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SHIRLEY WEBER’S ETHNIC STUDIES BILL

CSU

IS NOW STATE LAW Gov. Newsom signed AB 1460 into law on Monday, Aug. 17.

On Tuesday evening, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill (AB) 1436.

The legislation now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee for review. If signed into law, the bill would prevent evictions for non-payment of rent and grant struggling property owners mortgage forbearance.

Jamie Burson of Fairfield, CA sits on the bed of her motel room on August 4, 2020. Burson has been living between her car and motels since being evicted in April. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Slowdowns at the post office have reportedly also resulted in seniors receiving their medications late and other important mail like social security checks. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to dismantle the United States Postal Service or revamp the agency in a way that has angered Democrats and others who said it’s a tactic to prevent mailin voting for the upcoming election.

The CARES Act passed in April authorized the postal service to borrow up to $10 billion from the Treasury Department for operating expenses if it’s determines that, due to the COVID-19 emergency, the post office would not fund operating expenses without borrowing money.

“They have withheld that money. They have broken the law,” Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass told BlackPressUSA during a livestream interview last month. Other Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Rep. Bobby Scott See USPS page 15

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Fair Housing Still a Distant Journey for Black America

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

AB 1436 calls for preventing the eviction of tenants who missed rent payments during

HOMEOWNERSHIP FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS BY STATE

By Trice Edney Wire

Assemblymember Shirley Weber during a floor session on June 10, 2020. Weber’s bill, AB 1460, was signed into Monday, August 17 making ethnic studies courses a requirement at CSU. Photo: a79.asmdc.org/

By Joe W. Bowers Jr. CBM

The new state law requires California State University (CSU), the nation’s largest four-year public university system, to provide courses in Ethnic studies at each of its 23 campuses beginning with the 2021– 22 academic year and requires CSU students to take a 3-credit course in Ethnic studies in order to graduate beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders in a swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling for fair housing to be supported and HUD’s replacement rule be rescinded.

The bill was introduced last year by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), professor emeritus of Africana studies at San Diego State, on behalf of the California Faculty Association (CFA)

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California Voters to Decide Whether Parolees Allowed to Vote

By Quinci LeGardye California Black Media

In November, Californians will vote on a proposition that could expand voting rights to include parolees.

If passed, Proposition 17, which passed the State Senate as ACA 6 June 24, would amend the state constitution so that any otherwise eligible person who is not currently incarcerated can vote.

The current law in California prohibits previously incarcerated persons from voting while on parole, though they can vote while on probation, county Post-Release Community Supervision and federal supervised release. Allowing parolees to vote would enfranchise over 40,000 Californians currently on parole.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Evictions: continued from page 1

the “COVID-19 emergency period,” ceasing 90 days after the state of emergency order is lifted or April 1, 2021, whichever occurs first.

The bill gives renters an additional 12-month reprieve from eviction -- starting from the beginning of Gov. Newsom’s COVID-19 stay-athome order in March -- before a landlord can seek a civil action to collect back rent owed.

AB 1436 was first introduced on June 10.

“California is facing a tsunami of evictions and foreclosures if we do not act,” said Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco), author of AB 1436.

“This bill is a balanced approach to ensure we avoid mass displacement and increased homelessness in California,” he said.

With a 19-1 vote, the Judicial Council of California voted last week to end two emergency rules that put temporary halts on evictions and foreclosures. They are scheduled to expire at midnight on Sept. 1. If nothing happens before then to protect renters, evictions could begin the next day on Sept. 2.

But now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to pass AB 1436, the only bill currently advancing in the legislature to bring relief to tenants, homeowners, and small landlords, there’s hope that California can avoid a spate of evictions resulting from people who can’t afford to pay their rents because of hardship brought upon them by the COVID-19 pandemic.

AB 1436 has now moved to the Senate Appropriations Committee for review.

According to TenantsTogether.org, more than 16 million people in California are renters, and 64% of California’s 2.3 million African American population are people who do not own the property they live in -- whether it’s in a multiunit building or a stand-alone house.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of individuals and families in California

Studies: continued from page 1

and with support from the legislative ethnic caucuses (Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific Islander). It passed on Aug. 3 after legislators engaged in personal and passionate debates during committee hearings and on the floor of the Assembly and Senate as each expressed their perspectives on the pressing need for our society to deal with its history of racial inequities.

Ethnic studies is an interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity that gained acceptance nationally in universities following the 1960’s Black student uprisings. Research shows that students of color and white students benefit academically and socially from taking Ethnic studies courses. These courses can play an important role in building an inclusive multicultural democracy.

According to Charles Toombs, CFA president and a professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State, Ethnic studies differs from other disciplines. It is crucial in its own right.

Because of that, AB1460 specifies that CSU students take a course in one of the four historically defined racialized core groups: African American studies, Latino studies, Native American studies or Asian American studies.

The bill states, “It is the intent of the Legislature that students of the California State University acquire the knowledge and skills that will help them comprehend the diversity and social justice history of the United States and of the society in which they live to enable them to contribute to that society as responsible and constructive citizens.”

AB1460 passed despite opposition from CSU Chancellor Timothy White, the Academic Senate of the California State University, and the leadership at all 23 CSU campuses.

Chancellor White asked the Executive Senate Committee at each CSU campus to write a letter of opposition when the bill was introduced.

Allison Wren from CSU Academic Affairs Division presented CSU’s three main objections to AB 1460 at an Assembly Higher Education Committee Hearing.

face-to-face with the possibilities of eviction and homelessness. The resulting economic recession has caused some people across the state to lose their jobs and health care and face other financial problems.

“The Judicial Council has received thousands of comments from those affected -- from tenants who fear homelessness to small landlords who face losing their livelihoods or fear bankruptcy,” Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye said in a written statement. “In our ongoing conversations with Governor Newsom and the Legislature, we have been responsive to their requests for additional time to develop and enact policy and legislative proposals.”

Over 2.8 million Californians were unemployed in June and about 1 million renter households in the state have experienced a job loss as a result of the economic impacts of COVID-19, according to the Terner Center for Housing Innovation (TCHI).

THCI, an institute at the University of California, Berkeley, leverages applied research and best practices to house families in affordable homes and communities.

Among renter households that have experienced a COVID-related job loss, nearly three-quarters include at least one person of color in California, according to THCI research.

Preparing for the worst, certain jurisdictions in California have already implemented eviction delays that extend beyond the state’s mandated deadline.

On July 21, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved an extension of the temporary eviction moratorium. They pushed the deadline until Sept. 30, and it may be extended by the Board on a month-to-month basis if the state allows.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey, and Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs all signed on to the letter in support of AB 1436.

“I am deeply grateful that mayors across California recognize the looming threat of evictions and foreclosures in their communities,” Chiu said. “To avoid a wave of mass displacement, increased homelessness, and COVID-19 spread, we must act and pass AB 1436.”

In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning the enforcement of eviction orders for renters affected by COVID-19 through May 31, 2020. He extended that order in June to Sept. 1., and allowed local officials the option of continuing it for another month in their jurisdictions until Sept. 30.

The order prohibits landlords from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent and prohibits enforcement of evictions by law enforcement or courts. It also requires that tenants declare in writing, no more than seven days after the rent comes due, that the tenant cannot pay all or part of their rent due to COVID-19 crisis.

The tenant under the order is obligated to repay full rent in a timely manner and could still face eviction after the enforcement moratorium is lifted. The two temporary emergency rules, rules 1 and 2, were adopted Apr. 6.

Emergency Rule 1 deals with unlawful detainer actions, more commonly known as “eviction actions,” while Emergency Rule 2 addresses judicial foreclosure actions for property owners.

On June 10, Cantil-Sakauye suspended a vote to provide the Governor and Legislature an extension to develop proposals and solutions.

On June 30, the San Diego City Council also approved, in a 5-4 vote, to extend the city’s moratorium on commercial and residential evictions until September 30.

With the Judicial Council’s latest vote, the Sept. 1 deadline gives both parties time to regroup and drum up public policies to stave off evictions and foreclosures.

The Mayors of California’s nine largest cities issued a letter last week endorsing AB 1436.

The state has already been devastated by north of 10, 400 deaths, and over 562,00 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

“First, we believe the legislature should not impose curriculum,” Wren said. “A legislative mandate, such as this will set the dangerous precedent of allowing the government to determine curriculum. And this does in fact threaten the academic freedom of our campuses.”

not developed in collaboration with the CSU Council on Ethnic Studies,” she added.

“Second, the proposed bill is not necessary,” she continued. “We already have cultural diversity requirements on all 23 campuses.

Many of these requirements are met by existing courses in Ethnic studies or courses and other departments such as anthropology, history, gender Women’s Studies, among many others.”

“Finally, such a requirement could adversely impact our associate degrees for transfers programs. The bill could potentially also adversely impact CSU graduation.”

Weeks before AB 1460 passed, CSU trustees approved an “Ethnic studies and Social Justice” studies graduation requirement as an amendment to the school’s general education curriculum. Its critics say the approval was timed to present Newsom with an alternative to AB 1460.

The 13-5 vote of CSU trustees marks the first significant change to the university’s general education requirements in 40 years. The approved courses include the four core Ethnic studies disciplines AB 1460 requires and adds courses on the history and culture of other oppressed groups, such as Muslims, Jews or LGBTQ people. The requirement goes into effect in the 2023-24 school year.

The board members acknowledged the need for more Ethnic studies, citing that the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the national protests over police violence and systemic racism resonated in their thoughts as they voted.

However, in a letter to Chancellor White before the trustee vote, legislators, led by Assemblymember Weber, pointed out that the policy, “does not respond to the challenges we currently face, has been rejected by the faculty, and is not supported by students.”

“The changes proposed by the Chancellor’s office will significantly water down the intent of AB 1460 and will result in something akin to a “diversity” requirement, which was

CFA said, “How the board can look at anyone with a straight face and say that an Ethnic studies requirement can be fulfilled without ever having to take a course in Ethnic studies is beyond believable.”

Weber followed that up by commenting that though it’s written as an Ethnic studies requirement, the policy approved by the CSU board permits students to meet it without actually taking an Ethnic studies course.

By signing AB 1460, Newsom sided with Weber and her legislative colleagues in deciding that a strict definition of Ethnic studies was needed to supersede the policy that CSU trustees approved.

AB 1460 is the first time the Legislature dictated a CSU graduation requirement.

The Legislature fully debated this departure from precedent and concluded that the CSU system on its own lacked the will to adequately tackle society’s reckoning around race and inclusion.

Weber in explaining why it was necessary for the legislature to act said, “I know the Ivory Tower seldom opens its door unless the door’s kicked down. And that’s the reality of the Ivory Tower.”

AB 1460 is inspired by the legacy of Ethnic studies that arose out of the protests and activism of CSU students demanding course offerings that covered the experiences of oppressed racial American communities.

Newsom by acknowledging that legacy is advancing the proposition that radical change on race in our public higher education system has to be fostered and is directing that policy be instituted that assures CSU students are introduced to perspectives critically needed to solve society’s most pressing problems as a requirement for graduation.

About the Author Joe W. Bowers Jr. is an advocate for education opportunities for all and the education writer for CBM. He is a retired corporate engineer and business executive and is a graduate of Stanford University.

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On July 23 the rule known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) HUD Secretary Ben Carson termed the rule as “a ruse for social engineering under the guise of desegregation”.

“The worst thing we can do in a major health pandemic is increase housing instability, homelessness, and overcrowding — which is what will happen if the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision is significantly weakened,” noted Lisa Rice, President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance. “Taking away strong fair housing tools makes all of our communities less safe and increases housing instability. We have learned that lesson and we should not repeat that mistake. We will not allow Trump to take away tools to fight discrimination or make our neighborhoods less safe.”

Initially promulgated under the Obama Administration AFFH required local jurisdictions receiving HUD funds to take meaningful actions to halt decades of discriminatory policies and practices that perpetuated racially segregated communities.

Under the Trump Administration the rule was suspended and then replaced by a new one termed, Preserving Community and Neighborhood Choice. Under the new rule HUD grantees are no longer required to actively pursue local plans to eliminate segregated housing.

Across the nation, civil rights and housing advocates agree that historical segregation is largely responsible for the nagging inequity that Black America still confronts today.

Additionally, it is also particularly noteworthy that HUD finalized its new rule without providing an opportunity for public comment - a serious departure from the regular federal rulemaking process.

For the nation’s estimated 70 largest and oldest public housing authorities that together serve more than one million low-income households who live in federally-assisted housing, the rule is an affront to fair housing advocates across the country.

In an August 3 letter to HUD’s Carson, The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (“CLPHA”) and Reno & Cavanaugh, PLLC wrote in part, “[R]ather than enforce an act of Congress, which they are obligated to do, HUD and the Administration endeavor to demonstrate Congressional support for the New AFFH Rule simply by relying on statements by individual members of Congress that “every community should be free to zone its neighborhoods and compete for new residents according to its distinct values.”

Days earlier on July 27, three U.S. House leaders: Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee; Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary; and Congressman William. Lacy Clay (D-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance issued a joint statement.

“The Fair Housing Act makes housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status and disability illegal,” wrote the lawmakers. “The law includes a requirement that recipients of federal housing funding and the agencies of the federal government must “affirmatively further fair housing,” meaning that they must administer funds and programs in ways that actively undo and do not perpetuate patterns of historic residential segregation and systemic disinvestment…This senseless and misguided decision to roll back that important progress comes as the President peddles racist rhetoric that is reminiscent of the fearmongering tactics of those who supported racial segregation prior to the Fair Housing Act.” The House Members also announced in their statement, that legislation to reinstate the AFFH rule would be introduced.

Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending. Read more on this story at www.sdvice.info.

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EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY/OPINION EDITORIAL:

COMMENTARY:

Now Prepare and Vote Is The Time to

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

With the twin issues of the Coronavirus and Donald Trump, November 3rd is closer than most of us think.

While the San Diego County Registrar of Voters has not done all it claims in terms of outreach and preparing us to vote, it is up to each of us to take steps to ensure that our votes are counted.

First, we can check and make sure we are registered as voters. If in doubt, we can get a voter registration card, usually from the Post Office. If you can’t find one, then contact the Voice & Viewpoint and we will tell you where to locate one near where you live or we will prepare to have forms at our office which we can hand to you through the door. For the safety of all, no need to come inside.

The national importance of this election is found in the number of noted and seasoned Republicans pledging their support to Vice President Joe Biden. It appears that more and more people understand the danger to America as a nation, and to many of us individually, in having Donald Trump get a second term as President of these United States. But be sure to understand that if we ignore the importance of our votes, he can get re-elected.

This year the entire state of California will be voting by mail as will many other states because of the dangers of the virus associated with in-person voting. In California, online Voter Registration is available at: “RegisterToVote.CA.Gov.” One must be prepared to provide: (1) California Drivers License or California I.D. (2) Last four numbers of your Social Security Number and your Date of Birth

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is available until 15 days before the November 3, 2020 election day. If for some reason you can’t personally vote, then you can make sure, as your own personal project, that someone you know who might not otherwise have registered to vote, does so.

Who you vote for is a personal issue. Don’t vote for people you don’t know because you like their smile or the sound of their names. Every vote counts. In the last election there were several places where the victory came down to one vote.

While there will be local races, state congressional races and propositions on our ballots, let’s be serious about each vote we cast. In the weeks ahead, the Voice & Viewpoint will be providing analysis and recommendations on candidates and propositions.

Please don’t let the delay in our doing so keep you from registering to vote. Remember, all the protest in the world against Donald Trump means nothing if we don’t vote.

The mailing out of Ballots begins on October 10th and voter registration

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

By Tom Cartwright Resident of Southeastern SD

If you are familiar with the corner at Imperial Ave. and Euclid Ave., you probably know it was formerly known as the 4 corners of death.

Drugs and prostitution, plus homeless individuals made the corner very unsafe, plus residents were actually embarrassed to drive past and acknowledge this activity was allowed in our community.

For many years and yesterday and today for the first time in a while there are no homeless people, drug dealers, or people hanging out on the corner.

And there is a SDPD presence. Organizations involved in the effort to clean up the corner were, NAACP, CAST, SDOP, Staff with Monica Montgomery’s office, Barry Pollard with the Urban Collaborative Project, City of Hope Intl. Church, and Jennifer Gregory, Community Relations Officer for the SDPD Southeastern Div.

Barry Pollard with the Urban Collaborative project is the individual who kept working on making positive changes at the 4 corners.

I have spoken with some of the SDPD officers stationed at the corner and thanked them for being there. This shows what can happen when we work together.

Tom Cartwright Resident of Southeastern part of San Diego

COMMENTARY:

On Civil Disobedience

By Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood prominent theologian and local activist,

Texas Metro News

His huge fist repeatedly struck her face. This wasn’t the first time her boyfriend beat her up…but this was definitely the worst. Hours later, she awoke with blood caked between her face and the floor. Seeing that her boyfriend was asleep, she quietly ran out the door. Due to multiple warrants, she was too scared to call the police. So, she ran to the only place she knew to go. Seeing the steeple in the distance, she ran harder. For many years, her church was known as a place that would help victims of domestic violence. It was her only hope.

Once she got on the lawn, she raced to the side door. There was always someone there. Running up, she missed the sign. Over and over

again, she banged on the door. Nobody came. Backing up, she realized that there was a sign, “Churches are not considered essential based on the recent COVID-19 order…so we have been forced to suspend all social services until the order is lifted.”

He was sitting at home watching television. The phone rang. On the other end of the line, was a voice he did not know. After identifying himself as a local police officer, the voice proceeded to tell him that his son was shot and killed earlier that night.

Devastated, the man called his pastor. After hearing the anguish in his voice, the pastor raced over to his parishioner’s house.

Not long after he got off of the exit, he was pulled over. Unable to understand what he had done wrong, he rolled down the window. The officer asked where he was going. After his explanation, the pastor thought he

was just going to be able to go. Instead, the officer went back to his car. After a few minutes, the officer came back with a citation. Immediately, the pastor demanded to know the reason for this ticket.

The officer didn’t hesitate, “Ministers are not considered essential workers under the recent COVID-19 order.”

She needed food. The church was closed. He needed emergency counseling. The church was closed. He needed help with his bills. The church was closed. She needed somewhere to sleep. The church was closed. He needed to take a shower. The church was closed. She just needed help. The church was closed. He just needed help. The church was closed.

The church is the largest provider of social services in our country. Dallas County and various other counties have discouraged/inhibited such work. Repeatedly, churches and their See DISOBEDIENCE page 10

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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day? Most of us would take every precaution, checking the locks, the door, and the windows. Some of us might weapon up, making sure we could defend our homestead. Some might also reach out to law enforcement, sharing the threat with them. Almost all of us would take the threat seriously and make the appropriate precautions to prevent our violation.

The 45th President of the United States has warned us that he plans to rob us. First, he placed one of his crooked cronies in charge of the postal service. Then he said that he would not fund the postal service to facilitate the timely processing of mail ballots.

He has continuously associated mail voting with fraud, although nine states have had universal mail voting for years. And finally, he just put it out there, plain and simple. He thinks mail voting favors Democrats, and he doesn’t want to do Democrats any favors. So instead, his postal chief is removing mailboxes and shutting down sorting machines. And now the USPS has warned election officials in most states that ballots mailed before election might not arrive in time to be counted.

The 45th President is setting up a situation where the November election can be contested. He’s doing it because he has already stacked the Supreme Court in his favor. He has no interest in maximizing the number of people voting but minimizing that number. He’s not interested in democracy, but in dictatorship.

If someone told you they were planning to rob you, you’d take precautions. Trump has declared that he intends to steal this election. We can’t let him do it. Not only must the Biden-Harris ticket beat him, but they must beat him like a drum, so decisively that there is no doubt that he has got to go.

Here’s what you must do.

1. Voting procedures vary by city and state. Make sure you know the rules. Some places send all registered voters mailin ballots, while others require you to request an absentee ballot. Find your local Bureau online, or call your favorite local elected to gt the information.

election day November 3, it may not be counted. Some places will have drop boxes for ballots, and others will allow you to drop off your ballot. Just get your ballot back by whatever means necessary.

3. If you prefer to vote in person, or if you’ve neglected to mail your absentee ballot, make sure you know where your polling place is. Because of the coronavirus, some cities are reducing the number of available polling places, and the site where you usually vote may be closed.

4. It is also possible to vote early in person. Check with your Board of Elections about when and where you might vote early.

5. Be patient. Conducting an election amidst a pandemic is new for us, and some election procedures have been unnecessarily politicized. You may encounter obstacles if you choose to vote in person. Document any hurdles you have to clear, get names of anyone who denied you the right to vote, and complain if the matter is not resolved. The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law runs a hotline on election day.

Their number is 866-OURVOTE, or 866-6878683.

6. Spread the word. Reach out to your circle to share information about voting and encourage your friends and colleagues to vote.

7. B ecause of the coronavirus, which is not likely to be gone

by November, there will be fewer gatherings to discuss the vote. Be on the lookout for zoom town halls and other meetings that civic organizations are holding. Encourage your church, your sorority, or your local NCNW section to consider virtual town halls.

It is in some people’s interest to suppress the vote, and we’ve seen enough of it these past few years. It is your absolute right to exercise the right to vote, even if some make it difficult. We don’t have to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar or translate a passage of the Constitution into Latin, as our foremothers did. It is in their honor and the memory of Congressman John Lewis that we vote.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist and author.

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OBITUARIES Jerome Peron Cobb

Emmanuel Larue Francouis

Phyllis Sharon Morris

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Graveside service was held Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at Riverside National Services were held Friday, August 14, 2020 at Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary; interment Graveside service was held on Friday, August 14, 2020 at Miramar National Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

JEROME PERON COBB was born April 26, 1937, in Cordele, Georgia to the EMMANUEL LARUE FRANCOUIS was born in San Diego, California, to the parlate T. J. Cobb and Lydia Laidler Cobb. He was raised in Cordele and spent ent of Bernice Nadine Coburn-Banks and Clarence “Butch” Francouis on June 7, most of his adult life in California.

1961. Emmanuel was an only child and was raised by his loving grandparents, Jerome enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1955. He retired from his Navy career as a Delores and Richard Calvin Caldwell Jr. He graduated from Crawford High school Chief Petty Officer in 1975 and transitioned to the Civilian Federal Service as in 1979. Emmanuel began an internship in1978, with the San Diego Unified School a Boiler Plant Operator for another 20+ years. He was an avid lover of auto- District. He furthered his education by attending Maysa College, where he obtained mobiles, enjoyed watching sports and westerns, and he regularly “showed an Associates Degree and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education from San Diego State University. After graduation, he became a full-time employee with up” at a family member’s door for a short visit.

San Diego Unified School District, where he served as a teacher, intern, teachHe will be lovingly remembered as a caring and giving father, brother, uncle, ers aid and assistant, acting director, lead teacher and supervisor within the 42 friend, and man of God. He embraced his call as a deacon, where he served years of employment with the District. Some of the campuses he taught at are faithfully for 40 years at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in San Bernardino, CA until Jefferson Elementary, Kennedy Child Center, Hardy Child Center, Rowan Elementary, he moved to San Diego and united with Mesa View Baptist Church.

Wedgeforth Elementary and until the end, his final location was Euclid Child Center Jerome was preceded in death by his loving wife, Della Allen-Cobb whom he as lead teacher. loved and cared for until her death in May 2015; seven of the “Cobb Clan of Twelve”: John Cobb, Frank Laidler, Alfred Cobb, Susie Cobb Ashton, Minnie Emmanuel accepted Christ at an early age and was a member of Israelite COGIC. Emmanuel enjoyed music, traveling,reading and he had a passion for gospel Cobb, Thomas Cobb Jr., and Mable Cobb Trotter.

On Monday, August 3, 2020, Jerome Peron Cobb transitioned from this life music. During the 1970’s as a teenager, Emmanuel was a regular dancer on the to eternal rest. He will be cherished and remembered by his four loving chil- popular TV Show “Soul Train”. dren: Peter Jerome Cobb, Reginald Ricardo Cobb (Evelyn), David Eugene Keith Cobb (Fredda), and Angela Renee Cobb-Danielly (Thomas); his former wife, Frances M. Gray; God-fearing sisters: Bertha Cobb Everett, Mary Pearl Cobb Cuspard, Diane Cobb Jacob, and LaJoyce Cobb Woolery (Randy); two devoted sisters-in-law Charlie Belle Cobb and Susie Laidler; eleven grandchildren: Antoine Cobb Sr., David Cobb Jr. (Karissa), Francis Cobb, Damien Danielly (Latoya), Katrina Danielly, Ohn Decker, Plyethell Decker, Charles Kyler, Demetrius Walker, Exzavior Walker and Chantel Menendez (Jerry); seventeen great-grandchildren: Antoine Cobb Jr., Aniyah Cobb, Amara Cobb, Saryah Cobb, Jeremiah Cobb, Masiyah Cobb, Isaiah Danielly, Harper Danielly, Ayanna Sosan (Henry), Charissa Charles, Daniel Laird, Isaiah Edwards, Anisa Melendez, Ava Melendez, Zara Malendez, Alexia Melendez and Velondra Melendez and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

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

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

PHYLLIS SHARON MORRIS was born on April 1, 1946 in Sandusky, Ohio.

She was the youngest of ten children born to the union of Robert White and Harriet Nelson White. She accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Sandusky, where she also received her formal education, graduating from Sandusky High School.

In 1963, right after high school, Phyllis enlisted into the United States Navy.

She received her boot camp training at Great Lakes Naval Station of Illinois, where she joined the nurse training program. Her first duty station was in Maryland, at the Bethesda Navy Hospital, where she continued her nursing training, ultimately earning her Registered Nurse license. In 1969, Phyllis received her Honorable Discharge.

While in the Navy, Phyllis united in marriage with Paul Morris of the United States Marine Corps on September 21, 1968. They eventually settled in her hometown, Sandusky, Ohio. In June of 1980, her husband relocated to San Diego, California, where he was offered a promising job position. Phyllis joined him a week later, making San Diego their permanent resident. In 1985, they were blessed with a beautiful daughter, whom they named Lisa Ashley.

Upon moving to San Diego, Phyllis began working for Mission Bay Hospital and also furthered her education at UCSD, earning her Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Development. From early life, the well-being of children was always a concern, and passion of Phyllis. In 1997, she began working Emmanuel’s Mother, Father, Grandmother and Godmother, Sue Willie James, pre- with San Diego County, Tayari African American Adoptions Service, placcedes him in death. ing African-American children with African-American adoptive parents. Her Emmanuel’s loving and fond memories will be cherished by: his Grandfather role, along with her sisters of Tayari, in providing African-American children Richard Caldwell Jr. Wife Thelma Caldwell, Aunts - Jeanette Coburn, Verla Jean with good homes was widely-known as a responsibility she honored and cherished.

Grant, Faye Richardson Erma Vaughn,Linda Davenport, Uncles - Harriett Caldwell, T.L. Caldwell, Lloyd Caldwell. Best friends - Weldon Russell, Godson - Keymaar Phyllis was a very loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and Russell,Goddaughter - Michelle Jones, Sisters and Brothers in-Love - Debra Bell, the best friend one could ever have.

Cassandra Johnson, Harold Thompson Jr., HIs Loving Godfamily - Wayne Duncan, On Wednesday, July 22, 2020, Phyllis Sharon Morris was called from earthly Marva Dean, Evelyn Murry,Lucille Murry, Patricia Majors, Barbara Murry,and Very labors to eternal rest. She leaves to cherish her memory her loving and devoted husband of fifty-two years, Paul Morris; a loving daughter, Lisa Special Friends - Marva Hines and Margaret Reyes.

Ashley Morris; one sister, Ms. Lurlay Mills of Richmond, CA; one brother, Frank White (Willa) of Dayton, Ohio; two grandsons, Jehlani Morris and Shani Morris.

When great trees fall.

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

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity.

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

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us.

Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away.

We are not so much maddened

as reduced to the unutte able ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a perio peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou

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City Opens 5 “Cool Zones” Locations Across the Region Locations Open Through Sunday to Help San Diegans Beat the Heat Voice & Viewpoint Newswire As a heat wave continues throughout the San Diego region, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer announced today that the City of San Diego has opened several recreation centers, libraries and other public buildings as “Cool Zones” for San Diegans to seek relief from the heat.

Each facility will be opened Tuesday, August 18 and will remain open from 12 to 5 p.m. through Sunday, August 23, 2020. Additional locations may be added and dates extended depending on the severity and duration of the heat wave. Service animals will be allowed entry.

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MLK Recreation Center

6401 Skyline Drive

Mountain View Community Center

641 South Boundary Drive

Mid-City Gymnasium

4302 Landis Street

Cesar Chavez Community Center

455 Sycamore Road

Central Library

330 Park Blvd.

Due to the continued threat of COVID-19, safety measures will be in place to protect the health of residents and staff. To ensure physical distancing, capacity will be limited. All visitors and staff will be subject to mandatory temperature checks and COVID-19 health screening questions before entering the facility, and guidelines for the use of face coverings and physical distancing will be strictly adhered to.

For more information regarding Cool Zones throughout the County and other suggested measures for beating the heat, visit coolzones.org/

Mayor Signs Executive Order Allowing

Worship and Workouts in City Parks Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Tu e s d ay, Au g u s t 18 Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer announced a third executive action, this time allowing gyms and religious institutions to use City of San Diego park space for safe outdoor operations.

The executive order comes as public health experts continue to promote outside settings and physical distancing as two key tools to help slow

the spread of COVID-19.

Faulconer’s two previous executive orders Photo by Rui Dias from Pexels — one for rized businesses and organirestaurants and one for fitness busi- zations to expand operations nesses, religious institutions, outdoors in places like and personal care services parking lots, each of which such as hair and nail salons were later approved by City and barbershops – autho- Council vote.

Black Lawmakers Push Package of Bills to Regulate Police Brutality Manny Otiko California Black Media Last week, the California Supreme Court ruled that Los Angeles County had to pay $8 million to the family of Darren Burley, an unarmed Black man who died under circumstances similar to George Floyd.

In 2012, Deputy David Aviles placed his knee on Burley’s neck and back while restraining him. Aviles weighs 200lbs.

Burley died 10 days later in the hospital.

The violent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police has inflamed the country and sparked protests in California and around the nation and the world.

But the disproportionate use of excessive police force against Black men, too often ending up fatally, is not new to California.

“From Rodney King in 1991 to Stephon Clark in 2018, California has a bad history with excessive use of force by police officers,” said Assemblymember Chris Holden (D- Pasadena) in a news release.

In response to this, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) has authored a series of bills to reign in police violence. Those bills include: • AB 1196, which would ban the use of the chokehold. It passed in the State Assembly and is now under review in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

• AB 1506. This would require police shootings to

be investigated by a division of the Department of Justice. The State Assembly passed the legislation.

It is currently u nder rev iew in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

• AB 2342. This wou ld a l low parolees t o Photo by Allen Allen from Creative Commons re du c e t he i r terms by attending college of Justice, we’re committed or volunteering. It passed to partnering with our legisin the Assembly and is now lators and stakeholders across under review in the Senate the state to help get the job Appropriations Committee. done.”

• AB 1022. This bill would Becerra said he commends require officers to report Holden and the bill’s other incidents of excessive force. legislative supporters for getThe bill passed in the ting it through the Senate Assembly and the Senate Public Safety Committee. It’s Public Safety Committee. time for important policies It is under review in the like a peace officer’s duty to Senate Appropriations intervene to be more than Committee. just recommendations. We’re • AB 1185. This would ready for them to be the law require an oversight board of the land.” for sheriff ’s departments.

It passed in the Assembly Holden said Americans were and is now under review shocked that officers didn’t in the Senate Public Safety intervene when they saw Committee.

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin choking the California Attorney General life out of Floyd. Instead, they Xavier Becerra praised formed a protective cordon Holden’s AB 1022, which around him and held off the is also called “the George crowd.

Floyd” law.

“We were outraged when we “Americans across the nation watched the killing of George demand more accountability Floyd by a Minneapolis police in our criminal justice system,” said Becerra. “It’s going officer from a knee to the to take sustained, thought- neck,” said Holden. “Equally ful reform like Assembly Bill disturbing, was the lack of 1022 to help answer the call. intervention from the police At the California Department officers who witnessed a clear use of excessive force.”

‘Do something:’ Harris’ rapid rise driven by call to action

By Kathleen Ronayne and Maryclaire Dale Associated Press Hours before Kamala Harris took the stage for the first time as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, she received a text message from a childhood classmate with photos from their school days.

A pensive Harris sits on the f loor, dutifully looking ahead, a child in the center of an experiment in racial integration. She was among students who took the bus from their neighborhoods to school in the more affluent hillsides of Berkeley, California.

“That’s how it started. There’s no question!” Harris, 55, texted back to Aaron Peskin, the former classmate and now a San Francisco supervisor.

Fifty years later, she’s the first Black woman and first Asian American woman named to a major party presidential ticket, joining Biden in his fight to defeat Republican President Donald Trump.

Harris’s path toward the second-highest office in the United States has tracked the nation’s ongoing struggle for racial equality. The start-and-stop progress and sometimes messy debate has shaped her life: an upbringing by immigrant parents, a childhood among civil rights activists, a career at the helm of a f lawed criminal justice system and her rapid ascent in Democratic politics.

Those experiences forged a politician who is unafraid to buck the political powers that be, but also charts a cautious course through policy debates. She’s emerged as a leader who knows the power of tough questioning and a viral moment, and also the weight of her role as a voice for women of color.

“My mother Shyamala raised my sister Maya and me to believe that it was up to us and every generation of Americans to keep on marching,” Harris said Wednesday.

“She’d tell us: Don’t sit around and complain about things. Do something.”

Her fast rise hasn’t been without criticism, including on her shifting policy positions. She endured questions familiar to women in politics, particularly women of color, about her ambition. Trump labeled her “nasty” for her piercing interrogation of his nominees. Some progressive Democrats, meanwhile, view her work as a prosecutor skeptically.

Her own presidential bid, announced before 20,000 people in her hometown of Oakland, ended before voting began as she struggled to raise money or find a clear message.

She was a Howard University graduate with no high-powered ties when she returned

to her native Bay Area for law school and took a job at the Alameda County District Attorney’s office in 1990.

In 2003, she decided to run for San Francisco district attorney, challenging her former boss, Terence Hallinan.

He was progressive, and Harris tacked right on the issues to run against him, pledging to be tough on crime and repair relationships with police. She also took on the cause of Black mothers who lost their children to homicide and felt Hallinan was neglecting the cases.

Harris, then 39, handily won the race.

Just months into her tenure, Harris decided not to seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing a police officer. The move angered law enforcement officers and drew rebuke from U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the city’s former mayor and a force in California politics.

But years later, when she ran for attorney general and needed statewide support, Harris tempered her stance on capital punishment, pledging to uphold it if elected and staying silent on ballot measures to repeal it. She appealed a 2014 decision by a federal judge calling it cruel and unusual punishment and won, keeping capital punishment on the books.

Today, she wants a federal moratorium.

Observers and critics point to these episodes as evidence of Harris’s penchant for staking out cautious positions that uphold the status quo.

Her allies say she worked within the confines of the system and the politics of the time. As district attorney, she launched a reentry program that connected nonviolent offenders to jobs and education that became a national model.

“I remember the first time I visited the county jail. So many young men, and they were mostly Black or brown or poor,” she writes in her 2019 book, “The Truths We Hold,” recalling her time as a young prosecutor. “They represented a living monument to lost potential, and I wanted to tear it down.”

At the same time, she took on truancy and supported a statewide law modeled off her city initiative that threatened parents with jail time, fines and lost public benefits if their kids missed school.

Harris barely won her race for state attorney general in 2010. Soon the Black Lives Matter movement was taking hold, along with outrage over police brutality, particularly against Black youth.

Harris declined to support

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state legislation that would have required her office to investigation fatal police shootings. Now Harris backs such investigations.

As attorney general she met then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau, her counterpart in Delaware. The two worked together on a settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage lenders following the foreclosure crisis.

Joe Biden said this past week that relationship was key in his decision to tap Harris as his running mate. Beau Biden died of a brain tumor in 2015.

In 2016, Trump won the presidency and Harris her U.S. Senate seat. By the next year, Trump’s brief tenure had convinced Harris that her perspective, particularly as a Black woman, should be represented in the Democratic primary field, said Nathan Barankin, Harris’s former chief of staff.

That perspective was steeped in Harris’s upbringing by two immigrant parents who came to the U.S. to pursue education. Her father, Donald Harris, came from Jamaica and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, from India.

The couple had two daughters, Kamala Devi and Maya Lakshmi. They told them stories of being met by police with fire hoses as they marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War and of meeting Martin Luther King Jr., Harris wrote in her book. But they split soon after Harris started school.

Gopalan became the main force in their lives.

She immersed them in the Black community she and her ex-husband had embraced, though they celebrated their South Asian heritage through their names and their close ties and occasional visits with their mother’s family in India.

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20 Suffragists

Septim SIGNIFICANCE:

Civil rights activist, founder of Citizenship Schools.

To Know for 2020

PLACE & date OF BIRTH: Charleston, SC – May, 1898

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Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was a “milestone” for women’s voting rights in America. The journey to women’s suffrage was fraught with controversy early on, as Blacks and whites argued over whose rights were more in urgent need of being addressed: Black men and their right to vote alongside white men, or white women’s right to vote, at the exclusion of Black suffrage altogether.

These individuals fought for women’s suffrage. They lived across the United States, and came from around the world. Some were active in the battle for women’s right to vote in the early 1800s; others worked to educate and enroll voters and for voting rights into the late 1900s and beyond. Men and women, young and old, you may know some of them for other parts of their histories. Some you may never have heard of before.

We invite you to explore the stories of these 20 people, including influential African Americans, who were among those who made it possible.

Septima Poinsette Clark was a civil rights activist born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1898. She attended the Avery Normal Institute and graduated in 1916. When she was 18, Clark started her career as a school teacher in a one room schoolhouse. She wanted to do more to advance the rights of African Americans and she joined the Charleston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Many southern states enforced segregation until the mid1900s, and because Clark was Black, she was not allowed to teach in the Charleston public school system. Instead, she had to accept teaching positions in rural school districts. Clark and others thought this was unfair and they successfully protested to win African Americans the right to teach at Charleston public schools. Clark was convinced that social activism had the power to better the lives of African Americans.

Frederick Douglass

So

SIGNIFICANCE: convention, Douglass wrote,

Former slave who became America’s foremost abolitionist.

Suffragist, publisher, author.

PLACE & date OF BIRTH: Talbot County, MD – February, 1818

In his journey from captive slave to internationally renowned activist, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) has been a source of inspiration and hope for millions. His brilliant words and brave actions continue to shape the ways that we think about race, democracy, and the meaning of freedom. In 1845, he published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. He later bought a printing press and ran his own newspaper, The North Star.

Douglass was active with the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and it was through this organization that he met Elizabeth M’Clintock. In July of 1848, M’Clintock invited Douglass to attend the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Douglass readily accepted, and his participation at the convention revealed his commitment to woman suffrage. He was the only African American to attend. In an issue of the North Star published shortly after the

Jane Addams

Susan B. Anthony

SIGNIFICANCE:

SIGNIFICANCE:

Co-founder of Hull House, women’s rights advocate, sociologist, pacifist, Progressive

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Cedarville, IL – 1860

In respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for women. All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman; and if that government is only just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and administering the laws of the land. Our doctrine is, that “Right is of no sex.”

Douglass continued to support the cause of women after the 1848 convention. In 1866 Douglass, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, founded the American Equal Rights Association, an organization that demanded universal suffrage. Though the group disbanded just three years later due to growing tension between women’s rights activists and Africa-American rights activists, Douglass remained influential in both movements, championing the cause of equal rights until his death in 1895.

Frederick Douglass as a young man.

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Carrie Chapman Catt SIGNIFICANCE:

Suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights advocate

Suffragist, peace activist, co-founder League of Women Voters

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Adams, Massachusetts – 1820

SIGNIFICANCE:

Advocate for the rights of women and African Americans; abolitionist; author; speaker.

Ripon, Wisconsin – 1859

Wilhelmina

Dolores Huerta

SIGNIFICANCE:

Labor organizer; co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association; works to register voters

Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett Suffragist

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Lihue, Kingdom of Hawai’i – 1861

SIGNIFICANCE:

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Dawson, New Mexico – 1930

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Ulster County, New York – circa 1797 Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Baumfree. Together with her parents, she spent her childhood enslaved by Dutch settlers. Dutch was her first language. When she was nine years old, she was sold away from her parents to John Neely near Kingston, New York. He purchased her and a flock of sheep for $100. She escaped to freedom in 1826.

In 1843, called by God to “testify the hope that was in her” across the countryside, she took the name Sojourner Truth and began touring the country speaking against slavery. In 1844, she moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, and joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry.

[1] Founded by abolitionists, this utopian community was a stop on the Underground Railroad; it’s members supported women’s rights, religious tolerance, and pacifism. In 1850

Helen Keller SIGNIFICANCE:

Civil rights activist; women’s rights activist; author; speaker

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Tuscumbia, Alabama – 1880

Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee SIGNIFICANCE:

Suffragist who mobilized the Chinese community in America to support women’s right to vote

PLACE & date OF BIRTH: China – 1896

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Ida B. Wells SIGNIFICANCE:

Clark was particularly upset by the voting system in the South. By the 1950s, she devoted all of her time to activism.

Black men and women had the right to vote, but were often kept from the voting polls by literacy tests. Many adult African Americans could not read because their parents and grandparents were formerly enslaved. Slavery was legal in the United States until 1865, and it was illegal to teach an enslaved person to read and write. As a result, literacy tests prevented many black citizens from voting, even in the 1950s and 1960s.

Clark designed educational programs to teach African American community members how to read and write. She thought this was important in order to vote and gain other rights. Her idea for “citizen education” became the cornerstone of the Civil Right Movement. She worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to win rights for African Americans.

Septima Clark continued to serve as an advocate and a leader until her death in 1987.

Septima Clark ca. 1960.

Avery Photo Collection, 10-9, Courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

African-American journalist and activist who led an antilynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Holly Springs, Mississippi – July 16, 1862

Ida B. Wells was an African American civil rights advocate, journalist, feminist and an American Hero. In 1882, after an incident where she was forcibly removed from a train after refusing to move to the segregated section for African Americans, Wells began writing about issues of race and politics in the South, publishing her articles in black newspapers and periodicals. She later became an owner of two newspapers: The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and Free Speech. Wells also worked as a teacher in Memphis and was a vocal critic of the condition of segregated schools in the city, and was fired from her job in 1891 because of her criticism.

In 1892, Wells turned her attention to anti-lynching after a friend and two of his business associates were murdered. She wrote articles decrying the lynching and risked her own life traveling the south to gather information on other lynchings. In 1896, Wells formed several civil rights organizations, including

ojourner Truth

In May 1851, she attended the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, where she delivered her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?”, one of the most famous speeches on African American and women’s rights in American history. For most of her remaining life, Truth continued to travel the United States to speak on matters relating to the rights of African Americans and women, including the right to vote.

In her life, she tirelessly advocated for the rights of African Americans, women, and for numerous reform causes including prison reform and against capital punishment. She is memorialized in countless art works, murals, and statues. She provided the namesake for the 1997 NASA Mars Pathfinder robot Sojourner, and for the asteroid 249521 Truth. In 2009, Truth became the first Black woman memorialized with a bust in the U.S. Capitol.[4] Sojourner Truth, “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance”. Library of Congress.

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Dr. Alice Paul SIGNIFICANCE:

Fighter for women’s suffrage

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey – 1885

the National Association of Colored Women. She is considered a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), but eventually cut ties with the organization.

She was an active fighter for woman suffrage, particularly for Black women. On January 30, 1913 Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago. The club organized women in the city to elect candidates who would best serve the Black community. As president of the club, Wells was invited to march in the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC along with dozens of other club members. Organizers, afraid of offending Southern white suffragists, asked women of color to march at the back of the parade. Wells refused, and stood on the parade sidelines until the Chicago contingent of white women passed, at which point she joined the march. The rest of the Suffrage Club contingent marched at the back of the parade. Work done by Wells and the Alpha Suffrage Club played a crucial role in the victory of woman suffrage in Illinois on June 25, 1913 with the passage of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Act. Wells leaves behind a legacy of social and political activism. In 2020, Ida B. Wells was awarded a Pulitzer Prize “for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

Portrait of Ida B. Wells, ca. 1893.

Public Domain

Mary Church Terrell SIGNIFICANCE: discriminated against. She dedicated herself to educating and

her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave was published by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison; she bought a house in Northampton, and spoke at the first National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. She paid off her home just three years later, in part by selling photographs of herself captioned, “I sell the shadow to support the substance.”

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African American helping other African Americans. In addition to serving as activist and educator. president of the National Association of Colored Women, Ter-

also supported the black woman’s right to vote. She even PLACE & date OF BIRTH: rell picketed the White House demanding women’s suffrage.

Memphis, TN – 1863

Mary Church Terrell was born in Memphis, TN in 1863 to formerly enslaved parents. Despite their bondage, her parents became successful business owners. As a result, they could afford to send their daughter to college. Terrell received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Oberlin College in Ohio.

Terrell moved to Washington, DC in 1887 and she taught at the M Street School, later known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. Her involvement in the early civil rights movement began in 1892 when her friend was lynched by a white mob in Memphis, TN. Along with Ida B. Wells, Terrell brought attention to the atrocity of lynching.

Terrell also worked to end discriminatory practices of restaurants in Washington, DC. In the early 1870s, DC passed anti-discrimination laws. Places such as restaurants could not turn away customers due to the color of their skin. But by the 1890s, African Americans were once again being banned from public places. Terrell launched a campaign to reinstate anti-discrimination laws. On February 28, 1950, she and several colleagues entered segregated Thompson Restaurant. When they were refused service, they promptly filed a lawsuit. Terrell targeted other restaurants, this time using tactics such as boycotts, picketing, and sit-ins. In 1953, the court ruled that segregated eating places in Washington, DC, were unconstitutional.

Terrell helped achieve many civil rights gains during her lifetime. Her home at 326 T Street, N.W. stands as a reminder of her tireless advocacy.

Mary Church Terrell, circa 1880s-1890s.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

She was also dedicated to racial uplift. Terrell believed that African Americans would be accepted by white society if they received education and job training. She hoped that if black men and women were seen as successful, they would not be

Jeannette Rankin SIGNIFICANCE:

First woman to hold federal office in the US; Politician; Women’s Rights Advocate

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Missoula County, Montana – 1880

Tye Leung Schulze SIGNIFICANCE:

First Chinese voter; community activist

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

San Francisco, California – 1887

Rev. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw SIGNIFICANCE:

Activist, physician, President of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England – 1847

Elizabeth Cady Stanton SIGNIFICANCE:

Women’s rights advocate

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Johnstown, NY – 1815

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker SIGNIFICANCE:

Doctor, suffragist, Civil War surgeon, only woman to receive the Medal of Honor

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Oswego, NY – 1832

Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) SIGNIFICANCE:

Writer, political activist, teacher, intellectual, musician

PLACE & date OF BIRTH:

Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota – 1876

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COVID RESOURCES & INFORMATION County Off State Monitoring List, Businesses Still on Hold

County Childcare Provider Grant Application Opens August 24

By Tracy DeFore County of San Diego Communications Office

$25 million in CARES Act funding to be distributed

San Diego County was removed Tuesday from the state’s County Monitoring List, but local businesses are still under restrictions. The County met a state metric for fewer than 100 COVID19 cases per 100,000 people for a third consecutive day on Monday.

The case rate must remain under 100 for an additional 14 days, until Aug. 31, before K through 12 schools can reopen, if they choose to do so.

For now, all current restrictions on businesses or other activities, including those required to operate outdoors,

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remain in place.

The restrictions will continue even after the 14-day per iod , u n le s s t he state provides additional guidance.

“Getting off the state’s County Monitoring List is a great first step, but we need to keep it up for another two weeks before all schools can open for in-person learning,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer.

The County was placed on the state’s Monitoring List

more than six weeks ago, on July 3. To continue the downward trend in County case numbers, Dr. Wooten urges San Diegans to continue to wear face coverings, keep six feet apart, avoid large gatherings, frequently wash your hands and stay home if you’re sick.

During these stressful times, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has voted to provide funding to help keep childcare centers safe and allow them to remain open as families seek care for their children. The County Board of Supervisors will distribute $25 million of CARES Act funding to eligible childcare providers in San Diego County. To distribute the funds, San Diego County has partnered with The San Diego Foundation, YMCA of San Diego County and Child Development Associates.

Check our website at www.

sdvoice.info and this space next week for forthcoming details and how childcare providers can apply.

Fast Facts:

• T he appl ic at ion w i l l be available online at SDFoundation.org/ ChildcareGrants August 24.

• Childcare providers will have 10 days to submit the required information for funding.

• Childcare providers can apply for support for staffing, supplies, mortgage and rental assistance, business resilience and capital improvements for outdoor areas.

County Covid-19 Update As Of Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire At press time, these were the latest COVID-19 updates from the County Health and Human Services Agency, in the seven days from August 10 to August 17, 2020.

Community Setting Outbreaks:

Case Rate:

Testing:

• No new outbreaks were reported on Aug. 17.

• In the past seven days, 15 community outbreaks were confirmed.

• 202 new cases were reported in San Diego County for a total of 35,162.

• 2,890 or 8.2% of cases have required hospitalization.

• 719 or 2.0% of all cases and 24.9% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

• The region’s state-calculated case rate • 5,584 tests were reported to the County on Aug. 17. The number of laborato- Deaths: is 88.4 for Aug. 18 and the County was ry-confirmed cases was 4%. removed from the state’s monitoring list • Seven new COVID-19 deaths were • The 14-day rolling average percentage today. reported in San Diego County on Aug of positive cases is 4.1%. Target is less • The County will now need to report a 17. The region’s total is now 633. than 8.0%. case rate below 100 cases per 100,000 • Two women and five men died between • The 7-day, daily average of tests is 7,878. people for an additional 14 days. Then Aug. 14 and Aug. 16, and their ages all schools grades K-12 can reopen.

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California Numbers MYLAR BALLOONS AND POWER LINES SHOULD NEVER PARTY TOGETHER.

TOTAL CASES:

TOTAL DEATHS:

638,831

11,523

(+1.0% increase)

TESTS REPORTED:

(+ 1.6% increase)

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Keeping Our Families and Communities Healthy

HOW DOES CONTACT TRACING WORK? If you test positive for COVID-19:

If you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19:

Separate yourself from those in your home and avoid contact with others to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

You will receive a call from a public health worker who will help you understand next steps.

Your local public health department will contact you.

Those people will be told they may have been exposed, but they will NOT be told your name or any personal information.

They will provide access to testing at no cost to you and medical care, if needed.

You will also be asked to separate yourself from others in your home to protect those around you.

They will connect you to medical care and help you find resources and support if needed. They may stay in touch with you to see if you're okay.

They will stay in touch to see if you develop symptoms or need access to help.

They will ask about places you have been and the people you have spent time with recently. Your information is confidential and will not be shared, and you will not be asked about your immigration status.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Disobedience: continued from page 3

lives will be lost if the church stops being the church. I can’t accept this.

We must love our neighbors. ministers are not included We must stand up for the in the definitions of what is marginalized and oppressed. essential to our society. The We must. To do anything language is all about busi- else would not be the church. nesses. While there is room When someone asks for the given for churches to meet help of churches, I encourage “virtually,” churches can’t do you to help them…no matter the vast majority of their work what any authority says. Civil over a computer screen. More disobedience might be the

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hallmark of our faith at this point.

Thank you Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood studied at Brite Divinity School.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

FEMINISM IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT SOUTH AFRICAN BOOK FAIR 2020 Global Information Network “Feminism: Our Bodies, “Feminism was the portal “Black women will write ourOur Truths” will take cen- through which I stepped into selves into history’s archives,” ter stage at the upcoming the highway version of myself,” said Anelile Gibixego, contribSouth African Book Fair tak- said Dr. Alma-Nalisha Cele. utor to Living While Feminist: ing place virtually from Sept. “Black, womxn and alive in Our Bodies, Our Truths with 11-13 at the culmination of this world. Feminism gave the essay “Feminism in the South Africa’s National Book me the language to name my church – The Teaching and Week. experiences.” the Unlearning”. “When I write as a feminist, I write to Featured speakers include A discussion of the book: empower, to acknowledge and Mishumo Maduma, Terry- “Pe r i l s of P a t r i a rc hy : to explore our diversities.”

Ann Adams, Jen Thorpe and W h e n e v e r, W h e r e v e r, Anelile Gibixego in discussion Everyday – Confront not The September virtual event with Dr. Alma-Nalisha Cele Cower” – a collection of 10 includes a mix of poetry seson how women’s bodies fil- essays, will be led by Candice sions, author-led panel dister their life experiences and Chirwa, the book’s editor and cussions, small business skills can be tools for conformity or a thought leader with an inter- development workshops, an est in gender and youth issues. industry marketplace as well resistance.

as the National Book Week Magic Tent offering children online storytelling, poetry sessions, writing and illustration workshops as well as motivational talks and puppet and theatre shows.

New this year is a Battle of the Bookclubs Literature Quiz which begins in August and a history-themed session that looks at the role of women in

struggles for liberation, with a focus on how their stories are not documented or, if they are, are frequently located in the domestic, not national, realm.

to earth: from farm to table), Travel, Science Fiction and Poetry.

Over 23 expert and authorled panels will present topical issues with the books to Other topics to be covered match. include Race & Identity (Black Lives Matter, White Additional information on the Privilege), Relationships & Virtual South African Book Erotica, Crime (Investigative Fair 2020 can be found on the Journalism; Villains of Past official website www.southafand Present), Food (Down ricanbookfair.co.za

GERMAN OFFER OF $12 MILLION FOR

GENOCIDE REPARATIONS IS TOSSED AS “UNACCEPTABLE”

BY NAMIBIAN LEADER Global Information Network The Namibian government has turned thumbs down to a German offer of US$11.8 million ($10 million Euros) as reparations for Germany’s genocidal extermination of indigenous Herero and Nama people from 1904-1908.

The reparations offer for mass killings by Germany in the colony known as German South West Africa were “not acceptable”, declared President Hage Geingob, adding that the figure was “an insult to Namibia.”

Geingob’s retort was affirmed

by Claus Stacker, editor at the German news service DW. “The figure is so shameful

and ridiculously low that it in no way resembles a serious offer of reparations,” Stacker said. “Ten million euros can in no way be the result of five years of interrupted negotiations over the mass murder of the Herero and Nama people exactly 116 years ago.”

sands of indigenous people in present-day Namibia through starvation and thirst in the Omaheke Desert, through forced labor, sexual violence, medical experiments and disease in concentration camps.

The goal was to rid the colony of people viewed as expendable and thus gain access to their land.

“One thing remains clear and cannot be glossed over,” he continued. “The negotiations “This genocide, the first of the must be concluded and an twentieth century, was a preofficial German apology is lude to the Holocaust in both long overdue.” the ideology of racial hierarchy that justified the genocide According to t he U.S. and in the methods employed,” Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Museum entry reads.

German military forces, called Schutztruppe, exter- “Historians estimate that minated hundreds of thou- approximately 80,000 indige-

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nous people were killed in the genocide. While these numbers are difficult to confirm, this figure represents about 80 percent of the Herero people and 50 percent of the Nama people. “ In 1985, the U.N.’s Whitaker Report on the crime of genocide concluded that the German massacre of the Hereros qualified as genocide and was one of the earliest attempts at genocide in the 20th century.

In July 2015, the German

government and the speaker of the Bundestag officially called the events “genocide” but refused to consider reparations.

nation of Burundi announced it will seek reparations from both Germany and Belgium in the sum of $42.6 billion for damages done during colonialism and for the return A ha l f cent u r y a f ter of historical artifacts and Germany’s war on the Herero, archive material believed the all-white government of stolen by the two European South Africa extended its countries. brutal policies of segregation to Namibia. Decades after the From 1890, Germany colocountry gained independence, nized Burundi, which became the Herero are still fighting to part of German East Africa.

After WWI, the country was regain what they once had. ruled by Belgium, until it This week, in a related devel- gained its independence in opment, the East African 1962.

CAMEROON RECONSIDERS PLAN TO

STRIP LAST INTACT FOREST IN CENTRAL AFRICA Global Information Network Good news is rare for those toiling to save the environment, but this week environmentalists could finally share the excitement of a hard-won success.

The government of Cameroon just announced it was canceling plans to log some 170,000 acres of the Ebo Forest, home to hundreds of rare plant and animal species, including the tool-using NigeriaCameroon chimpanzee, the western gorilla and giant

frogs.

The decision to save the forests followed organized pressure from indigenous communities, conservation groups and scientists.

In addition to its rich biodiversity, the Ebo Forest, located in southwestern Cameroon, is culturally and societally important for the Banen Indigenous people, who consider it their sacred ancestral home.

The Banen were ousted from tory can still be found [in the the forest in the 1960s, but forest]. You can still find our settled just a few miles from cocoa plantations, even after its borders and still rely on it 60 years. Our dead are buried for food and medicine. The there.” community has fought for decades to return to their The clock to save Ebo native villages. began to tick in July, when Cameroon Prime Minister “We have always lived in harJoseph Dion Ngute signed mony with this forest and a decree that turned half of its diversity, but people just want to make money,” Chief the Ebo Forest into a “forest Victor Yetina, a ruler among management unit,” allowing the Banen, told The Guardian the government to sell lognewspaper. “Much of our his- ging concessions.

But on August 11, Ngute, at the direction of President Paul Biya, withdrew the decree, suspending any logging plans, according to the news site Afrik21. President Biya also ordered a delay to reclassify an additional 160,000 acres of the Ebo, which could have potentially opened up even more forest for logging.

forest is hugely welcome,” said Bethan Morgan, head of the San Diego Zoo’s Global Central Africa Program who has worked to protect the forest’s great apes, in a statement.

“We hope that the international community will seize this opportunity to work with the government of Cameroon to make Ebo a showcase for The government’s “interven- long-term conservation in tion to halt the imminent harmony with very chaldestruction of this unique lenged communities.”

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HEALTHY LIVING

How to Save Money

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EDUCATION EIS and Rhymes with Reason

Offer Free Online on Prescriptions if You Lost Coverage Learning Resource Many Americans are feeling the effects of job loss and furloughs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. For people with a chronic condition, loss of insurance coverage can create additional stress during this uncertain time. However, it’s vitally important for them to stay adherent to their medication to maintain their health and to reduce their risk of complications from COVID-19.

Fortunately, there are ways that people can obtain their medications affordably and predictably even if they have lost coverage.

One program is called Express Scripts Parachute Rx, which offers deep discounts on prescription medications, capping costs at $25 for a 30-day supply of generics, and $75 for a 30-day supply of select brand-name medications for eligible customers. There are more than 40 brand-name medications and thousands of generic medicines available through the program, treating reproductive health, as well as conditions such as asthma, diabetes, glaucoma, heart disease, migraine, non-opioid pain management, seizures and thyroid conditions. The

program, which is available for a limited time, is not health insurance and does not require an enrollment fee or commitment to participate.

Collaboration will support 200 San Diego students to increase vocabulary and verbal skills

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The Elementary Institute of Science (EIS), a nonprofit organization serving students in southeast San Diego through science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, is offering a free online learning opportunity in conjunction with Rhymes with Reason (RWR), a digital learning resource that helps students in grades 5 and up, build verbal & literacy skills via hip-hop and popular music.

The Moxie Foundation supported the organizations in the effort.

To take advantage of the Express Scripts Parachute R x program, visit w w w. express-scripts.com/ parachuterx to view the list of available medications, eligibility requirements and restrictions. Once you’ve checked medication prices, select the home delivery option.

Also, if you are an Express Scripts’ plan member who is losing coverage, you can transition your prescriptions to Parachute Rx by contacting the number on the back of your prescription card.

Pick up medications at your local pharmacy There are more than 50,000 retail pharmacies, including national chains such as Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid, and thousands of grocers and local community pharma-

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cies that are participating in the Parachute Rx program.

Your local pharmacist can check if discounts are available for your prescription, or you can visit www.expressscripts.com/parachuter x.

Additionally, customer service is available seven days a week at 877.644.0212 to answer any questions you may have about the program.

Affordable access to medication can help you come out of this crisis healthy and ready to return to work. For those whose lives have been upended by this pandemic, there are programs available that can offer a softer landing.

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Steps to Create a Household Budget with Staying Power

These uncertain times are forcing more people to reexamine finances and rewrite their household budgets. According to the Pew Research Center in a survey conducted soon after the COVID-19 crisis began, 33% of Americans either lost their jobs or suffered a pay cut or reduction in work hours. Plus, 49% said the outbreak is a major threat to their personal finances.

Regardless of your situation, examining your budget and making some changes can save money and make your financial future more secure.

Here are four ways to budget wisely.

easy way to save is to cancel premium TV channels, switch to a basic package or even sign up for a streaming service instead (Sling, Hulu, etc.). You can also drop your DVR option to save on the monthly bill.

Digitally streaming or downloading content from your local library is another entertainment option too – everything from movies, music and magazines is available at no charge.

Calculate the bottom line: Find ways to save on the 1.

Figure out your baseline must-haves: Everyone 3. income. Then, categorize needs insurance and many expenses by what you need to maintain your standard of living, such as a mortgage, utilities, groceries and insurance. Another category should include non-essential expenses. Determine if you also want to set aside money for savings, retirement plans or college tuition. And, experts advise setting aside at least three to six months of expenses for emergencies.

Once you have these numbers, you can calculate what you’ll need on a monthly basis.

2.

Eliminate or reduce niceto-haves: If your expenses are still too high, or you want to save more, take another look at discretionary spending and find ways to cut. One

companies offer discounts if you buy both auto and home insurance together. You can also look for unique programs to control expenses.

For example, Erie Insurance offers a program called ERIE Rate Lock that takes away the worry of having car insurance premiums rise with inflation.

Instead, unless you move, get a different car or change drivers, you’ll pay the same amount every year, even if you have a claim. Erie Insurance also announced immediate financial relief for auto customers impacted by the pandemic. Other ways to save include taking advantage of credit card rewards and cash back apps, and making sure to

Rhymes with Reason is an online, pedagogically vetted learning platform fueled by the perspective and creative insight of young millennials and Gen-Z’ers to deliver education to “up and coming” Generation Z students. RWR was founded by 25-year-old San Diego native, Austin Martin who was recently recognized as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education and is an Ed.M candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2021. RWR has partnered with multiple organizations including Chance the Rapper’s nonprofit SocialWorks to bring this leading technology to students all over the country.

The goal of the program is to

promote strong literacy and critical thinking skills that are recognized to be essential for success in all subjects, and especially in STEM. For students to become successful engineers or scientists, they need to develop strong literacy skills. interpretation of technical texts, content-specific vocabulary, and the ability to clearly communicate complex concepts both verbally and written. By integrating literacy and popular music, students become more engaged with reading thus improving their educational outcomes.

its. “We are so grateful that the Moxie Foundation and Rhymes with Reason came through for us. This is a moment when the community is feeling added stress from all that is going on. We believe our students deserve engaging programs and new learning opportunities.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, raising funds to meet the increased educational needs of students has been challenging for nonprof-

Students can sign up at https://rhymeswithreason. com/covid-19/signup with the code EISRWR2020 for free access.

Building a rich vocabulary with hip hop music is another fun addition to EIS programs that set our students up for success in STEM.” Patsy Tomlin, President Board of Directors at EIS.

Enrollment Open for College Readiness Program

Countdown to College Starts Saturday, September 5, 2020, 10 a.m.

Voice & Viewpoint Newswire use them. And if you’re overwhelmed by keeping things organized, there are free services online to track your loyalty program points, including airline miles.

Consider at-home side gigs: Many are supple4. menting their income without

leaving the safety of their living room. In fact, nearly half of working Americans have a gig outside their primary job, according to Bankrate.

But before applying for a remote job, always check with the Better Business Bureau to make sure the company is legit. Depending on your skills, there are a variety of online jobs you could do, such as customer service, copywriting or online tutoring.

By tracking and cutting expenses, taking advantage of discounts and special savings programs, and perhaps even earning extra money on the side, you’ll be on your way to having a household budget with staying power.

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In partnership with the city’s local colleges, Cal-SOAP, and various STEM partners, the Urban League of San Diego County is offering a college readiness program, as part of their larger Project Ready initiative, that prepares students and parents for college survival.

The Countdown to College college readiness program will include step by step action plans that students can use for their pathway into college and tips for college research. There will be parent workshops to provide tips on financing college and tools for securing scholarships. In addition, plans are in the works for engaging presentations and interactive fun activities, according to the organizers.

T he f i rst meet i ng is Saturday, September 5th.

Subsequent meetings gather on the fourth Saturday of each month. On weekdays there will be virtual college classes.

Families with youth in

grades 9-12 are encouraged to register Here’s more information about the program, offered by the Urban League of San Diego team, and how it’s served the San Diego community to date: • 100% go to college • 98% graduate from college • 4 current students will receive scholarships to take classes at University of San Diego while in high school • 2 have received Millennial Gates Foundation Scholarships

• 4 have been accepted into the Ron Brown Pathways Scholars Program • The Urban League of San Diego County has been accepted for the C om mu n it y S chola rs Initiative as a nonprofit partner with the San Diego Foundation Class sessions will be offered via Zoom, starting Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 10 a.m., via Zoom. Visit www.sdul. org/project-ready or call 619266-6247 or 619.263.5370 for more information.

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BUSINESS NEWS Minority-Owned Miestro.com BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Paves Path in the E-Learning Space Voice & Viewpoint Newswire “It’s never been a better time for professionals to leverage their knowledge and expertise and build recurring revenue through the development of online courses,” says Justin Burns, the 33-yearold founder of Miestro.com.

“Our platform was created to allow users to easily create comprehensive online courses and broadcast their expertise to the world in a matter of minutes,” he said.

As social distancing and shelter at home became the newest challenge for burnt-out seasoned professionals to surmount in the era of COVID19, one small company had already been helping frustrated corporate executives turn their expansive knowledge into robust revenue in the multi-billion-dollar e-learning industry.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Miestro.com is a small, m i nor it y- ow ne d , but fast-growing player in the massive open online course (MOOC) industry and has been carving out its own space as a viable online course creation platform for authors, speakers, industry experts and entrepreneurs with small businesses.

“It’s never been a better time for professionals to leverage their knowledge and expertise and build recurring revenue through the development of online courses,” says Justin Burns, the 33-yearold founder of Miestro.com.

“Our platform was created to allow users to easily create

comprehensive online courses and broadcast their expertise to the world in a matter of minutes,” he said.

As a result of his own success as a trained e-learning and education consultant, aut hor and speaker, Burns is becoming known as the go-to authority when it comes to online selling success in the digital age.

The author of the best-selling digital marketing book, “ExpertCode,” Burns has been instrumental in helping hundreds of course creators fulfill their dreams of building and launching successful online courses.

Justin Burns, the 33-year-old founder of Miestro.com

says Burns. “However, after a mentor taught me about the financial opportunities involved in online training and I began study it and leverage my natural speaking and selling abilities, my life and financial prospects started to change,” he shared.

“I learned that when it comes to overcoming challenges, you have to learn to build your own boat and that’s what I’ve done with Miestro,” Burns, who has built Miestro Burns said. into a seven-figure earning company that incorporates the online course platform Enhancing user experiand personal success coach- ence stays at the forefront ing in a few short years, of Miestro’s operation, so had to overcome many per- Burns recently revamped his sonal and professional chal- branding and site offerings lenges and setbacks himself. to increase ease of use, incenHowever, he continues to tive badges and gamification leverage those lessons for the and even allows course cresuccess of his own company, ators to record their screens. as well as the success of his Miestro.com is also a very course creation customers cost-efficient option compared to some competitors, and coaching clients. as its member programs pro“There was a time when I was vide the blueprint to walk perceived as unlikely to ever course creators through speachieve professional success cifically how to create their because I was uninterested own customized courses. in education when I was Prices range from $49 for younger, to the point where basic program and opportumy family thought I might nity to create three courses, have a learning disability,” to $199 for unlimited course

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Beauty Business Voice & Viewpoint Newswire It’s been an exciting couple of years for EnJunaya Canton, owner of Zuhuri Beauty; a skin care line originally created for African American women. Based out of Los Angeles, EnJunaya has been rapidly growing her company for the past few years and is constantly thinking about how she can take it further.

Started in 2006, Zuhuri Beauty was born out of a desire for cleaner, healthier skincare products. After seeing transformative results from starting an organic and vegan diet, EnJunaya realized how much of a difference that healthy, natural ingredients can make.

The realization got her thinking about skincare. She had a background in chemistry and some knowledge about the industry, so she took a leap of faith and started Zuhuri Beauty. EnJunaya has grown Zuhuri quickly and consistently over the past few years. She sells direct online, including Amazon, and through a handful of retailers. She has also been featured in Macy’s and Walmart.com.

She was able to receive the money she needed through PACE (Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment), a community development corporation that focuses on areas including entrepreneurship and economic inequity in diverse communities throughout Los But, like many small business, Zuhuri Beauty Angeles. was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was an incredibly tough time, and EnJunaya “I had gone to every program that had existed spent long hours trying to maintain the [and got rejected],” said EnJunaya. “I found business in addition to trying to find fund- PACE and they said, ‘We are going to help you.’” ing to help her keep it running.

creation opportunities and coaching features. The company also hosts online course education summits a few times a year, with one scheduled for July 31 to August 2, 2020.

Burns who was approached to be acquired by another company, says he’s in no rush to sell his company and is determined to build Miestro. com into a top tier learning management system (LMS) company and make his mark as the only black founder in the e-learning space.

“We live in a world where people need to have a great user experience and I’m excited that we have been getting great feedback on our revamped site that makes it easier, faster and more efficient for our members,” says Burns. “Minorities are not really big players in this space, but Miestro.com is well-positioned to grow quickly and we’re excited about where we are and where we’re going as we continue to attract new members, including some very well-known industry leaders,” he said.

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least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Mary M. Johnson filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego North County Division 325 S. Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 37-2020-00024435CU-PT-NC Petitioner or Attorney: Shanshan Chen

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Located at: 4397 Elm St San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was 07/11/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Danielle Nicole Hollins 4397 Elm St San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego --Virgil Rondell Harris 4397 Elm St San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 28, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on July 28, 2025 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9013035 Fictitious business name(s): Freedom Flooring & Interiors --All Cabinets Wholesale

Located at: 120 N. Pacific Street A-11 San Marcos, CA 92069 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Dawn Elaine Leeser 1906 S Tremont Street A Oceanside, CA 92054 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 04, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 04, 2025 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10

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Located at: 3577 J Street San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 06/15/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Crystal Rae Johnson 3577 J Street San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 12, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 12, 2025 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9012173 Fictitious business name(s): Ave's Landscaping

Located at: 2488 56th St. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Alfred Morris II 2488 56th St. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 20, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on July 20, 2025 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9012997 Fictitious business name(s): Polishd n Poppin Nails

Located at: 144 S. 45th Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 06/19/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Antoinette L. Pottinger 144 S. 45th Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 04, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 04, 2025 08/13, 08/20, 08/27, 09/03 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9012851 Fictitious business name(s): Live Love Legacy

Located at: 5444 Roswell St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 07/09/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: LaTasha Red Grant 5444 Roswell St. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 01, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 01, 2025 08/13, 08/20, 08/27, 09/03 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9012605 Fictitious business name(s): Safe Place Counseling

Located at: 1913 Euclid Ave Unit 108 San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego --704 Country Club Drive Durham, NC 27712

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Located at: 7910 Sterling Drive El Cajon, CA 92021 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Delona King 7910 Sterling Drive El Cajon, CA 92021 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on July 27, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on July 27, 2025 08/13, 08/20, 08/27, 09/03 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9012868 Fictitious business name(s): The Wrongkind Depot

Located at: 4465 Rosebud Lane Suite 1 La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 07/31/2019 This business is hereby registered by the following: La Shon M. Williams Sr. 4465 Rosebud Lane Suite 1 La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on August 01, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on August 01, 2025 08/13, 08/20, 08/27, 09/03 -----------------------------------

NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2020-00027306CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Charmaine Yolanda Lindsay-Engdahl To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Charmaine Y. Lindsay-Engdahl filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Charmaine L. Engdahl aka Charmaine Lindsay Engdahl aka Charmaine Lindsayengdahl aka Charmaine Engdahl PROPOSED NAME: Charmaine Yolanda Lindsay-Engdahl THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 17, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 ----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Hall of Justice Courthouse 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2020-00028013CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Samuel Jermont Gibbs Jr. To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Samuel Jermont Gibbs Jr. filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Samuel Jermont Gibbs. Jr. PROPOSED NAME: Devon Jermont Dantzler Sr.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 23, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 ----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego Central 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2020-00027436CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Bruce M. Abrams, Esq. To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner

PRESENT NAME: Mary Montgomery Johnson PROPOSED NAME: Mary Ann Montgomery THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 17, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made:

To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:

Petitioner Alysha Lindsey Whitehead filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:

PRESENT NAME: Ryan Chen Yang

PRESENT NAME: Alysha Lindsey Whitehead

PROPOSED NAME: Ryan Chen Gui

PROPOSED NAME: Lindsey Alysha Robles-Whitehead

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 01, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 23 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the Court not conducting in-person hearings, the following Order is Made:

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

The Court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause.

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 08/20, 08/27, 09/03, 09/10 -----------------------------------

To All Interested Persons:

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to you.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the Court will mail you a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the Court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

IF YOU ARE A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO A NAME CHANGE, YOU MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do Not Come to Court on the Specified Date, you will be notified by mail by the Court of a future hearing date.

Any Petition for the Name Change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause on the other, nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the Court.

IT IS SO ORDERED. ) The address of the court is: 325 S. Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 07/30, 08/06, 08/13, 08/20 -----------------------------------

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 10, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is Made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The Court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor, that is signed by only one parent, must have this Attachement served along with the

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Project Name: North City Pure Water Facility Project Number: K-21-1810DBB-3-A Estimated Value: $463,160,000.00 Mandatory Pre-Bid 1: 8/18/2020 at 10:00 A.M Mandatory Pre-Bid 2: 8/25/2020 at 1:00 P.M Bid Open Date: 10/01/2020, at 2:00 P.M. License Requirement: A It is the policy of the City of San Diego to encourage equal opportunity in its Construction and Consultant contracts. Bids or proposals from local firms, small, minority-owned, disabled, veteran-owned, and womenowned businesses are strongly encouraged. Contractors are encouraged to subcontract with and/or participate in joint ventures with these firms. The City is committed to equal opportunity and will not discriminate with regard to race, religion, color, ancestry, age, gender, disability, medical condition or place of birth; and will not do business with any firm that discriminates on any basis.

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COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED: Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CZ21-0220-39) or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received electronically at or before 1:00 p.m. on SEPTEMBER 10, 2020. Firms interested in submitting a bid package must go to https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43764&BidID=75299 then search under “Bid Opportunities” for “Invitation number” CZ21-0220-39 Curie Elementary School Joint use Field. For new vendors, please register under “New Vendor Registration”.

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REQUEST FOR BIDS Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive “ELECTRONIC-ONLY” bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services to: FURNISH AND INSTALL FENCING AND SINGLE POINT ENTRY AT MULTIPLE SITES GROUP C A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2020, in front of the main office of Riley ES at 5650 Mt. Ackerly Dr., San Diego, CA, 92111. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Whittier ES at 3401 Clairemont Dr., San Diego, CA 92117. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Millennial Tech Middle School ES at 1110 Carolina Ln., San Diego, CA, 92102. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Grant K-8 at 1425 Washington Pl., San Diego, CA 92103. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Washington ES at 1789 State St., San Diego, CA, 92101. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Silver Gate ES at 1499 Venice St., San Diego, CA, 92107. Upon completion, all contractors will proceed to Sunset View ES at 4365 Hill St., San Diego, CA 92107. ALL CONTRACTORS MUST PREREGISTER WITH THE DISTRICT PRIOR TO ATTENDING THE SITE WALK. Please send only one representative per Company. Contact jimperial@sandi.net for the link to preregister. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CZ21-0041-52).

COVID-19 SITE WALK SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WILL BE ENFORCED: Please refer to Planwell (www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD and project bid number CZ21-0041-52) or The Daily Transcript Publication for the complete Advertisement for Bids which includes Site Walk Safety Precautions AND preregistration information.

All bids must be received electronically at or before 1:00 p.m. on SEPTEMBER 9, 2020. Firms interested in submitting a bid package must go to https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal. cfm?CompanyID=43764 then search under “Bid Opportunities” for “Invitation number” CZ210041-52 Furnish and Install Fencing at Single Point Entry at Multiple Sites Group C. For new vendors, please register under “New Vendor Registration.”

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: Required by City of San Diego Fire Department • 08 71 00 “Door Hardware” Owner furnished and Contractor installed • 28 10 05 “Video Intercommunications System” • 28 13 00 “Access Control” The project estimate is between $1.7 million and $1.9 million. This is a PSA project and requires 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 or other appropriate license, subject to District approval.

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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 “ELECTRONIC-ONLY” bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services for: CURIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOINT USE FIELD

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REQUEST FOR BIDS NOTICE TO BIDDERS HA BUILDER GROUP, LLC, General Contractor, License # 991686, is hereby soliciting construction bids (including DVBE, MBE, WBE and Section 3) for ALL BUILDING TRADES. Project & Location: The Orchard at Hilltop • 5012, 5032, 5052 Hilltop Drive San Diego, CA 92102 Anticipated Work Commencement Date: Mid-October 2020 Bid Documents: Bids shall be in accordance with the bid documents accessible via link below https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8hjez14v6q5iiq1/AAA2zwxuRlWkBrlyTAllCkSOa?dl=0 • BIDDING: The Orchard at Hilltop • Prevailing Wage: This project is subject to Residential State Prevailing Wage or Residential Federal Prevailing Wage, whichever is higher for each category. However, the scopes of Storefront/Glazing and Structural Concrete, shall be subject to Commercial Prevailing Wage rates (in-lieu of Residential rates). LWO “living wage” may apply to work that is not subject to Prevailing Wage Law: The current wage determination is 20201, San Diego County.

• DIR Registration: You must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. Click link below for DIR registration completion or renewal. https://www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/Contractor-Registration.html • Section 3 Requirements: This project has HUD Section 3 requirements (24CFR135) • Bids Due Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 by 10 am (PST) • Trade Scopes Include (but not limited to): Brick/Block Layers, Finish Carpenters, Insulation Installer, Cement Mason, Drywall, Electrician, Elevator Mechanic, Glaziers, Iron-workers, Laborers, Painter, Plaster, Plumber/ pipe-fitter, Roofer, Fire Sprinkler, Floor Layer, Sheet Metal, HVAC, Tile Layer, Truck Driver, Fence Erector, Operator Eng, Cabinet Installer, Framer, Landscape etc. Though bids are welcomed from all appurtenant & applicable trades.

• HA Builder Group, LLC hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, ancestry, or national origin in consideration for an award. ****Bid Delivery & Questions: Pre-bid RFI’s, contractual questions, and bid submissions should be directed to Zack Peterson via email at zack@jpkcm.net (858.869.3406)**** • • •

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USPS: continued from cover (D-Va.), and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), also told BlackPressUSA that the president is trying to dismantle the postal service.

Trump has steadfast ly opposed funding the postal service.

Despite recently voting with his wife by mail in a Florida primary election, the president said he’s against mail-in voting.

“Trump is not stupid. He knows if there is a decentsized turnout in this election, he loses,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) wrote on Twitter.

“He and his friends believe they can suppress the vote by destroying the post office. We aren’t going to allow that to happen.”

Several postal workers have reported the removal of sorting machines at postal facilities and the removal of sidewalk mailboxes.

Postal officials reported that in the last week, the agency had removed letter collection boxes in at least four states: New York, Oregon, Montana, and Indiana.

Postal workers in at least three states – West Virginia, Florida, and Missouri – have received notification that retail operating hours also face reduction.

Removing mailboxes had become a practice along marathon and parade routes since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, however, the latest removals are believed intentional and strategically coordinated to impact the election.

In response to the removal of mailboxes and a slowdown in the delivery of mail, the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) sent a letter to the Postmaster General on Aug. 7. New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D), Louisiana Secretary of

machines that are fundamental to the functioning of the postal service. Meanwhile, mail delivery is slowing down under other decisions made

by DeJoy, such as eliminating overtime for postal workers,” “State and local election offi- the organization wrote in a cials are busy planning for the statement.

November general election, and many expect an increase This week, the U.S. Inspector in the use of absentee and General opened an invesmail ballots, along with other tigation into DeJoy’s policy election-related mailings,” the changes at the post office. state officials wrote.

According to some lawmakers, “We view the [United States those changes are reportedly Postal Service] as a vital part- taking a toll on military vetner in administering a safe, erans who are experiencing successful election and would much longer wait times to like to learn more about any receive mail-order prescripplanned changes around tion drugs.

USPS service due to COVID19, preparations for increased Slowdowns at the post office election-related mail, USPS have reportedly also resulted staffing levels and process- in seniors receiving their meding times, and other pertinent ications late and other important mail like social security issues.” checks.

The postal service has sent letters to warn 46 states that It has also angered those who it could not guarantee all work for the agency. mail-in ballots cast for the Postal workers throughout November election would the country have reported arrive in time to be counted. low morale, and many have Some states, like Maryland cited the actions of Dejoy, and Virginia, received a who was appointed by Trump. “heightened warning” that the On Friday, Aug. 14, the postal service could not meet National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), a union state-mandated deadlines. that boasts nearly 300,000 In response, a large group active and retired postal workof protesters staged a “noise ers, endorsed Presumptive demonstration” on Saturday, Democratic Presidential Aug. 15, outside of Postmaster Nominee Joe Biden.

General Louis DeJoy’s home “Vice President Biden is, was, in Washington, D.C. and will continue to be a The demonstration was orga- fierce ally and defender of the nized by the direct-action United States Postal Service, letter carriers, and our felgroup “Shut Down D.C.” low postal brothers and sisThe organization said they ters,” NALC President Fredric believe DeJoy is “disman- Rolando said in a statement. tling” the U.S. Postal Service in favor of President Donald “Together, Biden and [vice Trump’s re-election. They said presidential running mate] his actions contribute to voter Sen. Kamala Harris fully exhibit the experience, dedsuppression. ication, thoughtfulness and “DeJoy has fired or reas- steady hands that will work to signed much of the existing ensure that letter carriers and USPS leadership and ordered working families are put first,” the removal of mail sorting Rolando declared.

State R. Kyle Ardoin (R), Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) joined in signing the letter.

VOTING: continued from cover According to Ballotpedia, as of 2020, California is one of three states that require people convicted of felonies to complete their prison and parole sentences to regain their right to vote. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia restore voting rights to people convicted of felonies after they complete their prison term.

Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) introduced the bill in the California Legislature. It was sponsored by the California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of California, and Initiate Justice, an advocacy group focused on ending mass incarceration. The bill was also a priority bill of the California Legislative Black Caucus.

“ACA 6 gives Californians the chance to right a wrong and restore voting rights for a marginalized community and people of color,” McCarty said June 24. “This is good for democracy and good for public safety.”

Parole is the re-entry period after serving a prison term that allows a convicted felon to be released from prison with restrictions. The ballot measure brings up the ques-

tion of whether the right to vote is a necessary restriction that’s integral to the parole process.

itored by the system. Any misstep results in immediate re-incarceration. In other words, an individual on parole has not regained the full trust Supporters of Prop 17 argue of the society at large, nor the that previously incarcerated privilege to participate as a persons contribute to soci- full member of that society,” ety while on parole, through the letter read. working and volunteering.

They say because of those Prop 17 disproportionately contributions, parolees should affects Black and Brown have a say in the legislative Californians, who comprise process. most incarcerated people in the state. According to the “This bill says once you have paid your debts to society and Public Policy Institute of have returned to society to California, Black people make work and pay taxes and con- up 26% of parolees. About 6% tribute, that you should also of the population of California have the right to voice your is Black. opinion about your elected “People on parole are our famrepresentative,” arg ued ily members, our colleagues, Senator Holly Mitchell (D-Los our neighbors, our friends,” Angeles). said Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena).

“They go to Opponents of the ballot meawork every day.

They pay sure argue that withholding taxes.

They do their part to the right to vote as part of successfully reintegrate themthe re-entry process is meant selves back into society, yet “to incentivize further approthe stigma exists for them.” priate behavior.” Election Integrity Project California, a voter roll watchdog group, “The removal of the right to submitted a letter opposing vote is not based in an interACA 6 to the state legislature. est in public safety. Rather, it is rooted in a punitive justice “While on parole, the individ- belief system that intentionual’s liberties, such as move- ally attempts to rob marginment, association, activities alized people of their political and even ownership of cer- power,” said Taina Vargastain items are still heavily Edmond, Executive Director restricted and regularly mon- of Initiate Justice.

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August 14, 2020 The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of California Governor’s Office State Capitol, Sacramento, California. 95814 Dear Governor Newsom, We appreciate your leadership and continue to support you in your efforts to guide California through these great challenges. In this extraordinary moment in our nation’s history, it has never been more important for citizens to be able to trust that its leaders will speak the truth, make decisions based upon facts, and do all in their power to protect lives.

Here are the facts: The coronavirus pandemic is impacting Black and Hispanic communities at a devastatingly disproportionate rate. Infection and death rates are as much as 50% higher for Black and Hispanic Americans. Unemployment among Blacks and Hispanics stands at 15.8% and 14.7% respectively and now exceeds 30% among young people of color. More than 40% of Black businesses and a third of Hispanic businesses have closed since the pandemic began, most of them permanently. Without immediate, focused action by state and federal leaders, COVID-19 will condemn millions of Black and Brown American families to poverty for generations to come.

It is unconscionable for the State of California to wage a political war on the gig-economy in the middle of this crisis. Thousands of small businesses were forced to close or lay off workers because of a controversial law you signed aimed at forcing companies to restrict the use of independent contractors. While the law may have been well-intentioned, thousands of Black and brown businesses are being crushed by the twin catastrophes of AB5 and COVID-19. And now your Administration is attempting to shut down the gig-economy platforms that you yourself declared to be providing essential services, critical to health and safety, during a national crisis.

Millions of people who are abiding by your stay-at-home order are relying on gig-economy platforms for food delivery, transportation, and access to COVID testing out of fear of using public transit. While thousands of businesses are shutting their doors, rideshare, delivery, and other on-demand networks are looking for workers - offering the only available source of income now and for the foreseeable future.

Governor – we urge you to use the power of your office to stop the political war and order the parties to propose a resolution. We know there is a better way. Other states are already advancing discussions on a compromise proposal that allows workers to remain independent while providing benefits to workers and ensuring that the basic rights and protections enshrined in federal and state laws are extended to all workers regardless of employment classification. These proposals, sponsored by labor organizations and supported by gig-economy companies, include the right for independent workers to organize and engage in collective bargaining.

The fact is that this crisis demands a new approach. COVID-19 has exposed just how broken the existing safety net programs are for people of color. Unemployment insurance in the U.S. is a patchwork of statecontrolled programs originally designed to allow states to exclude Black domestic and agricultural workers during the Great Depression. The challenges faced by Black Americans in accessing unemployment assistance, business loans, and other pandemic assistance funding today are the direct result of racist policies that systematically disenfranchise Black Americans because they do not look like the traditional employees and businesses for whom these programs were designed.

Ninety-six percent of Black-owned businesses and 82% of all minority owner businesses are sole proprietorships, most with fewer than 5 employees. Between one third and one half of workers in the socalled “gig” economy are people of color. Men and women of color are using freelance technology platforms like Lyft, Uber, UpWork, Fiverr, Etsy, and Doordash to create their own safety nets, access employment opportunities, or start their own businesses. We pay for our own sick leave, family leave, health care, and unemployment. More often than not we go without, because who we are, where we live and how we work dictates whether these benefits are affordable or even available.

The Fair Shake Commission, a body founded by the leadership of your own economic recovery task force, laid out key principles to level the playing field for all workers, including extending basic worker protections such as minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation to contract and independent workers; creating portable benefit structures for healthcare, retirement and other benefits; and allowing labor unions to organize and represent independent workers in bargaining for compensation and other benefits. Instead of waging war on the gig-economy and trying to force millions of individuals to into traditional employment just to be protected by antiquated labor codes, this crisis demands that we use the opportunity to update the labor codes to extend protections to all workers regardless of whether they work full time, part-time, as employees, or as independent contractors.

As organizations serving communities of color, we encourage you to use your executive authority during this emergency to harness the power of the gig-economy and provide immediate funding for job training and apprenticeship programs in communities experiencing high unemployment. Specific provisions we support include: • Flexible, Portable Benefits for Independent Workers: Require participating businesses to pay surtaxes to cover benefits for independent workers and allow individuals to make tax free contributions. Allow independent workers to use funds deposited into portable benefits accounts to cover paid time off, sick leave, health care costs, temporary unemployment or retirement savings.

• Job Training, Re-Skilling, Apprenticeship Funding: Require participating businesses to spend amounts equal to at least 1% of revenues annually on accredited job training, paid internships, and apprenticeship programs serving communities with high unemployment.

• Business-Labor Industry Council: Permit labor unions to represent independent workers through the creation of business-labor industry associations (“Industry Councils”) authorized to collectively bargain issues related to compensation and terms and conditions of work across industry sectors.

• Social Equity: Require all entities participating in Industry Councils - labor, businesses, government, and non-governmental organizations -- to publish social equity scores and policies aimed at eliminating racial bias in hiring, training, promotion, services and resource allocation, including a requirement to annually publish data identifying the percentage of the organization’s governing boards, executives and employees that are people of color.

• Community Financial Institutions: Require businesses contributing to portable benefit funds to utilize Community Financial Institutions with priority given to Minority Financial Institutions and Minority Asset Managers for the administration of benefit funds.

• Worker Rights / Recognition of Gig-Economy Workers: Protect the rights of self-employed individuals to work independently while ensuring that the basic rights and protections enshrined in federal and state laws extend to all workers regardless of employment classification. Also, recognize a new category of “mixed earner” to ensure that workers who earn a mix of traditional (W-2) and independent (1099) employment income are able to fully access federal and state unemployment assistance and benefit programs.

Governor, for African Americans, self-employment is not just a matter of pride – it is a matter of principle. Our people have been fighting for the right to profit from our own labor for over 400 years. We are proud of our resilience and entrepreneurship in the face of odds that have always been stacked against us. But while the coronavirus is destroying Black businesses, we must not allow this disease to destroy our independence. You have an historic opportunity to help communities of color rebuild from this disaster and in doing so create a strong, new safety net for all Californians and a model for the nation. African Americans have the strength to lift ourselves up and rebuild from COVID-19. We urge you to use the power of your office to give us the tools to do so.

Sincerely,

Robert Sausedo Co-Chair President & CEO Community Build, Inc.

Michael Lawson Treasurer President & CEO Los Angeles Urban League

Gilbert R. Vasquez Board Member Founder Vasquez & Associates Chair - LA Latino Chamber of Commerce

Paulette Brown-Hinds Recording Secretary Founder Black Voice News