Judges get ready for ‘big fight’ against conservative challenge
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Pastor Chris Clark of East Clairemont Baptist Church was involved in the fight to keep the cross on Mt. Soledad and helped rally hundreds of religious leaders statewide for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
He saw judicial activism in both cases and Proposition 8 “may have been the straw that broke the camel’s [...]
Woman’s death after chemical spill leads to search for answers
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Hope Goodwin moved to Valley Center to retire with her mother, Joye, two decades ago.
Together, the two raised championship horses and Great Danes, grew dozens of organic fruits and vegetables and were about to go into the business of farming organic garlic and Sea-buckthorn.
It was a return to [...]
The last hour with Dr. King
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The San Diego County YMCA hosted its 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award breakfast Friday with more than 1,000 people in attendance.
The morning’s keynote speaker was Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles, the last person alive who was with Dr. King an hour before an assassin fired a fatal bullet and [...]
Casual Encounter Show at Kava Longue Brother Nature
Brother Nature and Broken Dreams performing in the Casual Encounters Show at the Kava Longue – Images by Khari Johnson
San Diego Alpha Phi Alpha Holiday Ball
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2009 Alpha Holiday Ball – Images by Khari Johnson
Turks contemplate European Union
Turkey – Images by Khari Johnson
Story written Oct. 2005
Turkey consists of 69 million potential EU-citizens. We spoke to some of them about their future with or without the EU.
By Khari Johnson and Per Christian Selmer-Anderssen
46 years after first applying for European Union membership and three weeks after the start of a ten to fifteen year [...]
A Life of Struggle and Service Ended Violently on Avocado Blvd
Also posted on voiceofsandiego.org
On the corner of Avocado Boulevard and Fuerte Drive stand flower bouquets and a wooden cross typically placed on the busy street corner to remember a fatal car accident. But that’s not what happened here. Less than 10 feet from the memorial lies a makeshift sign broken into pieces on the ground [...]
Ben Fong-Torres
In the early 1960’s, there was no such thing as “Rock Journalism.” People barely knew what rock-and-roll was. It wasn’t until 1967 that Rolling Stone Magazine was created and iconic writers like Ben Fong-Torres came on the scene to change the game.
Will San Diego be seduced by the Lingerie Football League?
Lingerie Football League practice, San Diego Seduction – Images by Khari Johnson
Also posted by San Diego News Network.
After a few years as a Pay-Per-View Super Bowl halftime show, the Lingerie Football League opens its doors for the first time this year with 10 teams nationwide and hoping to expand to all 32 NFL markets in [...]
1968 student strikes
Last year I was executive producer of a project to interview 40 people involved with student strikes at San Francisco State, the longest lasting in American history and a culmination of black, white, Asian Native American and Latino student organizations for the creation of a college of Ethnic Studies, among other demands.
We never made it [...]
Grace on cover of San Francisco Bay Guardian
Grace, who I did a photo story on a few years ago, was recently on the front page of the San Francisco Bay Guardian as part of their 2009 photography issue.
Here are the pictures I took four years ago, when I met her drinking milk cartons in front of City Hall on the Fourth of [...]
Nerd Expo 2009 aka Comic-Con
I made it into Comic-Con this year but unfortunately, my camera wasn’t working. So instead of covering one of the largest events to happen in San Diego each year then selling those stories, I decided to just go as a fan, using only a point-and-shoot camera. Here are the photos taken over a little over [...]
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation through Calif. eyes
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vet Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor ahead of a vote to confirm her as the next Justice on the US Supreme Court.
If confirmed, which most agree she will be, Judge Sotomayor will become the first Latino and the third woman to sit on the [...]
Wesla Whitfield
Wesla Whitfield has accomplished a lot since she started singing with her sisters at four-years-old. The SF State graduate has played Carnegie Hall, sang for First Lady Hillary Clinton and performed more than 10,000 shows but today the 63-year-old counts still being able to project her voice across a room with no microphone as a [...]
Paul Ash
Spending summers on his grandparents farms in Oklahoma, Paul Ash got a glimpse of the agrarian life his family lived for generations.
Bush booed badly, banished before Barack’s big moment
During the inauguration I was nowhere near the stage but directly adjacent to the White House and right behind the Washington monument. From where I stood, you could see the white moving vans at the West Wing’s door.
Anytime George W. Bush came on the big screen boos would swell from the crowd. From that point [...]
Ethel Payne: History maker, history follower and “First Lady of the Black Press”
One of the best parts of coming to Washington has been getting to know more about my grandma’s sister, Ethel Payne, who I always knew as Aunt Ethel.
She was one the first black woman White House correspondents, starting her career in Japan, publishing work that started in her journal and ended in the pages of [...]
Gay Bishop’s invocation not aired by HBO but moves quickly on YouTube
So Sarah Pulliam is a reporter for Christianity Today. We worked together a few years ago at the Colorado Springs Gazette. Sunday’s big “We Are One” concert at the Lincoln Memorial and that aired on HBO, starting with the invocation of Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. It [...]
