U.S. Transporta tion Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Oakland last Friday as part of a national tour to cities receiving funding from a federal grant program aimed at increasing transportation equity and im proving infrastructure in disin vested communities. Buttigieg was joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Mayor Libby
Working with OUSD, HNU’s Urban Educators Proj ect strives to increase the num ber of fully credentialed teach ers in urban schools, address the ongoing teacher shortage in the Bay Area, and increase the pool of teachers of color.
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in transportation infrastruc ture and access, and encourage walking, biking, and greater use of public transit, among other goals, according to the city’s website. The federal grant will pay for 44% of the roughly $33 million project, according to CBS News.
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Oakland Vice-Mayor Re becca Kaplan will introduce a resolution on Sept. 20, 1:30 p.m. to the Oakland City Council urging the Women’s National Basketball Asso ciation (“WNBA”) to ap prove the City of Oakland as the home for a new WNBA Team.The WNBA has discussed plans to expand the number of WNBA teams on its roster for the past number of years. Kaplan said, “the City of Oakland must make it clear that not only are we sup portive of bringing a WNBA Team to Oakland but are ex cited to be partners and col laborators with the WNBA during the expansion. This resolution, therefore, extends our strong support towards this effort and urges the WNBA to make Oakland the home for a WNBA team.”
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The sad truth is that despite protests, lawsuits, and direct action, the key element for solving the housing crisis is still being largely ignored by our city and state authorities. As a mayoral candidate, I urge us all to listen to the needs and
This fall, Holy Names Uni versity (HNU) will award fulltuition scholarships to 20 Oak land Unified School District (OUSD) teachers who have demonstrated a commitment to Oakland’s students. Recipi ents of HNU’s Urban Educa tors Project scholarship have pledged to teach in OUSD schools for the next five years.
According to Nagara, last school year his son was tested for COVID twice a week at the school he attends, Melrose Leadership Academy, but that practice has ended.
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“Before this school year started our school sent out an email saying you could come pick up a test,” said Nagara.
district wide and in individual schools. While OUSD has re tired its COVID dashboard, the Alameda, Berkeley, Em eryville, and San Leandro Unified School Districts are continuing to update theirs.
Last year Oakland received $14.5 million in funding for the city’s Reconnecting the Town project. The project, which will build bus lanes, bike lanes, and make physical infrastructure improvements around the city, aims to improve connectivity between West Oakland, Old Oakland, Chinatown and the waterfront, address inequities
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Megan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry was subjected to be ing ostracized and treated with cruelty. Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson, expressed frustration saying he stepped back from his royal duties to protect his family from the toxic environment cre ated by the press in the UK and the family failed to show support when the media launched racially laced insults at Megan.
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Schaaf and Oakland-area transit officials on a bus tour of sites and streets where the money would be spent.
Keziah Moss wrote that the San Leandro School District has “continually oper ated with full transpar ency with our staff and families.” Moss called the publicly accessible CO VID data “helpful to everyone as we monitor health and well ness in our schools.”
Housing is a human right. In the wealthiest region in the wealthiest country, our short coming is obvious to anyone who has taken just one walk around the Town. The moral issue of our time is our failure as a society to provide housing decent enough for human be ings, for all our neighbors.
“After decades of racist planning, disinvestment, and unjust transit policy—across the country and right here in
A worn down social distancing sign sits on the ground near the entrance of an OUSD school on Aug. 29. Photo by Zack Haber.
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The Oakland Unified School District is no longer publishing data this school year to inform students, staff, parents and the public about positive COVID cases in schools.
Mayor Libby Schaaf, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Fred Kelly, Oakland Dept. of Transportation. Photo by Jonathan “Fitness” Jones.
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“The district is responding to all positive cases of which we are notified,” wrote OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki in an email to the Post News Group. “However, consistent with state and county guid ance, we are no longer aggre gating and cleaning the data in the same way we were last year.”During last school year, OUSD, along with neighbor ing school districts, published regularly updated dashboards that informed the public about positive COVID cases both
Teachers who work in his torically under-resourced schools with low teacher re tention are prioritized for this scholarship.“Byremoving the financial barrier to receiving a teach
No matter how much money one may have, fame, fortune, and riches cannot shield bad human behavior. Yet, it is this quote “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” The truth of legacies eventually rises long after the deceased is buried. No lie can live forever. Eventually the truth about the monarchy is going to be uncovered and justice will prevail.
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Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 70 years and seven months as queen.What a life, what a legacy, what a history. Most of us can not deny, that she had a certain beautiful grandmotherly look; the twinkle in her eyes and her walk that showed the signs of ag ing. The Queen was a fashion icon in her dress attire with match ing hat, gloves, pocketbook, and her Anello & Davides comfy shoes that she had a staffer to “break” the shoes in by wearing them first. Queen Elizabeth II’s life was not all glamour, high tea, andWhatroyalty.gets lost in the conversation is that the royalties had fam ily drama and a checkered past that included being a family of colonizers who pilfered from the indigenous peoples of Asia and Africa. Some of the jewels in the Queen’s crown were allegedly stolen from South Africa in 1905. Two of the jewels are the dia mond from India and the Great Star of Africa, each estimated to be worth about $400 million. Since her death, the peoples are asking for the jewels be returned.
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In an interview with the Post News Group, OUSD parent Innosanto Nagara ex
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pressed frustration about the dashboard’s removal, and also cast doubt on the adequacy of OUSD’s process of testing, and collecting COVID data.
In an email, Berke ley Unified School Dis trict spokesperson Trish McDermott wrote that her district continues to “share our case count in formation with our com munity on our dashboard to inform their own choices about masking andSpokespersontesting.”
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Greg Hodge, a mayoral candidate, long time West Oakland resi dent and parent who lives near several homeless encampments wants “equity-based” solutions around Secretary Buttigieg’s and Gov. Newsom’s recent statements on displacements and homelessness.
When asked by the Post whether she had heard that San Francisco might be a potential WNBA competitor, even though Oakland started first with its bid, Kaplan said, “Oakland is ideally suited for a WNBA team because of our fervent and rooted fanbase, existing arena space and shared core values with the WNBA. The Bay Area has the fourth-highest number of WNBA fans among U.S. markets without a WNBA team — 418,816 WNBA fans, higher than eight cur rent markets with a WNBA team. More than a half mil
ing credential, we hope to im prove student success and dis rupt inequity in urban school systems,” said Dr. Kimberly Mayfield, HNU’s Dean of the School of Education and Lib eral Arts and VP for External Relations and Strategic Part nerships.“Wehave this incredible opportunity to increase the diversity of our local teachers and make sure Oakland stu dents see themselves reflected in the classroom,” she said.
“Without the dashboard I have no idea how many stu dents have COVID,” said Nagara. “But it’s not just the dashboard that’s gone. Ba sically the whole system of monitoring, testing, and re porting is gone too.”
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Buttigieg Tours Oakland, Addresses Historic Segregation and Inequity in Transit to Congressperson Lee
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It was the spring of 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference were prepar ing to launch a campaign to end racial discrimination in St. Augustine, Fla. King hoped that the “demonstrations there would lead to local desegrega tion and that media attention would garner national sup port for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was then stalled in a congressional filibuster,” according to Stanford Univer sity’s King Encyclopedia.
and seven juveniles sparked the pickets. Four of the ar rested, JoeAnn Anderson, Au drey Nell Edwards, Willie Carl Singleton, and Samuel White were sent to reform school for six months. No effort was made to release them until their case was publicized by Jackie Robinson, the NAACP, and the Pittsburgh Courier. They were later dubbed “the St. Augustine Four.”Itwas Robert B. Hayling, advisor to the Youth Coun cil of the city’s branch of the NAACP, who led these dem onstrations. Protesters were met with violence as the Ku Klux Klan responded to their presence. Hayling and three other NAACP members were severely beaten at a 1963 Klan rally. They were arrested and convicted of assaulting their attackers.
A sit-in protest at a local Woolworth’s lunch counter that ended in the arrest and impris onment of 16 Black protestors
The NAACP asked for Hay ling’s resignation, but not be fore reaching out to the SCLC for support.
Martin Luther King Jr. being denied entry to the “whites-only” Monson Motor Lodge restaurant by owner James “Jimmy” Brock. Photo courtesy of en,wikipedia.org
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Hundreds of students from northern colleges recruited by the SCLC participated in demonstrations and sit-ins dur ing Easter week of 1964. Most were jailed. “Some were made
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AB 179, the Budget Act of 2022, implements funding for key priorities established by the California Black Legisla tive Caucus (CLBC) for this legislative session, including CBWC’s Think Tank.
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Accordingstated.to the Status of Black Women report from the Women’s Policy Research (WPR) and information pro vided by CBWC, the median income for Black women in California is $43,000 a yearcompared to $52,000 for White women and $69,000 for White men. The report by WPR also shared that the average cost of childcare for an infant makes up 28% of a Black woman’s aver age income in the state.
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget trail er bill approving $5 Million in funding to the California State University at Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) to house the Cali fornia Black Women’s Think Tank.The California Black Wom en’s Collective (CBWC) Em powerment Institute will be a founding partner in the devel opment of the policy research institution.Thelegislation, Assembly Bill (AB) 179, authored by As semblymember Phillip Ting (D-San Francisco), paves the way for establishing a policy institute that will focus on im proving structures and prac tices that impact the lives of Black women and girls across the“Thestate.
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California Black Women’s Collective has dili gently worked hard over the last year to make the California Black Women’s Think Tank, the first of its kind in the nation, happen,” Kellie Todd Griffin, speaking for CBWC, told Cali fornia Black Media.
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“Therechange.are approximately 1.1 million Black females in California. However, there are 75% of Black households head ed by single Black mothers and 80% of Black households have Black women breadwinners. There are economic, educa tional, health, and electoral bar riers confronting Black women every day. In California, 23% of Black women live in poverty, according to the Women’s WellBeing Index from the Califor nia Budget and Policy Center,” CBWC
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The CBWC’s goal for the Think Tank is for it to be “relevant and accessible” in providing an “independent, academic, research entity that provides a “rigorous analysis approach to policy,” CBWC explained in a written over view.The state and CLBC are in support of addressing the need to expand work that drives systematic change,
“We are thankful to the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) that included it as a priority-budget ask and CSUDH for partnering with us on it,” Todd Griffin said.
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The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): BARBARA MAE VAN PELT, OR HER SUCCESSOR, AS TRUSTEE OF THE BARBARA MAE VAN PELT TRUST, DATED FEBRUARY 4, 2005 Recorded: 11/18/2014 as Instrument No. 2014278299 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of ALAMEDA County, California; Date of Sale: 10/6/2022 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: On the Fallon Street Steps of the Alameda County Courthouse located at 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $160,257.31
“The magnitude of this funding allocation will be transformative as we continue the work to improve the qual ity of life of Black women and girls throughout California,” Todd Griffin said.
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the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee.
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solutions, remove persistent barriers that this group of women faces on a daily basis, and achieve racial and gender equity.The CBWC Empowerment Institute falls in line with these initiatives to help Black wom
CMG issued a formal apol ogy for its involvement with Factory New saying, “CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective imme diately. We offer our deepest apologies to the Black com munity for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behindMartiniit.” suggested that crit ics of his A.I. rapper have taken a hypocritical stance.
Blacks in St. Augustine con tinued to face violence, intimi dation, and threats, as healing took its time.
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stated.While AI technology is making massive strides, it is still limited to processing mas sive amounts of data based on parameters set by the program mer, according to Josh Love joy at Google’s Privacy and Data Protection Office. Conse quently, AI is not an indepen dent entity but an extension of its creators and thus inherits
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at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800-280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website http:// www.qualityloan.com, using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA22-914328-CL. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
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Almost as quickly as it be gan, the music industry may have seen the end of the infa mous Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) rapper referred to as “FN Meka”, a computer-gen erated character being widely condemned for appropriating Black culture and saying the N-word.TheA.I. rapper was de veloped by Anthony Martini and Brandon Le, cofounders of Factory New, a Metaverse media company. Some critics claim that the creators who are not Black are trivializing Black art and the Black experi ence, tantamount to what some are calling “digital blackface.”
Day is still optimistic about the future of artificial intelli gence as more Black and other minority-led projects become a reality, such as NeuroSpecu lative AfroFeminism (NSAF) from Hyphen Labs, a global team of women of color doing pioneering work encompass ing art, technology, and sci ence.“By drawing on both specu lative and liberatory approach es to art and design, I believe that there are many artists that are poised to build a more di verse and justice-oriented fu ture within, and outside of, the creative industries by using technology and artificial intel ligence for social good,” Day emphasized.
When King visited St. Au gustine that May, the house the SCLC rented for him was “sprayed by gunfire.” The day after the Senate voted to end the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act, King, Ralph Abernathy, and sev eral others were arrested when they requested service at a seg regated restaurant. Meanwhile, despite the violence, the SCLC continued to lead marches.
“We are getting closer to an analogy with the flu vaccines,” Dr. Gil Chavez, Senior Medi cal Officer, Office of the State Epidemiologist, California De partment of Public Health, said during a recent ethnic media sponsored COVID-19 panel discussion with other medical
“The goal, and our hope, is to continue on a path of a low number of cases and prevent a surge in COVID cases this win ter. That is why public health officials urge individuals to get the updated booster,” Chavez said.
“In the past few days, I’ve learned of Kyle the Hooligan’s experience with Meka which is deeply at odds with my core values. I believe that artists must always be at the center of the creative process and must be compensated fairly,” Mar tini
Martini is no longer associ ated with the FN Meka proj ect and Factory New. In his announcement, he sided with Kyle the Hooligan.
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easier for creative industries to forgo actually increasing the diversity and inclusion of their artists’ roster and production teams in favor of creating their own caricatures of Blackness, or any other combination of identities,” Day continued.
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NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
to approach its work in a datadriven, strategic, and collabor ative manner. Based on current information concerning Black women and girls in the state, the collective specifically aims to provide actionable policy
en, Todd Griffin asserts.
“If you’re mad about the lyr ical content because it suppos edly was A.I., why not be mad about the lyrical content in general?” Martini was quoted saying to the New York Times.
The Western State Scien tific Safety Review Workgroup independently reviewed the boosters and recommended that they be given to people who have already received primary vaccinations, regardless of the booster status.
doctors and public health offi cials: Dr. Maggie Park, County Public Health Officer, San Joa quin County Public Health Ser vices; Dr. Oliver Brooks, Chief Medical Officer, Watts Health care; and Dr. Eva Smith, Medi cal Director, K’ima:w Medical Center.According to Chavez, “Whereas you know every year we have to get an influenza vac cine to ensure that we get the updated vaccine ... with CO VID-19, we are moving in the same direction where we be lieve that it will be important to have at least an annual booster.”
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to leave St. Augustine for one month. The so-called goal was to “diffuse the situation, claim ing that they had disrupted racial harmony in the city.”
you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.
California has started admin istering updated COVID-19 booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention (CDC) approved the use of new versions of boosters of the vaccine for people aged 12 and older.
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CMG terminated its contract with Factory New less than two weeks after they signed it amid the controversy surrounding the A.I. artist’s lyrical content and depiction of rap culture.
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NOTICE TO TENANT: Effective January 1, 2021, you may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (855) 313-3319, or visit this internet website www. clearreconcorp.com, using the file number assigned to this case 099343-CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (844) 4777869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/22
their“Inbiases.addition, while it is im portant to stay aware of rac ist AI, we also have to think about intersectionality and the fact that AI isn’t just racist, it can also be sexist, homopho bic, transphobic, classist, and many other things that speak to the fact that oppression acts in a matrix,” Day said.
The updated boosters will be “bivalent,” offering protection against the original coronavirus strains, as well as improved im munity to the currently domi nant BA.4 and BA.5 strains, also known as the Omicron variants.ThePfizer/BioNTech biva lent booster is available for peo ple 12 years and older, while the Moderna bivalent booster is approved for those 18 years and older. The bivalent boost ers have not been authorized for children under the age of 12.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.
vent people who contract CO VID from getting seriously ill, to the point where they may be hospitalized and potentially die.
King responded that the re quest was “an immoral one, as it asked the Negro community to give all, and the white commu nity to give nothing . . . St. Au gustine never had peaceful race relations.”Asthe Senate debated the Civil Rights Act, SCLC lawyers began to win court victories in St. Augustine. The SCLC was encouraged to bring cases against the Klan. On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon John
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On June 18, a Grand Jury pressured King and the SCLC
to stand in a cramped outdoor overflow pen in the late spring heat, while others were put into a concrete sweatbox overnight.”
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AI-Generated Rapper Controversy Spotlights the Need for More Blacks in Tech
“In many ways, digital blackface is an example of …. the ‘digital afterlife of slavery’ and Jim Crow, where you have real people and virtual charac ters engaging in a kind of ma chine-automated minstrelsy that disrespects and disregards the artistry and production val ue that goes into the creation of Black culture,” Dr. Faithe J. Day, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the Universi ty of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), told California Black Media.Media watchers say FN Meka is modeled after rap art ists like Lil Pump and Travis Scott and was voiced by reallife rap artist Kyle the Hooli gan.Kyle the Hooligan says that he will be suing the company responsible for the A.I. rap per. The Houston-based artist says he had not been paid for his work and he wasn’t aware that his voice had been sold to Capitol Music Group (CMG)
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those in power freely benefit ting from the cultural and ma terial production of BIPOC in dividuals, it only makes sense that the same ethos would con tinue in the digital realm,” Day said.“And, in this case, the popu larity of FN Meka and other virtual artists might make it
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“In the case of FN Meka, comparing what an A.I. (char acter) does to what an artist does is a false equivalency and misses the point of why so many people are upset about the representation of this A.I. rapper,” Day said. “The real issue is that FN Meka is an example of what Adam Clay ton Powell called ‘high-tech blackface’ and what more re cently has been called ‘Digital blackface’, a phenomenon that we have seen for decades in video games, chat rooms, and socialDaymedia.”saidthere is an exten sive history in music and en tertainment of appropriating Black culture without com pensating the African Ameri can originators of various art forms.“Due to the fact that with in America and the Western world, there is a history of
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The vaccines are also an important tool for prevent ing “long COVID,” where symptoms such as headaches, brain fog, and fatigue can be prolonged for more than six months.InJuly, a surge in infections driven by the highly transmis sible BA.5 subvariant almost pushed Los Angeles County, for example, to reinstitute a uni versal indoor mask mandate.
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“BA.5 has been the pre dominant circulating variant since July and is still and now accounts for about 87% of all newly diagnosed cases of CO VID, with BA.4 pretty much accounting for the rest,” said Park. “I want to say that the roll out of this new booster is actual ly quite timely, as many models are predicting that we’re facing
One of the A.I. rapper’s questionable lyrics is in the song ‘Moonwalkin’. It says “boom, police on my back, hot pursuit (Skrr)/ Know that they mad that this A.I. gettin’ [inau dible],” along with several uses of the TheN-word.A.I.project attracted more criticism when Factory New posted on its Instagram account an animated video de picting the program’s avatar on the ground being assaulted by police.The post’s caption read: “POLICE BRUTALITY?? What Should I Do ?!?! This Guard keeps beating me w/ his BATON because I won’t snitch. I ain’t no RAT. Life in Prison is so Depressing.... I wish I could get out so I could start making music again.”
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Blacks are 5.4% of the popula tion.The third listening session hosted by CJEC was held in Sacramento. Task Force member and Bay Area attorney Don T. Tamaki participated virtually in the session that was held in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood.AttheSacramento listening session, the community testi fied about how to build small businesses, Black people’s “Great Migration” from the deep south to the west coast, how the Freedman’s Bureau model can be used to deter mine reparations, and Black pioneer’s presence during the Gold
terim report to the California legislature. The report surveys the ongoing and compounding harms experienced by African Americans as a result of slav ery and its lingering effects on American society today.
“What (Reparations) must do is bring about this sense of recognition,” said Lewis, who is a member of the California Reparations Task Force.
sk Force in-person meetings will reconvene in Los Angeles at the Paradise Baptist Church on Friday, Sept. 23, at 9:00 a.m. and Saturday, Sept.24, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. The church is located at 5100 S. Broadway.
The virtual Webinar and Community Listening session was hosted by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable Cali fornia (CJEC), the American Redress Coalition of Califor nia (ARCC), and Community Health Councils (CHC).
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
Vallejo is one of the cities in the state with a modest popu lation of Black people who are fighting for recognition during the reparations proceeding. It does have an abundance of Black history to be shared.
“In May we had our first community conversation about reparations (in Oakland, Calif.) and it was an overall history of reparations in the United States,” said Dr. Kerby Lynch, who recently received a doctorate in geography from the University of California Berkeley. “This session is about what reparations look like for Vallejo. We are here to listen to one another’s stories and record these testimonies.”
In California, vaccine hesi tancy persists. Seventy-two percent of all people have re ceived primary vaccinations, but only 58.8% of people eli gible for boosters have received a booster.Thisis worrisome because, according to Dr. Brooks, “un vaccinated people [account for] 2.4 times more cases, 4.6 times more hospitalizations, eight times more deaths.”
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Vallejo’s Black community voiced their concerns and opinions about reparations at a listening session held in the heart of the city north of San Francisco. Shown left to right are Justice Al ford, Kahalla Bandy-Pasibe, and Askari Sowondae participated in the discussion held at Black-owned LaDell’s shoe store in Vallejo, Calif. (CBM photo/Antonio Ray Harvey).
A series of community Listening Sessions are be ing held statewide to help the nine members of the California Task Force to Study and Devel op Reparations Proposals for African Americans better un derstand how laws and policies that contribute to perpetuating the effects of slavery have neg atively impacted Black Cali fornians.Themost recent three gath erings authorized by the Task Force took place last month.
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The listening sessions are designed to ensure certain communities around the state have the opportunity to pro vide their thoughts and con cerns about the work the task force is doing.
Continued from page 8 another COVID-19 surge this fall or winter and we need to be ready.”While scientists believe many people infected in the most recent COVID surge will have natural immunity for some time, this type of protec tion begins to wane after around 90 days. So, even people who have had COVID in the past should consider getting a boost er around 3 months after being infected.
CJEC is a state-wide coali tion of organizations, associa tions, and community mem
On June 1, 2022, the Task Force issued a 483-page in
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For updates and additional information visit Reparations Task Force Meetings .
The event was held at Blackowned LaDells Shoes in down town Vallejo. Personal testi mony of adversity and success rooted in the Black experience in and around Vallejo were shared during this session.
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Home of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo is 32 miles north of San Fran cisco. The 2020 United States Census says the East Bay Area city had a population of 22,416 Black people (18.48%) out of a total of 121,275. Statewide
“It’s a sweeping indict ment,” Tamaki said of the re port during the Sacramento community listening session. “It connects the harms of the past and follows the conse quences that we face today. There have to be legislative remedies.”Theinterim report also in cludes a set of preliminary recommendations for policies that the California Legislature could adopt to remedy those harms. A final report will be is sued before July 1, 2023.
An online community ses sion was conducted featuring panelists Friday Jones, Los Angeles Reparations Commis sion Vice Chair; Jan Williams, Downtown Crenshaw Board member; and University of California at Berkeley profes sor Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis.
TheRush.community listening sessions are being conducted across the state by the Repara tions Task Force’s seven “an chorTheorganizations.”seven,Afrikan Black Coalition, Black Equity Col lective, Black Equity Initiative, California Black Power Net work, Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, Othering
Statewide “Listening Sessions” Allow Reparations Task Force to Hear Black Californians Stories
bers that support reparations for Black Californians who are descendants of enslaved Black American men and women.
A sanctioned in-person community listening session was held in the city of Vallejo. It was hosted by CJEC with the support of the state’s Depart ment of Justice (DOJ) and the Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA).
and Belonging Institute (Uni versity of California Berkeley) and Repaired Nations began conducting community gather ings in March.
Struggles with employment, decent housing, racism in public schools, homelessness, police brutality, and the chal lenges of maintaining a busi
“One of the things that the (Task Force) has accomplished so far over the past year is to bring about a sense of recog nition for the Black American community in California and the country overall,” Lewis told the online audience.
ness were covered.
Chris Lodgson and members from CJEC hosted the listening sessions in Vallejo and Sacramento on Aug. 20. CJEC is one of the anchor organizations sanctioned by the California Task Force For Reparations. (CBM photo/Antonio Ray Harvey).
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Collectively, we must support people experiencing homeless ness by providing accessible and relevant prevention services like shelter, mental health care, hygiene services, safe parking, and jobs programs. As Mayor, I’d advocate for fully funding the Department of Violence Prevention to help ensure we are not just reacting to failed policy, but rather, creating holistic policies that address the root of the issues.
Onhome.aday like that, we all real ized how much we missed “No DramaBarackObama.”Obama kept things light so we could remember happier
Support to bring a WNBA team extends past a solid fan base, as local regulating agen cies have also taken key votes to prepare for a WNBA team in Oakland. With the leader ship of Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan, in July 2021, both the Oakland Coliseum Authority and the Oakland City Council unanimously and enthusiasti cally voted in favor of a term sheet to bring a WNBA team to Oakland.
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It all happened during the Queen’sKenyawatch.was just a fraction of the British Empire’s violent past. All of it together, from the Middle East, to Asia, to Africa, subjugated at one time more than 700 million people. It makes the Queen the nostalgic mascot of white supremacy, in a tradition where “I’m royal and
Continued from page 1 in the same statement. The bus tour also included a trip to the I-980 freeway, which displaced hundreds of Black Oakland families when their homes were demolished to make way for construction in the 1960s. Today, the high way cuts off West Oakland from downtown and the rest of the city.“We saw a dramatic ex ample of the consequence of highway construction from the previous generation,” he told reporters on Friday. “It was a literal gash in the neighbor hood.He
Cobb, who was born at the Pack Train Hotel at 7th and Pine St. and whose family gro cery store at 5th and Pine was razed, said “many Black fami lies lost their homes, business es and jobs because of racially insensitive transportation de cisions that denied Black eq uity.”Policymakers have dis cussed tearing down the high way. Early designs for poten
“Thankstimes.for letting us in vite a few friends to the White House,” Barack Obama said to Biden at the start. “We will try not to tear up the place.” A burst of laughter put people at ease. But maybe because we all know he couldn’t tear up the place any worse than President 45.
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Continued from page 1 Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022 Time: 12 noon - 3:00 p.m. Location: Defremery Park 1651 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA 94607 (Off street parking, accessible by AC Transit Bus #36) MANY JOB & RESOURCE OPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE BRING YOUR RESUME Sponsors
tial redevelopment of the site have suggested turning the nearly seven-acres of land that would be freed up into apart ment buildings or a park, like the panhandle near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, according to Oaklandside. But there are no formal plans for demolition and no funding for it either, Oaklandside, reports.
In October of 2021, it was announced that WNBA Cham pion and four-time WNBA AllStar Alana Beard, who spent 15 years playing the WNBA and earned back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year honors, and Attorney Jade Smith-Williams, of the law firm Baily & Glasser, LLP, a local Oakland women’s basketball legend and who played professionally overseas, would join in the leading efforts by the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (“AASEG”) to have an Oak land Black and Women WNBA Team ownership process.
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Ray Bobbitt, President of African-American Sports and Entertainment Group, who purchased the Coliseum as part of its East Oakland Devel opment Plan, thanks Rebecca Kaplan for providing the City Council leadership in 2021 for the AASEG to bring a WNBA Franchise along with jobs, housing, businesses and sports enterprises to Oakland. Pho to by Jonathan “Fitness” Jones.
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back in the White House a Washington Post investigation exposed how a former dis graced president, the one after Obama, had documents con taining the top secret nuclear capabilities of a foreign govern ment, at his Mar-a-Lago civil ian
focuses on the development of diverse, representative educa tors who reflect the identities of Oakland students and fami lies,” she said. “The OUSD Urban Teachers project aligns perfectly with our OUSD pathways that support the de velopment of our classified, afterschool, and diverse aspir ing“Weeducators.”knowwhat a huge bar rier post-baccalaureate educa tion can be and this support from Holy Names University is critical for our educators and district,” she said.
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lion Bay Area market adults play basketball, and the Bay Area ranks in the top 30 mar kets in household delivery for the WNBA Regular Season.”
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multimodal connectivity will allow not only Oaklanders to conveniently attend games but also fans from across Califor nia. From former Monarchs supporters to women’s basket ball enthusiasts, Oakland will draw fans from the Bay Area megaregion and beyond.
world-class arena at the center of a multimodal corridor ready to house a WNBA team. The Oakland Arena is easily ac cessible by both highway and public transportation, complete with a pedestrian bridge that al
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Answering the call of community organizers standing in soli darity with encampment residents, we showed up at Wood Street and 34th last Friday, Sept 9. Upon arrival, we learned that a tiny home being occupied by a resident had just been destroyed ag gressively with heavy machinery. Not moved. Not stored. But demolished before the resident could move it or even grab their belongings.Residents were required to move their belongings or store them until a more permanent solution could be provided. We witnessed an amazing moment where supporters like a volunteer known as “Boots” helped find a way to move resident belong ings with a U-Haul truck while identifying possible storage fa cilities. It was one of many beautiful and compassionate acts that will continue to be repeated as long as evictions are taking place.
“An investment in transit is an investment in our climate. It is an investment in safety. It is an investment in access to jobs,” Secretary Buttigieg said
Instead of solutions that center those most impacted, we are seeing evictions that lack any real understanding of the desires of those who are being displaced yet again.
The School of Education and Liberal Arts at HNU spe cializes in preparing students to teach in urban settings. Stu dents are encouraged to view their work through a lens of equity, and to engage in issues of race, language, and power
Black queen grandmothers are highly respected in the church and the communities; they are easily recognizable; many still wear their church hat crowns with matching suits. A praying grandmother is indeed a Black Queen. Don’t think that all refer ences to Black women by young black men are vulgar. Young men often greet grandmothers with enduring terms; “How are you doing my beautiful Queen, please take my seat? What else comes to your mind when you think of Black Queen grandmoth ers?As a grandmother, I often think of character traits of black grandmothers. Many are caregivers for working parents. Grand mothers are in the transportation business transporting grandkids to and from school, or to the doctor’s office. Queen grandmothers have tremendous influence on the lives of their grandchildren, and when a grandchild dies, grandparents often carry a double burden.Black Queen Grandmothers don’t often make the 6’oclock news. It is not unusual for the grandparent to be forgotten in the grieving process because the parents and siblings take first place. Rarely did people ask how I felt when my granddaughter passed; there is an unstated rule that grandmothers are to remain strong. This week, I saw the tears of a Queen Grandmother grieve at the funeral of her grandchild; it was not her first time losing a grand child. My grief resurfaced, reminding me that personal grief is always a thought away.
lows fans direct access from the Coliseum BART station. The arena sits on 132 acres with 10,000 on-site parking spaces. It is also airport accessible, and a stone’s throw away from the Capitol Corridor rail line. This
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Added Dr. Mayfield, “Teachers with credentials are better prepared and more like ly to stay in the profession. We hope this project will help to keep our best teachers teach ing in Oakland schools.”
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were displaced were never fully made whole, but there are opportunities now to make right what was wrong in a pre viousOaklandgeneration.”PostPublisher Paul
Granted, the Queen had no real “political” power; but as “head of state,” she still had enormous influence in Great Britain and the dozen or so countries in the Common wealth. It made her a bit of a contradiction. A hood ornament but not the engine of the old British Empire. She was a liv ing museum piece, a reminder of a repulsive imperial past. A colonizer’s deodorizer.
First, we need to identify and house extremely low-income people. We must demand that our city, county, state and federal government provide housing and support to the most vulnerable: families, seniors, people with disabilities, and others surviving on fixed incomes. This includes voting in leaders who will pri oritize people’s wellbeing over profit. We must partner with our non-profit agencies to provide access to services.
In other words, if I say Queen and you say Latifah, or even Beyonce, you’re keeping it real.Have compassion for Queen Elizabeth II as a human being, sure. But remain repulsed by all that the monarchy stands for.Tradition?
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in the news for the unveiling of their White House portraits were Barack Obama and Mi chelleBOMOObamaarereminders: Don’t go overboard on the Queen.
In 1983, I recall covering the Queen when she visited San Francisco. I was not her loyal subject, neither were the 700 Irish protestors outside the St. Francis Hotel. Then as now, I am gratefully reminded how America has no monarchy.
proposals of those most affected. They know the problem be cause they live it. They are the experts on their situation and it’s past time to listen.
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In addition to a strong fan base, Oakland already has a
Last week, the City of Oakland and the State of California began “evicting” more than 200 residents from their makeshift homes, RVs and tents from the area known as the Wood Street encampment. For any of us who spent time at the encampment talking with residents, advocates and community problem solv ers, it was clear that this eviction process was haphazard and inhumane.Thecity and state claimed evictions were necessary based on health and safety concerns, citing the numerous dangerous fires disrupting residents and drivers on the freeways above the en campment. An order from a federal judge explicitly requires that city and state authorities set a reasonable plan for storing the property. What help is a federal order if it is not enforced?
vard professor Caroline called the “British Gulag.”
But it can have a presi dent and first lady like Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
Among the many Black Queen Grandmothers, there is one we shall never forget, the late Queen Mother, Mary Wright. It was once written: “she treated the needy as if each one was her own son or daughter. Remember the beautiful black queen grand mothers in our communities. Let us revere our Black grandmoth ers, the quintessential queens.
As neighbors, leaders, and Oakland community members, we should do everything within our power to create real systems of care that mitigate many of the factors leading to homelessness.
In the meantime, city offi cials hope the recent $14 mil lion in funding from the federal government will help make headway on reconnecting Oak land neighborhoods, especially West Oakland, to the city’s core.
As many in the social justice movement will repeat time and time again — nothing for us, without us.
It was so bad that finally in 2013, survivors of the Gulag sued and forced the British to quietly settle with 5,228 sur vivors. Reparations payments of 3,800 pounds each were for “torture and ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial adminis tration,” according to a Parlia ment spokesman.
Continued from page 1 mind? Is it her Sunday dinners, her soothing hand over a bruised knee, is it the sass of her being a wisdom bearer, reminding you not to spend all of your money in one place and save some for a rainy day? Do you think of a compassionate, caring loving person? Have you seen the tears of your grandmother fall gently down her check from something funny, or the tears of grief when she loses a grandchild?
my district—Secretary But tigieg and the Biden admin istration are turning the page toward a new era of equitable policy,” Congresswoman Lee said in a statement on her web site. “The implementation of the $14.5 billion dollar RAISE grant will bring more accessi ble transportation to residents, help the climate, reconnect communities, create jobs, and so much more.”
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Greg Hodge, a mayoral candidate, long time West Oakland resident and parent who lives near several homeless encampments want the city to provide “equi ty-based” solutions around Secty. Buttigieg’s and Gov. Newsom’s recent statements on displacements and homelessness. For more information visit:www.hodge foroakland.com/housing-and-shelter.
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