"All of us in the community in some way have been touched by violence."Īfter the ceremony, the sisters left the park and headed to the Healthy Compton Festival at the city's transit plaza, where they were set to judge dance and food contests. They haven't been to the city of Compton since their sister passed away," said Brown, whose grandmother was fatally shot in Compton. Named for their half-sister who was killed in a drive-by shooting in September 2003, the center will help connect residents affected by violence with service providers. The sisters are helping fund the Yetunde Price Resource Center in Compton, set to open early next year. "When you consider all the challenges and all the obstacles that the Williams sisters had to overcome and they stayed focused and dedicated, so that same message is being transferred over to the young people in the city," Brown said. The previously run-down and little-used courts at Lueders Park are fenced with lighting and now host three tennis camps and clinics, according to Aja Brown, the city's 34-year-old female mayor.
They were accompanied by their mother, Oracene Price. The sisters first learned to play tennis a few miles away on courts at East Rancho Dominguez Park in an unincorporated area surrounding Compton under the tutelage of their father, Richard, who didn't attend Saturday's ceremony. "At that time, black people, we weren't into tennis," said LeBeauf, who attended with her daughter and granddaughter. She pulled out a photo from the late 1990s, when the sisters wore colorful beads in their hair. Thelma LeBeauf, an 84-year-old fan from Los Angeles, clutched a plastic bag filled with newspaper articles about the sisters she has clipped and saved over the years. The sisters laughed and applauded the Compton Sounders drill team and drum squad that performed for them on court.īabies in strollers, members of a Girl Scout troop and elderly residents were among the crowd sitting in white chairs on the two courts.
"To have the tennis court refurbished, to make sure that there's coaching available, to make sure that these programs go on and to make sure that this sport stays here in our community, it's a big part of bringing us all up and creating positivity for young people." Venus added: "It's been a surreal experience to be back in this way. We definitely want to see some more champions come from these courts." "Driving here brought back so many memories. "We are really excited to be here," Serena said. "We literally lived right down the street so we could walk there," Venus told the crowd.īanners hung in the four corners of the two newly refurbished courts proclaiming them the Venus & Serena Williams Court of Champions. The sisters were greeted by cheers from a few hundred people when they arrived at Lueders Park, not far from their former home in the violence-plagued city of Compton located 17 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. (AP) - Venus and Serena Williams made a rare visit to their childhood hometown, where their half-sister was killed in 2003, to have tennis courts dedicated in their honor on Saturday. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection between rigorous methodology and societal implications of cognitive neuroscience research.COMPTON, Calif. I also have examined how research in psychology and neuroscience can promote global child welfare, an issue I addressed in a book on international adoption (Oxford University Press, 2016). Address Not Disclosed, Compton, CA 90220 is a 1842 sqft, 3 bed, 1 bath Single-Family Home listed for 670000. In addition to these primary lines of research, I have co-authored a cognitive neuroscience textbook with Marie Banich (Cambridge University Press, 2023). I rely upon cognitive, psychophysiological (EEG/ERP), and eye-tracking methods to address these questions. I am also interested in both adaptive and maladaptive aspects of mind-wandering as an aspect of attentional regulation and the effects of stress and adversity on executive functions. My research has examined neural processes that implement self-regulatory functions, such as regulating emotions and adjusting performance following mistakes during difficult cognitive tasks. My primary research investigates the neural basis of attention, emotion, executive functions, and self-regulation in the human brain. and Ph.D., University of Chicago Research
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