February 9, 2023

Dear Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) Staff, Students, Families, and Community,

In our continued commitment to serving our community and providing current information, we have some important updates in this week’s message.

County Administrator’s Monthly Message

This month I would like to share some words and lead through the lens of our Mission. Cultivating and maintaining a shared mission requires that the Board of Education, parents, community members, administrators, classified employees, and teachers are committed to the mission. When this happens, learning becomes collaborative and goal-oriented. Furthermore, our mission statement provides focus. Educating, challenging and inspiring students is our core work and we must all be committed to keeping student learning at the forefront of all we do. To access my monthly message, click here.

Black History Month

Our District is proud to join the nation in celebrating National Black History Month. A month dedicated to honoring and celebrating the valuable

contributions that African Americans have made in our country and our communities. In an effort to recognize the significant contributions of African American, we are kicking off a series by introducing African American owned businesses throughout the City of Inglewood.

Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen LA natives and owners Yonnie Hagos and Ajay Relan offer simple and nourishing breakfast and lunch offerings, along with unique coffee, juices and pastries. They take pride in creating fun environments for people to connect with each other and themselves. As young and ambitious entrepreneurs, they thrive to inspire their customers to climb their own Hilltop, as they have done for themselves, personally and professionally.

For more information regarding African-American owned businesses within the City of Inglewood and Los Angeles County, please click here.

National School Counseling Week

In honor of National School Counseling Week February 6February 10, 2023, our District would like to recognize our school counselors, who work tirelessly by helping our students examine their talents, strengths, abilities and interests. School counselors offer unique support, as they are the individuals who work in professional partnerships with teachers and support personnel to provide an educational system where students can realize their true potential and focus their efforts on improving academic achievement for all students. The work of our school counselors is an integral part of carrying out our District mission and we are extremely grateful for the significant impact they make in the lives of our students every day.

IUSD Stellar Student Spotlight

By Maygan Orr

Gabriella Logeman is a young Renaissance woman with a bright future! This City Honors Preparatory High School (CHIPS) senior is a proud recipient of the POSSE Scholarship, courtesy of the Posse Foundation. She is one of 90 L.A. area students selected for this prestigious honor. She has received a full tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she plans on majoring in nursing. She aspires to become a geriatric or pediatric nurse one day. Gabby was inspired by her grandmother to become a nurse. From 9th to 11th grade, Gabby cared for her grandmother who was in home hospice. Working alongside her grandmother’s caregivers, Gabby developed a love for leadership and care.

Being successful academically wasn’t always easy for Gabby. In 9th grade, she was failing several

classes at one point. She tells me that she never felt academically inclined up until 10th grade, so she didn’t put her best foot forward. Her teachers advised her she wasn’t living up to her potential. Her mom and aunts were already going through so much with her grandmother’s illness, and Gabby didn’t want to put further stress on the family by continuing to get sub-par grades.

In 10th grade Gabby looked inward and realized that she could perform well academically, she just had to work harder. She developed self confidence and bloomed. After the pandemic, she started the Black Student Union (BSU) at CHIPS. As founder and president, Gabby created fun and educational events for students, such as Black history escape rooms during Black History Month. Additionally, she was invited to speak at an IUSD board meeting to discuss BSU, and also won a $1,000 scholarship at the Black College Expo for writing an essay about why going to college is important to her. Gabby also participated in the Women in Entertainment program, which pairs successful female mentors in the entertainment industry with female high school students in underserved areas. Gabby received a full year of mentorship from CAA Agent Shone Jemmott, a $10,000 college scholarship, and a Macbook. Finally, Gabby is also a member of the CHIPS Mandarin Club and El Milagro (Latinx Club). She also runs track and received a gold medal for shot put (1st place for Ocean League).

Gabby says her greatest inspiration is her grandmother, because of all that she was able to accomplish, despite her circumstances. Her grandmother was raised in poverty in Birmingham Alabama, wore donated clothes, had 9 siblings, but still sought a better life. She received a full scholarship to Alabama A&M and eventually became a middle school teacher. Gabby believes that going to college is a homage to her grandmother. Gabby will be a 3rd generation college student, with her grandmother setting the standard for Black excellence in her family.

Gabby has this advice to share with her fellow IUSD students: “It doesn’t matter how you start, but finish well!”

To nominate a stellar IUSD student to be spotlighted next month, email maygan.orr@inglewoodusd.com.

What’s Happening in Our District and Schools?

District Committee Meeting Updates

In an effort to keep our community informed, our Asset Management Advisory Committee will take place on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at the District Office Board Room. The meeting is open to the public to attend, listen, and provide public comments. Please

click here for information regarding our committee meeting agenda and supporting documents that will be posted 72 hours prior to the meeting. Furthermore, our LCAP Educational Partner Committee will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. To access the Zoom meeting link, click here.

UTK Scholars Enjoy Fun Activities at Their School Sites

Our TK scholars at Beulah-Payne P-8 STEAM Academy had the opportunity to explore the great outdoors, as they were invited to participate in a nature exploration and appreciation field trip at the Sooky Goldman Nature Center in Franklin Canyon. Students participated in hands-on interactive lessons addressing environmental science and took a fun hike to get up close and personal with flora and fauna of our local Santa Monica Mountains. At Highland TK-6 Elementary, our UTK scholars are enjoying movement activities that incorporate the learning of letters, numbers, and shapes, alongside training their ears to hear sounds in words. Thank you to our dedicated teachers for their support that they bring forth to our students and families everyday.

Facilities-At-A-Glance December/ January Newsletter

Our District would like to share some highlights and updates on the District’s current and completed school modernization and improvement projects. The modernization and improvement projects have been funded through the use of Measure GG and Measure I bonds funding proceeds, alongside private donations. To learn more about how the funding proceeds have impacted our schools, please click here.

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Thank you staff, parents, students, and community members for your ongoing support and commitment to the success of our district.

Together, #WeAreInglewoodUnified Sincerely,

James Morris, Ed.D. County Administrator

We’ve got Our King Long live LeBron James

where it is.

By Kenneth Miller, Publisher

After eclipsing Kareem Abdul Jabbar to become the NBA’s all-time leading scoring on Feb. 7 at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Lebron James appeared at the post game presser sporting a dapper jet black suit with open collar matching shirt before answering a volley of questions from the mostly white scribes, reflecting on his most improbable journey of just a kid from Akron to the greatest scorer of all time.

Jabbar stood as the scoring leader for 38 years, or for as long as James has been alive and it had been considered among the milestones in sports history least likely to be broken.

However, that was before “The Chosen 1” or as he’s referred to now “The King” was born in Akron, Ohio, just 40 miles outside Cleveland to a teen aged mother on welfare mired in the grip urban poverty.

LeBron James or those who grow up like him have a higher probability of joining a gang, being addicted to drugs or suffering the fate of police brutality than they do of just making it out of the ghetto. Reaching the heights that LeBron James has is a miracle.

Scoring 38,390 points to pass Jabbar and become the all-time NBA scoring leader is a monumental achievement that will only enhance James’ legacy as mega star athlete, but most impressive is what LeBron James represents to his culture and the Black community away from basketball.

During a week when two Black quarterbacks will face off in the Super Bowl for the first time in history, James’ feat offers more hope of Blackness being embraced and celebrated instead of distanced and vilified.

Most Black professional athletes who hit the lottery ticket through their athletic prowess not only forget where they came from, but who they are.

Another Northeast Ohio native legendary boxing promoter Don King says you give them a million dollars and they act as if they graduated from Harvard although they don’t even know

In other words, Blacks feel as though their economic status affords them the permission to be white.

The stance that James has taken is just the opposite. James’ family and friends from Akron, Ohio, were in attendance, including some high school teammates from St. Vincent- St. Mary, but he quipped that he wanted to break the record so they would not miss their red eye flights and he’d have to foot the bill for another night at the hotel.

Not surprising, a dignified James was

After the historical moment, AbdulJabbar passed James a ceremonial ball celebrating the new scoring leader, but relationships is not something that Jabbar has managed to harness with other Laker greats as well.

“I just want to say, thank you to the Laker faithful. You guys are one of a kind,” James said. “To be able to be in the presence of such a legend as great as Kareem, it’s very humbling. Please give a standing ovation to the Captain, please.”

This is the same Laker nation that

“But I didn’t want to emulate nobody. I wanted to be myself. And if you stay true to yourself, you’ll always feel better about the outcome, win, lose or draw in life. But it’s been great. I’m not going nowhere,” James said.

Now a billionaire with index that includes movies, documentaries and other signature series, but the greatest title that he carries today is that of husband, father and son.

He expressed how important it is for his sons to see how he treats their mother, their younger sister and their grandmother.

most respectful to the man he passed although Abdul-Jabbar criticized James, saying he had a greater responsibility in how he conducts himself given his elevated platform last year.

“Some of the things he’s done and said are really beneath him, as far as I can see,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “Some of the great things that he’s done, he’s standing on both sides of the fence almost, you know? It makes it hard for me to accept that when he’s committed himself to a different take on everything. It’s hard to figure out where he’s standing. You’ve got to check him out every time.”

was reluctant to accept him because of their love affair with Kobe Bryant, smearing one of his murals with graffiti and castigating him at every turn.

James is blessed with the humility of Barack Obama. A four time NBA champion and MVP, whose greatest asset is his mind, something that I alluded to quite often when I lived in Cleveland and was covering the Cavaliers.

The acumen he had to study the history of the game and its iconic legends, but then respectfully charting his own course highlight that brilliance.

Bronny, his namesake is a senior at Sierra Canyon and has been selected to play in the prestigious McDonalds All American Game, just like his father did. The “I Promise School” in Akron, his name on St. Vincent-St. Mary basketball gymnasium, a life time contract with Nike, a sports agency influenced by him and repped by his childhood friend Rich Paul are just a few more nuggets. Graceland gave white America Elvis. Akron gave Black America LeBron. We Got Our King!!!!

Area Communities

Serving Ladera, Hawthorne, Westchester, Lawndale, Gardena, Carson

1st District Residents, Business Owners and Voters

Want to View Debate Between

Dotson and Gray

By Willie Brown, Publisher

1st District Residents, business owners and voters want to view a debate between incumbent Councilmember George Dotson and formidable opponent Gloria Gray. Inglewood Today has received numerous calls expressing a desire to hear directly from the two candidates who are fading off in a run-off election since neither candidate received fifty-one percent of the votes in the election in November.

It has been widely speculated that Dotson, who has had difficulty expressing himself coherently in city council meetings, is facing declining health issues, is no longer interested in managing and executing the rigorous day-to-day responsibilities associated with the challenges in Inglewood’s first district, and that he has reached an age when he would much rather spend his time with his family and enjoying a well-deserved retirement.

Furthermore, it has been expressed that Dotson is being forced to remain interested in serving the first district residents until after he is able to secure a victory. And, should he be able to convince the voters that he is anxious to fulfill a four-year term, he will opt out of the position after a few short months allowing the mayor and his subservient

city council to appoint someone who is independent.

Gloria Gray is independent and will make decisions that are in the best interest of first district residents and will not bow to the will of a domineering mayor.

There are numerous issues and challenges facing Inglewood over the next four years and the position of each independent council member will certainly shape the face and image of the City of Inglewood going forward. From the sports and entertainment complex development, traffic management and parking issues, to trash collection, crime and homelessness, to name only a few, the City of Inglewood needs independent council leadership now more than ever before. And 1st District Residents, business owners and voters want to hear directly from Dotson and and formidable opponent, Gloria Gray. Please join me in encouraging Dotson to step away from the cover and protection the mayor continues to provide for Dotson who, reportedly, has not repaid the mayor for thousands of dollars in campaign loan funds, and demand that Dotson agree to a public debate with Gloria Gray so that the voters can decide who will represent them for the next four years.

Rep. Waters condemns House Republicans

Ranking Member Waters Delivers

Speech on House Floor Condemning

Divisive Resolution and Republican

Threats to Slash Social Security, Welfare and other Critical Programs

Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, delivered a speech on the House floor opposing H.Con.Res.9 “Denouncing the horrors of socialism.”

Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the Committee on Financial Services we organized and considered the Committee’s oversight plan. We debated homelessness and the lack of affordable housing, how to best protect consumers, and the need to strengthen diversity and inclusion across the financial services industry. We also discussed the threat to our nation’s future if our country is forced to default on our debt four months from today. We didn’t always agree and honestly, none of the Democratic amendments were

adopted, but it was a civil debate about the merits of policy. I believe all of our Committee members recognize that

the legislation that comes out of our Committee has the potential to support wealth creation, grow small businesses,

support affordable housing and build a

Sports & Entertainment No matter who wins, the first Super Bowl with 2 Black quarterbacks will make history

By Becky Sullivan, NPR

A couple Sundays ago, Doug Williams was watching football. He wasn’t rooting for any of the teams, exactly, in the NFL’s two conference championship games, the winners of which would advance to the Super Bowl.

Instead, he said, he was rooting for two players: Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, the starting quarterbacks of the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, respectively — both of whom, like Williams, are Black.

First came Philadelphia, which cruised to victory over the San Francisco 49ers. “I sat there patiently after Jalen and the Eagles had won that game,” Williams said.

Then came the Chiefs game — a tense back-and-forth against the Cincinnati Bengals that came down to a Kansas City field goal in the final seconds to win 23-20.

“When that ball went through the uprights, I can tell you this — cold chills went through my body, and I got a little emotion,” Williams said in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered. “There wasn’t no tears running, but I had eyes full of water.”

The emotion he felt was decades in the making — 35 long years since Williams became the first Black quarterback to start in, and win, a Super Bowl when he was under center for the

Washington football team in their 1988 championship run.

In the decades since then, Black quarterbacks have come to be a common sight in NFL games, thriving in a position once reserved exclusively for white men.

Yet the sport’s biggest stage had never featured two — until now.

On Sunday, for the first time in 57 Super Bowls, both teams will start a Black quarterback. The two players, Mahomes and Hurts, have had superlative seasons. Both are finalists for the Associated Press Most Valuable Player award, and Mahomes is expected to win.

And speaking to media this week, both acknowledged the long history of Black quarterbacks who fought to pave the way for their opportunity this weekend.

“I think about all the rich history in this game, and to be part of such an historic event, historic moment, it’s special,” said Hurts on Monday.

“It’s historic,” said Mahomes. “So many people laid the foundation before us, and to be playing with a guy like Jalen, who I know is doing it the right way, it’s going to be a special moment that I hope lives on forever.”

A long history of discrimination

The NFL, once entirely offlimits to Black players, began to integrate in earnest throughout the

1950s. Washington, the last team to desegregate, finally drafted its first Black player in 1962.

Yet even as Black players joined teams in growing numbers, team owners and managers continued to discriminate against them — especially in so-called “thinking positions” like center, middle linebacker and quarterback.

“They felt Black men were inherently inferior, that Black quarterbacks — in their minds — could not lead white players in the NFL, and they just weren’t smart enough,” said Jason Reid, a sportswriter for ESPN and author of the book Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America.

White players dominated those leadership positions, he said, while Black players were relegated to positions that were thought to be more physical than intellectual, like running back, cornerback and wide receiver.

“It was just understood that if you were a Black quarterback in college, you were moving to another position [in the NFL]. And it really just came down to systemic racism,” Reid told NPR’s Morning Edition.

For every “first Black quarterback to ____” milestone, there’s a story about how a Black man’s abilities were underestimated by white coaches and owners.

There’s Marlin Briscoe, the first Black player in the Super Bowl era to start a game at quarterback. The

Denver Broncos wanted to convert him to cornerback, but soon the team’s white quarterback was injured and the white backup played poorly, forcing the Broncos to give Briscoe a chance.

Then there’s Warren Moon, the first Black quarterback to enter the NFL Hall of Fame.

Despite leading the University of Washington to a Rose Bowl victory in 1978, no NFL team showed an interest in him. Instead, Moon spent six years in the Canadian Football League, where he won five straight championships.

After making the switch to the NFL, Moon was named to the Pro Bowl nine times.

“I’m so proud to see Jalen and Patrick as the first 2 African American QBs to face each other in the Super Bowl,” Moon wrote last week when the Eagles and Chiefs advanced to the Super Bowl. “We have come a long way.”

And of course, there’s Doug Williams, the first Black quarterback taken in the first round of the draft, the first Black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl, and the first Black quarterback to be named Super Bowl MVP.

Williams was only scouted by one NFL coach before he graduated from college. He was for a time the lowestpaid starting quarterback in the league. Despite his Super Bowl heroics, his

BUPPIE | BUSINESS

ChatGPT, Software Created in Calif Lab, to Change Way We Learn and Live

By Maxim Elramsisy | California Black Media

In December, OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) research lab, released a free, publicly available version of their AIbased bot called ChatGPT.

The “GPT” stands for Generative Pre-training Transformer.

Transformers are programs, originally invented by Google, that use data to predict -- as you’ve more than likely seen in your Google search bar -- the next characters you will type.

Since the summer of 2021, a series of new AI-based products have exponentially advanced internet technology. Applications like Lensa takes pictures uploaded by a user, extracts (or learns) information about the person’s appearance, then creates its own images of the person.

AI music generators like Amper Music work in a similar way, learning from available music databases then creating original music.

A spokesperson for OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, said the company “made ChatGPT available as a research preview to learn from real-world use, which we believe is a critical part of developing and deploying capable, safe AI systems.”

The technology in ChatGPT’s large language model, GPT 3.5 uses data from the internet to predict the best possible response to a query. It can piece together vast chunks of data to create a response that is not a repetition from a singular site or source, but rather fragments from the whole dataset which, together, make a unique answer -- –a critical difference from a search engine’s function.

So, a romantically inclined individual, for example, looking for a unique way to show affection to a love interest could instruct ChatGPT to “make a list of some one-of-akind Valentine’s Day gifts.” A search engine would return an index of links to websites with words matching that query, along with sponsored results/ advertisements. ChatGPT, on the other hand, would reply with a list of gifts that, together, would represent, statistically, the most likely gifts to appear in your search. This method of AI-assisted brainstorming is one of the greatest strengths of ChatGPT.

With some very specific instructions, the software application could also write a Valentine’s Day song, heartfelt letter or poem for our lovestruck friend. The program’s ability to generate original text could be useful here. The lyrics or poetry it spits out will not be plagiarized.

The program can write jingles for advertisements, cover letters for

prospective employees, or scripts for cold calls. It can write a story in Shakespearian prose, or it can take paragraphs from a college physiology textbook and explain it at a 4th grade level.

Although the potential for this technology is mind-blowing, it has some very distinct and important drawbacks especially at a time when the proliferation of disinformation and misinformation has become a pressing national concern. For one, as a predictive text generator, it is not very good at math. As of now, it cannot correctly answer some simple questions and it can generate some blatantly false information and convey it with confidence. Since the text is generated by AI itself, there is no source material to which the intelligence it gathers can be attributed.

According to the Frequently asked questions page, “ChatGPT will occasionally make up facts or “hallucinate” outputs. If you find an answer is unrelated, please provide that feedback by using the ‘Thumbs Down’ button.”

If the data that trains the AI is biased or not representative, then its results will have many of the same biases.

The machine learning algorithms in ChatGPT allow it to learn, expanding its data with each successive use. It makes sense, then, that OpenAI would allow the public to use it for free.

The more it is used, the greater the data it can draw upon to improve its responses. The engineers who created

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stable financial system and economy.

It is the contrast with the intentionality and seriousness of the debate yesterday that makes it so hard to understand why the very first piece of legislation to come to the floor under a rule is not a proposal to address the needs of any of our constituents, to provide support to struggling small businesses, or the community banks and credit unions that finance them. And, it certainly doesn’t provide our markets with certainty that our country won’t act recklessly and default on its debts, a situation that will bring untold harm to all of us in America.

No, Mr. Speaker, this resolution today in fact does nothing except spread lies and fear about a threat that does not even exist. The right-wing extremists who are running this House have forced my Committee to consider as its first very piece of legislation a bill that tries to say that our country will collapse in ruin because of…wait for it…Social Security. The Resolution suggests that because we support seniors with health insurance, our democracy will crumble. They think that because Congress and the President have provided disaster relief to communities that have been burned by historic wildfires or flooded by once in a generation hurricane, that we will fall into ruin. No, Mr. Speaker, Americans take pride in the ways that we come together to do everything from building schools to sending a man to the Moon.

Mr. Speaker, Americans know better than the fear mongering we see here

today. They know, for example, that when the pandemic hit and people were dying all across this country, it was the federal government that stepped in to provide trillions of dollars of support to small businesses, workers, renters, students, seniors, and would you believe it…even Republican Members of Congress. In fact, the government, using taxpayer dollars, provided $14 million in PPP loans to a number of House Republicans, who asked and then guess what? Received debt forgiveness.

Now, some Republicans have tried to suggest that voting against this resolution is saying that you support dictators like Pol Pot, Mao Zedong or Stalin, which is ridiculous. No one in this Chamber supports them, but do you know which dictator my extremist colleagues refused to condemn? Oh, they didn’t say anything about Hitler. Mr. Speaker, you’ve heard of him, right?

My colleague, Mr. Gottheimer noticed that somehow the Republicans forgot to condemn Hitler and offered an amendment to denounce his atrocities and mass murder. But Republicans rejected it. And I think we know why. Donald Trump, the true leader of the Republicans and North Star for House Republicans, was reported to have frightened his own staff by saying that Hitler had done some good things.

There is only one would-be authoritarian who refused to accept the will of our voters and peacefully transfer power after losing his election. Instead, he incited a violent insurrection

on January 6th to block the election’s certification that was happening in this very chamber, but you won’t see his name in this resolution or his strongman pals that he loves so much in Russia and China.

Mr. Speaker, we are a great nation not because we let everyone fend for themselves, but because we care for one another. We are a great nation that comes together as communities as small as towns and as large as the whole nation to decide to organize and collectively pay for fire departments, public schools, libraries, hospitals, roads and bridges, and a military. We are a better nation because we have programs that we love. We love Social Security and Medicare, and we’re going to fight every inch of the way to make sure we keep Social Security and Medicare. We’re not going to let the opposite side of the aisle take away our seniors’ Social Security and Medicare. I’ll say it again: Social Security and Medicare! We are a better nation because our form of capitalism includes regulatory safeguards and strong cops on the beat patrolling our financial system, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Mr. Speaker, I urge you and the Majority to stop these divisive “gotcha” tactics, get out of the way and let my Committee and this Congress pass real legislation that puts the needs of our constituents and nation first.

I reserve the balance of my time.

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The following Person is doing business as:

Compassion Elevated Therapy

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Registered Owner(s): Jetena McGhee, 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #1127, Culver City, CA 90230

This business is conducted by an individual(s). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business listed above on February 6, 2023.

I (We) declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Jetena McGhee, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk on February 6, 2023

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State or common law (See Section 14411 et.seq., Business and Professions Code.)

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have envisioned all of the ways the technology could be used, for better or for worse. In this iteration, engineers are explicitly requesting that improper results be flagged.

One of the first companies to invest in OpenAI was Microsoft. The technology giant increased its investment to $10 billion, hoping that the ChatGPT could, perhaps, enable valuable features for their existing software like Microsoft Office Personal Assistant, or incorporate text generation into their Bing search engine, which has been dominated by has long lagged behind Google.

Media companies struggling to create content as they cut their workforce have pounced on the opportunity to have AI generated content with mixed results. Technology website CNET allowed AI to write stories, but the experiment backfired when users pointed out

inaccuracies within the generated content. Currently, the programs have no capacity to distinguish truth from lies or good sources from bad ones.

Educators around the country are grappling with how to use the technology, or to coexist with it.

The New York City Department of Education has banned the technology outright, fearing that it would enable cheating and circumvent tools that teachers may usto use to check for plagiarism. School districts in Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle similarly have banned the use of OpenAI tools.

Some teachers see an opportunity.

Cherie Shields, a high school English teacher, found that the bot could help her with grading evaluating and generating feedback for her students. It could can also write test questions and study guides based on submitted text.

The information on the internet, as we all know, is imperfect. So, while ChatGPT allows for greater creation and dissemination of misinformation, it can also perpetuate biases.

The pace of technological innovation is faster than that of regulation, so many tech companies have to selfregulate. ChatGPT is trained to refuse to create content that is hateful, offensive, triggering, or could lead to violence, but there are ways around these safeguards and hackers/bad actors will be looking to exploit these vulnerabilities.

OpenAI has already announced the next iteration of their large language model, GPT4, which is expected to be smarter than GPT3.5. Semafor reports that OpenAI is also reportedly working on a mobile app version of ChatGPT to be released in the coming weeks.

Sign Here Mobile Notary Service 419 E. Tamarack Ave., Unit 22 Inglewood, CA 90301

Registered Owner(s): Gina Lutcher, 419 E. Tamarack Ave., Unit 22, Inglewood, CA 90301

This business is conducted by an individual(s). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business listed above on January 24, 2023

I (We) declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Gina Lutcher, Owner.

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career ended soon after.

“At least I was given the opportunity and was able to do something with it,” said Williams, who is now a senior adviser to the president of the Washington Commanders. “It’s a bittersweet situation. But we take the sweet at this particular time.”

Black quarterbacks became more common throughout the 1990s, but bias remained

By the late 1980s, Black players were no longer a minority in the NFL. And over the decades, as Williams and Moon gave way to Randall Cunningham then Donovan McNabb and Daunte Culpepper, the outright discrimination began to fade away. In 2001, Michael Vick was the first Black QB taken with the top pick of the draft.

Black quarterbacks were being drafted, Black quarterbacks were starting, Black quarterbacks were the faces of franchises. They were here to stay.

“By that point, you start to see more of an acknowledgement that, look, these guys are here, and they can play. And if they can help us win, we need to look to do that,” Reid said.

Yet bias against them lingered, he said — more subtle, perhaps, but still insidious.

Black signal callers were often described as athletic in the same breath that white quarterbacks were praised for their intellect. (That trope, unfortunately, hasn’t totally disappeared.)

Credit for big wins was given to

other players while blame for losses came easily. When a Black quarterback succeeded, white commentators speculated about whether the praise had been inflated due to a desire for good publicity.

And sometimes the questions were more overt.

In 2011, Jerry Richardson, the 75-year-old owner of the Carolina Panthers, proudly told The Charlotte Observer that he had asked quarterback prospect Cam Newton, who is Black, whether he had any piercings or tattoos.

Newton, a Heisman winner, was thought to be the best player available in that year’s draft, in which the Panthers had the top pick.

Newton replied that he had no tattoos or piercings, to which Richardson responded, “Good. We want to keep it that way.” (Another prominent player on the team at the time, a white tight end, had tattoos.)

Richardson later told PBS he’d also asked about Newton’s hair, encouraging the player to not to grow it out (which Newton eventually did anyway).

That was only 12 years ago, said Reid. “It brought back to memory a time that was supposed to have been long gone.”

This Sunday, history will be made

These days, there’s no disputing the talent of Patrick Mahomes, the 27-yearold who is on the precipice of his third Super Bowl appearance and second MVP award in just five years in the starting job. His highlight reel heroics have redefined the possibilities for

quarterback play in the NFL.

Meanwhile, Jalen Hurts is the biggest star of the Philadelphia Eagles, arguably the league’s most talented team, who have cruised through the playoffs to this Super Bowl berth.

Even more than his football skills — his mobility, his passing game, his creativity — Hurts’ teammates and coaches praise him for his leadership.

“It’s like having Michael Jordan out there. He’s your leader,” said Eagles coach Nick Sirianni after the team’s first playoff game last month. “This guy leads. He brings this calmness to the entire team. He plays great football. He’s tough as they come.”

Beyond the Super Bowl, the 2022 season was already historic for Black quarterbacks.

Just under half of the league’s 32 teams started a Black quarterback at some point this season, and 29% of all NFL games this year featured a Black starter under center, according to Football Perspective. In total, 21 Black quarterbacks threw at least one pass this season, the highest number ever.

“There has never been a better time in the NFL for Black men who aspire to play quarterback. These guys are the faces of franchises. They have massive endorsement deals. They have the biggest contracts,” Reid said.

There is still progress left to achieve for Black men in the NFL, said Doug Williams, especially on the sidelines, where coaching staffs have been slower to diversify than rosters.

But come Sunday, watching Mahomes

and Hurts face off in the Super Bowl will be a moment to treasure, he said.

“We can’t lose. We got two in the Super Bowl,” he recalled telling a friend. “It’s a great feeling.”

Destinee Adams and Phil Harrell produced and edited the audio interview with Jason Reid. Gabe O’Connor and Patrick Jarenwattananon produced and edited the audio interview with Doug Williams.