Dr. Carlos Vital featured on Discovery Channel Profiles about Allergies and Asthma
Dr. Carlos Vital, MD. Featured on The Discovery Channel's "The Profile Series," He is an active member of the Consumer Research Council of America's Top Physicians in Allergy & Immunology. He highlights problems of allergies and asthma in the US, and a customized method to treat patients with the problem.
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"I need a million dollars," announced LaToya Cantrell, standing center stage in the deserted auditorium of a former parochial school in Broadmoor.
Sloping upward in front of her were 500 dusty wooden folding seats. Sunlight filtered through tall, murky windows.
But Cantrell, president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, didn't see the grime, the dangling wires or the post-Katrina grafitti.
"This is a top-of-the-line theater," she insisted. "This is a jewel. We want it back."
The theater is on the second floor of the former St. Matthias School, now part of the campus of Blessed Trinity Catholic Church. The church raised $2.4 million to renovate the first floor for offices and a fellowship hall, said the Rev. Asare-Dankwah, pastor.
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Gregory Lee, a 1992 graduate of Sarah T. Reed High School in eastern New Orleans and a member of Xavier University of Louisiana’s Class of 1996, was elected president of the National Association of Black Journalists on August 5. The election took place during the association’s national convention, which was held in Philadelphia, Pa. August 3-7.
The proud New Orleans native has been a member of NABJ since 1996 and has spent the past seven years working as senior assistant sports editor of the Boston Globe. Prior to joining the Boston Globe staff, Lee worked at The Washington Post for five years and at The Times-Picayune for six.
During his matriculation at Xavier, Lee served as editor of The Xavier Herald.
According to the NABJ Monitor, Lee is the first sports journalist and the third-youngest member ever elected NABJ president. As NABJ’s 19th president, the 37-year-old takes over the helm of a 3,500-member association representing journalists from all over the U.S.
“I feel very overwhelmed, very privileged and I value everything because NABJ members recognize me,” Lee said after hearing he was elected president, according to the NABJ Monitor.
“I’m so very honored and humbled by this awesome responsibility that I have and with my team for the next two years,” he added.
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In memorializing Martin Luther King and his work, Harry Johnson has played a significant role in producing the King monument in Washington, D.C.
Johnson, a Houston lawyer and president of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. has led the mission since 2002, and will lead the unveiling of what is arguably the most famous and talked-about memorial America and the world has ever seen.
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| Houston attorney Harry Johnson stands in front of a replica of the Martin Luther King memorial to be dedicated on Aug. 28. |
“Here we are 48 years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s magnificent words and others, we now dedicate for the first time in our history a memorial to a man of peace, a non-president, and a person of color,” Johnson said.
Under Johnson’s leadership, the MLK Memorial Foundation has raised $112 million of the $120 million needed to complete the memorial.
On August 28, there will be an unveiling at the National Mall to mark the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. The event will be televised nationally on networks such as CNN, TV One and BET, and other major networks will cut in throughout the day.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity played a pivotal role in the idea and origin of King’s legacy being honored through a Washington memorial. From 2001 to 2004, Johnson served as national president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the fraternity of which King was a member. It has more than 700 chapters located throughout the United States and abroad.
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In May, LSU’s first Black undergraduate student, Alexander Pierre Tureaud Jr., was awarded an LSU degree, 58 years after he first began to pursue that degree in 1953. Tureaud was presented with an honorary doctorate at LSU’s 274th commencement ceremony on May 20, 2011.
Tureaud formally integrated the LSU campus, and was subsequently removed less than a semester later by court order and racial tensions. 
Tureaud says he didn’t get any advice about going to LSU from his father, civil rights attorney A.P. Tureaud Sr., before enrolling 58 years ago. “My father was a very low-key guy and he didn’t really talk a lot about what I should or should not do,” Tureaud told The Louisiana Weekly Thursday.
“First of all, everyone assumes that my father recruited me to go there to desegregate the undergraduate school because for 15 years before I went in, he was working on desegregating the graduate schools, starting with the law school, the education school and the other graduate schools.
Donald "Slick'' Watts retired from the NBA 32 years ago, but he still recalls the number of times he was told he wouldn't make it as a pro.
Slick Watts had a six-year NBA career.Instead of giving up, the former NAIA All-American from Xavier University in New Orleans stayed strong. Despite going undrafted in the 1973 NBA Draft, Watts prospered in a six-year NBA career as a guard with the Seattle SuperSonics, New Orleans Jazz and Houston Rockets.
Told by a number of scouts that he was too small at 6-foot-1, 170 pounds, Watts proved them wrong. He ranks eighth all-time in the NBA with an average of 2.2 steals per game.
"I was pretty quick and fast, and I had a no-nonsense personality,'' Watts said by telephone last week. "I just believed I could, but so many people said to me that I might be too small.
"I remember watching the draft, and I thought since my name started with a 'W' they were going by alphabetical order. When I didn't get drafted, I was a little disappointed.''
