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  2. Tiffiny Blacknell - Wikipedia

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    Tiffiny Townend Blacknell [3] (born November 14, 1976) is an American lawyer, community activist, and an advocate for criminal justice reform. She currently works as a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney. In 2018, Blacknell was featured in Macy's “Find the Remarkable You” campaign which featured six women ...

  3. California Community Foundation - Wikipedia

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    www.calfund.org. The California Community Foundation (CCF) is a philanthropic organization located in Los Angeles, California. Foundation Center, an independent nonprofit organization, ranks it among the top 100 foundations in the nation by asset size and total giving. Among all community foundations, CCF is 5th by total giving and 7th by asset ...

  4. Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia

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    Three young Pachuca women held in the Los Angeles County Jail during the 1943 Sleepy Lagoon trial. The urban, Mexican-American youth often called themselves "pachucos". The female parallels were called "pachucas" and wore tight sweaters and relatively full, flared skirts, often paired with high hair-dos, large earrings, and heavy makeup.

  5. UC Berkeley encampment comes down after school agrees to ...

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    She also said Berkeley would investigate discrimination complaints against Palestinian students and establish a task force by the end June to review financial dealings involving the UC Berkeley ...

  6. Weingart Center for the Homeless - Wikipedia

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    The Weingart Center is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit. [1] The Weingart Center for the Homeless has five facilities in one block, plus a walk-in access center, totaling 170,000 sq. ft. the Weingart Center serves 6000 homeless people and provides 253,000 meals annually. The Weingart Center is located at 566 South San Pedro Street in the building that ...

  7. Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association

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    The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is an independent Los Angeles County agency that administers and manages the retirement fund for the County and outside Districts (Little Lake Cemetery District, Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Office of Education, and South Coast Air Quality Management District).

  8. Schechter Day School Network - Wikipedia

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    The Schechter Day School Network, formerly the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, located at 820 Second Avenue, New York, New York, is an organization of Jewish day schools that identify with Conservative Judaism. [1] [2] The network provides guidance and resources for its member schools in the United States and Canada.

  9. Marcus Garvey - Wikipedia

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    Early life Childhood: 1887–1904 A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay, the town where he was born Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, a town in the British colony of Jamaica. In the context of colonial Jamaican society, which had a colourist social hierarchy, Garvey was considered at the lowest end, being a black child who was of full African ...