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VOL. 31, No. 69

NAACP Sues HH MAXINE WATERS Betsy DeVos and HER TIME the Department RECLAIMED AND CLAIMED A VICTORY IN THE JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION of Education

By Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor

ABANDONING DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS

The Education Department has started dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints that… Last week the organization joined with the National Federation of the Blind, and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, to file the suit against DeVos and the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. District Court of Maryland. It was reported that Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education have determined that civil rights no longer matter, with their decision to abandon DOE’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) responsibility to investigate racial, gender or disability discrimination complaints. “By summarily changing policies to allow for the dismissal of civil rights complaints and the ability of organizations to appeal their rulings, DeVos is basically saying protecting civil rights and the rights of those with disabilities no longer matter at the Department of

The unstoppable U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters once again demonstrated her dominance as an iconic veteran among elected representatives in California’s history by soundly defeating the republican candidate whose fledgling candidacy had been bolstered by a host of resources from Donald Trump and his supporters. In the 43rd District House of Representatives primary, Waters crushed her opponent by garnering 72 percent of the vote. During a career in elected office that spans decades, Waters has come to be known as the outspoken critic who speaks outside the box without trepidation. She ‘calls it as she sees it,’ without fear and frequently speaks truth to power in a manner that most other elected officials, particularly her male counterparts, are too timid to articulate. The most recent and noteworthy example of Waters’ assertiveness is the position she has taken against Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United

States. She has not been afraid to forcefully say out loud and in public what many democrats and republicans have reportedly said behind closed doors and under the cover of fear and weakness. Her version of political correctness is to correctly describe Trump’s antics, comments and policies , exactly as they are; disgusting, untruthful, vile, and hateful, which is exactly what she did at her campaign headquarters Tuesday night when she thanked her supporters for their confidence in her leadership. Waters explained that despite Trump’s outspoken remarks against her and the campaign support he has provided for her opponent, her re-election bid was centered on the issues that are important to the constituents in her district, as it has always been. Highlighting her focus on affordable housing, health care, college-loan indebtedness for young people, veteran’s rights and benefits, social security and medical benefits for the elderly, to name a few,

Waters said that she would use her platform in Washington to address the issues that are important to the ‘least among us’ and provide them with a decent quality of life.

WHEN GAVIN NEWSOM IS GOVERNOR? By Angela Hart

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s victory speech promised plenty as he moved into position Tuesday to become California’s next Democratic governor. As it became clear that he and Republican John Cox would face off in November, he called for a universal health care system. In outlining a broad plan for helping Cal-

ifornians struggling with the high cost of housing, he evoked American efforts after World War II to stabilize Western Europe. “Guaranteed health care for all. A ‘Marshall Plan’ for affordable housing,” Newsom said. “A master plan for aging with dignity. A middle-class workforce strategy. A cradle-to-college promise for the

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next generation. An all-hands approach to ending child poverty.” Newsom launched his political career in San Francisco as a moderate, businessfriendly Democrat, but during his campaign to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown, he has seized the left flank of the California Democratic Party. He says he wants to take “audacious” and “bold” action on major issues affecting California, especially its housing affordability and homelessness crisis. “No family should ever lack a roof over their heads,” Newsom said. “No child should ever be raised below the poverty line. No patient should ever be denied access to basic health care. And no Californian should ever have to choose between the three.” Should the former San Francisco mayor fulfill expectations and become California’s next governor, he would bring with him a policy agenda more liberal than

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COMMUNITY

COLORECTAL CANCER ALERT

PRESIDENT/PUBLISHER/ EDITOR Willie Brown VICE PRESIDENT Gloria Kennedy

Screening for colorectal cancer should start at age 45 instead of 50, the American Cancer Society said last Wednesday. The guidelines were lowered after research clearly showed people are getting colorectal cancer at younger and younger ages. It is thought of as an old person’s disease, but that’s simply not true. The increase in these cancers – which are the third most diagnosed – parallels the obesity epidemic and our sedentary lifestyle. Colon cancer will be diagnosed in more than 95,000 people this year and nearly 40,000 will be diagnosed with rectal cancer. These two cancers will kill more than 50,000 this year. Those born in the 80s and 90s are at double the risk for developing cancer of the colon and four times the risk for developing cancer of the rectum compared to people born decades earlier like the 40s and 50s,” said Dr. Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer for the American Cancer Society. Teens are actually being diagnosed today, and by the time it is diagnosed, many times it has already spread. If there is a family history or if you have inflammatory bowel disease (IBS), the risk is higher and you need to get

checked earlier. For the remaining 80% or so of us at average risk, we should start screening at 45 now. Most of us can get by with an annual or semi-annual fecal occult test unless our doctor says a colonoscopy is necessary. Colonoscopies are expensive, can carry some risk, and usually require sedation. The advantage of a colonoscopy, though, is that pre-cancerous lesions (polyps) can be removed at the moment they are spotted, which means the exam can actually prevent cancer. Other screening methods, including virtual colonos-

copy, DNA tests for tumors in the stool, and sigmoidoscopies are also acceptable. Right now, all insurance is mandated to cover colonoscopy and all the screening options at age 50. Once this new guideline is released, that will no longer be true. ACS will be working on insurance coverage to make sure these tests are available to everyone. Sadly, only about two-thirds of Americans who should get screened for colon cancer actually do, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Risk factors for colon cancer include eating meat, especially processed meat, smoking and obesity. Symptoms that could point to colon cancer include: • Bleeding from the rectum • Blood in the stool • Abdominal cramping • A change in the shape of the stool, diarrhea, constipation • A change in bowel habits, or the feeling that you need to make a bowel movement but there is none

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Q: Who do you think will make the best, next governor of California?

MARTIN LOVE Inglewood

A: I usually do not vote because I think

that our elections are rigged. However, I think voters should vote for candidates who are as pro=black as they are pro-white, in order to make our society better.

ADELINE JO LOPES Inglewood

A: Both of the leading democrat con-

tenders have fidelity issues but I believe everyone deserves a second chance. I choose not to disclose my preference.

GREGORIO ABELLERA Inglewood

A: I support the candidate with demonstrated experience dealing with legislators in Sacramento and one who will advance legislation that benefits all Californians.

MELVIN SIMS Inglewood

A: I am supporting the candidate who

has indicated the same level of support for the African American agenda as they have articulated for the majority population.

Compiled by Francis Taylor, Asst. Editor, (email: francis_taylor@sbcglobal.net) According to the official numbers, homelessness in L.A. has dipped slightly: down about 5% to 31,516 in the city and down about 3% to an estimated 53,195 people countywide. After three years of sharp increases, that’s the good news. But officials also warned that the number of people falling into homelessness for the first time in-

creased and that the percentage of homeless people living on L.A. County’s streets was unchanged. President Trump erroneously, jokingly blamed Canada for the burning of the White House in the War of 1812 during a call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the administration’s tariffs in Canadian steel and

aluminum imports. “His statement was completely inaccurate,” said Maj. Tanya Grodzinski, an associate history professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. The controversial judge who sparked outrage after offering a lenient sentence to Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault, was

recalled from office Wednesday — becoming the first California jurist recalled from the bench in 86 years. House Republicans are scrambling to find a compromise on immigration legislation that can satisfy conservatives who want to crackdown on illegal immigration and build a wall along

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COMMUNITY Continued from page 2 the southern border and moderates who want to help people brought into the country illegally as children, known as DREAMers. Authorities say the Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has destroyed at least 117 homes. Lava has covered eight square miles. The lava produced a massive cloud of steam when it reached the ocean at Kapoho Bay on Monday. High-tide flooding is happening across the USA at twice the rate it was just 30 years ago, according to a new report released Wednesday. And this flooding isn’t necessar-

ily caused by a storm, but by rising seas: As ocean levels rise because of global warming, flooding can now occur with high tides in many locations. The total costs for a typical family of four insured by the most common health plan offered by employers will average $28,166 this year, according to the annual Milliman Medical Index. The estimate includes the average cost of health insurance paid by employers and employees, as well as deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. Former NBA player Glen “Big

Baby” Davis was indicted by Los Angeles County prosecutors this week on a felony assault charge related to an April incident outside of a nightclub. Davis, whose eight-season NBA career concluded with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2015, was charged with assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury. Tesla’s next Gigafactory, a combination car and battery making plant, will be built near Shanghai, a top official disclosed during the company’s shareholder meeting. “The cars we’ll be building in that factory will be incredible,” said

Robin Ren, Tesla’s worldwide head of sales, before declining to offer any more details because the official announcement is still a few weeks away. One of the last remaining vestiges of the film camera era is drawing to a close soon, with Canon announcing that it will be ending sales of its last film camera: the EOS-1V. The EOS-1V was released back in the year 2000, and it served as a template for the EOS-1D, the company’s first truly professional-grade digital SLR. The EOS-1V remained technically quite

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Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. District Court of Maryland. It was reported that Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education have determined that civil rights no longer matter, with their decision to abandon DOE’s Office

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of Civil Rights (OCR) responsibility to investigate racial, gender or disability discrimination complaints. “By summarily changing policies to allow for the dismissal of civil rights complaints and the ability of organizations to appeal their rulings, DeVos is basically saying

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HH MAXINE WATERS HH CELEBRATES HER RECENT VICTORY IN THE JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION

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MAXINE WATERS

COMMUNITY PUBLISHER’S MESSAGE

RECLAIMED HER TIME

I REMEMBER JUNE 5, 1968

THE ASSASSINATION OF

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY This week marks not only the 74th anniversary of D-Day, but the 50th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy, who served as attorney general in the administration of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. Bobby, as he was known by his friends and supporters, was shot three times on June 5, 1968, by a Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Kennedy was celebrating his win in California’s Democratic presidential primary and those of us who anticipated another version of the leadership and legacy that his brother provided as president of the United States, looked forward to him becoming the next president. Two days after his death, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, where his late brother, also had been laid to rest. Kennedy had endeared himself to the African American community as a result of the vision and ideals he espoused for the nation in general and the hope he inspired among blacks in particular. It was Bobby who, on April 4, 1968, visited a black community in Indianapolis on an open flatbed truck, against the city’s mayor who explained their inability to ensure his safety, to make the following announcement, following the news that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been assassinated; “For those of you who are black, considering the evidence there evidently is

that there were white people who were responsible, you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love. For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust at the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I can only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred ... but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another,

and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. It was later reported that Kennedy’s calming words in Indianapolis helped to avert the violence that swept other U.S. cities following King’s assassination. His memorable and prophetic statements from earlier campaign gatherings resonated with many Americans and set the tone for his presidential candidacy and his plan for keeping America Great…”Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly….Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies….Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live….Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves….. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on……I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil……One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time…… Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. Kennedy’s messages of love, unity and civility are still relevant today and it is sad that the current administration’s missives of hatred, separation, bigotry and misogyny, are too often the messages that the Trump administration continues to advance. Bobby Kennedy had a romantic vision for America and the planet and some have characterized him as a ‘racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight.’ In this period of our nation’s history, when political distrust is the order of the day, an important lesson is available for our president to learn from a man who wanted to keep all of America Great. “Each time a man stands up for an ideal,” RFK reminded us, “he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Mr. Trump, are you listening?

Your perspectives will determine if you are in a hole or climbing out.

She described the president as ‘Don the Con’ man indicating that in practically every day of his administration there is a new scandal. He takes pride in diverting attention away from the problems he is facing and seems to enjoy creating new stories that mix people up and makes it difficult to keep up with what is important. “Some of my colleagues have suggested that I refrain from using the ‘I’ word Waters explained. But, she indicated that she believes that he is not fit to be president and that he should be impeached. “This president has mocked the disabled,” Waters said. “He has gotten away with saying he grabs women by their private parts, he says one thing today and lies about it on the next and he lied about the letter he dictated about his son’s meetings with the Russians. I have faith in Special Investigator Robert Mueller,” Waters added. “He is smart, focused and I believe he is going to do the job.” Waters reminded her supporters that Trump has boldly challenged the NFL and professional athletes for their peaceful protest, that incidentally has nothing to do with patriotism, but Trump does not been strong enough to challenge Russian president Vladimir Putin on his interference in our elections or his quest to lift the U.S. sanctions that have crippled the Soviet economy. She bashed Trump for his attempt to issue a Muslim travel ban and for supporting the white Nazi-extremists who he characterized as very good people. Waters urged her supporters to take to the internet, use social media, and take every appropriate means to encourage elected officials to resist Trump until he is removed from office. She said that she cannot wait until 2020! Waters dazzled the standing room-only crowd by her commend of the facts surrounding the current state of affairs in the White House. She hinted that it was probably Trump’s plan to bring Russia in on the Korea talks, get the Koreans and the Russians to agree to a deal that will lift the sanctions on both countries so that the Russians could proceed with their oil-drilling expeditions that will yield billions of dollars for those involved. Waters reiterated her assertion that Trump was not her president and was not fit to represent the United States on the world stage. She said that Trump was dangerous for America and certainly should not be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Trump has nominated himself. Waters concluded. “I believe Mueller is going to do the job but, if he doesn’t, Stormy will! Waters’ supporters gave her a standing ovation!

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any other blue-state governor. He wants health care for everyone, including immigrants in the country illegally. He supports universal preschool and at least two years of tuition-free community college. He wants to get rid of California’s cash bail system. He would seek to run the state’s energy grid solely on renewable energy. Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, also wants to take on major policy initiatives, including ending early childhood poverty, ensuring access to affordable child care and working to end the gender pay gap. It would not be the frugal path pursued by Brown, who over his last two terms leading the nation’s most populous state has brought California back from a recession, built a strong state budget with $9 billion in reserves and shepherded a booming economy that is now the fifth largest in the world. Newsom’s biggest goals, on homelessness, health care and education, would be expensive, and Brown has warned the state can expect an economic downturn. To pay for governmentfinanced single-payer health care alone, for example, Californians would be on the hook for huge tax increases to cover the estimated $400 billion price tag.

Cox was unapologetic about running with President Donald Trump’s endorsement in a heavily Democratic state. “It wasn’t Donald Trump who made California the highest-taxed nation in the country, it was Gavin Newsom and the Democrats,” Cox told his supporters on Tuesday evening. “It wasn’t Donald Trump who piled on the fees, taxes, the regulations, the delay that has made our housing the most expensive in the country ...” Newsom acknowledged in an interview with reporters last week that tackling his full platform would be costly, saying about his health care goals that “you can’t do that in your first legislative session.” He said he’d first establish a blueprint outlining the direction he wants to take California on universal health care, early childhood education, homelessness and housing, and build a budget around those priorities over time. On homelessness, he said he’d first start by appointing a secretary-level “homelessness czar” to coordinate the delivery of mental health, welfare and other services to the needy, fund jail programs to prevent inmates from becoming homeless upon release and support so-called homelessness “navigation

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The Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA play three important home games within the next week starting tonight (Thursday) when the battle Seattle at the Staples Center at 7:30 p.m. The 4-1 Sparks are currently in second place in the 12 team WNBA league and Seattle is in third place with a record of 5-2. Both teams have a combination of veteran and younger players that give them the best opportunity to create good winning chemistry. The Sparks have two of the best players in the WNBA in Candace Parker and Nneka Ogwumike. Those two players give Los Angeles veteran leadership. Chelsea Gray, who led to WNBA in 3-point percentage (48%) in 2017, is slowing becoming a star in the WNBA. She moves really well without the ball and creates her own shot and that helps open up the court for her teammates. Odyssey Sims and Riquna Williams bring toughness to the Sparks back court and with the addition of guard Cappie Pondexter, a 12 year WNBA veteran, their back court rotation is solid. Essence Carson, who can play forward or guard can help out the front court or back court. Now that center Jantel Lavender is back from playing overseas the front court is also very strong. The Seattle Storm will create their own set of problems for the Sparks. Sue Bird, a 15 year veteran is one of the smartest players in the league and they have maybe the best young player in the league in Breanna Stewart. The game will also mark the Los Angeles debut of former UCLA star Jordin Canada who grew up in Los Angeles. The Sparks will continue their home stand on Sunday when they take on Chicago at 2 p.m. and Tuesday they play Atlanta at 7:30 p.m. Atlanta features another former UCLA star rookie, Monique Billings who also grew up in the Southern California area.

FRIDAY ON ABC

USCâ€™s Michael Norman and the rest of the Trojan men and women will compete in the NCAA track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon this week and weekend starting Thursday through Saturday. Norman, who is one of the fastest runners in the world will run in the 400 meters and the 4x400 meter relay. The Trojan men and women will compete for the team championships and the UCLA men and women will compete for individual honors in the four day meet. The meet will be televised on ESPN2.

GAME 4 (9 ET)

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Registered Owner(s): Uchenna Gloria Nwofor, 1307 N. La Brea Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90302

This business is conducted by an individual(s). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business listed above on March 28, 2018.

This business is conducted by an individual(s). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business listed above on April 4, 2018.

I (We) declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Jermaine Joseph Thompson, The, Owner.

I (We) declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) Uchenna Gloria Nwofor, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk on March 28, 2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk on April 4, 2018.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State or common law (See Section 14411 et.seq., Business and Professions Code.)

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NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State or common law (See Section 14411 et.seq., Business and Professions Code.) Original May 31; June 7, 14, 21, 2018 IT004223012002034 Inglewood Today

Faster than a Los Angeles Rams wide receiver, Mayor Butts received notice of a need to trim Queen Street palm trees on the weekend and workers were on the JOB on Tuesday. Well done mayor!

BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: RECORD LOW By INGLEWOOD TODAY News Service The Black unemployment rate fell to a record low of 5.9 percent in May, dipping dramatically by more than half a percentage point from April. This new number is the lowest since the government started keeping track in 1972. President Donald Trump will likely take credit for the new numbers released Friday. He wrongly boasted at this year’s State of the Union address that his administration had lowered the Black unemployment rate. “And something I’m very proud of, African-American unemployment

stands at the lowest rate ever recorded,” Trump said. However, the Black unemployment rate has been on a steady decline since 2011, according to Vox. This movement can be attributed to President Barack Obama’s administration. Plus, Trump’s administration hasn’t exactly been clear about which of their policies or practices are aiding in this decline. The new numbers also indicate that the gap between black and white unemployment has never been smaller, according to the Bureau of Labor Sta-

tistics. The gap shrank to 2.4 percentage points, the first time on record it’s been less than 3 points, CNN reports. “Looking at the trend for blacks or African-Americans, it is very clear that their unemployment rate has fallen markedly over the past seven years,” Evan Cunningham, an economist at the BLS, told NPR. “The decline thus far in 2018 looks to be a continuation of this same trend.” There are still some negatives: The rate for black teens is 19.8%, substantially higher than the 11.6% unemployment rate for white teens. And the

rate for black men over the age of 20 is 6.3%, compared with just 4.7% for black adult women and 3.2% for white men over the age of 20.

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AFRICAN AMERICANS OF D-DAY Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944, of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. . By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans, marking the Normandy landings as the beginning of the end of war in Europe. A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day is a television documentary program that was produced for The History Channel by Flight 33 Productions in 2007. Executive Producers were Douglas Cohen (Flight 33), Louis Tarantino (Flight 33) and Dolores Gavin (The History Channel). The program was written by Douglas Cohen and produced by Samuel K. Dolan. A one-hour special, A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day told the story of African American soldiers in World War II, who went ashore in France during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy. Among the interviewees were veterans from Barrage Balloon Battalions, Quartermaster and Transportation Compa-

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centers” — centrally located hubs across the state where homeless people could access a broad spectrum of services. Newsom also wants to establish a more

nies, and Engineers, as well as Coast Guard veteran, John Roberts, from USS LCI(L)-93, who lost a leg during the landings at Omaha Beach. In the decades leading up to World War II, the United States Army was segregated between white and “colored” units. Before the American Civil War, the Army had very few African American enlisted-men (though many former slaves did serve in the American Revolution, until 1863 when regiments of black soldiers, led by white officers, began taking the field. The system of segregated regiments with white officers continued through the American Indian Wars of the late 19th century, the Spanish–American War, and World War I. Among the more famous segregated units during this period were the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments, also known as The Buffalo Soldiers, who along with segregated infantry regiments, engaged the Comanches and Apaches during the Indian Wars of the Southwestern United States. At the onset of World War II, the Army remained segregated, and with the notable exceptions of units like the 92nd Infantry Division, very few African American soldiers were permitted to serve in Frontline Combat units. Most African American soldiers served as service and supply troops, artillerymen, military police, and in other rear-eche-

lon companies and battalions. However, many of these soldiers did see combat in Europe and the Pacific, particularly those in artillery batteries. Among the units going ashore at Normandy in 1944, was the 320th Anti-Aircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion which did see action on D-Day. Another unit that saw considerable action in Europe was the 761st Tank Battalion, which fought with George S. Patton’s Third Army in 1944 and 1945. Another famous group of African American soldiers were the drivers of the Red Ball Express, who in the months after D-Day kept allied armies supplied with ammo, gas, and food. Many of these troops would volunteer to fall in with their white comrades during the Battle of the Bulge. The system of segregation in the United States Army would end in 1948, and by the time of the Korean War African American and white soldiers were serving in the same front line units. Segregation was also a factor in the U.S.

business-friendly environment for homebuilders to help spearhead his goal of constructing 3.5 million new housing units by 2025. A core part of his goal is creating incentives for developers to put new projects near public transit, further transforming major metropolitan areas into job centers where people don’t have

to rely on car travel for work. “I’m ready to hit the ground running,” Newsom said last week. “I think demonstrably you’ll see what those priorities are when that budget is submitted to the Legislature, and that process happens days after you get sworn in.”

NAACP Sues Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education protecting civil rights and the rights of those with disabilities no longer matter at the Department of Education,” said NAACP General Counsel, Bradford M. Berry According to an NAACP press release, the DOE has severely curtailed its Office of Civil Rights’ ability to enforce federal discrimination laws by implementing illegal changes to its case procedure manual, impacting the rights of those it “purports to serve.” It reads further: In March 2018, DOE’s Office of Civil Rights revised its Case Pro-

cessing Manual thereby altering the rights of complainants to have their discrimination allegations reviewed or appeal decisions made by OCR. These changes, made without the legally required notice and comment, prevented the NAACP and other organizations from voicing our opinions about how the proposed rule changes would affect students of color, students with disabilities and low income students, and thereby violates the federal Administrative Procedures Act. DeVos, who has no experience

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as an educator, nor any experience in education, has been supportive of school choice, school voucher programs and charter schools. She has been embattled and embarrassing since her contentious confirmation hearings last year. The billionaire was chosen by Donald Trump after Jerry Fallwell Jr. turned down the cabinet post, and is sister to Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who reportedly brokered a secret meeting in Seychelles establishing a back channel between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Continued from page 3 advanced for over a decade, with the ability to shoot at up to 10 frames per second—something professional-grade DSLRs wouldn’t accomplish for some time.

As smugglers use drones to deliver contraband behind prison walls, South Carolina prison officials are fighting fire with fire. The state’s high and medium security

Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Although white and black sailors had often served on the same vessels since the Age of Sail, African American sailors were generally relegated to the jobs of cooks, stewards, and other labor-intensive duties. This continued through World War II, though it is important to remember that African American sailors acquitted themselves in battle in a number of campaigns. Before World War II the United States Marine Corps was completely segregated and did not allow African Americans to enlist in its ranks. However, in 1942 the Marines did begin inducting African Americans into segregated units. Many of these Marines would fight in Pacific battles like Iwo Jima.

prisons are using drones to detect and alert perimeter patrols of other remote controlled aircraft around correctional institutions.

Trump’s billionaire boys club cronyism, as well as his divisive rhetoric, have set the climate for such disastrous practices, charges the NAACP. “It’s important for people to realize how the racism and rhetoric emanating from the White House is seeping its way into law and policy, and this arbitrary change is just one more example of where Trump is taking the nation,” says Russell.