December 1, 2022

in Inglewood,

of Champions

Mayor Butts awaits certification to continue Davidson closing in on Gray for runoff

By Kenneth Miller, Publisher

As the days move closer to the certification of the Nov. 8 election results for the City of Inglewood, the latest count from the Los Angeles Registrar Recorders Office confirms that James T. Butts, Jr. will continue to lead the city as mayor.

The percentage of votes Mayor Butts received shrunk from 55% to 53.62% over his nearest rival Fredrisha “Sha” Dixon who had 16.69 % with 3,749 votes. Miya Angelou Walker was third with 13.75% and 3,090 votes.

The Registrar Recorder official website indicates the majority of the ballots have been counted and we have been informed an estimated 80% of the votes have been calculated.

Meanwhile in the heated contest for District 1 Council Seat where incumbent George Dotson will be forced into a March 3, 2023 runoff, community advocate Yolanda Davidson has gained substantially on veteran public official Gloria Gray.

Gray has been the runner-up to Dotson throughout, but her slim lead has been narrowed to just 21 at press time. Gray has 1,660 votes while Davidson has 1,639 with the “majority” of the ballots counted.

“I feel good, but a little frustrated,” Davidson told Inglewood Today. “I wish I could afford a recount, but they have to count every single vote. I don’t know the process and we have mail in votes that needs to be counted.”

Gray was not available for comment.

Meanwhile, Davidson’s Winter Wonderland event scheduled for Saturday Dec. 2 at the White House located at 426 Arbor Vitae from 11a.m.1p.m. is sold out.

She is confident that if she does prevail to a runoff she can defeat Dotson, and also contends that Gray could win as well with the right support.

Davidson said the challenges to a runoff is voter enthusiasm. “It’s going to be hard to get the voters out.”

Asked what she would do if he is denied a runoff, Davidson stated she would continue her community base involvement, advocating for local business and economic development in District 1.

An Open Letter to Soul Food Restaurants in L.A. Ahead of Christmas And this really could apply to soul food restaurants anywhere

By Jasmyne Cannick

After a major Thanksgiving fail, I thought I’d offer a quick note of advice to the owners of soul food restaurants in the Los Angeles area in hopes they can pull it together before Christmas.

I’ll start with the positive first.

Your food is good. In fact, it’s too good. Oftentimes it reminds me of my grandparent’s cooking.

Okay, now onto the negative.

Y’all missing out on a whole lotta money.

To begin, it’s 2022. Things just aren’t the way they used be. For many of us, there is no more going to Big Momma’s house for the annual holiday dinners.

Big Momma is dead, and the house has been sold. Add to that, you know Grandma’s these days are younger and younger and somewhere between The Greatest Generation, Boomers, and

unfortunately, Generation X, recipes and cooking skills were not passed down the way they used to be.

The sad truth is that today soul food restaurants in Los Angeles operate in city full of people who never learned how to cook but still want to eat particular food on significant holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

So tell me something. Why are you closed?

Why is it I can find every Chinese, sushi, and Mexican restaurant on the apps open EXCEPT for the soul food restaurants?

These holidays are your big moment to shine. Y’all are always talking about support your business. Well, I am trying to, but y’all ain’t open when I most need you.

It should be clear by now that Americans are lazy and we value

convenience. We want to pull out our phones, open that app and place our order.

Do you know what else we want?

We want catering-size options on the side dishes. Yes, we do.

You know it’s the holidays (and if you insist on being closed), you have an obligation to offer catering-size side dishes to your customers on the mobile apps — not just at your brickand-mortar. Yes — -family-sized side dishes on the apps. What a concept, but I tell ya, do it and the mountain will come to Mohammed. Those candied yams, greens, macaroni and cheese, and dressing single-order sizes don’t cut it during the holidays when you want to feed a bunch of people at once. You are missing out on your money by not offering larger sizes of your food, especially during the holidays.

Between people being too lazy to cook or just not knowing how to cook (and we have a lot of those people in L.A.), soul food restaurants in Los Angeles need to step up their game and stop missing out on their money. Your customers will appreciate it and will show their appreciation by supporting your small business. If not, then the Chinese, sushi, Mexican, and Italian restaurants on the apps that understood the assignment will reap the benefits. I’d rather have candied yams and greens on the holiday, but I can do enchiladas as well.

Said with love and mad respect.

Jasmyne Cannick is a Gen X award-winning journalist and on-air contributor who has common sense and was raised right. She writes and talks about politics, race, and social issues.

Black Justices Bring Diverse Experiences to California Supreme Court

By Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media

of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. It reviews decisions by the six state Courts of Appeal, decisions by the Public Utilities Commission, and cases that result in a death sentence.

The state Supreme Court consists

Evans, 54, is the first openly lesbian female Justice to serve on the bench of the court. She was nominated by Gov. Gavin Newsom in August and approved this month after a unanimous vote by the Commission on Judicial Appointments.

“Throughout her career, Judge Evans has been widely recognized for her intellectual curiosity, diligence, work ethic, humility, and integrity,” the commission’s report reads.

“From all this, the commission concluded that Judge Evans will make an outstanding Associate Justice and found her to be well qualified for the California Supreme Court,” the report continues.

Evans is a graduate of Stanford University and UC Davis Law School. She is a former ACLU staff attorney, worked as a senior trial attorney in the US Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division and represented clients in civil rights litigation at the law firm Relmen & Associates. In addition, she worked in the California Attorney General’s office, for the State Bar of California, and was Newsom’s chief deputy legal affairs secretary before becoming an Alameda County Superior Court judge.

Anthony Rendon (D-Lakeside), Speaker of the California State Assembly, called Evans’ approval “excellent news for California’s Supreme Court” in a Tweet.

During a conversation with Newsom in a video posted by Newsom’s office, Evans spoke about her 28-year career.

“I’ve been really privileged to have an incredibly diverse and rewarding legal career, having had the opportunity to impact people’s lives for the better,” Evans said.

Newsom praised Evans’ appointment by tweeting, “Judge Kelli Evans has dedicated her life to promoting equality and justice through her work. Her broad experience in law and policy will serve her well as an Associate Justice

November, Associate Justice Kelli Evans became the third Black Associate Justice on the California Supreme Court. Black justices

on California’s Supreme Court.” Evans is joining two Black colleagues already on the court - Associate Justice Leondra R. Kruger and Associate

The Ascension of Hakeem Jeffries Finally Signals Democrats’ Willingness to Move on From the Old Guard

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

During his campaign, he often wore tracksuits. When he presented arguments for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Jefferies punctuated his remarks by quoting none other than the late hip-hop icon the Notorious B.I.G.

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is probably precisely what Democrats need in America’s brutal political civil war, where most Republicans behave as if it’s a North vs. South redux.

For starters, Jeffries is unapologetically Black.

During his campaign, he often wore tracksuits. When he presented arguments for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Jefferies punctuated his remarks by quoting none other than the late hip-hop icon the Notorious B.I.G.

“And if you don’t know, now you know,” Jeffries said in the quintessential mic drop moment.

But most importantly, Jeffries’s ascension into a leadership role as vets like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Whip James Clyburn step aside signals a much-needed changing of the guard.

More pointedly, Washington insiders – and many outsiders – have argued that it’s time for the younger generation of leaders to take the helm.

Both Pelosi and Clyburn are 82.

Along with Jeffries, 52, taking over for Pelosi, Rep. Katherine Clark, 59, of Massachusetts, is poised to replace Clyburn as whip. At the same time, Rep. Pete Aguilar, 43, of California, will likely ascend to the role of Democratic conference chair.

As one journalist pointed out, the “oldest member of the incoming Democratic leadership team is nearly a quarter-century younger than the youngest member of the current Democratic leadership team.”

“The thing about us is that while we can have some noisy conversations at times about how we can make progress for the American people, what we’ve seen is that under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Jim Clyburn, we’ve constantly been able to come together,” Jeffries said during a nationally televised interview this week.

Maxwell Frost, the 25-year-old from Florida, perhaps best summed up the changing of the guard in the Democratic party.

Frost won the election this month as the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he’ll serve under Jeffries’ leadership.

“I think it’s important that we have a government that looks like the people,” Frost stated.

The change in Democratic leadership comes at a time when their Republican counterparts have seized control of the House, weaponized the U.S. Supreme Court, gerrymandered congressional maps throughout the country, and have used their pulpits to spark and spread messages of hate and division.

And with the G.O.P.’s unchecked and unquestioned leader, Donald Trump, announcing his 2024 White House bid, Democrats have finally read the room and recognized the need to get younger.

“Americans have tended to see younger candidates as less qualified to serve in office relative to a middle-aged or older candidate,” Damon Roberts, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, told C.B.S. News.

That view partly comes from age requirements.

To serve in the U.S. House, a candidate must be at least 25. A U.S. Senator must be at least 30, while a presidential hopeful can’t be younger than 35.

“People do seem to be pretty positive toward having a younger representative,” Roberts asserted.

Stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping away, young Americans across gender, racial, geographic and education lines banded together last week to help save the Democrats from what many foresaw as a sizable midterm defeat, John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, wrote in an editorial.

“In the eyes of many young voters, this is how America meets its destiny: when the passion of the grassroots melds with the power of institutions to forge progress,” Della Volpe asserted.

“As political analysts methodically review the numbers after an election for the ages, anyone interested in the winning formula for 2024 should closely examine those between the ages of 18 and 39.”

Gerald Warburg, a professor of practice of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and

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might now welcome the opportunity to pass the torch to a new, post-baby boomer generation with fresh ideas.

Pelosi and Democrats, Warburg said, “had the courage to step back, making way for new leaders and new ideas.”

Public Policy, noted that turnover in the youth-challenged leadership of the Democratic House and Senate caucuses had frozen for decades.

now, all Democratic legislative leaders were over 70 years of age. Warburg contended that both parties

Area Communities

After Restaurant Depot Fires Single Mom

L.A. Coalition Accuses Them of Being “Anti Black”

By Angela Birdsong | CBM Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES - About 200 protesters gathered on Nov. 24 at wholesale cash and carry foodservice supplier Restaurant Depot/Jetro in Culver City to demand justice for Passion Schoolfield, a single Black mother who was fired for expressing an opinion about Ye, the rapper also known as Kanye West.

According to Schoolfield, she was speaking with a customer in her cashier’s line about celebrities they like and was overheard by another customer when she said, “I like Ye. He keeps it real.”

Then, she says, a customer, a White male, got out of the check-out line, got in her face, and questioned her, “You like Ye?” After repeating this several times, he walked off and spoke with a manager. Moments later, she was suspended and the next day she was fired.

“This protest was a community effort to get justice for Passion, and what this focuses on is what we believe was anti-Black aggression against her for a basically ridiculous firing because she said she liked Kanye West. We really wanted to get that message out that there’s a line that was crossed,” stated Ludlow Cleary, II., Schoolfield’s attorney.

Schoolfield did not speak during the press conference. However, she told California Black Media that retail has been her career since she was 18, and while working at Restaurant Depot, she loved the customers and the people.

The protest was called by the newly-formed, faith-based Grassroots Community Coalition Against AntiBlackness (GCCAA). For now, they are demanding compensation for stress caused to Schoolfield and her children, particularly her two autistic sons, “Blackness Sensitivity” training - not diversity training -- they emphasized and revising the company’s employment policy.

“Black Jobs Matter and no one will be able to get in here to buy (nothing) from Jetro Restaurant Depot until my sister gets justice, until Passion gets her job back. She has the right to her job to take care of her family,” stated Nation of Islam Western Region Representative Abdul Malik Sayyid Muhammad (formerly known as Tony Muhammad).

“She poses no threat to anybody. We in the Nation of Islam believe that a nation can rise no higher than its woman and that when you attack a woman, you attack a nation,” he stated.

Muhammad, who is also the student minister of Muhammad Mosque #27, issued the GCCAA’s 48-hour

demand for a response during the press conference and protest.

“This is a Rosa Parks moment. We’re living in a cancel culture, but it looks like that cancel culture is directed at Black people with consciousness,” he stated. “And any of us who desire to stand up and be conscious and support one another, there seems to be a system in place that’s telling us we can’t do that,” he said.

Ralph Vasquez, manager of the Restaurant Depot Store, gave no comment when asked about Schoolfield’s termination and the protest. No response has been received yet from Restaurant Depot’s corporate and West Coast regional offices.

“There are people in our world that have done worse things than Kanye, that get voted into office, and people never

lose their job for supporting them,” said Ryan Sims, pastor of Revelation Church of God in Christ.

As a father, Sims said, no one would want their child, wife, aunt, mother, or even their cousin, to go through what Schoolfield has endured. As a community, big brothers and sisters, they are standing with her, he said.

“If someone in our community likes someone in our community, it’s not a violation. It’s not against humanity. It’s not against the law. It’s simply selflove, and if that’s a crime, then lock us all up,” continued Pastor Sims.

Schoolfield is that kind and engaging worker behind the counter that’s attentive to their customers, said Anthony “Shep” Crawford, senior pastor of the Experience Christian Ministries Church. “And in that

conversation, someone overhears it, gets offended, tries to bully her … and once she answers the questions, he asks her again. I do not like that. We do not like that, but she stood her ground,” he stated.

Her mistreatment is about a corrupt system, not a rogue manager, he said, pointing to the store’s entrance. “We will not have it. We will not stand for it. You have here, present today, Muslims, Christians, Baptists, Church of God in Christ, community mothers…even law enforcement, here to stand,” said Crawford.

Many who turned out to support Schoolfield felt she was unjustly fired. Some offered donations for the young mother of three who is now unemployed and may be unable to apply for unemployment benefits.

“We’re standing here for Passion because what took place here at Restaurant Depot is unjust,” stated Reverend K.W. Tulloss, president of the Baptist Minister’s Conference of Los Angeles and member of the National Action Network. “What Jetro did was wrong! And we want to make this wrong a right,” he said.

The GCCAA has set up a GoFundMe page, which so far has raised $2,000 to help Schoolfield pay rent and feed her children.

They intend to interrupt the economy of Restaurant Depot/Jetro, said Bishop Craig Worsham, founder and Sr. Pastor of The Agape Church of Los Angeles.

He challenged all present at the protest to stand united in that cause until Restaurant Depot comes to the table with a reasonable resolution.

“There are African Americanowned restaurants, catering companies, churches that dump hundreds of thousands up to millions of dollars into this establishment, so if you are antiBlack Passion, then you are anti-Black our dollars,” stated Worsham.

Other organizations present were Asians with Attitude and Second Call Gang Intervention and Prevention. She has a right to express her opinion about a public figure, they said.

You can follow this movement on Instagram @_gccaa and #WeStandWithPassion.

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Championship jitters cost Inglewood in 23-7 loss at Sierra Canyon

By Anthony Harris, Contributing Writer

It was a crisp night in Chatsworth with temperatures dipping into the low 40’s. The stands were packed, and heads were bopping to the beats of the onsite DJ at the Sierra Canyon stadium. It was a fine night for a championship game between two very different teams. Inglewood came in with a 13-0 record and averaging just under 40 points per game. Sierra Canyon (9-4) made their way to the finals riding a seven-game win streak led by their defense who held their last seven opponents to an average of 16.5 points a game. Would it be the Sentinel offense or Trailblazer defense that propels their team to a victory? Football fans were excited for a competitive game that had all the ingredients to be one to remember.

The Inglewood Sentinels finally stepped foot on a championship stage after a 22-year hiatus and were hungry for a title. The lights may have been too bright for the Sentinels as they fell

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The Mind Behind California’s New Digital License Plates

By Edward Henderson and Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media

Starting Jan. 1, 2023, California joins Georgia, Colorado, Michigan, and Arizona as states that have approved digital license plates for use statewide, after completing a four-year pilot program that evaluated a replacement for metal plates.

Reviver, a tech company founded by Black entrepreneur Neville Boston, is the creator of the world’s first digital license plate. About 10,000 California drivers bought digital plates during the pilot program.

Based Granite Bay, 24 miles east of Sacramento, Reviver expects the number of digital plate users to increase exponentially as all 40 million vehicles registered with the state are now eligible to adopt the new high-tech tags.

Thanks to Assembly Bill (AB) 984 signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, trips to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) – which many Californians would like to avoid because of the long lines and waits they expect -- might become a thing of the past.

Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City), Chair of the California Black Legislative Caucus for the 202324 legislative session, sponsored the legislation.

“I am honored and humbled to see AB 984 signed into law,” said Wilson. “AB 984 strikes a necessary balance between innovation and privacy while digitizing the only thing on our cars today that remain antiquated, license plates.”

The new digital plates will appear as wireless tablets about the same size as traditional plates on the front and back of vehicles. The digital plate will include a processing unit, wireless connectivity, and storage media all built into an electronic display.

Drivers will be able to update their titles, registrations and other vehicle records remotely. Other advantages of the technology include a flashing message if a vehicle is reported stolen or if there is an Amber Alert. The wired or battery powered plates can be purchased with monthly rates starting at $19.95 and yearly rates at $215.40 for a four-year agreement.

Boston, who majored in political science and business, applied his academic training to create a compelling vision that attracted high-level investors, software and hardware engineers, and financial consultants to the concept.

It was just one meeting that discussed how to get people to have a “better customer experience” at the DMV. That discussion led to a meeting with thenSenior Vice President Avery Brown of the Automobile Club of Southern California and about a dozen officials

from the California Highway Patrol.

To avoid asking “for forgiveness later” in case the idea ran into obstacles years later, Boston said he first asked all parties what their thoughts and ideas were to avoid implementing a prototype without their input.

“Our first meeting was in 2008,” Boston said. “We met with Dennis Claire at (California) DMV about a crazy idea of a digital license plate. What I thought would be a five-minute meeting ended up being an hour-and-a-half meeting. What I got from those meetings was the impetus for us to move forward.”

Boston raised seed money domestically and internationally to fund the venture. He enlisted the support of technology industry veterans Nicholas Brathwaite and Michael Marx, cofounders of Celesta Capital. Celesta assists partners with “deep tech” –the technological engine the venture

capitalist states “powers” the modern world.

John W. Thompson, a board member of Microsoft since 2012, is also an investor in Reviver. He is an active investor and advisor in early-stage technology companies in California’s Silicon Valley.

Allen Wayne Warren, president of New Faze Development, is another Reviver investor, Boston told California Black Media.

Reviver included the California Black Chamber of Commerce, California New Car Dealers Association, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the California Police Chiefs Association as supporters.

The pilot program was first approved by the DMV under provisions provided in Senate Bill (SB) 806. The program tested the operational capability and functionality of three products to determine the cost-effectiveness and

feasibility of statewide implementation.

The pilot program gave Reviver access to 160,000 vehicles to evaluate in the trial program.

“We were able to sell the digital plate in the pilot program,” Boston said. “It didn’t give us access to the entire state, but it gave us access to over 100,000 people. See that’s the big thing: sometimes people are afraid to work with governments. But we took it as, ‘Hey, we’re going to partner with you (and) how can we make the experience for the customer better.’ That was always our focus, making a truly privatepublic partnership.”

There has been concern that the new technology could be a target for hacking and remote tracking of vehicles by employers, creditors, and the state. To quell some of these concerns, AB 984 contains language that prohibits digital license plates from being equipped with GPS or other vehicle tracking capabilities. The only exception would be for fleet and commercial vehicles. Those employees will have the ability to disable the technology during non-working hours.

Aside from a few traffic stops by police who believed the digital license plates were illegal during the pilot program, no other significant concerns were reported by drivers, according to a 2019 review by the DMV.

The bill requires the DMV to recall all devices that were equipped with GPS or other tracking technology as part of the pilot program by no later than Jan. 1, 2024.

Other states are following suit with similar legislation. Texas recently approved digital license plates for commercial fleets of twenty-five or more vehicles.

“California now has 40 million vehicles, one-seventh of the driving population comes from California. This market is huge,” Boston said. “This is the fourth largest economy in the world, passing Germany. When you look at it from that perspective getting it down in California is a huge deal. All this was about taking something old and making it new.”

PUBLIC NOTICE

Fictitious Business Name Statement

File No. 2022226887

The following Person is doing business as:

LSN Services

5453 South Victoria Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90043

Registered Owner(s): Jennifer Davis, 5453 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90043

This business is conducted by an individual(s). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business listed above on October 18, 2022.

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.)

Jennifer Davis, Owner.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk on October 18, 2022

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.)

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Inglewood Today

PUBLIC NOTICE

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case # 22TRCP00405

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS

Petitioner: Jefferie Lynne Cobbs, 3314 West 81st Street, Inglewood, CA 90305, has filed a petition with the Superior Court Of California, County Of Los Angeles, 825 Maple Avenue, Torrance, CA 90503 to change his name.

FROM: Jefferie Lynne Cobbs - TO: Jefferie Lynne Jankans

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing on December 30, 2022, 8:30 AM, Dept. B, to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Publication Dates: Nov 24; Dec 1, 8, 15, 2022

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short on Saturday 23-7 primarily due to a rash of penalties, missed tackles, and turnovers in all facets of the game. The high-powered Sentinel offense led by Sophomores quarterback Husan Longstreet struggled all night to sustain drives due to a dominant Sierra Canyon defense. Longstreet was visibly rattled after throwing his second interception of the game and never recovered. Longstreet is a warrior with undeniable talent and did connect with Terrell Bradshaw for a 16-yard touchdown with 1:43 remaining in the first quarter to make the score 14-7. Longstreet has been sensational all season long for the Sentinels with 35 TD passes coming into the game. Jabari Johnson was a big part of the success of Longstreet but the two lacked the ability to connect effectively on Saturday night. Johnson finished the game with six catches for 59 yards but was unable to make his usual big time impact plays in the ball game. Johnson was doublecovered most of the night, but the Sierra Canyon defense created a ton of heat in the Inglewood backfield as they pressured Longstreet out of the pocket early and often. Sierra Canyon led at halftime 17-7.

The Sentinels shot themselves in the foot on numerous occasions with costly penalties, two of which negated a pair of touchdown passes, one to Johnson who made a spectacular diving catch and the other by Bradshaw. The most impactful player on the field was Sierra Canyon Sophomore running back,

Dane Dunn. Dunn carried the ball with relentless passion and refused to go down easily. Dunn rushed for 201 yards and all three of the Sierra Canyon touchdowns. The Inglewood defense was in position to make plays but were unable to rally to the ball fast enough to bring Dunn down on vital 3rd and 4th down conversions. The most critical point in the game came in the 4th quarter on a muffed Sierra Canyon punt by Inglewood which was recovered by the Trailblazers. The Inglewood defense stood their ground to keep the Trailblazers out of the endzone. Sierra Canyon settled for a field goal that built upon their lead that seemed unsurmountable the way the small but powerful Dane Dunn was carrying the rock for Sierra Canyon. Only 6 points total were scored in the second half of this game. In the end, the combination of the Sierra Canyon running game and their dominant defensive play proved too much for the Sentinels. Both teams are young and return key players which could prove for a rematch in 2023. Inglewood’s Coach Mil’Von James has done a terrific job rebuilding the program reaching the semi-finals and finals in consecutive years. The Sentinels should hold their heads high as they made the next step in the journey to that elusive CIF championship. Sierra Canyon will move on to host Lincoln High from the San Diego Section in the Division IAA State playoffs on Friday night December 2nd at 8:00 pm

Justice Martin J. Jenkins.

Associate Justice Leondra R. Kruger, 46, was nominated by Gov. Jerry Brown and confirmed and sworn in on January 5, 2015. She was the second Black woman to be appointed to the California Supreme Court.

Kruger, a native of Southern California, was born in Glendale and raised in Pasadena.

Kruger attended Harvard College before attending Yale Law School and asserts that “My approach reflects the fact that we operate in a system of precedent,” she said in a 2018 Los Angeles Times interview.

“I aim to perform my job in a way that enhances the predictability and stability of the law and public confidence and trust in the work of the courts,” she continued.

From 2007 to 2013, Kruger worked in the US Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General and as Acting Deputy Solicitor General. While there, she argued 12 cases before the United States Supreme Court representing the federal government.

In private practice, Kruger specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation. This year, she was on the short list to be appointed to the US Supreme Court by Pres. Joe Biden to replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he retired.

Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins, 69, was the first openly gay California Supreme Court Justice.

Jenkins earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Santa Clara University.

Before entering the University of San Francisco (USF) Law school, he played football for the Seattle Seahawks.

Justice Jenkins previously served as a trial judge on the Oakland Municipal and Alameda County Superior Courts. He was a federal district judge for the Northern District of California appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1997. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California Court of Appeals. Preceding his appointment to the Supreme Court he was Senior Judicial Appointments Advisor to Newsom.

“Justice Jenkins is widely respected among lawyers and jurists, active in his Oakland community and his faith, and is a decent man to his core,” Newsom stated when he announced Jenkins’s confirmation. “As a critical member of my senior leadership team, I’ve seen firsthand that Justice Jenkins possesses brilliance and humility in equal measure. The people of California could not ask for a better jurist or kinder person to take on this important responsibility.”

Jenkins was unanimously confirmed to the Supreme Court on Nov. 10, 2020.

At his confirmation, when asked by the Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye why he wanted to serve on the Supreme Court, Jenkins said, “I felt I could do good work, that I had a voice to add to the discussion that might be absent, not better, just different and ultimately being a man of faith, I felt this was a calling and never once have I refused the call of service.”

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