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May 12-18, 2022 VOL. 37, No. 19
California ’22 Primary Election:
Black Candidates Running for US House of Representatives Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media
Election offices have begun sending out vote-by-mail ballots for the June 7, 2022, California Primary. Statewide, voters will discover that Black candidates for United States House of Representative seats are overrepresented on their ballots. California Black Media (CBM) is reporting that 18 Black candidates are running for 14 US House seats. Eleven are registered as Democrats and seven are running as Republicans. Nine are women and nine are men. Although African Americans are 5.8% of California residents, Black candidates are on ballots for 26.9% of the US House seats. California’s delegation to the US House of Representative will have 52 members in the next Congress. While it is the still the largest delegation, one seat was lost due to a decline in population count from the 2020 US census. Congressional district population following the 2020 census is about 761,169 people. A consequence of losing a US House seat is that district boundaries have been redrawn by the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CCRC) and many district numbers have been reassigned. For example, Rep. Barbara Lee, one of the three Black members of the California delegation, currently represents House District 13 and is running to represent District 12. However, the district numbers for the other Black representatives, Maxine
Waters (District 43), who is running for re-election, and Karen Bass (District 37), who has decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles have not changed.
Congress are: Democrat Kermit Jones is a Navy veteran and an internal medicine doctor who has a law degree. He is running to represent District 3 (Yuba). He is running against three opponents. This
The Black candidates running for
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Dream Fund: Apply for $10,000 Grants Through $35M State Program By Tanu Henry | California Black Media
Since 2017, there has been a 9.8% increase of new small businesses – firms with less than 500 employees -- in the United States. Over the past two years alone, over 10 million applications were submitted to start new small businesses across the country, according to the Small Business Administration. That growth trend is true for California, too, where there are about 4.1 million small businesses, the most
in the country. Those companies make up 99.8% of all business in California and employ about 7.2 million people. But for Black-owned and other minority owned small businesses across the country, there was a steep decline in numbers, almost 41%, due to the pandemic, a Census Population Survey found in 2020. During that same time, nearly 44% of minorityowned small businesses were at risk Continued on page 8
Top from left, Barbara Lee, Sydney Kamlager, Maxine Waters Bottom: Jan C. Perry, William Moses Summerville, Tamika Hamilton
Salacious Sexual Allegations Doom Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
Tanu Henry | California Black Media
Former TSU women’s coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke accused of abuse Continued on page 7
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