About Fronnie Lewis
Fronnie Lewis is the founder, publisher, and editor of Media City Groove. She is a journalist with a B.A. degree in communication from Stanford University and more than 25 years’ experience as a staff newswriter in the NBC-4 newsroom here in the Southland. She decided to go freelance in 2004. Three years later she caught the blogging bug.
An editor for the trailblazing, but now defunct community website run by the Los Angeles Daily News, Valleynews.com, asked Fronnie to write some posts. She soon became a featured blogger on the site and discovered she had a knack for photography. Her blog was called "Web Writer." Several of Fronnie's photos, as well as some of her news and feature posts/articles, were picked up and published in the print edition of the Daily News. In 2008, she started her own blog/website, which morphed into Media City Groove.
For more than 30 years, Fronnie has called Burbank/Media City home. She loves its mixed vibe -- from small town to the “Media Capital of the World”. Truly, a place like no other.
City Council meeting 1=10-12
“City Mayor City Council City Staff
Thank you for once again honoring the memory of Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday.
On behalf of the Burbank Human Relations Council, which has encouraged this celebration for decades, I wanted to make a few brief comments.
However recent circumstances have changed my comments.
Once again, over the past few days, fliers from the National Alliance have defiled Burbank soil. This racist filth was distributed just up the hill. In four color I must compliment… they are getting better.
But it will have no effect here.
As Dr King once said “I have a dream that one day, one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Well those children are now advancing to middle age and they have raised their children well.
One travels the world and sees other cultures but ….in their own way ….are the same.
It is here in Los Angeles County. The most different different different place on the planet that this kind of stuff of the National Alliance will not stand.
We, here in Burbank, are part of a 10 to 12 million people community that has more races, ethnic groups, religious groups and the best tasting food in the world.
And it’s working! Dr. King’s vision is working, Crime is down is Los Angels County and, I wish to report to you, hate crimes are down even further!! Violent hate crimes are down even further.
We have a responsibility to be an example to our city, our state, our country and the world that so many different people can live together.
It was part of Dr King’s vision for America…. for us to live in harmony and justice and peace.
There is no other place I would rather live, at this hour, than right here.
I would like to call …..CM Mike Flad to the podium.
We have got a lot of these. In the past few years we have given this proclamation to good organizations and individuals.
This proclamation is precious.
Could you arrange this, with the Chief of Police for this to be given to Det. David Kleinfeld, our liason for hate crimes?”
Thank you Fronnie for giving me the forgiveness over what a stupid 7th grader said about Dr. King. Who found out within 36 or 48 hours of his death he really did believe in the America I believed in.
He changed my life.
John,
I appreciate your comments. Thank you for sharing.