celebration on Saturday, February 21, 2014.

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Chokwe Lumumba, 66, Dies; Activist Who Became Mayor in Mississippi By Douglas Martin From the New York Times

Chokwe Lumumba, a civil rights lawyer who once called for an independent black-majority country in the American Southeast before running for mayor of Jackson, Miss., last year, winning handily, died on Tuesday in Jackson. He was 66.

His family said the cause had not been determined. As a political activist, Mr. Lumumba campaigned for the United States to pay billions of dollars to blacks as reparations for their ancestors’ enslavement.

As a lawyer, he helped the rap-per Tupac Shakur in a successful effort to clear himself of assault charges in 1993; he persuaded Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to release two sisters from a Mississippi prison in 1996 after they had served 16 years for an armed robbery that they said they had not committed; and he defended self-styled revolu-tionaries charged with robbing a Brinks armored car in 1981 in Rock-land County, N.Y., and murdering three people in the process.

In Jackson, the state capital, Mr. Lumumba earned respect as a civic leader and a successful youth basket-ball coach and won election to the City Council in 2009. In a city that is 80 percent black and has had a black mayor since 1997, he was urged by neighbors and politicians to run for mayor last year as a Democrat. He won with 87 percent of the vote.

His major issue was the prag-matic one of fixing streets and sew-ers. In January, Mr. Lumumba per-suaded voters to accept a one percent sales tax to pay for the improve-ments. His slogan: “One city, one aim, one destiny.”

Mr. Lumumba had earned a reputation as an aggressive defense lawyer, particularly in police brutal-ity cases. He did not hesitate to chal-lenge judges in the courtroom. Sev-eral cited him for contempt and rep-rimanded him. He spent three days in jail after appealing one such repri-mand. In 2004, his Mississippi law license was taken away for six months.

He was born Edwin Finley Taliaferro in Detroit on Aug. 2, 1947, the second of eight children. He told an interviewer that as an 8-year-old he had been horrified when his mother showed him a magazine picture of the brutalized body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who had recently been murdered in Mis-sissippi after being accused of flirt-ing with a white woman in a grocery store. The case helped spark the civil rights movement.

Edwin was later at his mother’s side on the streets of Detroit as she passed out literature for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights organization. He at-tended Roman Catholic schools and in high school was student council president and captain of the football team.

He recalled that when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was as-sassinated in 1968, he was so dis-traught that he changed his name to Chokwe Lumumba (pronounced SHOW-kway Luh-MOOM-buh). Chokwe was the name of one of the last African tribes to resist the slave trade. He took the name Lumumba after Patrice Lumumba, the African leader who led what is now the De-mocratic Republic of Congo in its successful fight to win independence from Belgium in 1960.

Chokwe Lumumba, a student at Kalamazoo College at the time of Dr. King’s assassination, joined students at Western Michigan University, which is also in Kalamazoo, in tak-ing over a campus building, demand-ing more scholarships for blacks and more black professors.

After graduating with a degree in political science in 1969, he earned a law degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Around the same time, he joined the Repub-lic of New Afrika, a black separatist group that advocated a majority-black republic in the American South, becoming its second vice president. He soon traveled with the group to Hinds County, Miss., which includes Jackson. He became the New Afrika justice minister and led negotiations with unfriendly neighbors and law enforcement agencies. The group eventually left Jackson.

In 1976, Mr. Lumumba returned to Detroit to work as a public de-fender. Two years later he set up his own law firm to handle civil rights cases.

His major issue was the prag-matic one of fixing streets and sew-ers. In January, Mr. Lumumba per-suaded voters to accept a one percent sales tax to pay for the improve-ments. His slogan: “One city, one aim, one destiny.”

Mr. Lumumba had earned a reputation as an aggressive defense lawyer, particularly in police brutal-ity cases. He did not hesitate to chal-lenge judges in the courtroom. Sev-eral cited him for contempt and rep-rimanded him. He spent three days in jail after appealing one such repri-mand. In 2004, his Mississippi law license was taken away for six months.

He was born Edwin Finley Taliaferro in Detroit on Aug. 2, 1947, the second of eight children. He told an interviewer that as an 8-year-old he had been horrified when his mother showed him a magazine picture of the brutalized body of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old who had recently been murdered in Mis-sissippi after being accused of flirt-ing with a white woman in a grocery store. The case helped spark the civil rights movement.

Edwin was later at his mother’s side on the streets of Detroit as she passed out literature for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights organization. He at-tended Roman Catholic schools and in high school was student council president and captain of the football team.

He recalled that when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was as-sassinated in 1968, he was so dis-traught that he changed his name to Chokwe Lumumba (pronounced SHOW-kway Luh-MOOM-buh). Chokwe was the name of one of the last African tribes to resist the slave trade. He took the name Lumumba after Patrice Lumumba, the African leader who led what is now the De-mocratic Republic of Congo in its successful fight to win independence from Belgium in 1960.

Chokwe Lumumba, a student at Kalamazoo College at the time of Dr. King’s assassination, joined students at Western Michigan University, which is also in Kalamazoo, in tak-ing over a campus building, demand-ing more scholarships for blacks and more black professors.

After graduating with a degree in political science in 1969, he

earned a law degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Around the same time, he joined the Repub-lic of New Afrika, a black separatist group that advocated a majority-black republic in the American South, becoming its second vice president. He soon traveled with the group to Hinds County, Miss., which includes Jackson. He became the New Afrika justice minister and led negotiations with unfriendly neighbors and law enforcement agencies. The group eventually left Jackson. In 1976, Mr. Lumumba returned to Detroit to work as a pub-lic defender. Two years later he set up his own law firm to handle civil rights cases. In the Brinks case, he defended Fulani Sunni Ali, the Re-public of New Afrika’s information minister, who was originally known as Cynthia Boston. The presiding judge, saying Mr. Lumumba had

used the proceedings to promote a “propaganda campaign” on behalf of the New Afrika group, threw him off the case, which was being tried in federal court in Manhattan. Civil libertarians criticized the judge, say-ing he had infringed on the defen-dant’s right to choose her own law-yer. Charges against Ms. Ali were dropped in 1981.

Later, in a separate proceeding, Mr. Lumumba won the acquittal of Ms. Ali’s husband, Bilal Sunni Ali, formerly William Johnson, but was cited for contempt for arguing with the judge. Mr. Lumumba began his summation by exclaiming the group’s slogan, “Free the Land!” He went on to compare the prosecutor to a dishonest “used-car salesman.”

Mr. Lumumba returned to Mis-sissippi in 1988, and applied to prac-tice law. Three years later, his appli-cation was accepted.

In the Shakur case, in 1993, the rap star became involved in a shoot-ing melee with two off-duty police officers in Atlanta. Charges filed against Mr. Shakur and one of the officers were dropped. (Mr. Shakur was murdered in 1996 in Las Vegas.)

Mr. Lumumba’s wife, Nubia, died in 2003. He is survived by his sons Kambon Mutope, Thurman Lumumba and Chokwe Antar Lu-mumba; his daughter, Rukia Lu-mumba; and one grandson.

Mr. Lumumba hardly moder-ated his views in recent years. In an interview last year he continued to defend the Republic of New Afrika. The day after his election, he raised hackles by questioning Columbus’s historical importance.

And at his inauguration, he could not resist raising his fist in the black power salute and shouting an old slogan: “Free the Land!”

Obama Gets Support for Brother’s Keeper Initiative (Continued from page 1) times less likely to drop out of school than their White counter-parts. Southeast Asian boys from refugee families are more likely to drop out of school than any other group in the U.S.

Through greater invest-ment, the new effort will target critical intervention points in the lives of boys and young men. Among the areas of focus: early child development and school readiness; parenting and parent engagement; third-grade literacy; educational opportunity; and school discipline reform.

There will also be com-ponents dealing with interactions with the criminal justice system, ladders to jobs and economic op-portunity and healthy families and communities.

Central to this effort: Reversing the often negative im-age of boys and young men of color, and promoting effective public policy solutions.

The White House will partner with nine sponsoring foun-dations, which have collectively already approved or awarded $150 million to expand opportunities and are committed to investing at least $200 million more. The fun-ders include some of the nation’s most recognized names in philan-thropy: the Annie E. Casey Foun-dation; the Atlantic Philanthropies; the California Endowment; the Ford Foundation; the John and James L. Knight Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the Open Society Foundations; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; and the Kapor Center for Social Im-pact.

“We in philanthropy are proud to join President Obama in

this historic endeavor,” said Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. “We believe that the pri-vate sector — both philanthropy and business — has a critical role to play to complement the work of government to strengthen our communities and improve the op-portunities and life outcomes of boys and young men of color.”

Those sentiments were echoed by Robert K. Ross, presi-dent and CEO of The California Endowment, which is investing $50 million over eight years in a program called Sons and Brothers.

“All our sons and broth-ers need support and opportunities to be successful,” he noted. “As tomorrow’s leaders, young people of color will help define America’s future. Now is the time to work together, invest in these young and provide them with what they need to be responsible and healthy adults.”

According to Charles Sidney Fields, Regional Program Manager for the California En-dowment, the White House an-nouncement has been a year in the making and he wholeheartedly welcomed the development.

“We are excited about the energy and wisdom of the an-nouncement,” he said. “It all started with the conversations foundations and public and private organizations were having about these challenges.

The White House started to hear about this process and cre-ating opportunities has always been important to this president.

“Some of the foundations met with the president about a year ago to talk about what we were doing, and the president and his staff committed to figuring out how they could support us in that work. There wasn’t a ton of new resources, but the White House will help our profile and stream-line policy that connects with our work on the ground.” In particular, Fields stressed the preventative nature of the statewide programs, highlighting the work of Endow-ment grantees like South Los An-geles’ Community Coalition and Oakland’s Urban Strategies Coun-cil.

“In California, reading proficiency by the end of the third grade is the number one indicator for high school graduation,” he continued. ”We know that if a kid is not reading right by then, they

won’t graduate. If we can make that intervention early, we can keep kids on the track to success. Because if society does not catch it, these kids tend to end up in the criminal and juvenile justice sys-tem and it becomes a much more expensive proposition to rehabili-tate them at that point.” Commu-nity Coalition president and CEO Marqueece Harris-Dawson also praised the presidential announce-ment. The occasion prompted him to look back on two decades of work in these areas of concern..

“For over 20 years we’ve been working to improve the qual-ity of life in South Los Angeles and paid special attention to the cocaine and crack epidemic and the war on drugs,” he said. “Part of what we noticed, particularly as it relates to the school-to-prison pipeline mass incarceration crisis, is that it really impacts boys and young men of color in a more dis-proportionate way.”

Harris-Dawson noted that a recent Community Coalition campaign, to end suspensions and expulsions for willful defiance, has helped dramatically reduce the number of African-American and Latino boys thrown out of school for non-violent offences against teachers and other students. His organization’s grant, in the neighborhood of $200,000, will enable it to hire more staff and devote more resources to this brand of advocacy. “This is how life should work,” he said. “There’s investment from resource institutions to grassroots organiza-tions like us. Real change happens, and the nation takes notice.”

Photo by Gloria Zuurveen President Barack Obama

Photo by Gloria Zuurveen Dr. Robert K. Ross

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The following person (s) is/are doing busi-ness as: 1. AIM STAFFING AGENCY, 9708 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90044 LA County Registered Owner(s) Carolyn Cando, 9708 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90044. This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious busi-ness name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who de-clares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:Carolyn Cando Title: Carolyn Cando This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 3, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 14, 21, 28 March 7, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing busi-ness as: 1. Synthetic Culture, 9708 S. Hoover St., Los Angeles, CA 90044 LA County Registered Owner(s) 1. William Cando, 9708 S. hoover St., Los angeles, CA 90044 2. Oswaldo Rodriguez, 1087 W. 39th St., Apt 16, Los Angeles, CA 90037. This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all infor-mation in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:William Cando Title: William Cando This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Jan. 24, 2014. Notice-This ficti-tious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 14, 21, 28 March 7, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing busi-ness as: 1. Prestige Management 2. HOT-SHOT DIVAS, 3125 W. 59th St. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90043 Los Angeles Registered Owner(s) 1. Natasha Lowe, 3125 W. 59th St. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90043. This busi-ness is conducted by an Individual Regis-trant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all infor-mation in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true informa-tion which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:Natasha Lowe Title: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 13, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 14, 21, 28 March 7, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing busi-ness as: 1. The Beauty Bar & Bookstore 2. Luv 4 the Lockdown, 1600 W. Slauson Ave #B17, Los Angeles, CA 90047 Regis-tered Owner(s) 1. Kimberly Gray, 1600 W. Slauson Ave #B17, Los Angeles, CA 90047. This business is conducted by an Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 2/17/2014. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be fa l se is gu i l t y o f a c r ime. ) SIGNED:Kimberly Gray Title: CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 20, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement ex-pires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this state-ment does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 21, 28 March 7, 14, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing busi-ness as: 1. Chanale...the Shidduch Coach, 102 North Hayworth Ave #4, LA, CA 90048 Registered Owner(s) 1. Hillary A Hidegkuti, 102 North Hayworth Ave #4, LA, CA 900482. Karoly Hidegkuti, 102 North Hayworth Ave., #4 LA, CA 90048. This business is conducted by a Married Couple Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious busi-ness name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:Hillary A. Hidegkuti Title: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 18, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this state-ment does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Fil-ing) Pub February 21, 28 March 7, 14, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 1. ARTISTPR.COM, 555 N. Holliston Avenue #4, Pasadena, CA 91106; 7510 Sunset Blvd, Ste. 1200, Hollywood, CA 90046 Registered Owner(s) 1. 88 Consulting Enterprises Inc., 555 N. Holliston Ave #4, Pasa-dena, CA 91106. This business is con-ducted by a Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/23/13N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:88 Consulting Enter-prises Inc. Title: President This state-ment was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Jan.22, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 21, 28 March 7, 14, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 1. Cynthia’s Cosmokit, 11214 Doty Ave., Inglewood, CA 90303 LA County Registered Owner(s) 1. Cynthia Gurrola, 11214 Doty Ave, Inglewood, CA 90303. This business is conducted by an Indivdual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:Cynthia Gurrola Title: Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 11, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name Statement expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself author-ize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or com-mon law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 21, 28 March 7, 14, 2014PN


The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 1. Sweet Sassy Palette, 250 S. San Fernando Blvd., #114, Bur-bank, CA 91502 LA County Registered Owner(s) 1. Crystal Brandy Williams, 250 S. San Fernando Blvd., #114, Bur-bank, CA 91502. This business is con-ducted by an Indivdual Registrant com-menced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 12/29/2013. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) SIGNED:Crystal Brandy Williams Title: Owner/Chief Operating Officer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on Feb. 3, 2014. Notice-This fictitious Name State-ment expires five years from date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name State-ment must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). (First Filing) Pub February 28 March 7, 14, 21,2014PN

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