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National Millennial community works to dispel stereotypes about young people Chevrolet recently partnered with the National Millennial Community and sent out groups of influential young people to destinations around Seattle, Washington

to execute think tank-style discussions on topics related to the success of today’s multicultural millennials.

The National Millennial Community (NMC) is a

progressive and diverse group of millennials that works to dispel negative stereotypes about the generation and represents the 80 million young people in this country

by conducting think tanks, seminars and engagement opportunities with the CEOs of major corporations. The community’s members n Stereotypes, see page 3

BLACK WOMEN, DEMOCRAT DOUG JONES WIN ALABAMA SENATE RACE

SAN FRANCISCO

NATIVE BECOMES 1ST BLACK WOMAN MAYOR

Democrat Doug Jones stuns Moore, Trump and the RNC to win Sessions’ senate seat

By Paul Elias San Francisco native London Breed became the city’s acting mayor Tuesday following the sudden death of Mayor Ed Lee, and is the first African-American woman to lead the city in the midst of a seemingly endless technology driven economic boom.

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REED, 43, is a lifelong San Francisco resident who was raised by her grandmother in the city’s predominantly black and lower-income Western Addition neighborhood, part of the same district she now represents as a city supervisor. She said she and Lee bonded over their shared experience of growing up in public housing.

“He was from the dawn of his career an advocate for the powerless,” Breed told

reporters and a crowd of several hundred city workers who gathered to honor Lee in City Hall.

Breed, like Lee a Democrat, graduated from a San Francisco public high school and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of San Francisco.

She got her start in politics as an intern in the city’s housing department during the tenure of Mayor Willie Brown that ended in 2004. Brown has not held public

office since then but continues to exert considerable influence on city politics, and helped elect Lee. Nationally, Breed’s political positions on issues like funding housing projects for the homeless and support for marijuana legalization are viewed as solidly liberal.

But within the insular politics of San Francisco, she has had to defend her credentials from attacks from the left that she is a moderate and beholden to Brown, Lee and other traditional Democrats. n Mayor, see page 3

Summit for black boys and young men teaches ways to succeed Hundreds of teens came together in Milwaukee for a summit on the challenges young African-American males face and the paths to personal success.

About 600 African-American boys and teenagers attended the twoday Black Male Youth summit at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee earlier this month, Milwaukee Public Radio reported. The students’ teachers encouraged them to participate because they are focused on college and careers.

The annual summit aims to help African-American males identify challenges they face, such as unemployment, poverty and mass incarceration, and find ways to achieve personal success.

George Walker, 12, attends Maryland Avenue Montessori School in Milwaukee. He said he’s afraid police officers may profile him when n Summit, see page 2

By Stacy M. Brown A heavy African American turnout in Alabama’s special election propelled underdog Democratic candidate Doug Jones to victory, in a hotlycontested race against the flawed, yet heavily-favored, Republican candidate Roy Moore.

Black voter The New York Times turnout played a reported that Jones defeated key role in getting Moore 49.9 percent to Jones elected 48.4 percent for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vacated United States Senate seat.

According to CNN exit polling, 68 percent of White voters, including 72 percent of White men voters and

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NASA celebrates legacy of first Black American astronaut on anniversary of his death

Myrlie Evers’ thoughtful speech sets tone for 2 museums

By Emily Wagster Pettus Myrlie Evers could have been bitter and left Mississippi forever after a white supremacist assassinated her husband, state NAACP leader Medgar Evers, outside the family’s Jackson home in 1963.

Yet, as the state commemorated its bicentennial, Mrs. Evers gave a thoughtful and inspirational speech to dedicate two

museums that tell the complex history of, as she intentionally said, “the state of my birth.”

The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum are two distinct entities under a single roof. They are in downtown Jackson, a short walk from the state Capitol.

Mrs. Evers is a Vicksburg native and is now n Evers, see page 8

Photo courtesy USAF/Wikimedia Commons

Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. was the first African American astronaut.

By Erick Johnson Fifty years ago, a tragic accident ended the groundbreaking career of Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., a Chicago native and stellar Air Force pilot who became America’s first Black astronaut.

On December 8, 2017—the 50th anniversary of his death—NASA honored his oftenignored legacy and contributions to the n Astronaut, see page 2

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NEWS

Omarosa’s departure highlights lack of White House diversity

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By Jill Colvin With Omarosa Manigault Newman’s departure, the White House has lost arguably its most prominent and visible African-American senior staffer, serving as a reminder of the lack of diversity at the upper echelons of the Trump administration.

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ANIGAULT Newman was one of just a handful of AfricanAmericans to hold a senior position under Trump. Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is the president’s only African-American Cabinet member.

Jerome Adams, Trump’s surgeon general, is also black.

In an interview Thursday with ABC’s “Nightline,” Manigault Newman said she often felt lonely as “the only African-American woman in this White House.”

“At times it was very difficult,” she said, recalling sitting in morning senior staff meetings, with 30 other assistants to the president, where nobody looked like her.

“There was a lack of diversity that I will acknowledge,” she said in the interview. “And at times it was very lonely. Because the majority of them were white men who had their own agendas. Many of them had never worked with minorities, didn’t know how to interact with them.”

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted to reporters Thursday that the White House staff was indeed diverse, despite evidence to the contrary.

“Look, we have a really diverse team across the board at the White House,” she said, adding, “We always want to continue to grow the diversity here. We’re going to continue to do that and continue to work hard. “ The White House did not respond to requests Thursday for a list of how many African-Americans serve in

And at time s it was very lonely. Bec ause the m ajority of them we re white m en who had th eir own age n d as Many of th em had nev . er worked wit h minoritie s , didn’t know how to inte ract with them.

leadership positions at the White House.

Trump has often been criticized

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agency.

Earlier this year, the Chicago Crusader reported about the lack of visibility of NASA’s first Black American astronaut and helped to raise awareness about Lawrence’s incredible journey.

In planning a story for its annual Black History Month edition, Chicago Crusader staffers discovered that little was being done to honor Lawrence, while NASA held memorials to mark the 50th anniversary of three, White astronauts who perished in a fire aboard the Apollo 1 space module, during a preflight test.

The Crusader story lauding Lawrence’s achievements was published in dozens of Black newspapers after the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) carried it on its newswire.

Born in 1935 to the late Gwendolyn Duncan and Robert H. Lawrence, Sr., the future Air Force pilot was a man ahead of his time. Long before magnet and STEM programs were part of the high school curriculum, Lawrence excelled in math and science.

At 16, he graduated with honors from Englewood High School and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Bradley University. He married the late Barbara Cress from the prominent Chicago Cress family and entered the Air Force at age 21 before earning a doctorate in physical chemistry from Ohio State University, becoming the first astronaut at NASA to earn a doctorate degree.

As a United States Air Force pilot, Lawrence accumulated over 2,500 flight hours. In June 1967, Lawrence graduated from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Class ‘66B) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In that same month, he was selected by the USAF as an astronaut for their Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program, thus becoming the first Black astronaut.

Lawrence died while training another pilot, Maj. John Royer, to perform the “flare” maneuver—an operation that Lawrence had already mastered— in the F-104 Starfighter.

According to NBC News, “Lawrence’s memory languished in obscurity” partly due to the fact that, the Pentagon only recognized someone as an “astronaut” if they actually flew to an altitude above 50 miles.

However, Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Va.) mounted a campaign that forced NASA to put Lawrence’s name on the Space Mirror Memorial in 1997—thirty years after Lawrence’s death.

“On Dec. 8, 1997, on the thirtieth anniversary of his death, Lawrence had his name unveiled on the Florida memorial,” NBC News reported.

The ceremony recognizing Lawrence, earlier this

month—although spirited, at times—was a somber one for the 300 guests that included decorated NASA astronauts, dignitaries, relatives, and friends, who had flown and driven miles across the country to honor Lawrence at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Lawrence’s older sister, Dr. Barbara Lawrence, attended and spoke; another prominent Chicago resident who was present was E. Dawn Griffin, the oldest daughter of Ernest Griffin, founder of Griffin Funeral Home in Bronzeville. The Griffin Funeral Home, which closed in 2012, handled the funeral arrangements for Lawrence.

Members from Lawrence’s college fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, also attended to honor one of their own. On the sprawling grounds of the NASA facility, they participated in a two-and-a-half-hour ceremony that began at the Center for Space Education and culminated with an emotional wreath-laying ceremony at the base of the national Space Mirror Memorial, a massive black granite structure where Lawrence’s name is among those of 20 astronauts who either died in flight or in training.

The ceremony brought out some of NASA’s astronauts and biggest officials. Charles Bolden, America’s first Black NASA chief administrator, and Stephanie Wilson, the second Black female astronaut, attended the service. Another Black astronaut, Winston Scott, played the trumpet in a band that performed various jazz songs, including, “Fly Me to the Moon.” Reportedly, jazz was one of Lawrence’s favorite musical genres.

Bolden, who piloted the space shuttles Columbia and Discovery, praised Lawrence for his spirit. “He took that first step,” Bolden said. “If he had lived, he would have been flying on that space shuttle also.”

Col. Robert Cabana, who flew on four shuttle missions, agreed.

“Major Robert H. Lawrence truly was a hero,” said Cabana. “He set the stage for what was to come.”

for his responses to racially charged issues, including when he claimed there was blame on “both sides” for deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this year. Trump has also gone after football players who have chosen to kneel during the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality, and he has repeatedly picked fights with African-Americans.

Manigault Newman, who was escorted off the White House grounds after resigning, had served as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, working on outreach to various constituency groups.

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“Sometimes people glance at me weird. I’m kind of used to it now but it’s just one of the weird encounters I’ve been having,” Walker said.

Walker said he hoped to get advice on how to deal with those kinds of situations.

Rylan Taylor is an 8th grader at the Kenosha School of Technology Enhanced Curriculum. He said he hoped to improve his attitude and learn better problem-solving skills.

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Treshawn Harvell is an 8th grader who attends Milwaukee College Prep School. He said he believes that African-American males need to start supporting each other.

“I think we should focus on helping each other instead of bringing each other down,” Harvell said.

Harvell said he hoped to learn mentoring skills at the conference.

Event organizer Kwabene Antoine Nixon began the event with a speech. The summit also included workshops that focused on certain issues, such as how to handle police encounters and conflict resolution.

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It remains unclear who will take over her position, though Sanders said a number of people were already engaged in outreach with the African-American community.

“This wasn’t something that was a singular effort by any one individual,” she said. “A member on the Cabinet, Ben Carson, I know, has been engaged and talked with the president on this issue.”

Sanders also mentioned the president had met with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is black. Despite a lack of diversity at the top, the Trump administration has elevated a number of women with diverse backgrounds.

Deputy National Security adviser Dina Powell, who will be departing early in the new year, is Egyptian-American, and Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is IndianAmerican. Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary, is AsianAmerican, and Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is Indian-American.

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Experts: Transparency in education improves parental engagement

By Stacy M. Brown The public reporting requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) offer greater transparency about school quality, according to experts and education advocates who also predict that the new law will empower parents and make them more informed partners in the education process of their children.

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RESIDENT Barack Obama signed ESSA into law on December 10, 2015.

“Public reporting is going to be very important, because state systems, like what goes into [calculating] letter grades for schools, are incredibly complex,” said Phillip Lovell, the vice president of policy development and government relations for the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based national advocacy organization that’s dedicated to ensuring all students graduate from high school, ready for success in college and in the workplace.

“States are aware of and working on how to communicate information on school performance clearly.”

Brenna McMahon Parton, the director of policy and advocacy for Data Quality Campaign, one of the nation’s leading voices on education data policy and use, said that everyone deserves information, which is why ESSA requires that report cards are easy to understand.

“To date, states haven’t focused on parent needs and, as a result, report cards are difficult to find and use,” said Parton.

“As states develop new report cards, they

should be sure that parents will have a onestop-shop that provides information they need about how students and schools in their community are performing.”

ESSA reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the historic civil rights law passed in 1965 and effectively replaced the Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act. Transparency and parental engagement are integral parts of the new law.

Under ESSA, all schools receiving Title I funds must inform parents of their right to request information about the professional qualifications of their children’s teachers; parents are also encouraged to support their children’s educational experiences by communicating regularly with teachers.

In a post on “The 74,” a nonprofit news site dedicated to education, Rashidah Morgan of Education First, said that, “Greater transparency about school quality, will ultimately empower parents to make more knowledgeable choices about schools.”

Also, transparency on spending and academic results help the public understand how schools are performing in their communities, said Chad Aldeman, a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on changing the outcomes and education life for the underserved.

“ESSA requires states to report a lot of important information on how schools are doing at preparing all groups of students, including students from low-income families, students of color, English learners and students with disabilities, for post-high school success,” said Lowery. “To maximize the usefulness of this information, state leaders should work with families and education advocates to ensure that report cards are easy to access and understand.”

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She will remain acting mayor and board president of the supervisors unless a majority of the 11-member board votes to appoint another person, city attorney Dennis Herrera said. Herrera said San Francisco will now vote for a mayor in June 2018 rather than November 2019 election that was to take place at the end of Lee’s term.

Breed had been considered likely to run for mayor after Lee’s second—and last—term expired.

Breed won election to the board in 2012 after serving on the city’s redevelopment agency and fire commission.

But she lost the backing of influential U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein when she responded to questions from a local news outlet with profanities, saying she was not controlled by anyone.

Her blunt-speaking ways have led to other political controversies, especially on Twitter where she enraged

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present diversity in ethnicity, geographic location, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion and more. Chevrolet and the National Millennial Community created these mobile think tanks in an effort to understand what networking, personal branding

critics during her first months serving as a supervisor. At one point, she blamed some bicyclists for causing road safety problems.

After deleting her Twitter account for several months, Breed worked to soften her image and by 2015 lined up enough board votes to win the job leading the board.

Supervisor Malia Cohen nominated her for board president, an influential position that controls committee assignments and the board’s weekly agenda, saying she had seen Breed “mature” in the two years since her election.

“She was a brash hothead,” Cohen said to laughter during the meeting when Breed was appointed president. “But to watch her mature and grow into a leadership position has been amazing.”

Breed was appointed to another two-year term in April.

She is not expected to deviate from many current

city policies, though her brash, outspoken style and her propensity to curse may contrast sharply with Lee’s consensus-building diplomacy and corny jokes.

Breed spoke last week in defense of the city’s so-called sanctuary city policy, which was criticized by President Donald Trump and others after a city jury acquitted a Mexican man of murder for the 2015 shooting death of Kate Steinle.

The man had been repeatedly deported but was allowed to stay after the San Francisco sheriff ignored a request to detain him so immigration officials could pick him up for a sixth deportation before Steinle’s death.

“What is making us unsafe in America is not immigrants.

It never has been,” she said.

“It is the far right’s callous disregard for the 30,000 Americans who die by guns every year. That is the issue we should be talking about.”

and searching for jobs means for all millennials, factoring in the unique challenges facing that generation.

Precious Angel Smith, one of the program participants, said that she’s working to dispel the negative stereotypes that millennials don’t understand the importance of working hard and that they’re too obsessed with technology to

engage with the world around them.

Smith said that it can be hard searching for jobs and networking as a Black millennial.

“Being Black sets me apart as it is, then when you add the fact that I’m a woman and a millennial, that’s when things get sticky,” said n Stereotypes, see page 78

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63 percent of White women voters, supported Moore, an alleged child predator.

Meanwhile, 96 percent of Black voters supported Jones, including 93 percent of Black men voters and 98 percent of Black women voters.

Blacks accounted for a 29 percent share of all voters in the special election in Alabama.

Black voter turnout played a key role in getting Jones elected as Alabama voters were forced to choose between a Republican who’s perceived as a racist and accused of child abuse and a Democrat who has earned his chops prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan.

The contest also was viewed, by many, as a test of racial progress in the Deep South, and the power of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to sway voters.

Trump campaigned hard for Moore, recording a robocall for the former judge, and convincing the Republican National Committee (RNC) to back the man who was possibly banned from the local mall in Gadsen for badgering young women, according to “The New Yorker.”

On the day of the special election, #RoyMoore trended all day on Twitter with some straight-forward and emotional posts.

Already facing numerous accusations of sexual misconduct with children, Moore, in recent weeks, further aligned himself with the old South with his racially insensitive comments.

When asked by a reporter

to explain the last time America was great, Moore didn’t hesitate to respond with stunning clarity with an answer that seemed to out-Trump the president’s comments when he was on the campaign trail.

“I think it was great at the time when families were united—even though we had slavery. They cared for one another,” Moore said.

“People were strong in the families. Our families were strong. Our country had a direction.”

Later, he added: “The greatness I see was in our culture, not in all our policies.

There were problems. We had slavery; we’ve overcome slavery. We’ve had prejudice; we still have prejudice, but we’ve turned the tide on civil rights. We’ve done a lot of things to bring this country around, and I think we can still make it better.”

Moore’s wife, Kayla, even got into the controversial fray.

One day before the election, Kayla Moore argued that her husband isn’t a bigot.

“One of our attorneys is a Jew,” she said. “Fake news would tell you that we don’t care for Jews. And I tell you all this, because I’ve seen it and I just want to set the record straight, while they’re here,” she said gesturing to mainstream media outlets that were in the room. “One of our attorneys is a Jew. We have very close friends that are Jewish, and rabbis, and we also fellowship with them.”

Jones, an attorney and prosecutor, served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, and

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Fake news would tell you that we don’t care for Jews. And I tell you all this, because I’ve seen it and I just want to set the record straight, while they’re here won acclaim for prosecuting the remaining Klansmen responsible for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four African American girls in 1963.

Shortly after mainstream news outlets predicted that Jones had won the special election, he took to Twitter to celebrate the victory.

“Thank you Alabama,” Jones tweeted the night of the election.

In a statement about the Alabama Senate race, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, said that a coalition of Black and White voters spared Alabama from international shame and disgrace by electing Jones to be the state’s next United States Senator.

“The coalition that pushed Jones over the finish line can win and redeem the whole South,” said Jackson.

“It is a stinging repudiation of the divisive politics of Moore, President Donald Trump and strategist Steven Bannon and bodes well for Democrats looking at House and Senate congressional races in 2018.”

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Republican tax bill robs the poor to feed the rich

By Marian Wright Edelman The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act recently passed on a nearly straight party line Republican vote in the U.S. Senate is, like the House-passed bill, a moral abomination. Their enactment would be the death of America’s dream for tens of millions of children. The House and Senate bills favor the wealthiest Americans and most powerful corporations over poor and moderate-income children and families—billionaires over poor babies and powerful corporations over poor children. They are evil.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. warned that “America is going to hell if we can’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life.” With both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives now having passed extremely unjust tax bills, I must ask—how can 278 political leaders, 51 Senators and 227 House members, act against the best interests of so many in their states and across our nation to line the overstuffed pockets of powerful special interests with government money?

What religious texts do these Members of Congress and those who lobby them read? How did they miss the clear warnings of the prophets and gospels and tenets of every great faith to care for the poor, the sick, the lame and the orphan? Where did they learn that acting as Robin Hood in reverse by denying the poor and powerless child the basic survival needs of food and shelter to give to the wealthy and powerful is acceptable?

There are 565 billionaires in the United States—the 400 richest of whom have a combined net worth of $2.7 trillion. More than 13.2 million children—1 in 5—live in poverty in America. Their families of four make less than $24,563 a year. More than six million children live in deep poverty, at less than half the poverty level.

A majority of both houses of Congress and the Trump Administration seek policies to reward millionaires and billionaires and non-needy corporations and add nearly $1.5 trillion—around $150 billion a year for the next ten

years—to our national deficit to do so. And to pay for it, they will deny poor and moderate-income children and families healthcare, food, housing, child care and other survival assistance or help parents get needed jobs at livable wages to support their families.

Consider some of the facts about these tax cut bills: Both the Senate and House bills lavishly benefit the wealthiest households and individuals. The Senate bill doubles the estate tax threshold, enabling individuals to inherit tax free up to $11 million and couples up to $22 million. The House bill would eliminate the estate tax entirely.

More than 60 percent of the Senate bill’s individual tax cuts in 2027 go to the richest one percent of households making $1 million or more; 48 percent of current tax-paying households would face tax increases according to the Tax Policy Center. The Senate bill ends individual tax benefits after ten years while making permanent tax cuts for corporations. The House bill continues both individual and corporate tax cuts.

The Senate’s $1,000 Child Tax Credit increase to benefit families

with children and make up for elimination of the personal exemption for dependents provides little or no assistance to poor and middle-income working families. Yet, both the Senate and House bills enable higher income families to qualify for the credit for the first time. Neither Senate nor House bills make the credit fully refundable to help working families with the lowest incomes. Both bills would end eligibility of children in lowincome working immigrant families for the credit without Social Security Numbers. Tax paying immigrant families are required currently to have only an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number to qualify for the Child Tax Credit.

The Senate’s permanent corporate tax cuts are partially paid for by repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate and tax penalty.

This will leave 13 million fewer people insured in ten years, raise health insurance premiums for many more and destabilize the health insurance marketplace.

The $1.5 trillion ten-year deficit the House and Senate bills create will cause deep cuts in Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), child care,

education, Pell Grants, housing and other critical child services.

No funds will be left over for the next decade to end child poverty for the more than 13.2 million children struggling to grow up healthy and educated.

Imagine spending $1.5 trillion or even one-tenth of that each year on children’s needs? Two years ago CDF commissioned the Urban Institute to assess steps to end child poverty right now. We identified modest improvements to nine programs we

knew helped reduce child poverty: increasing the value of SNAP’s food benefits, providing housing subsidies for poor and near-poor families with children, making the Child Tax Credit fully refundable, increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit for the lowest income families, creating a subsidized jobs program, increasing the minimum wage, expanding the federal child care subsidy program, making the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit fully refundable, and helping more families get child support payments. Implementing all these improvements together would lift 60 percent of all poor children and 72 percent of poor children of color from poverty for a year, at a $77.2 billion federal and state government cost – less than half of one year of the $1.5 trillion deficit increase. A $1.5 trillion investment could lift these children from poverty to adulthood.

We must tell Congress to reject this morally indefensible tax boondoggle and instead invest in protecting children and maintaining any semblance of fairness.

Not one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as more than 13.2 million children are poor, and millions of children are hungry, uneducated, homeless and without health coverage. Stand up and fight. A nation that does not stand up for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

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Hundreds enjoy Compton’s Annual Christmas Parade Photo by Melina Cervantes

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Hundreds enjoy Compton’s Annual Christmas Parade Photo by Melina Cervantes

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The sheep and the goats

By Marian Wright Edelman “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply,

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” -Matthew 25:31-46 As 2.3 billion Christians around our world prepare to celebrate the birth of a poor baby in Bethlehem called Jesus who they believe is the Son of God, the Congress and the President of the United States have declared war on poor babies, children, youths and families.

They are working feverishly to plunder and emasculate the basic survival safety net over 13.2 million poor and millions more low and moderate income children and families need to survive: their health care, food, housing, early childhood supports, education and so much more. Why? In order to give massive tax cuts to billionaires and millionaires and powerful corporations. These fiscally irresponsible and immoral Congressional and White House actions will not only plunder the hopes and survival needs of more than 13.2 million poor children but create a $1.5 trillion noose of debt around the necks of the next generations.

T h e i r actions are simply evil.

Just a few Republican Senators would need to vote no or several handfuls of Republican House Members to avert

such an unjust national catastrophe and I hope and pray they will come forth and stand up for common sense and just government policies. I also hope people of all faiths will rise up against the horrific plundering of hope, fair opportunity and any semblance of decency in our governmental processes. Our children and their children do not deserve to be saddled with an additional $1.5 trillion debt to underwrite massive government welfare to powerful non-needy corporations and billionaires and millionaires.

I don’t know what scriptures members of Congress and White H o u s e leaders a n d sp e c i a l interest lobbyists r e a d

and believe in, but they should remember that God did not make two classes of children or people and that every child and person is sacred and worthy of fair treatment by their leaders. So I share the prayer of my friend Ina Hughs from Knoxville, Tennessee.

A Prayer for Children© (adapted from Ina J. Hughs) We pray/accept responsibility for children who sneak popsicles before supper, erase holes in math workbooks, and can never find their shoes.

And we pray/accept responsibility and will stand up for children who stare at photographers behind barbed wire, who can’t bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who never “counted potatoes,” who were born in places we wouldn’t be caught dead, who never go to the circus, and live in an X-rated world.

We pray and stand for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money.

And we pray and will stand up for children who never get dessert, have no safe blanket to drag behind them, who watch their parents watch them die, who can’t find any bread to steal, who don’t have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures aren’t on anybody’s d r e s s e r, and whose monsters are real.

We pray and will stand up for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday, throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food, who like ghost stories, shove

dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub, who get visits from the tooth fairy, don’t like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church or temple and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and smiles can make us cry.

And we pray and will stand up for children whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who’ve never seen a dentist, aren’t spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep. We pray and will stand up for children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who don’t get a second chance, for children we smother and for those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to offer it.

Let us hope and pray and raise our voices loud and ceaselessly with all our nonviolent might that there are enough Senators and Representatives with the courage to vote for children who cannot vote or speak for themselves so that our nation will not be a goat when called to account for all of God’s and America’s children. The impending budget massacre of poor, disabled, homeless, voiceless and innocent children by Republican leaders in Congress and the White House is an affront to God, human decency and purported American values.

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.

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Lessons from the African-American vote in Alabama

By Dr. John Warren The African Americans who have convinced themselves that one vote doesn’t matter, should take a very close look at what happened during the recent special election in Alabama. In spite of the endorsement of President Donald Trump and the extremely conservative White voters who supported Roy Moore, Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate won the for the United States Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jones was the first Democrat elected to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate in 25 years. How he won is very important to African Americans across this nation.

Exit polls showed that 98 percent of African American women who voted supported Jones and 93 percent of African American men who voted chose the Democratic candidate. The Jones’ victory by 1.5 percent clearly shows that, without the Black vote, Jones wouldn’t have won the special election. Equally important is the fact that this degree of African American

voter participation in an off-season special election, demonstrates what we can do, when we choose to get involved. African Americans cannot allow “voter suppression” tactics, like additional photo identification requirements, to deter us from going to the polls.

According to Nonprofit VOTE, “In all but two states, voting age citizens convicted of a felony are barred from voting for some period of time.”

In Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Utah, the voting rights of returning citizens are restored automatically once they’re released.

In Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia, ex-offenders are forced to petition the government to have their voting rights restored.

African Americans are disproportionately affected by voter suppression tactics and laws that deny ex-felons the right to vote; that’s why we should be focused

on “voter registration” and not candidate endorsements at this stage of the game. We cannot allow apathy and indifference to take the place of the hard won battle for voter participation on the part of African Americans. Just as we rallied and voted for President Barack Obama, we must rally and vote against the policies and political candidates promoted by the Trump Administration. We have to do whatever it takes to defeat those who would continue to support a system of economic inequality dressed up as tax reform that ultimately harms the majority of Americans.

Jones’ victory in the special election in Alabama demonstrates that Black votes matter and that Black voters cast crucial votes in elections, where White voters are decidedly split; that’s the real lesson.

We make our victories and define our value. Let’s not let others do that for us. Every Black vote counts and can make a difference in the Deep South and across the nation.

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84. She said when she heard the concept of two museums, she wondered whether Mississippi was returning to “separate but equal.” The phrase was used by segregationists to promote schools that were separated by race and were, in reality, inherently unequal.

She said former Gov. William Winter helped her understand that one museum “is not complete without the other.”

She had privately toured the

museums before they opened to the public Dec. 9—the day before Mississippi marked 200 years as the 20th state.

“I stand before you today saying I believe in the state of my birth, and that is something that I never thought that I would say,” said Mrs. Evers told more than 1,000 people at the dedication ceremony.

“But today I stand before you and I speak the truth,” she said.

“In going through the museums, I had a better understanding of

the state of Mississippi. And I thought I knew the state of my birth.

“Going through the museum of my history, I wept. Because I felt the blows. I felt the bullets. I felt the tears. I felt the cries,” she said. “But I also sensed the hope that dwelled in the hearts of all of those people.”

With her three young children, Mrs. Evers left Mississippi in the mid-1960s and moved to California, where she built a corporate career and

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remained involved in the push for justice. She married Walter Williams, a fellow civil rights activist, in 1976. They moved to Oregon in 1989 and she was widowed a second time when he died of cancer in 1995. Myrlie Evers-Williams was national chairwoman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998.

For the museums’ dedication, she was listed on the program simply as Myrlie Evers, and when she arrived for the ceremony, The Associated Press asked her preference for her name in news reports. “Just Evers today,” she

said. Moments before Mrs. Evers spoke at the public ceremony on a chilly morning outside the museums, President Donald Trump had toured the civil rights museum and spoken to a smaller audience of civil rights veterans, elected officials and other invited guests inside.

Mrs. Evers did not mention Trump in her speech. Rather, she recalled a conversation she and Medgar Evers had about why he put his own life on the line to fight racism and push for change. “‘It’s not just about me. It is

not just about you, but it is about each and every one of us who live in this state and who embrace this country, the United States of America. Because regardless of race, creed or color, we are all Americans,”’ she recalled him saying.

She said that, “We in America are still suffering from some of the same ills ... that we have over the years.”

But she also said: “If Mississippi can rise to the occasion, then the rest of the country should be able to do the same thing.”

Black Caucus women: Alabama’s Jones should be seated now

By Bill Barrow Female members of the Congressional Black Caucus are asking Republican leaders to let Alabama Democrat Doug Jones join the Senate immediately or delay legislative votes.

But the move is unlikely to sway the GOP as it tries to get a tax bill to President Donald Trump’s desk.

In separate letters to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, 20 House members say Jones has been “duly elected” by Alabama voters, adding, “It is time for you to honor their decision.”

McConnell rejected a similar call from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, after Jones’ upset victory Tuesday over Republican Roy Moore. McConnell said appointed Sen. Luther Strange will remain in the seat until January, when Jones would be sworn in to complete the original term of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

That allows Republicans to maintain a 5248 majority as they try to pass a tax overhaul.

A handful of Republican senators have wavered during late-stage negotiations, giving McConnell little room to maneuver with Democrats all voting “no.”

Jones hasn’t said plainly how he would vote, endorsing the idea of lower corporate tax income rates but criticizing the GOP bill as too heavily slanted to corporations and wealthy individuals.

McConnell’s move is helped by Alabama’s routine election process. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes or 1.5 percentage points, but elections officials are still counting latearriving absentee votes and write-ins. A final tally won’t be certified until late December or early January, when McConnell hopes already to have delivered a tax bill to Trump.

The Black Caucus letters, led by Reps.

Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey, and Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, do not mention the details of Jones’ upset victory over Moore, but the Democrat was boosted by strong AfricanAmerican turnout. Exit polls suggest black voters cast about 30 percent of 1.35 million ballots, despite being just 25 percent of the eligible electorate. The polls showed Jones winning about 94 percent of the black vote, with near unanimous support among black women.

Coleman, Sewell and their colleagues tried to boost their argument—or at least make a political point—by reminding McConnell he’s been willing in the past to adjust the Senate agenda based on the election calendar.

In 2016, the Kentucky Republican cited the looming presidential election as he refused to act on President Barack Obama’s nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy.

“Let’s let the American people decide,” McConnell said at the time, the letter recalls.

After Trump took office and made his own nomination, McConnell quickly shepherded Justice Neil Gorsuch to a confirmation vote.

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Smith. “Because of those three attributes, I constantly find myself having to go the extra mile and surpass the expectations that have been predetermined for me.”

Smith continued: “I’ve learned that in this world, being a Black millennial will never be easy, I will have to continue to work three times as hard as [White men].

However, one thing I will never do is jeopardize my morals

and values in an attempt to be accepted in the workforce.”

Xavier Robertson said that sometimes millennials are stereotyped for lacking a strong work ethic.

“This is a misunderstanding,” said Robertson. “It’s not that we don’t like to work, it’s that we like to do work that matters and for people that care.”

Robertson continued: “We want to make an impact and we want to be respected.

Millennials want to be challenged and inspired on a daily basis, so that we can maximize our potential.”

During the Seattle trip, Chevrolet provided millennials with the Chevy Trax sports utility vehicle to use as a mobile working space.

The 4G LTE Wi-Fi within the vehicle allowed the teams (up to seven devices) to connect to the Internet, research necessary information and collaborate on their findings.

While traveling to their various destinations, the drivers used Apple CarPlay or Android Auto for navigation and playing music. Chevrolet equipped the Trax with a printer, coffee machine and other office gadgets that were plugged into the 12-volt outlet in the rear seats. Once each team arrived at their destination, the front passenger seat folded down, providing a completely flat working desk for laptops, tablets or writing.

Following the think tanks, the National Millennial Community participants traveled to a central location and crafted a tool kit designed to help their peers find jobs and network more effectively.

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LEGAL WILVER VARGAS vs. HILARIO MENCHACA: AN INDIVIDUAL Case No.: ADJ8892555 Special Notice of Lawsuit HILARIO MENCHACA; AN INDIVIDUAL; 1409 WILLOWBROOK AVE., COMPTON, CA 90220 NOTICE: You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without you being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read information below. AVISO: Used esta siendo demandado. La corete puede expedir una decision en contra sya sin darle la oportunidad de defenderse a menos que usted actue pronto. Lea la siguiente informacion.

1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, has been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the abovenamed applicant(s).

You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that your response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office. You may also request assistance / information from an Information and Assistance Officer of the Division of Workers’ Compensation.

(See telephone directory.)

2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property, or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a nonjudicial sale, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS! Name and Address of Appeals Board: Worker’s Compensation Appeals Board 320 West 4th St., 9th Fl. Los Angeles, CA 90013 Applicant Attorney: LAW OFFICES OF TELLERIA, TELLERIA & LEVY 828 W. Las Tunas Drive San Gabriel, CA 91776 SchId:69308 AdId:23096 CustId:676 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS # CA-17-8282-CS Order # 170165923-CAVOI Loan #9803795310 [PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE Section 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.] NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 1/12/2007. 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 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):HUMBERTO ESPELETA. Recorded:1/24/2007 as Instrument No. 20070144528 in book xxx, page xxx and loan modification dated 4/7/2011 and recorded on 6/28/2011 as Instrument Number 20110873025, in Book xxx, Page xxx of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of LOS ANGELES County, California; Date of Sale: 1/4/2018 at 9:00 AM. Place of Sale:Vineyard Ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel Los AngelesNorwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 9065. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $256,284.49. The purported property address is: 1714 EAST SAN MARCOS STREET COMPTON, CA 90221. Assessor’s Parcel No. 6183006-010. 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 CA-17-8282-CS. 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 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. 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: 12/4/2017 SUMMIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC 16745 W. Bernardo Dr., Ste. 100 San Diego, CA 92127 (866) 2482679 (For NON SALE information only) Sale Line: (800) 280-2832 or Login to:WWW.AUCTION.COM Reinstatement Line: (800) 4016587 Jasmine Partida, Trustee Sale Officer. 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. THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations.

A-4640000 12/13/2017, 12/20/2017, 12/27/2017 SchId:69329 AdId:23104 CustId:64 ---------------------------------------NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 12714 S. La Cienega Blvd, Hawthorne CA 90250, 310-363-9305, on January 10th, 2018 @ 3:00PM. Checklist, Unit Number, Account, Amount Owed, Description of goods.; View, 2159, Zarko Jack Cikos, $641.75, furniture, kitchen stuff, house hold goods; View, 2203, Kenneth Stewart, $464.60, dresser 6 drawer nightstand full mattress, household items; View, 3086, Rose Torres, $646.20, 10x10 wall unit, table, 2 beds, fridge, washer, dryer, couch; View, 2102, Rita Minor, $748.00, House; View, 1049, Glenda Bennett, $627.10, House; View, 0032, Shanice Wade, $549.00, Clothing, boxes; View, 1064, Reande Head, $1,034.10, Household and furniture; View, 0041, Norma Martinez, $547.15, Home; View, 1120A, Cherell Morrison, $594.10, Home, furniture and tv.; Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

CN944244 01-10-18 Dec 20,27, 2017 SchId:69334 AdId:23106 CustId:65 ---------------------------------------NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 3846 W. Century Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90303, 310-672-9642, January 10, 2018. 1 pm.; Unit Number, Account, Description of goods; 449, DOROTHY M MARTIN, Household items; 251, Michael E Lee, bed and boxes, 250, Vernethe Ramirez, Furniture, boxes; 107, Reveles Evett, household items, disney rapenzul (2) n disney belle; 287, INDIA RHODES, BED, STOVE, DRESSERS, BOXES; 471, Godwin Kwushue, Six boxes of books files and household items; 177, Gary Gatewood, furniture; 125, Daphne McNairy, bedroom set fridge, table, chairs, dresser; 78, David Braxton, bedroom set, small couch, head board mattress table; 329, Alice Anderson, home goods fridge washer dryer; 279, Jonita Russell, 1 bedroom apt and dinning set Flat screen TVs, couches living room set; 275, Nekeisha Maddox, 2 queen beds and clothifng; 145, Joyce Sweatt, washer and dryer, clothes; 165, Jacquie Perrodin, Dinging table, chairs, computer equipment, floor tiles; 31, Shaun Chisolm, clothing; 192, Amaris Shannon, boxes, couches, tables, household items, drawers; 555, Ronald Coleman, household goods; 270, Asia Jefferson, 3 boxes, 3 bags of clothes.; 343, Shounda Boykin, couch, television, fridge, wall unit, dresser, mattress. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility

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CN944432 01-10-18 Dec 20,27, 2017 SchId:69339 AdId:23108 CustId:65 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MINNIE M. HEDGEMAN CASE NO. 17STPB10936 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MINNIE M. HEDGEMAN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by RAY A. MAY in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that RAY A. MAY 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: 01/08/18 at 8:30AM in Dept. 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 CHRISANGELA WALSTON, ESQ. - SBN 201416 LAW OFFICE OF CHRISANGELA WALSTON 110 S LA BREA AV #240 INGLEWOOD CA 90301 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/17 CNS-3079659# THE COMPTON BULLETIN SchId:69349 AdId:23111 CustId:61 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ESTHER ANTHONY CASE NO. 17STPB08385 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ESTHER ANTHONY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by WILLIE KEMPER in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that WILLIE KEMPER 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: 01/30/18 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 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 GARY A. FARWELL - SBN 154935 LAW OFFICE OF GARY A. FARWELL 6060 W. MANCHESTER AVE. STE 310

LOS ANGELES CA 90045 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/17 CNS-3079677# THE COMPTON BULLETIN SchId:69352 AdId:23112 CustId:61 ---------------------------------------NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1017 E El Segundo Blvd., El Segundo, CA, 90245, 310-713-1573, on January 10th, 2018 at 4:00 PM. Gary Vasquez, B298; Household goods / Mario Montano, A273; Personal property / Derek Nelson, A242; Household items. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

CN944460 01-10-18 Dec 20,27, 2017 SchId:69354 AdId:23113 CustId:65 ---------------------------------------NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS CITY OF COMPTON PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT “NOTICE INVITING BIDS” SEALED BIDS will be received at the office of the City Clerk, City of Compton, 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, CA 90220 on or before Thursday, January 18, 2017 at 10:00 AM, opened and read in the City Clerk’s Office, 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, CA 90220. The bid package will be available online at www.comptoncity. org on December 21, 2017.

All Bids shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to: City Clerk, City of Compton 205 South Willowbrook Avenue Compton CA 90220 And marked outside with: “STREET REHABILITATION PROJECT CDBG #13-01” DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL The proposed work shall be performed in accordance with the plans, specifications and other contract documents as specified herein and shall consist of the following general work descriptions: Install Asphalt Concrete (AC), install ADA compliant curb ramps, curb, gutter and sidewalk improvements, driveway improvements, striping and traffic loop replacement, street sign replacement, and other minor associated work.

A Prebid Meeting will be held on Thursday, January 4 , 2018 at 2:00 pm at Compton City Hall (second floor), 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, CA 90221.

Plans, Special Provisions and Proposal Forms will be available by December 21, 2017, at 10:00 am and can only be obtained by prospective bidders as follows: 1 CD of Plans and Specifications: No Charge 1 Hard Copy of 11x17 Plans and Specs: (duplication fee apply) City’s website at www.comptoncity. org If you need additional information, please call John Strickland, Project Manager at (310) 605-5505.

ALITA GODWIN CITY CLERK PUBLISH: D e c e m b e r 20, 2017 December 27, 2017 January 03, 2018 January 10, 2018 January 17, 2018 SchId:69356 AdId:23114 CustId:314 ---------------------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with Sec. 106 of the Programmatic Agreement, AT&T plans to install a new telecommunications facility at 15116 S Gibson Avenue, Compton CA 90221 . Please direct comments to Gavin L. at 818-898-4866 regarding site LA0575.

12/20, 12/27/17 CNS-3080400# THE COMPTON BULLETIN SchId:69405 AdId:23130 CustId:61 ---------------------------------------NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction at the storage facility listed below, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 12830 Roselle Ave, Hawthorne CA 90250, 310-220-5590, January 10th 2018, 2:00 pm. B2003, STEPHEN CHRISTIAN, Household items; B3004, Donovan Miller, Household items; C3044, Lachi Lawson, Household items; B3067, Jackie Wilson, Household items; B1019, Joyce Moten, Household Items and Clothes; C3053, Carolyn Norwood, Household Items; C2100, Stuart Chapman, Household items, tools; C3045, Ruby Gaxiola, Clothes and TV; B2073, Jade Franklin, 7 big bags 2 boxes 2 car seats; B3017, Veronica Rojas, Boxes of personal items; C2083, Oliver Farr, 2 dressers, and boxes full of personal items. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

CN944485 01-10-18 Dec 20,27, 2017 SchId:69407 AdId:23131 CustId:65 ---------------------------------------CITY OF COMPTON REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR C O N S T R U C T I O N MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR THE STREET REHABILITATION PROJECT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT CDBG# 13-01

The City of Compton is soliciting proposals from qualified consultants to provide construction management services for the Street Rehabilitation Project CDBG# 13-01. Qualified Consultants are hereby notified that this project will be solely or partially funded with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds as administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and shall adhere to all requirements under the CDBG Program.

Proposals will be received in the office of the City Clerk, City of Compton, 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, California, 90220 until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. POSTMARKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. All proposals must be clearly marked, “PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR THE STREET REHABILITATION PROJECT CDBG# 13-01 IN THE CITY OF COMPTON – DO NOT OPEN WITH REGULAR MAIL” and shall be delivered during the business hours of 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, except holidays, to the City Clerk’s office.

Submit an original and four (4) copies and one digital copy on CD or USB drive of your proposals.

Your proposed fee is required to be submitted under separate, sealed cover. All submittals are to be submitted in a sealed envelope bearing the name, address, and telephone number of the individuals or entity submitting the proposal to the attention of: City of Compton, Public Works Department, 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, CA 90220.All submitted proposals will be reviewed and analyzed by City staff and the proposal which best meets the City’s needs, will be selected for further analysis and negotiation.

The City of Compton reserves the right to reject any or all proposals submitted. No guarantee is made hereby that any contract will be awarded pursuant to this Request for Proposals, or otherwise. All costs incurred in the preparation of the proposals, in the submission of additional information, and/or in any other aspect of a proposal prior to the award of a written contract will be borne by the respondent.

Parties interested in obtaining a Request for Proposal (RFP) package can obtain a copy by downloading the RFP at www.comptoncity.org or contact the: Public Works Department City of Compton 205 South Willowbrook Avenue Compton, CA 90220 (310) 605-5505 SUBMITTAL DEADLINE To be considered, proposals must be submitted no later than Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. to the City Clerk’s Office, 205 South Willowbrook Avenue, Compton, California, 90220. Postmarks will not be accepted. The City may extend the deadline at its option.

Note: During this period of restricted contact, any attempt by a proposing firm, its representative or agent to contact, lobby, or make a representation to a member of the City Council, or any other official, employee, or agent of the City will be grounds for disqualification.

Alita Godwin, CMC Publish: 12/20/17 12/27/17 01/03/18 01/10/18 SchId:69409 AdId:23132 CustId:314 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARY EFFIE BOUDREAUX CASE NO. 17STPB11132 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of MARY EFFIE BOUDREAUX. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by OLIVIA BOUDREAUX in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that OLIVIA BOUDREAUX 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: 01/12/18 at 8:30AM in Dept. 99 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 BRENT D. GRIDER GRIDER LAW OFFICE 1700 HAMNER AVENUE #100 NORCO CA 92860 12/20, 12/27/17, 1/3/18 CNS-3081540# THE COMPTON BULLETIN SchId:69422 AdId:23136 CustId:61 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WESLEY CURTIS SMITH SR. AKA WESLEY C. SMITH CASE NO. 17STPB11170 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of WESLEY CURTIS SMITH SR. AKA WESLEY C. SMITH. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by BARBARA L. JONES in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that BARBARA L. JONES 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: 01/16/18 at 8:30AM in Dept. 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.

Attorney for Petitioner ERIC S. HARTMAN - SBN 45307 LAW OFFICES OF ERIC S. HARTMAN 7755 CENTER AVE #1100 HUNTINGTON BEACH CA 92647 12/20, 12/27/17, 1/3/18 CNS-3081677# THE COMPTON BULLETIN SchId:69425 AdId:23137 CustId:61 ---------------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF YOLANDA RENEE HARVEY aka YOLANDA HARVEY Case No. 17STPB11263 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of YOLANDA RENEE HARVEY aka YOLANDA HARVEY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Marilyn Williams in the Superior Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Marilyn Williams 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 January 18, 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.

Attorney for petitioner: MICHAEL S DAMSKY ESQ

SBN 102652 GUAGENTI & DAMSKY 2615 190TH ST STE 105 REDONDO BEACH CA 90278 CN944639 HARVEY Dec 26,27, 2017, Jan 2, 2018 SchId:69453 AdId:23148 CustId:65 ---------------------------------------T.S. No. 15-41074 008-018

APN: 6181-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12/7/2006. 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. 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 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.

Trustor: DANIEL BRADFORD, AND DELPHINE BRADFORD, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS Duly Appointed Trustee: Zieve, Brodnax & Steele, LLP Deed of Trust recorded 12/28/2006 as Instrument No. 06 2881231 in book , page of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale:1/18/2018 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: Vineyard Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel Los AngelesNorwalk, 13111 Sycamore Drive, Norwalk, CA 90650 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $774,817.92 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: 601 SOUTH BRADFIELD AVE COMPTON, California 90221 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust.

A.P.N #.: 6181-008-018 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 (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case 15-41074. 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: 12/22/2017 Z i e v e , Brodnax & Steele, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 For NonAutomated Sale Information, call: (714) 848-7920 For Sale Information: (800) 2802832 www.auction.com _____________________________ ____ Dalaysia Ramirez, Team Lead THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. EPP 24060 12/27, 1/3, 1/10/2018.

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ENTERTAINMENT Perry writes about the ‘Higher’ power that sustains him

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody Tyler Perry has always relied on the word of God to lift him up in troubling times, but even he admits the onslaught of negative headlines over the past 18 months has tested his spirit.

“I got so consumed with this (presidential) election and the negativity of the campaign and all of the horrible things that were being said back and forth ... (and now) the threat of nuclear war in North Korea, and I just found myself completely getting lost in it, waking up sad and depressed and didn’t know why,” he said.

So the entertainment mogul decided to stop waking up with bad news, restricting his TV diet to only certain times of the day so that it wasn’t flooding his brain. But the film and TV mogul also held tighter to what he says has kept him balanced—his faith.

Perry details that faith in his new book, “Higher Is Waiting,” published by Spiegel & Grau. It’s part autobiography, part Bible-study guide. Perry uses examples from his own life, from living with an abusive father to his early missteps in show business, to show how faith led him through; each story leads back to a Bible passage to underscore the point.

“Higher Is Waiting” isn’t the first Perry project to involve religion; his movies often touch on spirituality, to the point where it has garnered him some criticism over the years. Perry says he’s not a Christian filmmaker; he’s a filmmaker who believes in Christ.

“If you look at ‘Acrimony’ that’s coming out next, there are no undertones of spirituality in it at all.

It’s just a thriller that I wanted to do just something totally different,” he said of his upcoming film starring Taraji P. Henson due out in March. “So I’ll be all over the place in my storytelling.”

But there are times when he wants to uplift people, and he tries to do that for a demographic that may be searching for inspiration.

“They can’t go to the therapist. They can’t get in the car and just go to the country for the weekend to clear their head,” he said. “I want it to be what church was to me growing up—going to church was our relief.” ___ Associated Press: You say you’ve become known in Hollywood as the guy to go to for advice. How did that happen?

Perry: I’m not judgmental and I never ever share people’s business. ... So it was just over the years, I just think that people just started to, the word kind of got around that, ‘You should call him, you should call him.’ ... And it’s exhausting at times. But for the most part just being able to be in the position where you’ve got a bunch of people in this business who can’t trust anyone, and then some of this information is so sensitive and so private and so painful that they needed somewhere to be able to work it through and I’m just glad God put me in a position where they could come to me.

AP: You’ve never written your autobiography but you tell various stories about your life here.

Will you write one in the future?

Perry: I was very careful what I share. There’s a lot more. I don’t know how to tell my full story without leaving people, bodies in the street, and I’m not interested in doing that. I’m not interested in tearing anybody down, not interested in destroying anybody. So as long as those people are on the Earth, that (auto)biography probably won’t ever happen again. And the only reason I’m talking about it as much as I am now is because my mother’s passed.

Yeah, I wouldn’t have talked about it before.

AP: It’s easy for people to lose faith. How have you stayed the course?

Perry: Just my mother, just growing up with her. She just would always keep me focused. And even now I don’t know how to do this without praying. I don’t know how to do (it) because I make mistakes, I get things wrong. I don’t know how to do this without surrender. I don’t know how to do this without taking a moment to go, ‘OK. ...

What am I doing here?’ Because walking by faith is uncomfortable at times. And I find myself breaking records and doing things and opening studios and things that are much bigger than I could have ever imagined in my life, and I wouldn’t know how to do that without prayer. You know, it’s scary.

AP: How did the birth of your 4-year-old son, Aman, affect your faith?

Perry: First of all, seeing him born, seeing that moment, I was just the most—I was just in tears.

Just the thought of a human being coming into the world, it blew my mind. ... I pray now more than I probably ever have in my life just for him. ... It makes me depend and lean on God even more.

AP: So many women and men have spoken out about the abuse they endured in Hollywood.

You have been vocal about the sexual abuse you suffered as a child. How hard is it to reveal something so painful?

Perry: It takes a tremendous amount of courage and it’s very, very scary and you don’t know how people are going to react to it, so being in this moment you know I’m hoping that there is change.

But here’s what I’ll say about that as far as change goes. The most times that I’ve seen change is when people in power start to reflect the victim. So the more the people in power start to look to act like the victims, the more things will change.

Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

By Dwight Brown Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Wow! This is the event movie of the year. So much action; so much haunting drama and raw emotion. And it doesn’t just build to one climax; it crescendos from one climax, to the next and the next, ratcheting up the tension every time.

Action/adventure fans will be dancing in the aisles.

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HERE is something biblical about “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

There’s the Old Testament: Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew); the New Testament: Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac); Devils: Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) and Kylo Reb (Adam Driver); there’s temptation; a hunt for the “Promised Land”; and a desperate escape from the wicked.

On a desolate, mountainous isle, the young warrior Rey begs the aged Luke Skywalker for guidance and help for The Resistance’s fighters. “We need you. We need the Jedi order back. We need Luke Skywalker,” pleads Rey. She delivers that message from Princess Leia, but the old Jedi is not moved.

Meanwhile in outer space, the Resistance is under attack by the First Order and trying to evade them. Finn and Poe go rogue to save the day. Snoke, Hux and Reb are out to crush the rebels.

The very heady, ethereal script by writer/director Rian Johnson (“Looper”) unearths many questions and is stingy with the answers. Your curiosity will drive you crazy. Only when you are stumped and at wit’s end will you find closure. Just know that the wait is worth it.

John Boyega stars in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

The editing by Bob Ducsay (“Looper”) and Johnson’s inventive direction, measure the drama, action and rescue attempts out in a rhythm that is almost spiritual, like the rhythm of life. Help comes when it is preordained. Characters enter, they embark on divergent paths and head out on enthralling missions. Scenes flow smoothly and have a similar feel, unlike 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” when energizing action sequences butted up against too many stagnant moments.

There are some slower passages, but they are never boring. Use these opportunities to gather your thoughts, digest what you’ve seen and take a deep breath. You will need the rest. Your attention will be overpowered by a force that doesn’t let you decompress, substantially, for 2 hours and 32 minutes.

There are moments when you might think, “This is so overwrought. So melodramatic.”

Then a glib line is rendered or a wacky scene (wide-eyed urchins screeching) breaks the spell. You

laugh for a moment or smirk.

Then you jump back into the conflict again, just as a laser slices a villain in half, as a courageous fighter goes down in flames or as two individuals have an intimate telepathic conversation even though they are eons away from each other.

The script, direction and acting are excellent. The imagery is even better. Some visions will be engraved on your pupils forever.

Scenes in Snoke’s throne room with blood red walls, warriors in similarly colored uniforms and his gold brocade robe (designed by Michael Kaplan, “Blade Runner”) are indelible.

Rickety old fighter planes sand surfing over white salty terrain, leaving a trail of poinsettia red gashes and the sight of galloping alien horse-like creatures will also stay with you. The work by art directors Andrew Bennett and Neal Callow, production designer Rick Heinrichs and cinematographer Steve Yedlin is exquisite. These are the kind of visuals you see in a Yimou Zhang art film (like his “Hero” or “Raise the Red Lantern”), not in an

Photo courtesy Lucasfilm

action/adventure movie.

Ridley, Bodega, Isaac and Driver provide an unbridled energy. Yet, it’s the heavyweights, the late Carrie Fisher and grayhaired Mark Hamill, who lend a gravitas that stabilizes this fantasy in an altered reality that’s become the heart of the Star Wars saga.

There is a mystical presence that is almost cleansing. That essence has endeared this venerable space opera to audiences for 40 years.

For the Star Wars novice, this chapter will be a great introduction. It’s easy enough to distinguish the protagonists from the antagonists and the storylines are easy to track, too. For Star Wars aficionados, this entry is one of the most galvanizing, from beginning to end. What an Odyssey. What a crowd pleaser.

Wow! Dwight Brown is a film critic and travel writer. As a film critic, he regularly attends international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and the American Black Film Festival.

Read more movie reviews by Dwight Brown here and at DwightBrownInk.com.

Smiley claims PBS made mistake in ouster, but PBS fires back

By Mark Kennedy Tavis Smiley has defended himself from allegations he had sexual relationships with subordinates and created an abusive workplace environment, denying any wrongdoing and saying PBS made a mistake by suspending him from his talk show. PBS almost immediately fired back, saying he “needs to get his story straight.”

He told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday that he’s never coerced anyone into a relationship but has had consensual relationships in the workplace. He said those relationships weren’t forbidden by the company he owns and he claims he never promoted or fired anyone based on their relationship with him.

“I’ve never groped. I’ve never coerced, I’ve never exposed myself inappropriately to anyone in 30 years,” Smiley said. “I’ve made mistakes—I’m human.

I’m not perfect. But it doesn’t rise to the level of wrongful termination.”

Smiley said Monday that he applauds women coming forward to share their sexual assault and harassment

experiences “to lead us in a conversation about how to create healthy workspaces.”

At the same time, he said “I want to make sure we don’t lose all sense of nuance and proportionality in this conversation, because if we do then people end up being guilty simply by accusation.”

PBS responded in a matter of hours, saying Smiley’s acknowledgement of multiple relationships contradicted his previous statements.

“Tavis Smiley needs to get his story straight,” it said in a statement, which also promised more accusations: “Additional allegations are continuing to come to light since last week’s announcement.”

PBS also derided Smiley’s claim that he applauds women who have come forward, pointing out that Smiley’s company hinders such actions by requiring former and current employees to sign non-disclosure agreements.

“Witnesses who have bravely come forward to speak with the independent investigators retained by PBS report a fear of retribution for speaking out,” it said.

Smiley’s career took a huge hit last week when PBS said it was suspending him following an independent investigation by a law firm that uncovered “multiple, credible allegations of conduct that is inconsistent with the values and standards of PBS.” Then fallout was swift: Walmart, a sponsor, cut ties with him and live producer Mills Entertainment pulled out of backing Smiley’s upcoming theatrical show that was to focus on the last year of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. Hay House, which distributes the Smiley Books imprint, said all Smiley projects were “on hold” pending an internal review.

As to accusations he created a verbally abusive and threatening work place, Smiley admitted many of his TV and radio projects are intense at times but said “I’m not an angry black man and this notion of a hostile environment just doesn’t fit.” He added that no complaints about him have ever

been raised.

Smiley’s suspension comes weeks after PBS cut ties with anchor and talk show host Charlie Rose, citing “extremely disturbing and intolerable behavior” by him toward women at his PBS talk show.

The actions against Smiley and Rose follow dozens of firings and suspensions of prominent men who have been accused of sexual misconduct or harassment.