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Everything we know about the Van Nuys/North Hollywood Los Angeles Valley College scandal
Alot has been published in the past two weeks about low-income students being defrauded at Los Angeles Community College District campus L.A. Valley College in Van Nuys/North Hollywood. More is expected to be published. Here is what we know so far....
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2023 3:15pm PDT
Controversial NoHo Neighborhood Rep Named In Racketeering Scheme at Los Angeles College
The bombshell revelations about the Valley Academic and Cultural Center construction being used a scheme to defraud Pinner Construction in turn surfaced revelations about the Media Arts Department that the VACC is supposed to house. ‘Dozen LAVC Cinema Student Narratives challenges Erika Endrijonas’s LACCD Success Story’ pulled focus on what was really happening at Los Angeles Valley College. Now focus turns to the role played by community members in the racketeering scheme....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2023 4:16pm PDT
Did L.A. Valley College award Fake Degrees?
Did Los Angeles Valley College Media Arts Department award fake degrees to inflate success stats? Multiple documents suggest they may have....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2023 8:26pm PDT
Breaking: LA Valley College Building Delayed Till 2025
$100 million dollar building sold to taxpayers as needed for low-income students will open a almost decade late. In the meantime low income San Fernando Valley students have struggled with mold, asbestos, and flooding....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2023 8:56am PDT
L.A. City College Presidential Hopeful Fostered Retaliation Culture as LAVC President
Erika Endrijonas has been announced as a finalist for President of Los Angeles City College, but new information shows she fostered an existing culture of retaliation while President of Los Angeles Valley College....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2023 3:38pm PDT
Dozen LAVC Cinema Student Narratives challenges Erika Endrijonas’s LACCD Success Story
Erika Endrijonas has built a reputation as a rockstar "professional problem solver" in California's Community Colleges, but a dozen newly surfaced student narratives from her time as President at Los Angeles Valley College are creating cracks in this image....
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2023 8:40am PDT
Erika Endrijonas faces new questions in LACCD fraud
Embattled community college administrator questioned about her role in rackateering scheme, while seeking new role as President of Los Angeles City College....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2023 4:53pm PDT
College Withdraws Honorary Degree Due to Vatican Desecration of Mount Graham
Suny Geneseo College bulletin said that a planned honorary degree has been withdrawn for a Vatican planetary scientist because the Vatican is responsible for the telescope long opposed by Apaches on sacred Mount Graham in central Arizona....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2023 11:58am PDT
Agriculture in America: Deeply Rooted in Black Culture
2023 California Pan African Food and Ag Pavilion will showcase our 350+ billion-dollar annual California Working Landscape and new opportunities for Black Agriculture to align efforts within the #1 "California Grown" US Ag industries in the global marketplace. Past, present and future pioneers of African Descent continue to light a bright path in today's plethora of opportunities....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2023 2:10pm PST
40 Mile Walk to White House to Call for President Biden Action on Reparations
From Sea to Shining Sea and beyond, the call for Reparations Study and Redress is growing. President Joe Biden and the Office of Executive Branch of the United States of America can demonstrate one standard for global citizenship via Executive Order to create a Reparations Study and Redress Commission. From Historic Negro Bar, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Gold Mining District we join the journey towards justice....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2023 11:00am PST
2023 Rosa Parks Day - Transit Equity Week
After her arrest, Rosa Parks lost her job as a seamstress and without support from the Civil Rights Movement Leaders moved north to Detroit where her brother Sylvester McCauley an US Army Veteran lived with his large family. Auntie Rosie and Raymond Parks regained human dignity and hope. From 1965-1988 she worked as an administrative aide to U.S. Representative John Conyers....
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2023 8:26pm PST
2023 California Rosa Parks Day - Transit Equity Day
Honoring the lifetime of service of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, we align with the movement for affordable, accessible public transportation - for everyone....
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2023 8:47am PST
2022 CA State Capitol Kwanzaa will build upon a ‘Quintessential 21st Century Partnership’
Our "California Grown" Pan African Global Holiday, created by Dr. Maulana Karenga here in the California Sunshine reflecting deeply on a global Pan African community, over half a century later...
Habari Gani?...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 2:37pm PST
Wreaths Across America “Remember, Honor, Teach” - California Pioneers of African Descent
“Remember, Honor and Teach” includes the 1848 Historic Towns of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar - Gold Mining District...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 10:20am PST
We Can Do So Much More on Student Loan Forgiveness
Education should be free...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 5:59pm PDT
Celebrate International Day for People of African Descent
Discover California Pioneers of African Descent (1849-1875) as part of United Nations International Day for People of African Descent....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 7:24am PDT
AB 1655 - California Juneteenth Holiday Bill, "Official" vs. "Optional"
The State of California Legislature is considering Assembly Bill 1655, amended several times, yet still "official" vs. "optional" is the salient consideration. Governor Newsom can help align California Law with Federal Law or sign a separate and unequal "California Grown" construct without consideration for our unique "California Journey from Slavery to Freedom." Nearly 2,000 United States Colored Troops served from California in the bloody and costly US Civil War. USCT were reportedly par...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2022 9:58am PDT
AB 1655 - California Juneteenth Bill aligns well with “Good News” From Vatican City
US President Biden’s Equity Proclamation, Executive Order #13985 arrives in San Francisco, California soon. Good news from Vatican City begins toward the ultimate goal to galvanize a global engagement with the Catholic Church to achieve reparatory justice comes to San Francisco July 26-29, 2022....
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2022 1:22pm PDT
Juneteenth is an official paid holiday in California’s largest City
With the concurrence of the Los Angeles City Council by resolution, Juneteenth shall be treated as a legal holiday for City employees, and I hereby request that the City Administrative Officer take immediate steps to implement Juneteenth as a permanent legal holiday for City employees, to be observed annually on June 19th....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 4:34am PDT
July 2022 - Existing California Juneteenth “Optional” Holiday Observance
Restoring the Past: California Pioneers of African Descent both free and enslaved throughout California deserve an official paid holiday through and amended AB 1655 in alignment with our Juneteenth Federal Holiday established June 2021, nearly 20 years after AB 1749 became law....
Posted: Fri, Jul 8, 2022 9:54pm PDT