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The San Diego Monitor DowDupont, sulfoxaflor is “highly toxic to bees and other pollinating insects,” and it also appears to harm wild pollinators like bumblebees at low doses. In 2016, under pressure from a lawsuit by environmental groups and a federal court order, the agency severely limited use of the insecticide. On Friday, the EPA undid many of those restrictions, expanding the bug killer’s potential domain to corn, soybeans, cotton, alfalfa, millet,

Trump Stings Honeybees While They’re Down The president just okayed a bee-killing insecticide and squashed a USDA program to track the insects’ health.

Bees are in a world of trouble right now. A few years ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency took some steps to protect the insects by limiting the use of an insecticide called sulfoxaflor. Made by Corteva, the agricultural arm of

These crops cover a massive amount of land and represent a huge prospective market. In a typical year, corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and cotton are planted on about 190 million acres—a combined land mass equal to nearly two Californias. So the decision marks a vast expansion of territory on which bees could encounter sulfoxaflor.

Environmental groups were aghast. “The Trump EPA’s reckless approval of this bee-killing pesticide across 200 million US acres of crops like strawberries and watermelon without any public process is a terrible blow to imperiled pollinators,” Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s environmental health program, stated in a press release. Greg Loarie, an attorney for Earthjustice, called the decision “nothing short of reckless.”

The decision to dramatically broaden the scope of sulfoxaflor use is the second time Trump’s EPA has defied scientific consensus in favor of an insecticide marketed by Dow, one of Corteva’s corporate predecessors. In March 2017, the agency reversed a decision made late in the Obama administration to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used bug killer known to damage kid’s brains at low exposure levels. Dow, then still a standalone company, had contributed $1 million to the president’s inaugural committee.

The sulfoxaflor move also marked the second swipe the Trump administration took at bees in less than two weeks.

On July 1, the US Department of Agriculture decided that the government simply can’t afford to track the health of honeybees, the insects we largely rely on to pollinate about one-third of the crops we eat. WATCH HERE

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Seven San Diegans Receive Honorary Doctorate Degrees

On Saturday, August 17, 2019, seven San Diegans represented the city well by receiving Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Next Dimension University.

Held in the beautiful West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles, a packed house estimated at over 2,500 attendees witnessed some three hundred graduates receive their degrees.

Honorary Doctorate Degrees in Divinity went to Dr. Terry Wayne Brooks, Pastor of Bayview Baptist Church, Dr. Troy Owens of New Life Baptist Church, Keith E. Brown, Sr., of Bayview Baptist Church and Dr. Larry “Preacherman” Thompson of New Life Baptist Church.

Dr. Leonard James Thompson, III received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Theology and Dr. Eddie Baltrip received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Sacred Music.

William Tayari Howard received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Humane Letters.

All Honorary Doctorate recipients were announced by Dr. Eric Chambers.

The graduation ceremony also brought some of Hollywood’s noted entertainers receiving Honorary Doctorate Degrees in the likes of Dr. Marla Gibbs, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award, Apostle Dr. Frederick K. C. Price, Sr., receiving the Living Legend Award, Dr. Dawn Lewis, Dr. Bill Duke, Dr. Paul Jackson, Jr., Dr. Kurt Carr and “Radioscopes” Dr. Lee Bailey.

Officiated by Next Dimension University President Dr. Joel McLeod and keynote speaker Dr. Kenneth Ulmer, the graduation was followed by a Red-Carpet Walk, Banquet and God Awards Presentation held at the L.A.X. Hilton Hotel.

William “Tayari” Howard is second generation broadcaster in the radio industry. And is the proprietor of two online radio stations here in San Diego KKSD.com and one that is being redesigned formally known as KBLK.com.

SDMNEWS, The Morrow Family and Neche Media would like to say to all recipients Congratulations.

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Always Yes

Young Black & n’ Business entrepreneur’s Y.E.S. Fest nd

leveled up at their 2 annual 2019 Festival in City Heights on 43rd and El Cajon Blvd. On sun-soaked August 24, 2019 Saturday afternoon the larger outdoors urban venue was bustling with black commerce from beauty, to food, health, sports and of course media.

Hosted by Kayshawn Perry and Y.E.S. Fest founder Roosevelt Williams, this year’s festival featured good music, giveaways and a friendly vibe as a bevy of activities took center stage throughout the day. Partnering with Han Lee Global Industries, Steam Collaborative and Black San Diego Empowering Our Community facebook group, NAREB and Copley YMCA among other local black businesses, Mr. Williams collaborations served to greatly expand this year’s festival offering.

Invited dignitaries such as mayoral candidate Barabara Bry and Lemon Grove Mayor Racquel Vasquez dropped by to encourage enterprise and present awards to stand out community activists. Along with motivational speaker, Dr. Clarence Lee sharing the importance of entrepreneurship as the answer to closing generational wealth gaps.

Well attended by San Diego shoppers and business enthusiasts’ conversations about brands, branding, business plans and growth were abuzz, against a back drop of attractive vendor displays, generously given marketing swag and the exchange of dollars from one black hand to another.

“Say Yes to the Fest” seems to be more than a slogan, it is young black entrepreneurs taking collective responsibility for investing in their futures.

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SDMNEWS Must Event Dr Runoko Rashidi returns to WorldBeat Center for a special presentation on the “Afrikan Presence in Latin America” Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence–that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence and AssataGarvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017. His other works include Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2011 and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2012 and revised and reprinted in April 2013 and Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers, published by Books of Africa in 2015.

His other works include the African Presence in Early Asia, coedited by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Four of Runoko’s works have been published in French.

As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 120 countries.

As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken in sixty-five countries.

Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of our generation, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan.

In 2005 Rashidi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Amen-Ra Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.

In October 1987 Rashidi inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer’s Conference in Hyderabad, India. In 1999 he was the major keynote speaker at the International Reunion of the African Family in Latin America in Barlovento, Venezuela.

In August 2010 he was first keynote speaker at the First Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria.

In December 2010 he was President and first speaker at the Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

He is currently pursuing a major work on the African presence in the museums of the world.

As a tour leader he has taken groups to India, Australia, Fiji, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Togo, Benin, France, Belgium, England, Cote d’Ivoire, Namibia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Luxembourg, Germany, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Gambia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

Runoko Rashidi’s major mission in life is the uplift of African people, those at home and those abroad. He is the official Traveling Ambassador for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. For more information write to Runoko@hotmail.com His web site is www.drrunoko.com

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The San Diego Monitor of reconstruction to help former enslaved people function in our advanced society as equals. Programs of education, political empowerment, and support were accompanied by federal protection of troops against the vigilantes who would keep black people from voting or working through intimidation and violence. However, as happened with Trump and his ilk and has been happening since the New Deal, right-wing white supremacists in north and south were unsatisfied with this—with reconstruction. They united and promised one of the candidates—Hayes,

Just as the ideology of male supremacy can't always last uninterrupted in the face of outrageous injustice, neither can the ideology of white supremacy. Sometimes it is fought in its oppressive hideousness. How did it get this way? Well, the slaves were freed—unless they were found guilty of a crime—way back in 1865. And way back then, those people from the north who were enlightened and had some morality and those southerners who had some moral sense of obligation to the people that they enslaved and many what were then African Americans or black people created rules and laws

President Hayes—that if he would end reconstruction and protections for black people and call off reconstruction, he would get their votes; much as many Republicans in a quieter more dog-whistle policy let whites know that they will not protect black people if they're elected.

The main method of control wasn't the violence—which was of course also used—but to deny black people of decently paid employment. Black men were never paid the family wages of white men, so they couldn't support their families.

Black women were economically forced into the lowest paid work as maids or nannies, as servants or in the lowliest jobs.

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The San Diego Monitor employed either not at all—were unemployed—or in jobs that did not earn money. They couldn't support their families. Black women had to often neglect their own children while they took care of white people's children and homes. They were denied the mothering they needed.

Their families were denied the support that they needed.

And then in 1965, the Moynihan Report came out that said that the problem with the black family is that blacks are inherently pathological, and their men are lazy too lazy to support their families. This is very interesting because within the last 10 years, a right-wing author called Charles Murray wrote a book that said the white working-class— which now is not paid enough to support a family—was also morally inferior and their men were lazy and that's why white families are falling apart. Black men who wanted to make money had to circumvent the law and then they were incarcerated where they could be used as slave labor.

It's interesting that the incarceration rates used to zoom in the south at around cotton-picking time because then if you were incarcerated you could be enslaved to pick cotton. Blacks were the last hired and the first fired which prevent them just like women who take time out to take

care of homes and children and elders, they didn't accumulate the seniority and the promotions and the wealth. Black wealth in America is seven times less than white wealth. Also, once you had the rule that involuntary servitude and slavery were okay as a punishment for crime—this is after the Civil Rights Movement—black men were 400 times more likely to be put in prison than they had previously.

So, what you had was the re-enslavement of a population made even more severe by private for-profit capitalist prisons that required a certain number of prisoners and judges who were actually—some were—exposed of getting big kickbacks from private prisons for sending people to prison.

The tradition of white supremacy is a powerful one. It took a civil rights movement to end formal segregation, formal pushing down of black people. The two great leaders of the civil rights movement and the greatest leaders America has had since were Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. They both realized shortly before their deaths that the U.S. needed class transformation as well as race transformation. They needed class and race transformation together. They needed a unity of blacks and whites together against war profiteering and capitalism.

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