Holy Names University Campus Sold to Los Angeles Real Estate Firm for $70 Million

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OP-ED: Supervisors Must Implement Civilian Oversight of Sheriff’s Dept. Over Santa Rita Jail Death

By Katie Dixon, Moina Shaiq and Rev. Derron Jenkins

in Alameda County law enforcement.

By Ken Epstein

After deciding to shut down at the end of May, the Holy Names University (HNU) Board of Trustees has just sold the 58-acre campus in the Oakland hills to a Los Angeles-based real estate firm, BH

Properties, a company with minimal connection to education or to Oakland.

Though the price was not revealed, previous reports said the asking price was $70 million.

Kimberly Mayfield, Deputy Mayor of Oakland and a former

HNU administrator, has worked to save the HNU campus as a site for higher education in Oakland. She is hoping that the new owners will be willing to respond to community needs.

In an interview with the Oakland Post this week, Mayfield said, “I hope they will preserve the campus for educational use, especially for higher education, such as an institution like a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). We need more higher education opportunities here in Oakland. That’s what we’re losing.”

She said she was particularly concerned for students who were left in the lurch with debts and unfinished degrees when HNU

Leading up to the sale, the HNU board operated mostly in secrecy, not transparent with faculty or students, and ignoring proposals of aid from city and community leaders and educational entities, including two proposals to place an HBCU on the campus.

BH Properties says it seeks to attract new tenants to continue using the property for academic use.

“We are excited to announce this long-term investment in the Oakland community,” said Jim Brooks, president of BH Properties, in a statement quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle.

“This

Norma Nelson, a lifetime Black Women Organized for Political Action member (Sacramento Chapter) and founding member of the California League of Women Voters Criminal Justice Committee Interest Group, joined the circle of families whose tragic experiences highlight the need for transparency and accountability

On May 2, 2020, her brother, Donald Nelson, a Black man, had his medical request and needs ignored by staff at Santa Rita jail, the family asserts.

Instead, according to the family, Donald Nelson was placed in a holding cell with an alleged white supremacist (based upon social media posts) only to be fatally assaulted within two hours of being in custody.

Though they reached out to jail staff, the family was not notified for nearly a week as he lay dying alone in a hospital bed.

At the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Public Protection Committee meeting last month, Norma Nelson joined Angelina Reyes, president of the Alameda County Council of League of Women Voters, in urging “implementation of a strong, independent civilian oversight of the twice impeached, found liable for sexual assault in a civil case, and is still under indictment in New York, with at least two more criminal cases to come.

COMMENTARY: Trump Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ in Espionage Case: Should Co-Defendant Waltine Nauta Flip?

This is a man still qualified to live in the White House? Maybe with a shroud over it. If that happens it would be the most supreme example of white privilege in America.

Wouldn’t happen for you or me. But Trump? A different story.

That says something about the direction our nation is taking.

FLIP, WALTINE NAUTA, FLIP

Community Building 101

By Richard Johnson

unsheltered returning citizens.

Unsung Athletes of Color from Bay Area Get Their Props in ‘Remember Their Sacrifice’

By Emil Guillermo

Can you imagine Donald Trump as a person of color, or perhaps, specifically a Black man?

I’m not talking Black conservatives like Sen. Tim Scott. Or Ben Carson. Or even Clarence Thomas.

Just a regular Black man in Oakland who doesn’t get the time of day on the news. Not even when he’s arrested or arraigned.

Because the most important thing about the history-making moment this week — the first U.S. president, past or present, arrested Tuesday on federal criminal charges — may be whether Trump can be treated like anyone else. Like you. Or me.

Chances are if we were charged on a 37-count criminal indictment for felony violations related to the Espionage Act, it wouldn’t have taken more than a year to apprehend us.

Nor would we be arrested, released and then on the same day allowed to raise millions of dollars to win back our old job as chief executive of the United States.

No man is above the law?

All that is in the back of my mind in this latest indictment against Trump, which by the way, if you haven’t read, you should.

It’s about as simple a legal argument as it gets.

It alleges how classified, secret documents were inappropriately handled, stored, and moved. The allegations include obstruction of justice and making false statements. All of it substantiated with evidence and photographs, with possible consequences of decades of prison time.

If a Martian read the indictment, he’d wonder why there wasn’t a better bathroom to store top secret documents on Earth.

And then the Martian would wonder how someone like Trump could ever have been seen as qualified to be president in 2016, let alone be the leading candidate for Republicans in 2024.

In fact, polls are showing how even if convicted, more than 75% of Republicans would be just fine with Trump as president.

Don’t buy this fake idea that Trump has been victimized. BIPOC communities are criticized for rightfully claiming victimization in America society, but here’s Trump using it with executive style. This a man who has been

When I read the indictment, I cheered justice, accountability and the rule of law. But I admit I couldn’t help dwelling for a moment on that first page.

The stark print stops you cold.

“United States of America,” meaning all of us.

Then, “v. Donald J.Trump and Waltine Nauta.” Nauta. One of us.

The 40-year-old Guam native just put the AAPI community in the evolving sordid political history of Trump. Trump’s new running mate is Nauta, Trump’s own personal valet and now co-conspirator.

Nauta potentially joins those who have sold their soul to Trump and done prison time, like attorney Michael D. Cohen and Trump Organzation CFO Allen Weisselberg.

And then there are other convicted Trump cronies who were pardoned by Trump: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon.

Maybe that’s Nauta’s hope. Be loyal. Stick to Trump. Ride the “winner” and get what the big boys—the white boys get. A par

Center Inc. whose work is done in reentry transitional housing for the unhoused and

These groups also volunteer with Charles Reed’s 5,000 Returning Family Members Voters Registration Campaign along with the Uncuffed Project which is utilizing the tiny homes initiative to acquire available space.

In unison, all these projects have combined their collective work to bring better working conditions for those existing in less promising circumstances trying to forge their livelihood under the same theme as the expression “it takes a village to raise a child.” These community-based and reentry organizations have adopted the motto “it takes a unified effort to change the negative to a positive on a societal level.”

This collaboration has embraced the belief that working and volunteering together is a necessity if we as a people, as a community, and as a restored society can make a real difference in each other’s lives.

There are far too many available resources to allow failure to deter our march for a victory over poverty, crime, unemployment, and the pursuit of happiness.

More needs to be done in the area of seeing the need and working to fill the void, nothing is accomplished if we don’t try.

By Godfrey Lee

Arif Khatib and Pete Elman are promoting and selling their book

“Remember Their Sacrifice - Stories of Unheralded Athletes of Color.”

They hosted a book signing event on Sunday, May 7, 2023, at YEMA, a men and women’s clothing store located at 10 Main St. in Tiburon.

Khatib is the founder and president of the Multi-Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame. Elman is an author, musician, teacher, and sports journalist in the Bay Area.

“This book is designed to teach people about African-Americans and other athletes of color, and how they greatly contributed to sports