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Benjamin Hooks dies at 85; longtime NAACP leader
Times staff and wire servicesCivil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s, has died. He was 85. Hooks died Thursday at his Memphis home after a long illness,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Howard University, NAACP, Heads of State, Employment Opportunities
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Mobile payment firm Square adds Silicon Valley vet Vinod Khosla to board
L.A. Times Tech BlogSquare, the rapidly growing mobile payments startup, named Sillicon Valley veteran Vinod Khosla to its board of directors on Monday. Khosla, who founded Khosla Ventures and was one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, is among the earliest investors in... -
Mayor moves to change leadership at troubled housing authority
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa moved Thursday to replace a majority of the members of the housing authority’s board of directors, just as the agency has come under scrutiny from the federal Housing and Urban Development Department's... -
Never pitched: "Mad Men" writer fails to campaign, and doesn't win seat on the Writers Guild board
Company TownMatt Weiner may be the brains behind one of the most critically acclaimed shows on television. But that wasn't enough to guarantee a seat on the board of directors for the Writers Guild of America, West. The writer and executive...... -
L.A. Opera shuffles top leadership positions
Culture MonsterJust days after renewing Plácido Domingo's contract as general director through 2013, Los Angeles Opera has announced a shuffling of its top leadership roles. Stephen Rountree, the president of L.A.'s Music Center, will add on the title of chief... -
Blockbuster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, sets plan to reorganize
Company TownAfter struggling with nearly $1 billion in debt and growing competition from Redbox and Netflix, Blockbuster Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. The filing, long expected, would wipe out the debt and equity of the once dominant...... -
Spyglass plan approved by MGM creditors [updated]
Company TownMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer creditors have approved a plan to reorganize the company in a prepackaged bankruptcy and bring in the chief executives of Spyglass Entertainment to run the studio. The proposal was passed by more than the two-thirds majority of MGM's... -
MPG Office Trust chief Nelson Rising resigns
Money & CompanyMPG Office Trust Inc. Chief Executive Nelson C. Rising resigned Thursday in a surprise change of leadership at the Los Angeles real estate company. The real estate trust formerly known as Maguire Properties Inc. said it had accepted Risingâs... -
Carl Icahn names five-person dissident slate for Lions Gate board
Company TownDissident shareholder Carl Icahn nominated five members to the board of Lions Gate Entertainment, two short of a majority needed to seize control of the 12-member board but enough to give him a substantial say in management of the company....... -
The Oscars take another dive: Can anyone save this sinking ship?
The Big PictureThe Academy Awards are in trouble. Trouble with a capital T, as they say in “The Music Man.” This year's show was roundly panned by critics, and viewership was down 10%, with an even bigger drop in the key 18-49...... -
ICANN approves open Web domain name rules: .anything is possible
L.A. Times Tech BlogMove over .com, get ready for .anything .you .can .think .of. The body that controls the way Internet domain names work, known as ICANN, has voted to open up the naming system so that any established organization with enough cash...... -
Buffett gets ready to address Sokol matter at Berkshire Hathaway meeting
Money & CompanyThe doors opened at 7 a.m. and fans who waited in a cold drizzle to get into Omaha’s Qwest Center bolted for the front rows to claim seats. Slow down, boomed a voice over the loudspeaker. A rock concert? Hardly.......
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