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Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations to lead an esteemed Congressional delegation to Europe and Africa to conduct oversight over the United States’ in vestments abroad, from our defense operations to global health and food security ini tiatives,” said Chairwoman Lee. “In Germany, Ghana, Senegal, and Italy, our dele gation held high-level meet ings with country officials and toured sites of impor tance to nations’ economic, humanitarian, and public health infrastructures. I thank all those who we met with on this trip for their contributions to strengthen ing the U.S. mission abroad and look forward to return ing to committee work and
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Greatness is not measured by what a person accomplishes, but the opposition he or she has to overcome to reach their goals. Dorothy Height.
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Nine Candidates Compete for Three Open Seats on the Oakland School Board
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To sum up the greatness of Venus and Serena Williams, two young black sisters from Compton, California, it can not be told in a single article, nor can we overlook, “Daddy” Richard Williams, who was a major part of the main ingre dients that made Serena and Venus the best tennis players in the “Daddy”world. Richard; a selftaught player, nurtured, men tored and coached them in unorthodox ways. They were introduced to tennis on glass littered tennis courts, used ten nis balls, and sometimes no tennis net. Against these odds, Serena and Venus have liter ally shattered the brick walls, glass ceilings, concrete bar riers of racism, and elitisms,
Rev. Ken Chambers (right) underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery on August 26th after his daughter Candase (left) was a match. Photo courtesy of Candase Chambers.
The “Reconnecting the Town” project is centered around transportation equity, safety, and reconnection on two major roads, Broadway and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The project will im prove infrastructure for peo ple who walk, bike, and take the bus, reconnecting several Oakland neighborhoods to the waterfront.
There are three seats up for election in November on the seven-member board: Districts 2, 4 and 6. None of the incum bents, who backed the school closures, are running for re election.There are a total of nine can didates, three in each of the three races. At least six of the candidates, two in each race, self-identify as progressives who are opposed to school clo sures and privatization and see themselves as allied with the community movement against schoolGoingclosures.intothis election, pro ponents of continued school closures are on the defensive and are downplaying their commitment to closing schools and turning more sites over to charter schools and real estate privatizers.Thismay in part be due to the defeat in the recent June election of incumbent Alam eda County Supt. of Schools L. Karen Monroe, who has been
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I will bring together all stake holders in the City of Oakland that are currently tasked with any homelessness-related is sues to obtain a firm assessment of current resources, efforts and challenges. With that firm assessment, I will assemble the best team and implement my plan for a concerted and ef fective approach to addressing and decreasing the amount of homelessness in Oakland. Fur thermore, I will work with the City’s human services depart ment to identify and triage the needs that are present within homeless encampments, col laborate with our county lead
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ership around the best solu tions & enforcement measures, and secure the funding that the City of Oakland needs to stop the proliferation of homeless encampments in Oakland and address crime taking place in and around homeless encamp ments.We must enforce the laws that we have on the books. For example, the Encamp ment Management Policy was passed by the current Oakland City Council in late 2020, but enforcement has been lacking. At the Oakland Mayoral Can
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putting our values into ac tion.”The delegation began with a visit to Stuttgart, Germany, where members received an AFRICOM Command Brief on security cooperation with Africa as well as an update from EUCOM on the latest regardingChairwomanUkraine.Lee said, “In Accra, Ghana, the delega tion reaffirmed the strong partnership between our two countries through meet ings with the President Nana Akufo-Addo, members of Parliament and other coun try government officials, as well as members of civil so ciety. Members conducted oversight of U.S. projects
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee (front, second from left) was joined by Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Katherine Clark (MA-5), Jay Obernolte (CA-8), Sara Jacobs (CA-53), and Troy Carter (LA-2).
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It’s been said before, we stand on the shoulders of those gone before. Long before Ser ena and Venus arrived on the tennis stage there were two other phenomenal black sisters who were tennis stars.
After sharing the news of possibly going on dialysis with his wife and children, Rev. Chambers was moved and relieved at the show of support, love and sacrifice that his family, and his community, was willing to give in order to ensure his health. After well over a year of doctor’s ap pointments, testing and con
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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Sub committee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, led a Congressio nal delegation to Germany, Ghana, Senegal, and Italy to conduct oversight over Department of Defense and State Department appro priations, including global health and international food security Congresswomanprograms.Lee was joined by Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (TX18), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Katherine Clark (MA-5), Jay Obernolte (CA-8), Sara Jacobs (CA-53), and Troy Carter (LA-2).
When Rev. Ken Chambers, Sr. first received news from his doctor that he may need to go on dialysis, it felt like a knot in his stomach after having gone through his share of health challenges in the past. He had experienced congestive heart failure, kidney failure, and in 2014, he successfully fought cancer.
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the primary representative of state officials and agencies that have been pushing for school closures for the past two de cades.Here are the candidates:
Three candidates running for the District 4 school board seat. From left to right: Pecolia Hudson-Manigo, Nick Resnick and Mike Hutchinson.
Orozco is an OUSD par ent and construction worker who became active in the fight against school closures this year. He has children who have attended La Escuelita. He was recently injured at Parker School in East Oakland when OUSD security guards at tempted to eject parents and community members who had been protesting the closure of
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including the accepted practice of Bothdiscrimination.ofthemturned profes sional at the age of 14, within a year of each other. There was something “within” that could not be contained or scripted to the standards established by white society to even think they could play in the U.S. Opens, Grand Slams, singles, Titles and Wimbledon. Ten nis has been an exclusionary game, designed to keep Blacks from playing. However, rac ism could not keep the Wil liams sisters down. They were determined to let nothing, and nobody turn them around.
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Congresswoman Bar bara Lee will welcome U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to the East Bay on Friday, Sept. 9 to see progress on major infra structure projects funded in part by the U.S. Department of Transportation.Secretary Buttigieg joined Congresswoman Bar bara Lee and Mayor Libby Schaaf for a bus tour of a City of Oakland project that is being supported by a $14.5 million federal grant.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Justice Brett Kava naugh, wrote in a concurring opinion that the ruling did not affect “shall issue” laws requir ing objective licensing require ments such as “fingerprinting, a background check, a mental health records check, and train ing in firearms handling, and in laws regarding use of force, among other possible require ments.”
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On the last night of this year’s legislative session last week, the State Assembly re jected Senate Bill (SB) 918, authored by state Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flin tridge). The bill — written to strengthen restrictions on con cealed firearm permits — was one of several bills the Legis lature did not approve during the tension-filled finale to a ses sion marked by pointed debate among members of the Assem bly’s Democratic majority.
Union soldiers decided to “build an encampment for them at Devil’s Punchbowl, which they walled off and wouldn’t let them out,” ac cording to Don Estes, former director of the Natchez City Cemetery. Leaving alive was not an Locatedoption.at the bottom of a cavernous pit with trees lo cated on the bluffs above, the Devil’s Punchbowl was named for its Behindshape.the concrete walls, atrocities were carried out in discriminately and without restraint. Because women and children were not viewed as “a viable workforce,” they were unfed and left to die from starvation in one of the three Punchbowls. Diseases, mainly smallpox, took several lives. Men, forced to perform hard labor, were worked to exhaus tion or beaten to death. Begging to be set free, Estes said, many cried out, “Turn me loose and
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In his opinion on the case, Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that states could still pro hibit guns in “sensitive places.”
Oakland Post “Where there is no vision, the people perish...” Proverbs 29:18 postnewsgroup.com 57th Year, No. 28Weekly Edition Dec. 30, 2020 - Jan. 5, 2021 Continued on Page 8Continued on Page 8 District 1 OUSD Trustee Sam Davis. District OUSD Trustee VanCedric Williams. New Board Members Seek Increased Community Influence in School District Decisions By Ken Epstein There are high hopes in the community for a newly en ergized school board as four new members set to take of fice in January pledging to disentangle the multiple crises facing the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), in cluding shuttered classrooms and COVID-19 enforced dis tance learning, ongoing threats of austerity-driven budget cuts to close more neighborhood This week, the Oakland board members, Sam Davis and VanCedric Williams. Last week, the Post published inter views with Mike Hutchinson (D-5) and Clifford Thompson (D-7).Davis, who represents Dis trict 1, worked as a teacher and family outreach coordinator in Oakland schools for 10 years. Originally from Queens, New York, he has lived in Oakland 9th grade at Oakland Technical HighLookingSchool.at hopes for recov ery this year from the impact Black Lawyers Submit Names of Three Candidates for California Attorney General The CABL recommends that either, from left to right, Ter ry Wiley, Diane Becton, or Paul Henderson to replace California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media The California Association of Black Lawyers (CABL) submitted the names of three accomplished African Ameri can attorneys to the Califor nia Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) as possible candidates for the state’s soon-to-be open Attorney General position. In a 46-page document that includes biographical data of the organization’s recommen dations, CABL called on Black members of the state Legisla ture to support attorneys Diane Becton, Paul Henderson or Terry Wiley to become the next Attorney General. The group also forwarded the proposal listing the candidates they are supporting – all public servants with significant experience — to Gov. Gavin Newsom. “We are in a unique posi tion to know, understand, and recommend one of our own members to serve as the next California Attorney General,” stated the letter dated Decem ber 23 from Melinda Mur ray, president of CABL. “We strongly urge the Legislative Black Caucus to consider the above three candidates and to interview them for recommen dation to Governor Newsom.” Earlier in December, Presi dent-elect Joe Biden nominated current California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services in his administration. Since then, various candidates have emerged as possible re placements for the state’s top lawyer and law enforcement official. Bay Area Medical Workers Share Views on COVID-19 Vaccine Angela White (seated) receives a vaccine shot from Adrian Cabrera, RN of Alameda Health System’s Employee Health Department. Photo contributed. By Clifford L. Williams Thirty-seven-year-old An gela White of Oakland didn’t even flinch when she was ad ministered the COVID-19 vac cine. “I don’t remember when the needle was inserted in my arm after the nurse said ‘you’re done’,” said White. “It was quick and painless.” White, an Emergency Medi cine physician at Oakland’s Highland Hospital since 2016, tors working in Highland’s emergency room. She took the looking forward to her second vaccine shot on Jan. 9, 2021. As of this writing, White has not experienced any major side in my arm that was sore for a day but aside from that, I’ve felt pretty normal,” added White. “As a doctor who cares for COVID patients took the vaccine because I’m exposed to COVID patients on daily basis and I wanted to protect myself, my family and my community. wanted to show people that they have nothing to fear by taking the vaccine.” “This is not a trial, a test or study on any particular group,” said White. “I think it is criti cally important for our com munity to take the vaccine. are more likely to be impact ed by COVID-19. To not get the vaccine would be giving up an opportunity to protect ourselves, our health, and the friends and community.” “I think using the vaccine is another way of protecting me, in addition to wearing a mask and face shield at work, also practice social distancing. It’s just one more step that’s going to make me, my family and my community safer, and highly recommend people take the vaccine if they are eligible.” Physician and immunolo gist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has served as director of the Dr. Burke-Harris,NadineCalifornia’sFirstSurgeonGeneralPage7JackieCartoonistRadicalTheOrmes:Page2 CentenarianBecomesOakland’sHannahParkeraPage5Cranes Taller Than The Tribune Tower Due at Port of Oakland ThisPageWeek3 Continued on Page 8 Euradell “Dell” Logan Patterson Euradell “Dell” Logan Patterson, 82, Passes By Paul Cobb Euradell “Dell” Logan-Pat terson, achieved acclaim for years as dedicated, faithful educational, community and land and Berkeley passed away December 26, 2020, at home in ately referred to by her friends, was born September 26, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her parents, Ernestine Dunlap and Euell Kenneth Logan were married in 1937. They moved from Seminole, Oklahoma to Oklahoma City where “Dell” was born. Oakland Artist Vows to Replace Vandalized, Then Stolen Statue Honoring Breonna Taylor In 1941, her family moved to West Oakland where Logan served briefly in the U.S Navy and then Dell’s family settled in Berkeley. After graduating from Berkeley High School she versity before transferring to and graduating from San Francisco State University with a B.A. Degree in Education along with her Teaching Credential. She also earned Master’s Degree equivalence from U.C Berkeley and she also earned a Reading Specialist Credential from Holy NamesWhileUniversity.pursuing her academic studies she gained valuable ex Continued on Page 8 Sculptor Leo Carson placed a bouquet of flowers on the column where his statue of Breonna Taylor had been in stalled on December 12. Photo by Auintard Henderson. By Post Staff Wanting to create ‘symbol of joy,’ in memory of Breonna Taylor, Oakland sculptor Leo Carson installed a head-andneck bust of her at Latham Square on Dec. 12, 2020. On Tuesday, the bust of the emergency services worker killed in Louisville, Ky. last March in a botched police raid was stolen after it had been found smashed to pieces on Dec. 26, 2020. Also on Tuesday, it was re ported that two police officers involved in Taylor’s death in Continued on Page 8 State Selects Black L.A. Firm to $500DisburseMillioninCOVID-19 Everett K. Sands, Lendis try’s founder and CEO. Photo courtesy of Lendis try. By Tanu MediaCaliforniaHenry,Black The State of California an nounced that it has selected Lendistry, Black-led-and-op erated financial firm in Los An geles, to act as the intermediary charged with disbursing $500 million in COVID-19 grants to California small businesses andThenon-profits.California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), which operates under the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Devel opment (GO-Biz), says small businesses and non-profit or ganizations across California that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can be gin submitting applications for relief grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. The appli cation process begins now and runs through Jan. 8, 2021. The governor and the Legis lature first announced the pro gram November 30. 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The decision rendered Califor nia’s law requiring applicants to show “good cause,” or a jus tifiable reason for needing such a permit unconstitutional.
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918 required 54 votes in the Assembly to pass, rather than the usual 41. The bill received 53 votes which is more than enough votes needed to reach the Governor’s desk had the urgency amendment not been added.Last June, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in New York State Rifle & Pis tol Association v. Bruen that “may carry” laws giving states discretionary authority to reject concealed carry permits vio lated the Second Amendment.
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More than 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year inside the Devil’s Punchbowl. The disrespect, however, did not end with the deaths; the bodies remained inside the camp.The Union army did not allow removal of the bodies, according to researcher Paula Westbrook. “They just gave them shovels and said ‘bury ’em where they drop.’”
verifiable records from that time, the exact number is im possible to verify. Still, what took place at the camp was one of the largest and most brutal acts of state-sanctioned death America has ever seen.
The town’s population quickly increased from 10,000 to nearly 100,000. This both angered local Whites and prompted Union soldiers to construct an encampment for Blacks that would maintain segregation. But in truth, the encampment was a concen tration camp built for the sole purpose of controlling and ex terminating the former slaves.
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By the time of the Civil War (18611865), most of the Southern wealth revolved around own ing slaves. Southerners viewed Lincoln’s antislavery platform as “cutting their political and fiscal power off at the knees’’ while Northerners devised a so-called foolproof plan for victory.The promise of freedom along with the hope that postwar life would improve con vinced many Black men to represent the North during the fight. In 1865, the major Con federate armies surrendered to the United States, and soon af ter freed slaves began to make their way to Natchez, Miss.
Critics, for years, have dis puted the number of Blacks who died in the Natchez camp, claiming that it was closer to 1,000. Because there are no
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Researchers and some lo cals say that the skeletal re mains still wash up when the area becomes flooded by the Mississippi River after a rain.
“Today the bluffs are known for the wild peach grooves, but the locals will not eat any of the fruit because some are aware of what has fertilized the trees,” Westbrook said.
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during encounters when an in dividual died or was injured badly.The information found in the Use of Force report reveals that the types of force used by law enforcement officers against the 660 individuals included blunt impact weapons, chemi cal sprays, firearms, impact projectiles, vehicles, electronic control devices and their hands, feet, fists, or other body parts.
A used 2020 Honda Civic (Kelly Blue Book Best Small Car of 2020) in good condi tion is listed for $20,000; the top selling 2020 EV, the Tesla 3, resales for around $40,000. Many electric vehicles are aimed at upper and middleclass buyers. New, these cars can start at about $50,000 for the basic package and may also require other expensive addons like chargers, power adapt ers and cables.
1,462 officers were reported to be involved in employing a firearm or using excessive force during incidents that re sulted in death or serious in jury. Fifty-eight of the officers wereTheBlack.Crime in California re port presents an overview of 9
The California automo tive market is the largest in the United States, with small SUVs and light trucks being the most popular vehicles, according to a study by the California New Car Dealers Association, an organization that uses car reg istrations to compile consumer marketCaliforniadata. sets the standards for car manufacturers who want access to its auto-buyer mar ket, and its emission laws often become the blueprint for other states. Several states are prepar ing to set their own dates to end the use of gasoline-powered ve hicles, including Maryland and NewByYork.excluding gas-powered vehicles, the policy may com pound an issue very familiar to
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Blacks made up 16.7% of the civilians that were killed or suf fered severe injuries during in cidents involving the discharge of a firearm or the use of force by police officers in 2021. Of the 660 civilians, who died or were injured, 50.6% were His panic and 25.5% were white.
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The other reports released by the DOJ include Homicide in California, Crime in Cali fornia, and Juvenile Justice in California.Thequartet of documents are available online and offer an analytical breakdown of criminal activity and related statistics such as the number of homicides reported last year, how much violent crime has increased in the state and the specificity of those crimes, a breakdown of age, race, sex of crime victims and offend ers, and the various types of force used by law enforcement
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on data and analysis and to help protect the safety and well-be ing of all Californians, accord ing to an Aug. 25 press release from California Attorney Gen eral Rob “GoodBonta.data,” Bonta said, “is key to good public policy.” He urged people to read the docu ments.“Accurate statistics and the data in the annual crime reports are a critical part of calibrating our response, ensuring policy makers and law enforcement are able to make informed de cisions,” Bonta stated.
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According to the DOJ, of ficers employing a firearm hit 233 people and missed 58 oth ers. They used K-9 dogs on 77 people and controlled holds or takedowns on 121 others.
While officers perceived that 383 civilians were armed dur ing the incidents, 341 or 89% of them were confirmed to have been carrying weapons.
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The report, however, does not indicate how many of the 149 individuals that died dur ing the 628 incidents were Black or of any other race.
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“Whether it’s successfully securing federal certification of our data systems or taking guns out of the hands of dan gerous individuals,” he said, “my office remains commit ted to doing our part to support safety and security for all Cali fornians.”
There were 2,361 homicides reported in 2021, according to the Homicide Crime in Cali fornia report. Of the homicides where the victim’s race or eth nicity was identified, 29.5% or 690 were Black, second only to the 47.1% or 1,102 victims who were Hispanic. The larg est segment of Black victims — 38.4% or 264 — were aged 18-29. Three hundred and twenty-five of the Black vic tims were killed on a street or sidewalk. None were killed on schoolBlacksgrounds.are5.5% of the total California population.
Felony arrests made up 47.2% or 9,132 of the appre hensions, with Black juveniles being 60.3%. Black juveniles were arrested for 49.0% of the felony violent offenses.
Her combined eight-rota tion 112.750 beat out all com petition for the night’s biggest prize, and she added balance beam gold (28.900) along the way, USA Gymnastics report ed.Jones of Auburn, Washing
Black girl magic reigned at the 2022 U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Florida as Jordan Chiles, Shilese Jones, and Konnor McClain won the top three spots in the senior all-around com petition.Thetrio made history as the first three Black female gymnasts to sweep the po dium.“It’s so unreal,” said Mc Clain in an interview with
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“Gun violence, in particular, remains a consistent and grow ing threat. In fact, in 2021, nearly three-fourths of all ho micides in California involved a firearm,” he said. “As we confront these ongoing chal lenges, we must have account ability and appropriate conse quences for those who break the law.”
There were 153,546 violent crimes in the state in 2021. All the data are based on the num ber of known victims and inci dents.Bonta said crime rates re main below historical highs, but property and violent crimes continue to have terrible effects on California communities.
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This summer, the gymnast returned to competition fol lowing two stress fractures, a concussion, the flu, and her father’s death in Decem ber.McClain, who lives in Las Vegas, captured the senior women’s all-around title.
The bill also outlaws the automatic elimination of cannabisusing patients from pain management programs by specifying that a positive drug test for cannabis should not be the sole basis for denying medical treatment. (Psalm
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all-around titles and is tied with Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American.Thenext time fans can see McClain, Jones, and Chiles compete will be at the 2022 World Gymnastics Champion ships, which begin on Oct. 29 in Liverpool, England.
“Many physicians are under the mistaken impression that they can’t prescribe medication to patients who test positive for can nabis,” said Dale Gieringer, director of California NORML.
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ton, finished a close second with 112.000, while Chiles of Spring, Texas, finished third (111.900).“Thisis the legacy of Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles, Domi nique Dawes and so many oth er trailblazers who trained and stood alone,” Dr. Cathryn Stout tweeted.According to Essence, Douglas became the first Af rican American gymnast to win gold in the individual allaround and team events at the same Olympics in 2012.
The Juvenile Justice in California report detailed the 19,355 juvenile arrests in Cali fornia reported by law enforce ment last year.
Biles has won 25 World Championship titles and seven
Over 70% of all juveniles, including 77.3% of the Black juveniles arrested were re ferred to probation depart ments by law enforcement.
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The total number of report ed civilian complaints against peace officers increased from 16,547 in 2020 to 28,617 last year. The number of com plaints from civilians accusing officers of crimes — 683 — was the lowest since 1983.
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Bonta said the DOJ is using every tool it has to prevent vio lence and combat crime.
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the criminal justice system in California. It revealed that the violent crime rate rose 6.7%, from 437 crimes per 100,000 people to 466.2 last year. The property crime rate increased 3% and the homicide rate jumped up 9.1% while the rape incidence rate increased 8.6%. The motor vehicle theft rate rose 8.2%. The state’s burglary and arson rates dropped.
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But Tiafoe is a young emerg ing phenom. The match that had people buzzing came last Fri day, featuring Serena Williams, considered the best women’s
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5 representative and has a repu tation as a strong opponent of school closings. Though he has two years left to serve on the board, he is running for the Dis trict 4 seat because his address was moved from District 5 to District 4 as part of the recent redistricting process.
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support staff and community college employees. She has worked in labor organizing for 15 years.
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Terrica Smith, now the founder and CEO of Cachet Real Estate and Salt Capital Equity Group, used to dream of having her own home when she was homeless and living on the streets years ago. Now, she is making other homeless fami lies’ dreams come true as she heads the Madeline Cove proj ect, a housing development that would offer affordable homes in the community.
Last week the world witnessed another great Black tennis player, Frances Tiafoe, 24, who was introduced to tennis by his parents who migrated to the U.S. from Sierra Leone, upset second-ranked Rafael Nadal to make it to the quarterfinals. Nadal said “he’s definitely one of the greatest of all time. I played unbelievable tennis today. I don’t know what happened.” Then, enroute to the semifinal round, Tia foe continued to score upsets when he dispatched Andrey Rublev in straight sets to become the first American man to make the US Open Semifinals since 2006.
Bachelor is an organizer for the California Federation of Teachers, a labor union that represents education, school
Rose, who studied at Morgan State University, an HBCU, was originally one of the engineers working to design stores for Gro cery Outlet, a California-based retailer that has over 400 stores nationwide. Upon seeing that his old neighborhood in the Shar swood section of North Philadelphia is on the list of future store locations, he thought it would be a great opportunity to own it. That’s when Rose used his savings and secured a loan to buy a franchise of the store, he told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Being conveniently located in the neighborhood where he mostly grew up, he is very familiar with it. He was aware that before he opened the store, there has been no major supermarkets since the 1960s and the closest one was nearly a mile away.
player ever. Nearly 41-years old, a mother of a young child, Serena had announced her re tirement. Friday would be her lastFormatch.hersend off, Serena gave us plenty of fight and passion. After a second-round victory that stunned even her fans, Ser ena had people talking about her possibly winning the whole thing. In the third round match, she was down 5-1 in the final set. She’s overcome that kind of deficit before., but….Would she? Could she? Now?
The beauty of that process? Sometimes you’ll fail well enough to win. Over and over
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As a child, Smith was in fos ter care until she aged out of the system when she turned 16. She had to live on the streets of New Orleans and at one time lived under an overpass with her son. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, she was dis placed to Lafayette, Louisiana.
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managing partner for Salt Cap ital Equity Group. Now in her mid-30s, Smith also owns and operates her own firm called Cachet Real Estate.
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This week an African Ameri can from Maryland, 24-yearold Frances Tiafoe, ranked No. 22 in the world beat the No.2 seed of the tournament, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, and be came the youngest American to advance to the U.S. Open quar
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“You have to hold on to that dream,” Smith told The Advo cate. “This was an extremely hard task for us, and together we pulled through. The reason this development is near and dear to my heart is because grow ing up in an area like this, it’s extremely hard to dream when you don’t see anything around you worth dreaming about.”
Resnick is a parent, formerly an OUSD teacher and currently chief executive officer of In quiry by Design, a company that produces curriculum for
Margaret and Matilda Peters endured double segregation in the 1940s and 50s. The Peters sisters were inducted into the Tuskegee Hall of Fame in 1977. Sadly, due to racism, they were never allowed to play professional tennis against white doubles during their era.Members
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Continued from page 1 sultations, prayers and support, Rev. Chambers received a suc cessful kidney transplant from his living donor, his daughter Candase Chambers on Friday, Aug. 26 at UCSF Medical Cen ter.“It has been a long journey with my health declining and having fought cancer three different times in three differ ent places of my body,” Rev. Chambers said. “Not only were my kidneys failing but I was slated for dialysis. Once I got confirmation that a transplant was possible, I had seven peo ple offer to be my kidney donor. What a blessing that all of my kids were willing to be a donor but in lieu of all the efforts, my daughter Candase matched up and moved aggressively to go forward with the transplant. It’s all been a part of God’s plan.”
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visited Goree Island which memorializes the final exit point of slaves from Africa and heard firsthand about the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade.
including the SEKAF Shea Company and Global Shea Alliance and Tema Fish ing Harbor/Canoe Beach to learn about USAID’s sup port to restore fisheries, Ghana’s primary protein source, and combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.”
That was in my day. If only we had seen more people like us to encourage us to play in white spaces.Butimagine growing up now watching the U.S. Open.
“Once I knew I was a match, there was nothing else to con sider. If I could save my dad’s life, I knew that was a choice I was going to make,” said Candase. “Recovery has been uncomfortable and a process, but seeing my dad regain his strength and energy makes it all worth it. It feels nice to at least be able to give back to a parent when they have already given so much to me.”
Tiafoe. played with such joy, indicative of a love instilled in him by his father, an immigrant from Sierra Leone, who worked as a maintenance man at a ten nis development facility in the DC area. While his dad worked late nights tending to the clay courts, his mother a nurse worked overnights. It made the young Tiafoe sleep at the facil ity during the week. That’s how you fall in love with the game. It becomes part of your dreams.
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again.That’s how Serena became such a dominant champion, winning 39 major tiles, the most in history by man or woman in the open era. Among those lau rels were 23 Grand Slam singles titles, 14 in women’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
In Rome, Italy, the mem bers met with the US-UN Rome country team, Vati can country team, and Italy country team. Members re ceived briefings from Food and Agricultural Organiza tion (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural De velopment (IFAD), and World Food Program (WFP) leadership on the growing food crisis threatening 345 million people globally with food insecurity.
Serena fought off six match points before she meekly hit a final ball into the net that made her younger opponent Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia, the victor.But we got what we needed. A life lesson. Serena in braids and a sparkly black tennis dress, showed the fire of never giving up. Six match points she battled. Commentator/former tennis champion Chris Evert described the Serena method as reaching for the stars, failing, then getting up to fight again.
Tennis, any one? In my Mission neighborhooddistrict growing up, we had courts. But us kids always chose the ad joining basketball court. And in the summer and fall, we chose the big patch of grass for base ball and football. They tried to get us to play tennis by giving us free rackets. But they were wooden, and we broke them at the handle easily. Besides, the famous player’s whose names graced the racquets were Rod Laver, Tony Trabert. White guys, not like any of us.
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supportive, I’m forever grate ful.”Friends of the Chambers family started a donation fund to support them with addi tional medical costs and care throughout the recovery pro cess.Rev. Chambers hopes his family’s experience encour ages other families to support each other and always work together. “Working together
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There’s some diverse tennis role models now if you want to work on your forehand.
Continued from page 1 didates Forum on Aug. 30 at Laney College, a West Oakland resi dent pleaded with my campaign team to prioritize action around homeless encampments. They explained that every day they walk through or around homeless encampments that block sidewalks throughout their neighborhood and cars parked on the street are often vandalized. The Encampment Management Policy claims that it is necessary to address the emergency needs of our un housed residents, but what about our residents who are at risk of experiencing homelessness and other tax-paying residents who need help? Without enforcement of our most basic policies, we cannot even begin to focus on preventing more Oaklanders from becoming unhoused or from choosing to leave our great city.
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And to think, Serena and her sister Venus, another great champion, all did it out of that tennis haven, Compton, Calif.
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to undergo the intensive sur gery.Rev. Chambers said, “Praise God the surgery went forward and the transplant has been a success. My kidney started working immediately and I will be preaching my first ser mon on Sunday, Sept. 18, three weeks and two days after the surgery. God is so good! My wife, family and community organizations all have been so
Althea Gibson, born on Au gust 25, 1927, in South Carolina, was another great tennis star who shattered glass ceilings and en dured racial barriers. Like the Peter sisters, life was no crystal stair. Althea was a trailblazer in tennis and golf. She was the first Black to play tennis at the American Lawn Tennis League in 1950 and in the U.S. National Tennis Championship in Forest Hills. She became the first African American player to play in Wimbledon in 1951
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When I saw them both play, I was already too old to play competitively. But I wasn’t too old to be motivated to pick up a racket and hit some balls. That’s how inspiring both Williams sisters have been for more than twoNowdecades.here comes a new gen eration of fresh stars half their age coming up, Americans in the U.S. Open quarterfinalists like the exuberantly physi cal Tiafoe and the screaming 18-year-old Coco Gauff.
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Arthur Ashe Ashe said, “No question about it, race has al ways been my biggest burden, having to live as a minority in America.” Martin Luther King Jr. often spoke about institutional and systemic rac ism, saying that “true racial equality cannot be reached without radical structural changes in society…. The first step to do that is for whites of all ages to learn an honest history of this country’s systemic racism and the Black movements against it—something many whites today are not even willing to begin doing.” Angela Davis sums it “The struggle is much more dif ficult now because racism is more entrenched and complicated.” I conclude that among the traits that these great athletes had in common was a fierce commitment, a determination not to be deterred by barriers, and to be goal focused. This article focused on tennis greats; however, we must never forget the price Jackie Robinson paid by breaking the racial barrier in baseball.
Kyra Mungia Mungia, a former Oakland teacher, currently serves as Mayor Libby Schaaf’s deputy director of education. She was appointed in June to the board to fill the remaining months of the term of District 6 Board member Shanthi Gonzales, who recently resigned from her position.
In Dakar, Senegal, the delegation received brief ings from and met with gov ernment officials. Members visited a USAID Feed the Future horticulture pro gram, the USAID Traffick ing in Persons Project Wallu Talibe as well as the Peace Corps Training Center.
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The journey for them both was not free of its challenges and possible setbacks. The sur gery had been scheduled and postponed twice before, once when Pastor Chambers tested positive for COVID-19 and an other when his heart test raised some concerns for doctors to ensure he was healthy enough
It is no coincidence that the Williams sisters, and Tiafoe played at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Queens, N.Y., the largest tennis stadium in the world. The stadium is named after Arthur Ashe, one of the greatest tennis players ever. Indeed, he was the G.O.A.T. (The Greatest of All Time). Ashe’s professional career featured 33 titles, including the 1968 US Open, the 1970 Austra lian Open and 1975 Wimbledon. He also won Davis Cup titles for the U.S. both as a player (1968-70) and captain (1981-82). Ashe was a generous humanitarian. He endured racism and fought to eliminate racism on the tennis court. In 1985, Ashe learned that he was HIV positive, possibly from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Ashe died in 1993 at the age of 49.
sessments to make sure she was healthy enough to be a kid ney donor and to confirm she was a match to give her father one of her kidneys, the greatest sacrifice one can make.
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Frustrated with her home lessness, she decided to attend a real estate school. With hard work and determination, Smith eventually became an agent with Real Broker LLC and a
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District 4 Picolia Hudson-Manigo Hudson-Manigo is an OUSD parent and executive director of Bay Area PLAN, an Oaklandbased parent advocacy group. She was a leader in the cam paign for Reparations for Black Students, and she is endorsed by the Oakland Education As sociation.
Donta Rose, a 28-year-old engineer and entrepreneur, has opened his own Grocery Outlet supermarket worth $5 million within a new development in his former neighborhood in Phila delphia, Pennsylvania
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