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FOX At the committee hearing for the bill, Weber said the 710 AM ESPN legislation is the number one priority of the CLBC. SOFI STADIUM “After emancipation, California and local municipalities WEEK 5 · Sun 10/11 · 10:00 AM PDT allowed or even actively pursued discriminatory practices AT Washington Redskins akin to those found in the South to deny former slaves FOX and their descendants access to housing, quality education, 710 AM ESPN employment, fair wages, voting rights and the practice of FEDEXFIELD professions,” Weber added in an impassioned statement to WEEK 6 · Sun 10/18 · 5:20 PM PDT her colleagues. AT San Francisco 49ers AB 3121, titled the “Task Force to Study and Develop NBC Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” passed along 710 AM ESPN party lines. LEVI’S® STADIUM The three Republicans on the Judiciary Committee WEEK 7 · Mon 10/26 · 5:15 PM PDT voted no on the bill. They are Vice Chair James Gallagher vs Chicago Bears (R-Yuba City); Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin); and Jay Obernolte ESPN (R-Big Bear Lake). 710 AM ESPN The Democrats on the committee, who all voted SOFI STADIUM yay, are: Chair Mark Stone (D – Scotts Valley); Ed Chau WEEK 8 · Sun 11/01 · 10:00 AM PST (D-Arcadia); David Chiu (D-San Francisco); Lorena AT Miami Dolphins Gonzalez (D-San Diego); Chris Holden (D-Pasadena); Ash FOX Kalra (D-San Jose); Brian Maienschein (D-San Diego); 710 AM ESPN and Eloise Reyes (D-Grand Terrace). HARD ROCK STADIUM The bill now moves to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations for consideration. The next vote is expected within weeks. A number of studies have traced both income inequality and the immense wealth gap between Whites and Blacks in the United States along historical patterns that extend back to slavery. Currently, the median net worth of a White family in the United States is $171,000 compared to $17,600 for Black families, according to the California Budget Center. In California, African Americans make up about 6% of the population, but account for about 20 of all Californians with household incomes below the United States poverty WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina threshold, according to Kaiser Family Foundation research. district attorney should not have waited five days to “Income and wealth inequality have roots in slavery respond to an incident in which authorities say an alland have been codified time and again with anti-black white armed mob went to the wrong home in search of policy decisions,” said Isaac Bryan, Executive Director of a missing girl, the American Civil Liberties Union said UCLA’s Black Policy Project at the Bunche Center for Monday. African American Studies. Chantal Stevens, the interim executive director for Besides Weber, other members of the CLBC the ACLU’s North Carolina chapter, issued the statement sponsoring the legislation are: Senators Steven Bradford regarding the incident and arrest last Friday in the case. (D-Los Angeles) and Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles); The sheriff’s deputy, Jordan Kita, had led an armed and Assemblymembers Autumn Burke (D-South Bay, group to the home of Dameon Shepard on May 3, Los Angeles), Jim Cooper (D-Sacramento), Mike Gipson according to James W. Lea, a lawyer for Shepard’s family (D-Carson), Chris R. Holden (D-Pasadena), Reginald who is preparing a civil lawsuit. The all-white group tried Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), Sydney Kamlager (D-Los unsuccessfully to force its way into the home of Shepard, Angeles), and Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento). who is black, news outlets reported. “The visible representation of those collective failures On Friday, New Hanover County District Attorney can be seen right outside on our streets,” Bryan said. “Over 40% of the bodies forced to live in abject destitute on our Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber (D-San Diego) presents her reparations bill in the Assembly Judiciary Ben David said that Kita will be charged with trespassing and breaking and entering. Kita had worked with the New streets are Black bodies. This is not a coincidence. It is not Committee. (Photo courtesy of California State Assembly) Hanover Sheriff’s Office. an accident. And, it does not have to be this way. Stevens also said the Shepard family shouldn’t have had to hire an attorney and alert the media to “address blatant acts of white supremacy.’’ She also said that sheriff’s deputies who “took no action on the night of the mob’’ should be reprimanded. “Vigilante mobs cannot be permitted to terrorize black communities,’’ she wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “We know that these mobs often commit horrible killings like the recent murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and the thousands of lynchings that preceded his slaying.’’ Arbery was a black man who authorities say died at the hands of two white men as he ran through a neighborhood in Georgia in February. No arrests were made until this month after national outrage over the case swelled when video surfaced that appeared to show the shooting. Kita, the sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina, was looking for Lekayda Kempisty, a 15-year-old girl who was By Lauren Victoria Burke The shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, went viral three miles from where he lived. Arbery was an avid jogger reported missing earlier that day. She was later found safe. NNPA Newswire Contributor on social media on May 6, months after his murder. The and played football. Months after the U.S. House passed a new lynching video shows Arbery jogging down a street in Brunswick, The two men on the pickup truck have been identilaw, which has been held up by the Republican led U.S. Georgia. It appears to demonstrate the involvement of fied through numerous media reports as Greg McMichael, Senate, and a day after investigative journalist Ida B. Wells three men — two on a pickup truck and another filming a retired investigator in the Brunswick District Attorney’s was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize — a lynching the scene from behind. office, and his son Travis McMichael. They appear to folstory dated February 23, 2020 is in the news. Arbery’s death took place on February 23rd about low Arbery from behind as he is jogging down a suburban street. Travis McMichael, the alleged shooter, is seen confronting Arbery and part of a struggle ensues in and outside of the camera’s range. The sound of shotgun fire is heard. Arbery is then seen on video collapsing after the sound of the gunshot in front of the truck. Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A man accused of romancing herself because one of the men seen in the video of the “black-ish’’ star Jenifer Lewis and three other women to fatal shooting pointing a gun at Arbery worked in the dis- con them out of money for his phony businesses agreed trict attorney’s office. Friday to plead guilty to a federal charge of wire fraud, During an exclusive interview on Roland Martin Un- prosecutors said. filtered on May 7th with Arbery’s mother, Wanda CooAntonio Wilson, 57, of Santa Monica, acknowledged per-Jones confirmed there was no support of her from any- conning the women in the plea agreement filed in federal one in the small Georgia community after her son died. court in Los Angeles, the U.S. attorney’s office said in That is changing. Since the viral video has been widely a statement. He was expected to plead guilty at a later seen everyone from LeBron James to former Vice Presi- hearing. dent Biden and President Trump has commented on ArWilson, also known as “Dr. Tony Mariot’’ and “Brice bery’s death. Carrington,’’ fleeced his victims out of nearly $400,000 “Initially I was told there was a burglary and a strug- that he claimed were investments in his sound design gle over a firearm,” Cooper-Jones said on Roland Martin company and software business, prosecutors said. Unfiltered. She confirmed she has not watched the video In fact, he spent the money on himself, they said. of her son’s death but the description of it from others did “To create a false impression of legitimacy and not line up with what authorities told her after her son prestige, Wilson falsely claimed to be a Navy SEAL, an died. Oxford University graduate, and an Oxford professor “I need to get these men indicted. They need to go to teaching biblical antiquities at UCLA,” said the U.S. jail. Two months has been too long,” said Jones on Mar- attorney’s office statement. tin’s show answering a question from Dr. Gregg Carr, the Wilson was accused of stealing $50,000 from Lewis, Chairman of the African American Studies Department at who plays Ruby on the ABC sitcom “black-ish,’’ after Howard University. meeting her at a gym where he was a manager. Lewis later Late on May 7, Greg and Travis McMichael were fi- sued the gym and settled for $13,000. “What happened to #AhmaudArbery is a MODERN DAY LYNCHING. This February, the House overwhelmWilson could face up to 20 years in prison when he ingly passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which would make lynching a federal crime,” wrote Rep. Continued on page A4 is sentenced. Bobby Rush (D-IL)
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