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by Erica Vital-Lazare on October 8, 2019
Lou Richardson: Building Las Vegas
by Erica Vital-Lazare on October 8, 2019
It is not possible to list with brevity and without awe, the commercial, federal and civic projects managed and completed by Lou Richardson, founding CEO of Richardson Construction Inc.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Ak McMorris: Advancing Impact
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Moderating the NAACP’s Black and Blue forum, a dialogue between law enforcement and the public, Ak McMorris opened the floor with a simple declaration, “We have questions, and we want answers.”... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Claytee White: Sewing Stories
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
As director of Oral History Research Center for UNLV Libraries, Claytee White stitches together the voices and events of Southern Nevada into a living tapestry.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Ramon Savoy: The word in action
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Before the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice shut down operations in 2014, a Friday night might find publishing-editor and reporter Ramon Savoy, camera in hand, covering a Jack and Jill formal. ... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Ruby Duncan: Knocking and walking and asking
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Debilitating on-the-job injury propelled Ruby Duncan out of work in the hotels and into the life of an activist. As cofounder and director of OPERATION LIFE, an anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, Duncan fought...... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
China Hudson: What the universe has for me
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Every fall, activist-performer China Hudson guides a circle of young women through the ancestral ritual of becoming members of the village. Chicago-born, she is a Disney Musical Theatre teaching artist.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Shaundell Newsome: Double exposure
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 12, 2019
Brooklyn raised in the hip hop age when brand was everything, Shaundell Newsome mastered the art of wrangling image into powerful message.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
Maticia Sudah: The vessel through which spirit is
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
The smell of incense and often the quiet beat of live djembe align to coax the limbs into the challenge of poses that Maticia Sudah has traveled throughout Egypt and parts of the Caribbean to master.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
Hasani Palacio: A Free People
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
Hasani Palacio knows the connection between rhythm and commitment. This past season marked two decades of drumming for the community, showing up on Saturday mornings at the West Las Vegas Cultural Arts center to teach.... Read full article
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
Jon Ponder: Around the block, but didn't stay there
by Erica Vital-Lazare on August 11, 2019
Faith in hand, Jon Ponder has graduated over 2,000 ex-offenders from the nonprofit jobs and re-entry program he founded in 2009. Hope for Prisoners combines life skills training, job readiness and career planning classes with 18 months of mentorship.... Read full article
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