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Local Families Recognize Importance of Hotspots for Virtual Learning
daughters close with their school laptops as she used her cell phone as a It was like gathering around an home internet hotspot. Vona has been indoor campfire for the cash-strapped out of work for almost a year after her Inglewood area family when it came office closed due to COVID-19. That time for homework. meant there was no affording regular Mom Vona would gather her three
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sometimes in the middle of virtual classroom sessions and even during online tests. “It was a major issue I had to tackle,” said Vona, 32, a single parent of a first-, fourth- and seventh-grader. “I was trying to stay still in one spot and have them all around me. It was extremely hard. And then I had to keep explaining to the teachers — ‘hey, sorry, we had an internet issue.’” But thanks to help from Unitedhealthcare and the SoLa I CAN Foundation, an affiliated non-profit of SoLA Impact, the family’s signal woes are a thing of the past. The two organizations have teamed up to provide free mobile hotspot devices for to Vona and other pandemic-impacted households. SoLa’s 1000 For 1000 Campaign set a goal of providing a thousand families with WiFi service for a thousand days. The campaign recently received a internet service even in a time when $5,000 boost from UnitedHealthcare’s her children were required to attend California health plan. Earlier in the school virtually. pandemic, the company had made a They faced consistent issues similar campaign grant to help supply with unreliable Wi-Fi, including Continued on page 7 slow connections internet crashes,
Leaders Announce Legislation as First Councilwoman Step toward Returning Bruce’s Beach Faulk Leads IT News Wire
Manhattan Beach, CA—LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, State Senator Steve Bradford, LA County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, and other prominent local leaders gathered at the beachfront property known as Bruce’s Beach to announce the first step in the effort to return the property to the Bruce Family. In 1912, a young Black couple named Willa and Charles Bruce purchased beachfront property in Manhattan Beach and built a resort that served Black residents. It was one of the few beaches where Black residents could go because so many other local beaches did not permit Black beachgoers. The Bruces and their customers were harassed and
Inglewood Clean-up
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Inglewood City Councilwoman Dionne Faulk recently joined a collaborative venture to remove abandoned trash and debris at the off ramp of the 105 Freeway. The event took place on March 19 and Dionne Faulk was joined by the Inglewood Department of Public Works, Mayor James T. Butts, Jr. , threatened by white neighbors including 1924, purportedly to create a park. The the Inglewood Police Department, the KKK. Eventually, the Manhattan City took the property in 1929 and it Beach City Council moved to seize Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 the property using eminent domain in
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