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It’s Clear Trump Is Hazy in Outlining Gun Measure Priorities

By Catherine Lucey

World Leaders Push Back Against Trump’s Trade War Threat

By Ken Thomas and Paul Wiseman WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Friday insisted “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” a bold claim that prompted threats of retaliation against U.S. exports like blue jeans and motorcycles.

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MAKE no mistake: If the president goes through with this, it will kill American jobs -- that’s what every trade war ultimately does,” said Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican.

Trump has declared that the U.S. will impose punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The move will likely raise steel and aluminum prices here. That’s good for U.S. manufacturers. But it’s bad for companies that use the metals, and it prompted red flags from industries ranging from tool and dye makers to beer distributors to manufacturers of air conditioners. The American International Automobile Dealers Association warned it would drive prices up “substantially.”

Markets tumbled in Asia, where China had already expressed a “grave concern” about U.S. trade policy.

And the European Union promised retaliation against American exports if Trump follows through. In the United States, the S&P 500 dropped

as much as 1.1 percent before paring its decline.

“None of this is reasonable, but reason is a sentiment that’s very unevenly distributed in the world,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU’s executive body.

Asked if a trade war is brewing, he said: “I can’t see how this isn’t part of war-like behavior.”

Early Friday, Trump took to Twitter to defend himself: “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!”

He later tweeted: “Our steel industry is in bad shape. IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!” Sen. Sasse echoed a sentiment of many U.S. lawmakers when he issued a statement in response: “Kooky 18th century protectionism

will jack up prices on American families.”

Trump’s announcement came only after an intense internal White House debate. It brought harsh criticism from some Republicans and roiled financial markets with concerns about economic ramifications.

Trump has long railed against what he deems unfair trade practices

by China and others. This week, he summoned steel and aluminum executives to the White House and declared he would levy penalties of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports. The tariffs, he said, would remain for “a long period of time,” but it was not

Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families.

Sen. Ben Sasse immediately clear if certain trading partners would be exempt.

“This is going to have fallout on our downstream suppliers, particularly in the automotive, machinery and aircraft sectors,” said Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade official who is now vice president

of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

“What benefits one industry can hurt another. What saves one job can jeopardize another.”

Steel-consuming companies said steel tariffs imposed in 2002 by President George W. Bush ended up wiping out 200,000 U.S. jobs.

The decision had been strenuously debated within the White House, with top officials such as economic adviser Gary Cohn and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis raising concerns.

The penalties were pushed by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, an economist who has favored taking aggressive action.

Mattis, in a memo to Commerce, said U.S. military requirements for steel and aluminum represent about 3 percent of U.S. production and that the department was “concerned about the negative impact on our key allies” of any tariffs. He added that targeted tariffs would be preferable to global quotas or tariffs.

Plans for Trump to make an announcement were thrown into doubt for a time because of the internal divisions. The actual event caught some top White House officials off guard and left aides n Trade War, see page 8

Alabama’s ‘Bloody Sunday’ Racial Violence of 1965 Remembered SELMA, Ala.—Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a day of racial violence in Selma dating to 1965.

A bipartisan group including Rep. John Lewis of Georgia led the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was to recall “Bloody Sunday,” when voting rights protesters were attacked by police as they attempted to cross the bridge.

“It’s very meaningful to come back here, to come back to this historic site and be here with so many wonderful people. It’s a beautiful day here today in Selma,” Lewis said as he was surrounded by his peers, the Selma Times-Journal

reported.

Lewis, then a young organizer, was among those injured then.

That violence set the stage for the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which helped build support for congressional approval of the Voting Rights Act months later.

Sen. Kamala Harris from California, who spoke at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast, said she felt a mixture of emotions walking across the bridge.

“It’s bittersweet,” Harris said. “It’s sadness and pain at the thought of what they endured 53 years ago, but it’s also inspiration about again fighting for the best of who we are and honoring those who have been heroes and are still heroes.”

Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson

Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, Selma, AL 2015.

The annual celebration drew tens of thousands of people in 2015, when then-President Barack

Obama spoke near the base of the bridge as former President George W. Bush listened.

WASHINGTON—In his quest to tackle gun violence, President Donald Trump has alternated between calling for tougher laws and declaring his fealty to the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, leaving a trail of befuddled lawmakers and advocates in his wake.

One thing he still has not done: clearly outline his legislative priorities.

Washington’s week closed Friday without further explanation from the president, the White House indicating that for now, he is backing an incremental proposal on background checks and a bill that would provide new federal dollars to stem school violence.

Just what Trump would like to see in the “beautiful” and “comprehensive” bill he called for earlier in the week remained unclear. That comment came at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday, which was quickly followed by a private session with the National Rifle Association last Thursday.

“Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!” Trump tweeted Thursday night.

He had outlined some of his preferences via Twitter earlier Thursday, saying that both good and bad ideas had come out of the bipartisan meeting. He said: “Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!”

Amid the confusion, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shelved the gun debate for now, saying the Senate will turn next week to other measures.

Disagreement continues among legislators over the appropriate response after the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead. Republicans have largely backed away from stricter gun limits, while Democrats emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric are pushing for ambitious action, including expanded background checks and even a politically risky ban on assault weapons.

As is often the case, the president has been an unreliable negotiator.

Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who is a leading advocate of tougher gun laws, predicted on Twitter: “The White House is going to bob and weave on guns. Accept it.”

Still, he added: “Trump’s instinct on this issue is not wrong—if his party doesn’t get behind background checks soon, they’re cooked in 2018 and 2020.” And he argued that Trump’s “willingness to buck the gun lobby in public, rule out the NRA agenda and talk up background checks, has changed this debate nationally.”

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that Trump supports a limited proposal from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Murphy that would boost participation in the existing federal background check program, as well as a bill that would provide new federal grant funding to stem school violence.

Sanders said Trump had not signed on to a more sweeping background check bill that would require the review of firearm purchases online and at gun shows. The measure, from Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has found new momentum since it was first introduced after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 20 children dead. n Gun Measure, see page 8

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NEWS Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum to Celebrate Rancho Days

By Melina Cervantes and Jim Forbes for The Compton Bulletin

will be open free to the public, celebrating its history while taking visitors back to the ways of life in the 1800’s in Mexican California.

In the dense urban landscape Museum director Luis F. Fernandez wants of todays Compton and South this “family event” to serve as a fun handson learning experience of the history of the Los Angeles County, it’s hard Dominguez Family, the Adobe Museum to visualize and imagine the and its connection to surrounding areas. The days when vaqueros and their Dominguez family name has been prominent cattle roamed this area in what in the region since the retired Spanish soldier, was then a vast and sparsely Juan Jose Dominguez was granted the land

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Congress’ Immigration Push Sputters as Guns Grab Attention

By Alan Fram WASHINGTON—It’s taken just two weeks for Washington’s immigration battle to fade from blistering to back-burner. Lawmakers now seem likely to do little or nothing this election year on an effort that’s been eclipsed

by Congress’ new focus on guns, bloodied by Senate defeats and relegated to B-level urgency by a Supreme Court ruling.

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ALKS have gone dormant that sought a bipartisan package: A chance for citizenship for young immigrants brought to the country illegally and $25 billion for President Donald Trump to erect his treasured wall with Mexico. Even a proposal dangling modest wins for both sides—a three-year renewal of a program protecting hundreds of thousands of those young immigrants from deportation in exchange for a $7.6 billion down payment for the wall—seems a longshot.

“The prospects for immigration legislation, big or small, are very, very bleak,” concedes Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, an immigrants’ rights group.

Distrust between the two parties has intensified, with each suspecting the other of weaponizing the impasse to rouse loyal voters for November’s contest for congressional control.

There are tactical rifts between Democrats and the coalition of liberal and immigrants’ rights organizations over how aggressively to force the issue, and differences between conservative organizations and some Republicans over the wisdom of even a narrow accord.

Looking to furnish political cover to rank-and-file Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., only want to

consider immigration bills that have Trump’s support. Democrats say Trump’s portrayal of immigrants as threats who commit crimes and steal jobs, plus his vulgar references to their countries, shows he’s not serious about compromise—yet leaves him pivotal for any deal.

“There are certain people and certain countries that Donald Trump does not envision as part of America’s future,” said No. 2 Senate Democratic leader Richard Durbin of Illinois.

“Until the president and the Republicans in Congress believe that deporting the Dreamers is so much of a political negative that they must do something, I think it’s unlikely that we’ll move forward.”

Rather than making new offers, Trump is blaming Democrats for the stalemate.

“I’m the one that’s pushing DACA and the Democrats are nowhere to be found,” he tweeted days ago, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Hoping to recapture attention, immigrant and civil rights groups

plan demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere on Monday. When Trump announced last year that he was terminating the program, he gave Congress until that date, March 5, to replace it.

The program, which President Barack Obama created administratively without enactment of a law, lets immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally

There are certain people and certain countries that Donald Trump does not envision as part of America’s future.

Sen. Richard Durbin as children get jobs for renewable twoyear periods. It’s currently protecting 680,000 of them.

The Supreme Court this week erased that deadline’s impact with a ruling that requires the administration to renew DACA permits while lower

court challenges to Trump’s action continue. Those lawsuits could drag on for months, easing pressure on Congress to act quickly.

Lawmakers are now fixated on last month’s shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The shift accentuates how rapidly priorities shift in Congress, fueled by today’s hyper speed news cycles and a president whose tweets and utterances add additional volatility.

Last month, the Senate rejected a Trump proposal offering citizenship to people protected by DACA, fully financing his wall, cutting legal immigration and ending a visa lottery for people from countries with low U.S. immigration rates.

A bipartisan plan backed by nearly all Democrats included potential citizenship for DACA recipients and money for Trump’s wall, barred the young immigrants from sponsoring their parents and left the visa lottery intact.

Neither side is showing any indication of sweetening its offer.

“We’ve offered the sun and the moon and that wasn’t enough,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the secondranking GOP leader. “I guess we’ll see what happens.”

Democrats face pressure from liberal groups like Indivisible and United We Dream to use coming budget legislation to crimp money for immigration enforcement programs.

But with several Senate Democrats facing tough re-election fights in Trump-friendly states leery of that stance, the party has little leverage.

Clarissa Martinez, a policy chief for UnidosUS, an immigrants’ rights group, said Democrats should force votes on the issue any to drive home how immigrants bolster the economy.

She cited the repeated, doomed votes Republicans forced under President Barack Obama to repeal his health care law “because they had a narrative they were building.”

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who’s joined bipartisan efforts to forge compromise, says he’ll try forcing a vote next week on his plan to extend DACA for three years and supplying three years of financing for Trump’s wall.

But many Democrats oppose it, saying they abhor financing the wall in exchange for merely a temporary DACA extension. Groups like the Center for Immigration Studies that favor tight restrictions are also opposed, saying it would inscribe DACA into law, and conservatives such as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, seem certain to block Flake.

Flake said he’d keep trying anyway.

“At some point we’re going to want to put this behind us, even if there’s no deadline. I don’t think this plays into our favor in the midterms,” he said.

In the House, Republicans are hunting votes for a conservative package that cuts legal immigration, requires employers to verify workers’ citizenship and makes it easier to deport immigrants who are drunk drivers or gang members.

Facing solid Democratic opposition, GOP leaders remain short and it’s unlikely they’d consider more moderate alternatives that lack majority Republican support.

California Attorney General Foes Spar in Interviews

By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO—C alifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra has become the face of the state’s resistance to President Donald Trump, challenging the Republican administration’s policies nearly four dozen times in court and providing the kind of meat-and-potatoes opposition that Democratic activists say they want.

Yet, he was eclipsed at last weekend’s state Democratic Party convention by Dave Jones, the comparatively obscure state insurance commissioner who wants Becerra’s job.

Delegates voted 56 percent for Jones and 42 percent for Becerra, though neither candidate received the 60 percent needed for the party’s endorsement and financial support.

Becerra and Jones are the most prominent of 11 candidates who filed statements of intention to run for attorney general. The others include Republicans Steven Bailey, a former state judge, and Eric Early, a Los Angeles attorney. The top two vote-getters in the June primary will advance to the November general election regardless of party.

In separate interviews with The Associated Press, Jones and Becerra sharply criticized each other and parted ways on everything from their qualifications and priorities to whether Becerra has been a leader or a follower as he fights Trump’s agenda.

Jones accused Becerra of “enabling opioid deaths” because his office has not yet fully implemented a statewide drug database, and of failing to seize guns from thousands of felons, those deemed mentally ill and others who are

Sanders wing, Alcala said.

The two aren’t far apart on most issues, but Alcala said Jones appeared to more fully embrace universal health care and wants to abolish the death penalty, issues that can be litmus tests for party delegates.

Becerra said he has long supported universal health care.

He fears the death-penalty process isn’t foolproof, but both men said they would enforce the state’s capital punishment law despite their misgivings. Becerra compared Jones to Republican U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who he said would “pick and choose which laws he’ll enforce.”

Xavier Becerra no longer allowed to own firearms.

Becerra repeatedly accused Jones of being deceptive and questioned if Jones would shirk his constitutional duties when it comes to carrying out the death penalty.

Gov. Jerry Brown last year appointed Becerra to a post that often has been a stepping-stone to California’s highest offices: Brown himself previously served as attorney general, and Becerra replaced Kamala Harris after she was elected to the U.S. Senate.

Becerra, 60, served in Congress for nearly a quarter-century, rising to become the highest-ranking Latino. He spent two years in the state Assembly and previously was a deputy state attorney general.

Jones, 56, has twice won statewide office after stints in the Assembly and

Dave Jones Sacramento City Council, and for three years was special assistant and counsel to former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. He got his start providing free legal assistance to the poor.

“It’s almost like the tortoise and the rabbit when you compare them, with Xavier being that very, very hardworking attorney general. He just gets the job done.

He’s liberal by any standard, but he’s probably not as liberal as Dave Jones,” said Carlos Alcala, chairman of the state Democratic Party’s Chicano Latino Caucus, which has not endorsed in the race.

Alcala personally supports Becerra but said Jones did a better job preparing for the party convention. Jones’ views are more in line with those of party activists, particularly the Bernie

Xavier Becerra, 60, served in Congress for nearly a quartercentury, rising to become the highestranking Latino.

Jones said Becerra hasn’t done enough to combat Trump, opioids, gun violence or corporate polluters.

Becerra trailed other states in challenging Trump’s travel ban on citizens of Muslim-majority nations and his bid to end a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, Jones said. However, it was Becerra’s lawsuit that prevailed in protecting young immigrants, and travel ban challenges have been successful so far, too.

“For anyone to claim that I haven’t been at front and center ... you can’t get more deceptive than that,” Becerra said.

Jones also faulted Becerra for

failing in a legal challenge to the administration ending billions in consumer health care subsidies, and said he should be challenging Trump’s acceptance of money from foreign officials who stay at Trump’s hotels.

“I’ll do a better job of resisting Trump,” Jones said, “but we can do more than just resist Trump.”

Becerra said he wants to make sure the state’s prescription drug database protects Californians’ medical privacy, and is seeking more money to seize illegal weapons. He laughed at Jones’ assertion that he has seven years’ experience running a law enforcement agency because his department has more than 8,000 insurance fraud arrests.

“How many guns have any of my opponents taken off the streets with their law enforcement operations?

How many sex trafficking rings ... ?

How many embezzlement rings ... ? We can go through the list,” he said. “We do far more work on important matters that have nothing to do with Donald Trump.”

University of Southern California political analyst Sherry Bebitch Jeffe said Jones has an uphill battle given what likely will be Becerra’s growing lead in name recognition and campaign fundraising. Becerra raised twice as much as Jones last year and had $3.1 million in his campaign account going into this election year to Jones’ $1.5 million. However, Jones also may be able to use part of the $2.5 million he has left over from a prior race.

Trump, in an unintended consequence, is effectively helping Becerra by allowing him to position himself as the “anti-Trump, the resistance to Trump,” she said.

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THE BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

OPED This Is Why I Hate Black Republicans

By Raynard Jackson I stopped attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), because it reminded me of “The Flintstones” and “The Jetsons”; Blacks were noticeably missing from both cartoons. There were no Blacks in the past (The Flintstones) and there were no Blacks in the future (The Jetsons).

CPAC is the largest annual gathering of mostly White, conservative activists and elected officials in the U.S. and it’s controlled by another conservative group—the American Conservative Union (ACU).

Neither CPAC nor the ACU are about increasing diversity in the party or getting more Blacks into the movement; CPAC and the ACU are about catering to Whites in the movement. I get that.

But, in 2018, that is the problem.

One needs to look no further than the racism that was spewed out last Friday during CPAC’s annual Ronald Reagan dinner. The dinner was attended by several hundred conservatives and had tons of media broadcasting the event live on TV and the Internet.

Ian Walter, the communications director for CPAC, said in front of this audience, “We elected Mike Steele as RNC chairman, because he was a Black guy; that was the wrong thing to

do.”

Walter made these disparaging comments, despite the fact that it took six ballots for Steele to win his election in 2009 and Republicans regained control of the U.S. Senate and made significant gains at the state level, during Steele’s tenure.

Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the ACU, stood next to Mr. Walter while his racist comments were being made and said absolutely nothing.

If Mr. Schlapp had any integrity, he would have immediately fired Mr. Walter right then and there, but because Mr. Schlapp showed no leadership and no integrity, I am calling for both Mr. Walter and Mr. Schlapp to be removed immediately from their positions. Period.

By the way, did I mention that Mr. Walter is Indian American? You would expect him to be a lot more sensitive to issues of race and ethnicity, but the mere fact that he thought his comments were appropriate is a reflection of the entire leadership of CPAC and the ACU. To make matters worse, Schlapp went on Steele’s radio show the next day and appeared to double down on Walters’ criticism of Steele’s election. You must see the video to believe what happens next.

Schlapp starts off by saying, “Ian is my colleague at work and he’s my friend. I love Ian

This conduct should be offensive to anyone with integrity and values. and I’m not gonna separate myself from Ian. I think he said some words that our political enemies could take in the worst way.”

Please allow me to interpret this idiotic statement. What I think Schlapp really wanted to say is: “Michael, I don’t care how racist Walter’s statement was, I am choosing him over you!”

Schlapp’s continued condescending tone towards Steele during the radio interview was nothing short of infuriating and, in my opinion, racist. At one point in the interview, Schlapp lectures Steele saying, “This is where you need to have some grace.”

WTF? Really?

For a White person to talk down to a grown man of Steele’s stature proves how little regard Schlapp has for Steele and his

accomplishments within the party.

The tragedy in all this is the fact that Schlapp has no understanding as to why Steele and the Black community were offended and repulsed at what happened at the dinner and its aftermath.

But, this conduct should be offensive to anyone with integrity and values. Whites should be just as offended and alarmed at this whole incident; not only because it was racist, but because it was wrong.

It should come as no surprise that the ACU has not one Black employee. They have one Black board member, Ron Christie, but don’t expect to hear from him anytime this century on an issue involving Blacks and racism. So, I guess in the ACU’s view, there is

‘Black Panther’ Showcases the Power of STEM Applications

By Tyra Metoyer Article contains spoilers for the “Black Panther” movie.

As I sat in the theater mesmerized by Marvel’s recordbreaking “Black Panther,” there were so many moments and messages that filled me with an overwhelming sense of pride. The Black Girl Magic was palpable.

King T’Challa was a strong, thoughtful king who loved and respected all of his leading ladies.

Erik Killmonger was the best supervillain I’ve seen in a really long time. And of course, I want my next trip to the continent to include a visit to the breathtakingly beautiful Wakanda. However, all of those moments paled in comparison to my fascination with the STEM applications and the genius of Princess Shuri.

I am convinced that we can use Black Panther and Princess Shuri to help young people imagine their own STEM futures and the role they can play in driving innovation as we all prepare for the fourth industrial revolution. This revolution will be characterized by a range of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and digitization. This revolution can be led by the next generation of “STEMinists.”

The Wakandan princess is the youngest of the strong, female characters showcased in this Ryan Coogler-directed blockbuster.

She is unapologetically smart, funny, brave, and beautiful. Her language even demonstrates her tech-savvy leadership of the most technologically advanced nation in the world.

As Shuri emerges as an unlikely “Shero,” her position is challenged when M’Baku tries to dismiss her as a mere child. Yet, we are introduced to energy spears, kimoyo beads, sound absorbent sneakers, variations of the Black Panther suit, vibranium cars, and

More than ever, I am convinced that jobs are the solution to so many of our national and global challenges. virtual modes of transportation— all out of the imagination and innovation of the young, hip princess.

In her very first scene, after lovingly teasing her brother, she snaps back, “just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.”

Hence, our first glimpse into her engineering mind. Yes, we fell in love with the way she proudly showed off her latest advances in her lab, but hopefully you took note when Agent Ross expressed his skepticism stating that, “bullet wounds don’t just magically heal overnight.” Shuri chided him, saying, “They do here: but not by magic; by technology.”

For now, I will forgo my strong desire to layout the numerous parallels between vibranium (the fictitious precious metal) and natural gas and oil, but I will say that they are not only driving our advanced manufacturing renaissance in this country, but are also the building blocks of innovations that will support prosperity, discovery and human advancement across the world.

The energy industry is and will continue to be a major source of job opportunities in STEM fields. The natural gas and oil industry supports more than 10.3 million U.S. jobs, and recent reports project 1.9 million job opportunities by 2035, nearly 40 percent of which will be held by African Americans and Latinos.

In addition to the large number of engineers, more than a million

jobs can be characterized, as semiskilled and skilled craft trades positions. I like to say that every job in our industry is a STEM job, because they will all include technology and problem solving (engineering).

More than ever, I am convinced that jobs are the solution to so many of our national and global challenges. Jobs (careers) are not only a way out of poverty, but they also give people’s lives purpose, meaning, and a reason to get out of bed every morning; when we’re really fortunate, jobs fuel our passion.

The future belongs to those innovators who are preparing now to address the challenges of tomorrow. That future is a STEM future—no matter what career or profession we choose.

Based on everything we understand now and contemplating the disruptions we haven’t yet imagined that are sure to define this fourth industrial revolution, we know that our future will be characterized by constantly evolving technology.

I imagine a future where our children thrive on innovation, work in labs like Princess Shuri’s and participate in making choices for how to make our communities safer and better. I am passionate about our industry’s workforce of the future and the role I get to play in building awareness that I hope will lead to more jobs for more women and people of color. I hope you are raising or mentoring the real-life Shuris, who will push the boundaries of what’s possible and lead the innovations of the future.

no room for Blacks in their version of conservatism.

As if this racial dig at Michael Steele wasn’t bad enough; I am just as stunned, but not surprised, at the public silence of many Black Republicans. As of this writing, I have seen very few Black Republicans publicly denouncing Walters’ comments and Schlapp’s reaction to what happened on the record.

Where are all the Black Republican media whores who never miss an opportunity to criticize Colin Kaepernick, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, or former President Barack Obama when they make crazy, radical, liberal ad hominin attacks on Republicans and conservatives?

Please tell me what Deneen

Borelli, Shermichael Singleton, Candace Owens, Crystal Wright, Lawrence Jones and Paris Dennard have said about Walters’ comments?

These Blacks have no “core” values nor do they seem to understand the “heritage” of Blacks in the Republican Party.

This seems to have left the Black conservative “family” without a voice.

The day after Walter’s comments, there was a gathering of Black conservatives, many attendees of the CPAC event, and from my sources, there was absolutely no discussion of the Steele incident.

How the hell is that even possible? This is why many Blacks, including myself, find Black Republicans repulsive.

Out of all these gathered Black Republicans who want to be in charge and not one brought up the Steele issue?

And you wonder why we can’t get more Blacks involved in our party and the conservative movement.

Raynard Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter @ Raynard1223.

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THE BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018

OPED

A 50-Year Plea Persists

By Marian Wright Edelman “In 1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that America was heading toward ‘two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.’

Today, America’s communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation’s example around the world.”

This quote is an introduction to Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report, a newly released update on just how far our nation still has to go to fulfill the Kerner Report’s goals. The original report was released February 29, 1968 by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders created by President Lyndon B. Johnson to study the causes of the “racial disorders” that had erupted across the country during the summer of 1967, resulting in weeks of devastating rioting, violence, and deaths. The “long, hot summer” of 1967 followed earlier riots during the summers of 1964, 1965, and 1966 and left many Americans terrified that violence would continue to escalate with no end and no solutions. But the Kerner Commission, as the National Advisory Commission came to be called after its Chair

Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., did not believe our country was doomed to a permanent cycle of rioting and racial division.

Its report determined that ending the violence needed to start by acknowledging the persistent American truth at its root: we were a divided society, still separate, still unequal.

The 1968 report offered specific recommendations, many focused on creating economic opportunity for Black citizens imprisoned in concentrated segregated poverty. Others addressed the need to hire and train more diverse police forces.

An entire section was devoted to education with special concern about the poor reading and math skills and low graduation and employment rates of millions of Black students stuck in predominantly Black, poor, and unequal schools.

The 1968 Kerner Report concluded that all of its proposed solutions were not just doable, but essential: “It is time now to turn with all the purpose at our command to the major unfinished business of this nation. It is time to adopt strategies for action that will produce quick and visible progress. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens—urban and rural, white and black, Spanishsurname, American Indian, and every minority group . .

Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness; Only Light Can Do That

By Sophie Pearson Have you ever seen a ripple in the tide? The water, seemingly calm, is greeted by some odd disturbance, causing it to shift and move. The waves always move outward from the original disturbance and into the environment, affecting everything around it.

Imagine yourself at the center of that ripple. As you go through life, you’re greeted by new disturbances and are forced to shift and move accordingly, adapting to new environments. However, just as you are affected, the people around you are, too; they must adapt as well. From up close, these events are all-encompassing, but as you move further away from the epicenter, their effects disperse and lessen, making them seemingly insignificant. But is a wave not made up of all those seemingly insignificant ripples in the tide?

Last Wednesday, as the school day came to a close, 17 new ripples tore into the tide of our community in the form of bullets. The effects of these actions not only gripped Stoneman Douglas High School, but our community and our country. It affected everyone who heard the story. The epicenter of this tragedy was so great that it shook us to the core. All because of the actions of one person and 17 ripples.

Standing here today as advocates of change counts for more than the actions of any one person. We are standing at the foot of something great, but this alone will not garner change. From here, we must remain calculated and vigilant. We must do our part. Remember the words of Dr. Martin Luther King in these moments, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

So, this is for you, Alyssa, Martin, Nicholas, Jaime, Luke, Cara, Gina, Joaquin, Alaina, Meadow, Helena, Alex, Carmen, Peter, Coach Feis, Mr. Hixon and Mr. Beigel This is for you. We will not let you down. Because enough is enough. Because this could have been us just as it was them. Because we are the future and we will not keep representatives in office who don’t stand with us.

My intent is not to be political. But I will say this: The moment you accepted money from the National Rifle Assn., you put the value of money over the value of people. Your people. The people you promised to represent and take care of. That is unacceptable.

Us coming together, united, is the beginning of something history textbooks will describe.

So, if you haven’t seen a ripple in the tide before, just wait.

Pearson is a senior at Pompano Beach High School in Broward County, Florida. She personally knew people who were affected by this great tragedy.

. These programs will require unprecedented levels of funding and performance, but they neither probe deeper nor demand more than the problems which called them forth. There can be no higher priority for national action and no higher claim on the nation’s conscience.”

But Healing Our Divided Society shows that despite progress in many areas over the last fifty years, we still have not completed the urgent business

of making the promises of American democracy good for all and the call for sustained national action must continue.

The new report, co-edited by former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, the only surviving member of the original Kerner Commission, and Alan Curtis, CEO of the Milton Eisenhower Foundation, includes chapters by scholars and policy experts seeking to chart our nation’s course forward.

In a chapter on America’s

ongoing struggles to change the odds for all children, I shared my deep disappointment that even as our nation becomes much more racially and ethnically diverse, children of color, especially Black children, remain so far behind their White peers.

Growing inequality exacerbates the racial divide as very large disparities in family median income, wages and family wealth stunt opportunity for children. Nearly one in five children is poor and nearly 70 percent of the almost 13.2 million poor children are children of color. The younger children are, the poorer they are, and Black children remain economic future.

On March 31, 1968, just a few weeks after the Kerner the poorest—most likely to be trapped in what the Kerner Report called the “prison of poverty” in our wealthy nation.

Closing this indefensible and curable inequality gap and racial divide remains the major unfinished business of our nation and, I believe, the greatest threat to our national security and Commission released its Report and recommendations, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in his last Sunday sermon before he was assassinated: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real

question is whether we have the will.” Fifty years later the answer to that question is clear. We have never found the will to fully respond to the Kerner Commission’s urgent call, certainly heard again in the new report Healing Our Divided Society, for “massive and sustained” action.

Children have only one childhood, and it is right now for today’s children. We know much more today about what works, making it deeply shameful that we continue to tolerate political leaders in any party who choose not to invest adequately in critical services and just policies for all children and who refuse to end child poverty in order to give massive tax breaks to millionaires, billionaires and powerful corporations.

Healing Our Divided Society is both a warning and a guide.

We must finally find the will to ease the indefensible burdens of poverty and racism and fling open the doors of opportunity and hope to assure every child an equal chance to reach his or her God-given potential.

Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www. childrensdefense.org.

DeVos Coddles Companies While Abandoning Student Loan Borrowers

By Charlene Crowell For the 44 million American consumers who struggle with a still-growing student loan debt of $1.4 trillion, the problems wrought by debt collectors and loan servicers is a nagging problem. Servicer changes and errors, unexplained fees that worsen the debt and difficulty in securing incomebased repayment plans are all painfully familiar to these consumers.

These debts are particularly onerous for Black Americans who utilize federal student loans more than other races or ethnicities: 87 percent. By comparison, Latinos borrow 65 percent of the time and Whites even lower at 60 percent, according to data from the Center for American Progress.

So, one must wonder why Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, would draft a plan that would once again favor these companies instead of consumers. These are the same companies that receive $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to service and collect loan debts.

In recent days, multiple news outlets have reported an Education plan that proposes to preempt state laws that allow state attorneys general (AGs) to hold debt collectors and loan servicers accountable.

Just last October, a bipartisan group of 26 AGs wrote Secretary DeVos and advised against giving these businesses immunity from state-level oversight and enforcement. Citing fraud and abusive practices, the AGs spoke directly to the harms that would be caused to students and borrowers.

They also urged that state and

federal officials work together to end the harmful practices of bad actors in the student loan industry. “[E]very state has wellestablished laws prohibiting companies – many of which are also regulated federally – from engaging in unfair and deceptive practices targeting state residents,” wrote the AGs on October 23. “The Industry Requests, however, seek to enlist the Department in an industry gambit to evade state policing. There is no principled reason for this result, especially in the middle of a crisis demanding cooperation across government.”

In addition to the AGs, other federal offices have respectively found problems with these companies as well.

For two consecutive years, 2015 and 2016, the federal Government Accountability Office found failures by student loan servicers that include not providing information to borrowers about their payment

There is simply no precedent or provision for such a federal fiat.

Barkley-Denney options and difficulty reaching servicers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has worked with states and the Department of Justice to hold accountable the nation’s largest servicer of federal student loans, Navient.

In early 2017, CFPB sued the company for steering student loan borrowers into costly forbearance agreements that pad interest costs instead of enrolling borrowers in incomebased repayments.

Similarly, Massachusetts sued the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and the National Collegiate Student Loan Trust for overcharging student borrowers.

That lawsuit alleged that although PHEAA was aware of the payment

problems, it failed to rectify related borrower harms.

“Given the Education Department’s utterly lackluster record of oversight,” said Persis Yu, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center and director of its Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project, “it should be doing more to work with states to protect the interests of student loan borrowers…

Congress envisioned a role for states to play in protecting student loan borrowers.

And given the Education Department’s record of siding with servicers over borrowers, the state role is more critical now than ever.”

A CFPB report, also released in October 2017, analyzed student loan complaints on a state-by-state basis. With more than 50,000 complaints filed with the Bureau, poor student loan servicing and servicing errors were frequently reported. The number of complaints were markedly rising in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania.

“This kind of caving to special interests abandons the Department’s duty to be a thrifty steward of the public purse,” said Whitney Barkley-Denney, a senior policy counsel with the Center for Responsible Lending.

“Consumers are entitled to support and response from all levels of government. Hence, states must preserve their ability to protect borrowers residing in their respective jurisdictions.”

Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s Deputy Communications Director.

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HEALTH

Make your ’Fridge Fruit And Vegetable Safe Courtesy CDC Eating a diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables provides important health benefits, but it’s important that you select and prepare them safely.

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RUITS and vegetables add nutrients to your diet that help protect you from heart disease, stroke, and some cancers. In addition, choosing vegetables, fruits, nuts, and other produce over highcalorie foods can help you manage your weight.

But sometimes raw fruits and vegetables contain harmful germs, such as Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria, that can make you and your family sick. In the United States, nearly half of foodborne illnesses are caused by germs on fresh produce.

The safest produce is cooked; the next safest is washed. Enjoy uncooked fruits and vegetables while taking steps to avoid foodborne illness, also known as food poisoning.

At the store or market: • Choose produce that isn’t bruised or damaged.

• Keep precuts fruits and vegetables cold by choosing produce that is refrigerated or kept on ice.

• Separate fruits and vegetables from raw meat, poultry, and seafood in your shopping cart and in your grocery bags.

At home: • Wash your hands, kitchen utensils, and food preparation surfaces, including chopping boards and countertops, before and after

preparing fruits and vegetables.

• Clean fruits and vegetables before eating, cutting, or cooking, unless the package says the contents have been washed.

• Wash or scrub fruits and vegetables under running water— even if you do not plan to eat the peel—so dirt and germs on the surface do not get inside when you cut.

• Cut away any damaged or bruised areas before preparing or eating.

• Dry fruit or vegetables with a clean paper towel.

• Keep fruits and vegetables separate from raw foods from animals, such as meat, poultry, and seafood.

• Refrigerate fruits and vegetables you have cut, peeled, or cooked within

2 hours (or 1 hour if the outside temperature is 90°or warmer). Chill them at 40°F or colder in a clean container.

Groups with a higher chance of food poisoning Anyone can get a foodborne illness, but people in certain groups are more likely to get sick and to have a more serious illness. These

groups are: • Young children • Pregnant women • Adults aged 65 and older • People with weakened immune systems If you or someone you care for has a greater chance of foodborne illness, it’s especially important to take steps to prevent it.

Understanding Teen Dating Violence Courtesy CDC Dating violence occurs between two people in a close relationship. The nature of dating violence can be physical, emotional, or sexual, and includes stalking. The good news is, it doesn’t have to happen at all. Learn how to prevent teen dating violence and promote healthy relationships with CDC’s online resources.

Background Unhealthy relationships can start early and last a lifetime. In a recent national survey, nearly 10 percent of high school students reported physical violence and 11 percent reported that they experienced sexual violence from a dating partner in the 12 months before the survey. Teens who are victims in high school are at higher risk for victimization during college and throughout their lifetimes. Victims of teen dating violence are more likely to experience symptoms of depression and anxiety. They might also engage in unhealthy behaviors, such as using tobacco, drugs, and alcohol.

The Importance of Sleep in Middle, High School Students Courtesy CDC Children and adolescents who do not get enough sleep have a higher risk of obesity, diabetes, injuries, poor mental health, and problems with attention and behavior.

How much sleep someone needs depends on their age. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has recommended that children aged 6–12 years should regularly sleep 9–12 hours per 24 hours and teenagers aged 13–18 years should sleep 8–10 hours per 24 hours.

Are Students Getting Enough Sleep?

CDC analyzed data from the 2015 national and state Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. Students were asked how much sleep they usually

got on school nights. Students who were 6 to 12 years old and who reported sleeping less than 9 hours were considered to not get enough sleep. Teenagers aged 13 to 18 years who reported sleeping less than 8 hours also were considered to not get enough sleep.

Middle school students (grades 6-8) Students in 9 states were included in the study About 6 out of 10 (57.8%) did not get enough sleep on school nights High school students (grades 9-12) National sample About 7 out of 10 (72.7%) did not get enough sleep on school nights Help Your Child Get the Sleep They Need

Parents can support good sleep habits such as: Sticking to a consistent sleep schedule during the school week and weekends. This means going to bed at the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning. Adolescents whose parents set bedtimes are more likely to get enough sleep.

To help decide on a good bedtime for your child, go to the Bedtime Calculator.

Limiting light exposure and technology use in the evenings.

Parents can limit when their children may use electronic devices (sometimes referred to as a “media curfew”).

Parents can limit where their children may use electronic devices (for example, not in their child’s bedroom).

What You Can Do Teaching healthy relationship skills and changing norms about violence can help prevent teen dating violence. Teens often think some behaviors, such as teasing and name-calling are a “normal” part of a relationship. However, these behaviors can become abusive and develop into more serious forms of violence. Talk to teens now about the importance of developing healthy, respectful relationships. CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention is leading the initiative, Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships.

Dating Matters is a comprehensive teen dating violence prevention model that builds upon current evidence-based practice and experience to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among youth. Three components of the Dating Matters comprehensive teen dating violence prevention model are currently available on CDC’s VetoViolence website.

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NEWS Tax Bill Could Prompt Development In Poor Neighborhoods

By Jonathan Cooper SACRAMENTO—More than 800 of California’s poorest neighborhoods could see new development thanks to tax breaks included in last year’s federal tax bill.

A little-noted provision of the federal tax overhaul passed in December allows investors to avoid paying taxes on all or part of their capital gains from investments in areas designated as “opportunity zones.” The goal is to spur development in areas that have traditionally been overlooked, though some critics worry it could turn into windfall for developers in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Gov. Jerry Brown can recommend up to a quarter of California’s high-poverty census tracts as places where developers are eligible for the breaks if they invest in housing, business parks, retail stores or other developments. On Friday he recommended mostly urban neighborhoods, particularly around Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire, but also included portions of 54 of the state’s 58 counties.

The program could help extend the economic boom that has rained prosperity on some areas of California, Panorea Avdis, director of the Governor’s Office of Business

and Economic Development, told reporters in a conference call.

“We know that it hasn’t been realized consistently between Northern and Southern California and even between the coastal and inland areas of the state,” Avdis said.

Some experts, though, are skeptical.

Evidence on the success of programs similar to the opportunity zones is inconclusive, and if executed poorly, it could end up

displacing residents of poor areas or benefiting developers more than the people living in the neighborhood, said Adam Looney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He worries the benefits of the program will concentrate in gentrifying areas and cost the federal government billions of dollars in lost revenue, particularly if Congress makes it permanent.

“You’ll have a lot of happy developers and happy local stakeholders, and that will

Former Congressional Aide Guilty of Extorting $5,000 from Compton Medical Marijuana Dispensary

By Fred Shuster LOS ANGELES—A former congressional staffer was found guilty Thursday of federal extortion and bribery charges for taking $5,000 with bogus promises of helping to prevent the closure of an illegal Compton marijuana dispensary.

Michael Kimbrew, 44, of Carson, faces up to 18 years behind bars for his conviction on one federal count each of attempted extortion and bribery of a public official. U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner set June 4 for sentencing in downtown Los Angeles.

After about six hours of deliberations, jurors found that Kimbrew approached an employee of the marijuana shop in March 2015, told him the dispensary was violating the law, and said the shop would be shut down within a week unless the owners reached an “agreement” with him.

Evidence presented during two days of testimony showed that Kimbrew subsequently met with the dispensary’s owners inside Compton City Hall. F alsely claiming to be working with the FBI, Kimbrew said he could “make things happen” by ensuring the illegal pot store had the appropriate permits in exchange for $5,000.

Jurors watched a video recording of Kimbrew meeting with an undercover FBI agent and discussing the $5,000 bribe, which the agent had hidden in a restaurant menu and passed to the defendant during a second meeting.

Kimbrew was working as an aide to then-Rep. Janice Hahn out of Compton City Hall when he first approached the owners of Green Legends, a now-defunct pot dispensary on Long Beach Boulevard. The defendant did not take the stand in his defense.

Kimbrew “left a pretty damning trail ... he attempted to extort a business in Compton and took a $5,000 bribe,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lindsey Greer Dotson told jurors in her closing argument Wednesday.

“There is no reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.”

Defense attorney Kim Savo did not deny her client took the money, arguing that it was a “gratuity” out of friendship and not a bribe.

“There’s a difference between accepting a gratuity that you shouldn’t be accepting and (committing) a federal crime,” Savo said. “There’s no extortion here.”

Prosecution witness Mario Salazar, a former Green Legends employee, testified that Kimbrew came to the shop to discuss a “compliance issue,” asking to see permits showing the store—which was operating illegally in Compton—was in accordance with city rules.

Salazar told the jury that during two visits a few weeks apart, Kimbrew indicated he was looking for some kind of “arrangement” with the owners or “he was going to have the business shut down” by the end of the week.

Kimbrew actually had no authority over marijuana stores, which were illegal in the city at the time, prosecutors said.

The defense unsuccessfully argued that Kimbrew only took the cash when the undercover agent insisted the money was in exchange for introductions to other dispensary owners and to ensure a “good relationship” -- which was unethical but not illegal, Savo maintained.

“Mr. Kimbrew was acting shady,” Savo said in her summation. “But that’s not a federal crime.” The illegal dispensary was shut down by the city several months after the events described during the trial.

A spokeswoman for Hahn, who is now a Los Angeles County supervisor, has said that Kimbrew worked for the former congresswoman for about a year and was fired in early 2016.

Kimbrew is the son of former Compton Unified School District board member Basil Kimbrew, who pleaded no contest in 2005 to using a school district credit card to pay for a party.

make the program look successful even if it was costly, and even if the development would’ve occurred anyway,” Looney said.

Brown’s preliminary list includes areas that are not commonly considered struggling or are already undergoing rapid revitalization, Looney said.

He pointed to one tract that includes a portion of Stanford University and adjacent student housing, and others in Inglewood close to the

If executed poorly, it could end up displacing residents of poor areas or benefiting developers. planned stadium for the Los Angeles Rams, where he said developers are likely to congregate regardless of tax incentives.

Investors won’t have to pay taxes on their earnings as long as they hold onto

the investment for at least 10 years. They can avoid a portion of the capital gains tax if they sell after five years. An estimated 3 million people live in the affected neighborhoods, but it’s unclear how many investments would likely result from the tax breaks, said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the state Department of Finance.

Brown focused his 798 initial recommendations on areas with especially high poverty and at least 30 businesses, hoping that the development spurred by tax breaks will include jobcreating firms on top of badly needed housing.

A third of them are in Los Angeles County, 97 in the Inland Empire counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, 31 in Orange County and 43 in San Diego County.

In Northern California, six counties surrounding the more prosperous San Francisco Bay would get 67 opportunity zones and Sacramento County would get 38.

Brown is seeking feedback

by March 15 on areas to add or remove from the list and must finalize his recommendations

by March 21. The U.S. Treasury Department has the final say on which census tracts are eligible for opportunity zone tax breaks.

College Instructor Under Investigation For Recorded Remarks LONG BEACH—Officials at Golden West College say they are looking into whether comments a professor made on a video posted online, in which she appeared to tell a Long Beach couple to “go back to your home country,” violated the school’s policies.

If they do, the professor’s remarks could result in some type of punishment, Letitia Clark, a spokeswoman for the Coast Community College District, which operates Golden West, told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

“We want to make our students and alumni feel proud, and this does not make them feel proud,” she said.

Clark said school administrators learned about the video on Saturday, some two days after a Long Beach man named Tony Kao posted it on Facebook.

In his post, Kao says he filmed the

video as he and his wife were out for a walk with their baby.

“We encountered a bigot and a racist today in our neighborhood in Long Beach,” Kao’s post says.

He wrote that the woman walked by them and casually told him and his wife to “go back to your country” before the couple started recording. After the camera is rolling, the woman objects to the filming and starts walking away.

“I want you to tell everybody why you told us to ‘go back to our country,”’ Kao says. “You need to go back to your home country,” she replies. “And what’s that mean?” Kao shoots back.

Toward the end of the 29-second video, Kao calls the woman’s comment unbelievable. “We’re born and raised in the United States, and you told me to go back to our country,” he says. Since Kao

posted the video on Thursday, it’s accumulated 400,000-plus views, the PressTelegram reported.

Commenters on the video identified the woman as a professor at the Huntington Beach college. It was unclear how that link was made, or if someone just recognized her, the newspaper reported.

After the woman was identified, angry students, alumni and others started contacting Golden West, according to Clark. She said the district had received several dozen calls by Monday. Many more people have contacted the school on social media, she said.

Clark said the professor in the video, Tarin Olson, has been in contact with her supervisor at Golden West. She doesn’t dispute she’s the one shown in the recording, according to Clark.

Your child’s dreams are like stars: If he chooses them as his guides, he can reach his destiny.

BORN TO BE GREAT By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school. Previously, courses teaching higher-order thinking skills like critical thinking and problem solving were reserved for the economically advantaged and “gifted and talented.”

The federal government has a responsibility to invest in the success of every student. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that acquisition of those higher-order thinking skills be the standard for every student but your involvement is needed to make those requirements realities.

To learn more about ESSA and how you can get involved, visit www.nnpa.org/essa.

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NEWS The Bay Foundation Expands Its Role At the LAX Dunes

The Bay Foundation (TBF) has signed a one-year agreement with the Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) to conduct monitoring and continue restoration at the LAX Dunes. The LAX Dunes are the largest remaining coastal dune community in Southern California. TBF monitoring will assess the extent of LAWA’s restoration

and provide reports with recommendations. Continued restoration will include monthly and special volunteer events, student internship projects, and expanded outreach efforts.

“This agreement allows TBF and LAWA to accelerate our efforts to restore this precious landscape. I am indebted to LAWA and the Coastal Commission for their

leadership. I am very proud and appreciative of all the volunteers and students that continue to show up every month. Simply put, the transformation of the LAX Dunes is really taking off!” states Tom Ford, TBF Executive Director.

Since 2013, LAWA has removed about four acres of road and infrastructure, culled acres of non-native invasive plant

places, and cultures relies on maintaining great partnerships, and The Bay Foundation’s work has been instrumental in connecting surrounding communities to the LAX Dunes,” said Samantha Bricker, LAWA Deputy Executive Director of Environmental Programs Group. “Through recruiting hundreds of local volunteers each year to restore the LAX Dunes, The Bay Foundation helps us connect people to a culture of environmental stewardship and sustainability, right in our communal back yard. We thank

The Bay Foundation and those volunteers for their continued commitment to restoring the dunes.”

This coming year, TBF will work with LAWA to implement comprehensive monitoring, continue and expand habitat restoration, and inform short-term and long-term management of the site. TBF will recruit, train, and manage personnel as needed to assist with data collection, restoration monitoring, and weed removal.

TBF will provide quarterly activity reports and submit a final report at the end of the term. Finally, TBF will pursue funding opportunities to expand and continue restoration efforts throughout the 48 acres site.

The significant LAX Dunes are nestled between Los Angeles International Airport and the Pacific Ocean, and is home to over 900 species, many rare and threatened, including the federally endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly. Its protection and enhancement are good for biodiversity and good for the community.

For more information and volunteer opportunities: http:// friendsofthelaxdunes.org/.

Sasse wasn’t the only Republican in Congress who was plainly upset.

GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said, “Every time you do this, you get a retaliation and agriculture is the No. 1 target.” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said through a spokesman he hoped Trump would “consider the unintended consequences of this idea and look at other approaches before moving

forward.”

Trump met with more than a dozen executives, including representatives from U.S. Steel Corp., Arcelor Mittal, Nucor, JW Aluminum and Century Aluminum. The industry leaders urged Trump to act, saying they had been unfairly hurt by a glut of imports.

“We are not protectionist.

We want a level playing field,” said Dave Burritt, president and chief executive officer at U.S. Steel.

there’s not a lot of broad support for that.”

The president also wants to use an executive order to bar the use of “bump stock” devices that enable guns to fire like automatic weapons.

After Republican anxiety about Trump’s comments seeming to express openness to tougher gun controls, the executive director of the NRA, Chris Cox was positive about their Thursday night meeting.

He tweeted that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don’t want gun control.”

As part of Trump’s efforts to consider various responses to gun violence, he plans to host members of the video game industry this coming week. He has repeatedly referenced the violence in movies and video games during conversations about guns and school safety since the Florida shooting.

Sanders said invitations started going out Thursday, and event details were being finalized. The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group that represents the video game industry, said Friday the group and its members had not been invited.

Nicole Hockley, who lost a child at Sandy Hook, has attended two White House meetings with Trump and said she remained optimistic.

“By listening to President Trump’s words I do feel he is committed to finding a way forward and he is committed to putting a plan together,” she said. “I don’t know what the content will be.”

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species, scattered native seed collected onsite, developed the “Adopt-A-Dune” program, cofounded the Friends of the LAX Dunes (FOLD), and employs an experienced maintenance and landscaping staff. In 2015, TBF began donating staff time to participate in, and eventually lead, monthly volunteer restoration events. Hundreds of volunteers have worked on the site, as well as TBF interns who gained fieldwork experience through monitoring and data collection.

“Carrying out LAWA’s mission to connect people,

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scrambling for details. Key Senate offices also did not receive advance notice.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the decision “shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” noting that the president had been talking about it “for decades.”

On Friday, she told reporters that Trump wasn’t concerned about the day’s market decline, adding that the “president is still focused on long term economic fundamentals.”

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THEME: ACROSS 1. Out of whack 6. Greek H 9. Goodness gracious!

13. Swahili or Zulu 14. “Was ist ____?”

15. *What speakers do 16. Concluded 17. Chain letters 18. “A Doll’s House” playwright 19. *____ Beach 21. Take advantage of an opportunity 23. *Spring Break beach alternative 24. *Resort island in Indonesia 25. Web robot 28. Tangerine plus grapefruit 30. Canine’s coat 35. “The Three Faces of ____,” pl.

37. Mound 39. Idealized image 40. Polly to Tom Sawyer 41. *South Padre Island, ____ 43. Jason’s vessel 44. Intangible storage 46. Jamie Fraser’s tartan 47. Hurries 48. Heavy lifting injury 50. “In your dreams!”

52. *”Where the Boys ____,” movie 53. Perfect houseplant spot 55. Clinton ____ Rodham 57. *Tough to raise?

61. *Like typical Spring Break traveler 65. *Desired forecast 66. Sylvester to Tweety 68. Show opposition 69. Smoke detector, e.g.

70. Flying saucer acronym 71. Make laugh 72. Same as island 73. School org.

74. Everyone but clergy

DOWN 1. Tucked in 2. Supernatural life force 3. Indiana Jones 4. Cancel an edit, pl.

5. Logic-based puzzle 6. Icelandic epic 7. *Sign of a Spring Break trip 8. Volcano near Nagano 9. Major European river 10. Knife wound 11. Domain 12. Say you didn’t do it 15. *In two pieces 20. *____ life 22. *In high demand during Spring Break 24. With two axes 25. *Top destination 26. Immature ovum 27. Pavarotti, e.g.

29. Potato’s soup mate

31. Wet nurse 32. Shriver or Sharapova 33. Leaf-eating moth 34. ____ tooth 36. Render speechless 38. Buddies 42. Time on the job 45. Take weapon away 49. Lungful 51. Like medieval European society 54. Reduce pressure 56. Possible allergic reaction 57. Antioxidant-rich berry 58. Misfortunes 59. ____ Madrid 60. Taxi payment 61. Roofed colonnade 62. Red carpet purse 63. What birds do 64. Three pointer 67. Away from the bow

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Sanders sought to clarify Trump’s comments earlier in the week expressing support for tougher background checks and interest in raising the minimum age to buy certain weapons.

She said he was interested in improving background checks, but “not necessarily universal background checks.” And she said that while Trump “conceptually” supports higher age requirements to purchase certain weapons, “he also knows

SODOKU SOLUTION

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NEWS Community Medical Center Long Beach to Close

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ONG BEACH—In the aftermath of a report finding an active earthquake fault on its property and an ensuing exodus of its staff, Community Medical Center Long Beach announced Monday it will close in four months.

The hospital’s owner, MemorialCare Health System, announced in November that a seismic study had found an active fault under the campus, and it would not be able to meet seismic compliance requirements as of June 30, 2019, when it would have to stop operating.

That news led to an “increasing departure of staff seeking longer- term opportunities,” according to the hospital, prompting officials to submit a 120-day lease termination notice to the city, which owns the land.

“This is a difficult announcement,” said John Bishop, CEO of Community Hospital Long Beach.

“We exhaustively explored all options to continue operations at Community Medical Center as an acute care hospital.

This proved not possible since large portions of the facility would have to be demolished, resulting in a small, 94-year-old hospital with no more than 20 acute care beds, which would not allow for viable acute care operations.

“We did not take this decision lightly, and we are committed to doing everything we can to ease the transition for affected employees, physicians and our patients,”

he said.

Bishop said the hospital hoped to transfer control of the facility to another operator that might find a way to continue offering behavioral health services at the location, but the city rejected the proposal.

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said the city is working to find a hospital operator interested in providing service at the location.

“Community Hospital is a critical asset to our community,” Garcia said.

“We are exploring every possibility to keep an emergency room and hospital on site, including state legislation, other possible operators

Community Hospital offers the only emergency room on the east side of the city. and potential solutions to seismic challenges. While we are disappointed to hear the news of Memorial giving formal notice, the city’s efforts to find solutions and opportunities will continue.”

Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, said he was “disheartened” by news of the center’s pending closure.

“Community Hospital of-

Courtesy photo fers the only emergency room on the east side of the city,” O’Donnell said. “This decision will put even more pressure on other emergency rooms

throughout the region and endangers the health and safety of east side residents.”

O’Donnell has introduced legislation that would extend

the deadline for the facility to achieve seismic compliance until 2025.

“This announcement makes the effort to secure a provider

for Community Hospital much more difficult,” he said.

“I urge stakeholders to stay engaged as we determine our next steps.”

LEGAL T.S. No. 062712-CA APN: 6154-014-011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 5/25/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 3/29/2018 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 6/6/2006, as Instrument No. 06 1239078, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: WALTHER BACA, A MARRIED MAN WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: VINEYARD BALLROOM, DOUBLETREE HOTEL LOS ANGELES - NORWALK, 13111 SYCAMORE DRIVE, NORWALK, CA 90650 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 13610 SOUTH LARGO AVENUE COMPTON, CA 90222-3022 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $234,718.06 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell

to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site WWW. AUCTION.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 062712-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 280-2832 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 SchId:69982 CustId:670

AdId:23329

-------------------------------------TSG No.: 170032781 TS No.: CA1700281378 FHA/ VA/PMI No.: 6000313453 APN: 6147-024-021 Property Address: 1844 E 124TH STREET COMPTON, CA 90222 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 02/02/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 03/13/2018 at 10:00 A.M., First American Title Insur-

ance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 02/08/2007, as Instrument No. 20070276258, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, State of California. Executed by: VIRGIE LEE RUSSELL, A UNMARRIED WOMAN , WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/ CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 6147-024021 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1844 E 124TH STREET, COMPTON, CA 90222 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust.

The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $349,995.35.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstand-

ing liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http:// search.nationwideposting. com/propertySearchTerms. aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA1700281378 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

Date: First American Title Insurance Company 4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772NPP0326172 To: COMPTON BULLETIN 02/21/2018, 02/28/2018, 03/07/2018 SchId:70031 CustId:68

AdId:23344

-------------------------------------T.S. No. 17-17022 Loan No. Carmichael Order No. 5931494 APN: 6138-012023 SPACE ABOVE THIS LINE FOR RECORDER’S USE [PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE § 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.] NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 2/10/2016. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT

A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 3/14/2018 at 10:30 AM, (or as postponed from time to time), Best Alliance Foreclosure and Lien Services Corp. as the duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to deed of trust recorded 8/31/2016, as Instrument No. 20161041419, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed

by Otis James Carmichael Sr. as Trustor, ALLBB, LLC, Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state) At: AT THE FRONT STEPS OF BUILDING LOCATED AT 17305 GILMORE STREET, VAN NUYS, CA all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said deed of trust in the property situated in said county, California describing the land therein: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”.

The street address and other common designation, in any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 524 South Clymar Avenue Compton, CA 90220 The Trustee makes no representation as to percentage of title being sold. Bidders are advised to do their own research of title prior to bidding. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and/or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding the physical condition of the property, title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust and personal property, if any,, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the trustee and of the trusts created by said deed of trust, to wit: amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $482,275.23 (Estimated) Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale.

If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elitepostandpub.com using the T.S. number assigned to this case. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a Written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The Notice of Default and Election to Sell was recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation.

Date: 2/14/2018 WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. EPP 24675 2/21, 2/28, 3/7/2018.

Best Alliance Foreclosure

and Lien Services Corp., as Trustee 16133 Ventura Blvd., Suite 700 Encino, California 91436 For Payoff/Reinstatement: (888) 785-9721 Sales Line: (714) 848-9272 or www.elitepostandpub.com _________________ Priscilla Quemuel SchId:70034 CustId:108

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-------------------------------------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No. 1700267-2 Loan No: MHA PRODIGY, INC. APN 7318011-080 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED OCTOBER 31, 2013. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On March 14, 2018, at 11:00 AM, By the fountain located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766, FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY, as the duly appointed Trustee (the “Trustee”), under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on November 8, 2013, as Instrument No. 20131593074 of official records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, CA, executed by: MHA PRODIGY, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, as Trustor (the “Trustor”), in favor of SAN DIEGO PRIVATE BANK, as Beneficiary, and any modifications thereto are collectively referred to herein from time to time as the “Deed of Trust”, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: THAT PORTION OF PARCEL 3 MAP NO. 12679, IN THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP FILED IN BOOK 124, PAGE(S) 41, 42 AND 43 OF PARCEL MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, WHICH LIES WESTERLY OF A LINE WHICH BEARS NORTH 0º02’52” WEST FROM A POINT IN THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 DISTANT NORTH 89º57’08” EAST 238.50 FEET FROM THE SOUTHWESTERLY CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 3. EXCEPT THEREFROM ALL OIL, GAS, MINERALS AND HYDROCARBONS, BELOW A DEPTH OF 500 FEET, WITHOUT THE RIGHT OF SURFACE ENTRY, AS RESERVED IN INSTRUMENTS OF RECORD. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand

that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the Property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the Property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the Property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this Property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the Property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this Property, you may call 714.730.2727 or visit this Internet Website www.servicelinkasap.com, using the file number assigned to this case 17-00267-2. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Beneficiary has elected and hereby elects to conduct a unified foreclosure sale pursuant to the provisions of California Commercial Code Section 9604(a)(1)(B) and to include in the nonjudicial foreclosure of the estate described in this Notice of Trustee’s Sale all of the personal property and fixtures described in the Deed of Trust and in any other instruments in favor of Beneficiary. The following described property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, whether now existing or hereafter arising, and wherever located, in which Trustor gave to Lender a security interest for the payment of the indebtedness and performance of all other obligations under the Note and Commercial Security Agreement: All tangible and intangible items obtained or owned by, or in the possession of Trustor that are directly or indirectly related to the acquisition, development, design, construction, permitting, marketing, or habitation of the real property or the improvements to be constructed at the real property commonly known as 1957 East Del Amo Boulevard, Rancho Dominguez,

CA 90220 with Assessor’s Parcel Number 7318-011080; whether heretofore or hereafter issued, prepared, or executed, including without limitation, all building materials, supplies, fixtures, equipment, permits, licenses, authorizations and approvals; trademarks and tradenames, and any and all land use entitlements, development rights, sewer capacity approvals, density allocations and other rights or approvals relating to or authorizing the development or occupancy of the real property, plus all utility or other deposits, reimbursement rights, studies, tests, contracts, plans and specifications, relating to the real property and improvements; whether any of the foregoing is owned now or acquired later; all accessions, additions, replacements, and substitutions relating to any of the foregoing; all records of any kind relating to any of the foregoing; all proceeds relating to any of the foregoing (including insurance, general intangibles and accounts proceeds). With respect to any term used herein that is defined in either (I) Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in force in the jurisdiction in which the security agreement was signed by the Trustor at the time that it was signed, or (ii) Article 9 as in force at any relevant time in the jurisdiction in which the financing statement is filed, the meaning to be ascribed thereto with respect to any particular item of property shall be that under the more encompassing of the two definitions.In addition, the following personal property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, whether now existing or hereafter arising, and wherever located:(a) All accessions, attachments, accessories, replacements of and additions to any of the collateral described herein, whether added now or later.(b) All products and produce of any of the property described in this Exhibit “A”. (c) All accounts, general intangibles, instruments, rents, monies, payments, and all other rights, arising out of a sale, lease, consignment or other disposition of any of the property described in this Exhibit “A”. (d) All proceeds (including insurance proceeds) from the sale, destruction, loss, or other disposition of any of the property described in this Exhibit “A”, and sums due from a third party who has damaged or destroyed the Collateral or from that party’s insurer, whether due to judgment, settlement or other process. (e) All records and data relating to any of the property described in this Exhibit “A”, whether in the form of a writing, photograph, microfilm, microfiche, or electronic media, together with all of Trustor’s right, title, and interest in and to all computer software required to utilize, created, maintain, and process any such records or data on electronic media. Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the same meaning as those in the Note, Commercial Security Agreement, the Deed of Trust and/or any other loan documents between Trustor and Beneficiary. Beneficiary

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LEGAL reserves the right to revoke its election as to some or all of said personal property and/or fixtures, or to add additional personal property and/or fixtures to the election herein expressed, at Beneficiary’s sole election, from time to time and at any time until the consummation of the trustee’s sale to be conducted pursuant to the Deed of Trust and this Notice of Trustee’s Sale. No warranty is made that any or all of the personal property still exists or is available for the successful bidder and no warranty is made as to the condition of any of the personal property, which shall be sold “as is”, “where is”. The real Property heretofore described is being sold “as is”.

The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real Property described above is purported to be: 1957 EAST DEL AMO BOULEVARD, RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining unpaid balance of the obligations secured by and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust (together with any modifications thereto).

The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the Property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $803,806.97 (Estimated), provided, however, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The Property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the Property receiver, if applicable. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the Property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $803,806.97 (Estimated), provided, however, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The Property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the Property receiver, if applicable. DATE: February 15, 2018 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY, TRUSTEE 17-00267-2 1101 Investment Blvd., Suite 170 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 916-636-0114 Sara Berens, Authorized Signor SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www. servicelinkasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727. A-4647999 02/21/2018, 02/28/2018, 03/07/2018 SchId:70047 CustId:64

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-----------------------------------T.S. No.: 9987-3973 TSG Order No.: 730-170099770 A.P.N.: 6155-005-013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/19/2007.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 10/31/2007 as Document No.: 20072457878, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: GUILLERMO RAMIREZ, A MARRIED MAN , as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time: 04/09/2018 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center

Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2032 E SHAUER ST, COMPTON (UNICORPORATED AREA), CA 902222409 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, towit: $173,036.73 (Estimated) as of 02/22/2018. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9987-3973. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 833-2907452 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772. Affinia Default Services, LLC, Omar Solorzano, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only. NPP0325832 To: COMPTON BULLETIN 02/21/2018, 02/28/2018, 03/07/2018 SchId:70050 CustId:68

AdId:23352

------------------------------------T.S. No.: 9985-0165 TSG Order No.: 730-171049770 A.P.N.: 6138-012-017 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/10/2011.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 05/23/2011 as Document No.: 20110715646, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: ERNEST REED JR., A SINGLE MAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time:

03/21/2018 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 609 SOUTH CASWELL AVENUE, COMPTON, CA 90220 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, towit: $280,005.35 (Estimated) as of 03/10/2018. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9985-0165. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 833-2907452 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772. Affinia Default Services, LLC, Omar Solorzano, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only. NPP0326517 To: COMPTON BULLETIN 02/28/2018, 03/07/2018, 03/14/2018 SchId:70085 CustId:68

AdId:23364

------------------------------------T.S. No.: 9551-1782 TSG Order No.: 00246460 A.P.N.: 6151-006-034 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 03/31/2006.

UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded 04/10/2006 as Document No.: 06 0774811, Book No.: N/A, Page No.: N/A, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, executed by: COLBERT S WILLIAMS, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and state, and

as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. Sale Date & Time: 03/21/2018 at 10:00 AM Sale Location: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 713 W SCHOOL ST, COMPTON, CA 90220 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, towit: $288,968.78 (Estimated) as of 03/07/2018. Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 9551-1782. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 833-2907452 For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www. nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772. Affinia Default Services, LLC, Omar Solorzano, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. However, if you have received a discharge of the debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy proceeding, this is not an attempt to impose personal liability upon you for payment of that debt. In the event you have received a bankruptcy discharge, any action to enforce the debt will be taken against the property only. NPP0326213 To: COMPTON BULLETIN 02/28/2018, 03/07/2018, 03/14/2018

the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.

SchId:70088 CustId:68

Irvine, CA 92606

AdId:23365

-------------------------------------T.S. No. 17-48982 APN: 6176-008-036 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/13/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below.

The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of

Trustor: ARACELY MARTINEZ, A SINGLE WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 12/7/2007 as Instrument No. 20072687815 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale:3/21/2018 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: By the fountain located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91766 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $347,824.80 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed.

Street Address or other common designation of real property: 1019 E ARLINGTON ST COMPTON, 90221

California

Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.

A.P.N #.: 6176-008-036 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 848-9272 or visit this Internet Web site www.elitepostandpub.com, using the file number assigned to this case 17-48982. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

Dated: 2/23/2018 Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450

For NonAutomated Sale Information, call: (714) 8487920 For Sale Information: (714) 848-9272 www.elitepostandpub.com Christine O’Brien, Trustee Sale Officer THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE EPP 24759 Pub Dates 02/28, 03/07, 03/14/2018 SchId:70119 CustId:108

AdId:23376

------------------------------------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-17767784-JB Order No.: 730-1703450-70 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/26/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association,

or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): Claudia Gonzalez, a single woman Recorded: 11/3/2005 as Instrument No. 05 2660411 and modified as per Modification Agreement recorded 9/16/2015 as Instrument No. 20151146126 and modified as per Modification Agreement recorded 1/18/2013 as Instrument No. 20130093605 and modified as per Modification Agreement recorded 11/20/2009 as Instrument No. 20091759617 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 3/29/2018 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: Behind the fountain located in Civic Center Plaza, located at 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona CA 91766 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $458,741.17 The purported property address is: 1715 NORTH WILLOW AVENUE, COMPTON, CA 90221 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 6167014-016 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916-939-0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www. qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-17-767784-JB. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site.

The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 916-939-0772 Or Login to: http://www.qualityloan. com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp.

TS No.: CA-17-767784-JB IDSPub #0137667 3/7/2018 3/14/2018 3/21/2018 SchId:70121 CustId:608

AdId:23377

------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHIRLEY MAE THOMPSON CASE NO. 18STPB01705 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of SHIRLEY MAE THOMPSON. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by REGINALD A. THOMPSON in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that REGINALD A. THOMPSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act . (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/23/18 at 8:30AM in Dept. 11 located at 111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner INDU SRIVASTAV, ESQ. SBN 208438 LAW OFFICES OF INDU SRIVASTAV 1400 N. HARBOR BLVD. STE 601

BATE has been filed by Morrow Crawford in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Morrow Crawford be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 23, 2018 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 67 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: SYBIL YVONNE BURRELL ESQ SBN 183383 LAW OFFICES OF

FULLERTON CA 92835

SYBIL YVONNE BURRELL

3/7, 3/14, 3/21/18

250 EAST 1ST STREET

CNS-3105848#

STE 901

THE COMPTON BULLETIN

LOS ANGELES CA 90012

SchId:70178 CustId:61

CN946683 CRAWFORD Mar 7,14,21, 2018

AdId:23396

-------------------------------------NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 9264-JH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the Seller(s) are: MARTIN CHAIDEZ, AND MARIA CHAIDEZ, 1300 S. LONG BEACH BLVD, #A, COMPTON CA 90221 Doing Business as: DURANGO BURGER All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/ are: NONE The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s) is/are: YH GLOBAL FOODS INC, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 1300 S. LONG BEACH BLVD, #A, COMPTON CA 90221 The assets to be sold are described in general as: FURNITURE, FIXTURES, AND EQUIPMENT AND COVENANT NOT TO COMPETE and are located at: 1300 S. LONG BEACH BLVD, #A, COMPTON CA 90221 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: DETAIL ESCROW, INC, 13737 ARTESIA BLVD. #105 CERRITOS, CA 90703 and the anticipated sale date is MARCH 23, 2018 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.]

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: DETAIL ESCROW, INC, 13737 ARTESIA BLVD #105 , CERRITOS, CA 90703 and the last day for filing claims shall be MARCH 22, 2018, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

BUYER: YH GLOBAL FOODS INC, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION LA1978805 COMPTON BULLETIN 3/7/18 SchId:70187 CustId:628

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-------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF WILLIAM R. CRAWFORD aka WILLIAM RALPH CRAWFORD, SR. Case No. 18STPB00213 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIAM R. CRAWFORD aka WILLIAM RALPH CRAWFORD, SR. A PETITION FOR PRO-

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------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JOSEPH YSABEL FLORES Case No. 17STPB03305 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOSEPH YSABEL FLORES A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Lydia Stanley in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Lydia Stanley be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 12, 2018 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 29 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want

to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for petitioner: DIANE WALDER ESQ SBN 152374 8055 W BLVD

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------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF IBERA BURRIES Case No. 18STPB00021 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of IBERA BURRIES A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Bernita Mason in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Bernita Mason be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 2, 2018 at 8:30 AM in Dept. No. 57 located at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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--------------------------------ORDINANCE NO. 2,297 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COMPTON, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 21-1 OF CHAPTER XXI OF THE COMPTON MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO RECYCLING AND INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT I, Alita Godwin, City Clerk of the City of Compton, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted by the City Council, signed by the Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk at a regular meeting thereof held on the 27th day of February, 2018.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Next up at the Kennedy Center?

A New Focus on Hip-Hop

By Ashraf Khalil

WASHINGTON—It was late October 2017 and a packed house of VIPs had gathered at Washington’s Kennedy Center to watch David Letterman receive the Mark Twain award for a career in comedy. A stream of comedians took the stage to sing Letterman’s praises, and several couldn’t resist taking goodnatured shots at the crowd.

M

ARTIN Short deadpanned, “It says a lot about America when people from different white backgrounds can gather together like this.”

Jimmie Walker—J.J. from the 1970s sitcom “Good Times”—put it more bluntly: “Look at the diversity in this crowd! I feel like Ben Carson at a Trump Cabinet meeting.”

Walker may have been going for the easy joke there, but he spoke to a deeper belief—that the Kennedy Center exists to serve an elite white audience despite its presence in a largely city. That perception may linger for a while, but the reality is changing.

One of America’s pre-eminent performing arts institutions, the Kennedy Center is embracing hiphop culture in a major way. The center has gradually introduced rap music into its programming, with rappers like Nas and Kendrick Lamar performing with the National Symphony Orchestra. Hip-hop has also been showcased regularly at the center’s daily Millennium Stage concerts.

The process is accelerating. The center has tapped two members of hip-hop royalty to act as bridges into the rap world. Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest has been named artistic director for hip-hop culture.

Last year, LL Cool J became the first rapper inducted into the elite ranks of Kennedy Center Honors recipients.

“I consider them as important to our culture as Bach or any other composer,” said pianist Jason Moran, the center’s artistic director for jazz.

Moran is credited with pushing for this change. He was part of the committee that chose Q-Tip to found the hip-hop department.

“He’s the perfect person to advocate for us,” Moran said. “It had to be someone from the bedrock of hip-hop.”

Equally important was the hiring of a full-time staffer, Simone Eccleston, as director of the new hiphop culture department.

“This is not a diversity effort. We’re not just checking boxes,” Eccleston said. “This is a firm commitment to having hip-hop as an ongoing program.”

Last year’s Kennedy Center Honors program—an annual centerpiece event—may have been one of the blackest nights in the history of the institution. In addition to LL Cool J—whose program included a speech by Queen Latifah and a performance by rapper Busta Rhymes—the honorees included African-American singer Lionel Richie and dancer Carmen De Lavallade. Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan was also saluted.

The only white honoree was TV producer Norman Lear, the man who helped bring family life into mainstream culture with shows like “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons.”

The 2017-18 season, Q-Tip’s first at the helm, kicked off with a performance by him and Moran. The veteran rapper calls it “just a flash of our potential.”

He plans to appoint a “brain trust” council of fellow rappers and says the real impact will be felt around year four or five when both sides are more comfortable with each other.

“I have to grow into the position and the Kennedy Center has to get acclimated to the nuances that exist in our thing,” Q-Tip said.

Inside the building, staffers refer to

the traditional programming staples by the acronym SOB: symphony, opera and ballet. President Deborah Rutter acknowledged that the shift has sparked some concern among what she called “the dyed-inthe-wool, I only want to hear ‘La Traviata”’ audience.

“Some people get a little nervous,” she said. “They ask, ‘If you do this other stuff, will there be less of what I love?”’

The traditionalists aren’t the only nervous ones. Moran laughingly recalls a moment before Lamar’s 2015 performance when a member of Lamar’s team came up to him, genuinely confused, and asked, “Who’s coming to this thing, man?”

“They were unsure just what they were getting into. I told them to just be themselves and let it rip,” Moran said.

As far back as 2008, rapper Mos Def performed at the Kennedy Center, sneaking in as part of the jazz programing. But the idea of a dedicated hip-hop department didn’t come together until more recently.

In 2014, the center sponsored the two-week One Mic hip-hop culture festival, which culminated in Nas performing with the NSO. The festival was already planned when Rutter joined the center, but she said its success made her focus on

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This is a firm commitment to having hip-hop as an ongoing program.

Simone Eccleston deepening the relationship.

“That was a tipping point for us to say that this hunger for a connection between this art form and the Kennedy Center is very real. This is too good to let go of,” she said.

The dual choices of Q-Tip and LL Cool J are particularly crucial.

President and Mrs. Obama attend Kennedy Center Honors

Both have achieved mainstream popularity and name recognition while still retaining respect within hip-hop circles. That legitimacy will be important, as they’re expected to act as ambassadors in both directions. They won’t just be asked to help introduce hip-hop to the Kennedy Center; they’ll be asked to help introduce the Kennedy Center to the hip-hop community.

The ultimate goal is to draw younger and more diverse audiences, showcasing what Rutter calls “a truly American art form” while also bringing new blood to the 46-year-

old institution.

“These conversations we’re going to have will be complex and will ruffle feathers,” Moran said. “Servicing the same audience over and over again, we know that doesn’t grow your audience.”

Q-Tip says his message to the core SOB-loving Kennedy Center audience is not to worry.

“The Kennedy Center stands for top-flight programming. That’s not going to stop,” he said. “It’s going to draw more attention, more people, more bodies. ... We’re widening and stretching the territory.”

‘Coco’ Co-Director Hopes Oscar Win Bolsters Film Industry Diversity

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HOLLYWOOD—The codirector of “Coco” said after winning the Oscar for best animated feature he hopes the film’s success opens Hollywood’s eyes to the need to depict more diverse cultures in films.

The film, which was made

by Disney-Pixar and is about a Mexican boy traveling to

the Land of the Dead, was a worldwide hit.

“It takes an awareness of the fact that you know strong storytellers come from all sorts of places. At Pixar that is something that you know we’re putting a lot of focus on in creating a lot of opportunity for,” Lee Unkrich, the film’s co-

director, said backstage Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre. He added, “We’ve seen it with ‘Coco,’ we’ve seen it with ‘Panther,’ and I think you’re going to see it with a lot of other films in the future.”

Unkrich said the movie was in the works before Donald Trump became

president, but his election added a new sense of importance to the film.

Trump has made a series of inflammatory comments about Mexico, including that some immigrants from the country are “rapists” or “bad hombres.”

“A lot of things started to be said about Mexico and

Mexican- Americans that (are) unacceptable, and while we were making the film we began to feel a new urgency to get the movie out into the world, to get a positive message about the beauty of Mexico, the beauty of the Mexican people, the beauty of their culture and traditions, out into the world,” he said.

Fox to Air ‘O.J. Simpson: ‘The Lost Confession?’ Special LOS ANGELES—Fox TV says it will air an O.J. Simpson special including an unseen 2006 interview in which he theorizes about what happened the night his ex-wife was murdered.

The two-hour special, with the provocative title “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?” will air 8 p.m. EST Sunday, March 11, Fox said Thursday. Soledad O’Brien is the host.

The previously unaired interview with Simpson was conducted by publisher Judith Regan.

The videotapes had been shelved on the Fox studio lot and recently discovered.

According to Fox, the interview includes Simpson’s hypothetical account of the 1994 stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.

The network called his remarks detailed and “disturbing.”

O.J. Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges by jurors but found responsible in a subsequent civil trial.

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ENTERTAINMENT Peele, Del Toro, Oldman Win at An Oscars Full of Change

By Jake Coyle LOS ANGELES—A sense of change was palpable at the 90th Academy Awards as Hollywood sought to confront the post-Harvey Weinstein era and pivot to a vision of a more inclusive movie business.

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HE ceremony Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles was punctuated by political speeches and impassioned arguments for diversity. Jordan Peele won for his script to his horror sensation “Get Out,” becoming the first African-American to win for best original screenplay. Peele said he stopped writing it “20 times,” skeptical that it would ever get made.

“But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone would let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it,” said Peele.

“So I want to dedicate this to all the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie.”

Guillermo del Toro’s monster fable “The Shape of Water,” which came in with a leading 13 nods, took best production design, best score and best director for del Toro. He became the third Mexican-born filmmaker to win the award, joining his friends and countrymen Alejandro Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron— who together were years ago dubbed “the Three Amigos.”

“The greatest thing that art does, and that our industry does, is erase the lines in the sand,” said del Toro, alluding to his international career.

In a year lacking a clear frontrunner the awards were spread around. Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Dunkirk” tied “Shape of Water” with a leading three awards, all for its technical craft: editing, sound editing and sound design.

Things went expected in the acting categories, where three widely admired veterans won their first Oscars. Gary Oldman won for his Winston Churchill

Photo courtesy NBC/Universal in “Darkest Hour,” Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”) took best supporting actress, and Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) won best supporting actor.

“I did it all by myself,” deadpanned Janney, who added after a pause: “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Rockwell dedicated his award to his late friend and fellow New York actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died in 2014.

“For my buddy, Phil Hoffman,” said Rockwell, raising his Oscar.

Oldman thanked his “99-years young” mother. “Put the kettle on,” said Oldman. “I’m bringing Oscar.”

But many of the show’s most powerful moments came in between the awards. Ashley Judd, Anabella Sciorra and Salma Hayek—who all made allegations of sexual misconduct against Weinstein—together assembled for a mid-show segment dedicated to the (hash)MeToo movement that has followed the downfall of Weinstein, long an Oscar heavyweight. They were met by a standing ovation.

“We work together to make sure the next 90 years empower these limitless possibilities of equality, diversity, inclusion

and intersectionality,” said Judd. “That’s what this year has promised us.”

Host Jimmy Kimmel opened with a monologue that mixed Weinstein punchlines with earnest comments about reforming gender equality in Hollywood. And of course, Kimmel—returning to the

The greatest thing that art does, and that our industry does, is erase the lines in the sand.

Guillermo de Toro scene of the flub—dove straight into material about last year’s infamous best-picture mix-up.

“I do want to mention, this year, when you hear your name called, don’t get up right away,” said Kimmel. “Give us a minute.”

But while Kimmel spent a few moments on the fiasco known as Envelopegate, he expended far more minutes frankly and soberly discussing the parade of sexual harassment allegations in the wake of the revelations regarding Weinstein. Kimmel cited the industry’s poor record for female directors and equal pay.

“We can’t let bad behavior

slide anymore,” said Kimmel.

“The world is watching us.”

Gesturing to a giant statue on the stage, he praised Oscar, himself for keeping “his hands where you can see them” and for having “no penis at all.” But Kimmel introduced the broadcast as “a night for positivity,” and cited, among other things, the box-office success of “ Panther” and “Wonder Woman.”

“I remember a time when the major studios didn’t believe a woman or a minority could open a super hero movie—and the reason I remember that time is because it was March of last year,” said Kimmel.

Several cinema legends won their first Oscar. James Ivory, 89, won best adapted screenplay for his script to the coming-of-age drama “Call Me By Your Name,” becoming the oldest winner ever.

In his 14 nomination, revered cinematographer Roger Deakins finally won for his photography on “Blade Runner 2049.” In the category, Rachel Morrison (“Mudbound”) became the first woman nominated for best cinematography.

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani joined Kenyanborn Lupita Nyong’o to salute the so-called Dreamers—

Former Lakers Star Kobe Bryant Wins Oscar for Animated Short

By Beth Harris

LOS ANGELES—Kobe Bryant is a winner in retirement, too.

The former Los Angeles Lakers star won an Oscar in the animated short category for “Dear Basketball,” a poem he wrote after ending his 20-year career on the court in 2016.

He’ll add it to an already jammed trophy collection that includes five NBA championships with the Lakers, two Olympic gold medals, NBA Finals most valuable player awards, a league MVP award and four AllStar game MVP awards.

Backstage, Bryant looked lovingly at the statue cradled in his hands and mouthed, “My God.” “I feel better than winning championships,” he said, a smile never leaving his face. “This is crazy, man, it’s crazy.”

As executive producer of the six-minute film, Bryant accepted his golden Oscar statue from “Star Wars” star Mark Hamill on Sunday night. He shared the award with Disney animator Glen Keane.

“You don’t have to sit in a tub of ice,” Keane told Bryant backstage.

“This is crazy, man, it’s crazy.”

Among those offering their congratulations via Twitter were Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and Shaquille O’Neal, Bryant’s former Lakers teammate who admitted, “I’m jealous lol.”

Since hanging up his basketball shoes, Bryant has delved into business (a new Nike shoe) and various forms of storytelling.

The 39-year-old sports superstar believed the nomination validated that he could succeed off the court.

“I mean, as basketball players we’re really supposed to shut up and dribble but I’m glad we do a little bit more than that,” Bryant said on stage.

Bryant said he heard dismissive comments like “That’s cute” when he told people he wanted to become a storyteller in retirement.

“The hardest thing when you start over, you have to quiet the ego and begin again. You have to learn the basics of things,” he

immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children and here without permanent protection from deportation. “Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood and dreams are the foundation of America. And, so, to all the Dreamers out there, we stand with you,” Nanjiani said.

Later, Pixar’s colorful ode to Mexican culture “Coco” won best animated film as well as best song for “Remember Me.” Best foreign language film went to Chile’s “A Fantastic Woman,” Sebastian Lelio’s drama starring transgender actress Daniela Vega.

“The biggest thank you of all to the people of Mexico,” said director Lee Unkrich to loud applause. “Marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong.

Representation matters.”

Netflix scored its first feature-film Oscar, with best documentary going to “Icarus,” Bryan Fogel’s investigation into doping in sports, aided by the assistance of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory who candidly discussed the doping scheme under Vladimir Putin. Fogel dedicated the award to Rodchenkov, “our fearless whistleblower who now lives in grave danger.”

The Winston Churchill drama “Darkest Hour” won for best makeup. The period romance “Phantom Thread” won for costume design.

The ceremony was the crescendo of one of Hollywood’s most turbulent awards seasons ever—one that saw cascading allegations of sexual harassment topple movie moguls, upended Oscar campaigns and new

movements launched to improve gender equality throughout the industry. No Golden Globesstyle fashion protest was held by organizers of Time’s Up, the initiative begun by several hundred prominent women in entertainment to combat sexual harassment. Their goals go beyond red carpets, organizers said in the lead-up to the Oscars.

“We did the dress code thing and now we’re doing the work,” said (hash)MeToo founder Tarana Burke on the red carpet.

The parade of sexual harassment allegations has made the normal superficial red carpet a place of sometimes more serious discussion than attire.

Scrutiny was falling Sunday on E! host Ryan Seacrest after his former stylist, Suzie Hardy, alleged sexual harassment against the red-carpet regular.

Seacrest has denied it and E! has supported him. Best supporting actress Oscar nominee Mary J. Blige said Seacrest is “fighting for his life right now.”

It’s been an unusually lengthy—and often unpredictable—awards season, already an increasingly protracted horse race begun as most of the contenders bowed at film festivals last September. The Academy Awards were moved a week later this year because of the Olympics.

Twenty years ago, a “Titanic” sweep won record ratings for the Oscar broadcast. But ratings have recently been declining.

Last year’s show drew 32.9 million viewers for ABC, a four percent drop from the prior year. Even more worrisome was a slide in the key demographic of adults aged 18-49, whose viewership was down 14 percent from 2016.

Movie attendance also hit a 24-year low in 2017. But this year is already off to a strong start, thanks largely to Ryan Coogler’s “ Panther,” which many analysts believe will play a prominent role at next year’s Oscars. In three weeks, it has already grossed about $500 million domestically. The film’s star, Chadwick Boseman, was placed front-and-center, at the Dolby Theatre.

This year, the academy prohibited the PwC accountants who handle the envelopes from using cellphones or social media during the show. Neither of the PwC representatives involved in the mishap last year, Brian Cullinan or Martha Ruiz, will return to the show.

With just a few minutes before the show started, Kimmel and his team emerged from his dressing room chanting, “Let’s get it right this time!”

Frances McDormand Oscar Snatched and Recovered

said.

From the stage, Bryant thanked his wife, Vanessa, and three daughters, naming each of them. He spoke a few words of Italian—a language he learned as a child growing up in Italy—and closed by telling them, “You are my inspiration.”

Backstage, Bryant credited Oprah Winfrey and writer-producer Shonda Rhimes for sharing their knowledge of the entertainment business. “When you have mentors like that in your life, everything tends to work itself out,” he said.

Bryant’s honor comes in the midst of the (hash)MeToo and Time’s Up movements to expose abuse and harassment.

In 2003, Bryant was accused of raping a 19-year-old hotel employee in Colorado. He admitted to a sexual encounter with the woman, but denied the assault allegation.

The criminal case was dropped after Bryant’s accuser refused to testify. She later filed a civil suit against him, which was settled out of court and included Bryant’s public apology to her, although he admitted no guilt.

LOS ANGELES—A man was arrested for allegedly stealing Frances McDormand’s Oscar from her table at The Governors Ball following the Oscars, but the statuette was recovered.

Terry Bryant, 47, was booked on suspicion of grand theft, said Los Angles police Officer Norma Eisenman.

Bryant had a ticket to the event at the Hollywood & Highland Center, Eisenman said.

The suspect grabbed McDormand’s Best Actress statue from her table and ran off but was detained by a photographer and held by security until police arrived, the celebrity news website TMZ.com reported.

“Frances noticed her Oscar was (missing) from the table and notified security ...” according to TMZ. McDormand asked that the man be given a pass, but he was arrested anyway, the entertainment-oriented website Blast reported.

Minutes before his arrest, the man shot a video of himself with the award, and asked party attendees if they wanted a photo with the Oscar, TMZ reported. McDormand took home the award for Best Actress for her role in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”