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The Sweetie Pies We All Desire 60 years later 27th Street Bakery lives on
OH HOW SWEET IT IS- On Tuesday Nov. 26 and Wednesday Nov. 27, the famous 27th Street Bakery will bring their tasty treats to Woody’s Barbeque located on Slauson Ave. and Crenshaw Blvd. (Kenneth Miller/Photo) By Kenneth Miller, Publisher
It’s a week before Thanksgiving and the sweet scented aroma flutters into your nostrils, alarming your endorphins and literally teases your appetite for the legendary pies that are baking in the massive oven. Just a few steps from the oven is an
enormous stainless steel pot overflowed with uncooked sweet potatoes, and just around the short corner is an fourth generation family member filling pie shells with the secret ingredients of the pecan pies, while another worker rolls the home made crust that serves as the pies foundation. The iconic 27th Street Bakery lo-
cated on 27th and Central Ave. has withstood the test of time, a transforming community that was once predominantly African American, but is now predominantly Latino. However all that really matters to Jeanette Bolden, a former Olympic Gold Medal champion in the 4x400 relay in 1984, is preserving the family
California Black Media Briefs: Gov. Newsom Nominates First Black Woman
to Serve on First District Court of Appeals By CBM Staff
Congratulations, Judge Teri L. Jackson! Gov. Newsom Makes (Black) History With Nomination of First African-American Woman to State’s First District Court of Appeals Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Judge Teri L. Jackson associate justice of the First District Court of Appeals, Division Three, in San Francisco. If confirmed, Jackson, 63, a Democrat from San Mateo, will be the first African-American woman in the history of the state to serve on the court. The only other African-American
woman to serve on a California appellate court bench was Justice Arleigh Woods who was a justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Southern California. Former Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Woods, who is now retired, in 1980 during his first governorship. “Gov. Newsom has a commitment to diversity and this is one more piece of evidence,” said Alice Huffman, president of the NAACP CaliforniaHawaii Conference, responding to Jackson’s nomination. In 2002, Jackson made history, too. Gov. Gray Davis appointed her to the
legacy that is nestled beyond the walls of this white corner building that has been a community staple since 1959. Bolden, who starred on the track team at UCLA has committed her life to the business that was left to her by her late mother Alberta Cravin. Her late brother Gregory Spann ran the business with their Continued on page 5 San Francisco County Superior Court that year, making her the first Black woman to serve on that court. As an educator, Jackson has worked as a professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She also worked in private practice also as a counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, an international law firm based in San Francisco. In public service, she worked as an assistant district attorney in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office from 1984 to 1997. Before that, she was a deputy district attorney in the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office from 1981 to 1984. Jackson, a graduate of Georgetown University law Center in Washington, D.C., will earn an annual salary of $244,700, if Continued on page 2 JOIN US ON