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By Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint

In spite of a number of people and locations who seek to take the credit, the first Memorial Day was held by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. During the Civil War, Union Army soldiers who were prisoners of war were held at the Charleston Race Course. It is reported that at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were quickly buried in unmarked graves. The bodies had been buried under the bleachers of the race track. After the war, a group of black workmen dug up the bodies and reburied them to properly honor the fallen.

City Councilmember Montgomery joins County Officials and People’s Alliance for Justice for Site Opening.

Photos courtesy of Mike Norris, Image Seed Photography

On May 1, 1865, over 10,000 people -- recently freed slaves, black schoolchildren, colored soldiers and their allies - -held what was the first Memorial Day parade.

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By Stacy M. Brown

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NNPA Newswire

UNDAUNTED BY COVID-19,

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This pandemic has challenged the very fabric of our ability to be safe and healthy. People have lost their jobs. Small businesses have permanently shuttered doors, and community members express an anxiety about not being able to get tested.

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“I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy,” Biden stated after the comments to The Breakfast Club host, Charlamagne Tha God, went viral.

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Councilmember Montgomery addressed the gathering, making comments partially presented here:

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City Councilmember Monica Montogmery, who represents the Fourth District in which the Center is located and chairs the Committee on Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods, spoke of the impact of the pandemic on health and safety. She spoke of how the pandemic has widened the inequality gap in our community with a disparate impact on our most vulnerable and underserved.

Now the challenge is to make use of the facilities.

NEW DIMENSION

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Club Comment

The rear parking lot of the Tubman-Chavez Center was the location of the Press Conference at which the opening of the CoVid 19 Southeastern Test site was announced. Rev. Shane Harris was the lead speaker and a voice calling for the site. Dr. Suzanne Affalo, M.D., who has been a strong presence of support in the effort with Dr. Rodney Hood, expressed her support as Ms. Barbara Jimenez, Area Director for County Health and Human Services.

HIP HOP BRINGS

Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast Club.

“I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy,” Biden stated after the comments to show host, Charlamagne Tha God, went viral.

“I shouldn’t have been so cavalier. No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, religion, and background.”

Why should a community member have to drive to Chula Vista or Escondido to be tested? As Rev. Harris mentioned - testing, contract tracing and treatment are crucial. These “3Ts” are the most vital components of the six indicators on the Governor’s road map to recovery.

As the Breakfast Club interview wrapped and a Biden aide said he was running short on time, Charlamagne asked the former vice president to stop by the

See TESTING page 7

See MESSAGE page 2

See MEMORIAL page 2

Faith Based Leaders Focus on Census Outreach

By Candice Mays California Census

The historical precedent of faithbased communities carving the path to political power and socioeconomic equity is still very much a part of Black California’s present.

Pastors and elders working locally in regions across the state are amplifying their voices and leveraging their platforms. Their goal is simple. To ensure the message of a complete count in Census 2020 is not drowned out by political turmoil and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bottom line is this - they are the trusted messengers in our communities and any information relayed through them is not only met with open ears, hearts, and minds, but most importantly, action.

Federal funds for housing, health care, education, and jobs like this Fire fighter’s are all at state in this year’s 2020 Census. Black Californians Count

Efforts encouraging and mobilizing Black Californians to count a politically and socioeconomically disenfranchised population, both disenchanted and disengaged with civic participation, have been compounded by

the sudden and unexpected ramifications of COVID-19.

The health and safety of California’s Census partners and the public is a priority. As the response to COVID-19 has evolved, See CENSUS page 10

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Message: continued from page 1

studio when Biden returns to New York.

“It’s a long way until November,” Charlamagne told Biden. “We’ve got more questions.”

Biden replied, “You’ve got more questions?”

“Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for Trump or me, then you ain’t black.”

Republicans seized on the remark, with some sending emails to NNPA Newswire claiming that Biden was “race-baiting.”

Memorial: continued from page 1

“They paraded around the racetrack, and then they gathered as many as could fit into the cemetery compound. About three or four black preachers read from script,” said David Blight, a professor of history at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery. His research is responsible for bringing this little known history to light. It was observed by the historian that the white South controlled much of the nation’s narrative, which explains why this heroic story was practically erased.

At the May 1, 1865 celebration, it is reported that three thousand black children carried roses and sang “John Brown’s Body,” a tribute to the “fervent abolitionist.” It is reported that they also sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and that Black women followed with flowers, wreaths, and crosses. Black men and Union soldiers followed behind them. By the end of the procession the graves were covered in rose petals.

It is suggested that the ex-slaves were paying tribute to the dead who gave their lives for the ex-slaves’ freedom. Writing in the New York Times, Blight, the historian, wrote of the ex-slaves, “by their labor, their words, their

songs, and their solemn parade on their former owner’s racetrack, black Charlestonians created the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”

It has been suggested that the African American origins of the holiday were later suppressed by white Southerners who regained power in the South after the end of Reconstruction, and then claimed Memorial Day as a holiday of reconciliation for white Americans.

In the North, General John A. Logan proclaimed the day “Decoration Day” as a nationwide observance. He used his position to make a tradition which had started in the south three years earlier by some freed African Americans to start a process that led to the name “Memorial Day,” first used in 1882. “Memorial Day” was not declared the official name of the holiday until a Federal law was passed in 1967. A year later, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act which created a three day holiday which has evolved into a national time to honor fallen soldiers.

Writers and scholars, among them David Blight and Hurston/Wright Foundation fellow, Victoria Massie, are all to be given credit for their research and writings that help to keep our history alive in spite of organized efforts to erase it.

LegaL Notice

If you resided in Greenfield Mobile Estates, Starlight Mobile Home Park or Villa Cajon Mobile Home Estates in El Cajon, California, for one or more calendar years from January 1, 1963 through April 14, 2020, currently own a mobile home in one of those parks, or if you attended school as a student or worked as staff at Magnolia Elementary School in El Cajon, California for one or more school years between January 1, 1963 and through April 14, 2020, you may qualify for benefits from a class action settlement This Notice may affect your rights, so please read it carefully.

Settlements have been reached in two class action lawsuits (Cox I and Trujillo) about claims of exposure to toxic contamination from waste materials stored below ground at the Former Ametek Facility (located at 790 Greenfield Avenue, El Cajon, California).

Plaintiffs’ claims arise from alleged contamination of groundwater, soil vapor and indoor air on and below downgradient properties, including the Greenfield Mobile Estates, Starlight Mobile Home Park, and Villa Cajon Mobile Home Estate (Cox I Action), and Magnolia Elementary School (Trujillo Action), where teachers worked and students attended school.

Who Is Included?

The Cox I settlement includes two Subclasses.

Medical Consultation Program Subclass This Subclass includes every person who resided in the following mobile home park units for 1 or more calendar years from January 1, 1963 through April 14, 2020:

What does

the

settlement ProvIde?

If Cox I is approved by the Court, a Settlement Fund of $1,500,000.00 will be established to pay for medical consultation benefits for Plaintiffs and Class Members, as well as fees and costs consistent with the Settlement Agreement; a separate $2,000,000 Settlement Fund will be established for sampling/mitigation/remediation of the plume, consistent with the Settlement Agreement.

If Trujillo is approved by the Court, a Settlement Fund of $1,000,000.00 will be established to pay for medical consultation benefits for Plaintiffs and Class Members of that settlement, as well as fees and costs consistent with the Settlement Agreement; a separate fund of $500,000.00 will be established to pay for sampling/ mitigation/remediation of the plume consistent with the Settlement Agreement. Details about all of the benefits of each settlement are available at the website.

In response, NNPA Newswire asked members of the GOP to address what many in the African American community believe have been the racially-charged remarks and actions of the president.

There was no response.

“The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day. Period,” Biden’s senior advisor Symone D. Sanders wrote on Twitter.

“Vice President Biden spent his career fighting alongside and for the African American community. He won his party’s nomination by earning every vote and meeting people where they are, and that’s exactly what he intends to do this November,” Sanders stated.

In a “Meet the Black Press” segment of an interview on the web-based show, “Make It Plain,” National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, said people should react favorably to the exchange.

“Charlamagne always asks pointed questions, he takes no prisoners and he’s a great brother,” Chavis stated. “But, the vice president is a street fighter who comes from Wilmington, Delaware. Remember, he was speaking directly to Charlamagne.”

Pressed further, Dr. Chavis noted that the issue boils down to the current administration verses a possible Biden administration.

“What Black people have to decide is not all of the prerequisites, but given what we know today, what is our aspirations? Who can best improve our quality of life? That’s the issue,” Chavis stated.

“We can’t get caught up in personality politics. I would rather have a president who speaks from the heart, from the gut, than a president who speaks from a teleprompter. I want to know what Biden is thinking about.

That he’s thinking about Black, White, Latino, about the oneness of man.

“I would prefer to hear what he has to say, rather than to muzzle him. I tell hip-hop artists that they have freedom of expression, but they have to be responsible for what they put out. You have the freedom to say what you want, but after you say it, you have to be accountable.”

In an interview with NNPA Newswire in February, Biden said the Black vote was critical to anyone with aspirations of winning in November.

He then laid out his plan for Black America.

Last month, he called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to collect more data regarding how COVID-19 is affecting communities, including breaking down its impact by race.

“The data we’ve seen so far suggests that African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at a higher rate than whites. Long-standing systemic inequalities are contributing to this disparity – including the fact that African Americans are more likely to be uninsured and to live in communities where they are exposed to high levels of air pollution,” Biden stated.

Barack Obama’s former vice president’s plan for Black America includes: Advance the economic mobility of African Americans and close the racial wealth and income gaps.

Expand access to high-quality education and tackle racial inequity in our education system.

Make far-reaching investments in ending health disparities by race.

Strengthen America’s commitment to justice.

Make the right to vote and the right to equal protection real for African Americans.

Address environmental justice.

Biden, who this month fiercely denounced the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, noted that he spearheaded the Community Oriented Policing Services program, which authorized funding both for the hiring of additional police officers and for training on how to undertake a community policing approach.

However, the program has never been funded to fulfill the original vision for community policing.

He said he would reinvigorate the COPS program with a $300 million investment.

As a condition of the grant, Biden stated that hiring police officers must mirror the racial diversity of the community they serve. Additionally, as President, Biden promises to establish a panel to scrutinize what equipment is used by law enforcement in our communities.

He said he would invest in public defenders’ offices to ensure defendants’ access to quality counsel, and create a $20 billion grant program to support criminal justice reform at the state and local level.

Biden pledged to work with Congress to reform federal sentencing and provide incentives to state and local systems to do the same.

He said he would end once and for all, the federal crack and powder cocaine disparity, decriminalize the use of cannabis and automatically expunge all prior cannabis use convictions.

The Democrat also promises to end the criminalization of poverty and cash bail, which he called the modern-day debtors’ prison.

“We need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based disparities,” Biden noted.

hoW do You receIve BenefIts?

You must submit a Claim Form postmarked no later than September 23, 2022 to receive benefits from the • Greenfield Mobile Estates, 400 Greenfield Drive, settlements. For a Claim Form, visit the website.

El Cajon, CA 92021 • Starlight Mobile Home Park, 351 E Bradley What are mY other oPtIons?

Avenue, El Cajon, CA 92021 If you do not want to be a part of the settlements, • Villa Cajon Mobile Home Estates, 255 E Bradley you must exclude yourself by July 25, 2020. If the Ave., El Cajon, CA 92021 settlements become final, Class Members who remain Mobile Home Coach Sampling/Mitigation Program in the settlements will be releasing the Defendants from Subclass all of the Released Claims described in the Settlement This Subclass includes every person who as of Agreements.

April 14, 2020, owns a mobile home coach at the If you stay in either or both settlements, you may following mobile home parks: object to them by July 25, 2020. The detailed notices at • Greenfield Mobile Estates, 400 Greenfield Drive, the website explain how to exclude yourself or object.

The Court will hold a hearing on August 24, 2020 El Cajon, CA • Starlight Mobile Home Park, 351 E Bradley to consider whether to approve each settlement. You or your own lawyer, if you have one may attend the Avenue, El Cajon, CA 92021 • Villa Cajon Mobile Home Estates, 255 E Bradley hearing, but it is not necessary.

Ave., El Cajon, CA 92021 If approved, Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys’ fees for each case in an amount not to exceed The Trujillo settlement includes every person who: (1) Attended Magnolia Elementary School as a 25% of the gross amount awarded to the Settlement student for one or more school years from January 1, Class in each settlement plus costs and expenses and 1963 through April 14, 2020; or (2) Worked as staff at incentive awards of up to $5,000 per Plaintiff.

Magnolia Elementary School for one or more school For more information call the number below or visit years from January 1, 1963 through April 14, 2020. the website.

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EDITORIAL:

The Community Must Use New Sites and Three Ts

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher First, the State and the County must be commended for providing the long overdue test site for the Southeastern communities now at the Tubman/Chavez Center located at Euclid Avenue and Market Street. For the sake of clarity, the Tubman/Chavez Center at 415 Euclid Avenue is providing a “state walk-in location for testing” from 7a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Appointments can be made by calling 888-634-1123.

Dr. Wilma Wooten, the San Diego

County Health Officer, has provided a “Blanket Health Order” that allows everyone in San Diego County to be tested on her health order. That eliminates the need to find a personal doctor to get an order for testing. The Euclid Medical Site, which provides drive up testing on Saturdays only, is a county sponsored facility. Testing is from 9 until 3pm on Saturdays and must be made by 2-1-1 call in appointment.

The testing sites are but the first stage of the three Ts, which stand

for “Testing, Tracing and Treatment.”

County Health Director Nick Macionne is coordinating this effort and the recruitment of persons to be trained as Tracers. But we the community must take time to be tested, traced and treated where necessary.

The apprehension of Black people, in particular, to be tested and traced is understandable going back to the Tuskegee Experiments. However, the rate at which we are dying from CoVid-19 means we must be proactive.

Because we are at such great risk, the

The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery— and Our Continuing Terror

Voice & Viewpoint is urging testing, the wearing of the Mask and, equally if not more important, the use of gloves in order to touch all public metal objects such as door handles while going into stores; and touching and using gas pumps, grocery carts, carryout doors and all these objects that the virus can live on for days such as clothes or shoes.

our numbers as victims of this disease.

Let’s not get carried away with reopenings of businesses that clearly put the economy above human life. It’s up to us to determine when we come out.

We must keep our eyes on the treatment aspect. Above all, let us not forget our nursing homes or our veterans.

Each and every life is important. We would like to hear from you and your We can not talk about our health dis- experiences with testing, tracing and parities on the one hand and then, on treatment. the other hand fail to act when presented with the opportunity to change

Caring for All Our Children Right Now

By Jesse Jackson

Today there is a national outcry about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The public condemnation has forced a belated response.

Those accused of his murder finally have been arrested. His murder has become a global embarrassment for whites. For blacks, however, it is another humiliation, a continuing terror. It is the normal silence, however, that condemns thousands of African Americans to unjust deaths and millions to shattered lives.

When the camera turns away, the savage injustice that embarrasses us becomes simply business as usual.

The horror of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder is now well known. The 25-year-old black man went for a jog down the middle of the street in the middle of the day on Feb. 23. Two white men decided he was suspicious, hunted him down and shot him point blank in the middle of the street at 1 p.m. Local law enforcement had video evidence of the crime. Yet no arrest was made until 74 days later, two months and two weeks after the murder. Local authorities chose not to act.

By Marian Wright Edelman

African Americans suffer in silence the savage injuries of institutionalized racism. We live in northern ghettos—driven there in the early part of the last century by terrorism—most strikingly the Ku Klux Klan and their signature lynchings.

The Equal Justice Initiative reports there were 4,084 lynchings of blacks in the South from 1877 to 1950. The Klan, embraced by and often made up of the white gentry of the South, often gathered at their churches to organize the public lynchings. They terrorized blacks to end the fusion multiracial coalitions that grew up in the Reconstruction, and to take back control of their states. The lynchings and violence were greeted with silence, if not approval. White authorities, white churches, white society turned their heads, if they weren’t applauding in approval.

Fleeing north, Blacks were red lined into ghettos, with jobs hard to get, and discrimination closing doors.

To this day, African-Americans are last hired and first fired. We suffer the worst poverty, the highest unemployment, the highest childhood hunger and malnutrition, the most inadequate health care. This reality is sustained by the silence of white elites, the silence of the White church, the silence of the evangelicals, the silence of the best minded citizens. Then, the virus hits, and its most lethal effect is on those who are vulnerable: the elderly, the sick, the hungry, those with asthma and obesity. It hits hardest among the suddenly proclaimed “essential workers” who do the work that previously was largely “invisible: the bus drivers, the grocery clerks, the nurses and medical aides. Not surprisingly, African Americans make up a disproportionate number of those killed or infected by the virus.

Two U.S. senators said nothing. The white church—that had blessed slavery, segregation, apartheid in South Africa—was silent. Why did the arrests finally take place?

Because an intrepid reporter from the New York Times investigated the story and made it public; the murder video was leaked to the public on the 72nd day after Ahmaud’s murder. As the public outrage grew, the arrests were made. Never forget, as one commentator noted, they did not make the arrests because THEY saw the incriminating video.

They made the arrests because WE saw the video. Embarrassed, faced with an aroused community and an international scandal, they finally The racial disparities are so stark that they gain national and interacted. So it goes.

national attention. Pundits express shock and outrage at the reports, as if they were surprised by the results. Editorials demand reform.

Politicians call for action. The informed public is embarrassed.

But little happens: the rescue packages passed by Congress send most of the money to the biggest companies and the most affluent investors.

Banks are saved; the post office —with a largely minority workforce—is starved. Hunger spreads.

Any expansion of food stamps is blocked.

Arrested for leading nonviolent protests against segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King penned his letter from the Birmingham jail expressing his grave disappointment with the “white moderate” and the “White church.” He suggested that the “great stumbling block” for African Americans seeking their freedom is “not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate “who is more devoted to order than to justice.” He decried a religious community “largely adjusted to the status quo, standing as a tail-light behind other community agencies rather than a headlight leading men to higher levels of justice.”

The virus didn’t discriminate. The society enforced the discrimination; the virus just preyed upon its victims. We have gone too long, struggled too hard to adjust to the reality that it is dangerous to be black while jogging or to be black in a pandemic. It isn’t enough to express dismay when the newspapers highlight the horrors. We need leaders and citizens of conscience who will act and not rest until justice is done.

As the global coronavirus has officially become a pandemic and the effects in our nation become more widespread each passing hour, children and all of us are suffering from anxiety and the virus’s many threats and disruptions. Many unknowns loom large, but one thing is certain: children need adults to help them process and cope with any uncertainty and dangers in their daily lives. Most are anxious about changes to their daily routines or afraid something will happen to them, their parents or grandparents, or other people they know and love.

They will need clear, age-appropriate, accurate information and loving support during every step of this massive crisis.

** God, please help us to show our children By our actions as well as our words

Here are a few prayers for the parents, teachers, and other caregivers That they are loved. who must be the oaks of strength children need right now even in the ** midst of adults’ own uncertainty.

O God for whom nothing is too hard God, straighten our backs clear our heads strengthen our voices and judgment infuse our hearts with Your mighty and comforting spirit. **

Who makes the impossible possible Every minute of every day Kindle within us an unshakable faith In Your presence, power, and goodness.

God, help us to be like bamboo, ** which bends and bows and sways in O God help us to remember that the winds but never breaks.

You have the whole world in Your ** hands—every baby, child, woman, God, think Your thoughts in us and man in every circumstance everywhere. do Your work through us build Your peace in us

This commentary originally appeared in The Houston Forward-Time

O God, we pray for our children and family members and for our neighbors and their children. Help us God to remember that all Your people are our neighbors and all children are our own. We pray especially for every caregiver, doctors and nurses, health and hospital personnel, and those who serve people with special needs and other vulnerable populations.

share Your love through us. **

Marian Wright Edelman is founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund

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CHURCH DIRECTORY

Bishop / Pastor Adlai E. Mack, Pastor

Christians’ United in the Word of God

The Church of Yeshua Ha Mashiach Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah”

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego

7965-B Broadway Street Lemon Grove, California 91945

1819 Englewood Dr. Lemon Grove, CA 91945

3085 K Street San Diego, CA 92102

619.724.6226 • www.coyhm.org

619.232.0510 • www.bethelamesd.com

Worship Service Sunday 10 : 30am Bible Themes Class Sunday 1: 30pm Bible Study (Thursdays) 6: 30pm

Pastor Dennis Hodge First Lady Deborah Hodges

Sunday In the Know Bible Study 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 9 : 00 a.m.

Saturday Shabbat Service 1: 00-2 : 30 p.m.

Rev. Harvey L. Vaughn, III

All are Welcome to Join Us.

Rev. Dr. Eugenio D. Raphael

St. Paul United Methodist Church

Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church

Bethel Baptist Church

3094 L Street San Diego, CA 92102

4995 A Street San Diego, CA 92102

1962 N. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105

619.232.5683

619.264.3369

Sunday School 9: 00 am • Sunday Worship 10: 00 am Wednesday Bible Study 10: 00 am & 6:30 pm Thursday Food Pantry 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm Thursday Diaper Program 12: 00pm to 1:30pm

Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

Morning Service 10 : 45 a.m.

New Membership Orientation BTU 6 : 00 p.m.

Wednesday Eve Prayer Service 6 : 00 p.m.

619.266.2411 • www.bethelbc.com bethel@bethelbc.com

“Come Worship With Us”

Rev. Dr. Obie Tentman, Jr.

Sunday School 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 9 : 30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 12 : 00 noon Thursday Bible Study 6 : 30 p.m.

2nd Saturday Men’s Bible Study 3rd Saturday Women’s Saturday Bible Study

Pastor Donnell and First Lady Sheila Townsend

Dr. John W. Ringgold, Sr. Pastor

“To Serve this present age” Matt: 28:19-20

Sunday Morning Prayer 6 : 00 & Worship 7: 30 a.m.

Sunday School 9 : 30 a.m.

Morning Worship Youth & Children’s Church 11: 00 a.m.

Community Prayer (Hemera) Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat . 7: 30 a.m.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7: 30 p.m.

Mid Week Prayer Wednesday 12 : 00 noon and 7: 00 p.m.

Lively Stones Missionary Baptist Church

Phillips Temple CME Church

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church

605 S. 45th Street San Diego, CA 92113-1905

5333 Geneva Ave. San Diego, CA 92114

1728 S. 39th Street San Diego, CA 92113

619.263.3097 • t.obie95@yahoo.com

619.262.2505

619.262.6004 • Fax 619.262.6014 www.embcsd.com

Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 10 : 30 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer 11: 00 a.m. - 12 : 00 noon Wednesday Bible Study 7: 00 p.m.

Pastor Jerry Webb

Sunday School 8 : 30 a.m.

Morning Worship 9 : 45 a.m.

Tuesday Bible Study 10 : 00 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6: 00 p.m.

Pastor Jared B. Moten

Sunday School 9 : 30 a.m.

Sunday Worship 11: 00 a.m.

Wednesday Prayer & Bible Study 12 p.m. & 6 : 00 p.m.

“A Life Changing Ministry” Romans 12:2

Pastor Milton Chambers, Sr. & First Lady Alice Chambers

New Hope Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

Mesa View Baptist Church

Total Deliverance Worship Center

2205 Harrison Avenue San Diego, CA 92113

13230 Pomerado Road Poway, CA 92064

2701 East 8th Street National City, CA 91950

619-234-5506 • Fax 619 234-8732 Email: Newhopeadm@gmail.com

858.485.6110 • www.mesaview.org mvbcadmin@mesaview.org

619.670.6208 • www.totaldeliverance.org Fax: 619.825.3930 • Mail : P.O. 1698, Spring Valley, CA 91979

Early Sunday Morning Worship 7: 45 am Sunday School 9 : 30 am Sunday Morning Worship 11: 00 am Children and Youth Bible Study Tuesdays 6 : 30 pm Bible Study Tuesdays 6 : 30 pm Mid-day Bible Study Wednesdays 12 : 00 pm

Pastor Dr. Darrow Perkins Jr., Th.D.

Sunday Worship 10 : 00 a.m.

Sunday School 8 : 45 a.m.

Bible Study Wed. 7: 00 p.m.

Sunday Early Morning Worship Service 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Christian Education (Sunday School) 9 : 30 a.m.

Wednesday Noon Day Bible Study 12 : 00 p.m.

Wednesday W.O.W. • Worship on Wednesday (Bible Study) 7: 00 p.m.

“It Takes Team Work to Make the Dream Work”

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD! ” Psalms 122:1

Pastor Dr. John E. Warren

Suffragan Bishop Dr. William A. Benson, Pastor & Dr. Rachelle Y. Benson, First Lady

Eagles Nest

Christian Center

Mount Olive Baptist Church

New Assurance Church Ministries

3619 College Ave. San Diego, CA 92115

36 South 35th Street San Diego, Ca 92113

7024 Amherst Street San Diego, CA 92115

619.266.2293 • jwarren@sdvoice.info www.facebook.com/EaglesNestCenter

619.239.0689 • www.mountolivebcsandiego.org

619.469.4916

Sunday First Worship 9 : 30 a.m.

Second Worship 11: 00 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study & Prayer 7: 00 p.m.

Cox Cable Channel 23 / 24

Sunday School 8 : 30 - 9 : 30 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 10 : 00 a.m.

Wednesday Night Prayer 6 : 30 - 7: 30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study (Youth & Adults) 6 : 30 - 7: 30 p.m.

Sunday Bible Study 9 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Worship 11:15 a.m.

Wednesday Corporate Prayer 6: 00–7: 00 p.m.

Pastor Antonio D. Johnson

“Loving God, Serving Others, Living by Faith”

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Full Transcript: President Barack Obama’s

#ShowMeYourWalk HBCU Commencement Speech On Saturday, May 16, 2020, President Barack Obama addressed HBCU graduates with a special commencement speech for #ShowMeYourWalk HBCU Edition.

Here are President Obama’s remarks: Hi, everybody. Congratulations to H.B.C.U. class of 2020. Michelle and I are so proud of you. Graduating from college is a big achievement under any circumstances. And so many of you overcame a lot to get here. You navigated challenging classes, and challenges outside the classroom. Many of you had to stretch to afford tuition. And some of you are the first in your families to reach this milestone.

So even if half this semester was spent at Zoom University, you’ve earned this moment.

You should be very proud. Everybody who supported you along the way is proud of you — parents, grandparents, professors, mentors, aunties, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, second cousins, cousins who you aren’t even sure are cousins. Show them some gratitude today.

Now look, I know this isn’t the commencement any of you really imagined. Because while our H.B.C.U.s are mostly known for an education rooted in academic rigor, community, higher purpose — they also know how to turn up. Nobody shines quite like a senior on the yard in springtime. Springfest at schools like Howard and Morehouse, that’s the time when you get to strut your stuff a little bit. And I know that in normal times, rivals like Grambling and Southern, Jackson State and Tennessee State, might raise some eyebrows at sharing a graduation ceremony.

But these aren’t normal times. You’re being asked to find your way in a world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and a terrible recession. The timing is not ideal.

And let’s be honest — a disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this country. We see it in the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on our communities, just as we see it when a black man goes for a jog, and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he doesn’t submit to their questioning.

Injustice like this isn’t new. What is new is that so much of your generation has woken up to the fact that the status quo needs fixing; that the old ways of doing things don’t work; and that it doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick; that our society and democracy only works when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other.

More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.

If the world’s going to get better, it’s going to be up to you. With everything suddenly feeling like it’s up for grabs, this is your time to seize the initiative. Nobody can tell you anymore that you should be waiting your turn. Nobody can tell you anymore “this is how it’s always been done.” More than ever, this is your moment — your generation’s world to shape.

In taking on this responsibility, I hope you are bold. I hope you have a vision that isn’t clouded by cynicism or fear. As young African Americans, you’ve been exposed, earlier than some, to the world as it is. But as young H.B.C.U. grads, your education has also shown you the world as it ought to be.

HBCU’s By State Alabama

• Alabama A&M UniversityHuntsville • Alabama State UniversityMontgomery • Concordia University-AlabamaSelma (closed 2018) • Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College- Birmingham* • Gadsden State CollegeGadsden

Bluff-Pine Bluff • Arkansas Baptist College- Little Rock • Philander Smith College- Little Rock • Shorter College- North Little Rock

California

• Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science*- Los Angeles

Delaware

Many of you could have attended any school in this country. But you chose an H.B.CU. — specifically because it would help you sow seeds of change. You chose to follow in the fearless footsteps of people who shook the system to its core — civil rights icons like Thurgood Marshall and Dr. King, storytellers like Toni Morrison and Spike Lee. You chose to study medicine at Meharry, and engineering at NC A&T, because you want to lead and serve.

And I’m here to tell you, you made a great choice. Whether you realize it or not, you’ve got more road maps, more role models, more resources than the civil rights generation did. You’ve got more tools, technology, and talents than my generation did. No generation has been better positioned to be warriors for justice and remake the world.

Now, I’m not going to tell you what to do with all that power that’s in your hands.

Many of you are already using it so well to create change. But let me offer three pieces of advice as you continue on your journey.

First, make sure you ground yourself in actual communities with real people — working whenever you can at the grass-roots level. The fight for equality and justice begins with awareness, empathy, passion, even righteous anger. Don’t just activate yourself online. Change requires strategy, action, organizing, marching, and voting in the real world like never before. No one is better positioned than this class of graduates to take that activism to the next level. And from tackling health disparities to fighting for criminal justice and voting rights, so many of you are already doing this. Keep on going.

Second, you can’t do it alone. Meaningful change requires allies in common cause.

As African Americans, we are particularly attuned to injustice, inequality, and struggle. But that also should make us more alive to the experiences of others who’ve been left out and discriminated against.

So rather than say, “What’s in it for me?” or “What’s in it for my community? And to heck with everyone else,” stand up for and join up with everyone who’s struggling — whether immigrants, refugees, the rural poor, the L.G.B.T. community, lowincome workers of every background, women who so often are subject to their own discrimination and burdens and not getting equal pay for equal work; look out for folks whether they are white or black or Asian or Latino or Native American.

As Fannie Lou Hamer once said, “nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

And on the big unfinished goals in this country, like economic and environmental justice and health care for everybody, broad majorities agree on the ends. That’s why folks with power will keep trying to divide you over the means. That’s how nothing changes. You get a system that looks out for the rich and powerful and nobody else. So expand your moral imaginations, build bridges, and grow your allies in the process of bringing about a better world.

And finally, as H.B.C.U. graduates, you have to remember that you are inheritors of one of America’s proudest traditions. Which means you’re all role models now — whether you like it or not. Your participation in this democracy, your courage to stand up for what’s right, your willingness to forge coalitions — these actions will speak volumes. And if you are inactive, that will also speak volumes. Not just to the young folks coming up behind you — but to your parents, your peers, and the rest of the country. They need to see your leadership — you’re the folks we’ve been waiting for to come along.

That’s the power you hold. The power to shine brightly for justice, and for equality, and for joy. You’ve earned your degree. And it’s up to you to use it. So many of us believe in you. I’m so proud of you. And as you set out to change the world, we’ll be the wind at your back.

Congratulations Class of 2020, and God bless all of you.

• Fort Valley State UniversityFort Valley

Maryland

• Bowie State University- Bowie

• Elizabeth City State UniversityElizabeth City

South Carolina

• Allen University- Columbia

• Southwestern Christian College- Terrell

• Interdenominational Theological Center- Atlanta

• Coppin State UniversityBaltimore

• Fayetteville State UniversityFayetteville

• Benedict College- Columbia

• St. Philips College- San Antonio

• University of Maryland- Eastern Shore- Princess Anne

• Hood Theological Seminary*Salisbury

• Claflin University- Orangeburg

• Texas College- Tyler

• Johnson C Smith Theological Seminary*- Atlanta

• Clinton College- Rock Hill

• Morehouse College- Atlanta

• Morgan State UniversityBaltimore

• Johnson C. Smith UniversityCharlotte

• Denmark Technical CollegeDenmark

• Texas Southern UniversityHouston

Michigan

• Livingston College- Salisbury

• Morris College- Sumter

• Lewis College of BusinessDetroit (Closed 2013)

• North Carolina Central University- Durham

• South Carolina State University- Orangeburg

• University of the Virgin IslandsSt. Thomas & St. Croix

Mississippi

• North Carolina A&T State University- Greensboro

• Voorhees College- Denmark

Virginia

• Shaw University- Raleigh

• Morehouse School of MedicineAtlanta • Morris Brown College**Atlanta • Paine College- Augusta

• J.F. Drake State Technical College- Huntsville

• Delaware State UniversityDover

• Savannah State UniversitySavannah

• Lawson State Community College- Birmingham

District of Columbia

• Spelman College- Atlanta

• Coahoma Community CollegeClarksdale

Kentucky

• Hinds County Community College- Utica

• Miles College- Fairfield

• University of the District of Columbia- Howard University

• Miles School of Law- Fairfield *

Florida

• Oakwood University- Huntsville • Selma University- Selma • Shelton State Community College- Tuscaloosa • Stillman College- Tuscaloosa • Talladega College- Talladega • Tuskegee University- Tuskegee • H. Councill Trenholm State Community CollegeMontgomery

Arkansas

• University of Arkansas at Pine

• Kentucky State UniversityFrankfort

• Bethune Cookman UniversityDaytona Beach

• Simmons College of KentuckyLouisville

• Edward Waters CollegeJacksonville

Louisiana

• Alcorn State University- Lorman

• Jackson State UniversityJackson

• St. Augustine’s UniversityRaleigh

• Florida A&M UniversityTallahassee

• Grambling State UniversityGrambling

• Tougaloo College- Tougaloo

• Payne Theological Seminary*Wilberforce

• Florida Memorial UniversityMiami Gardens

• Southern University and A&M College- Baton Rouge

• Harris-Stowe State UniversitySt. Louis

Georgia

• Southern University New Orleans- New Orleans

• Carver College*- Atlanta

• Southern UniversityShreveport- Shreveport

• Albany State University- Albany • Clark Atlanta UniversityAtlanta

• Xavier University- New Orleans

North Carolina

• Barber-Scotia College**Concord • Bennett College- Greensboro

• Norfolk State UniversityNorfolk

• Fisk University- Nashville

• Saint Paul’s CollegeLawrenceville (closed 2013)

• LeMoyne Owen CollegeMemphis

• Rust College- Holly Springs

• Lincoln University- Jefforson City

• American Baptist UniversityNashville

Ohio

• Dillard University-New Orleans

Missouri

• Hampton University- Hampton

• Knoxville College**- Knoxville

• Central State UniversityWilberforce

• Wilberforce UniversityWilberforce

Oklahoma

• Langston University- Langston

Pennsylvania

US Virgin Islands

Tennessee

• Winston-Salem State University- Winston Salem

• Mississippi Valley State University- Itta Bena

• Wiley College- Marshall

• Lane College- Jackson

• Meharry Medical College • Tennessee State UniversityNashville

Texas

• Huston-Tillotson UniversityAustin • Jarvis Christian CollegeHawkins

• Cheyney University- Cheyney

• Paul Quinn College- Dallas

• The Lincoln University- Lincoln University

• Prairie View A&M UniversityPrairie View

• Virginia State UniversityPetersburg • Virginia Union UniversityRichmond • Virginia University of Lynchburg- Lynchburg

West Virginia

• Bluefield State CollegeBluefield • West Virginia State UniversityInstitute *Not recognized by US Department of Education as an HBCU* ** Not currently accredited **

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Hip Hop Brings a

New Dimension to Hunger Relief

Photos By Brian Goodin

By Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint

While the Hip Hop 5K Wellness Project has been at the cutting edge of delivering food and services during the pandemic here in San Diego County, they just kicked things up to another level by now offering hot and cold meals on Wednesday and Fridays at three locations.

The locations include American Legions Post 310, New Paradise Baptist Church and New Life Church. Hip Hop 5K has again joined forces with SD Strike Force in providing these meals. The two organizations have also partnered in providing food distribution at Mount Erie Baptist Church once a month with help from Corners of Blessings Church in Bakersfield, California.

RISE NOW Panelists Discuss the

Impact of COVID-19 on Public Safety Photos by Vayunamu Bawa

By Vayunamu Bawa Contributing Writer

On Thursday, May 21st, 2020, local nonprofit RISE San Diego held a webinar on COVID-19’s impact on the justice system as part of their ongoing virtual civic engagement series RISE Now. The RISE Now panelists on Public Safety included community activist Laila Aziz, Director of Pillars of the Community San Diego; 2019 RISE Fellow Lieutenant Tonya Benjamin with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department; and senior clinical psychologist Dr. Carlos Nelson with the County of San Diego’s Juvenile Forensic Services STAT Team.

First, there was a poll to gauge the type of solution the audience wanted in terms of public safety concerning the prisons. The majority was interested in talking about emptying the jails during this outbreak.

Aziz spoke on how these times are exposing the issues in the justice system. “The system is working the way it was created to work,” she said.

“The pandemic has demonstrated

that we don’t need that many people locked up.”

“We’ve made a huge effort to release as many people as possible,” Nelson said referring to the Juvenile Halls.

On recidivism, Nelson spoke about the youths who have expressed to him in the past how they are safer in jail because they have access to three meals and healthcare. “This speaks to the lack of justice because people should not have to be in jail to get those needs met.”

Asked about their connection to the community and who they spoke on behalf of this discussion, Benjamin said she spoke for the sheriff ’s department but also as a Black woman. Aziz invited a set of black twin boys to stand with her while she spoke about their experience losing their father and in juvenile hall.

“I am radical. I am here to eradicate the criminal justice system and build something else,” she said. Nelson shared some of his background and how that influences his work. “I know what it’s like to be discriminated against for who I am,” he said, sharing how he has used his privileges to infiltrate spaces and advocate for the youth he works with.

LAILA AZIZ

There was an audience question on how the panelists would feel about various organizations coming together to discuss the changes needed for the prison and justice system. Nelson and Benjamin expressed openness to sitting at such tables and joining such conversations. “Some people, like the other panelists, work within the system to reform the system and if I believe that it could be reformed we could be having a different conversation,” Aziz said. “If we work towards any reform, there is an abolitionist end game to it.”

Finally, the panelists spoke on who they are willing to be, based on their positions, for the public good.

“I can be no one but myself,” said Benjamin. “The sheriff ’s department and law enforcement really care about our communities and want to help. We want that trust and transparency with the community.”

Nelson spoke on listening to people with other points of view. “The kids I work with invite me to their hideouts from the police, to their house for dinner, which gives me hope.”

TONYA BENJAMIN

“Organizationally, we want to be freedom fighters. We know the work that needs to be done and law enforcement isn’t needed. Accountability means knowing your neighbors. We work to realign funding and invest in the people instead,” Aziz said.

The issues Black and Brown communities face with the justice system, from over-policing to recidivism, continue even as we deal with COVID-19.

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County and City

Dedicate Testing Site

Photos courtesy of Mike Norris, Image Seed Photography

Continuation from Cover

By Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint

One of the most devastating impacts of this pandemic has been the widening of the inequity gap for this community, as well as exacerbating many key issues that have plagued our City for decades, and more importantly, have had a disparate impact on our vulnerable and underserved communities.

While there is a push in San Diego County to reopen the economy, widespread testing capacity must be a priority for all communities to ensure that we re-open responsibly and safely.

This testing site right here, in the heart of our community, is definitely a step in the right direction….We must genuinely and truthfully address the inequitable allocation of resources and ensure we treat communities of concern with dignity and respect!

I want to thank our County Board of Supervisors and Supervisor Fletcher for his leadership from the very beginning of this public health crisis.

Also, I’d like to express my appreciation to Ms. Jimenez, Dr. Afflalo, Dr. Hood and the COVID-19 Equity Taskforce of San Diego for being here today and fighting for equity for all of us. Thank you for your hard work.

Today, we roll up our sleeves and go to work. Our grassroots movement continues to flatten the curve on inequity.

City Councilmember Montgomery joins County Officials and People’s Alliance for Justice for Site Opening.

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HEALTHY LIVING

COMMUNITY

Fight Social Isolation and Stress

MENTAL Contact-Free Pickup Services HEALTH

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, C a l i f o r n i a’s At torney General, Dr. Nadien BurkeHarris, shared a few simple tips on how to support your mental health and your community’s well-being while practicing physical distancing:

neighbors combats depression, reduces stress and allows you to develop new relationships.

M AY I S

ular mealtimes to help combat stress. Practice meditation for at least 15-20 minutes.

Use phone apps for guidance.

Lastly, seek help if you need Practice Self-Care: Maintain- it Visit covid19.ca.gov to view ing one’s mental health looks the Surgeon General’s stress different for everyone—you playbooks and other resources can decide what methods or call 833-544-2374, a onework best for you. Keep active stop shop for assistance during with 60 minutes of physical COVID-19.

Volunteer: Studies show that activity every day with walks, acts of service toward oth- runs, dancing, and yoga. Get #BeKindBeThere: Being there ers, such as checking on your proper nutrition and keep reg- for your community is one

MONTH

of the greatest acts of kindness we can do. #BeThere partnered with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation to develop resources and tools for people to #BeThere for their loved ones. Visit bethere.org to learn more.

Take your time. Build a strategy that works for you and be kind to yourself and others, as we all move through this challenge together.

Stop the Spread of Rumors Courtesy of the CDC Know the facts about coronavirus disease 2019. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Diseases can make anyone sick regardless of their race or ethnicity.

Fear and anxiety about COVID-19 can cause people to avoid or reject others even though they are not at risk for spreading the virus.

Someone who has completed

quarantine or has been • Avoid touching your eyes, released from isolation does nose, and mouth with not pose a risk of infection to unwashed hands. other people.

• Stay home when you are sick.

There are simple things you • Cover your cough or sneeze can do to help keep yourself with a tissue, then throw and others healthy. the tissue in the trash.

• Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing; going to the bathroom; and before eating or preparing food.

Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library, 10 Others Begin

Seek medical advice if you • Develop symptoms

AND • Have been in close contact with a person known to have COVID-19 or live in or have recently traveled from an area with ongoing You can help stop COVIDspread of COVID-19. Call 19 by knowing the signs and ahead before you go to a symptoms: doctor’s office or emer• Fever gency room. Tell them • Cough about your recent travel and your symptoms.

• Shortness of breath

BEGINNING MAY 26, SAN DIEGANS CAN PICK UP ON HOLD ITEMS DURING LIMITED HOURS

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

For the first time since libraries were closed in midMarch due to the COVID19 pandemic, the San Diego Public Library will offer contact-free pickup service at 11 library locations beginning Tuesday, May 26. As the City of San Diego continues its phased reopening by expanding neighborhood services, the pickup service will restore access to 2.9 million physical materials in the San Diego Public Librar y’s collection.

important first step in the Library’s return to full service,” said Library Director Misty Jones. “While our libraries have been physically closed, patrons have been using our online resources in record numbers. However, we’ve heard from many people who Starting May 26, pickup prefer physical books and service will be available this pickup service allows Monday through Friday, them to access some of from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the resources they’ve been at the following locations: missing.”

Carmel Valley, CollegeRolando, La Jolla/Riford, Patrons will need to presLogan Heights, Mira Mesa, ent a valid library card or Mission Hills-Hillcrest/ library card number to pick Knox, Mission Valley, Point up their materials. Library L oma /Her vey, R a ncho facilities will not be open Bernardo, San Ysidro and to the public and will not Valencia Park/Malcolm X. accept returns at this time.

Due dates on items curPatrons with existing holds rently checked out have will be notified by email been extended to June 12, when their materials are 2020. available. The San Diego Public Library will begin Visit the Library’s Pickup accepting new holds for Ser vice page at sandie go. gov/pu bl ic-l i br a r y/ pickup on June 1, 2020. pickup-service for more “The pickup service is an information.

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MORE COVID NEWS & INFORMATION What’s Allowed, Not Allowed in

AVAILABLE COVID-19

Restaurants, Stores Right Now Testing Sites Dine-In Restaurants

• Customers must wear facial coverings, except when seated • No self-service for buffets, salad bars, soda machines, etc.

• Encourage reservations • Expand outdoor seating • Temp er at u re/s y mptom screening for employees daily • Employees with symptoms are not allowed to work • All tables need to be six feet apart or have barriers separating them • Signs need to be posted reminding customers to social distance • Employees must wear facial coverings Before reopening, food businesses must fill and post the County Restaurant Operating Protocol.Additional guidance, posters and information for a safe reopening can be found

Drive-up County Testing Sites - Rural Communities

on the coronavirus-sd.com page for restaurant operators website at sandiegocounty.gov.

Hours: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. By Appointment, call 2-1-1.

May Julian Library 26 1850 Highway 78, Julian, CA 92036

Retail Shopping

Customers are allowed in stores, including malls, with the following requirements: • Employees and customers must wear facial coverings • Limit number of customers to maintain six feet of distance • Post signs saying no employees or customers with COVID-19 symptoms should enter • Temp er at u re/s y mptom screening for employees daily Businesses need to complete, post (and update, if necessary) a Safe Reopening Plan, available at sandiegocounty.gov.

Cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, or a new loss of taste

May Pine Valley Fire Station 44 (OLD) 27 28850 Old Highway 80, Pine Valley, CA 91962 May Valley Center Library 28 29200 Cole Grade Road, Valley Center, CA 92082 May Borrego Springs Library 29 2580 Country Club Road, Borrego Springs, CA 92004 May Potrero Library 30 24883 Potrero Valley Road, Potrero, CA 91963 or smell are all signs of a possible COVID-19 infection. The public or employees should not enter any business if they experience symptoms of COVID-19.

At press time, limited capacity religious services and hair salons and barbershops are now allowed to reopen. Oneon-one sports instruction is

also now allowed.

No reopenings, so far, for: • Hotels, Airbnb • Gyms, fitness centers • Nail salons • Beach parking lots • Sitting or lying down on the beach SOURCE: County of San Diego Communications Office

New Survey Reveals Concern Over Food Security, Loss of Income Voice & Viewpoint Staff Writer The first results from the new U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Sur vey released May 20 sheds light on how American households, overall, are feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it’s affecting their lives.

Many have experienced loss in employment income, are concerned about food security, and have deferred decisions to access health care.

Employment Income

47%

either lost employment income or another adult in their household lost employment income since March 13. 39% expected that they or someone in their household would lose employment income over the next four weeks.

Getting Enough to Eat

Hillcrest - Starts June 1 County Live Well on Wheels Mobile Office Mondays The San Diego LGBT Community Center 11 a.m. to 3909 Centre St, San Diego, CA 92103 5 p.m.

Mission Valley - Re-opened Saturdays San Diego County Credit Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to Union Stadium 5 p.m.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Southeastern San Diego County’s Live Well on Wheels Mobile Office Saturdays Euclid Health Center 9 a.m. to 292 Euclid Ave., San Diego, CA 92114 3 p.m.

Chula Vista (Call 211 to confirm) Live Well Center 690 Oxford St., Chula Vista, CA 91911 El Cajon (Call 211 to confirm) Grossmont College 8800 Grossmont College Dr., El Cajon, CA 92020

22.8%

of the time, Housing Security they weren’t About 10% did not get enough were unable to pay rent of the food they needed some able to stop or control worryof the time or often. Another ing more than half the days or mortgage on time while 32% reported getting enough, last week or nearly every day. a not her 3.2% defer red but not the kinds of food they were feeling payments. needed. down more reported only than half the days or nearly On average, households spent slight or no $196 a week to buy food at every day last week, and confidence in being able supermarkets, grocery stores, 21.4% had little interest or to pay next month’s rent or pleasure in doing things more online, and other places to be than half the days or nearly mortgage on time. Another 2.5% deferred or will defer prepared and eaten at home. every day last week. next month’s mortgage.

Between April 23 - May 5, 74,413 out of 1,867,126 households responded to the U.S. Census Bureau’s survey invitation. More weekly surveys will be released through July, hopefully more specific, and broken down by race and ethnicity. How well do the findings compare to what Mental Well-Being Seeking Medical Care you’re experiencing in your of the time, , over the last own home and community? they felt anxfour weeks, For now, here are key survey ious or nervous more than delayed getting medical care results reported by adults in half the days last week or because of the coronavirus nearly every day. pandemic. households across America:

18.6%

29.7%

Other County Testing Sites

Appointments required. Call 2-1-1 and ask for the Nurse Triage Line.

National City - Started Sunday, May 24 For the next two weeks on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m.

St. Anthony of Padua to 2 p.m. 410 W 18th Street, National City, CA 91950

38.7%

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10.7%

21.3%

Time Spent on Education

Adults spent 13 hours on average on teaching activities during the last seven days.

Source: Census.Gov

State Walk-Up Testing Sites

All require an appointment.

Visit www.lhi.care/covidtesting or call (888) 634-1123.

Southeastern San Diego Tubman-Chavez Center 415 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, CA 92114 El Cajon The former San Diego County Assessor Office 200 S. Magnolia Avenue, El Cajon, CA 92020 Escondido North Inland Live Well Center in Escondido 649 W Mission Ave., Escondido, CA 92025 Chula Vista Former Sears in Chula Vista 565 Broadway, Chula Vista, CA 91910 SOURCE: County of San Diego

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(In Case You Missed It) City Council Extends Ban on Evictions in San Diego Relief in Effect Until June 30. Contact Legal Aid Society of San Diego (877) 534-2524 – www.lassd.org or Tenants Legal Center (858) 571-7100 or visit www.sdhc.org/ evictionban.

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Located at: 4808 Riding Ridge Rd. San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was 03/30/1997 This business is hereby registered by the following: Rula Krikorian 4808 Riding Ridge Rd. San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego --Zareh Krikorian 4808 Riding Ridge Rd. San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 18, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 18, 2025 05/28, 06/04, 06/11, 06/18 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9008191 Fictitious business name(s): iBellA

Located at: 2644 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego --6304 Friars Rd #123 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/01/2013 This business is hereby registered by the following: Erika M Ruiz Pusateri 6304 Friars Rd #123 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 11, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 11, 2025 05/28, 06/04, 06/11, 06/18 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9008530 Fictitious business name(s): MAxCAre AMBulAnCe

Located at: 7614 Lemon Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 04/01/2010 This business is hereby registered by the following: Max Laufer Inc. 7614 Lemon Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 15, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 15, 2025 05/28, 06/04, 06/11, 06/18 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9008317 Fictitious business name(s): CirCle K MoBil

Located at: 10496 Clairemont Mesa Blvd San Diego, CA 92124 County of San Diego --14316 Bourgeois Way San Diego, CA 92129 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: HJD Investments II, LLC 12146 La Casa Lane Los Angeles, CA 90049 County of Los Angeles This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 12, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 12, 2025 05/21, 05/28, 06/04, 06/11 ------------------------------------

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Located at: 2801 B Street #117 San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 10/01/2019 This business is hereby registered by the following: William Thomas 2801 B Street #117 San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 12, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 12, 2025 05/21, 05/28, 06/04, 06/11 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9008084 Fictitious business name(s): The Gillespie proDuCTion Group --BlesseDup CloThinG

Located at: 1414 Roosevelt Ave #5 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 01/01/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Marcel Dior Gillespie 1414 Roosevelt Ave #5 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 06, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 06, 2025 05/21, 05/28, 06/04, 06/11 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9007967 Fictitious business name(s): Mission Driven MADe

Located at: 5575 Magnatron Blvd Ste E San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Jacob, Michael, Straub 4029 43rd St Apt 310 San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 01, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on May 01, 2025 05/14, 05/21, 05/28, 06/04

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Located at: 1414 Roosevelt Ave. #5 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 01/01/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Dominique Legros-Gillespie 1414 Roosevelt Ave. #5 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on April 30, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on April 30, 2025 05/07, 05/14, 05/21, 05/28 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9007863 Fictitious business name(s): Del MAr live sCAn

Located at: 3830 Calley Centre Dr., Ste 705 San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 05/10/2007 This business is hereby registered by the following: Z & R Investments, Inc 4808 Riding Ridge Road San Diego, CA 92130 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on April 28, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on April 28, 2025 05/07, 05/14, 05/21, 05/28 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9007290 Fictitious business name(s):

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the California Complete Count – Census 2020 Office has maintained constant communication with contracted partners including statewide faithbased leaders and organizations such as Faith in the Valley, Faith in Action, and Congregations for Prophetic Engagement (C.O.P.E.).

The U.S. Census Bureau has announced several adjustments to their operational plans, most notably, they are delaying all in-field activities until June 1. Other proposed updates include extending the SelfResponse Phase deadline to October 31st, 2020.

It is fitting in response to the limitations of interpersonal contact due to COVID-19, that outreach strategies have also shifted online in the first, truly digital Census.

Many faith-based leaders across the state are grappling with the same question as Terri McWilliams, Leader of the Bay Area’s Faith in Action.

“How do we move forward and make sure people know and have the information that is critical for them to have because we lost so much during some of the miscounts

in the 2010 Census?”

There are no easy answers.

In response to the shelterin limitations, statewide leaders, including Pastor Samuel J. Casey, Founder and Executive Director of C.O.P.E., have pivoted digitally. Based in the Inland Empire, C.O.P.E.’s team of phone bankers and canvassers partnered with California Calls and leveraged the power of social media, encouraging congregational members to spread the word via various platforms underscoring what the Black community stands to lose if we are undercounted in Census 2020.

Pastor Casey believes education is key. “What I love about the Census process this time around is that it's very easy.

It's really not as intrusive as most people think it is.”

It’s important to be direct with the African American community concerning “what it costs us when we are not counted in the Census,” Pastor Trena Turner and First Lady of Victory and Praise Community Church in Stockton, CA explains. The Co-Chair and former Director of Faith in

Valley encourages Central Valley residents to consider their future.

“If you do not show up, if we’re not counted, we’re basically giving the government an opportunity to pretend like we do not exist.”

The issue of counting is not just political, it’s personal.

Member of Imani Community Church in Oakland, CA, Terri McWilliams attended Oakland public schools in the 1960’s and 1970’s when Oakland public schools were highly rated, both locally and nationally.

McWilliams noticed a change when her son began attending junior high school in the same district and opted out of the public school system by enrolling him into private school.

“Despite our current challenges and life changes right now, it is important because what hasn’t changed is that we must make sure that everybody’s counted,” McWilliams explained. “If not, we will lose money for housing, health care, education… not to mention the political power.”

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Request for Proposals (RFP): SOL552601 San Ysidro/Otay Mesa Northbound Border Wait Time System The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is seeking proposals from qualified firms with the expertise, experience, capacity, and resources to design, install and maintain a border wait time system to monitor real time wait times for cross border traveling into the U.S. from Mexico at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa land ports of entry.

Proposal Due Date: Proposals must be received by 5:00 p.m. (PDT) on Monday June 8, 2020 via SANDAG web-based vendor portal, BidNet. A copy of the Request for Proposals (SOL552601) and related informational documents and forms can be accessed from the SANDAG website at www.sandag.org/ contracts.

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE Solicitation of Applications for Membership on the TransNet Independent Taxpayer Oversight Committee The TransNet Independent Taxpayer Oversight Committee (ITOC) is seeking qualified members of the public to fill a vacancy on its seven-member committee in the following category.

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Include the following information: • Full Name • Billing address • Date(s) you want the ad to appear • Contact phone number

A professional with demonstrated experience of ten years or more in real estate, land economics, and/or right-of-way acquisition.

The ITOC aids in the implementation of the TransNet program, the San Diego region’s half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements. The TransNet program is administered by SANDAG. As outlined in the TransNet Ordinance and Expenditure Plan, the ITOC provides an increased level of accountability for expenditures of TransNet funds. ITOC members are unpaid, but certain expenses are reimbursed. Due to their public service status, ITOC members must meet strict conflict of interest standards. The ITOC functions in an independent, open, and transparent manner to ensure that all voter mandates are carried out, and develops positive, constructive recommendations for improvements and enhancements to the financial integrity and performance of the TransNet program.

ITOC membership is open to individuals from throughout the region, who possess a set of appropriate professional skills and experience. More detailed information regarding the ITOC and its responsibilities can be found at sandag.org/itoc.

Individuals interested in applying for this ITOC position should contact SANDAG for an application at ariana.zurnieden@sandag.org or (619) 699-6961, or go to sandag. org/notices.

Applications must be postmarked no later than Wednesday, July 1, 2020. SANDAG seeks to fill openings on the ITOC with a diverse group of persons who are representative of the community. SANDAG highly encourages applications from persons of all races and economic backgrounds. The newly selected member is anticipated to begin serving at the regularly scheduled ITOC meeting in September 2020.

MASSIVE DIE-OFF OF FISH

ON NIGERIAN COASTLINE LINKED TO TOXIC DISCHARGE

By Lisa Vives

(GIN) – An immense blanket of dead fish stretching across three states has sparked anger and frustration among communities along the Atlantic Ocean coastline in Nigeria.

The area is known for oil spills that have polluted the waters and left fish and other wildlife inedible.

But environmentalists including Ako Amadi and Nnimmo Bassey of the Health of the Mother Earth Foundation, disagreed with the NOSDRA report, finding it too superficial to be taken seriously.

used to have very impressive harvests. You would spend just an hour in the water and you have a lot of fish.”

“Today, you can spend the whole day without catching anything.”

They accused NOSDRA of questioning the fact of the About 40 million liters of oil massive fish kill that was are spilled every year across the Niger Delta, according The massive die-off was first evident in many locations. to the activist group Rise for reported in February when community people in Delta “The Ministry of Environment Bayelsa.

State complained of the and relevant agencies have a schools of dead fish floating duty to tell Nigerians what Bayelsa accounts for 40% of and littering their shores. The killed the fish so that we know Nigeria’s oil wealth, and hosts silvery fish graveyard stretched how to respond to this and several large multinational from Delta State through future incidents,” said activist oil companies. None of the Nnimmo Bassey. “We are not companies operating in the Bayelsa State to Rivers State. satisfied with NOSDRA’s area have admitted to having Samples of the fish were taken report as this does not bring an oil or gas leak. by the National Oil Spill a closure to the saga.

Meanwhile, the Shell Petroleum Detection and Response Agency Udengs Eradiri, the state’s Development Company (SPDC) (NOSDRA). commissioner for the this month said that the dead Idris Musa, head of NOSDRA, environment, after a spill last fishes floating and littering declared the die-off had nothing December, recalled that the Niger Delta coastline to do with the continual “[Bayelsa] used to be green, had nothing to do with its oil leakages from offshore you could farm or fish… “We operations. platforms as claimed over the years by Amnesty International, the U.N. Environmental Program, the Fishnet Alliance, and dozens of other groups in and outside of Nigeria.

Musa confessed that the values of cadmium and iron were higher than the regulatory limit.

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ROBERT D. “Mr. Robert” CALLOWAY was born December 12, 1965 in Atlanta, Ga to Robert D. Calloway, Jr and Alicia “Yvonne” Calloway.

Robert attended Atlanta Public School System and graduated from Lithonia High School in Dekalb School System. He received his BS in Business Administration, and a MS in Human Resource Management.

He served in the Navy for 26 years, retiring as a Senior Chief Navy Counselor. He worked in human resources and counseling in 20 of his 26 years. He retired from the Navy in June 2011 with many honors.

Robert started selling real estate in 2008. He joined PSAR at the start of his real estate career and was elected to the PSAR board of directors in 2014.

Prior to serving as PSAR president, Robert served as the founding president of the Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals, San Diego chapter.

Robert was a devoted Christian and servant of the Lord. As a member of Bayview Baptist Church in San Diego, he served as a leader within the deacon ministry and a facilitator in Studies In Christian Living Bible Study classes. Robert was an active member of Bayview for 14 years. He joined the Hospitality Ministry and had continued to serve faithfully in this capacity until his passing. In December 2014, Robert was ordained as a Deacon at Bayview where he dedicated his life to supporting the Senior Pastor who ministers to the congregation and community. Robert spent much of his time serving the church elders as well as a fellow Deacon who fell to a life-changing disability. Robert was the type of person whose presence enhanced whichever ministry he was a part of.

Robert received his heavenly wings on Monday, May 4. Robert is survived by a loving daughter, Daniel D. Calloway and a loving grandson Amir X. Calloway of Cincinnati, OH; 2 stepsons, Ernest Turner of Fife, WA; and Shalom Richards of Graham, WA and six grandchildren; four sisters, Valerie Seaborn (Kenneth); Yolanda Williams (James); Alicia Wimbish (Carlton); Darlene Williams (Boris) and a brother Roderick D. Calloway (Carolyn), and a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncle, cousins, friends and special friend Elizabeth “Liz” Taylor whom he loved dearly.

DR. CLYDE was born in Barbados, September 29, 1929. In 1947, after finishing high school, he left his Caribbean home to go to NYC. There he attended CCNY graduating in 1954.

Subsequently, he entered Howard University Medical School graduating in 1958. In 1959, after a one-year internship at LA County USC Medical Center, he joined the U.S. Navy (USN).

The USN had him stationed at Camp Pendleton alternating with tours of duty on Okinawa. In 1963, he married his Archousa Norma Smith.

In 1979, despite attempts by the Surgeon General of the US Navy and other flag officers to get him to remain on active duty and advance in rank, Captain Jones retired from the USN. His medical career then brought him to the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He came on board as the Chief of the Department of Anesthesiology here in San Diego. As expected he excelled as a clinician, leader, innovator, role model, friend, counsel, and wit. He was the “preferred” anesthesiologist for all kinds of surgeries. Laughingly, he liked to mention that over the years at KP in San Diego, he’d anesthetized almost all of the doctors, administrators, and/or their families. He retired from SCPMG as a full-time anesthesiologist in 1994 but continued to work per diem until 1999.

Clyde loved his family and his friends. He and Norma were very active in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. In honor of their respective work as volunteers, Archon and Archousa Jones are both recipients of the Bishop’s Cross. Over the years, Dr. Jones went on eighty-three medical missions, under the auspices of organizations such as Operation Smile and the UCSD Department of Plastic Surgery. This work took him to such places as Vietnam, Mexico, the Philippines, and parts of Africa.

Archon Jones is survived by his Archousa Norma, their three sons, one granddaughter, and two “adopted grandsons.”

His inurnment at Miramar will take place when public health concerns allow it.

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Initial arrangements were entrusted to AndersonRagsdale Mortuary, San Diego, CA CORA LAINE WILLIS 92, went to eternal rest on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at her daughter’s residence in San Diego, CA. She is survived by her daughter, and caregiver Rosalind Winstead (San Diego, CA); her son Welby Winstead, M.D.; her grandson, Dennis Winstead; Her former daughter in law Marie Bradby; her nephews, Keith, Eric “Ricky” and Hugh Winstead Jr.; her niece Phyllis Janeen Winstead and a host of loving friends.

Due to the restrictions placed on the funeral home, all services will be private. Interment at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY. We ask that you join us in keeping the Willis family in your thoughts and prayers during this most difficult time. Services in Louisville, KY are with G.C. Williams Funeral Home.

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JAQUELINE JOHNSON, affectionately known as Jackie, was born January 18th 1957 in Okinawa Japan to Earl P Johnson and Sueko Kawano-Johnson.

Jackie graduated from South High School in Wichita, Kansas. After high school, Jackie went on to experience all that life had to offer her.

That journey brought her to San Diego, CA. She lived and learned all that she could, she gave endlessly to her community and went on to become a loving mother of three beautiful daughters.

In San Diego, Jackie was employed with the San Diego Unified School District for 20 years as an administrative assistant; and then with Ralphs as a courtesy clerk until her retirement in 2019.

Jackie was just beginning to enjoy retired life at home with her family and her dogs, whom she loved dearly; she enjoyed watching her favorite television shows like The Waltons and The Little House on the Prairie and she really loved cooking and spending time with her family.

She loved most of all spending time with her grandchildren. Jackie will always be remembered for her loving heart and giving spirit.

Jackie departed this life on May 7th 2020.

She was preceded in death by: Her father Earl P Johnson, her mother Sueko Harvey, her step father David Harvey. She leaves to cherish her memories: Her loving daughters; Dameka Washington, Brandy West, Alexie Johnson Matthews, Her siblings; Jannette Green, David Jones, Juliet Cass and Sue Samuels, Her grandchildren; Deven Reese, Andre Peeples, Kymori Baumgartner, Sa’riya Bush and a host of nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends).

When great trees fall.

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.

When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutte able ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a perio peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

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THE HONORABLE NANCY PELOSI

Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol Washaington, DC 20515

THE HONORABLE JAMES E. CLYBURN

Majority Whip United States House of Representatives H-329, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515

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THE HONORABLE CHARLES SCHUMER

Democratic Leader United States Senate S-220, The Capitol Washington, DC 20510

THE HONORABLE KAREN BASS

Chair Congressional Black Caucus United States Congress Washington, DC 20515

DEAR SPEAKER PELOSI, LEADER SCHUMER, MAJORITY WHIP CLYBURN AND CHAIRWOMAN BASS: Thank you for your leadership in the fight to contain the spread of COVID-19 and for your efforts to provide relief to millions of Americans struggling to survive the health and economic crises resulting from this global pandemic.

The numbers are shockingly clear; COVID-19 is ravaging Black families at an extraordinary and disproportionate rate. African Americans living in predominantly Black communities are experiencing three-fold higher infection rates and six-fold higher death rates than predominantly white communities. This stark reality cannot be hidden behind the false narrative that the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans and other people of color is due to pre-existing health conditions and lifestyle choices. The fight against COVID-19 has laid bare that the deadliest pre-existing conditions for people of color are, in fact, poverty, racism and lack of access to affordable healthcare.

We did not choose to live in a world where access to health care, sick leave and other protections would be dependent on whether you have a traditional job with an employer who chooses to provide these benefits. More than 95% of Black-owned businesses in the United States are sole proprietorships with fewer than five employees. As our own employers, we pay twice the Social Security and Medicare taxes paid by employees; We pay for our own sick leave, family leave and personal time off; We pay for our own health care and disability insurance or we go without and make the choice to pay rent or put food on the table, because who we are, where we live and how we work dictates whether these benefits are affordable or even available.

Aside from the direct threat to the lives and health of African Americans from COVID-19, the economic crisis now unfolding across the nation represents the gravest threat to the safety and independence of Black families, businesses and communities in many generations.

Unemployment in the Black community is near 16.7% and rising. Without immediate attention and deliberate action by Congress, the economic devastation resulting from COVID-19 will have the same disproportionate impact on Black communities as the virus itself.

We strongly support the policy priorities put forward by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to address the urgent needs of Black families, businesses and communities to ease the impacts of COVID-19, and we appreciate your efforts to include many of these priorities in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. However, an unconscionable amount of the financial assistance in the first phases of COVID emergency funding went to large businesses and institutions, leaving millions of self-employed individuals, small businesses and working families struggling to stay alive.

As Congress negotiates additional legislation to provide federal resources and economic stimulus, we urge you to include proposals put forth by the CBC that are critical to the health and financial security of Black families, businesses and communities as we fight to emerge from this crisis alive, stronger and more resilient than the last two economic downturns. Specifically, we urge you to adopt the following principles and proposals in future federal COVID relief efforts:

1 . Support Self-Employment with Portable Benefits Ensure sole proprietors, independent contractors and other self-employed individuals have access to affordable health care, paid leave and unemployment insurance through permanent, portable benefit structures that do not limit their independence or choice of work.

2 . Support Black-Owned Businesses Provide a rebate for 100 percent of payroll or self-employment taxes paid by small businesses this year and provide a refund of 200 percent of payroll or self-employment taxes paid by small businesses in “hot spots,” defined as zip codes with disproportionately high COVID-19 infection rates, unemployment or wage loss.

3 . Support Black Financial Institutions Support minority depository institutions (MDIs) by requiring the Federal Reserve to temporarily provide zero percent interest rate loans to MDIs and make grant funding available to MDIs to invest in technology upgrades that will allow their clients’ virtual access to critical banking services including electronic benefit transfer and prepaid debit cards.

Black lives truly matter. No community has given more to this nation while receiving far less than it is due. History has made clear that systemic inequities in education, housing, employment, financial security, the environment, and the lack of access to health care and healthy foods add up to greater risk, poorer outcomes and more Black lives lost. The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to lay bare the inequities toward communities of color. We have an opportunity to address those systemic inequities so that this community can not only survive this crisis but thrive on the other side of it.

DENITA WILLOUGHBY

Chair Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

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MICHAEL LAWSON

President & CEO Los Angeles Urban League

ALICE HUFFMAN

President California NAACP

GENE HALE

President Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce