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Tolbert Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness Opens New Office in Beverly Hills, Expanding Its Holistic Approach to Healthcare and Pain Management to the Greater Los Angeles Area Dr. Glenna Tolbert, M.D., founder of the Tolbert Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness, named one of the “36 women physician leaders to know” by the Kaiser Family Foundation recently announced the opening of its Beverly Hills office located at 240 S. La Cienega Blvd. in Beverly Hills. After more than 20 years of operating a state-of-the-art medical facility in Encino and healing hundreds of patients from their chronic pain, the Tolbert Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness opened a second office in Beverly Hills in July. At a time when Americans are spending more on healthcare but still suffering from a range of chronic illnesses, the Tolbert Center offers a unique approach to healthcare that emphasizes restoring the quality of life to
each patient. The opioid addiction crisis also has taken its toll on Americans throughout the country—and no one area is immune. That’s why the Tolbert Center has specialized in using nonsurgical and minimally invasive techniques and procedures for the management of chronic pain and, more recently, for helping patients maintain a lifestyle free of painkillers. After a decade of practicing medicine in different traditional healthcare systems and growing frustrated with their lack of putting patients at the center of healthcare, Dr. Tolbert opened the Center for Rehabilitation and Wellness in 2002. The Center was founded to revive appropriate patient-centered care and make sure that healthcare is managed as a partnership between the physician, team of spe-
always says, exercise is the secret to the fountain of youth. Mind-Body Connection: The evidence shows that the power of the mind is important to healing the body, and vice versa. That’s why the Center recently added a psychologist to the team to educate patients about the strength of the mind as it relates to the body. Patients who have benefited greatly and credits Dr. Tolbert for their successful healing process speaks about their experiences. “What has made the biggest difference is not what Dr. Tolbert has done to help my back. It’s the way that she and her entire staff have treated me from the very beginning. For them, it was never about a broken down body part. It was about helping me find me again.” — Darren Kavinoky, award -winning criminal defense attorney, founder of 1-800-NO-CUFFS and host of hit TV show “Deadly Sins” “One year ago, I had
round-the-clock Fentynal patches glued to my body due to my intense back pain. I could maybe walk five steps without having to sit down. Then, like an angel, Dr. Tolbert came to me with her PRP treatment. Here I am today, 60 years old and pain-free. I am a large-scale antiques collector, and I am once again able to walk the miles-long weekend venues. Thank you, Dr. Tolbert, for giving me back my life.” — Pamela Dr. Tolbert, the founder of the center, is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with a sub-specialty in Spinal Cord Medicine. Dr. Tolbert, who has been practicing medicine since 1993, believes in a holistic approach to healthcare, where the physician, team of specialists and patients work in partnership to restore the quality of life to each patient and get them feeling fabulous. For more information, visit drglennatolbert.com.
Gospel Music Tribute Remembering Aretha Franklin “Queen of Soul” 1942-2018 Dr. Glenna Tolbert cialists and each patient. The philosophy has always been to offer everything possible to help people be fabulous regardless of what their insurance covers. Dr. Tolbert and her team of physicians and nutrition and fitness specialists work with each patient to decrease their pain, enhance their performance and keep them moving—all without surgery. In addition to traditional medicine, the Center offers four main treatments to restore the function of each patient’s body: DNA Testing: As a result of an injury or the aging process, medications, stress and chronic illness can rob people’s bodies of their
necessary elements. With DNA micro nutrient testing, Dr. Tolbert has been able to determine the best medications for each patient’s body and decrease patients’ pain by supplementing their diets with minerals and vitamins to restore their bodies’ balance. Regenerative Medicine: Regenerative medicine uses minimally invasive procedures, along with a patient’s own body, to regrow and repair damaged cartilage and ligaments. The Center uses tools such as prolotherapy, PRP and stem cell injections to accomplish this goal without surgery. Exercise: The Center incorporates exercise into the healing process because, as Dr. Tolbert
By Gloria Zuurveen Editor-in-Chief LOS ANGELES—On the evening before the Aretha Franklin, “Queen of Soul” is to be laid to rest in a funeral service in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan on Friday, August 31, 2018 in a service that is scheduled from 9am to 3pm, all befitting for the
“Queen of Soul” who changed the course of music for the whole world and especially gospel music, Second District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and his collective collaborative partners that included KJLH “Spread the Word” Host, Aundrae Russell, Bishop Kenneth Ulmer, Pastor, Please see Aretha, page 4
Southwest Los Angeles Rotary Club Holds District Governor’s Meeting
Photo by Gloria Zuurveen Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and members from the choirs who performed selected songs of Aretha Franklin from the “Amazing Grace” Album Atlantic Records, 1972 at CAAM on last night.
Photo and Caption by Gloria Zuurveen
The Southwest Los Angeles Rotary Club (SLARC) members held its Governor’s Meeting and was inspired by the message of Governor Joe Vasquez (center) of Rotary District 5280, Bellflower Club. Vasquez has been a Rotarian since 2000 and has served in various leadership roles at the District level and he has received the District Rotarian of the Year Award. He has a 25-year career in hospital administration and he has a mechanical and electrical contracting business which serves LA and Orange counties. During the meeting, Maxine Ransom von Phul was acknowledged as being a Club member for the longest period of time. Peggy Hardy was acknowledged as the newest member of the Club as well as for her Community Service work with feeding the homeless and supporting Women’s Shelter and Halfway House. Christopher and Deloris Lyons were honored as Paul Harris Fellows. Charles Lyons encouraged members to support the Foundation. Danielle Green reported on the Scholarship Program going into its 21st year.
Photo by Gloria Zuurveen Reverend Gilbert ‘Gil’ Fears and Aundrae Russell at the Gospel Music Tribute Remembering Aretha Franklin “Queen of Soul” last night.
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Another day, another week, another month, another viral video of police gone wild. This time it’s Baltimore, a city already under a federal consent decree to reform its police department after a Justice Department investigation into the 2015 death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police found rampant, systemic abuse of black residents by cops. Contrary to the usual response to such recordings, police and city officials acted quickly after Officer Arthur Williams was caught on camera Saturday, Aug. 11, savagely beating a defenseless DaShawn McGrier. McGrier, a 26-year-old warehouse worker, suffered fractured ribs, a broken jaw, various cuts and bruises and spent two nights in a local hospital. After a witness posted the attack on Facebook and Instagram that day, Williams resigned. By Wednesday, he had been charged with first and second-degree assault. The Baltimore incident mirrors images from so many other cities – Fort Worth, Texas; Philadelphia, Tulsa, Oklahoma; New York City, Mesa, Arizona; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cleveland, Chicago, Beavercreek, Ohio, Gwinnett County, Georgia; Bloomfield, New Jersey, Grandbury, Texas; North Charleston, South Carolina; Falcon Heights, Minnesota. It’s “déjà vu all over again.” In most cases, the officers are white, and the victims are black. Consequently, there is an inclination to define police misconduct largely as an issue of race. The Baltimore cop caught on camera beating the hell out of a black man, however, was not white. He was African American. So was his partner, who stood by and watched without trying to halt the assault. So are 42 percent of the officers within the Baltimore Police Department. So is the current Baltimore police commissioner, as was the previous police commissioner, as was the police commissioner when Gray died of a crushed spinal cord following a ride in the back of a police van, as were six other Baltimore police commissioners in a city where police have been under the control of African-American political leadership for nearly 40 years. Race is a significant part of the problem. For police and much of society, black men are the boogeyman, a threat or suspicious just by their mere presence. But it’s just a part of the issue. As we discovered through nearly 100 interviews with police, city officials and citizens across dozens of American cities, these incidents continue at a steady, pernicious pace because of a mindset and a pattern within most police departments that overrides nearly every signifi cant effort to change them. Until we, the citizenry, address that culture as well as our own attitudes about what police should and should not do, the shootings, the beatings, the harassment and the abuse of police power will continue. In large part, our police departments are defined by a law enforcement culture that perpetuates an us-against-the citizens attitude in which defending fellow cops – no matter how inept, how malevolent or corrupt – is paramount. Conse-
quently, officers act with a sense of impunity, because they know that no matter what they do, their fellow officers will back them up, or at the least, won’t report them. We saw this in Chicago four years ago when three officers lied on their police reports to justify the shooting of 17year-old black juvenile by a fellow officer — even though they knew there was video of the incident that would contradict their statements. So, the incidents continue. Williams did what other Baltimore cops had done, including his previous harassment and arrest of McGrier. This time it was caught on camera. Additionally, departments too often do a poor job of screening out applicants, allowing in men and women who have already been proven to be bad cops in other departments. Such was the case of the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland and the former St. Louis cop who without justification ruined the life of Fred Watson in Ferguson under the color of law. Or they give a badge and a gun to people who never should be cops. In New Orleans, police hired a woman onto the force — despite her failure on psychological exams and strong objections from the department’s psychiatrist – who would later murder a fellow officer and two residents in a robbery. Additionally, the training they need is lacking. in Baltimore, for example, the department’s own head of legal instruction at the police academy’s earlier this year said a third of the men and women heading to the streets lacked a basic understanding of the laws governing constitutional policing. “We’re giving them a badge and a gun tomorrow, the right to take someone’s liberty, ultimately the right to take someone’s life if it calls for it, and they have not demonstrated they can meet [basic] constitutional and legal standards,” Sgt. Josh Rosenblatt told the Baltimore Sun. Rosenblatt, who is trained as a lawyer, said many of them failed to understand the most basic tenets of being a cop. “Don’t illegally arrest people. Don’t illegally search people. These are not high standards.” But even with better recruitment and proper training and even better pay, police will revert to the same unacceptable behavior as along as a culture exists in which they feel their first allegiance is to fellow cops, and not the people they are paid to “protect and serve.” Police and their conduct are defined by the public officials we elect to oversee them. As we approach the mid -term elections in November, we must send a clear message to candidates that unless they stand for an end to police misconduct and the seemingly endless stream of cop violating citizens’ rights, they won’t get our vote. [Ron Harris, a former national, foreign and congressional correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis Post -Dispatch, is currently an adjunct professor at Howard University. and Matthew Horace, former law enforcement offi cer with over 25 years of experience across America, is a security expert and law enforcement analyst for CNN and Headline News. They are the authors of The Black and the Blue; A Cop Reveals Crimes, Racism and Injustice in Law Enforcement.]
EPA Roll-Backs Will Hurt People of Color By Felicia M. Davis, Director of the HBCU Green Fund and on the boards of Green 2.0 and The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork in the tunnel with one direction pitch black and a bright light at the end of the other. The choice seems so obvious and yet the President of the United States of America intentionally heads into the darkness. At the turn of the millennium we knew for a fact that the planet is warming and that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide accelerate warming. We were aware of the human contribution and that limiting carbon emissions is the best way for humans to try to avoid catastrophic upheaval. It took much time and work to get the Clean Power Plan in place that eliminating it is just short of insane. The president’s announcement sent me back to our 2002 report “Air of Injustice: African Americans & Power Plant Pollution.” The collaboration brought Dr. Joseph Lowery and Dr. Yvonne Scruggs-Lefwich of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda and Black Leadership Forum, respectively, together with Martha Keating and Angela Ledford Anderson formerly with the Clean Air Task Force and Clear the Air to mobilize and educate the African American community about the impact of power plant pollution on air quality, climate change and public health. We reported that coal-fired power plants are the largest industrial emitters of a list of pollutants with negative health impacts such as increased asthma, lung disease, premature deaths and even increases in infectious disease. Long before Hurricane Katrina we tried to sound the alarm connecting poverty, race, geography and even insurance status to climate impacts. Scientists tried to explain that while we can’t point to any single weather event as evidence of climate change, by the time the pattern is proven it will be too late. We’re like slowly boiling frogs unable to grasp the upheaval that climate change is already causing. We did a poor job of explaining what a global degree Celsius actually means, our hockey stick graphs and bathtub analogies only worked for
people who understand climate science. People can’t seem to connect floods, drought, fires, hurricanes and extreme weather to climate change. We should have stressed the fact that there are only ten global degrees of difference between today’s climate and the ice age. We need to break things down in terms everyday people can appreciate. Perhaps we should remind Americans about the days of the Dust Bowl or the water wars between ranchers and farmers featured in western movies. Looking back the 10 Principles of Just Climate Policy developed by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (a diverse group of 28 US environmental justice, religious, policy and advocacy groups) included in the Air of Injustice appendix should have been featured more prominently. Principle number one: Stop Cooking the Planet and states plainly that, “Global warming will accelerate unless we can slow the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. To protect vulnerable Americans, alternatives must be found for human activities that cause global warming.” If we started there and elevated these principles, there would have been a focus on workers and communities. We were adamant that “no group should have to shoulder the burden alone of transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a renewable energy-based economy. We had in mind training and economic development for miners and other displaced workers. While caring about the needs of local communities down to the individual, it is important to recognized that, “Global Problems Need Global Solutions” and as one of the largest contributors the US should be out front. The Paris Agreement was a major accomplishment. After decades of negotiations finally the whole world was on one accord when it came to the urgent need to collectively work to reduce emissions and adapt to changes that are inevitable. Resilience emerged as a priority given the magnitude of change underway. We were headed in the right direction. How could we know that the fact that progress was made under America’s first Black president, Barack Obama, would usher in a period that is best described as retrograde? Truth and science are under attack and our most effective weapon is education. There is little that we can do to move those that know better but still make poor choices and head into the darkness. It is up to us to educate and embrace those that do not know better. We know better and it is up to us to do better. (To read the full Air of Injustice report visit http:// www.dogonvillage.com/?p=8388)
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EDUCATION & COMMUNITY NEWS California Legislators Introduces Measure to Make Associate Degrees Free for All Students (SACRAMENTO, CA) – As the initial wave of first-
time, full-time students begin their newly-free classes at community colleges across California, Assembly leaders debuted a measure stating the legislature’s intent to waive fees for all in-state students’ second academic year. In doing so, an Associate Degree would effectively become free for all students in California. Assembly Bill 1862, jointly authored by Assemblymembers Miguel Santiago (D- Los Angeles), David Chiu (D- San Francisco), and Kevin McCarty (D – Sacramento) was recently introduced to take the important step towards guaranteeing a tuition free community college experience for all firsttime, full-time California students. The measure comes directly on the heels of the implementation of AB 19 (2017) (jointly authored by
the same legislators) which made the first year of community college free for all firsttime, full-time students and enactment of the 2018-19 Budget Act, which allocated $46 million to support the program. That first round of students will begin classes at schools across California in the coming weeks. “California’s future economy will require over a million new academic degrees
to compete in the global marketplace,” said Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (DSacramento). “Providing California students with a free second year of community college will increase in-state student enrollment, help more students graduate with a degree or certificate and will support a strong, sustainable economy in the Golden State for generations to come.” “In the fight against
income inequality, a free education is the greatest instrument we have,” said Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles). “We owe this effort to the students entering community college this year; we owe it to the economy of California – the 5th largest in the world; and most importantly, we owe it to our children. Whether community college is used as a stepping stone to our amazing fouryear universities or to apprenticeships and workforce training programs, it is a key component of California’s education framework and should be the cornerstone of a debt-free education.” “Students across the country face unprecedented challenges,” said Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco). "Whether it be the cost of tuition, finding affordable housing, or paying off student loans, it is crushingly expensive to be a stu-
dent today. Last year, we took a major step towards making college more affordable by guaranteeing one year of free community college. We now pick up where we left off by proposing two years of free community college in California.” Introduction of AB 1862 is a signal to the next governor, legislators, higher education advocates, students and families that the upcoming legislative session will prioritize making higher education more accessible and affordable for all California students. By taking the bold step of making two full years at a community college free all for first-time, full-time in-state students, California will be able to grow the number of degree and certificated workers needed to compete in the global economy. Legislators McCarty, Santiago and Chiu plan to introduce a comprehensive measure on this issue when the 2019-2020 Legislative Session begins in December.
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Gospel Music Tribute Remembering Aretha Franklin “Queen of Soul” 1942-2018 (Continued from page 1) Faithful Central Bible Church, Quaford Coleman who introduced the Mass Choir who were elegantly dressed in black to perform selected songs from Franklin’s “Amazing Grace” Atlantic Records, 1972 under the direction of the Rev. Calvin Bernard Rhone, Rev. Quincy Fielding, Jr. and Herman Jones. The inside and outside of the California African American Museum (CAAM) on August 30, 201, were filled to capacity. It was an outpouring of support for honoring Franklin and the legacy of gospel music left for all to cherish. The Los Angeles Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America and the Southern California Community Alumni Choir were given the privilege and honor to be chosen to stand in the feet of a musical giant, a legend like no other and the community were graced with their glorious anointing for the occasion to honor the one and only “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin. The Reverend Gilbert ‘Gil’ Fears, Host, “Edna Tatum’s Gospel Classics” KPFK closed out with a word of prayer. Photo by Gloria Zuurveen A member from the community take a snapshot of a giant screen shot of Aretha Franklin during the tribute to the “Queen of Soul” at the California African American Museum on last night, August 30, 2018 hosted by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Aneles County Arts Commission and CAAM the museum was filled inside and outside.
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Photo by Gloria Zuurveen Glenna Wilson adorned in an Aretha Franklin’s T-shirt to honor the legacy of the “Queen of Soul” during the Gospel Music Tribute Remembering Aretha Franklin “Queen of Soul” 1942-2018 at the California African American Museum (CAAM) on last night, August 30, 2018. The museum was filled with the resident from the community who had come out to reflect on the life of Aretha Franklin.
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NEWS Black American Political Victories Sweep Nation By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor Across the United States in the 2018 election primaries, Black American political leaders are scoring historical victories – changing the conversation and the face of politics. “Congratulations to gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, Senator Bill Nelson and all our Democratic candidates who won their primaries tonight in Florida,” said Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez following Gillum’s historic victory. “In a historic victory, Andrew Gillum ran an inspiring campaign on his way to becoming the first African American to win a major-party nomination for governor in the Sunshine State,” Perez said. The victory in Florida comes as African Americans have continued to stun at the polls with wins by London Breed in San Francisco, Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Gillum in Florida. It’s also a testament to an unprecedented voter registration drive spearheaded by the NNPA and NAACP which joined to start a voter registration drive aimed at signing up 5 million new Black voters. The NNPA is a trade organization representing the 220 African American-owned newspapers across the country with a combined 22 million weekly subscribers. “Democrats came out
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum
in record numbers to support an incredible slate of candidates who are committed to fighting for greater access to affordable health care, better public schools, and protecting the environment for Floridians,” Perez said. The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both tweeted about the Gillum victory. Sharpton said Gillum stood firm against Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law while Jackson the victory set up an epic general election in November. “Black American voter turnout in 2018 will be the single-most determinative factor in the upcoming Midterm Elections on November 6,
2018,” said NNPA President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, jr. “In Florida, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin, a huge Black voter turnout will choose the winners of the elections for governors and members of Congress,” Chavis said. “This will be our payback national vote for all the injustices and inequalities that confront Black America. We are proud that the Black Press is helping to make this happen profoundly across the nation this year,” he said. Dorothy Leavell, NNPA’s National Chairman and publisher of the Crusader
newspapers in Gary and Chicago, said the victory could signal a political sea change in November. “The results of yesterday’s voting in Florida which made Andrew Gillum the Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida is yet another big victory for African Americans this year. As Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association I applaud the voters in Florida and Mr. Gillum,” Leavell said. “It’s exciting to see Andrew Gillum becoming the latest Black politician making history in the deep south. It’s also refreshing to see a product of an HBCU school break racial barriers in Florida’s lilywhite politics. Our nation has
too few people of color heading major governments. I applaud Gillum for his stunning, come-from-behind victory as the Democratic candidate for Florida governor. We look forward to seeing Gillum take it all in the November election and become the first Black governor in Florida’s 173-year history,” Leavell said. Bobby Henry, publisher of NNPA member The Westside Gazette in Florida, said more work is yet to be done. “We have one more River to cross. We are certainly proud and elated that brother Gillum has made the first step into Florida’s history and now we have to insure that his which is our’s also journey complete, ” Henry said. “His election as the first Black governor of Florida is one historical account however the fact that the Democratic Party has not been in control of the Florida legislator for over 20 years is another milestone,” he said. This is where the Democratic Party will have to unify and pour all that is necessary for Gillum to win this race, Henry added. “It has yet to come. The possibility is there however we as the voters have to be a part of the making of history,” Henry continued. “The book has not been completed yet, the preface is done now the story has to be written, record and made known. Let the story continue.”
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LOCAL/STATE/NATIONAL NEWS As Rift with Kaiser Grows Wider, Hospital Workers to Stand up for Patient Care in Labor Day Protest DOWNEY, Calif. – More than 1,000 healthcare workers and their allies will mark Labor Day at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 3 by engaging in civil disobedience and marching from Independence Park, 12334 Bellflower Blvd., to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 9333 Imperial Hwy., to protest the corporation’s plans that would undermine patients and the people who care for them. “Kaiser Permanente is raking in money but acting like it has no choice but to outsource employees and relocate others to areas where they would be paid far less,” said Steve Allman, a 16year Kaiser Permanente employee whose job at a Downey warehouse may be outsourced. “Families like mine will have the legs cut out from under us and patients will suffer. We take pride in the work we do to make sure Kaiser facilities have the medications millions of patients need, accurately and on
time. You just can’t outsource the kind of efficiency, expertise and pride that me and my co-workers put into our jobs.” A similar protest will be held Sept. 3 in Oakland, where an additional 1,000 Kaiser Permanente employees and allies will march on Kaiser Oakland Medical
Center and also engage in civil disobedience. Kaiser Permanente, which reported $29 billion in reserves in 2017 and whose CEO is paid $10 million a year, is seeking deep cuts that would harm patient care. It has refused to engage in bargaining over the issue, while
becoming more strident in its attitude toward workers, deepening the rift between the corporation and its employees. The cuts include: Outsourcing 70 pharmacy warehouse workers in Downey; Outsourcing 34 couriers at a laboratory in North Hollywood; Moving 742 jobs from call centers in Hollywood, Baldwin Park and Woodland Hills to other areas of the state where workers will earn $2 per hour less; Outsourcing 96 pharmacy warehouse workers in Oakland and Livermore; Outsourcing 43 licensed vocational nurses in San Francisco, Oakland, San Leandro, Santa Clara and Walnut Creek; Shutting down a skilled nursing facility in Manteca and throwing the families of 18 workers and patients into chaos effective Oct. 31, 2018; and Outsourcing 16 parking attendants and shuttle drivers in
San Francisco. Other elected leaders who have weighed in against Kaiser’s plans are U.S. Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Adam Schiff, Tony Cardenas, Brad Sherman and Grace Napolitano; California State Sens. Ed Hernandez and Kevin De Leon; California Assemblymembers Anthony Rendon, Al Muratsuchi, Laura Friedman, Sharon Quirk-Silva, Cristina Garcia, Mike Gipson, Chris Holden, Ed Chau, Freddie Rodriguez and Ian Calderon; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Sheila Kuehl, Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis; and the Los Angeles and the Baldwin Park City Councils. More than 55,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in California are members of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIUUHW). They along with 30,000 other Kaiser employees nationwide comprise the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, whose national agreement with Kaiser expires Sept. 30, 2018.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Jay Z, Beyoncé Awarding $1M in Scholarships to ‘Exceptional’ High School Students By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor Popular music’s most powerful couple continue to make power moves. Hip-hop superstar Jay Z and his wife, Beyoncé, have announced a new scholarship program that will award 10 scholarships worth $100,000 each to “exceptional” high school seniors who demonstrate financial needs. The award will serve as a dedicated university-based fund for each selected student throughout the duration of the student’s enrollment, according to a news release. “This back to school season, students in the On The Run II Tour markets, who are preparing for college, will be chosen by Boys and Girls Club of America,” according to a joint press release from Beyoncé’s “BeyGOOD Initiative” and Jay Z’s “The Shawn Carter Foundation.” “Qualified students must demonstrate academic excellence and show financial needs that would make it hard for them to enter college or university for the academic year 2018-2019,” the release noted. The markets will include Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Arlington, Texas; New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Seattle. The power couple have had a long history of helping students with The Shawn Carter Foundation spearheading college tours to historically black colleges and universities and providing scholarships to college bound students throughout the country. Through her BeyGOOD initiative, Beyoncé created the Formation Scholars Award, a merit program to help female students start or further their college education, and this year they announced the Homecoming Scholars Award, a second merit program, opened to qualified students, regardless of gender, to enter or continue their studies at one of eight HBCUs. In May, Jordan Davis decided to apply for the BeyGood scholarship but said doubted he would receive the award. About a month later though, he got the news. The Plano native was one of the eight finalists who had won the inaugural scholarship sponsored by Beyoncé and
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“I was so ecstatic,” Davis told the Houston Chronicle. “It was a dream come true. It almost felt like Beyoncé had chosen me.” Homecoming Scholars was inspired by Beyoncé’s performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Beyoncé, the first black woman in the festival’s 19-year history to be its headline performer, referenced HBCUs throughout her performance that incorporated a 100-piece all-black marching band and song selection. “The show, with its homage to excellence in education, was a celebration of the homecoming weekend experience, the highest display of college pride,” according to a news release. “The energyfilled production put the spotlight on art and culture, mixing the ancient and the modern, which resonated masterfully through the marching band, performance art, choir, and dance. It was the impetus to mark her second scholarship program.” As a part of the scholarship application, students were required to submit a 1,000-word essay about “one African or African-American thought leader in their field who has inspired them to achieve their goals.” Davis wrote about David Satcher who served as U.S. Surgeon General in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Satcher, who was director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention from 1993-1998 before being appointed as surgeon general by Clinton, is an “inspiring” figure to look up to, Davis said. Davis, 20, is a senior healthcare administration major at Texas Southern. He said the scholarship will make it possible for him to pursue a career in healthcare administration. One day, he hopes to work for a home health agency, clinic or hospital as an administrator who helps underserved communities. “I always cared about helping the community and contributing,” he said. “I like to work with people.” In addition to maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher, he volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and is a member of TSU Honors College Enrichment, the Urban Gardening program, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and is also a counselor for Young Life Christian Fellowship. Davis said he is grateful because the scholarship relieved him of a heavy financial burden, especially because he plans to pursue a master’s degree in organizational leadership and development. “This scholarship took off the pressure to get loans or additional funds,” Davis said. “A master’s degree is not cheap and this makes the gap smaller.” Jay Z and Beyoncé’s OTRII Tour reportedly has grossed more than $150 million. “And, they’re giving back in a large way,” superfan Nolan Crenshaw said.
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