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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 9

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Snapshots, October 4 - 10 COVID RECOVERY SHOWS UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD FOR BLACKS Although millions of Americans have returned to work as the U.S. recovers from a 19-month COVID19 pandemic, African Americans and those without college degrees continue to suffer. In addition to the usual handicaps - inadequate education, lack of access to the internet and health care - these twin groups also face a still-sluggish job market, where hiring has slowed, supply chain issues have worsened, inflation remains high and consumer sentiment plunged in August and remains near its pandemic-era low. At this point, 8.4 million Americans are still actively looking for work and another 5 million have given up on finding work and have dropped out of the labor force completely. Many of these are less-educated Americans and black women of all education levels. The black unemployment rate, at 8.8%, remains nearly double the white unemployment rate.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), stalemate source

African Novelist Wins 2021 Nobel Prize For Literature Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize For Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. The 73-year-old native of Zanzibar, Tanzania, whose first language is Sawhili, has lived in the UK since the late 1960s. He is the author of 10 novels and a number of short stories, and recently retired as professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Black California Family's Stolen Property Possibly Restored After 97 Years

In a boost to the case for black reparations, the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce may be allowed to reclaim a Manhattan Beach resort owned by the couple that they were forced to sell for next-to-nothing in 1924 after continued harassment and institutional racism by the Ku Klux Klan. Now run as a lifeguard center, the property, located in Los Angeles County and valued at $75 million, will revert to their family once the state legislature passes a bill removing restrictions on the transfer of the property, now owned by the county.

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Missouri Executes Mentally Disabled Black Man

Black Woman Soldier Wins The Battle of Las Vegas

Controvery over the death penalty and its uneven application to black men flared when the State of Missouri executed a mentally disabled black man, Ernest Lee Johnson after Governor Mike Parson denied clemency for the intellectually disabled prisoner. The US Supreme Court denied a final appeal earlier that day. The 61-year-old was convicted in 1995 of the killings of three people during a robbery of a general store. His lawyers and death penalty had argued that Johnson's lifelong condition, once known as mental retardation, disallows his death by U.S. law.

This Week In Black History Frank Robinson became the first Black major league baseball manager (Cleveland Indians), 1974 Kingdom of Lesotho declares independence from the UK, 1966 The Martin L. King, Jr. Federal Building in Atlanta, Ga is the first federal building in the nation to dedicated to the name of the slain civil rights leader, 1988 Uganda declares independence from the UK, 1962 First Legally recognized Interracial Marriage in North Carolina, 1971 Kenyan ecologist Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai becomes the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, 2004 NOTABLE BIRTHS: Ex-Rep.Yvonne Braithwaite Burke (D-CA) , 1932; Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), freedom fighter; William Sill (1821-1902), with The Underground Railroad; Black Panther, social activist H. Rap Brown, 1943; Actor Clifton Davis, 1945; Comedian Bernie Mac (1957 - 2008); Inventor Dr Lonnie G. Johnson (Super Soaker), 1949; The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (1897 1975); Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931); Writer, activist Amiri Baraka (1934-2014); Activist Jesse Jackson,1941; Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917 - 1982); David Dinkins, 1st black NYC Mayor (19272020)

A pit boss at Harrah's Casino finds out what time it is from Deja Harrison, who, despite her ID to the contrary, cannot believe that someone of her race, sex and age (23) can serve as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Lt. Harrison's reaction is priceless. I recommend viewing her video story here: https://www.rawstory.com/harrahs-dejaharrison/

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