Thursday, November 1, 2007

Leader Virginia Franklin speaks at King Drew hearing

Still pleading for a revival of South L.A. hospital

By Susanna Rosenblatt

Virginia leads the story:
"South Los Angeles activist Virginia Franklin wept before Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday, recalling how her mother, a psychiatric nursing professor, would bring her students to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center to train.Holding her 5-month-old nephew Kelly, Franklin asked the four board members present, "When he wants to go to school, where's he going to do his internship?"'(October 31, 2007)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-king31oct31,1,6077519.story