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A Brennan Center analysis has found that at least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, similar to the numbers discovered between 2014 and 2016.

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Using data released by the Federal Election Assistance Commission, the Brennan Center found that counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls at high rates.

“This phenomenon began after the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, a decision that severely weakened the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” the report states.

“Before the Shelby County decision, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act required jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to submit proposed changes

The Brennan Center’s report authors said as the 2020 election cycle heats up, election administrators must be transparent about how they’re deciding what names to remove from the rolls.

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Affordable Housing commitment Newswire that the company will invest $1 billion over the next five years from its business and foundation to help make housing more affordable.

“We will address three key issues in underserved communities that have been plagued by the lack of affordable housing – housing affordability, financial health and small business growth,” said Moore.

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Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly. Chidyausiku made the remarks See SLAVERY page 2

The lack of affordable housing has caught the attention of Wells Fargo and the banking giant isn’t taking it lightly and has

unveiled an ambitious plan to tackle the problem.

Candy Moore, the senior vice president and manager of Wells Fargo’s Community Relations and Southeast Community Development, told NNPA

“Charitable giving has always been a part of our history,” Moore said.

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By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media

In this report, The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint presents Part 2 of California Black Media revisitation of the 17 most prominent cases of police deadly force involving African American victims in the state since 1998. As mentioned in last week’s issue, California has one of the highest rates of police shootings in the country.

Moore noted that if one took the available affordable housing

According to a Washington Post database tracking police killings of civilians since 2015, there have been a total of 661 police-involved shootings in California over the last 4 years.

Of that number, California police officers shot and killed 107 African Americans. We review the last 10 law enforcement lethal force shootings highlighted in CBM’s report:

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“And, we feel we should be doing even more to address the systematic changes in affordable housing and uncover new ways to increase the availability and sustainability of affordable housing,” she said.

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suppression is complicated by the fact that there are many ways that people suppress the vote,” Groarke said.

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in voting procedures to the Department of Justice or a federal court for approval, a process known as ‘preclearance,’” the report’s authors wrote.

The Brennan Center first identified this troubling voter purge trend in a major report released in July 2018.

As the nation heads toward the all-important 2020 election cycle, many said they’re concerned with voter purging and the ever-present threat of voter disenfranchisement.

“Automatic voter registration is a great way to be sure that every eligible American is registered to vote,” said Dr. Margaret Groarke, an associate professor of political science at Manhattan College in New York.

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units in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Atlanta, it would still fall far short of meeting current housing demands.

“We want to continue to help the underserved reach their full potential with the support we’re offering through our philanthropic efforts,” Moore said.

The $1 billion pledge is part of a larger effort for the bank to overhaul its philanthropic strategy, Moore said.

As part of their commitment, Wells Fargo aims to donate two percent of its after-tax profits to corporate philanthropy concentrating on housing affordability, small

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“Because of the profound disconnect between principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the simultaneous practice of slavery, we’ve had historical amnesia about slavery,” he said.

Indeed, the slave trade began in the 15th century, said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe. It was driven by colonial expansion, emerging capitalist economies and the insatiable demand for commodities – with racism and discrimination serving to legitimize the trade, Chidyausiku said.

Chidyausiku, then the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly, made the remarks in 2007 during the UN’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade.

“Fortunes were made, and financial institutions flourished on the back of human bondage…[so] today’s commemoration must encourage everyone to live up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says: ‘All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and to redouble efforts to stop human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery,’” said Chidyausiku, who is now 69.

Michael Guasco, a historian at Davidson College and author of “Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” suggests it’s the 500th anniversary.

“Key strategies today are over-inclusive voter purges, strict voter ID laws, and making threats that people with unpaid fines or warrants shouldn’t come near the polls,” she said.

“Automatic voter registration might counteract the effect of purges, but will do nothing to stop other strategies,” Groarke said.

The Brennan Center report follows a Center for American Progress analysis that examined how conservative lawmakers are suppressing the votes of people of color, young people, and those with disabilities.

From discriminatory voter ID laws in places such as North Dakota, South Carolina, and Michigan to failures to provide early polling places in a majority-black

business growth and financial health, she said.

During a June presentation to the NNPA’s member publishers, Moore shared a video that underscored the importance of Wells Fargo’s new initiative and why it’s vital to people of color and others in underserved communities.

The video presentation highlighted the Parkway Overlook Apartments in Washington, D.C. whose residents were unexpectedly forced to relocate when the development closed in 2008.

As a result of the efforts of two former residents who fought hard for the community, working together with Wells Fargo and the District of Columbia, the apartments are being redeveloped a decade later.

“I feel like a mother who watched

“There’s a Hispanic heritage that predates the U.S., and there’s a tendency for people to willingly forget or omit the early history of Florida, Texas, and California, particularly as the politics of today want to push back against Spanish language and immigration from Latin America,” Guasco told Time.

The fact that slavery was underway for a century in South America before introduction in North America is not widely taught nor commonly understood, Felicia Davis of the HBCU Green Fund told NNPA Newswire.

“It is a powerful historical fact missing from our understanding of slavery, its magnitude, and global impact. The knowledge that slavery was underway for a century provides deep insight into how enslaved Africans adapted,” Davis said.

Far beyond the horrific “seasoning” description, clearly generations had been born into slavery long before introduction in North America, Davis said.

“This fact deepens the understanding of how vast majorities could be oppressed in such an extreme manner for such a long period. It is also a testament to the strength and drives among people of African descent to live free,” she said.

Prior to 1619, “America had a system of discrimination and prejudice against all groups who were not identified as White Anglo-Saxon native,” said Walter D. Palmer, who started a Community Freedom School for children and adult

neighborhood in Texas and the freezing of more than 50,000 voter registrations in Georgia, voter suppression is rampant in 2018, according to the CAP report.

voting rights manager at the CAP.

“Voter suppression is widespread again this year, and these efforts from conservative lawmakers largely target people of color, young people, and people with disabilities,” Connor Maxwell, a research associate for Race and Ethnicity Policy at the CAP, said in a news release.

“If a voter moves from Georgia to New York, they are no longer eligible to cast a ballot in the Peach State. As such, they should be removed from Georgia’s voter rolls,” Brennan authors said, as an example.

“Despite these efforts, there are many steps people can take to ensure their vote counts on election day,” Maxwell said.

“Similarly, voters who have passed away should be removed from the rolls. Reasonable vote list maintenance ensures voter rolls remain up to date. Problems arise when states remove voters who are still eligible to vote.

Voting is a fundamental right for all U.S. citizens, “so we encourage everyone to double-check their voter registration; determine ahead of time whether you need to bring certain materials to the polls; and take advantage of the many voter assistance hotlines if you run into problems,” said Danielle Root, a

her troubled child in school finally graduate from high school,” said Rufaro Jenkins, one of the residents who is now a homeowner.

“I used to tell them in meetings that Parkway Overlook was one of my children. Mothers protect their children, and I was going to protect Parkway Overlook,” Jenkins said in the video presentation.

After a 10-year process to secure approval and funding to rebuild the community, the renovations to Parkway Overlook are currently underway, and construction is expected to be completed this year, providing 220 apartments of affordable housing for families in Ward 8, which is considered one of DC’s poorest areas.

While Jenkins and former resident and fellow Parkway Overlook Tenants Association member Cynthia

learners in Philadelphia that would become the platform on which he built his social legacy.

“By the mid-1600s, America created the slave codes,” Palmer told NNPA Newswire.

During the country’s founding, many settlers learned from and lived close to Native Americans on the east coast, said author Cassie Premo Steele.

For example, it wasn’t until resources like silver were found on what was Cherokee land that Andrew Jackson ordered the removal that became known as the “Trail of Tears,” Steele told NNPA Newswire.

“Further genocides and removals took place in the West when similar resources and land were desired by white Americans,” Steele said.

“Similarly, slavery was primarily an economic system that was based upon the dehumanization of Africans. Dehumanization is in some ways even worse than hate since it is a denial of the humanity of a people,” she said.

In its report, The Brennan Center noted why voter purges could prove problematic.

The report continued:

“States rely on faulty data that purport to show that a voter has moved to another state. Frequently, these data get people mixed up. In big states like California and Texas, multiple individuals can have the

Eaglin are happy about the redevelopment, it’s been a long journey, they said in the video.

The two have worked with Washington Interfaith Network – or WIN, a grassroots organization that brings citizens and residents together to develop solutions for communities — in this case, coming up with a strategy, bringing former residents together, and meeting with local leaders, according to the video.

The biggest hurdle, though, was getting funding to redevelop Parkway Overlook, said Jennifer Knox, lead organizer for WIN. In 2014, Mayor Muriel Bowser, then chairwoman of the city council’s Committee on Economic Development, brokered a deal with the D.C. Housing Finance Agency and District of Columbia Housing

same name and date of birth, making it hard to be sure that the right voter is being purged when perfect data are unavailable.

“Troublingly, minority voters are more likely to share names than white voters, potentially exposing them to a greater risk of being purged and voters often don’t realize they’ve been purged until they try to cast a ballot on Election Day – after it’s already too late.”

The Brennan Center’s report authors said as the 2020 election cycle heats up, election administrators must be transparent about how they’re deciding what names to remove from the rolls.

They must be diligent in their efforts to avoid erroneously purging voters, the report’s authors said.

“And they should push for reforms like automatic voter registration and election day registration which keep voters’ registration records up to date,” the authors wrote.

Authority to take control of the property and finish the renovations, said Merrick Malone, director of the Office of Capital Programs for the District of Columbia Housing Authority.

Ultimately, Wells Fargo provided the construction loan and equity for the project development, D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development provided $20.1 million in financing toward the project, and the D.C. Housing Finance Agency provided bond financing in the amount of about $38 million and low-income housing tax credits.

“We will need to work with you,” Moore told NNPA publishers. “We will need to work with civic leaders, local governments, and residents to address the full spectrum of housing affordability,” she said.

before August 1619, the transatlantic slave trade had been active.

The letter noted that hundreds of thousands of Africans helped with the establishment and survival of American colonies in the New World.

According to History.com, Rolfe was correct.

History.com reported that Christopher Columbus likely transported the first Africans to the Americas in the late 1490s on his expeditions to Hispaniola.

“To ignore what had been happening with relative frequency in the broader Atlantic world over the preceding 100 years or so understates the real brutality of the ongoing slave trade, of which the 1619 group were undoubtedly a part, and minimizes the significant African presence in the Atlantic world to that point,” Guasco said in a History. com interview earlier this month.

“People of African descent have been ‘here’ longer than the English colonies,” he said.

The observance of the 400th anniversary of the first African landing at Point Comfort, Va., did bring about changes, according to Time.

It was the type of race-based chattel slavery system that solidified in the centuries that followed was its unique American tragedy.

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Changes in the City of San Diego How One Decision Set Voting Rights Back that Work Against the Poor 50 Years

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

If you drive and have not parked on a city street with parking meters, then perhaps you have not noticed that increasingly the meters only take debit cards and have no slots for coins. If you have used these meters you will notice that there is a minimum amount that will be deducted from your card that might exceed the time you really need. When one of the City’s meterpersons was asked about this change, his response was, “More people have debit cards than those who do not.”

What about our transit increases that do not appear to allow you to change from one trolley line to another

without paying a new fare instead of being allowed to “transfer”? These are changes that affect everyday working people, many of whom are already struggling with homelessness or high rents. And let us not forget that the cost of gasoline in San Diego County is at least a dollar more than most major cities back east.

There is no question that these changes went through the proper rule-making process with time for public comment. But the question is, “Where were we?” Where were our comments of protest before final passage and where are we now? Are we mounting any effort to roll back these changes? Probably not. While

we are speaking about “America’s Finest City,” where are the mounting campaigns for rent control or inclusion of more mixed housing among the mountain of expensive vacancies around town?

We must not let San Diego become another San Francisco in terms of affordability or the lack thereof. As we move into our “Post Labor Day” activities, let us not forget “police conduct issues” we still have on the table.

The us also not forget that “eternal vigilance” is the price of both freedom and survival. Where do you stand on these and other issues?

It’s Time To Fight Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism The Way We Fight Other Forms of Terrorism

By Marc H. Morial President and CEO, National Urban League

“The big thing is we need to change the way we in the United States are viewing these incidents with right-wing extremist terrorism. Stop dismissing this as crazy gunmen, or hate crimes, or that some person ‘ just snapped.’ There is an ideology behind the attack. The attack needs to be called out as terrorism.”

– Daryl Johnson, former Department of Homeland Security analyst Just over a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI produced a report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.”

The report warned of the rise of radicalized right-wing groups and individuals and the threat of political violence.

But instead of heeding its warnings, Congress erupted in a frenzy of denial and defensiveness. The conclusions of the report were distorted and misreported. Instead of taking the threat seriously, the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, called for hearings to investigate DHS and the report.

Members took particular offense to the suggestion that divisive issues like abortion were being used as recruiting tools. Weeks after Congress shut down any response to the report, an anti-abortion extremist murdered physician George Tiller at his church.

In the years since outraged Congress members blocked any official response to the threat, right-wing extremists have been responsible for the vast majority of extremist-related

murders in the United States. Rightwing extremists were responsible for every single extremist killing in the U.S. in 2018, “from Pittsburgh to Parkland,” according to the AntiDefamation League.

The white supremacist massacre of 22 people in El Paso two weeks ago was the most deadly right-wing terrorist attack since 1995, when Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in the Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City. The suspect published a white nationalist manifesto on an internet message board just before the shooting. He told police he was targeting Mexicans, and drove 11 hours from his largely-white hometown near Dallas to majority-Latino El Paso.

He has not been charged with a hate crime.

And, while federal authorities are investigating the shooting as a domestic terrorism case, domestic terrorism is not codified as a law that can be prosecuted.

Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona has proposed such a law, saying, ““For too long we have allowed those who commit heinous acts of domestic terrorism to be charged with related crimes that don’t portray the full scope of their hateful actions.”

The Patriot Act, passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, gives the federal government multiple resources to combat international terrorism but little authority to investigate domestic terrorism.

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, pointed out in a recent essay that the most common international terrorism charge is providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

By Ray Curry Secretary-Treasurer, UAW

Last month marked the 54th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most sweeping pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. This ground-breaking measure, fought over and marched over and bleed over on the streets of Selma, Alabama, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965. It was designed to knock down legal barriers at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

That essential democratic right to have a say in who can best make government work for its people, had been guaranteed by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1870. The amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

And even though that sounds clear as a bell, the road to the polls was made instead an arduous and at times even perilous one with Jim Crow smack in the way, installing roadblocks and tripwire at as many turns as he could “Charges of “material support” to a get away with. As originally written, terrorist organization are not available the Voting Rights Act took an axe to to prevent domestic attacks” she wrote, those barriers. “because the United States does not designate American groups as terrorist But in 2013, the Supreme Court organizations. delivered a decision that, in effect, gutted VRA protections. Since “None of the 68 entries on the then, we’ve seen numerous court State Department’s list is a white- challenges and legal maneuvering supremacist group.” designed to further weaken the VRA. Designed to obfuscate that mountain But the United States could designate top view of Dr. Martin Luther King foreign white supremacist groups as Jr.’s promised land, that momentous terrorist organizations. decision put another mountain of dehumanizing anti-voting measures “If the State Department put any in place. of these groups on the list, the FBI could deploy undercover agents to The 2013 decision did its dirty work chat with their members online, and by seizing on one of the most critical would-be domestic terrorists in the temporary provisions, known as United States would have to think Section 4. twice about engaging with them.”

What a lot of people don’t realize In addition to a federal domestic is that many aspects of the VRA terrorism statute and the designation are not permanent law. Many of of foreign white supremacist groups the provisions are temporary and as terrorist organizations, former must be renewed by Congress. So, Department of Homeland Security we must continually fight to protect analyst Daryl Johnson, who authored this critical piece of civil rights the 2009 report, offered several legislation. We must fight challenges recommendations in a recent interview: in the courts, fight to ensure the temporary provisions are renewed •Collect statistics on domestic and fight to maintain the watchdog terrorism, and allow those statistics provisions of the Act at the state to drive resources for programs to and local levels where we see voter combat it. suppression.

•Commit to long-term undercover A dagger in the heart of the VRA investigations.

The devastating 2013 decision •Train state and local law enforcement rendered moot, Sections 4 and 5, two about right-wing extremists groups. of the most critical aspects of the law.

Section 4, which was struck down, •Make grants available for countering provided a formula for the federal right-wing extremism. government to identify locations with documented histories of racial •Educate the public on their role, discrimination.

The locations how to report suspicious activity, identified under the provision were: reaching out to communities and Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, organizations that can help identify Louisiana, Mississippi, South people being radicalized, working Carolina, Texas and Virginia; three counties in California; five counties See TERRORISM on page 15 in Florida; three counties in New

York; 40 counties in North Carolina; two counties in South Dakota; and two Michigan townships.

Section 5 called for locations identified under Section 4 to submit any changes in voting laws to the Department of Justice for preapproval. Until 2013, Section 5 proved very effective in blocking discriminatory measures. Between 1998 and 2013, 86 proposed election changes were blocked and hundreds more withdrawn.

The effect of scuttling these critically important checks have turned a fire hose on the people the VRA was meant to protect.

Perhaps John Lewis, Georgia U.S. House representative and well known Freedom Rider in the civil rights movement summed up the decision best: “What the Supreme Court did was to put a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act.” And we felt the pain across the nation.

‘No, you can’t vote’ Here are but a few examples of the rampant assault on voting rights and voting access since 2013.

At least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, according to a Brennan Center for Justice Report. A similar number was purged between 2014 and 2016, leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the first presidential election in 50 years conducted without the full protection of the VRA. Of note is the fact that those numbers are much bigger than the purge rates in 2006 and 2008. Moreover, purge rates were significantly higher, reaching up to 40%, in those areas identified under Section 4 as having a history of voter suppression along racial lines.

Georgia, (one of the identified states under Section 4), for example, purged twice as many voters between 2012 and 2016 than it did between 2008 and 2012.

Moreover, at least 17 states have enacted new voting restrictions that make it more difficult to register to vote, that curb voter registration drives and decrease opportunities for early voting, and establish requirements for government-issued IDs (a document that millions of Americans don’t have).

That last provision alone has the potential to suppress millions of voters, and it’s clear that strict voter ID laws disproportionately affect African-American, Latino, AsianAmerican, young, elderly and poor voters.

A Florida measure barred ex-felons from being eligible to vote after serving their sentences, preventing 1.7 million Floridians from voting in 2016, including 1 in 5 black votingage citizens.

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Paule Marshall was born in Brooklyn, New York under the name Valenza Pauline Burke. Her parents were immigrants from Barbados. Acclaimed author Paule Marshall, whose writings often reflected on her own heritage, the complexity of Black identities and racism, has died at the age of 90.Marshall’s son, Evan K. Marshall, confirmed that she had passed away in Richmond, Va., after suffering from dementia over the last few years, according to the Associated Press.

After high school, she first attended Brooklyn College with a desire to pursue social work. However, she ultimately decided to major in English literature. She transferred to Hunter College, where she graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.Upon graduation, Marshall wrote for a Black publication called Our World. Eventually, after five years of writing and work, Random House published her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, in 1959. Marshall’s childhood inspired Brown Girl, Brownstones, which focused on the life of Barbadian immigrants in New York during the Great Depression as they juggled both racism and poverty. To Dr. Lou-Ann Crouther, an associate professor of English emerita at Western Kentucky University, reading a story from a Black woman’s perspective was empowering. Rather than just reading books in school such as Charlotte’s Web or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Crouther wished she also could have been exposed to Marshall’s work at a younger age.

“When you read something that is written by someone whose life experiences are perhaps close to yours, you can empathize with them,” she said.

Over the years, Marshall published a variety of short stories such as Soul Clap Hands and Sing, Reena, Some Get Wasted, To Da-Duh: In Memorandum, The Chosen Place and Timeless People. Jemayne Lavar King, an English professor at Johnson C. Smith University, said Marshall was able to inspire so many people because her writing appeals to a large, diverse audience. “Her writing worked in three ways,” he said. “In one way, she was a feminist writer. In other ways, she wrote as a woman of color but at the same time, she wrote and inspired people who were either descendants of immigrants or immigrants. So her impact as a writer affects so many different types of people.

So many were able to relate or find therapy in her gift.”

In an interview with Essence magazine in 1979, Marshall described how most men in fiction are portrayed as the “wheelers and dealers.” She wanted to change that.

“I wanted women to be the centers of power,” she said.

“My feminism takes its expression through my work.

Women are central for me. They can as easily embody the power principles as a man.”- Paula Marshall Dr. Trimiko Melancon, an associate professor and director of African and African American Studies at Loyola University

IN MEMORIAM: Baxter Leach, a Soldier for Labor Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell NNPA

Baxter Richard Leach used his voice to cry out for the respect and dignity of sanitation workers oppressed by unsanitary and unsafe working conditions and racist attitudes. It all came to a head on Feb. 1, 1968 when two friends and colleagues were crushed to death in a malfunctioning compactor on their truck.

Mr. Leach and fellow sanitation workers rose up and in unison shouted to the world, “I AM A MAN.” They marched against the powers that be, earning a hard-won victory in a fight that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

On Tuesday (Aug. 27), Mr. Leach died after what longtime friend Calvin Taylor said was a bout with cancer. He was 79. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at The New Tri-State Defender’s press time Wednesday night. “Mr. Leach was very devoted to his local and to AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal

Employees), to his community, and to his family,” said Gail Tyree, director of Local 1733.

“We are going to miss him tremendously. He was an honorable man, a good man who shared his story with young people every opportunity he got. Mr. Leach knew that it was important for them to understand the great history of our 1733 and this city. And so he continued to reach out over the years, across the generations.”

Henry Leach, his youngest brother, recalled the night the National Civil Rights Museum honored the sanitation workers with its prestigious Freedom Award. “We were all there that night,” Leach said. “It was like being on television or being on Broadway somewhere. Everybody who lives out of town came in for the presentation. My brother was so proud of receiving the award, and we were so proud of him.

I am so happy he was still here to experience that night.

That was a highlight of all our lives.” Baxter Leach was

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in New Orleans, said Marshall provided a foundation to the Black women’s literary tradition. “Writing in the interregnum between the New Negro Movement and Protest Period of the 1920’s to 1940’s and the post-civil rights era, she is the connective tissue that both bridged the literary eras and paved the way for Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers of the 1970’s and beyond,” she said.

“Words, even superlatives, fail to capture the profound magnitude and impact of Marshall and her cross-cultural work.” Marshall’s 1983 essay From the Poets in the Kitchen focused on the conversations that her mother had with other Barbadian women, as well as Marshall’s experiences living in a neighborhood with other West Indians. Her last book, Daughters, was published in 1991 and discussed the cross-cultural barriers of growing up as both Caribbean and American. “She was a literary and cultural gem,” said Melancon.

“Through a uniquely Caribbean American vantage point, Marshall, as a Barbadian-American writer, illuminated the nuances and complexities of Black identities and experiences.

She enriched and expanded the African-American and Black literary tradition, while simultaneously complicating Blackness and Americanness in a uniquely diasporic sense.”

Marshall was also well known in academia, as she taught English and creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a Virginia native, King found it meaningful that Marshall spent her time in Richmond.

“The fact that she chose to bless the state, the commonwealth, with her presence and her gift is a debt that we could never repay,” said King.

Throughout her literary career, Marshall received a number of accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Book Award and the Langston Hughes Medallion Award. “The world that she has created is so wonderful because we have so many young writers of all different colors that are coming, and they get the benefit of what she did,” said Crouther. “That informs writers, and that just opens up the whole world of literature, I think, for everybody all over the world. And I think that is a wonderful thing.”

born Sept. 21, 1939 in Schlater, Miss. He often repeated a line he learned from his father: “Son, work hard and always keep at least a dollar in your pocket.” In 1960, he moved to Memphis, where he worked several jobs until he found employment in 1961 with the City of Memphis Sanitation Department. After the strike was settled, Mr. Leach and the other sanitation workers continued to be honored for their courage and history-making stand. He has been featured and interviewed by many newspapers, magazines and television and radio stations. His leadership and good citizenship netted numerous awards and honors. The documentary, “I AM A MAN: A LESSON IN LIFE,” features Mr. Leach and he’s a noteworthy figure in the National Civil Rights Museum.

In 1984, Mr. Leach and his wife, Jimmie Leach, opened Melanie’s, a soul food restaurant that served the Mid-South for 28 years until it was a destroyed in a fire. In its wake came Ms. Girlee’s,” another soul food restaurant. Mr. Leach would often share with friends and family that his most memorable event was being welcomed to the White House and inducted into the White House Hall of Fame by Barack Obama, the first African American elected President of the United States. After 44 years of service, Mr. Leach retired from the City of Memphis. He continued to be an avid speaker at many schools, universities and churches until his five-year battle with cancer prevented him, according to his brother, Henry.

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Remembering the Victims: 107 Black Californians Dead Since 2015 - PART 2: continued from cover

Charley “Africa” Leundeu Keunang, 43 (Los Angeles) Charley Keunang, a homeless Cameroonian immigrant, was shot and killed by three LAPD officers after he supposedly reached for a cop’s holstered gun during a struggle in the city’s Skid Row area on March 1, 2015.

Keunang was accused of attacking another homeless person and throwing his tent in the streets.

A bystander recorded the melee between Keunang and the officers before the shooting. Keunang was shot six times.

The shooting death attracted worldwide attention when someone posted a Facebook video of the incident.

An autopsy revealed that Keunang had methamphetamine in his system.

In 2016, the Los Angeles police commission ruled that the officers’ actions were justifiable and the use of lethal force was necessary.

The Los Angeles City Council approved $1.95 million to settle Keunang’s case. His family had originally sought $20 million from the city.

They city awarded the $4 million settlement to Glenn’s mother and his then 4-year-old son.

The shooting was captured on video but the footage, obtained from a nearby bar’s surveillance camera, did not show Glenn’s hands near the officers’ guns at any point.

Prosecutors cleared officers Jimmie Alfred Walker, Jose Barrientos, Vincent Carrillo and Matthew Allen Helms of all charges in Yarber’s shooting.

On Dec. 2, 2015, five cops shot Woods. He was a suspect in a stabbing.

Woods was running away from the police, according to the report, when the officers shot him 21 times, some of the bullets hitting him in the back.

An autopsy found Woods had drugs in his system.

Protests of Woods’ shooting, which was captured on video, led to the resignation of police chief Greg Suhr.

Alfred Olango

Joseph Mann Transit and released by the Sac Police Department, graphically showed the final seconds of Mann’s life before he fell to a hail of police gunfire.

The video shows Mann clearly running down the sidewalk. At some point, he turned to face officers in the street who began shooting immediately. The officers, who appeared to be about six or seven paces away from Mann when he fell, said he had a knife.

Alfred Olango, 38 (El Cajon)

Olango’s family said he had a mental breakdown after the death of a close friend.

Prosecutors ruled that the El Cajon officer’s actions were justifiable in using deadly force to kill Olango.

Joseph Mann, 51 (Sacramento) Joseph Mann, a mentally ill and homeless man, was shot and killed by two Sacramento Police Department officers on July 11, 2016. A video, provided by Sacramento Regional

Attorneys for Yarber’s family have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

They say their client did not receive proper medical treatment after the shooting and that he choked on his blood.

Yarber left behind three daughters.

Diante Yarber Diante Yarber, 26 (Barstow) Diante Yarber was fatally shot by Barstow police officers on April 5, 2018 in a Walmart parking lot.

Police say they believe Yarber was the suspect in a stolen car case. Three other people were in the car with

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He was a vandalism suspect.

Clark’s death sparked protests around the country and in his hometown Sacramento, which led to the shutting down of two Sacramento Kings games at Golden 1 Center.

De’Andre Mitchell, 23 (Torrance) Christopher De’Andre Mitchell was shot and killed by a Torrance police officer on Dec. 9, 2018, after cops said he didn’t follow their orders to get out of the car.

According to Torrance police chief Eve Irvine, Mitchell reached for a gun he was holding between his legs.

Investigations later found that the weapon was an air rifle.

Mitchell died while being treated for injuries after the officers took him out of the car about 37 minutes after the shooting.

Stephon Clark Stephon Alonzo (Sacramento)

Clark,

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The police officers, Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet, shot and killed Clark in South Sacramento on March 18, 2018. Clark was unarmed and holding a cell phone.

Seven out of about 20 bullets the policemen fired hit the former Sacramento High athlete from the back, according to an independent autopsy report conducted by the family.

Police say Yarber reversed his Ford Mustang into a patrol car, and then drove forward in the direction of officers, slamming into another police car before they decided to use deadly force.

According to other reports, Yarber drove into the parking lot to pick up someone who was shopping at Walmart.

The official police report says Clark, the father of two infant sons, was facing and approaching officers when they killed him.

Mitchell was shot in a Ralph’s parking lot while sitting in 2000 Honda Civic that was reported stolen two days prior, according to the police.

On March 2, 2019, nearly one year after Clark was shot and killed in his grandmother’s backyard, Sacramento’s District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced that she would not press charges against the two Sacramento Police Department officers who gunned down the unarmed 22-year-old.

A former refugee from Uganda, Alfred Olango suffered four wounds to the neck, chest, arm and shoulder when police officers shot him on September 27, 2016. The cops also used a stun gun to shock him twice.

Police claim Olango pulled out a vaping e-cigarette device and pointed it at them in front of a shopping center. Another officer, during the shooting, used a Taser gun, hitting Olango in the buttocks and leg.

Walker, who is White, was charged with hate crimes and battery in separate incident in 2010.

One of the police officers tried running Mann over with his cruiser before the cops fired 18 shots. At least 14 of them hit Mann.

The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office backed the actions of the two police officers involved, citing that they “lawfully shot” Mann.

A drug test found cocaine in Olango’s system and a small amount of alcohol in his bloodstream.

Mario Woods

Barstow police said a total of 24 rounds were shot at the vehicle.

In June, the city of San Francisco announced that it will pay the mother of Mario Woods $400,000 in monetary damages.

The city of Los Angeles settled the officer-involved shooting of Brendon Glenn for $4 million in December 2016.

Two officers were responding to a call from a bar that reported a man harassing people. One of the officers said Glenn was trying to reach for his partner’s gun before he made the decision to shoot him.

Yarber’s family lawyers say he was struck by 10 bullets.

Mario Woods, 26 (San Francisco)

Brendon Glenn, 29 (Los Angeles)

He was an unarmed homeless man who struggled with a Black officer on the Venice beach boardwalk before he was killed on May 5, 2015.

Yarber when the police fired at the vehicle. Only one of the passengers was wounded in the shooting.

Willie McCoy Willie McCoy, 20 (Vallejo) On Feb. 9, 2019, police officers, responding to a 911 call, shot Willie McCoy in his throat and chest.

McCoy, who appeared to be sleeping in his car in a Taco Bell drive-thru when the incident happened, was a rapper also known as “Willie Bo.” Police said McCoy allegedly woke up and was reaching for a gun on his lap before they shot him.

The Vallejo Police Department has released footage captured on the body-worn cameras of six officers who engaged in using deadly force against McCoy. In 2012, a third of Vallejo’s homicides resulted from police officer-involved shootings and the city’s police officers used deadly force 38 times the national rate that same year.

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Dr. Willie Blair’s Birthday Party Staff Writer

It was supposed to be a small gathering to celebrate Dr. Willie Blair’s birthday. It was held on the patio and in the beautiful backyard of Ms. Connie Wilder with lots of food, drink and ambience with congratulatory speeches from those in attendance. Of course, it was political as Dr. Blair is political. But the politics of this event were to raise money, instead of gifts, for one of his worthy causes.

A number of political candidates stopped by to say hello and remind those present that they are running for office. There was music and line dancing and just plain old dancing for those with the energy to do so. Mr. John Philips was the D.J. with the music and he kept it lively as he always does.

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On the last Saturday of August, kids and their parents were invited to a computer, backpack and bar–b-cue at Virgie H. McCain and William H. Carter Mini Park in East San Diego.

‘’This was fun to me and I liked getting the backpacks and we had food and stuff. I think it’s good that they did something like this to help people,” 10 year old Alodra Garrison shared.

Plenty of certificate of appreciation and special commendation from Georgette Gomez were also awarded to supporters of Saturday’s very special event.

The music was provided by the slick turntable Master DJ Tony(Skye-G).

“I wanted to show my appreciation to all my supporters of our community and those who helped make this event happen,” event coordinator, William Carter, said.

In conjunction with Cox Cable and other donors, Mr. Carter and Miss Kathy McCainHill were able to deliver on their promise to support the youth in need.

Good music, free food, backpacks, computers and awards at the 2nd Annual Back-pack, Computer and BBQ, “I want to thank my family and everyone for coming out in support of our event for the kids today. Next year it’s going to be even better,” Mr. Carter shared.

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Labor Day Picnic

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For more than two decades, Mountain View Park has been the place to spend the Labor Day outing with the O.G. Sandbox. This year was no different in that the crowd was out. For many it’s a time to see old friends, Bar B Que, enjoy old music and just relax. There were several “food stations” where men and women were preparing plates for those who were within their particular group. The pictures from the event tell the story far better than words. Perhaps you will see someone you know.

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Back to School Rally and Showcase

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By Darrel Wheeler Contributing Writer

Sunday, August 25th the Greater Life Baptist Church members used the friendly confines of Maranatha Seven Day Adventist Church to celebrate the completion of their first annual youth summer camp and showcase.

Visitors and the GLBC ministry were treated to live music, comments from some of the campers about their summer camp experience and also the teachings of Reverend Pastor Nate Stewart. Pastor Stewart’s very powerful and inspiring sermon encouraged the youngsters to be great as they prepare for the challenges of the new school year.

Gospel recording artist, James Ray, a member of the Greater Life ministry performed his new single “God’s Love is Understanding” for the excited listeners.

“I’m letting God move me through music, using music to spread the Lord’s message, one song at a time,’’ Jamie shared.

“But this is not about me, this was about the kids. Hopefully, they learned something valuable today. Pastor Stewart’s message was very powerful and direct.

He can speak their language. He is a deep and caring person and is definitely an asset to our community.”

Every kid from elementary to high school was given a free back-pack to help re-start their 2019-20 learning process, compliments of Greater Life Baptist Church.

Deacon-in-training, Darrel “Ili Butch” Hali said, “We look out for the kids. That’s how we do here at Greater Life Baptist.”

Now it’s back to school after 10 weeks of Summer camp.

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A Local Celebration of Community and Diversity

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By Drew Weisenberger Contributing Writer

A lengthy line of blue canopy tents spanned multiple blocks on Imperial Avenue in a display of culture and community as the 5th Annual Diamond Street Festival, historically known as the Encanto Street Festival, brought the neighborhood of Encanto in San Diego to life. Featuring a thriving array of artists, musicians, and food vendors, the festival drew in an enormous crowd despite the heat.

The festival consisted of a few distinct parts: The far end, toward 63rd St. was the landing place for various stage performances of local music and booths for bigger organizations like the San Diego Police Station and NBC7.

On the other side of the festival on the block of 60th St., a Kids Corner set up face painting booths and inflatable water slides, to the joy of many families. Across from them was the majority of the regional cuisine and artistry booths, alongside large volunteer organizations such as San Diego 350 and Amnesty International.

Another notable presence at the Diamond Festival was a San Diego chapter of the Black Panthers. The Panthers have a long history in San Diego having originated in the 1960’s but being ignored or misrepresented by mainstream media. The political group had gained traction locally yet was undermined by pressures of COINTELPRO, a federal issued surveillance program. As of April 2019 the group was led, in part, by Henry Wallace.

Perhaps the most stunning showcase was the Unique Ladies Custom Car Show, which saw brilliantly colored lowriders parked all down the street, matching the rows of tents in length. The Unique Ladies San Diego Car Club, an all female group participating in Chicanx culture through vehicle art, provided a significant experience for those who saw the lustrous lowriders sitting in the sun.

The Encanto Street Festival had much for everyone to enjoy.

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Images of Resistance and Resilience in Southern California Photography by Andrew Hayford

By Andrew Harford Contributing Writer

August 30, 2019, a large, joyous and diverse crowd ranging in age and ethnicity gathered at Balboa Park’s San Diego Museum of Art on a sunny San Diego afternoon for the opening celebration of the Black Life: Images of Resistance and Resilience in Southern California. The display is free to the public in the Museum’s Fleming Sr. Gallery until December 1, 2019, located off the sculpture court adjacent to Panama 66.

The evening began with a packed audience inside the gallery looking onto the collection of 40 black and white modern prints taken by native California photographers Harry Adams (1918–1988), Charles Williams (1908–1986), and Guy Crowder (1940–2011). All were very prominent and often unsung heroes in their craft. Working primarily as freelancers for publications such as the Los Angeles Sentinel, California Eagle, Los Angeles Times, and the LA Metropolitan Gazette, the three captured images that offered a uniquely rare look into black lives. Their imagery ranged from everyday members of their communities to the likes of Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sidney Poitier, Queen Latifah, Chris Rock and many more.

The exhibit works explore black life in four sections: entertainment, prominent sports figures, activism and daily life, and it is amazing to have so many culturally significant photographs in the heart of San Diego for friends, family, and loved ones to visit and embrace.

When the doors opened Friday night, the crowd wandered around the halls soaking in the history and cultural impact of the prints that were elegantly

arranged along the walls before enjoying a welcoming speech from an instrumental member in creating the exhibit, Gaidi Finnie who serves as on the Board of Directors for the San Diego African American Museum.

Harry Adams, Protest Car, Los Angeles, 1962.

Photograph, Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN.

After about an hour spent appreciating the art exhibit, attendees enjoyed the festivities that continued the celebration outdoors. Mr. Finnie thanked the crowd again for their attendance and reminded them that this is all for them. He encouraged everybody to come together and enjoy each other’s company, history and culture. “Can you dig it?,” Finnie remarked, in closing, to smiles from all.

A DJ blasted lively music from under a shady canopy. Group and organized dances that allowed the audience to join including the electric slide and the cupid shuffle took over the courtyard.

A microphone was handed over and a well-received performance from Floyd Smith followed. The exhibit was an occasion that everyone was thankful to be a part of and it was an event full of smiles, love, laughter, culture, history, family, friendship, dance, song, and joy.

This entire event and exhibit was brought to life by a collaborative effort between the Board of Directors of the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts (Carolyn Smith, Brian Mathews, Dr.Fern Nelson, Khalada Salaam, Sinia Shaw, Ramel Holyfield, Ed Nesfield, Denise Rogers, Gina Jackson, and Gaidi Finnie), California State University Northridge (who provided the prints from the archive of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center) and The San Diego Museum of Art, which provided the space and infrastructure in compliance with the American Alliance of Museums.

Exhibit photos: courtesy of The San Diego African American Museum

Sidney Poitier and Freda Payne, Los Angeles, CA. 1976.

Photograph, Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN.

Exhibit photos: courtesy of The San Diego African American Museum

Guy Crowder, Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan, Los Angeles, 1989.

Photograph, Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN.

Exhibit photos: courtesy of The San Diego African American Museum

Guy Crowder, Muhammad Ali and Stokely Carmichael, Los Angeles, 1973. Photograph.

Tom and Ethel Bradley Center, CSUN.Exhibit photos: courtesy of The San Diego African American Museum

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Young Black & N’ Business Festival and Showcase Article & Photos by Drew Weisenberger

Able to be heard around the block, there was music thumping as businesses showed off the products of their hard work. From fashion to food, entrepreneurs in every industry attended. The spirit of success was alive in a celebration of the self-innovation of local black businesses. Held on a hot Saturday afternoon, the second annual YES Fest crowded with people in the open-air Fair@44 market on El Cajon Boulevard. The bustling market and showcase was sponsored by YoungBlack&N’Business, an organization dedicated to building a community of aspiring and emerging black owned businesses in a world where it’s not about what you know, but who you know.

Volunteers working the event attested to the importance of making connections when in business.

Roosevelt Williams III, the event organizer for YB&NB had special words of encouragement for the crowd. Williams also hosted special guests in California State Assembly member Todd Gloria, and San Diego City Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry (District 1) Barbara Bry, who came in support of the thriving energy of the community in City Heights. Both of whom are candidates in the upcoming 2020 San Diego mayoral election.

This demonstrates the importance of community driven events, giving individuals access to resources that allow them to make a difference. In attendance also, were representatives from the Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce, encouraging community

involvement and enterprise.

While the event was advertised primarily toward black business owners, there was a diverse group of attendees, both browsing and working the booths.

But as we all know, business is not all work. It is important to celebrate success where it is earned and the celebration was going full force on Saturday.

There was something for everyone as the festival featured a beer and wine garden, and entertainment including a live DJ and an energetic performance from The Junkyard Dance Crew, a local hip hop dance group.

Prizes were also awarded to the winners of a high school essay contest focusing on entrepreneurship, and families let their children gather and play in a shaded rest area.

Gospel on the Midway

Photos by Steve Peterson

Saturday, August 24th’s Bayside Gospel Concert Aboard The Midway reached over 650 people who came out to enjoy Dontae, Shanta Atkins, Cheryl Thomas-Fortune,

Robert Earl Dean, and Tribes Worship with special guest, award winning artist, Brent Jones. It was a spirit-filled night to remember!

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REFRAMING THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN ANGOLA AND THE U.S. Global Information Network

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“The 1619 Project is a major initiative observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are,” the piece begins.

If the U.S. has 35,000 museums, a writer asked in 2014, why is only one about slavery? And if the wealth of this country was built on the backs of enslaved people from Africa, why has that story been vastly under-reported in our media, in our schools and in our political discourse?

The first question was asked by John J. Cummings III, a retired lawyer who redeveloped the Whitney Plantation in New Orleans as a memorial. The

second question is being examined today by writers, artists, and citizens from perspectives running right to left.

More than half a dozen museums in the U.S. today are devoted to the story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, slavery and the complicity of the North. Since the emergence last month of a New York Times feature – the 1619 project – articles, essays, and performance pieces are also exploring and debating the

Similarly, in the southwest African nation of Angola, an exhibition about the slavers who sent hundreds of thousands of Africans to a bitter life of hard labor is drawing visitors by the hundreds.

The slavery museum is in Morro da Cruz, far from the hustle and bustle of Luanda, the capital city. Its quiet presence belies its dark past.

Founded in 1977 by the National Institute of Cultural Patrimony, its objective was to depict the history of slavery in Angola.

The building is located in the former property of Álvaro de Carvalho Matoso, one of the largest slave-traders on the African coast in the first half of the 18th Century. Matoso died in 1798, and his family and heirs continued in the slave-trade until 1836, when a decree by Maria II of Portugal prohibited the export of slaves from the Portuguese empire.

The structure adjoins the 17th century Capela da Casa Grande where slaves were baptized and given Christian names before being put on slave ships for transport to the Americas.

Most of the city’s African population was enslaved. Although Portugal abolished slavery in Angola in 1878, forced labor within Angola continued well into the twentieth century.

“We learned our history from books written by the Portuguese,” acknowledged writer Mayra de Lassalette, “and these books never

hinted at the difficulties, the resistance, the frustrated efforts to rebel against slavery or the impact it had on the country.”

“Angola’s past depended on oral tradition – very common in Africa.

But the tradition comes with a risk, because history belongs to the one who tells it.”

“Slavery was a bad thing,” a young girl told me, said Mayra. “We Africans don’t like to remember bad things.”

“And we Angolans suffer many of them,” added the writer, “from slavery to colonization and civil war.”

Another initiative by UNESCO is the online Slave Route Project whose aim is to “remedy the general ignorance on the history of Africa by reconstructing it – and re-reading the history through purely African perspectives or more objective views of scientists or researchers.”

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While all eyes are on the fastmoving flames in the Brazilian Amazon, satellite data showed a record 6,902 blazes in Angola in last week.

Brazil is actually third in the world in wildfires as of last week, according to satellite data analyzed

by Weather Source.

Angola’s fires compare to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for Central Africa.

According to NASA, which operates the Aqua satellite, over 67,000 fires were reported in a one-week period in June last year, as farmers employed slash and burn agriculture to clear land for crops.

Zambia placed fourth on the list, while Brazil’s neighbor in the Amazon, Bolivia, placed sixth.

On August 26th, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the leaders of the G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US - would release $22 million to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest.

“The forest is also burning in subSaharan Africa” he tweeted and added that he was “considering the possibility of launching a similar initiative” in sub-Saharan African.

The Congo Basin forest is commonly referred to as the “second green lung” of the planet after the Amazon.

The forests cover an area of 3.3

million square kilometers in several countries, including about a third in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the rest in Gabon, Congo, Cameroon and Central Africa.

Just like the Amazon, the forests of the Congo Basin absorb tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in trees and peat marshes - seen by experts as a key way to combat climate change. They are also sanctuaries for endangered species.

But these fires may not compare with those of Brazil, some experts say. “Fire is quite a regular thing in Africa. It’s part of a cycle, people in the dry season set fire to bush rather than to dense, moist rainforest,” said Philippe Verbelen, a Greenpeace forest campaigner working on the

Congo Basin, Guillaume Lescuyer, a central African expert at the French agricultural research and development centre CIRAD, also

said the fires seen in NASA images were mostly burning outside the rainforest.

LEADER IN WOMEN’S ISSUES TO HEAD U.N. AIDS PROGRAM

WHEREABOUTS OF AILING PRESIDENT OF GABON IN DEBATE

The U.N’s office on AIDS has named a longtime activist on women’s issues to head the global health agency.

Gabonese President Ali Bongo is receiving medical treatment in London after his health deteriorated during a visit to the city, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Ugandan humanitarian Winnie Karagwa Byanyima’s career began as a member of parliament in the National Assembly of Uganda. She became the Director of Women and Development at the African Union Commission and worked on the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa.

“I am honored to be joining UNAIDS as the Executive Director at such a critical time in the response to HIV,” said Ms Byanyima. “The end of AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is a goal that is within the world’s reach, but I do not underestimate the scale of the challenge ahead. Working with all its partners, UNAIDS must continue to speak up for the people left behind and champion human rights as the only way to end the epidemic.”

Ms Byanyima, who also headed the development group Oxfam International, is the first woman Executive Director to lead the

agency since its launch in 1996.

She succeeds Michel Sidibé who was appointed Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Mali.

Dr. Penninah Lutung, Africa Bureau Chief of the AIDS Health Foundation, said: “With young women and girls being disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, a strong UNAIDS leader can inspire them to pursue their dreams and stay healthy. We are excited and look forward to working with a new and transforming UNAIDS.” Ms. Byanyima is married to Kizza Besigye, a Ugandan opposition leader for many years.

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But news of the absent president was immediately contradicted in an official press release this week in a pattern common to many ailing leaders. The leader of this oil-producing country is merely spending time at his London residence while on a short period of leave, the official statement read. He is undergoing routine medical checks and will soon return to Gabon.

Gabon has been leaderless onand-off for the past year when the president suffered a stroke while attending a conference in Saudi Arabia. He returned home five months later, after recovering abroad.

Efforts to determine President’s fitness to govern were stymied this week by Gabon’s Court of Appeals which refused to hear a petition requiring the leader to undergo medical tests.

The appeals court has “buried” the case, said Jean-Paul Moumbembe, a lawyer for members of Gabon’s political opposition, civil society and trade unions. A lower court dismissed the case in May. Gabon, which is going through an economic contraction, is a dynasty ruled by one family since independence from France in 1960. The father, Omar Bongo ruled for more than 40 years.

His son, Ali Bongo Ondimba, became president in 2009 after an election declared fraudulent by the opposition.

Despite abundant natural wealth, poor fiscal management and overreliance on oil have stifled the economy. Power cuts and water shortages are frequent.

Gabon, located in the western curve of west Africa, has one of Africa’s highest average per capita incomes, but oil wealth is held by a few, and most Gabonese live below the poverty line.

Anticorruption laws are not enforced, and bribery is widespread in commerce and

business and particularly in the energy sector, according to the 2019 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the Heritage Foundation.

While Gabonese citizens try to locate their ailing president, the country’s recently appointed environment minister, Lee White, told the BBC in an interview broadcast Aug. 28 that Bongo is physically weakened by the stroke but fit to govern and “definitely in charge.” w/pix of Pres. Ali Bongo in August

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Sugar Can Ruin Your Health

By Lester “Mac” McCurtis

Heart disease, asthma, arthritis, candida albicans, gallstones, kidney damage, poor concentration, hyperactivity, anxiety, aging, cataracts, increased risk of Crohn’s disease, food allergies, weakened eyesight, eczema in children, increased triglyceride level, decreased glucose tolerance, periodontal disease, obesity and impaired DNA structure.

Avoid Excess Sugar in Your Diet - Read Food Labels Reading food labels is very important to select foods high in nutrition. Sugar is literally in every known processed food.

Sugar is also in salt. The following are other names for sugar: Sucrose, fructose, maltose, levulose, dextrose, glucose and galactose. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a derivative of corn is a chemical compound of fructose and glucose with small amounts of maltose. These all should be avoided.

As well as substitutes which contain cancer-causing agents.

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Sugar Substitutes: Ones to Avoid, Alternatives to Consider

Sugar has many dangers, but there are ways to combat them.

Most natural health practitioners believe sugar is the sweetest known drug ever made. Simply try to go without it for 30 days or even two weeks. You will experience its many withdrawal symptoms. Sugar’s addictive properties keep Americans craving for more of its sweetness.

A short list of them are: Aspartame, Saccharin, Cyclamate, Neotame, Alitame, Sunett, and Sucralose. When you hear phrases like sugar free, no sugar, or sugarless that usually indicates substitute usage. Substitutes should only be used on occasion if alternative sweeteners are not available.

According to recent statistics, the average American eats about ¼ lb. of refined sugar a day. According to Prevention Magazine, flour, wheat, and sugar inflame the colon, which can lead to a condition known as colitis. Colitis is a disease where the mucous membrane of the colon becomes inflamed.

Crohn’s disease is another debillitating disease caused from an over consumption of sugar.

Diseases Caused by an Overconsumption of Sugar There is a host of other diseases that are caused by an over consumption of sugar in the diet, hence 101 ways it ruins your health. Here’s a short list of some:

A product with less processing, and closer to plant source is higher in nutrient value. The key is to use alternatives to sugar.

The alternatives are as follows: Stevia, Rice syrup, Xylitol, Agave, 100% maple syrup, black strap molasses, fruit syrup (Knott’s Berry Farm), honey, sorghum molasses, granulated cane juice, and barley malt. Once you’ve acclimated your palate to alternatives, they may taste sweeter than refined sugar.

have any calories or negative impact on the pancreas in regard to elevated glucose levels.

Don’t Eat Sweets on an Empty Stomach According to Delicious Magazine, online “sweets on an empty stomach can cause blood sugar lows, which trigger the desire for more sweets. “ Always eat them after a well-balanced meal. We highly recommend the use of herbal supplements. A product called AS gymnema, is one herb known as a sugar eliminator. It suppresses the ability to taste sweets when applied to the tongue before eating.

According to naturopathic doctor James Brawley ND, gymnema is an insulin potentiator, because it helps balance both blood sugar and insulin levels. He suggests taking the herb alone with some of the blood sugar balancing minerals like chromium.

Eating sweets can be enjoyable, but the hidden costs to your health is high, becoming aware of sugar’s many dangers is a great first step to better health.

Lester “Mac” McCurtis has been in natural healthcare for over 20 years. He specializes in creating programs to prevent or manage chronic disease as well as speaking engagements and seminars across the nation. Contact him to schedule a seminar (Macsherbshop@mynsp.com), or to learn more visit Youtube. com/mccurtiscreative.

The sugar cane in its whole natural form is more nutritious than white sugar, although you seldom can find it sold this way. You can usually find natural sweet alternatives in health food stores, farmers markets, flea markets, and some grocery stores.

If you are diabetic, using the herb stevia as an alternative sugar substitute might be beneficial. Stevia is a plant and it does not

SDUSD Starts School Year with Healthy Start Times and Plant-Based Menus Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

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More than 100,000 students and some 13,000 teachers and support staff members returned to theSan Diego Unified School District last Monday to kick off the new school year.

Recognized for Patient Safety Excellence Six Years in a Row

Superintendent Cindy Marten, School Board President Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, and School Board Vice President Dr. John Lee Evans welcomed students back at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA), which is among three campuses in the district to offer an early implementation of San Diego Unified’s new Healthy Start Times.

SCPA, La Jolla High School, and Muirlands Middle School started school at 8:35 a.m. this year. Next year, all high schools will begin between 8:35 a.m. and 9:05 a.m. under the Healthy Start Times.

For the past six consecutive years, Paradise Valley Hospital has been given the Patient Safety Excellence Award by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals. This places Paradise Valley among the top 5% of short-term acute care hospitals in the nation ranked for patient safety. Our physicians, nurses, and technicians possess the expertise and compassion to provide you with the best—and safest—care possible.

On February 12, 2019, the Board of Education approved a resolution to implement Healthy Start Times for all high school students in the 2020-21 academic year.

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The district’s implementation of Healthy Start Times is part of its broader commitment to the overall health and wellness of students. Starting

school later in the morning has been shown to be the single best way to address adolescent sleep deprivation and its associated health and public-safety risks.

Junior Mckenna from SCPA was not complaining Monday morning. “It’s a big change, it’s really nice,” she said. “I was always tired last year.”

Along with a healthier start time, students also kicked off the school year with new cafeteria menu items. In addition to Meatless Mondays and the healthy organic options already on the menu, this year all middle and high schools will offer daily plantbased options.

“New this year, we are proud to offer a plant-based option every day of the week on our middle & high school menu, as well as a plant-based option as part of Meatless Mondays at our elementary schools.

These plant-based options are a part of our commitment to student wellness and our way of reducing our carbon footprint,” said San Diego Unified’s Chef Juan Zamorano.

Parents can find out more information on the Healthy Start Times Initiative on the district’s website: https:// w w w.sa nd iegou ni f ied .org / healthy-start-times

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Gucci Names Diversity Chief It’s Never Too Early or After Blackface Flap Too Late to Start Retirement Planning Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

In her new capacity, Tirado will be tasked with developing and implementing a global strategy to make Gucci’s workplace more inclusive through by its hiring process and developing its diversity, equity and inclusion team.

“I am in the business of making human connections that start with the foundations of inclusivity, respect, and diversity to ensure Gucci remains culturally relevant and economically competitive,” Tirado, who is an attorney, said in a statement. “I am honored to join a company that puts these non-negotiable values at the forefront of their business model, not as a ‘nice to have’ but as a key component of its business strategy.”

Tirado, a graduate of the University of Rochester where she joined the Pi Beta chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, will also lead Gucci’s Cultural Awareness Learning Program, Global Multicultural Design Fellowship Program, the Internal Global Exchange Program, and other programming.

Over the last year, multiple fashion brands have faced backlash for what many in the public considered culturally insensitive or racist products.

Gucci, in particular received backlash for what has been referred to as its “blackface” balaclava sweaters which were pulled from shelves in February.

Chanel, Prada and Burberry have all introduced diversity initiatives as well.

PERSONAL FINANCE

by Gina Gallovich

There are many important life events—graduation, marriage, children, home buying, and, of course, retirement. You want to plan for a comfortable retirement, but you don’t want to live like a pauper while doing so. According to Kenneth Kelly, Chairman and CEO of First Independence Bank, “Start early to create the habit of saving. Look at your everyday expenses and see where you can get the same service or product for less and put that savings into your retirement plan.”

It’s a balancing act, one that can be helped by using tools (This article originally and resources easily available appeared in The Washington to you. You don’t need to be Informer.) a financial whiz or have an advanced degree. Common sense will guide you along the way as you make plans for retirement.

Tips to Build Good Credit During and After College StatePoint

There’s a lot of learning that takes place during and after college, including many lessons outside of the classroom. When it comes to personal finance, however, young people don’t need to learn their lessons the hard way.

Consider these tips to help you establish good credit that will lay the foundation for a healthy financial future — well beyond college: Do Your Research With so many reports of rampant consumer debt, you may be tempted to shy away from opening a credit card account, but opening a credit card is a crucial step in establishing a credit history.

A healthy credit history is ©Mymemo/stock.Adobe.com not just necessary for most home and car loans, in many select your credit accounts cases, it’s also required for wisely and watch out for establishing accounts with programs offering rewards utility services and signing and benefits that make apartment leases. What’s maxing out, and then owing more, good credit can help big, all too easy. you avoid security deposit fees, get better insurance Instead, look for credit cards rates, and even help you designed to promote and land that dream job, as many reward long-term financial offered employers run credit checks responsibility, by financial institutions on candidates. committed to customer The good news is that 83 success. For example, Sallie percent of college graduates Mae is introducing a new suite and 57 percent of current of credit cards with a range of college students have at least benefits that do just that. The one credit card, according to Sallie Mae Ignite card, for “Majoring in Money,” a recent example, is designed to help national study by Sallie Mae college students responsibly and Ipsos. Also, nearly all establish and manage credit. young adults — 97 percent — For those looking to make make at least the minimum progress towards important payment each month. Moral financial goals, the Sallie Mae of the story? Get a credit card Accelerate card offers a cash back bonus program designed and use it responsibly. to help pay down any student loan. Finally, the Sallie Mae Be Selective Evolve card, automatically There are many credit cards rewards a cash bonus on your marketed specifically to top two purchase categories young people. Make sure to each month.

All three cards feature universal benefits, including U.S.-based customer service, free monthly access to credit scores, immediate access to the card upon approval, a mobile app, and tools to deliver security and control.

To learn more, visit salliemae. com/credit-cards.

“Our established relationships with college students and graduates helped us understand what they’re looking for in a credit card,” says Donna Vieira, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Sallie Mae. “These new credit cards, cocreated and developed with students, parents and recent graduates, provide benefits tailored to their needs.”

Don’t let credit be an undue source of stress as you navigate early adulthood.

Find the right products designed with your needs in mind and establish healthy financial habits.

One resource you have but don’t immediately consider is your family or friends. Your parents and grandparents have saved for their own retirement. Sit down with them and discuss the plans they made for themselves, ask them how it’s working out, and what, if they had the opportunity, would they do differently. Learn from them as they’re learning from their own successes and missteps. Did they set aside a specific percentage of their income each year or did they increase it over time; did they set up a 401K or put money into an IRA; and/or did they contribute to a company pension plan?

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Renee Tirado has been appointed director of Gucci’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion division.

Now is the time to get started on your own plans if you haven’t.

First, you need to take into consideration what “benefits” await you, from Social Security; private, government, corporate or union pensions; 401Ks, or other investments.

Do a risk assessment for each “benefit.” For instance, Social Security is not the be all and end all of plans. It is there as a minimum safety net, the key is to diversify your retirement assets to limit your risks.

Log onto the Social Security Administration site: https:// w w w.ssa .gov/OAC T/ quickcalc/index.html to help you in your planning. Various company and union websites also have these sorts of tools available as well to calculate your pension. You can put in variables with guesstimates on future salary, retirement age, etc.

Next, determine what type of retirement you want. By that, I mean, do you want to retire at the same standard of living you now enjoy, or can you live off of less? This will help determine how much money you need to save. “Starting in your 20s, a good rule of thumb,” said Kelly, “is to put aside roughly 18 percent of your salary. Let market conditions take over and by your early 60s you will have generated enough money to maintain your lifestyle well into your 80s.” Also, keep in mind that financial planning is not “one size fits all”. Be sure to consult a certified financial planner to discuss your retirement plan.

Also, take into consideration the possibility of unforeseen medical expenses and plan accordingly. Do you need to take out long-term care insurance? If you suffer from a debilitating or chronic disease such as diabetes, it may be a good move on your part.

There are a whole host of other variables to consider including determining at what age you want to retire, factoring in the market value of your investments, calculating the effect of inflation, etc. But the key is to start building your nest egg now. Don’t be among the nearly 50 percent of American families who, according to the Economic Policy Institute in 2018, had no retirement account savings.

It is never too early to start saving for retirement. And, it is never too late. The sooner you start, the earlier you can retire and work only if it fulfills you, not out of necessity.

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Project Name: Golf Course Improvement Projects Project Number: K-20-1852MAC-3-C Estimated Value: $15,000,000.00 Mandatory Pre-Submittal Meeting: 09/12/2019, at 10:00 A.M. (Wada Room, 525 B Street, Suite 750, San Diego, CA 92101 Bid Open Date: 10/02/2019, at 12:00 P.M. License Requirement: A It is the policy of the City of San Diego to encourage equal opportunity in its Construction and Consultant contracts. Bids or proposals from local firms, small, minority-owned, disabled, veteran-owned, and womenowned businesses are strongly encouraged. Contractors are encouraged to subcontract with and/or participate in joint ventures with these firms. The City is committed to equal opportunity and will not discriminate with regard to race, religion, color, ancestry, age, gender, disability, medical condition or place of birth; and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on any basis.

Bids shall be received no later than the date and time noted above at: City of San Diego’s Electronic Biding Site PlanetBids at: https://www.planetbids. com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=17950 James Nagelvoort, Director Department of Public Works August 28, 2019 9/5/19 CNS-3287113# VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWS ----------------------------------

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Fictitious business name(s): HOUSE OF HOPE Located at: 3559 Sweet Water Way, Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/13/14 This business is hereby registered by the following: LaVerne Mitchell 3371 Eton Greens Ct., Spring Valley, CA 91978 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 23, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 23, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020926 Fictitious business name(s): SOUL RENEWAL FAMILY COUNSELING, INC. Located at: 7737 Pacific Ave., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Soul Renewal Family Counseling, Inc. 7737 Pacific Ave., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 26, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 26, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019730 Fictitious business name(s): FUN BIKE CENTER FBC Located at: 5755 Kearny Villa Road San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 07/25/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: San Diego Motorsports Inc. 5755 Kearny Villa Road San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 12, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 12, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019223 Fictitious business name(s): SAFE SPARES AVIATION Located at: 7317 El Cajon Blvd., #244 La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Khader Qabouq 233 Shady Ln., Apt. 60 El Cajon, CA 92021 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 06, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 06, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020783 Fictitious business name(s): DELUXE NAIL & SPA Located at: 2352 Fletcher Parkway El Cajon, CA 92020 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/23/19

This business is hereby registered by the following: Thanh Nga Thi Huynh 4212 Winona Ave., San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 23, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 23, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020085 Fictitious business name(s): CHAMP CATERING Located at: 2307 Fenton Pkwy #107-8 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 08/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Paving Great Futures 2307 Fenton Pkwy #107-8 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020071 Fictitious business name(s): MG DAS CAFE Located at: 4261 Acacia Ave., Bonita, CA 91902 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Christopher Aaron Lofall 4261 Acacia Ave., Bonita, CA 91902 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020078 Fictitious business name(s): KRE8 Located at: 3759 42nd Street San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Francisco Javier Canseco 3759 42nd Street San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020084 Fictitious business name(s): PAVING GREAT FUTURES MEDIA Located at: 2307 Fenton Pkwy #107-8 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Paving Great Futures 2307 Fenton Pkwy #107-8 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024

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San Diego 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Octavio Felix Jr. 7050 Akins Ave., San Diego 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 12, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 12, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019248 Fictitious business name(s): WHO'S THE DONKEY CLOTHING Located at: 10710 Dabney Dr. #81 San Diego, CA 92126 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 08/06/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Michel Bradford 10710 Dabney Dr. #81 San Diego, CA 92126 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 06, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 06, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020021 Fictitious business name(s): MALONE SWIFT COURIER SERVICES LLC MSC SERVICES Located at: 7777 Linda Vista Rd., Apt. 9 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 05/30/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Malone Swift Courier Services, LLC. 7777 Linda Vista Rd., Apt. 9 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 ------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020470 Fictitious business name(s): FRAISES Located at: 1665 Brandywine Ave. Apt. E43 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Magaly K. Vera 1665 Brandywine Ave. Apt. E43 Chula Vista, CA 91911 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 20, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 20, 2024 8/22,8/29, 9/5, 9/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019044 Fictitious business name(s): CULTURE AND COMMUNITY CENTERS Located at: 1720 OConnor Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91913 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Towan Lavelle Adams 1720 OConnor Ave., Chula Vista, CA 91913 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 02, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 02, 2024 8/22,8/29, 9/5, 9/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019401 Fictitious business name(s): KALI WILD BRAND KALI GIRL BRAND Located at: 2368 Blackton Dr., San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Mariesha A. Richburg Mcgriff 2368 Blackton Dr., San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 7, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 7, 2024 8/22,8/29, 9/5, 9/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019622 Fictitious business name(s): A BRANCH AWAY LLC Located at: 3116 King Arthurs Ct., Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 08/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: A Branch Away, LLC 3116 King Arthurs Ct., Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 9, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 9, 2024 8/22,8/29, 9/5, 9/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019928 Fictitious business name(s): KING ONE TRANSPORTATION Located at: 1925 Euclid Ave #203 San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 08/13/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: King One Transportation, LLC 1925 Euclid Ave #203 San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 13, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 13, 2024 8/22,8/29, 9/5, 9/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019202 Fictitious business name(s): BEAUTY OBSESSION

BY IRIS FLORES Located at: 7736 Arjons Dr., San Diego 92126 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Iris Nayelli Flores 724 Alvin Street, San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 6, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020669 Fictitious business name(s): GEORGE'S CRVNON-CRV PICK UP RECYCLING SERVICE Located at: 2002 Granger Ave., National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 08/22/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: George Livell Wynn 2002 Granger Ave., National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 22, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 22, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020403 Fictitious business name(s): DWIGHT GRAPHIC DESIGN AND MARKETING Located at: 4586 Idaho St. #7 San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 05/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Francis Dwight Nichols 4586 Idaho St. #7 San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 19, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 19, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020656 Fictitious business name(s): MOTU INNOVATION Located at: 113 West G. St. #1017 San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Gregory Paul Gaines, Jr. 113 West G. St. #1017 San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 22, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 22, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9020073 Fictitious business name(s): KALM DOWN Located at: 10130 Austin Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Megain Erlise McCall 10130 Austin Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 14, 2024 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019757 Fictitious business name(s): GOLDEN TOUCH WINDOW CLEANING Located at: 7050 Akins Ave.,

www.sdvoice.info LEGAL NOTICES August 6, 2024 8/15, 8/22,8/29, 9/5 ---------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019417 Fictitious business name(s): THOT ROT Located at: 6962 Renkrib Ave, San Diego, CA 92119 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Thomas Farthing Inc. 6962 Renkrib Ave, San Diego, CA 92119 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 7, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 7, 2024 8/15, 8/22,8/29, 9/5 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019599 Fictitious business name(s): CARS AND TAGS Located at: 7317 El Cajon Blvd, Ste2010, La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 12/20/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: C & H Innovation, LLC. 7317 El Cajon Blvd, Ste2010, La Mesa, CA 91942 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 9, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 9, 2024 8/15, 8/22,8/29, 9/5 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9019290 Fictitious business name(s): ENDLESSIE ENDLESS AND CO Located at: 5998 Alcala Park San Diego 92110 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 8/6/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Krystal Marie Monroe 4846 Wyconda Ln, San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 6, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on August 6, 2024 8/15, 8/22,8/29, 9/5 ------------------------------------

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National Congress of Black Women to Honor Shirley Chisholm at Annual Brunch National Congress of Black Women, Inc. “We are inspired by so many of them – especially Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm,” Williams said.

“Black women are awesome, but unfortunately, our true stories don’t always make the news. Mrs. Chisholm was our founder along with many great women like Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, Dr. Lezli Baskerville, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, and the Honorable Alexis Herman,” Williams said.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

On Sunday, September 15, the National Congress of Black Women will celebrate its 35th annual brunch in the Thurgood Marshall Room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

In 1968, Chisholm became the first Black woman to serve in Congress.

In 1972, Chisholm became the first Black woman to seek the nomination for President of the United States from a major political party. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924, Chisholm was the oldest of four daughters to Charles St. Hill, a factory worker from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. Her motto and the title of her autobiography, “Unbought and Unbossed,” illustrates her outspoken

Chisholm died in 2005 at the age of 81.

The 10 a.m. brunch will include a special tribute to Chisholm by Congresswomen Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and Barbara Lee (D-Texas).

During the 35th celebration, the National Congress of Black Women will also honor Congresswomen Lucy McBath (D-GA), Ayanna Pressley (DMA), Jahana Hayes (D-Conn., Lauren Underwood (D-IL), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

The non-profit dedicated to the educational, political, economic and cultural development of Black women, will also honor the 50th anniversary of Shirley Chisholm’s election to Congress.

“We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our events as well as in our daily activities,” said Dr. E. Faye Williams, president, and CEO of the

said.

advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Williams

“Several women serving in Congress today were inspired by Mrs. Chisholm.

They will be at our event to pay tribute to her. When I see the newest group of Congresswomen, I can see the influence of Mrs. Chisholm in their actions, and I am so proud of them,” Williams said.

“They are not just pathfinders. They are trailblazers. I love their spirit and their courage, and I know that their terms in Congress will definitely make a difference for other Black women as well as our community in general,” she said.

Joining the organization at the brunch will be three descendants of Harriet Tubman, and Alelia Bundles, a descendant of Madame C.J. Walker.

“We will also be introducing an initiative called, ‘Healing the Wounds of Circumstance,’” Williams said.

“Your readers will hear a lot more about this initiative soon,” she said.

San Diego Unified Addresses Concerns Regarding New Public Charge Rule, Encourages Families to Continue With Free and Reduced Lunch

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By Maureen Magee SDUSD Communications Director

SAN DIEGO (Sept. 4, 2019) – The San Diego Unified School District is encouraging families to continue to apply for federally subsidized meals under the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, which are available to students regardless of their citizenship status.

Superintendent Cindy Marten addressed implications of the new Public Charge Rule, and potential consequences to student health and nutrition on Wednesday. She was joined by Board President Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, board members Richard Barrera and Michael McQuary, San Diego Unified Food and Nutrition Services Director Gary Petill, and

representatives from the Hunger Coalition, and San Diego Food Bank.

“We want every single child who qualifies for a free or reduced price lunch to apply. No student should ever go hungry because of concerns about immigration status. Applying for a free school lunch will not keep you from getting a green card.

There has been widespread fear and concern in the community over the recent announcement by the Trump administration. On the question of school lunches, at least, we are able to put everyone’s mind at ease. Free and reduced school lunches do not count against your public charge score. If you qualify, you should apply,” Marten

said.

The Department of Homeland Security announced in August that a final Public Charge Inadmissibility Rule would be used to determine an individual’s likelihood of becoming a public charge (an individual who may rely on public benefits). The new rule includes previously excluded programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Individuals participating in the SNAP program can be denied permanent residences in the U.S. (green card).

Changes to the Public Charge go into effect in October.

“We are committed to providing

healthy school meals and snacks to the students of San Diego Unified in order to support student academic success and promote healthful eating habits that lead to lifelong positive nutrition practices,” said Gary Petill, San Diego Unified’s Director of Food and Nutrition.

San Diego Unified’s Food and Nutrition Services serves 101,341 healthy school meals and snacks at no cost to 80,764 students, per day. To learn more about the district’s Food and Nutrition Services or to apply for federally subsidized meals, please visit https://www.sandiegounified.org/ food-nutrition-services

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in a recent interview: •Collect statistics on domestic terrorism, and allow those statistics to drive resources for programs to combat it.

•Commit to long-term undercover investigations.

•Train state and local law enforcement about right-wing extremists groups.

•Make grants available for countering right-wing extremism.

that can help identify people being radicalized, working with private industry to get them to do better and more internet and social media monitoring.

•Educate the public on their role, how to report suspicious activity, reaching out to communities and organizations

If the United States does not take steps to combat white supremacism and right-wing extremism, attacks like the

one in El Paso will only become more commonplace. As the nation’s racial demographics continue to change, so will the racist backlash. It’s time to take domestic terrorism as seriously as we have taken foreign terrorism.

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