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The Largest Congressional Dr. King and “The Black Caucus Kicks Off the 116th Congress Other America” “Little children in this other America are forced to grow up with clouds of inferiority forming every day in their little mental skies. As we look at this other America, we see it as an arena of blasted hopes and shattered dreams,” said Dr. King…

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., U.S. Source: National Archives at College Park, Wikimedia Commons

Once again on the third Monday in January, much of the nation will mark the anniversary of the death of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Countless programs and events will no doubt recall several of his famous speeches from the 1963 March on Washington’s “I Have A Dream to his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” deSee REMEMBERING page 2

The new CBC features nine new members of the U.S. House bringing the group to a total of 55. The 116th Congress will be the first time that the Congressional Black Caucus will ever have over fifty members.

By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor

As the new Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.) was hand-

ed a large gavel from outgoing Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) it became clear that the new CBC would be making a sizable mark on the next Congress.

The new CBC includes the youngest African American woman to be sworn-in to the U.S. House in history, Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), See CONGRESS page 2

12 African American Teens Reach the Pinnacle of Success in The Boy Scouts

Boy Scout Troop 242, led by Scoutmaster Dameion Crook, Sr., presented the 12 African American Eagle Scouts during the Eagle Court of Honor ceremony that was held at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. His son was one of the newest Eagle Scouts, which is the cherry on the top of Scoutmaster Crook’s two years leading Boy Scout Troop 242.

By Jeffrey L. Boney Associate Editor via Houston Forward Times

Here in the United States, the Boy Scouts of America is considered to be one of the most revered institutions for the development of young boys.

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‘‘Not everybody can be FAMOUS but everybody can be GREAT because greatness is determined by service.‘‘

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Lead Well to Live Well At the County of San Diego, we work in collaboration with the community to create opportunities for all residents to make their lives better. As stewards of public health, safety and wellness, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s collaborative spirit and dedication to enact positive change for the benefit of all.

Live Well San Diego is the County of San Diego’s vision for a healthy, safe and thriving region. It aligns the leadership efforts of individuals, organizations and government to help all 3.3 million San Diego County residents live well.

Together, we can do more than each of us can do alone.

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livered in Memphis during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike.

In a life of only 39 years, Dr. King captured global attention in his valiant, nonviolent fight for the values of freedom, justice and equality. Preaching and fighting for long overdue citizenship rights first promised to all in the Declaration of Independence, he championed economic justice – especially for Blacks to have safe, decent, and affordable housing. He also called for full participation in the economy, and an end to financial exploitation.

Now 51 years since his assassination, his words still strike a resonant chord. His words — written as prose but markedly poetic — remain as timely as they are timeless.

“There are so many problems facing our nation and our world, that one could just take off anywhere,” Dr. King said in a speech delivered on April 14, 1967 at Stanford University.

Entitled, “The Other America” Dr. King began by recapping the nation’s bounty and beauty, noting how “America is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity”, and how “millions of young people grow up in the sunlight of opportunity”.

For his audience, those comments almost certainly reflected the lifestyles of the students attending one of the nation’s elite educational institutions.

In his inimitable Baptist cadence, Dr. King then went on to speak of the “Other America” that was equally real but far removed from the commonplace privilege associated with Stanford.

“Little children in this other America are forced to grow up with clouds of inferiority forming every day in their little mental skies. As we look at this other America, we see it as an arena of blasted hopes and shattered dreams,” said Dr. King. “It’s more difficult today because we are struggling for genuine equality. It’s much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and a good solid job. It’s much easier to guarantee the right to vote than it is to guarantee the right to live in sanitary, decent housing conditions.”

In 2019 the two Americas Dr. King wrote about still remain. A nation once lauded for its enviable and expanding middle class has evolved into a nation of people who are either growing wealthy or growing poor. In this unfortunate process, the nation’s envied middle class is vanishing.

Historically, homeownership has been a reliable measure of the nation’s middle class.

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as well as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim females ever elected to Congress. Rep. Tlaib occupies the seat held by long term Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) who retired from Congress on December 5, 2017.

The new CBC features nine new members of the U.S. House bringing the group to a total of 55. The 116th Congress will be the first time that the Congressional Black Caucus will ever have over fifty members.

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Greg Cox District 1, Vice-Chairman Kristin Gaspar District 3

Dianne Jacob District 2, Chairwoman

Nathan Fletcher District 4

Jim Desmond District 5

Bass, 65, severed served as the former Speaker of the California House and was the first-ever African-American woman ever to hold that position.

“Honored to have been sworn in as 26th Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus today.

We will fight fiercely against hate. We will not retreat and allow our past victories to be erased,” wrote Chairwoman Bass on Twitter, January 3, the first day of the 116th Congress.

Find opportunities to serve:

“I am proud to witness the ceremonial swearing-in of the largest @OfficialCBC in history. With 55 members and @RepKarenBassserving as their chairwoman, the Congressional Black Caucus is stronger than ever,” wrote Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.

SanDiegoCounty.gov/volunteer LiveWellSD.org/volunteer

The Presidency of Donald Trump will greatly shape the agenda of the Congressional Black Caucus over the next two years.

Helen N. Robbins-Meyer Chief Administrative Officer

Late last year it stood at 64.4 according to the Census Bureau. Yet when race and ethnicity are added who owns a home today discloses a far different picture. White homeownership was higher than the national average at 73.1 percent.

But Blacks still-suffering from the financial losses from the now decade-old foreclosure crisis had a homeownership rate of 41.7 percent, lower than its pre-housing crisis rate of 47.7 percent. Today’s Black homeownership resembles the same levels experienced at the time of the 1968 Fair Housing Act’s passage.

Latino homeownership today is higher than that of Blacks at 46.3 percent; but still lower than its earlier pre-crisis rate of 47.7.

Housing also remains troubled for renters as well. According to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, the nation lacks more than 7 million affordable rental homes that affect 43.8 million families. Moreover, 11 million families pay more than half of their income on housing and are considered severely-cost burdened.

As of January 3, over 1,100 HUD contracts with landlords for its Section 8 rental voucher program expired. By February, another 1,000 more contracts are expected to expire.

At press time, the stalemated federal government shutdown continued, leaving millions of people uncertain about their lives, or livelihoods or both. While landlords and HUD figure out the paperwork, 1.2 million families relying on this vital rental support program remain at risk.

Also caught in partisan bickering of a federal government shutdown are men and women – the military and civil servants – whose service to the country is deemed so essential that they must continue to work without knowing when another paycheck will arrive. Another 800,000 furloughed federal workers may be at home; but like others affected by the shutdown, they too still need to pay their rent or mortgage, honor their financial obligations and take care of children as best they can.

When times are tough financially, a range of predatory lenders seize opportunities to tempt those who are hard-pressed for cash with interest rates on loans that would make a bookie blush. When a loan of only a few hundred dollars comes with interest payments that double or triple the cash borrowed, predatory lenders are ready to exploit those with few or no financial options.

Those who are unpaid or underemployed – those who are working but failing to earn a salary comparable to their education and training, student loan repayments can take a financial backseat to housing, utilities, or other daily living needs.

At press deadline, the federal shutdown was approaching the 1995 shutdown record of 21 days.

Just as Rep. Richmond witnessed, there will be many issues that will arise out of nowhere in the news simply because the Trump Administration has decided to roll back so much of what was completed during the eight years president Barack Obama was in The White House.

But there is one huge difference: The CBC will have what was referred to at the ceremonial swearing in as “the big five.” They are the five Chairmen and Chairwomen who will serve over what many CBC members hope are Trump’s last two years in office. They are Reps.

Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).

Three of the five Chairs will head committees that are certain to play an investigatory role over the Trump Administration. Rep. Cummings who will Chair the Committee on Government Oversight has already signaled that his committee will subpoena over the Trump Administration policy of children being separated from their parents and detained at the U.S./Mexico border.

Chairwoman Waters, who will lead the House Financial Services Committee, has signaled she will push against Wall Street and in favor of consumer protections regarding investment and financial products.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist and writer for NNPA as well as a political analyst and strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @ LVBurke

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The “New” Lynching:

Equity v.

Equality Police Confrontations Can Mean Imprisonment or Death

Maybe someone else has used this term.

By Bill Fletcher Jr. NNPA Newswire Contributor

I have been thinking about Jermaine Massey quite a bit since I heard about his story at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

This was the case of a Black man—a registered guest in the hotel—holding a phone conversation with his mother in the hotel lobby. Two hotel security personnel approached him, asked him to leave the hotel and called the police on him. Despite video proof that he informed them that he was a legitimate guest, he was told to leave. These security personnel were ultimately fired.

The case is not over but the incident, once again, is a story of a white person calling the police on an African American for no reason that comes close to allegations of breaking the law. After hearing about this case, the term “softcore lynching” came to mind.

I call it a softcore lynching because these incidents are much more than a racist nuisance. These are flagrant examples of whites both determining what territory is acceptable for those of us of color to occupy (note: these incidents are not limited to attacks on African Americans), but they also place our lives in imminent danger. It is this latter point that I wish to here emphasize.

Given the history of the relationship between African Americans and law enforcement, the appearance of the authorities brings with it the everpresent threat of confrontation. And confrontation can mean imprisonment or death. When the police show up, whether due to African Americans playing golf slower than a white person might desire; having a party when white people would rather we don’t; returning home when we are not recognized by a white neighbor; or speaking with our mother from a hotel lobby, the reality is See LYNCHING page 18

‘Nobody’s at the Switch’ as CBS Announces Election Coverage Team Sans African Americans

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

CBS News said its diversifying – adding a mix of women and minorities to its top staff and its upcoming 2020 election coverage.

Among the eight reporters, four reportedly are persons of color: Musadiq Bidar, a native of Afghanistan, Alex Tin, Jack Turman and Stephanie Ramirez. But, none are African American.

But, many are calling the “Eye” Network’s attempts at diversity an epic fail.

“CBS, the efforts on your website about your support for diversity fly in the face of your display of all of the reporters you’ve selected for the 2020 campaign,” Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters tweeted.

The network is taking some serious heat for excluding African-Americans from its core team of on-the-ground reporters and producers set to cover the 2020 presidential campaign cycle – an election that’s viewed almost universally as critical to Blacks and other minorities.

The outcry began after associate producer Ben Mitchell tweeted a title card featuring images of CBS News’ “political embed unit,” composed of eight 2020 campaign reporters and four associate producers, including himself.

“Not one Black. What’s up with this? An explanation is needed.”

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the current administration in the White House made having a “functional understanding of race in America one of the most important core competencies for a political journalist to See CBS page 18

Giving Students the Tools They Need to Succeed

By Naomi Shelton Director of K-12 Advocacy at UNCF (United Negro College Fund)

Equity has been a huge buzzword in the field of education this year.

Education advocates and politicians alike have called for an increase in educational equity, but what does the term really mean? Equity is not Equality. Equity creates equality by prioritizing resources to students who need them the most.

For example, think of a typical track meet.

There are five runners – each in their own lane. Each runner must run one lap around the track. The first runner to complete the lap, wins the race. Now let’s use this analogy to inform our understanding of equity.

Equality would mean that every runner would start the race at the exact same spot in their lane. However, the track is oval-shaped.

If each runner began at the same spot, each runner’s distance to the finish line would be different. The runner in the innermost lane would run a shorter distance than the runner in the outermost lane. Sure, they would both start in the same spot (EQUAL), but the runners in the innermost lanes would have an advantage – in distance – than their counterparts in the outermost lanes.

This is precisely why track meets do not operate this way. Since the track is ovalshaped, each runner begins the race in their own lane, at different, equal distance, spots along the track; ensuring that each runner, runs the exact same distance needed to complete the race.

Now, think of our current public education system in this same context. Students – regardless of race, geography, household makeup – start on the same marker on the track. Some students, like the runner in the outermost lane, have to run harder and faster to get to the finish line. The barrier here is distance. In the real world, barriers include low-income, resource deprived neighborhoods, disabilities that require additional expertise, culturally negligent curriculum, outdated technology, inexperienced teachers or access to critical supportive services.

Meanwhile, the runner in the innermost lane has it a lot easier. They don’t have to run as fast or as hard to get to the finish line because of their initial position in the race.

The barriers here are fewer in number. In terms of education, these innermost runners attend schools in affluent neighborhoods with a surplus of resources. These students have the advantage of local tax-based funding formulas, parent lead fundraising efforts and/or private funding, and state-of-the-art technology.

What we need is education reform that promotes fairness. Fairness equals equity. As Debby Irving in her book Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race states, “Equality means giving all students the exact same thing to meet the same expectations.

Equity means holding people of differing needs to a single expectation and giving them what they need to achieve it.” In other words, the playing fields need to be leveled. It’s critical that our public educational system undertakes reform – changes so that each student is given what they need to succeed.

Our education system should support students by allocating the most resources to students who are most in need, just as track athletes arrange themselves for fairer competition. The national education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) targets dollars to the highest poverty schools and districts.

Under No Child Left Behind, schools could lose funding if they failed to meet statewide standards. But under ESSA, states cannot reduce funding by more than ten percent from year to year despite school performance.

ESSA also attempts to ensure that low-income students are not disproportionally taught by ineffective, inexperienced, and/or out-offield teachers.

ESSA requires that state and district report cards include the percentage of inexperienced teachers, principals, and other school leaders as well as teachers with emergency credentials, and teachers teaching subjects out of their range of expertise. ESSA also seeks to relieve some teacher angst surrounding evaluation systems by ending the requirement for state teacher evaluation systems to focus significantly on student test scores.

ESSA gives power back to the states to control education policy. Now, members of the community must hold their school leaders and elected officials accountable to implement system-wide and school-specific measures that ensure equity in our schools.

Furthermore, UNCF’s 2017 community resource, Lift Every Voice and Lead Toolkit: A Community Leader’s Advocacy Resource for K-12 Education, offers step-by-step analysis of African American Education and highlights organizations that have effectively engaged in education efforts at a local level to support efforts in improving the quality of education for all students.

Naomi Shelton has experience in education related community engagement both at the national and local levels and public administration. Currently, she is the Director of K-12 Advocacy at UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization.

There, she focuses on national education initiatives and community engagement efforts to ensure more African-American students are college and career ready. Naomi is currently a member of the DC Public Charter School Board, appointed by Washington, D.C. Mayor, Muriel Bowser. Her passion is educational equity. Follow Naomi on Twitter at @ NaomiSheltonDC

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REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Why We Celebrate the Life of

REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Photos & captions courtesy of “King, The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr” by Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman

Dr. John E. Warren Publisher January 15, 2019 will mark the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is also a time in which we remember that Dr. King was assassinated 51 years ago this April.

We have a whole generation with social media blimps of Dr. King, through streets, schools, buildings and monuments named after him, but little knowledge of the man himself. Since so many today will celebrate the “I have a dream” portion of his most famous speech, we are publishing this special “commemorative” issue to give some insight into the life of Dr. King the man.

Dr. King fought for what he thought was right. He believed that the “laws of man” never out weighted “the laws of God”. His fame came at great cost to his family and his life. Dr. King and 250,000 people Marched on Washington, D.C. on August 28th 1963 for Jobs and Freedom. He was in Washington, D.C. to “redeem a check that he said had been returned from the government marked “insufficient funds”. The dream was never a substitute for the bounced check, as so many people have wrongly made the meaning of the speech over the years.

Clearly there is a need for more information on this man for the many born 51 years after his death. It is our hope that this issue with its collection of pictures, family stories, highlights and full content of speeches will ad to an understand of Martin Luther King, Jr., the man and not the myth.

It is our hope that this issue will be retained as a point of reference for years to come. We deeply thank those who have placed ads in this issue as a means of making it possible to reach our children, churches, schools and general community as we remember the man.

Let us also remember that he is the only individual in the history of this country who has a National Holiday in his honor as a private citizen in addition to a monument on the National Mall. Let us remember Dr. King by making that which he fought and died for a continuing reality.

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Remembering the Life of Philosophy – The Martin Luther King Jr. Center www.thekingcenter.org TRIPLE EVILS The Triple Evils of POVERTY, RACISM and MILITARISM are forms of violence that exist in a vicious cycle. They are interrelated, allinclusive, and stand as barriers to our living in the Beloved Community. When we work to remedy one evil, we affect all evils. To work against the Triple Evils, you must develop a nonviolent frame of mind as described in the “Six Principles of Nonviolence” and use the Kingian model for social action outlined in the “Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change.”

Some contemporary examples of the Triple Evils are listed next to each item: Poverty – unemployment, homelessness, hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy, infant mortality, slums…

“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get rid of it. The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty … The well off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for ‘the least of these.”

Racism – prejudice, apartheid, ethnic conflict, anti-Semitism, sexism, colonialism, homophobia, ageism, discrimination against disabled groups, stereotypes…

“Racism is a philosophy based on a contempt for life. It is the arrogant assertion that one race is the center of value and object of devotion, before which other races must kneel in submission.

It is the absurd dogma that one race is responsible for all the progress of history and alone can assure the progress of the future. Racism is total estrangement. It separates not only bodies, but minds and spirits.

Inevitably it descends to inflicting spiritual and physical homicide upon the out-group.”

Militarism – war, imperialism, domestic violence, rape, terrorism, human trafficking, media violence, drugs, child abuse, violent crime…

“A true revolution of values will lay hands on

the world order and say of war‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ This way of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Source: “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.

SIX PRINCIPLES OF NONVIOLENCE Fundamental tenets of Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolence described in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom. The six principles include: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is a positive force confronting the forces of injustice, and utilizes the righteous indignation and the spiritual, emotional and intellectual capabilities of people as the vital force for change and reconciliation.

The Beloved Community is the framework for the future. The nonviolent concept is an overall effort to achieve a reconciled world by raising the level of relationships among people to a height where justice prevails and persons attain their full human potential.

Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil.

The nonviolent approach helps one analyze the fundamental conditions, policies and practices of the conflict rather than reacting to one’s opponents or their personalities.

Accept suffering without retaliation for the sake of the cause to achieve the goal.

Self-chosen suffering is redemptive and helps the movement grow in a spiritual as well as a humanitarian dimension.

The moral authority of voluntary suffering for a goal communicates the concern to one’s own friends and community as well as to the opponent.

Avoid internal violence of the spirit as well as external physical violence. The nonviolent attitude permeates all aspects of the campaign. It provides mirror type reflection of the reality of the condition to one’s opponent and the community at large. Specific activities must be designed to help maintain a high level of spirit and morale during a nonviolent campaign.

The universe is on the side of justice. Truth is universal and human society and each human being is oriented to the just sense of order of the universe. The fundamental values in all of the world’s great religious include the concept that the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice. For the

nonviolent practitioner, nonviolence introduces a new moral context in which nonviolence is both the means and the end.

SIX STEPS OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE A sequential process of nonviolent conflict-resolution and social change based on Dr. King’s teachings. The Six Steps of Nonviolence developed

by The King Center include: Information Gathering – The way you determine the facts, the options for change, and the timing of pressure for raising the issue is a collective process.

Education – The process for developing articulate leaders, who are knowledgeable about the issues. It is directed toward the community through all forms of media about the real issues and human consequences of an unjust situation.

Personal Commitment – Means looking at your internal and external involvement in the nonviolent campaign and preparing yourself for longterm as well as short-term action.

Negotiation – Is the art of bringing together your views and those of your opponent to arrive at a just conclusion or clarify the unresolved issues, at which point, the conflict is formalized.

Direct Action – Occurs when negotiations have broken down or failed to produce a just response to the contested issues and conditions.

Reconciliation – Is the mandatory closing step of a campaign, when the opponents and proponents celebrate the victory and provide joint leadership to implement change.

We often view the Six Steps as a phases or cycles of a campaign rather than steps because each of them embodies a cluster or series of activities related to each of the other five elements.

THE BELOVED COMMUNITY

“The Beloved Community” is a term that was first coined in the early days of the 20th Century by the philosophertheologian Josiah Royce, who founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

However, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., also a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who popularized the term and invested it with a deeper meaning which has captured the imagination of people of goodwill all over the world.

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was not a lofty utopian goal to be confused with the rapturous image of the Peaceable Kingdom, in which lions and lambs coexist in idyllic harmony.

Rather, The Beloved Community was for him a realistic, achievable goal that could be attained by a critical mass of people committed to and trained in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence.

Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision, in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it. Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood. In the Beloved Community, international disputes will be resolved by peaceful conflict-resolution and reconciliation of adversaries, instead of military power.

Love and trust will triumph over fear and hatred. Peace with justice will prevail over war and military conflict.

Dr. King’s Beloved Community was not devoid of interpersonal, group or international conflict. Instead he recognized that conflict was an inevitable part of human experience. But he believed that conflicts could be resolved peacefully and adversaries could be reconciled through a mutual, determined commitment to nonviolence. No conflict, he believed, need erupt in violence. And all conflicts in The Beloved Community should end with reconciliation of adversaries cooperating together in a spirit of friendship and goodwill.

As early as 1956, Dr. King spoke of The Beloved Community as the end goal of nonviolent boycotts. As he said in a speech at a victory rally following the announcement of a favorable U.S. Supreme Court Decision desegregating the seats on Montgomery’s busses, “the end is

reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men.”

An ardent student of the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dr. King was much impressed with the Mahatma’s befriending of his adversaries, most of whom professed profound admiration for Gandhi’s courage and intellect. Dr. King believed that the age-old tradition of hating one’s opponents was not only immoral, but bad strategy which perpetuated the cycle of revenge and retaliation. Only nonviolence, he believed, had the power to break the cycle of retributive violence and create lasting peace through reconciliation.

In a 1957 speech, Birth of A New Nation, Dr. King said, “The aftermath of

nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation. The aftermath of violence is emptiness and bitterness.” A year later, in

his first book Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King reiterated the importance of nonviolence in attaining The Beloved Community. In other words, our ultimate goal is integration, which is genuine inter-

group and inter-personal living. Only through nonviolence can this goal be attained, for the aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of the Beloved Community.

In his 1959 Sermon on Gandhi, Dr. King elaborated on the after-effects of choosing nonviolence over violence: “The aftermath

of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, so that when the battle’s over, a new relationship comes into being between the oppressed and the oppressor.” In the same

sermon, he contrasted violent versus nonviolent resistance to oppression. “The

way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

But, the way of non-violence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.”

The core value of the quest for Dr. King’s Beloved Community was agape love. Dr. King distinguished between three kinds of love: eros, “a sort of aesthetic or romantic love”; philia, “affection between friends” and agape, which he described as “understanding, redeeming goodwill for all,” an “overflowing love which is

purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless and creative”… “the love of God operating in the human heart.” He said that “Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people…It begins by loving others for their sakes” and “makes no distinction between a friend and enemy; it is directed toward both…Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community.”

In his 1963 sermon, Loving Your Enemies, published in his book, Strength to Love, Dr. King addressed the role of unconditional love in struggling for the beloved Community.

‘With every ounce of our energy we must continue to rid this nation of the incubus of segregation. But we shall not in the process relinquish our privilege and our obligation to love. While abhorring segregation, we shall love the segregationist. This is the only way to create the beloved community.”

One expression of agape love in Dr. King’s Beloved Community is justice, not for any one oppressed group, but for all people. As Dr. King often said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

everywhere.” He felt that justice could not be parceled out to individuals or groups, but was the birthright of every human being in the Beloved Community. I have fought too long and hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns,” he said. “Justice is indivisible.”

In a July 13, 1966 article in Christian Century Magazine, Dr. King affirmed the ultimate goal inherent in the quest for the Beloved Community: “I do not think of

political power as an end. Neither do I think of economic power as an end. They are ingredients in the objective that we seek in life. And I think that end or that objective is a truly brotherly society, the creation of the beloved community.”

In keeping with Dr. King’s teachings, The King Center embraces the conviction that the Beloved Community can be achieved through an unshakable commitment to nonviolence.

We urge you to study Dr. King’s six principles and six steps of nonviolence, and make them a way life in your personal relationships, as well as a method for resolving social, economic and political conflicts, reconciling adversaries and advancing social change in your community, nation and world.

Berlin, 1964 at the invitation of West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt, King bears witness to a city, a country, and a people who are divided.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center www.thekingcenter.org Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.

Give us the ballot and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write the law on the statute books of the South and bring an end to the dastardly acts of the hooded perpetrators of violence.

Give us the ballot, and we will transform the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens.

Give us the ballot, and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a “Southern Manifesto” because of their devotion to the manifesto of justice.

Give us the ballot, and we will place judges on the benches of the south who will do justly and love mercy, and we will place at the head of the southern states governors who have felt not only the tang of the human, but the glow of the Divine.

Give us the ballot, and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court’s decision of May seventeenth, 1954….

We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.

There is still a voice crying out through the vista of time, saying: “Love your

enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.” Then, and

only then, can you matriculate into the university of eternal life. That same voice cries out in terms lifted to cosmic proportions: “He who lives by the sword

will perish by the sword.” And history is

replete with the bleached bones of nations that failed to follow this command. We must follow nonviolence and love.

Now, I’m not talking about a sentimental, shallow kind of love. I’m not talking about Eros, which is a sort of aesthetic, romantic love. I’m not even talking about philia, which is a sort of intimate affection between personal friends. But I’m talking about agape. I’m talking about the love of God in the hearts of men. I’m talking about a type of love which will cause you to love the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. We’ve got to love....

I realize that it will cause restless nights sometimes. It might cause losing a job; it will cause suffering and sacrifice. It might even cause physical death for some. But if physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children from a permanent life of psychological death, then nothing can be more Christian.

Keep going today. Keep moving amid every obstacle. Keep moving amid every mountain of opposition.

If you will do that with dignity , when the history books are written in the future, the historians will have to look back and say, “There lived a great people. A people

with ‘fleecy locks and black complexion,’ but a people who injected new meaning into the veins of civilization; a people which stood up with dignity and honor and saved Western civilization in her darkest hour; a people that gave new integrity and a new dimension of love to our civilization.” When that happens, “the morning stars will sing together, and the sons of God will shout for joy.”

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The Martin Luther King Jr. Center www.thekingcenter.org During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality than the previous 350 years had produced. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent advocate of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in world history.

Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s and ‘60s to achieve legal equality for AfricanAmericans in the United States. While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests and grassroots organizing, to achieve seemingly-impossible goals. He went on to lead similar campaigns against poverty and international conflict, always maintaining fidelity to his principles that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of the human family.

Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Nobel Peace Prize lecture and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are among the most revered orations and writings in the English language.

His accomplishments are now taught to American children of all races, and his teachings are studied by scholars and students worldwide. He is the only nonpresident to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor, and us also the only nonpresident memorialized on the Great Mall in the nation’s capitol. He is memorialized in statues, parks, streets, squares, churches and other public facilities around the world as a leader whose teachings are increasinglyrelevant to the welfare of humankind.

Some of Dr. King’s most important achievements include: In 1955, he was recruited to serve as spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a campaign by the AfricanAmerican population of Montgomery, Alabama to force integration of the city’s bus lines. After 381 days of nearly universal participation by the black community, many of whom had to walk miles to work each day as a result, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in transportation was unconstitutional.

In 1957, Dr. King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization meant to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil

on civil rights. Dr. King was later named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.” rights movement. He would serve as head of the SCLC until his assassination in 1968, a period during which he would emerge as the most important social leader of the modern American civil rights movement.

In 1963, he led a coalition of numerous civil rights groups in a nonviolent campaign aimed at Birmingham, Alabama, which at the time was described as the “most segregated city in America.” The subsequent brutality of the city’s police, illustrated most vividly by television images of young blacks being assaulted by dogs and water hoses, led to a national outrage resulting in a push for unprecedented civil rights legislation.

Later in 1963, Dr. King was one of the driving forces behind the March for Jobs and Freedom, more commonly known as the “March on Washington,” which drew over a quarter-million people to the national mall. It was at this march that Dr. King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which cemented his status as a social change leader and helped inspire the nation to act

In 1964, at 35 years old, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech in Oslo is thought by many to be among the most powerful remarks ever delivered at the event, climaxing at one point with the oftquoted phrase “I believe that unarmed truth

and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Also in 1964, partly due to the March on Washington, Congress passed the landmark Civil Rights Act, essentially eliminating racial segregation in the United States. The legislation made it illegal to discriminate against blacks or other minorities in hiring, public accommodations, education or transportation, areas which at the time were still very racially-divided in many places.

The next year, 1965, Congress went on to pass the Voting Rights Act, which was an equally-important set of laws

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King’s Historic San Diego Speech – May 29, 1964 that eliminated the remaining barriers to voting for African-Americans, who in some locales had been almost completely disenfranchised. This legislation resulted directly from the Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights lead by Dr. King.

Between 1965 and 1968, Dr. King shifted his focus toward economic justice – which he highlighted by leading several campaigns in Chicago, Illinois – and international peace – which he championed by speaking out strongly against the Vietnam War. His work in these years culminated in the “Poor Peoples Campaign,” which was a broad effort to assemble a multiracial coalition of impoverished Americans who would advocate for economic change.

Birth & Family Born at noon on Tuesday, January 15, 1929 at the family home in Atlanta, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Also born to the Kings were Christine, now Mrs. Isaac Farris, Sr., and the Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King, now deceased.

He married Coretta Scott, the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurry Scott of Marion, Alabama, on June 18, 1953. The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scott’s home in Marion, Alabama. The Rev. King, Sr. performed the service, with Mrs. Edythe Bagley, the sister of Coretta Scott King as maid of honor, and the Rev. A.D. King, the brother of Martin Luther King, Jr., as best man.

Four children were born to Dr. and Mrs. King: • Yolanda Denise (November 17, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama) • Martin Luther III (October 23, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama) • Dexter Scott (January 30, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia) • Bernice Albertine (March 28, 1963, Atlanta, Georgia)

Upbringing & Studies The son, grandson, and great-grandson of Baptist ministers, Martin Luther King Jr., named Michael King at birth, spent his first twelve years in the Auburn Avenue home that his parents, the Reverend Michael King and Alberta Williams King, shared with his maternal grandparents, the Adam Daniel Williams and Jeannie Celeste Williams. After Rev. Williams’ death in 1931, his son-in-law became Ebenezer Baptist Church’s new pastor and gradually established himself as a major figure in state and national Baptist groups.

The elder King began referring to himself (and later to his son) as Martin Luther King During his undergraduate years at Atlanta’s Morehouse College (1944 to 1948), King gradually overcame his initial reluctance to accept his inherited calling. Morehouse President Benjamin E. Mays influenced King’s spiritual development, encouraging him to view Christianity as a potential force for progressive social change.

After leaving Morehouse, King increased his understanding of progressive Christian thought while attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1951. Initially uncritical of

Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint liberal theology, he gradually moved toward Reinhold Niebuhr’s neo-orthodoxy, which emphasized the intractability of social evil.

In 1951 King began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University’s School of Theology. By the time he completed his doctoral studies in 1955, King had refined his exceptional ability to draw upon a wide range of theological and philosophical texts to express his views with force and precision.

His ability to infuse his oratory with borrowed theological insights became evident in his expanding preaching activities in Bostonarea-churches and at Ebenezer, where he assisted his father during school vacations.

During his stay in Boston, King also met and courted Coretta Scott, an Alabamaborn Antioch College graduate who was then a student at the New England Conservatory of Music. On 18 June 1953 the two students were married in Marion, Alabama, where Scott’s family lived.

On May 29, 1964, Dr. King spoke to a crowd of nearly 3,500 Point Loma Nazarene University’s Golden Gymnasium (formerly Cal Western University). In 2007, a podium-shaped interactive memorial kiosk was installed in the gym to memorialize King’s visit.

The speech focused on the need to defeat Proposition 14, the initiative that threatened to nullify California civil rights statutes, and to garner support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At the time, San Diego was known as the “Mississippi of the West.” According to the San Diego History Center, the phrase was coined by George Stevens, former CORE chair and NAACP president, and Dr. Carrol W. Waymon, founder of the San Diego State College Black History Department.

Excerpt: “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” : The great challenge facing every man and every woman today is to remain awake through this great social revolution...

Somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God... It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important also. And so, while the law may not change the hearts of men, it does change the habits of men.

In his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, King dismissed the claim of Black Power advocates “to

be the most revolutionary wing of the social revolution taking place in the United States,”

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but he acknowledged that they responded to a psychological need among African Americans he had not previously addressed.

“Psychological freedom, a firm sense of selfesteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery,” King wrote.

“The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation”

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Last Days & Legacy King returned to Memphis for the last time in early April. Addressing an audience at Bishop Charles J. Mason Temple on 3 April, King affirmed his optimism despite the “difficult days” that lay ahead. “But it really doesn’t matter with me now,” he declared,

“because I’ve been to the mountaintop [and] I’ve seen the Promised Land.” He continued, “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” The following evening the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. took place as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. A white segregationist, James Earl Ray, was later convicted of the crime.

After her husband’s death, Coretta Scott King established the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change (also known as the King Center) to promote Kingian concepts of nonviolent struggle. She also led the successful effort to honor her husband with a federally mandated King national holiday, which was first celebrated in 1986. Additionally, she and the King siblings successfully pursued a civil case in 1999 — King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators — in which the jury suggested that Dr. King’s assassination may have involved additional perpetrators beyond James Earl Ray.

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Today, Dr. King is considered to be one of the most important figures of the 20th century, not only for African-Americans but for all those seeking freedom, justice, equality and peace. His unique approach to the philosophy of nonviolent action stands as one of the most successful alternatives to the world’s ongoing struggle against violent conflict, and against structural injustice.

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At a press conference, King criticizes Chicago’s substandard Black schools and proposes education as a tool for attacking poverty.

King and his father, co-pastors of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, sit side by side. Moving back to Atlanta where he could share the pulpit and pastoral duties with his father, gave King more time to devote to his family and the battle for equality.

Ten days after the attack, a convalescent King cheerfully poses with his mother and his wife at a Harlem Hospital news conference. King told reporters he felt no ill will toward his attacker, Curry, who was later diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. She was committed to the hospital for the criminally insane.

Calling attention to the abysmal living conditions of Chicago’s poor and making a constructive effort to improve them, King and his wife join a group of activists in cleaning up a building in a west side ghetto. As they began to help tenants, King’s apartment became an unofficial clearinghouse for complaints and remedies, and it fostered the Movement to End Slums, which helped with repairs and assisted rent strikers against slimline slumlords.

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Dr. King greets members of his congregation outside Dexter Ave. Baptist Church.

King was profoundly shaken by Bloody Sunday, distraught that he hadn’t been there to bear witness. He met secretly in Montgomery with with other civil rights leaders to plan the strategy for ongoing campaign

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People from thirty states gathered to celebrate the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision declaring school segregation unconstitutional and to press for a civil rights bill.

From the back of his cruiser in Camden, his children along, getting a chance to go to work with their father, King emphasizes the sacrifices that were made to gain the precious right to vote.

While King was promoting his new book, a woman walked up to him and asked, “Are you Dr. King?” “Yes, I am, “ he said. She then drove a seveninch letter opener into his chest. A bystander daubs blood from King’s hand, which was also injured in the attack, as he waits for an ambulance to arrive.

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego

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Morning Service 10 : 45 a.m.

New Membership Orientation BTU 6 : 00 p.m.

Wednesday Eve Prayer Service 6 : 00 p.m.

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.

Pastor Dennis Hodges First Lady Deborah Hodges

Rev. Harvey L. Vaughn, III

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

Rev. Dr. Eugenio D. Raphael

St. Paul United Methodist Church

Bethel Baptist Church

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Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

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Wednesday Bible Study 10 : 00 a.m. & 6: 30 p.m.

Thursday Food Pantry 1: 30 pm to 3 : 30 pm.

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“Come Worship With Us”

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.

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

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Sunday School 9 : 00 a.m.

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

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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

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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 6: 00 p.m.

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13230 Pomerado Road Poway, CA 92064

2774 Sweetwater Springs Blvd.

Spring Valley, CA 91977

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Sunday Worship 10 : 00 a.m.

Sunday School 8 : 45 a.m.

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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.

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“Welcome to Praise City”

“It Takes Team Work to Make the Dream Work”

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Remembering the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King’s Speech to Youth -

“What Is In Your Life’s Blueprint?”

Courtesy of Walter Robinson

Six months before his assassination, Dr. King encouraged a room full of middle schoolers at Philadelphia’s Barratt Junior High School to be their best selves, no matter their status in life.

His words, recorded on October 26, 1968, still resonate today.

I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is in your life’s blueprint?

This is the most important and crucial period of your lives. What you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go.

Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.

Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.

I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life’s blueprint. Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own “somebodiness.”

Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Now, that means that you should not be ashamed of your color.

It is very unfortunate that in so many instances our society has placed a stigma on the Negro’s color. There are some negroes that are ashamed of themselves. Don’t be ashamed of your color, don’t be ashamed of your biological features. Somehow, you must be able to say in your own lives, and really believe it, “I am black and beautiful,” and believe it in the moment.

Secondly, in your life’s blueprint you must have as a basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You’re going to be deciding as the days, as the years

unfold what you will do in life — what your life’s work will be. Set out to do it well.

And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you– doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, “If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

This hasn’t always been true — but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don’t drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you’re forced to live in — stay in school.

And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job and do that job so well that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.

Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can’t be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

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Thommie Rozella

Otis Haywood

Flanagan-Jackson SUNRISE

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December 11, 1935

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December 27, 2018

December 22, 2018

OTIS HAYWOOD was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina on December 11, 1935 to the late Floyd and Martha Haywood. He was one of four children. He graduated from the class of 1954 from Carver High, Spartanburg.

Otis enlisted in the United States Navy in October 1954. After recruit training, he served in a myriad of duty assignments on the USS Bremerton, Krishna and O’Callahan, and the aircraft carriers USS Bennington, Oriskany and Coral Sea. He also completed a tour of duty on the Destroyer Squadron 17 staff and served one year in South Vietnam. During his Navy tour he attended and graduated from Compression gas/air conditioning and refrigeration service schools.

Otis retired in July 1974 as a Senior Chief Machinist Mate.

While stationed in San Diego, CA in 1959, Otis met and married Lilly Politte-Castille. To this union 2 children were welcomed, Oren Christopher and Yvonne. He was also blessed with 3 stepchildren, Robin Brooks, Gary Castille, and Greg Castille.

Never one to sit still, Otis began his second career with the University of California San Diego in the Engineering Department. After a combined 40 plus years of working, he retired in 1990. His goal was to spend quality time with his grandsons, Lawrence Otis and LeAnthony LaMarr. He regularly volunteered his time at Zamoro Elementary School where the boys were in attendance.

As early as 1975, Otis fellowshipped at Southeast Presbyterian Church, where he served on the Deacon and Usher Board, and was actively involved in the Men’s ministry. Otis was awarded Deacon of the Year in 2004. You would often find him working in the yard of the Church planting flowers, mowing the lawn and pruning trees.

Otis was perceptively kind, with a quietly gentle demeanor. He loved his family and he adored spending time tending to his yard.

On Saturday, December 22, 2018, Otis Haywood left to go home to be with his Lord. He was preceded in death by his infant son Oren Christopher, parents Floyd and Martha Haywood, sisters Zamora and Eula Mae, and his brother Glen.

He is survived by his wife, Lilly, daughter Yvonne (Claude) and grandchildren Lawrence Otis of San Diego, CA and LeAnthony LaMarr of Tacoma, WA; as well as stepchildren, Robin Brooks, Gary Castille and Gregory Castille, and a host of nieces and nephews.

“Those we love never truly leave us, There are things that death cannot touch.” ―

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January 8, 1935

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December 28, 2018

SERVICES WERE HELD AT BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH; INTERMENT AT GREENWOOD MEMORIAL PARK. FINAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY.

GRAVESIDE SERVICE WAS HELD AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY. FINAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY.

THOMMIE ROZELIA FLANAGAN-JACKSON was the fifth of eleven children born to Wash and Mable Henderson in Brenham, Texas.

She was educated in Washington and Brenham, Texas public schools.

She accepted Christ as her personal Savior at an early age and joined the Post Oak Missionary Baptist Church in her hometown. She soon realized that she had an exceptional gift for working with hair. Having an entrepreneurial spirit, she turned her talent into an after-school job and began doing the hair of many of the teachers who lived in Brenham.

ANDREW (LEON) DOXEY was the 7th child born to the uniom of Murry and Johnnie Bell Doxey, on January 8, 1935 in Ripley, Mississippi. The family moved to San Diego in 1944 and united with Bethel Baptist Church under the leadership of Dr. C.H. Hampton.Leon received his formal education at Stockton Elementary, Memorial Jr. High and graduated from San Diego High

Upon graduating from Pickard High School, she married and moved to San Diego, California where she purchased Crystal’s Beauty Salon and began her career as a certified cosmetologist. Rozelia was one of the most celebrated and beloved beauticians in her community due to her welcoming personality and her amazing ability to “press”, curl, and style, amongst many other hairdressing services. On her days off, she went to modeling school and began modeling for Bullocks and Walker Scott Clothing Stores. She was one of the first black models to be recruited by Everette’s School of Modeling and Charm located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and later became one of their teachers. . Upon receiving a degree in Child Development from San Diego State University, she was hired at Baker Elementary School and for a period of 16 years divided her time between the school and her beauty salon.

Rozelia served with numerous organizations inculding Xi Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi Pi Omega Sorority and Fraternity Inc. and was an active member of the Usher Board at Bethel Baptist Church in San Diego.

On December 9, 2006, Rozelia was joined in holy matrimony to John D. Jackson. She would frequently refer to him as the best man that she had ever had in her life. He remained the love of her life until her passing.

She will be remembered for her “impeccable” fashion sense, her tireless service to her community, and most importantly, her dedication to the word of God. She exemplified His light in the way that she gave aide and council to those in need of prayer, food, or assistance turning away from substance abuse. She will also be remembered for making a positive difference in the lives of so many, by helping them to see their worth and potential.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers; Hosea, Bennie, John, Wash Jr., Leon and sisters; Edna, Arrolue, Jeraldine, Bernice, and Ozell.

On Thursday, December 27, 2018. Thommie Rozelia Flanagan-Jackson was called home to Glory. She leaves to cherish her memory: husband, John D. Jackson niece, Dianette (Jeffery) Ricks; niece, Myesha (Keith) Baham; nephew, Victor (Naomi) Saxton; Lavern (Darrell) Smith; nieces Wendy Freeman and Vershawn Saxton; Step-daughter, Anita (Thomas) Chestney; and a host of nieces and nephews, relatives and friends.

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School in 1954. Leon was known throughout his school years as a talented and accomplished athlete. Track and Field being one of hislfavorite sports. He excelled in Pole Vaulting where he gained his early experience pole vaulting over the family clothes line. He became a citywide champion in SCIF. 13’1 being his highest jump record during school competitions. Soon after high school in 1954, Leon joined and served in the U.S. Army from 1954-1956. Leon met Gladys M. Crumble the love of his life in 1959. They were joined in holy matrimony on August 1, 1960 and were blessed with 6 children. A year prior to his marriage, 1959 Leon started his employment with the City of San Diego Sanitation Division. Retiring after 31 years of service in 1990.

Leon was a very proud man. His family and the family unit was his priority. He had an infectious sense of humor, a Doxey trait. Leon was a protector, provider, a mentor to many, “A Man’s Man” affectionately known as “Papa” and “Pops”.

On December 28, 2018 at 5:20 am, the Lord called Leon Home to rest.

Waiting to greet him was his loving wife Gladys, his oldest son Leon Doxey Jr., “Teeder” Todd Doxey Jr., his beloved parents Murry and Johnnie Bell Doxey, his sisters Vella, Dorothy, Cleo, Molly, Jean and Wordia. Brothers Murry, Dennis and Willie Bell Charles Doxey. Left on earth to cherish his memory and spread his spirit, his brother Konota (Otis) Doxey, Lateefah of Altadena, CA. Son’s Todd, Wade and Leon Ill (Jeannine). Daughters Wanda Henderson (Terry), Yvette Doxey and Tanya Anderson (Paul) of San Diego, CA. Seventeen grandchildren and at least 25 great-grandchildren. A host of family and friends to mourn his home going and cherish his memory.

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us”. – Helen Keller

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Walter Thomas Sr,

Mary Edna Waddell

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MARY EDNA (GIBSON) WADDELL also known as “Edna” was born October 27, 1937 in Scott Mississippi to Thomas Gibson and Priscilla Graham. She was the youngest of two children. As a young girl, Edna gained a loving stepfather named Lonnie Thrift. Edna endearingly referred to him as “Mr. Lonnie” and she felt so very blessed that he embraced and cared for her as his own. In later years, Edna’s mother enlarged the family with an adopted brother Jerry Thrift. He was welcomed into the family with open arms.

WALTER THOMAS, JR., the first of eleven children born to Leana Mitchell Thomas and Walter Thomas, Sr. Walter was born on September 15, 1935.

Born to Edna and Arthur’s union were seven children. Edna was a strong woman, as she had to endure the pain of losing children before she left this earth. She lost two babies shortly after their birth, her beloved son William who died later in life, and in January 2018, her brother-in-law Washington who she helped raise as a child of her own. Edna joyfully expressed and demonstrated an undying love and devotion to her children and grandchildren. Family was the essence of her heart.

Edna had a heart of gold, always so open, kind and loving to anyone she met. In her eyes, all friends and acquaintances were family deserving to be welcomed into her heart and home. Edna had a very outgoing, animated, and free-spirited personality. She loved watching football and was a diehard Raiders fan. She was also passionate about bowling for many years on the Aloha Vegas Bowling League.

She had a great flair and style for dressing. Edna always took pride in her appearance and she dressed to impress.

Nursing was another one of Edna’s passions. She pursued training and earned her Practical Nursing License. Edna worked in the nursing field for a while. She learned a lot about caring for her patients and enjoyed working with them to improve their health. In 1977, Edna trained in Electronic Assembly and was hired at Linkabit. She remained there until she retired in 1990. After this time, she went back to her most favorite job of being a housewife.

Even though he became sightless, Walter was never handicapped. Walter had a full and complete life.

Walter accepted Jesus Christ when he was a young man, and was baptized in the Mighty Mississippi River in Saint Elmo, LA as a member of Saint Peter’s Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Issaic Barnes.

Walter was educated at Marchion School, Lowery High School in Hillaryville, LA, and at Southern University School for the Blind in Baton Rouge, LA. Walter met and married his first wife Zelda, and to that union was born a son, Freddie Anthony Thomas, and sisters: Paulette Oliver, Terrie Thomas, and Christy Carter.

After his divorce, Walter later met and married Dorothy Thomas, and they were married for fifty-four years, and had no children. They moved from New Orleans, LA to San Diego, CA and they joined Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church. He was Chairman of the Deacon Board for many years, a singing and prayer warrior to all sick and shut-ins.

When he joined Pilgrim, he brought that same fire he had at Saint Peter’s, that is what caused him to hit the ground in San Diego running for Jesus, and he never stopped.

Walter was born at a time when injustice and segregation was the order of the day. As a young lad, he rode in a horse drawn wagon, helped to cut down trees so the family had wood to burn when cold.

Well, Walter has gone to rest now with Jesus, and every day now will be sweeter.

Walter leaves to celebrate his home going his beautiful, loyal, and dedicated wife Dorothy Thomas; son Freddie & Beatrice daughters Paulett Oliver, Terrie Thomas, and Christy Carter; grandchildren; brothers Rev. Larry Thomas/Shirley, Stockton, CA. Murray/Natasha Thomas, Avondale, LA, Charles Adam Thomas, Stockton, CA, and William Patterson, Wallace Mitchell, Eric Thomas, and Calvin Thomas all of Louisiana; sisters Audrey Montgomery Ellzey, Victorville, CA, Kathrine Mitchell, Victorville, CA, Augustine Thomas, New Orleans, LA, Shirley Ann Rousselle, San Diego, Alma Lee Thomas, Houston, TX, Joyce Dillion, Houston, TX; and Alpha Thomas, Mable White, Letha Miller, all of Louisiana. His exwife Zelda (mother of his children), and a host of uncles, aunts, cousins, special friends, Pilgrim Progressive members, and Rev. Ralph Smith.

On December 25, 2018, with immediate family at her bedside, Edna went into the loving hands of our Heavenly Father. To cherish her lifelong memories, she leaves her devoted husband Arthur E. Waddell; four children: Anita Walker, Monica Waddell-Palacios, Arthur Waddell, and Maurice Waddell; six grandchildren: Keyawn Settles, Rakeem Irvin, Justine Waddell, Shawntavia Walker, Jamonte Waddell, and Shamar Walker; one great grandchild: Marie Settles; brother-inlaw: Ceola Waddell; sister-in-law: Diane Waddell; daughter-in-law: Beauty Waddell; nephews: Washington R. Waddell, Tony Gibson, Michael Gibson, Kevin Gibson, and Stevie Gibson; niece: Diane D. Waddell; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.— Anonymous

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December 17, 2018

December 25, 2018

On March 17, 1955, Mary Edna and Arthur Eugene united in holy matrimony. During Arthur’s service in the Air Force, they shared 20 years of traveling together to special places around the world such as Alaska, Turkey, and Goose Bay Labrador Canada. They settled in San Diego California in 1974.

June 12, 1950

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As a young child, Edna would travel from Chicago to Memphis Tennessee every summer to visit her grandmother. Little did she know that there was a young man named Arthur Eugene who admired her from afar. He would ride around on his bicycle named “Sally Ann” and try to get her attention. He finally got the courage to talk to her.

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September 15, 1935

October 27, 1937

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Kathleen Mitchell-Operin

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Edna accepted Jesus Christ at a very young age in Chicago Illinois.

She was baptized at a church in Chicago and lived with a faithful love for God. Edna truly enjoyed attending church. It gave her great joy listening to the church choir and being an active member of the congregation. She was afforded the opportunity to travel around the world and attended many different churches. This was a blessing that facilitated her ability to grow in the word of God.

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December 9, 2018 FINAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE ENTRUSTED TO PREFERRED CREAMATION & BURIAL.

KATHLEEN MITCHELL-OPERIN, was born on June 12, 1950 to parents Ernestine and Frazier Lee Mitchell.

Kathleen was known to her OG friends as Kat, to others as Hershey, and all of her grandchildren friends as G. Seven siblings., Margarite, (preceded her in death). Claudette Muhammad, Patricia Edwards, Linda Walker Faye Baker, Travis Johnson, and Rixner Johnson.

Two children. son William Operin(preceded her in death). daughter: Monyette Jenkins, son-in-law, Mark Jenkins, Sr., and a daughter -in-law Deirdra Bush.

Nine grandchildren. Ahmad Swinton II (Lashell Lopez), Kareem Swinton (Kerlie Rangle) Josiah Operin, Anthony Bush, Diane (Wookie) Jenkins, Mark Jenkins, Jr., Anthony Jenkins, Markayla Jenkins, Melisha Fisher, and several grand and great-grandchildren.

Education: Stockton Elementary, O’Farrell Middle and Lincoln High School. Nusrsing School, LVN. She loved the Lord and loved going to church. Her favorite time of the year was Christmas. This year she will be spending her Christmas withe the King. She adored her great-grandchildren. They were her pride and joy. One of the things she loved most was to have all of children together with her in the same house at the same time. Mom was a true soldier she endured some health issues for quite some time. However, she endured and perservered and continued to smile and managed to keep all of us on our toes. She always had a word for the wise. She will be missed by all who knew her. We love you Mother.

“If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back.”

Prince

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In the Boy Scouts of America, the highest achievement or rank that one can attain is the designation of Eagle Scout and reaching that accomplishment is not an easy task.

The Eagle Scout designation is highly respected because only 4 percent of all Boy Scouts are ever granted this prestigious rank after fulfilling the many years of requirements that must be achieved. On Saturday, January 5th, twelve African American

young men reached the ultimate milestone of being awarded the Eagle Scout distinction.

Shane Bennett, Dameion Crook II, Dylan Gaines, Kyle Gaines, Chandler Green, Daniel Hinton, Marshall Hudson, Marcellus Jordan III, Eron Lord, Eric Sims, Asa Singleton and Benjamin White are all a part of Boy Scout Troop 242, a historic troop located at Wheeler Ave Baptist Church.

Boy Scout Troop 242, led by Scoutmaster Dameion Crook, Sr., presented the 12 African American Eagle Scouts during the Eagle Court of Honor ceremony that was held at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. His son was one of the newest Eagle Scouts, which is the cherry on the top of Scoutmaster Crook’s two years leading Boy Scout Troop 242.

“This event marks a tremendous milestone in the history of our troop,” said Scoutmaster Crook. “We have a long tradition of creating Eagle Scouts and to have these 12 young men complete the Boy Scouts of America program is a testament to our legacy and our scouting program.”

Twelve Eagles at one time is pretty much unheard of for any troop and definitely for an African American troop like Troop 242. All 12 of these young men have had their “eye on Eagle” through years of hard work, fulfilling their obligations with more than just the minimum obligations required for the honor to be called an Eagle Scout.

Shane Bennett, Dameion Crook II, Dylan Gaines, Kyle Gaines, Chandler Green, Daniel Hinton, Marshall Hudson, Marcellus Jordan III, Eron Lord, Eric Sims, Asa Singleton and Benjamin White are all a part of Boy Scout Troop 242, a historic troop located at Wheeler Ave Baptist Church.

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This group of talented young men not only achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, they did so in historic and memorable fashion.

The Boy Scouts requires a minimum of 21 merit badges, but most of these Eagles have more than 30 merit badges. Only through planning and carrying out a community service project, coupled with demonstrated leadership in and out of the Troop, can a scout who lives the scout oath be considered for an Eagle Board of Review that consists of the District and Council representatives from the Boy Scouts. All of these things must be done before the Scout turns 18.

Although the average age for attaining the rank is 17.5 years old, at least five (5) of these new Eagle Scouts fulfilled the commitment before turning 16.

These young men have gone beyond their Troop and have represented scouting locally, regionally, nationally and internationally in various endeavors such as Order of the Arrow (scouting’s Honor Society), National Youth Leadership Training (premier leadership training for Scouts), participating in the Philmont Trek, representing Troop 242 in Switzerland, etc.

Often overlooked by families seeking to engage their sons in meaningful, positive activities, the Boy Scouts have proven to be an old, but tried and true method that has not lost its effectiveness. These twelve young men have taken full advantage of all that the scouting world has to offer.

Troop 242 and the parents of these young men should be extremely proud of their accomplishments and dedication.

We look forward to all they will achieve in the future.

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Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 19, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on December 19, 2023 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000655 Fictitious business name: STAR SMOG CHECK CHULA VISTA Located at: 1088 Broadway #A San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Star Station Smog Check, Inc. 7407 N. Judson St. San Diego, CA 92111 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 8, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 8, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000781 Fictitious business name: POSITIVE CHOICE HOMECARE REFERRAL AGENCY, LLC Located at: 7614 Lemon Ave., Ste. B San Diego, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 3/21/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Positive Choice Homecare Referral Agency, LLC 7614 Lemon Ave., Ste. B San Diego, CA 91945 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 9, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 9, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031138 Fictitious business name: SOWING SEEDS CHELLE'S CULINARY SERVICES Located at: 264 Elvado Way San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 11/20/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Michelle E. White 264 Elvado Way San Diego, CA 92114 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 20, 2018

This fictitious business name will expire on December 20, 2023 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000780 Fictitious business name: ALWAYS BRIGHT HOMECARE CALIFORNIA CARE CALIFORNIA SENIOR CARE CALIFORNIA SENIOR CARE & PLACEMENT Located at: 280 K St. 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 this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Jeannine Arnetta Nash 280 K St. Chula Vista, CA 91911 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 9, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 9, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000834 Fictitious business name: VIRYA CONSULTANTS Located at: 11226 Vandemen Way San Diego, CA 92131 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Madu R. Penugonda 11226 Vandemen Way San Diego, CA 92131 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 10, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 10, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000833 Fictitious business name: ALANKRITA CREATIONS Located at: 11226 Vandemen Way San Diego, CA 92131 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

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NEMOVI LAW GROUP Located at: 722 Via Cafetal San Marcos, CA 92069 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/01/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Genail M. Anderson 722 Via Cafetal San Marcos, CA 92069 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 14, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 14, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000934 Fictitious business name: KINGS TOUCH Located at: 3241 Vista Matamo El Cajon, CA 92019 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Leoncio Moises Gonzalez Iniguez 3241 Vista Matamo El Cajon, CA 92019 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 10, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 10, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000619 Fictitious business name: MARIAH'S VISITATION Located at: 7676 Madison Ave., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Linda Mariah Brown 7676 Madison Ave., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 8, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 8, 2024 1/17, 1/24, 1/31,2/7 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000162 Fictitious business name: CAZUMBI GLOBAL Located at: 5257 Barstow Street San Diego, CA 92117 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 1/02/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Almir Costa Campos 5257 Barstow Street San Diego, CA 92117 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 3, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 3, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000170 Fictitious business name: KUTZ UP BARBERSHOP KUTZ UP BARBERSHOP SD KUTZ UP Located at: 8127 1/2 Broadway Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Branden Lee Hall 8127 1/2 Broadway San Diego, CA 91945

This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 3, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 3, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000165 Fictitious business name: SCHOOL DESK BEATS Located at: 272 Rancho Court Unit C, Chula Vista CA 91911 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: Co-Partners The first day of business was 12/3/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Jonte Jermond Shorter 508 N. 3rd Street, Apt. 5 El Cajon, CA 92019 William Anthony Downs 272 Rancho Court Unit C, Chula Vista CA 91911 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 3, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 3, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031168 Fictitious business name: PLUG MART 619 Located at: 2930 Barnard St. #4303 San Diego , CA 92110 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/20/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Aashantaa Tessier Lowe 2930 Barnard St. #4303 San Diego , CA 92110 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 20, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 20, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000404 Fictitious business name: ASSOCIATE HOME CARE Located at: 3333 Chamoune Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 2/01/2011 This business is hereby registered by the following: Alexander V. Lim 3333 Chamoune Ave San Diego, CA 92105 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 7, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on January 7, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031631 Fictitious business name: DJ FINESSE Located at: 3669 Calavo Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/23/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Demark Williams 3669 Calavo Dr. Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 27, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 27, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ------------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000357 Fictitious business name: JOYOUS HAVEN Located at: 15260 Socorro Way San Diego, CA 92129

County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Jaclyn M. Erwin 15260 Socorro Way San Diego, CA 92129 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 4, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on January 4, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000399 Fictitious business name: IMPERIAL BEACH NOTARY Located at: 317 Imperial Beach Blvd, Apt. D Imperial Beach, CA 91932 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Jose, Delio, Bacalski 317 Imperial Beach Blvd., Apt. D This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 7, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on January 7, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000397 Fictitious business name: ALLIED SUPPORT SERVICE GROUP Located at: 1029 Hawthorne Creek Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91914 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Troy Owens 1029 Hawthorne Creek Dr., Chula Vista, CA 91914 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 7, 2019.

This fictitious business name will expire on January 7, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9030966 Fictitious business name: SAN DIEGO ESQUIRE Located at: 8880 Rio San Diego Dr. San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 1/01/13 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kymeshia Morris 4064 Huerfano Ave. San Diego, CA 92117 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 19, 2018.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 19, 2023 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000530 Fictitious business name: MY3NYS Located at: 3412 Olga Ave. San Diego, CA 92123 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Natashia Anne Lawrence 3412 Olga Ave. San Diego, CA 92123 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 8, 2019 This fictitious busi-

ness name will expire on January 8, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31

will expire on December 28, 2023 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031747 Fictitious business name: ARI WORKS ADVANCE REENTRY INITIATIVE Located at: 5628 Zircon Street San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 12/28/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Bridget Burden 3828 Settineri Lane Spring Valley, CA 91977 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 28, 2018.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 28, 2023 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 -------------------------------------

-----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9000614 Fictitious business name: VALLEY LANDSCAPING SERVICE Located at: 1691 Colfax Dr., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 10/12/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Abram Torres Torres 1691 Colfax Dr., Lemon Grove, CA 91945 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on January 8, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on January 8, 2024 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031359 Fictitious business name: GERMAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION GERMAN CURRENTS FILM FESTIVAL SAN DIEGO Located at: 1620 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 550 San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: German American San Diego Foundation 1620 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 550 San Diego, CA 92101 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 24, 2018.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 24, 2023 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9030813 Fictitious business name: SD ENGINEERING SAN DIEGO ENGINEERING Located at: 3526 Doverview Ct. San Diego, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A General Partnership The first day of business was: 11/1/90 This business is hereby registered by the following: Trent Burdeno 3526 Doverview Ct. Spring Valley, CA 91977 Gary Sniffin 26 Cormier Dr. Rochester, NH 03867 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 18, 2018.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 18, 2023 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9031781 Fictitious business name: NEVERBEENSQUARE NEVER BEEN SQUARE NEVER BEEN A SQUARE NVBS NVBAS NEVERBEENAMARK NEVER BEEN A MARK NVBAM NEVERBEENASQUARE Located at: 3415 Lou Street National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Melissa Moses 3415 Lou Street National City, CA 91950 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 28, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2018-9030176 Fictitious business name: SEVYN & CO Located at: 1559 Altadena Ave San Diego, CA County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under this name above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Jalysa Monee DePriest 535 28th Street San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 10, 2018.

This fictitious business name will expire on December 10, 2023 12/27, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 -----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-000002329CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Mark Darulis TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Mark Darulis filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Mark Darulis PROPOSED NAME: Mark Davis THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 28, 2019 Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101.

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county,Voice & Viewpoint.

1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7 ----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2018-00065233CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Zachary Thomas Cano-Thompson TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Zachary Thomas Cano-Thompson filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Zachary Thomas Cano-Thompson PROPOSED NAME:

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PLAN matter shall appear before this court hearing to show PUBLIC NOTICE THE COURT ORDERS that cause, if any, why the peThe San Diego Housing all persons interested in this tition for change of name Commission (SDHC) is somatter shall appear before this should not be granted: liciting public comment on court hearing to show cause, NOTICE OF HEARING its Moving to Work (MTW) if any, why the petition for Date: January 17, 2019 Fiscal Year 2020 (July 1, change of name should not be Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, 2019 – June 30, 2020) Angranted: The address of the court is: nual Plan. The proposed plan NOTICE OF HEARING 1100 Union Street will be available for review Date: February 21, 2019 San Diego, CA 92101. on SDHC’s website, www.

Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, A copy of this sdhc.org beginning on JanuThe address of the court is: Order to Show Cause shall ary 31, 2019. Comments 1100 Union Street be published at least once must be submitted by 5 p.m.

San Diego, CA 92101. each week for four on March 6, 2019, to be conA copy of this successive weeks prior to the sidered by SDHC staff and Order to Show Cause shall be date set for hearing on the decision-making authorities published at least once each petition in the following in their final review of the week for four newspaper of general proposed plan. Please submit successive weeks prior to the circulation, printed in this written comments by mail date set for hearing on the county,Voice & Viewpoint. to: Suket Dayal/Moving Forpetition in the following 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24 ward, San Diego Housing newspaper of general ----------------------------------Commission, 1122 Broadway, circulation, printed in this Suite 300, San Diego, CA county,Voice & Viewpoint.

92101, or email your comPROBATES 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 ments to Suketd@sdhc.org ----------------------------------NOTICE OF SUBJECT PETITION TO NAME CHANGE In its MTW Fiscal Year 2020 ADMINISTER Annual Plan, SDHC describes ESTATE OF activities intended to increase California County of Aaron Taylor programmatic efficiencies, San Diego Case Number: support self-sufficiency en330 W. Broadway 37-2018-00060429-PR-PWdeavors for rental assistance San Diego, CA 92101 CTL participants, and expand hous37-2019-00000799To all heirs, beneficiaries, ing choice options for houseCU-PT-CTL creditors, contingent holds with low-income and/or Petitioner or Attorney: creditors, and persons who experiencing homelessness in Raymond Scott Dibble may otherwise be San Diego.

TO ALL INTERESTED interested in the will or PERSONS: estate, or both, of SDHC is soliciting public Raymond Scott Dibble AARON TAYLOR comment on these planned filed a petition with this court programmatic activities for for decree changing name as A PETITION FOR Fiscal Year 2020. follows: PROBATE has been filed by PUBLIC HEARING PRESENT NAME: MADELINE SDHC will hold a public hearRaymond Scott Dibble GOODEN-TAYLOR ing on the proposed MTW FisPetitioner, in the Superior cal Year 2020 Annual Plan on PROPOSED NAME: Court of California, County Monday, February 4, 2019, at Raymond Scott Mullin of San Diego.

9 a.m. at the SDHC AchieveTHE PETITION FOR ment Academy, 1045 11th AvTHE COURT ORDERS that PROBATE enue, San Diego, CA 92101. all persons interested in this requests that matter shall appear before this MADELINE court hearing to show cause, GOODEN-TAYLOR REQUEST FOR if any, why the petition for be appointed as personal PROPOSALS change of name should not be representative to granted: administer the estate of the REQUEST FOR NOTICE OF HEARING decedent.

PROPOSALS (RFP) Date: March 7, 2019 THE PETITION San Diego Housing Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, requests authority to Commission The address of the court is: administer the estate under RFP HHI-19-13 Nonprof1100 Union Street the Independent it Organizations to Operate San Diego, CA 92101.

Administration of Estates Transitional Housing for the A copy of this Act. (This authority will Homeless Order to Show Cause shall be allow the personal published at least once each representative to take many The San Diego Housing week for four actions without obtainCommission (SDHC) is acsuccessive weeks prior to the ing court approval. Before cepting proposals from qualidate set for hearing on the taking fied nonprofit organizations petition in the following certain very important to operate transitional housnewspaper of general actions, however, the pering for the homeless. An RFP circulation, printed in this sonal representative will be packet with complete instruccounty,Voice & Viewpoint. required to give notice to tions is available for down1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31 interested persons unless load at the Commission’s ----------------------------------they have waived notice or eBidding platform, PlanetCalifornia County of consented to the proposed Bids, at https://www.planSan Diego action.) The independent etbids.com/portal/portal.

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San Diego, CA 92101 authority will be granted 37-2018-00061763unless an interested person A non-mandatory pre-proposal CU-PT-CTL files an objection to the meeting will be conducted on Petitioner or Attorney: petition and shows good January 25, 2019 at 11:00am Christopher Henry Brady on cause why the court shouldat the SDHC office below. Probehalf of Christopher Colton not grant the authority. posals will be received until Mailloux-Brady, minor A HEARING February 8, 2019 by 2:00pm TO ALL INTERESTED on the petition will be held (Pacific Standard Time) at PERSONS: at the following court on the below address. LATE hristopher Henry Brady on PROPOSALS WILL NOT behalf of Christopher Colton January 29, 2019 at BE ACCEPTED. Mailloux-Brady, minor 11:00 a.m. in filed a petition with this court Department 504 San Diego Housing for decree changing name as located in Commission follows: Superior Court of 1122 Broadway, Suite 300 California 1100 Union St. San Diego, California 92101 PRESENT NAME: San Diego, CA 92101.

Contact: Tung Nguyen, Christopher Colton IF YOU OBJECT to the Mailloux-Brady granting of the petition, you 619.578.7561 tungn@sdhc.org should appear at the hearing PROPOSED NAME: and state your objections or Christopher Colton Brady file written objections with the court before the hearing.

THE COURT ORDERS that Your appearance may be in all persons interested in this person or by your attorney. matter shall appear before this IF YOU ARE A court hearing to show cause, CREDITOR if any, why the petition for or a contingent change of name should not be creditor of the decedent, you granted: must file your claim with the NOTICE OF HEARING court and mail a copy to the Date: January 31, 2019 personal representative Time: 9:00 A.M. appointed by the court withDept. C-903, in four months from the date The address of the court is: of first issuance of letters as 1100 Union Street provided in Probate Code San Diego, CA 92101. section 9052. The time for A copy of this filing claims will not expire Order to Show Cause shall be before four months from the published at least once each hearing date noticed above. week for four YOU MAY EXAMINE successive weeks prior to the the file kept by the Court. If date set for hearing on the you are a person interested petition in the following in the estate, you may file newspaper of general with the court a circulation, printed in this Request for Special Notice county,Voice & Viewpoint. (form DE-154) of the fill12/27, 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 ing of an inventory and ap----------------------------------- praisal of estate assets or any California County of petition or account as proSan Diego vided in 330 W. Broadway Probate Code San Diego, CA 92101 section 1250. A Request for 37-2018-00057758Special Notice form is availCU-PT-CTL able from the court clerk.

Petitioner or Attorney: Attorney for petitioner: Eva Maria Martinez Tenorio John A. Finley on behalf of Martinez, minor PO BOX 13324 TO ALL INTERESTED San Diego CA 92170 PERSONS: (619)892-1138 Eva Mana Martinez Tenorio 1/3, 1/10, 1/17 on behalf of Martinez, minor ---------------------------------filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as PUBLIC NOTICE follows: Zachary Thomas Thompson

Fictitious Business Name: $25.00 (4 weeks) Name Change: $85.00 (4 weeks)

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PRESENT NAME: Martinez PROPOSED NAME: Tyler Howard Berger Martinez THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

Dates of Public Notice: January 17, 2019 and January 24, 2019 PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE SAN DIEGO HOUSING COMMISSION MOVING TO WORK FISCAL YEAR 2020

Summons: $130.00 (4 weeks)

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Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services for: INSTALLATION OF DISTRICT FURNISHED MODULAR FABRICATION LAB AND ADDITIONAL SITE WORK AT PREUSS CHARTER SCHOOL A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on JANUARY 24, 2019 in front of the main office of Preuss Charter School, 3750 Voigt Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CZ190618-23). All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on FEBRUARY 7, 2019, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Under Public Contract Code 3400, the District has made a finding that the following particular materials, products, things, or services are designated by specific brand or trade name in order to match other products in use on the particular public improvement either completed or in the course of completion: • Specification Section 28 31 11 Digital Addressable Fire Alarm and Voice Evacuation System The project estimate is between $375,000 and $400,000. This is not a PSA project and does not require prequalification. The District requires that Bidders possess any of the following classification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), valid and in good standing, at the time of bid opening and contract award: B. All late bids shall be deemed non-responsive and not opened. Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, conditions, plans, specifications and any other documents that comprise the bid package. The Bid and Contract Documents are available in three formats, hard copy, CD, or online from PlanWell. Hard copy bid documents are available at Crisp Imaging, 4920 Carroll Canyon Rd., San Diego, CA 92121, phone number 858-535-0607, for a refundable payment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s are available for a non-refundable charge of $50. Payments shall be made by check payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and Contract Documents is refundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if the Bid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, are returned intact and in good order to Crisp Imaging within ten (10) days of the issuance of the Final Bid Tabulation. Online documents are available for download on PlanWell through Crisp Imaging. Go to www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD (Questions? 949-285-3171). All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by the District in the bid package beginning January 15, 2019. Bid packages will not be faxed. SENATE BILL (SB) 854 REQUIREMENTS: Effective July 1, 2014, no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal, or awarded a contract for a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code §1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code §1771.1(a)]. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Prime contractors must add the DIR Registration Number for each of their listed subcontractors to the Subcontractors List AND submit a certificate of registration for their own firm and those of their listed subcontractors upon request by the District. Failure of the bidding prime contractor to list their subcontractors DIR Registration Number on the Subcontractors List at time of bid may result in rejection of their bid as non-responsive. Refer to the following DIR Website for further information: www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html. PREVAILING WAGES: Prevailing wage requirements apply to all public works projects and must be followed per Article 17 of the General Conditions of this bid. DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Service Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May 10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required to satisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at least three percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with this Program, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumerated in the bid package. Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bid package and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid security in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder and Surety Company, or a certified or cashier's check in favor of the San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall be given to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract as specified, within five (5) working days of notification by the District.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120 days after the date set for the opening of bids. For information regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5822.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Andrea O’Hara, M.A. Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Officer, Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Dept.

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have, yet CBS News hasn’t assigned a single Black journalist to cover the 2020 election.”

Actress Kerry Washington also expressed her disappointment. In a note that was re-tweeted

by National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Washington wrote: “Dear @CBSNews, I am encouraged by the diversity you DID include. But when it comes time to discuss the inevitable role that race and racism will play in the election, who will you turn to for a perspective with nuanced & personal understanding of the African American experience?”

Christopher Isham, CBS News’ Washington bureau chief, called the new group “our boots on the ground for the 2019-2020 election cycle” in announcing an increase in politicallyfocused reporters and newsgathering resources for the upcoming presidential race.

The unit is designed to deepen CBS News’ coverage of federal and local issues and personalities on the 2020 trail, according to Variety.

CBS News noted that the embed team represented only a portion of its broader election coverage plans. Lorna Jones, who is African-American, was promoted last month to the role of managing editor for Washington news coverage, Variety reported.

And the division has long maintained other prominent African-American women in senior management roles, according to the entertainment magazine.

“This group is the initial wave of what will be an outstanding and diverse group of journalists assigned to cover the 2020 election for CBS News,” a CBS News spokesperson said Sunday night.

“Nobody’s at the switch at CBS,” said Sam Fulwood III, a black journalist at Think Progress. “So, folks think absence of black journalists is ok.” composed of eight 2020 campaign reporters and four associate producers, including himself.

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that we are always treated with suspicion.

How that suspicion is realized can determine whether that interaction ends violently or peacefully.

When the white security guards at the DoubleTree called the police on Massey they were—to give them the benefit of the doubt—ignoring history and ignoring the potential consequences should, for instance, Massey have gotten into an argument with the police about a potential violation of his rights. Since there was no indication that Massey was armed and dangerous, a confrontation could have been very one-sided leading to injury or death for the Black man.

This phenomenon of whites calling law enforcement on blacks due to their own unease, i.e., racist unease, represents a resort to implied violence to both ensure that we remain in our place and to ensure that the comfort level of whites is retained.

This, therefore, is a political struggle that we must engage. If one pulls a fire alarm for the thrill, one pays a price.

There must be a substantial price paid by these racists who choose to call the police when there is absolutely no evidence of a crime, intended or otherwise. My guess is that if these racists had to pay the cost of the deployment of the police plus an additional penalty, they would think twice before putting our lives in danger since, after all, these are the actions of cowards. of TransAfrica Forum. He is the author of new murder/mystery The Man Who Fell From the Sky.

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5 Facts About The “I Have A Dream” Speech Source: Constitutioncenter.org

56 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech as part of the March on Washington.

The speech was delivered to an estimated 250,000 people who came to Washington, D.C., to march for civil rights.

The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Here are 5 basic facts about the March and the events leading up to Dr. King’s speech.

1. The official event was named the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy made a nationally televised address calling for a drive for more civil rights. That same night, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi.

2. Marches had been proposed before the Kennedy speech and Evers’ killing, but those events forced the issue. Kennedy met with civil rights leaders Dr. King, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young and student leader John Lewis about a proposed march.

Kennedy signaled his approval publicly in July when he was assured it would be a peaceful event.

3. The March was not universally supported by activists. One prominent objector was Malcolm X. The organizers also didn’t agree on all the issues, but they did agree that blacks and whites should march together at the event. Another prominent objector was Strom Thurmond.

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4. It wasn’t the first threatened March on Washington by civil rights leaders. In 1941, a march was being organized to demand desegregation in the U.S. military as World War II approached.

President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which banned discrimination in the federal government and defense industries in June 1941, which averted a march that may have involved 100,000 people.

5. Dr. King almost didn’t give the “I Have a Dream” part of the “I Have A Dream” speech. Singer Mahalia Jackson urged Dr. King to tell the audience “about the dream,” and Dr. King went into an improvised section of the speech.

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MAYOR KEVIN FAULCONER City of San Diego

DR. KING’S DREAM THAT ALL PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY IS ALIVE RIGHT HERE IN OUR CITY.

FAMILIES ARE CREATING LASTING MEMORIES AT NEW AND IMPROVED PARKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. ROADS ARE BEING REPAIRED AT A RECORD PACE. OPERATING HOURS AT LIBRARIES AND RECREATION CENTERS ARE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN A DECADE. WHEN MORE AND MORE SAN DIEGANS ARE WAKING UP TO A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS BETTER THAN JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, YOU CAN TELL THIS IS A BETTER SAN DIEGO FOR ALL.

WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH AS A COMMUNITY. BY WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE SAN DIEGO A CITY THAT REFLECTS DR. KING’S VISION – A PLACE OF EQUALITY AND INCLUSION FOR EVERYONE.