Youth : OPINION : Different Worlds, Same Emotions AMINA LUQMAN, Amina Luqman, 16, of Lynwood is a freshman at Vassar College. She was one of 20 Los Angeles-area young people awarded a trip to Great Britain last summer as part of an intercultural exchange program sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation and British Airways in recognition of their community service achievements. Participants were asked by Voices to write about their experiences. Luqman was selected winner of the contest.
Conversation With Ayuko Babu : 'Film Can Create New Levels of Understanding' Ayuko Babu, a cultural exchange specialist based in Los Angeles, was executive director of the second annual Pan-African Film Festival, a four-day event that concluded Sunday. In a conversation with Times staff writer George White, he talked about the role of film in promoting racial and ethnic understanding. and
Fed-Bashing on AIDS Funding Is Unfair DR. HARRY V. VINTERS, Vinters, a physician who studies and writes about AIDS, is chief of the Section of Neuropathology and associate professor of pathology and lab medicine at UCLA Medical Center. and