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From Raisin in the Sun to Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner and 2012 Tony Award winner for best play.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States commemorating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865.

Celebrated on June 19, Juneteenth is a combination of the words June and nineteenth.

Sorry Holder, Your Role in Fast and Furious is Not a Political Issue

Republicans recommend unprecedented Congressional action against attorney general.

(SALEM) - Eric Holder could face a Contempt of Congress charge and he would be the first attorney general ever faced with this very serious issue.

Holder has been feeling the heat for some time now over his role in the 'Fast and Furious' gun smuggling operation.

California`s Political Hell

The tools now exist to turn America into a nation of one percent dreams and ninety-nine percent nightmares.

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - After the successful subversion in 1978 of California’s democracy and California’s budget process known as the Prop 13 Trojan Horse, the California Republican Party set their sights on the Presidency.

Conservative Republicans, who constituted a small minority within the National Republican Party, never came to terms with the social legislation enacted during the 1930s and 1960s.

Behind Irvine`s $2.2 Billion Fight for the Great Park`s Future

The 'Great Park' project is losing tax-based financial support quickly.

(IRVINE, CA) - This is part one of a two-part look at the financial realities of the Great Park in Irvine, California, situated on the former El Toro Marine base.

El Toro's nightmarish toxicity and the related Marine illnesses and deaths, are not missing the radar of the Orange County press.

Inside Mexico`s New Youth Rebellion

Weekend leafleting was just one of many actions carried out by a new youth movement that's shaken up the 2012 Mexican elections.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - In Aguascalientes, Mexico, a group of young people passed out leaflets to passerby in the city's busy downtown.

A young woman wore a homemade poster that protested the murders of women in the state of Mexico, while her companions distributed leaflets that flashed a satiric image of Enrique Pena Nieto.

Rodney King Dies at the Age of 47

There is no evidence of foul play.

(LOS ANGELES) - Rodney King, the man who became famous after his videotaped beating in 1991, is dead at the age of 47. He was reportedly found dead in his swimming pool. King’s fiancee Cynthia Kelly, called police at 5:25 am to report what she’d found.

King’s beating after a high-speed chase set the nation on fire, as well as much of Los Angeles. The four officers involved in the beating were acquitted, leading to a racial firestorm and debates for many years to come.

My Dad Would Have Turned 95 Today

Remembering a great man whose life reached many people.

(SALEM) - It's my dad's birthday today, and a few weeks shy of five years since he passed away.

He died just a few hours after my mom, it was a lot for my brothers and I and our families and friends to accept at the time, but also a blessing as they obviously had no plan of spending even a single day without each other.

Keystone XL Pipeline and California`s Bullet Train: Similarities In Abundance

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Acceptance speech by Sen. Barry Goldwater @ San Francisco Presidential Convention in July of 1964

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - Many of the critics who’ve posted comments to my columns continue unabated to declare myself and my ilk as "radical, lunatic fringy extremists".

They accuse us of holding up the American economic recovery dream parade.

CoreLogic® Releases June MarketPulse Report

—Report Highlights the Positive Force of Negative Equity and the Liberal Side of Collateral Credit Standards—

(SANTA ANA, CA) - CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today released its June CoreLogic MarketPulse report.

The monthly economic publication provides insight into the current and future health of the U.S. economic climate with particular focus on housing and mortgage metrics.

Standing in the Wreckage of Prop 13

There can be no doubt that Prop 13 was a colossal Trojan Horse.

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - Until the mid 1960s California, particularly Southern California, practiced widespread housing discrimination against blacks and Latinos.

“In the years following World War II, African Americans found themselves confronted with increasing patterns of housing segregation..."