SB American News Week Ending 7/10

Vol. 50 No. 11

July 4, 2019 - July 10, 2019

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them and these will continue till they have resisted either with words or blows or words or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

—Fredrick Douglass (1849)

New pictures show "dangerous overcrowding" at Border Patrol facilities in Texas

BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ JULY 2, 2019 / 3:42 PM / CBS NEWS

Families held at an overcrowded Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, on June 10, 2019.

DEPARTMENT OFHOMELAND SECURITYINSPECTOR GENERAL The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) internal watchdog found squalid conditions in several detention centers for migrant families and children in Texas, including "serious" overcrowding, minors going without hot meals for days and detainees begging not to be returned to their cells, according to a new report released Tuesday.

The DHS Office of Inspector General publicly released its findings — along with photos documenting the overcrowding in detention cells — on Tuesday after it conducted inspections of five Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in south Texas in June.

"We are concerned that overcrowding and prolonged detention represent an immediate risk to the health and safety of DHS agents and officers, and to those detained," the report said.

Overcrowding was rampant in the facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. More than 50 women were crammed in one cell designed to hold 40 male juveniles when investigators visited in June. In another one, designated for 41 detainees, 71 men were packed inside, with some of them signaling their prolonged detention to the inspectors.

Along with mass overcrowding in detention cells for children, adults and families, the agency

said it found that detainees were held in CBP custody for a "prolonged" periods of time. In all of the inspected facilities, more than 2,500 unaccompanied children had been held for more than three days, a violation of the Flores court settlement that governs the care of minors in U.S. custody. About 50 children under the age of 7 had been in custody for over two weeks, the report said.

According to the inspector general, three of the five facilities were not providing detained children access to showers or clean clothes. In two facilities, minors had not been given a hot meal until the inspectors arrived.

The report also detailed living conditions for detained single adults and families that were so grim that detainees made every effort to not be in their cells.

Migrants reported getting constipated because of a strict bologna sandwich diet. Most had not showered while in CBP custody and were instead given cleaning wipes for personal hygiene.

In one CBP facility, migrants who had been removed from their cells while the rooms were being cleaned refused to go back. The desperation got to the point that Border Patrol officers dispatched a special operations unit to

Lead Detected in Drinking Water of Almost 1 in 5 California Schools https://www.ewg.org/release/lead-detected-drinking-water-almost-1-5california-schools State/Government News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Almost 20 percent of California’s K-12 school campuses serve drinking water with detectable levels of lead.

The State Water Resources Control Board confirmed in an email to EWG that 1,166 out of 6,595 schools that submitted test results found at least one fountain that served water with more than 5 parts per billion, or ppb, of lead. Many schools that tested their drinking water did not test all of the drinking water fountains or faucets of potable water.

Although there is no safe level of exposure to lead, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that water from fountains in schools not exceed 1 ppb lead.

“One-fifth of all K-12 schools have found at least one faucet on their campus that delivers a dose of lead to the children who use them,” said Susan Little, EWG’s

senior advocate for government affairs in California. “These fountains are placed in areas easily reached by children, and many of the fountains haven’t been cleared. Parents should be concerned that their children might be drinking lead during recess.”

California state law requires all K-12 public schools built before 2010 to test their drinking water for lead contamination by today, July 1. The water board reports that as of April 2019, its most recent tally, 6,600 out of approximately 8,200 schools with this requirement have tested their water.

Despite the testing mandate, however, state law and regulation does not specify that schools test all of their fountains and faucets with potable water. California regulations generally require that schools have at least one drinking fountain for every 150 students. (continued in next 2 columns)

Migrant families held at an overcrowded Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, on June 11, 2019.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INSPECTOR GENERAL demonstrate they were "prepared to use force if necessary." Some migrants purposely clogged toilets with socks so that they would be released from their cells.

The inspector general also noted some migrants attempted to escape during maintenance in the facility.

Raising safety concerns about migrants and officers, one senior CBP manager interviewed by inspectors called the situation "a ticking time bomb."

CBP oversees short-term detention for all categories of detained migrants, from single adults to children. Minors in particular are supposed to be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 72 hours of their apprehension by Border Patrol officers.

The inspector general said migrant families — who are not supposed to be detained by the government for more than 20 days — and single adults should be transferred to facilities operated

by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), another DHS branch which oversees long-term detention.

But the watchdog noted that both ICE and HHS have warned about dwindling bed space and resources in recent months, when the U.S. faced an unprecedented

surge of Central American families and unaccompanied children heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border.

Administration officials are expecting border apprehensions — which hit a 13-year high in May — to decline significantly in June.

Although the administration is likely to tout the Mexican government's efforts to bolster security along its northern border and the one with Guatemala, apprehension numbers in recent years have typically gone down in the summer months, mainly because of the sweltering heat in Central America and Mexico.

The inspector general noted that DHS leadership responded to the report by calling the situation at the southern border "an acute and worsening crisis" and citing new measures CBP has taken to remedy some of the problems. But the watchdog said it was nevertheless worried about the response on the ground.

"We recognize the extraordinary challenges CBP faces, and welcome the information that DHS has been able to reduce the number of UACs in custody.

However, we remain concerned that DHS is not taking sufficient measures to address prolonged detention in CBP custody among single adults," the report said.

Lead Detected in Drinking Water of Almost 1 in 5 California Schools...continued For example, a middle school campus with 1,500 students should have at least 10 drinking fountains, as well as other faucets with potable water. Most schools are reporting between one and five tests only, and so are not evaluating all of their drinking water sources.

Lead is a severe neurotoxin that can cause lifelong health damage.

Even small amounts of lead can lower a child’s intelligence, cause

behavior and learning problems, slow growth, and harm hearing.

Because of lead’s neurotoxicity and potential to cause lifelong harm, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that water from fountains in schools not exceed 1 ppb lead. The academy recommends that lead be removed from contaminated housing, child care facilities and water served to children.

Fire Danger During 4th of July Holiday SB County National Park News JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California – Park officials want to remind visitors to be extra vigilant with fire during the upcoming 4th of July holiday. The wet winter and spring has created increased growth of grasses and other plants, which have now dried out, creating hazardous fuel conditions throughout much of the park and surrounding areas.

Fireworks displays pose an unacceptable risk of wildland fire and the use of fireworks is prohibited within Joshua Tree

National Park. Anyone seeing firework activity in the park should immediately report it to one of the on duty rangers in the park or call park dispatch.

Campfires are permitted only within established grills and fire rings located in designated campgrounds and picnic areas.

Visitors who are camping in the park over the holiday can enjoy free firework displays in the towns of Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley. Both communities will start their programs at 9 p.m. on July 4th.

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California police agencies holding back misconduct records despite new transparency law A media lawyer says those stalling under SB 1421 are just wasting taxpayer money and 'delaying the inevitable'

By THOMAS PEELE | , TONY SAAVEDRA | tsaavedra@scng.com and IAN WHEELER | iwheeler@scng.com Sex, lies and bullets flying wildly. Then there are the stolen drugs, illegal chokeholds, planted evidence, falsified reports and a police officer who lied to move up the adoption list for a puppy.

Those are among the misadventures uncovered during the first six months of disclosures under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, which took effect Jan. 1. The statute requires police to release long-secret records about officer shootings, use of force, sexual misconduct and dishonesty.

Yet those disturbing examples of police misconduct have come from a only a smattering of law enforcement agencies around the state.

Some large agencies, such as the Orange County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County sheriffs’ departments, San Jose Police Department, the California Highway Patrol and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, have yet to turn over a single document. Others have released only paltry records.

Orange County Sheriff ’s Department officials are saying all the right things: how they are dedicated to transparency, how several employees are combing through records, making redactions, and how they are trying to get the files to the public as quickly as possible.

But after six months, they have not released a shred of paper under SB 1421. They finally responded after being told that the Southern California News Group and other news organizations planned to identify them as one of the slow walkers.

Then they announced they will begin releasing files this week.

No explanation for delay “I’m not going to comment on why it’s taking us longer than anyone else,” department spokesperson Carrie Braun said.

The CHP’s latest estimate for releasing records is August. As for the corrections department, it has yet to provide even a list of records responsive to the law, although a spokesperson promised a “comprehensive status update” soon.

Collaborating newsrooms this year have asked for records — documents, photos, video and audio files — of nearly 700 law enforcement agencies across the state, including more than 300 police departments and all 58 county sheriffs.

More than 1,200 records requests had been made through

June — sometimes multiple attempts per law enforcement agency. Police, sheriffs and other departments so far have turned over records for about one-third of requests. For another quarter of them, agencies said they didn’t have any cases that met the criteria.

A handful of agencies have not responded to reporters’ requests, which fall under the California Public Records Act, a law that requires government offices to acknowledge requests for public records within 10 days.

‘Trying to thwart the law’ “They’re trying to thwart the law,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who authored SB 1421. “We need to have (legislative) hearings to … shame these agencies for refusing to comply with the law.”

Skinner said she also is open to amending the bill to include ways to require the quicker release of documents.

State agencies not yet releasing records is “absolutely the wrong model (and) the wrong example to set for the rest of the local government agencies,” she said in an interview.

A lawyer instrumental in getting the law passed said he is “not aware of any requester who has gotten everything they have asked for.”

“The Legislature has spoken,” said Jim Ewert, general counsel of the California News Publishers Association. But even though only limited records are required to be released, “agencies are acting as if we’re going after their first-born child.”

Ewert said last week it “really shocks me” that San Jose, the state’s third largest city, had not released any SB 1421 documents in six months. San Jose police were involved in 33 shootings from 2014 to 2018, the years requested; 15 of them were fatal.

Like many other agencies, San Jose sided with state Attorney General Xavier Becerra that the courts should decide whether the new law applied to cases before Jan. 1, an argument several police unions made in lawsuits attempting to derail SB 1421.

Courts siding with media (continued on page 3)

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Hiring Black Census Employees in California Could Avert an Undercount in 2020

By Jade K. Lee | California Black Media The California Census Office believes there will be higher participation among African Americans during next year’s census if “trusted messengers” help get the word out and go doorto-door conducting pre-surveys, educating people and helping some fill questionnaires in Black communities.

Preparing for the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau is in the process of hiring about 500,000 workers across the country for the national count that will cost the federal government a little over $15 billion.

Tens of thousands of temporary federal employees will join the effort in California to assist with collecting data and reaching out to citizens on the internet, by phone and in person. Pay is based on location and position. In larger cities like Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, salaries range anywhere from $17.00 to $30.00 per hour for field representative positions.

All applicants must be US citizens, although special exemptions have been made in the past for people with specific languages skills.

“This is really an opportunity for Black Californians to help make sure there isn’t a wrong assessment of our state’s population,” said Regina Wilson, President of California Black Media. Her organization recently released a report titled “Counting Black California,” designed to help media publications across the state micro-target hard-tocount populations and expand the reach of their public education efforts around the census.

“Census counts have real impact on people’s lives,” said Wilson, “from our representation in Congress to the amount of federal aid a neighborhood receives for programs like Head Start.”

The national Census, conducted every 10 years, is mandated by the United States Constitution. It records critical demographic information about residents of every state in the country and it is used to determine political representation

in the U. S. Congress, as well as provide important insights into the economy.

Some of the data the bureau collects are obtained using household surveys. The exercise produces statistics that describe populations in detail by characteristics such as age, education, housing, and income.

For the first time in history next year, the U.S. Census Bureau is requesting that the majority of participants provide the answers to their Census questionnaires online.

A digital census could pose specific challenges to accurately counting African Americans.

Even though smartphones and other mobile devices have helped to close the gap between Whites and Blacks with access to the internet, only about 66 percent of African Americans own a computer or laptop at home, according to a report by the Pew Research Center. Also, significant numbers of African Americans still do not have wireless or broadband internet connections at home.

More than one-third of California’s 2.2 million Black population lives in the Los Angeles area, where there is a large number of tracts the U.S. Census Bureau designates as “hard-to-count” because of inaccurate population totals in the past.

For the 2020 Census, California is investing near $180 million statewide through various programs in an effort to make certain that residents of the state are informed about all aspects of the national survey.

“California is proud to be dedicating targeted funding and resources toward outreach to hard-to-count demographic populations across the state,” said Ditas Katague, director of California Complete Count – Census 2020.

Since the inception of the Census, Black communities have been routinely undercounted.

The reasons for the inaccurate count in the last decennial, census researchers say, included (continued in next 2 columns)

Hiring Black Census Employees in California Could Avert an Undercount in 2020...continued

SBCUSD Grads Earn $116 Million In Scholarships...continued

the large number of Blacks who move frequently; multigenerational families living in the same home; homes with multiple families sometimes living in different units at the same address that census workers may not recognize; teen single mothers; homelessness; high rates of incarceration; and a general reluctance to participate based on inadequate information.

While the margins of uncounted Blacks seem to decrease after every 10 years, the last decennial in 2010 still undercounted the Black population by close to 800,000 people.

Inaccurate counts can also impact numbers policymakers depend on to make other important decisions. For example, at the end of December 2018, the African-American unemployment rate was 6.6 percent. One component used to calculate the unemployment rate is the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS consists of 60,000 households throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Household samples used in the CPS are constructed from census files.

According to Phung Nguyen in

who signed up to serve in various branches of the military.

In comparison, the Class of 2018 received $8.1 million in grants, scholarships, and military aid.

That sharp increase in financial aid is partly due to the number of San Andreas High students who enlisted in the military.

The San Bernardino City Unified School District is grateful for the generosity of scholarship donors, said Superintendent Dr. Dale Marsden.

“Those who donate so generously are investing in our community and in doing so, they are making hope happen for students who may otherwise struggle to pay for college,” Marsden said. “There’s no better way to improve our city than to help young people realize their dream of going to college.”

SBCUSD is unusual among public school districts in that it has two organizations dedicated to providing scholarships to

his article “Biased Statistics and African Americans,” despite efforts to calculate an accurate unemployment rate, Blacks are still being undercounted in the CPS. Housing units that are not counted by the Census are likely to be overlooked by the CPS and vice versa. Meaning, if the Black community has historically been undercounted in the census, then the unemployment rates reported for African Americans over the years have been consistently inaccurate.

Aware that it receives more than $350 billion annually in federal aid, has the highest population in the country and the highest number of representatives in Congress, California is doing all it can to be prepared for the 2020 Census.

“Our state’s future will be shaped by an accurate assessment of our population,” said Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California. “It has never been more important to ensure that all the people of California are counted.”

More detailed information about Census job opportunities can be found https://www.census.gov/ fieldjobs

graduates. Founded in 1957, the San Bernardino Community Scholarship Association is a nonprofit with the sole purpose of coordinating contributions from individuals and local groups to award scholarships to SBCUSD graduates. More than 85 donors contribute more than $250,000 annually, with individual scholarships ranging from $100 to $9,000. The Making Hope Happen Foundation is a nonprofit geared toward helping the San Bernardino area become a thriving community. To that end, the Foundation awards scholarships to SBCUSD and volunteers mentor recipients so students can have a successful college experience. If you would like to donate to the Making Hope Happen Foundation, visit http:// makinghope.org. If you would like to establish your own scholarship through the Community Scholarship Association, call (909) 381-1250.

Schools ‘criminalize’ Black girls, jeopardizing their future success A common practice with far-reaching impact

California’s Educators Welcome New President, Vice President and SecretaryTreasurer to Lead the 325,000-MemberStrong Education Association

By Carol Ozemhoya, Our Weekly News Contributor

Educational News

BURLINGAME – A new leadership team takes office today as Elk Grove kindergarten teacher E. Toby Boyd begins a two-year term as 56th president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association. Los Angeles elementary teacher David Goldberg becomes CTA vice president, and Santa Clarita AP US History, Economics and Government Teacher Leslie Littman becomes CTA SecretaryTreasurer. Boyd and Littman have both served recent terms on the CTA Board of Directors, and Goldberg has just completed two terms as CTA SecretaryTreasurer.

Boyd, 60, of Elk Grove in Sacramento County, draws on 23 years in public education as a teacher, MESA (Mathematic, Engineering, Science Achievement) advisor and elementary coordinator for Elk Grove Unified School District, and also served as the liaison between the school district and the universities involved with the program.

“I am humbled and proud to be the president of the California Teachers Association. For more than 150 years, CTA has been the leading voice across the state, in our communities and in Sacramento for the learning conditions of students and the working conditions of educators.

We’re committed to protecting the dignity and civil rights of all,” Boyd said. “CTA has pushed California to lead the nation on so many key education issues like moving away from the misguided and inaccurate way of measuring success by using single test scores, to implementing a groundbreaking formula that more equitably funds our schools and to providing teacher-led professional development.

Working in partnership with

students, parents, elected leaders, community supporters and our labor partners, we will continue to fight for the public education all of California’s students need and deserve.

Along with my fellow officers, Leslie and David, I look forward to the challenges ahead.”

Goldberg, 47, has been an educator for more than 20 years spending most of his career as a bilingual teacher at Murchison Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

“I am excited about the opportunity to expand on building the movement for public education. Our students and fellow educators can count on us to stand with them in the fight for full and fair funding and against those corporate billionaires seeking to privatize public education,” said Goldberg.

“Through the strong Red For Ed movement, we will continue to build on our power at school sites and communities to ensure they all have an equitable opportunity to succeed regardless of zip code.”

Littman, 50, of Santa Clarita in Los Angeles County, has taught AP US History, Economics and Government at Hart High School in the William S. Hart Union High School District for 23 years.

“Providing a quality, public education, available to every child in America is an overwhelming responsibility. Our work provides economic mobility for students and strengthens our democracy. With this great responsibility, we the California Teachers Association, have a tremendous role to play,” said Littman. “I’m honored to serve as the next CTA Secretary-Treasurer and I look forward to working with Toby, David and the 325,000 educators who stand strong in our association.”

SBCUSD Grads Earn $116 Million In Scholarships Educational News

The Class of 2019 earned more than $11.6 million in college and military scholarships, far surpassing previous years’ totals.

Cajon High School had the largest graduating class in the

District, with 624 students earning a high school diploma in June. More than half of Cajon’s graduates received scholarships or grants to help them pay for college. In all, Cajon graduates received over $3.1 million in scholarships and grants, including $1.1 million shared by 14 students who received military scholarships and signing bonuses for enlisting in nearly every branch of the armed forces.

Seniors graduating from San Andreas High School, a continuation school serving students who need to catch up on credits to graduate, received close to $400,000 in aid, with the majority of it going to six students (continued in next 2 columns)

Recently, Our Weekly ran a story about a group of teen girls who were strip searched and chastised at a middle school on the East Coast. No apparent reason was given by the school’s administration, except that the girls – who were Black and Latino – were giggling and boisterous in a school hallway.

While the situation is under investigation, incidents of young girls of color being singled out for disciplinary actions are unfortunately common in schools across the U.S. New findings reveal a stunning and far-reaching impact on these teens and even pre-teens that can negatively affect them and impact their futures in an alarming way.

‘Adultification’ of Black girls It’s being called “the criminalization of Black girls.” It’s also being referred to as the “adultification of Black girls.”

Does it stem from racism or prejudice? Or can it be attributed to research that suggests Black girls are perceived as maturing at a faster rate than their White counterparts (in general) and thus seem beyond their age.

Another point to be made is that Black kids (girls and boys) tend to ask more questions of authority than White kids.

Suspensions of Black girls from schools are often driven by teacher bias and insufficient mental health resources, says a report from AmericanProgress.org published in 2017. They also occur when students break school rules that are inherently racially biased. For example, a charter school in Massachusetts suspended two Black sisters for wearing natural braided hairstyles, which violated the school dress code.

As recent as last week, a report

was issued by Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality that details stunning statistics and first-hand accounts of how American society and our education system are stacking the odds against young girls of color.

Beginning as early as preschool It starts early, says Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37). “It can actually start with pre-school,” she told Our Weekly. “Can you believe it?”

Rep. Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, says her and her colleagues are aware and working on legislation to combat the trend. “I am focusing here in Congress on prison reform from the perspective of African-American women and children. It’s not shocking what our numbers are when you see how the labeling starts at a young age.”

As early as age 5, Black girls are reportedly viewed by adults as more knowledgeable about sex and adult topics, less in need of nurture and support, and significantly older than White girls of the same age. The excessive discipline Black children experience for offenses such as disruptive behavior and tantrums makes them 10 times more likely to face discipline, retention or even incarceration later in life, reports AmericanProgress.org.

Indeed, that study and Rep. Bass are not off the mark. The recent Georgetown study found that adults saw Black girls age 519 years as more “independent” and that they knew more about adult topics, such as sex. This biased outlook means that adults – such as educators – had the (continued on page 6)

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Sen. Bernie Sanders Delivers New State Budget Provides Big Wins Keynote at Black Press Event, for Inland Empire Communities Labels Trump “Racist and Worst State/Government News income youth and families.

Sacramento – Last Thursday, President in History” $2.5 million to begin rebuilding Governor Gavin Newsom signed

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia

One night after many pundits said he acquitted himself well in the debate in Miami between himself and other 2020 Democratic Presidential hopefuls, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders arrived in Cincinnati to deliver the keynote address at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Legacy Awards Dinner.

Sanders addressed a large local and national media contingent, which also included many members of the Ohio press.

Earlier this month, Sanders was the lone candidate to accept an invitation to speak at the gala, which is part of the NNPA’s weeklong national convention.

The NNPA is a trade organization that represents the more than 200 African Americanowned newspapers and media companies throughout the country.

The organization does not endorse candidates, leaving such decisions up to its member publishers whose influence and readership comprise the nation’s largest media markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tennessee, San Francisco, and numerous swing states around the country.

After being introduced by former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, Sanders gave an inspired 25-minute address in which he blasted President Donald Trump as a racist and a bigot and he promised that, if elected, he will work to make college tuition-free, eliminate student debt, take climate change seriously, and make every effort to level the playing field economically, educationally and in other ways that reflect his stance on social justice for African Americans and other individuals of color.

“It is absolutely imperative to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this

country,” Sanders said.

“He is a racist and a bigot,” the senator said.

Sanders said he and his wife thought long and hard before he decided to enter the race this year.

Even after deciding to run, Sanders said he slept on it and almost reconsidered, but he believed it was important that he step up for the sake of all Americans, particularly the underserved.

“We are going to have to transform this nation and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the one percent,” Sanders said.

“People aren’t able to go to the doctor because they can’t afford to and if you go to a hospital, you’re afraid to get hit with a $50,000 medical bill,” he said, before promising that a Sanders Administration would work to provide medical coverage for all.

“My anger at [Trump] is not just that he wanted to take away health care for 32 million people, but his [proposed] massive cuts to Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and his tax cuts which …. were for the top one percent,” Sanders said.

The senator drew applause several times from the packed crowd inside the second-floor ballroom of the Westin.

He also blasted Trump for the president’s disbelief in climate change.

“It is the great existential threat of our time and this is not an issue that we have a choice about,” Sanders said.

Sanders also promised to focus his presidency on social, environmental, racial and economic justice.

“We have a president who deliberately is trying to divide America and not only do we have to defeat the worst president in the history of our country, we will have to transform this nation and create an economy for all of us and not just the one percent,” he said.

the 2019-2020 California state budget that makes historic investments in California’s future including funding for early childhood education, homelessness prevention, higher education access, largest investment in K-14 education in California’s history, expansion of Cal-EITC Working Families Tax Credit and $19.2 billion in reserves, the largest of any state in the nation.

“With the Governor’s signature California once again leads the way in fulfilling our promise to provide a beacon of hope for our children, working families, seniors and students.” Assemblymember Reyes continued, “This budget demonstrates our commitment to future generations and that the Legislature and Governor can come together to bring results that work for everyone.”

As part of the state budget process Assemblymember Reyes advocated for, and acquired funding for the following projects in the 47th Assembly district. $1.3 million for the Blue Mountain Trail and Wilderness Park in Grand Terrace. ·520,000 for accessible playground equipment and park upgrades in the cities of Grand Terrace & Colton. $2 million in funding to the Inland Empire to increase civic engagement disparities for low-

a job training facility at San Bernardino Valley College. The first of a multi-year allocation that will total $35 million in state matching funds for the campus to build a new facility. ·$900,000 to maintain and upgrade the Colton Area Museum. $14,340,000 to establish seven sickle cell disease centers across California, including a location in San Bernardino.

Assemblymember Reyes advocated for the following statewide budget proposals that will benefit communities in the 47th district: Established a pathway for universal access to preschool for all four-year olds and full day kindergarten students.

· A $1 billion expansion of the Cal-EITC Working Families Tax Credit. · An investment of $143.3 million to provide new child care slots across the state, specifically for children from low-income families which will create about 10,000 new slots. · $182 million to invest in clean freight and emission reduction demonstration projects that will directly address air pollution.

Employment Training Panel Honors Chairperson Barry Broad State/Government News

SACRAMENTO – The California Employment Training Panel executive director Stewart Knox today issued the following statement in honor of chairperson Barry Broad’s tenure with the panel. Broad has served on the Employment Training Panel since 2002 and was appointed chairperson by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in 2011.

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Broad to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board on May 30: “Barry has been an exceptional leader on the Employment Training Panel, especially in regard to his focus on providing high-wage career pathways to California’s workforce. Through 17 years, he has led the panel in approving more than $1.4 billion in training funds to help California businesses train nearly 1.4 million employees across 5,936 contracts. With an even hand, he has worked closely with labor unions, employers, and training agencies to ensure workers are

trained for good-paying jobs and businesses can grow.

“With his extensive government relations and administrative law background, Barry has been able to offer insight in guiding the panel to attract and retain businesses that contribute to California’s economy. Through his term, Barry and the panel have developed key initiatives that support job creation and retention, climate policy, apprenticeship training, nurse training, veterans training, and training for individuals with disabilities.

“The Employment Training Panel has improved its services on his watch and appreciates his 17 years of leadership. The Employment Training Panel wishes Barry continued success in his new role as Agricultural Labor Relations Board member.”

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California police agencies holding back misconduct records despite new transparency law...continued from page 1 But lower courts across the state, beginning in February, ruled that the law is retroactive.

Becerra eventually gave up the argument and released a few disciplinary records involving Department of Justice agents, including one file showing an agent assigned to a Santa Clara drug task force was fired in 2015 for dishonesty, including stealing Moscow mule goblets from a local bar.

The issue of whether the law is retroactive appeared closed until a judge in Ventura County issued a surprise ruling earlier this month, saying the law does not apply to records created before Jan. 1. The ruling, criticized by opengovernment experts, affects only Ventura County. However, it is unclear if the ruling will have a broader impact.

“I mean, the cat’s out of the bag,” said Michael Rains, one of the state’s top police-union lawyers, referring to the documents agencies already have released.

Rains, who led arguments that the law doesn’t apply to old records, said the judges who ruled otherwise were “essentially legislating from the bench rather than calling it based on an

objective view of the law.”

Concerns over privacy But, he said, with the records that are out, dire predictions about officers’ privacy being violated and careers damaged haven’t happened.

“I don’t think the sky is falling,” Rains said in an interview Wednesday. “If anything, members of the public probably got some reading enjoyment from some of the things police officers do or have done, and say, ‘Wow, why would they do that?’ ” What some records show Those things include the bizarre, like a state agent and parttime sheriff’s deputy who for years stole tens of thousands of bullets from both agencies and wasn’t charged with a crime. And the Santa Monica officer fired for lying to get a puppy.

A police pursuit ends in a crash in Miraloma in September 2013.

During the pursuit, Ontario Police Officer Neil Beresford shot wildly from his motorcycle, striking the suspect’s and other vehicles. An investigation followed and Beresford eventually was suspended for 30 hours.

(Courtesy of Riverside County district attorney via Ontario Police Department.)

In Ontario, Officer Neil Beresford was disciplined for shooting wildly from his motorcycle during a 90 mph pursuit in 2013. One bullet hit the suspect’s car, three rounds hit other vehicles. One bullet struck the front bumper of a passing car.

Another hit a Chevrolet parked at a nearby Circle K convenience store, with a woman seated inside.

Ontario officials initially recommended suspending Beresford for 200 hours without pay. But they later watered down the punishment to 30 hours.

Another ploy: A former Pomona detective, Jennifer Turpin, resigned under pressure in 2015 after falsifying a report to make it appear a murder suspect understood and waived his Miranda rights when he did not.

She was caught when a recording of the interview didn’t match her report.

Some agencies destroyed files Other agencies took great pains to keep their dirty laundry in house.

The Yuba County Sheriff ’s

Department destroyed years of records, including internal affairs investigations of dishonesty by officers and sexual misconduct, on Jan. 16, two weeks after the new law went into effect, despite receiving multiple requests for the records.

In Southern California, the cities of Downey, Long Beach and Inglewood purged years of old records rather than turn them over. The state requires that records be kept for at least five years.

To Ewert, the CNPA lawyer, agencies are “wasting taxpayer funds” and resources by engaging in protracted arguments with requesters and dragging things out rather than simply following the law and providing the records.

“They’re just delaying the inevitable,” he said.

This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of more than 40 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.

KQED radio news reporter Sukey Lewis contributed to this report.

Employment Training Panel Honors Chairperson Barry Broad...continued program supporting job creation and retention through training.

The panel reimburses employers for the costs of training existing workers, funds training for unemployed workers to re-enter the workforce and helps to ensure

California businesses have the skilled workers they need to remain competitive.

For more information about the program, please visit www.etp.ca.gov, or call (916) 3275578.

ACLU Back in Court to Challenge Orange County Jailhouse Informant Program Formerly Secret Operation by District Attorney and Sheriff Stomps on Constitutional Rights Orange County News SANTA ANA — The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP today filed an appeal to a court ruling on its lawsuit against Orange County’s District Attorney and Sheriff, whose departments conducted a secret jailhouse informant operation in violation of the U.S. Constitution and California law.

For more than 30 years, the departments have recruited and placed informants in jail cells with defendants, paying and rewarding informants with sentence reductions for extracting incriminating information from the defendants without their lawyers being present. Payments of six figures were doled out to informants who sometimes used threats of violence — including murder threats — to coerce questionable confessions and other information.

The original lawsuit against the informant program, filed in April 2018, was dismissed earlier this year when a court ruled that taxpayers — whose funds are used to pay the illegal expenditures of the program — lacked standing to bring the suit.

But they are unjustly wronged when their money is used to fuel a program that stomps on constitutional rights.

The appeal also strongly challenges the court’s assertion that allowing taxpayers to sue prosecutors and sheriffs would infringe on law enforcement “discretion.” But when it comes to obeying the law, prosecutors and sheriffs do not get a pass.

“Government officials do not have the discretion to violate the law, least of all the prosecutors and law enforcement charged with enforcing it,” said ACLU SoCal Staff Attorney Brendan Hamme. “Nobody is above the law.”

In the meantime, the unlawful jailhouse informant program has been allowed to operate with impunity. And even though it came to light in recent years in a number of court trials — including that of mass murderer Scott Dekraai — the district attorney’s office continues to deny its existence. Even in the face of a public defender’s court motion that pointed to at least 147 cases since 2016 in which the district attorney did not disclose relevant evidence of sheriff’s deputies’ illegal involvement in the informant program.

“So many things that go wrong in the criminal law system trace back to unscrupulous prosecutors,” said Somil Trivedi, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project. “These powerful actors are supposed to pursue justice, not just convictions. But when they lazily rely on compensated

informants instead of finding the true facts, we have every reason to doubt that justice has been served.”

The district attorney and sheriff went to great lengths to keep the toxic program secret, even if that meant trampling on innocent people. The appeal, filed in Orange County Superior Court, details several cases, including that of Luis Vega who was 14 when he was arrested in 2009 for attempted murder. Two jail informants produced information without coercion that showed Vega was innocent. But this information was not relayed to Vega or his attorney because it could have exposed the entire illegal program. Vega remained in prison for nearly two years.

“Luis’ case is a perfect illustration of the absurdity of the district attorney and sheriff’s claim that there is no public interest in requiring them to comply with their legal duties,” said Jacob Kreilkamp of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

“The Constitution and California law require prosecutors to turn over favorable evidence to the defense to avoid exactly these sorts of miscarriages of justice.”

The appeal was filed on behalf of four clients: Bethany Webb: An Orange County resident and taxpayer whose sister was murdered by Dekraai. Court proceedings in the case suffered multi-year delays because of revelations related to the informant program.

Theresa Smith: An Orange County resident and taxpayer who founded the Law Enforcement Accountability Network after Anaheim police killed her son in a shooting she believes was unjustified.

Tina Jackson: An Orange County resident and taxpayer who founded Angels for Justice that connects prisoners and their families with a wide variety of services.

People for the Ethical Operation of Prosecutors and Law Enforcement (P.E.O.P.L.E.): An organization working to reform the Orange County criminal justice system.

The ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice — an unprecedented effort to reduce the U.S. jail and prison population by 50 percent and to combat racial disparities in the criminal justice system — has launched a multi-year initiative to make sure that prosecutors who break the law are held accountable for fueling mass incarceration and racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

See a video about the Orange County lawsuit at: youtu.be/ mPXEz0WJbRM Read the appeal filing here: https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/ d e f a u l t / f i l e s / aclu_socal_rackauckas_2 0190101_appellants_opening.pdf

Will White House Advisory Council Act to End America’s Affordable Housing Crisis? By Charlene Crowell Nearly 90 years ago, Kelly Miller (1863-1939), a Black sociologist and mathematician, said, “The Negro is up against the white man’s standard, without the white man’s opportunity.” As the first Black man to enroll as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in 1908, Miller also authored a book entitled Race Adjustment, published in 1908.

Ironically, despite the passage of time, Miller’s words express the same sentiment held today by many Black Americans. As a people and across succeeding generations, we have held fast to our hopes for a better life. Yet it is

painfully true that many opportunities enjoyed by other Americans have been elusive for people of color.

Noted author and journalist TaNehisi Coates expressed a similar view during his June 19 Capitol Hill testimony on reparations.

“Enslavement reigned for 250 years on these shores,” noted Coates. “When it ended, this (continued on page 8)

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Scientists find thirdhand smoke affects cells in humans UC Riverside-led study is the first to find an association between thirdhand smoke and gene expression in humans

visit: https://news.ucr.edu/ articles/2019/06/28/scientistsfind-thirdhand-smoke-affectscells-humans About UC Riverside The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world.

Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment is more than 24,000 students. The campus opened a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of almost $2 billion. To learn more, email news@ucr.edu.

Local Organizations team up for Water Safety By Pat Tucker Wilson Flanked by his five-year-old daughter, Karem Greene was one of many parents who spent the afternoon at the Weekly Family YMCA on Stella Link, for a free water safety event. “I wanted to make sure she is water safe. I wanted to get a sense of where she is with water and see what you guys can provide her in terms of safety.”

Greene’s African American daughter is in a high-risk group when it relates to drownings.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the fatal-drowning rate of Black/African-American children is three times higher than white children. Greene didn’t know the statistics, but he wasn’t surprised at the alarming rate. “There are more kids in urban ethnic communities who can’t swim because they don’t have access to the facilities, but getting them to the facilities so they can learn is important,” he said.

Greene registered his daughter after seeing the promotion for the YMCA’s Water Safety event. He and others took advantage of the event which was hosted by the YMCA and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc’s Gamma Phi Sigma (GPS) chapter of Houston. The organizations promote water safety and encourage teaching children how to swim at an early age.

Weekly Family YMCA’s Aquatic Director, Katie Rosinke, said, water safety is the first step toward one of the organization’s overall goals. “One of the strategic initiatives for the Y is to eliminate drowning. So, our thought process behind offering free swim lessons is so people get

a taste of how important water safety is, and how even 30 minutes, can help their child become safe around water.”

In addition to partnering with the YMCA, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. is part of a unique and historic partnership with USA Swimming. Their Swim 1922 initiative is the first of its kind focused on decreasing the drowning rates in the African American community by increasing swim participation.

GPS’ Swim 1922 Co-Chair, Sada Okolo-Miles said it was a delight to find a local partner that shares the sorority’s goal as it relates to Swim 1922, “Teaming up with the Y meant our chapter’s reach was wider, and together we could help more people.”

Sorority members braved Houston’s scorching temperatures and staffed an information table, where registered families checked in and received printed information about water safety, discount coupons for a water park, and icecold bottled water.

More than 100 families registered for the event, although some were no-shows, Greene said, he was grateful for the free opportunity. Rosinke said, at the Y, inability to pay will never prohibit a child from learning how to swim. You may contact your local YMCA for more information about low-cost to free swim lessons. You may learn more about Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority Inc.’s Swim 1922 initiative at www.Sgrho1922.org.

This article originally appeared in the African American News & Issues.

Could A Better Diet Cool Your Inflammation? Avoid These 5 Food Groups Health/Fitness News

Chronic inflammation is associated with such diseases as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, and can harm people in numerous other ways, from painful joints to dental problems and aging skin.

It can even disturb your slumber, since inflammation can impact the breathing airways during sleep, resulting in sleep apnea among other potential issues, says Dr. Lynn Lipskis (www.drlipskis.com), director of the TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centre and co-author with her husband, Dr. Edmund Lipskis, of Breathe,

America’s Coming Doctor Crisis: It’s Already Here...continued

inflammation, others are so inflamed they can’t breathe at all through their nose.”

practice!

The problem has become so serious that thousands of doctors are leaving or considering leaving the profession. This has worsened since the arrival of Obamacare with its mandated Electronic Health Records ( EHR ) requirement.

With a pricetag of $27 billion, the EHR mandate has resulted in many small medical practices closing up and physicians either taking early retirements or selling out to corporate medical or hospital groups in order to afford the cost of converting to electronic records. Doctors are literally extorted to go “paperless”by having their Medicare payments cut if they do not. 66% of physicians say EHR has reduced the amount of time they can be with their patients.

Dr. Lynn Lipskis and Dr. Edmund Lipskis suggest a list of inflammatory foods to avoid:

Iqbal Pittalwala

Thirdhand smoke can damage epithelial cells in the respiratory system by stressing cells and causing them to fight for survival, a research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found. The finding could assist physicians treating patients exposed to thirdhand smoke.

Thirdhand smoke, or THS, results when exhaled smoke and smoke emanating from the tip of burning cigarettes settles on surfaces such as clothing, hair, furniture, and cars.

“Our data show that cells in humans are affected by thirdhand smoke,” said Prue Talbot, who led the research. “The health effects of THS, have been studied in cultured cells and animal models, but this is the first study to show a direct effect of thirdhand smoke on gene expression in humans.”

For more information, please

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Sleep, Live, Smile: Integrative Treatments for TMJ/TMD, Sleep Apnea, Orthodontics.

Yet, with all the potential complications, not everyone may realize that one effective way to combat inflammation is through better nutrition, Dr. Lipskis says.

“Inflammation can come from a variety of issues, but diet undoubtedly is one of the bigger factors,” she says. “Some people unwisely put dietary compliance at the bottom of their priority list.

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Gluten. Foods containing gluten can be some of the most inflammatory. “Generally,” Dr. Lynn Lipskis says, “gluten is the protein part of a grain. A lot of people will react to gluten by experiencing increased inflammation. Gluten-free eating has become popular because so many people who adopt it find that they feel better. Symptoms of sensitivity to gluten include fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, achy joints and brain fog.”

Dairy. “Dairy products promote mucus production,” Dr. Ed Lipskis says. “That inflames tissue and mucous clogs the nasal passages. There are mixed reviews on whether people should consume dairy products and to what extent. I recommend an elimination diet to see how it affects you.”

Processed carbohydrates.

These include a litany of foods people love, but the Lipskis team says the eventual harm outweighs the enjoyment. “It may mean saying good-bye to pasta, breads, cookies, candies,” Dr. Ed Lipskis says. “People often believe that whole wheat bread is better than white bread, but whole wheat is actually just as inflammatory because of the carbohydrate in wheat, known as amylopectin A.” Similarly, Lipskis says most people mistakenly believe brown rice to be a better choice than white rice. “But like whole wheat,” he says, “the husk of brown rice contains the allergens and proteins that can cause inflammation.”

Alcohol (red wine). “People who have sleep apnea are assured a bad night’s sleep after drinking alcohol,” Dr. Lynn Lipskis says.

“Red wine targets the nasal membrane, causing swelling and limiting the opening for air flow.

This inflammation can last six to eight hours, ruining a full night’s sleep.”

Refined sugars. “Sugar is everywhere,” Dr. Ed Lipskis says.

“While sugar is known for negatives – rotting teeth, packing on the pounds, providing no nutrition – the biggest reason you should say good-bye to

sugar is that it’s one of the most inflammatory parts of many foods. And be careful with fruit, which is generally thought of as healthy but contains naturally occurring fructose. The less fiber there is in a fruit, the less healthy it is.”

“We should be eating a normal, balanced diet of real food – not processed foods,” Dr. Lynn Lipskis says. “It’s tough to avoid the occasional bagel, bag of chips, or glass of red wine, but going off the wagon, so to speak, can lead to immediate inflammation and long-term problems. Listen to your body - it will let you know the effect that each type of food has.”

About Dr. Edmund Lipskis, DDS, MS and Dr. Lynn Lipskis, DDS Dr. Edmund Lipskis (www.drlipskis.com) is the director of The Centre for Integrative Orthodontics and coauthor, with his wife, Dr. Lynn Lipskis, ofBreathe, Sleep, Live, Smile: Integrative Treatments for TMJ/TMD, Sleep Apnea, Orthodontics. He is a Master Senior Instructor in the International Board of Orthodontics and board-certified by the International Board of Orthodontics and the American Board of Craniofacial Pain. Cofounder of St. Charles Family Dentistry Ltd. and the TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centre of Chicago, he has lectured internationally on phase-two treatment (via orthodontics) of chronic-pain individuals and airway-focused orthodontics.

Dr. Lynn Lipskis (www.drlipskis.com), a graduate of Loyola University School of Dentistry, is director of the TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centre. She cofounded St. Charles Family Dentistry Ltd. with her husband, with whom she has practiced dentistry for 30 years. She was a clinical instructor in pediatric dentistry at Loyola University School of Dentistry until it closed in 1993. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Craniofacial Sleep Medicine and the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. She is also boardcertified by the American Board of Craniofacial Pain. Since 2011, she has concentrated her professional attention on the practice of dental sleep medicine and the treatment of TMJ and chronic pain. The Lipskis’ host a doctors’ course on airwayfocused orthodontics on an annual basis.

That’s just one example.

Let’s take a look at the coding monstrosity. In the 1980s, Medicare imposed price controls ( i.e., socialism ) on doctors who treated the elderly. The controls forced us to use complicated coding classifications to submit our claims to the government.

The codes were tied to a fee schedule. Hospitals were required to submit to a similar coding system. This process has not only forced doctors to try to fit round pegs into square holes, consuming vast amounts of time that could be better dedicated to patients, but it incentivized hospitals to submit as many diagnostic codes as possible to the government in order to increase the “Medicare payday.”

Private insurers soon followed the Medicare example and imposed coding regulations on physicians. By making their income dependent on how much they could bill the insurance companies, many doctors were forced to focus an inordinate amount of time on navigating codes to generate revenue for their practices. Many medical practices actually employ coding specialists and maximizing profits from codes has become something of a cottage industry in some places.

Next, we had the rise of HMOs, PPOs, and various sorts of networks which the insurance companies designed to ration care. Physicians, their staffs, and patients run in circles trying to figure out if a certain doctor or hospital is “within the network”

or not, often receiving contradictory information from theinsurance company and the medical provider. Often, a patient will be assured that a doctor is “in network” only to find out later that wasn’t the case when a big unexpected bill arrives in the mail.

Then we have the “protocols,” certain pre-determined treatment standards that often do not apply to the distinct health needs of a specific individual. Again, another example of a governmentimposed “one-size fits all” approach that treats us as groups, not individuals with unique needs and requirements.

Doctors can face financial retribution if they don’t follow the “protocols,” even if their medical judgment dictates another form of treatment. And, of course, any deviation from the “diktat” must be thoroughly documented to the appropriate health care overlord.

Facing this type of straightjacket regulatory burden imposed by government and private insurers, is it any wonder almost half of physicians nationwide are actively looking to retire still in their prime or leave the medical field altogether?

A recent poll showed that twothirds of doctors said “government involvement is most to blame for current problems.” And, once the exodus starts, the physician shortage matched with the increased demand triggered by schemes like Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” single-payer system ( as well as health care for illegal immigrants ) will lead to galloping increases in health care costs and taxes which will make today’s levels look tame by comparison.

Worst of all, it will lead to rationing and long lines to see your doctor or receive a medical procedure.

The crisis of American health care is at hand. If we don’t want to face a dire future of medicine without doctors, we must free physicians from the strangling octopus of government and corporate control so that we can get back to doing the job we were trained to do: healing the sick and saving lives. No government bureaucrat or insurance company executive can do that.

Dr. James Veltmeyer is a prominent La Jolla physician voted “Top Doctor” in San Diego County in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017. Dr. Veltmeyer can be reached at dr.jamesveltmeyer@yahoo.com

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by James D. Veltmeyer, MD Do you know that America faces a physician shortage of up to 100,000 by the year 2030, according to the American Association of American Medical Colleges?

Are you aware that the majority of physicians would not recommend medicine as a career?

Almost two-thirds are pessimistic about the future of their profession and 46% surveyed by the Physicians Foundation plan to change careers. One doctor, Ernest Brown of Washington, D.C., says there’s no “heart and soul” in medicine. “It’s all commodities and profit.”

A 2018 survey of over 8,000 physicians reported that 78% feel “burned out” and 40% screen positive for depression, according to the AMA. Even more alarming is the fact that one doctor commits suicide every day – the highest suicide rate of any profession. That’s 28 to 40 per 100,000 – more than twice the rate in th general population.

These are disturbing statistics and indicative of the deeper crisis facing American health care today. A great and noble profession—perhaps the noblest of all—is clearly on the ropes.

Physicians are trained to heal and cure, but, increasingly, that role is being overshadowed by government and insurance company rules, regulations, and red tape that take us away from our patients. Corporate health care – dominated by a handful of powerful and politically-

connected hospital chains—has replaced the traditional doctorpatient centered practice.

Doctors face countless hours buried in paperwork that heals no one and endless hours on the telephone, begging for the approval of medically-necessary treatment from faceless insurance company operatives. They are working longer days and nights and because of pathetically-low reimbursement rates ( especially from Medicare and Medicaid ) are forced to see more patients but spend less time with them.

They are saddled with huge medical school debts, the need to pay for malpractice insurance, high office rents, and bill collectors while insurance companies and hospitals siphon away more and more of their income. Unlike nurses, they have no union to fight for their interests.

One study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine found that emergency room doctors spend 43% of their time entering electronic records, but only 28% with patients. The Direct Primary Care Coalition estimates that 40% of all primary care revenue goes to claims processing and profit for insurance companies. It certainly isn’t going to doctors, contrary to popular belief. Incredible as it may sound, the average salary for physicians doesn’t break $60,000 a year until after their fifth year of (continued in next 2 columns)

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JR Scroggins, CEO of the company, says that he is proud as an African American owned company to be able to offer natural products for both men and women to make life in the bedroom better.

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NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007386 Date Filed: 6/21/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/21/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): DENTISTRY 4 KIDS County of Principal Place of Business: Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 9193 SIERRA AVE. #B FONTANA, CA 92335 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: ALTDENT PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, LLC State of Inc./ Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 1401 DOVE STREET #440 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 This business is/was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Mohammad Abul-Fielat, President, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007387 Date Filed: 6/21/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/21/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): DENTISTRY 4 KIDS County of Principal Place of Business: Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 2947 CHINO AVE. SUITE D2 CHINO HILLS, CA 91709 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: ALTDENT PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, LLC State of Inc./ Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 1401 DOVE STREET #440 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 This business is/was conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Mohammad Abul-Fielat, President, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007383 Date Filed: 6/20/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/20/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): LITTLE FEET AND FRIENDS County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 29531 SOUTHWOOD LANE HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 1512 HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: LITTLE FEET AND FRIENDS State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: C4284402 Residence Street Address: 29531 SOUTHWOOD LANE HIGHLAND, CA 92346 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Gregg Breed, CFO, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190006194 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 5/21/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 5/21/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company Fictitious Business Name(s): 1. DREAMLINE HERBAL CENTER 2. MBA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Business Address: 15091 KITFOX LANE VICTORVILLE, CA 92394 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: DREAMLINE BRANDS LLC 15091 KITFOX LANE VICTORVILLE, CA 92394 A1#: 201817210501 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Santosh K. Bagga/Member Manager

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as

true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007399 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/21/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/21/2024 Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): LARRY’S SWEET HOUSE Business Address: 5542 N. PINNACLE LN. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: ESTHER CHUANG 5542 N. PINNACLE LN. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 Signature/Officer Title: Esther Chuang

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190006438 Date Filed: 05/29/2019 Filing Expires On: 05/29/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): DANIEL’S SMOKE SHOP County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 4434 UNIVERSITY PKY STE I SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: DASS TRADING, INC. State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.:C4246136 Residence Street Address: 4434 UNIVERSITY PKY STE. I SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 5/29/14 Daniel El Hajj, CEO, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007626 Date Filed: 6/27/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/27/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): Thèessentials County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 3068 N. ACACIA AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405 Name of Individual Registrant: SUNI R. HOPKINSBECKUM Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: State of Inc./Org./Reg.: Inc./Org./Reg. No.: Residence Street Address: 3068 N. ACACIA AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405 This business is/was conducted by: An Individual Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A Suni R. Hopkins Beckum, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4 , 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190006703 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/04/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/04/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s):1. LEAP COLOR PRINTING 2. LEAP RECYCLED PLASTICS Business Address: 3100 E. CEDAR ST. UNIT 15 ONTARIO, CA 91761 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: LEAP INTERNATIONAL TRADING US CO., LTD 11100 VALLEY BLVD., SUITE 108 EL MONTE, CA 91731 A1#: 820716547 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Xiao Zhou, COO

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 13, Correction 20, 27, July 4 , 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007570 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/26/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/26/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): WABA GRILL 4 Business Address: 17100 BEAR VALLEY RD. STE K VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 Registrant(s)Address: KARMI & BANSI, INC. 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 A1#: C4281460 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Balwinder Kaur Singh, President

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007573 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/26/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/26/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): WABA GRILL 2 Business Address: 15555 MAIN STREET STE. D9 HESPERIA, CA 92345 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 Registrant(s)Address: KARMI & BANSI, INC. 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORE RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 A1# C4281460 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Balwinder Kaur Singh, President

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007103 Date Filed: 6/13/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/13/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): DAF’S County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 3238 AMBERHILL DR. HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Mailing Address: 7231 BOULDER AVE., PMB 707 HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: IT’S A SANTOS THING CORP State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: C4253251 Residence Street Address: 3238 AMBERHILL DR. HIGHLAND, CA 92346 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Santos Chacon, President, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007571 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/26/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/26/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): WABA GRILL 3 Business Address: 20434 U.S. HIGHWAY 18 STE. 120 APPLE VALLEY, CA 92307 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 Registrant(s)Address: KARMI & BANSI, INC. 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 A1#: C4281460 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Balwinder Kaur Singh, President

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007277 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/18/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/18/2024

Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): EPIC HAIRQUARTERS Business Address: 9565 BUSINESS CENTER DR. BLDG. 11 E & F RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: NICOLE Y. BUTLER 9194 CONIFER LANE APT. #K RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 Signature/Officer Title: Nicole Butler, Owner

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007575 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/26/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 6/26/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): WABA GRILL 1 Business Address: 15683 ROY ROGERS DR. STE. 301 VICTORVILLE, CA 92394 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES ONTARIO, CA 91761 Registrant(s)Address: KARMI & BANSI, INC. 3216 S. ARCADIAN SHORES RD. ONTARIO, CA 91761 A1#: C4281460 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Balwinder Kaur Singh, President

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007578 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/26/2019 Began Transacting Business: 3/11/1999 Filing Expires On: 6/26/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): HK FOOD STORES Business Address: 1220 E. SIXTH STREET ONTARIO, CA 91764 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: HK FOOD STORES, INC. 1220 E. 6TH ST. ONTARIO, CA 91764 A1#: C3434411 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Balwinder Kaur Singh, VicePresident

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 20190007104 Date Filed: 6/13/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/13/2024 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.): LAVENDER FOR ALL County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Street Address of Principal Place of Business: 3238 AMBERHILL DR. HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Mailing Address: 7231 BOULDER AVE., PMB 707 HIGHLAND, CA 92346 Name of Individual Registrant: Name of corporation or limited liability company as shown in the Articles of Inc./Org./Reg.: IT’S A SANTOS THING CORP State of Inc./Org./Reg.: CA Inc./Org./Reg. No.: C4253251 Residence Street Address: 3238 AMBERHILL DR. HIGHLAND, CA 92346 This business is/was conducted by: A Corporation Registrant has commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Not Applicable Santos Chacon, President, declares that all information in this statement is true and correct.

NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORT IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007474 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/24/2019 Began Transacting Business: 6/24/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/24/2024 Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): STORM ELECTRICAL Business Address: 1014 CAMBRIN RD. POMONA, CA 91768 County of Principal Place of Business:LOS ANGELES Registrant(s)Address: GABRIEL FLORES 1014 CAMBRIN RD. POMONA, CA 91768 Signature/Officer Title: Gabriel Flores

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand

dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007271 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 6/18/2019 Began Transacting Business: 6/18/2019 Filing Expires On: 6/18/2024 Business is Conducted By: An Individual Fictitious Business Name(s): MASON’S TRANSPORT Business Address: 2979 N. APPLE AVE. RIALTO, CA 92377 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Registrant(s)Address: SALVADOR RUVALCABA AIRADA Signature/Officer Title: Salvador Ruvalcaba Airada, Owner

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FBN Number: 20190007803 Filing Type: FBN Filing Date Filed: 7/02/2019 Began Transacting Business: N/A Filing Expires On: 7/02/2024 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Fictitious Business Name(s): MY GOOD FIRM Business Address: 62575 BARBARA LANE JOSHUA TREE, CA 92252 County of Principal Place of Business: SAN BERNARDINO Mailing Address: P.O. BOX 63 JOSHUA TREE, CA 92252 Registrant(s)Address: MY GOOD FIRM 62575 BARBARA LANE JOSHUA TREE, CA 92252 A1#: C4258607 State: CA Signature/Officer Title: Pamela Goodchild, President

BY SIGNING, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. (A registrant who declares as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) NOTICE - IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVISION (a) OF SECTION 17920, A FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT GENERALLY EXPIRES AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE ON WHICH IT WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK, EXCEPT, AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION (b) OF SECTION 17920. WHERE IT EXPIRES 40 DAYS AFTER ANY CHANGE IN THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 17913 OTHER THAN A CHANGE IN THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF A REGISTERED OWNER. A NEW FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT MUST BE FILED BEFORE THE EXPIRATION. THE FILING OF THIS STATEMENT DOES NOT OF ITSELF AUTHORIZE THE USE IN THIS STATE OF A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME IN VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER UNDER FEDERAL, STATE, OR COMMON LAW (SEE SECTION 14411 ET. SEQ., BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE.) Published In The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019.

PUBLISH YOUR FBN FOR ONLY $40 CALL TODAY! (909) 889-7677 Email: msbamericannews@gmail.com ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: June 13, 2019 Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1916449 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: NAKITA BRELAND filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. PEYTON SKI FRAZIER to Proposed name: PEYTON SKI BRELAND THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 7/24/19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 W. 3RD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 SAN BERNARDINO JUSTICE CENTER-CIVIL DEPT. A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The San Bernardino American Newspaper P.O. Box 837 Victorville, CA 92393 Date: June 5, 2019 Michael A. Sachs Judge Of The Superior Court Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 25, 2019

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Trustee of the Luis F. Avalos Special Needs Trust IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO-JUSTICE CENTER IN re: LUIS F. AVALOS SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST CASE No.:PROPS 1100815 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE (PROBATE CODE §§ 10300,10304) 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, subject to confirmation by this court, on July 29, 2019, at 8:30 A.M. in Department 36 of the San Bernardino Superior Court located at 247 W. Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, or thereafter within the time allowed by law, Noreen T. Fontaine, as Trustee of the Luis F. Avalos Trust, will sell at private sale to the highest and best net bidder on the terms and conditions stated below all rights, title, and interest that the estate has acquired in addition to that of the decedent at the time of death, in the real property located in SAN BERNARDINO County, California.

2. This property is commonly referred to as 9320 Frankfort Avenue, Fontana, CA 92335 Assessor’s Parcel Number: 0249-122-02-0000, and is more fully described as follows: Tract 3548 Lot 103 APN No. 0249-12202-0000.

3. The property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price.

4. The property is to be sold on an “as is: basis, except for title.

5. The Trustee has given an exclusive listing to PrimeTime Real Estate; Listing Agent, Dwayne Richardson, Tel. No. (951) 818-7508; 6. Bids or offers are invited for this property and must be in writing and can be submitted to seller’s attorney, Noreen T. Fontaine, 400 Ramona Avenue, Suite 212-N, Corona, CA 92879 Tel. No. (951) 278-8290; Fax. (951) 268-9454; Email: noreen@attyfontaine.com or deliver to Noreen T. Fontaine personally, at any time after first publication of this notice and before any sale is made.

7. The property will be sold on the following terms: Terms of sale cash in lawful money of the United States on confirmation of sale and acceptable to the court on confirmation of sale, e.g., 10 percent (10%) of the amount of the bid to accompany the offer by certified check, and the balance to be paid on confirmation of sale by the court.

8. Taxes, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance, transfer taxes, and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers.

9. The right is reserved to reject any bid.

10. For further information, contact Noreen T. Fontaine at 400 Ramona Avenue, Suite 212-N, Corona, CA 92879; Tel. No (951) 278-8290; Fax. No. (951) 268-9454.

Date: 06/27/2019 Noreen T. Fontaine

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CIVDS 1917818 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: MA. DEL CARMEN HERNANDEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: a. MA. DEL CARMEN HERNANDEZ to Proposed name: MARIA D. HERNANDEZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 7/25/19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: S17 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 W. 3RD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT A Copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed

Trustee/Attorney Published in the San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 2019.

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1830875 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): BERNARDA DIAZ YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MERCURY INSURANCE COMPANY NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a

court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Breanne L. Reese, Esq., Bar #314663, 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842-5850 (File No. 284298) DATE (Fecha): NOV 27 2018 Clerk (Secretario), by ELIZABETH MARTINEZ, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11/19 CNS-3264109# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): CIVDS1828833 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): RICHARD CABRAL, VICTOR CABRAL YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en

esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 West Third St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Breanne L. Reese, Esq., Bar #314663, 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842-5850 (File No. 284440) DATE (Fecha): NOV 05 2018 Clerk (Secretario), by JACQUELINE HARNESS, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

7/4, 7/11, 7/18, 7/25/19 CNS-3269682# THE SAN BERNARDINO AMERICAN

PETITION/PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE (Probate-Decedents’ Estates) Notice Of Petition to Administer Estate Of: MANUEL G. RAMIREZ aka

MANUEL RAMIREZ RAMIREZ

aka

GONZALES MANUEL

Case Number: PROPS 1900592 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MANUEL G.

RAMIREZ aka MANUEL GONZALES RAMIREZ aka MANUEL RAMIREZ A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARLENE URQUIZU in the Superior Court of California, County of: SAN BERNARDINO The Petition for Probate requests that MARLENE URQUIZU be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: August 8, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept:: S35 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 WEST THIRD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Edward G. Operini 16820 Ivy Avenue, Fontana, Ca 92335 Telephone: (909)822-5041 Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper June 27, July 4, 11, 2019.

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LEGALS/ LOCAL/NATIONAL NEWS PETITION/PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE (Probate-Decedents’ Estates) Notice Of Petition to Administer Estate Of: MARVA JANICE

ROBINSON Case Number: PROPS 1900489 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARVA

JANICE ROBINSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DARNELL H. ROBINSON in the Superior Court of California, County of: SAN BERNARDINO The Petition for Probate requests that: FLOR EVELYN PEREZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 7/10/19 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept:: S37 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 WEST THIRD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 CIVIL/PROBATE CENTER If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Darnell H. Robinson 1956 Telephone: (760) 799-2830 Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 2019

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE (Probate-Decedents’ Estates) Notice Of Petition to Administer Estate Of: LUIS ROMAN CARLOS Case Number: PROPS 1900519 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LUIS ROMAN

CARLOS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: VIRGINIA HERRERA in the Superior Court of California, County of: SAN BERNARDINO The Petition for Probate requests that: VIRGINIA HERRERA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: Time: a.m. Dept:: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, 247 WEST THIRD STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415 CIVIL/PROBATE CENTER If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Virginia Herrera 13593 1st Ave. Telephone: (760) 799-2830 Published in The San Bernardino American Newspaper July 4, 11, 18, 2019

Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed To Hogs And Used As Alligator Bait In The Early 1900’s

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with large alligators and snakes.

Boys younger than Gaddy also had to work hard at Dozier. Gaddy said his life was a living hell at the state-operated school. The reform school was in operation from January 1, 1900 to June 30, 2011 by the state of Florida in the panhandle town of Marianna.

This was not a surprise to Harrell. She had previously met a family who was held in the system of peonage in Gillsburg, Mississippi in the 1960s. Cain Wall, Sr., who was 107 years old at the time, told Harrell his family's story. He recalled a time when a man rode a horse throughout the area and picked up black babies, cut them up and use them for fish bait. Wall said, "I saw the blood dripping from his sack on the side of his horse. Everybody would grab their children when they heard that he was coming. He was a mean and evil man," said Walls.

Some people in the South claim white men used black babies as alligator bait in the swamps of Louisiana and Florida. They used the babies to lure large alligators with human flesh and blood during the era of slavery. They kidnapped the babies, skin them alive, and drop them into the swamp waters. In 1923, a publication in Times Magazine reported from Chipley, Florida that black babies were being used as alligator bait. On June 3, 1908, the Washington Times reported that a zookeeper at the New York Zoological Garden baited alligators with pickaninnies.

Pictures, postcards, and other trinkets were sold to commemorate this evil, dark practice.

Deangelo and Kirk Manuel, intern researchers with Harrell, recently traveled to Shubuta, Mississippi to investigate six lynchings. The Manuels read how the four young black people were lynched at the Hanging Bridge in 1918. Those lynched were brothers, Major, 20, and Andrew Clark, 16, and sisters; Alma, 16 and Maggie Howze, 20. Maggie was six months pregnant and

Alabama line and carried into Georgia where he was forced to work off a debt. The boy's father informed the reporter that he could not get his son back until he paid the amount that Benford claimed was owed plus the alleged costs of the court proceedings.

Many have never heard these stories because they are not taught in schools. Monteral Harrell, educator and Grambling State University alumna, knows the reality of this truth. "A limited amount of information is presented to students in the public school system about what actually happened during slavery and the Civil Rights Era. The same information on black history is given to the students year after year. Although the Historically Black Colleges and Universities excel in black history education, there needs to be more courses

inclination to believe Black girls need less protection and support, and more discipline.

In addition, a 1923 article in Times Magazine reported from Chipley, Florida that Black babies were being used as alligator bait. Pictures, postcards, and other trinkets were sold to commemorate this evil, dark practice.

In addition, research from the Council of State Governments Justice Center concluded that Black girls are at greater risk of dropping out or being held back, which in turn leads to a three-fold increase in the chances of becoming entangled in the juvenile justice system, and later, in the adult system.

The disciplinary practices being employed in school damage social-emotional and behavioral development; strip away important educational experiences; interfere with the process of identifying and addressing underlying issues; and contribute to increased family stress and burden, says the AmericanProgress.org report.

Much of the Georgetown study involved focus groups. The researchers spoke to nine focus groups with a total of about 50 Black girls and women of varied ages and in diverse regions of the country, over a year from 2017 to 2018.

“Almost all the Black girls and women we talked to said they’d experienced ‘adultification’ bias as children,” reports study coauthor Jamilia Blake in a statement released with the study results.

“And they overwhelmingly agreed that it led teachers and other adults to treat them more harshly and hold them to higher standards than White girls.”

New Orleans, LA (BlackNews.com) -- August 2019 will mark 400 years of the first documented arrival of Africans brought to America as indentured servants. Children suffered and continue to suffer cruelties such as sex slaves, forced child labor, physical abuse, and in some cases, human cannibalism in United States. These cruelties are a big part of human trafficking where body organs and other body parts are sold to wealthy people. These atrocities, abuse, and modern-day slavery will plague America like an incurable cancer until we address this ugly past.

When Dr. Antoinette Harrell thought that she had heard the worst of the worst, there was even more to discover. Harrell heard four stories that were so evil that most people didn't want to talk about what they experienced or repeat the painful experiences told to them by their family members. No one wants to visit things that hurt them. Having these hurtful injustices to resurface can take them back to

that time, place, and period in their lives that they do not want to remember.

Many unfortunate events happened to children during Slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow that continues to this very day. The story that Johnny Lee Gaddy shared with peonage researcher, Dr. Antoinette Harrell, will upset your stomach. Johnny witnessed a child's hand in the hog pen at the infamous Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in the Florida Panhandle. Gaddy told Harrell during a radio interview that he saw the severed hand of a child in the fire pit while taking the trash to be burned. Gaddy knew it was the body part of one of the boys. After discussing what he saw with one of the boys, he was told never to tell anyone what he saw if he wanted to stay alive. Gaddy alleges they were cooking the boys and feeding them to the hogs.

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offered that teach students how to properly research their history," Harrell said.

Johnny Lee Gaddy is one of many stories that needs continued research. Johnny Lee Gaddy was taken from his mother in Clearwater, Florida in 1957 and driven to the Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in Marianna, Florida without due process from the courts or legal representation.

He served his time and was eventually released to his mother.

Harrell team consists of photographers, videographers, and screemwriters, who are dedicated in assisting Harrell with bringing these stories to the forefront.

Learn more about Dr. Antoinette Harrell at http:// peonagedetective.com/ or follow her on Facebook at @harrellantoinette

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to DOJ Confirming Citizenship Question Will Not Appear on 2020 Census Local/National News Washington, D.C. – In response to the Department of Justice confirming today that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s ruling left little opportunity for the administration to cure the defects with its decision to add a citizenship question and, most importantly, they were simply out of time given the impending deadline for printing forms. We are pleased that the Justice Department is moving forward with printing the 2020 Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and also pleased that the printer has been

instructed to begin the printing process. Time is of the essence.

It is critical that this administration and groups across the country focus their full attention, resources and energy on ensuring a fair and accurate count in 2020.”

Clarke continued: “The decennial Census is one of the most monumental undertakings by our federal government and work to ensure an accurate count must now begin with all deliberate speed.”

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law successfully challenged the administration on the use of the citizenship question in federal court in California. The Lawyers’ Committee’s lawsuit was brought on behalf of the City of San Jose and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, along with cocounsel Public Counsel and Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

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Research ReA man named Johnny Lee Gaddy recently shared with peonage researcher, Dr. Antoinette Harrell, that in 1957 he witnessed African American children being literally fed to the hogs that were on the campus of the infamous Arthur G. Dozier Reform School in the Florida Panhandle.

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Alma was due in two weeks. Both of the young women were pregnant by the dentist who employed them. Major signed up for the draft in WWI on September 9, 1918 and was lynched in December of 1918.

Ernest Greene and Charles Lang were lynched in 1942 in the same town in Mississippi. "There life were cut short, it's no telling what the future held for those two young boys. We will never know the effects they could have had on this world," said Deangelo.

It was alleged that Andrew and Major murdered Dr. Everette Lavega Johnston, a married white dentist where the four young people worked. Major and Andrew were working on the farm to pay a debt for their father, Eddie Clark, Sr. Major and Andrew were two of eight children born to Eddie and Charity Clarke. All four were brutally tortured. Maggie was smashed in the face with a wrench and they all were thrown from the bridge. When the victims were buried the next day, some people reported that the unborn baby could be seen moving in Alma's womb.

Harrell and her interns are also investigating a case concerning missing boys in Smith and Simpson County in Mississippi in 1900. Near what was known at Sullivan's Hollow, lived a man by the name of W.T. Ware, along with his sons and son-in-law, Turner. It was reported that the Wares had been stealing little black boys and selling them to the Mississippi Delta. One of the Wares was a doctor and was responsible for disposing of the boys in the Delta. The Wares were arrested and tried for kidnapping and hiding a boy at the home of Turner in Simpson County until they could transport him to the Delta. A report was filed with the Attorney General in 1900.

Another report filed in Montgomery, Alabama, stated a young black boy named Young Trammell was taken from the

More children being held back

‘To society we’re not innocent’ Said one of the study participants: “To society we’re not innocent. And White girls are always innocent.”

Those in the study recounted experiences that reflected how adults saw them as older than they actually were and turned situations into traumatic

experiences. For example, one participant revealed an encounter with a police officer – he did not believe she was only 15.

He handcuffed her and fingerprinted her, insisting she was older and should have been carrying identification.

Others discussed as having “an attitude” or being “threatening” in school. Too often the perceived “attitude” ends up with detention or even suspension. One participant said, “They always feel like you’re talking back, but you’re not. You’re just trying to defend, like get your side across.”

According to a report from the National Women’s Law Center using data from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Black girls in school are five times more likely to be suspended than White girls.

Experts believe that what played into the adultification of Black girls is the stereotypes that people often label Black women with, such as the “angry Black woman” or “jezebel.”

Myth of ‘early maturity’ Dr. Monique W. Morris has been studying the criminalization of Black girls for years and wrote a book on the subject called “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools” (2016), and she is also the founder and president of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute. She says that studies have not necessarily proven the perception that Black girls mature faster than other ethnic groups.

“Adults perceive that Black girls are older than they are… early onset of puberty for all girls is a nation trend… but it’s been in our school system for decades that educators perceive Black girls are more mature. The inclination is to be harsher, have less patience… we need to let Black girls be girls.”

She said the perception of Black girls by our education system goes beyond their minds – “Their

bodies are being read in a way that is impacting them, intentionally or unintentionally.”

So, a young Black girl can get suspended for an infraction that comes from a perception of a teacher or an administrator or, currently with the presence of law enforcement on many school grounds, security personnel. This goes on her record and now she is also probably labeled as a “troublemaker.” She becomes frustrated. Her grades slip, and now the chances of her getting into a good college are fading.

She ends up with a meaningless job that provides little hope for a bright future, and she may fall into trouble later on because of earlier frustrations in school. Many experts believe discriminatory patterns from school can and do lead to Black girls being funneled into the criminal justice system, and prison.

Parents, educators must work together Morris tells Our Weekly that parents as well as the Black community need to step up and engage educators as well as Black girls.

“We need to have ways to monitor how our girls are being criminalized in our communities.

Often times we talk about men and boys and don’t realize we need to address what’s happening to our girls,” Morris said.

The author and 2018 TED Women speaker says we need to develop “curriculum that responds to our young people and is inclusive to their experiences. We need advocacy to respond with programs and efforts to address their experiences and we need healing informed responses.”

Added Morris, “Parents need to advocate for schools to bring in discussion groups so the girls can have conversations about their experiences where they spend a lot of their time – in school.

Communities need to think of ways to partner with girls… stand with them when they tell their truths.”

Some of the next steps in school systems include: Banning all suspension practices in pre-K and early grades.

Teaching conflict resolution to educators.

Trying alternative solutions to punishment, such as focusing on prevention, providing more support and bringing students together to solve problems on their own in small groups.

Hire more counselors rather than police officers.

Indicators and parental resources Morris says that there are signs that parents can see that could indicate their girls are being “criminalized” at school. “If you get a series of calls from an educator or if your child doesn’t want to go to school, it’s time to look into it.”

She advises that parents “stay active and engage your child and the educators around her.”

But it’s not always the school’s or the teacher’s fault, Morris said.

“Black girls who act out in school are usually dealing with something else going on in their life… usually with girls, it can be with sexual violence or domestic violence… and that’s not an easy conversation to have.”

But it’s clear that communication is key, not only with educators but also with parents and their children.

The National Women’s Law Center, offers the “Let Her Learn” tool kit at dignityinschools.org / resources. There is a section in Morris’ book “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools”, which offers resources and suggestions for parents of Black girls. The book is available on Amazon and has received rave reviews.

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Ford Theatres presents Meshell Ndegeocello

By Precinct Reporter News

Ford Theatres presents visionary vocalist and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello who performs songs from her GRAMMY®-nominated album Ventriloquism, as well as a selection of her favorites, on Saturday, July 13 at 8:00 pm as part of its IGNITE @ the FORD! series.

Musically, Ventriloquism has the hallmarks of all of Ndegeocello’s work — lush and investigative, subversive and sublime. As always, she pays tribute to her diverse influences and in these cover songs, listeners hear them layered over one another. The reimagining deconstructs and comments on the narrow expectation of sound and structure for black artists and black music, while offering a musical refuge during these uncertain times. Ventriloquism is released 25 years after her GRAMMY®-nominated debut album Plantation Lullabies.

In awarding Ndegeocello the 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts prize for music, Vijay Iyer called her, “a rare constellation in

the artistic firmament, whose generosity of spirit defies the confines of genre and whose work dwells in both darkness and deliverance.”

Chuck Arnold in The New York Post said of Ventriloquism, “She arrived at the concept for the LP — on which she radically reinvents such classics as Sade’s ‘Smooth Operator’ and George Clinton’s ‘Atomic Dog’ — during a difficult period about two and a half years ago when her father, saxophonist Jacques Johnson, passed away . . . this is a record about, and full of, transformation.

These are well-loved songs that Ndegeocello loves a little bit more, singing them with a rich, warm tone (she’s never sounded better) and backed by a band who know how to anticipate every bob and weave she might make. It’s one of her best.”

Ndegeocello herself said, “I would go to my parents’ house, and my mother’s car radio only played the oldies station. So I just was listening to all the songs I grew up with. I’d be awash in memories .?.?. those are all the

SiriusXM’s Heart & Soul and Kirk Franklin’s Praise Channels to Broadcast Live from 2019 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans Fourth of July Weekend

songs I would listen to at my parents’ house to make me feel better.”

She said a Billboard interview, “The covers idea was more so the result of a very intense year I experienced with the death of a parent and the dementia of another. And it was nice to just sit with tunes that you love and you know in and out in an emotional way. It was cathartic for me to try to give them another life, these songs.”

Charlotte Richardson Andrews said in The Guardian said, “These are bold offerings – creative, unpredictable and rich with Ndegeocello’s sensual contralto.

There is intention here, a subtle, transformative magic . . . there’s no denying the originality on offer here, from this rightly revered music game outlier.”

Brad Nelson of Pitchfork said, “A cover is an act of scholarship, an act of criticism, an act of intimacy. An act of love. Tackling a range of R&B radio hits from the 1980s and 1990s, Meshell Ndegeocello treats the practice of covering another’s songs as an act of intimacy and empathy. She doesn’t perform these songs as much as she renovates them from surface to center, peeling away wallpaper, pushing furniture around, crumpling and discarding any unnecessary dimensional space until she figures out what kind of room the song is.”

Thomas Inskeep in Spin said, “Prince’s ‘Sometimes It Snows in April’ is the centerpiece of the album, a fitting tribute as we approach the second anniversary of his death. Ndegeocello’s take is . . . hushed, almost religious —

you know the line in ‘Maria,’ from West Side Story, ‘Say it soft, and it’s almost like praying’? That’s the impact here: it sounds like a prayer to and for Prince.”

Ventriloquism is a place, like its process, to take refuge from one storm too many. “The year around the recording of this album was so disorienting and dispiriting for me personally and for so many people I know and spoke to all the time,” she said. “I looked for a way to make something that was light while things around me were so dark, a musical place to go that reminded me of another, brighter time.”

“Early on in my career, I was told to make the same kind of album again and again, and when I didn’t do that, I lost support.

There isn’t much diversity within genres, which are ghettoizing themselves, and I liked the idea of turning hits I loved into something even just a little less familiar or formulaic. It was an opportunity to pay a new kind of tribute.”

This event is part of IGNITE @ the FORD!, a series comprised of world-renowned contemporary artists whose work is thought provoking and reflects the world in which we live. Proceeds from IGNITE @ the FORD! events benefit the Ford Theatre Foundation. Tickets are available online at FordTheatres.org and by phone (323) 461-3673. Ford Theatres is located at 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068.

This article originally appeared in the Precinct Reporter Group News.

Post Office renamed in honor of Marvin Gaye

By Wave Wire Services

Broadcast followed by exclusive performances from Grammynominated artist Brian McKnight, Raheem DeVaughn and Avant Lifestyle/Entertainment News

SiriusXM announced today that its Heart & Soul and Kirk Franklin’s Praise channels will broadcast live from the 2019 Essence Festival in New Orleans over the Fourth of July weekend on Friday, July 5 through Sunday, July 7. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking celebration of global African American music and culture.

SiriusXM hosts Cayman Kelly, Michel Wright and Meta Washington will be live on the Ford Stage interviewing some of the biggest names in R&B, Gospel and urban lifestyle including Bobby Brown, H.E.R., Kirk Franklin, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Mary Mary, Sherri Shepherd and more.

Following the live broadcast at 6:00 pm ET, Heart & Soul will host "A Night in N'awlins" with

exclusive performances featuring Grammy-nominated artist Brian McKnight, Raheem DeVaughn, and Avant from Tipitina’s in New Orleans.

SiriusXM subscribers are able to listen to the weekend live broadcast on Heart & Soul, Channel 48 on Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6 from 3:00 pm 6:00 pm ET and on Kirk Franklin’s Praise, Channel 64 on Sunday, July 7 from 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.

Montclair Place Invites The Public To A Free Family Movie Night Featuring ‘Incredibles 2’ On July 17th WHAT: Montclair Place invites the community to a Family Movie Night featuring “Incredibles 2.”

Held at the shopping center Wednesday, July 17th, the movie is FREE and open to the public.

There will also be entertainment 15 minutes before the movie, as well as gift bags filled with valuable coupons.

Participating Montclair Place eateries will feature family packs and other special offers.

For more information, visit http://montclairplace.com/ events/.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES — A local post office has been rededicated in honor of the late Grammy-winning soul singer Marvin Gaye.

“Marvin Gaye’s music has transcended generations and gave the ‘70s and ‘80s a sound,” said U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, who introduced House Resolution 1496 to name the post office at 3585 S. Vermont Ave., adjacent to USC, as the Marvin Gaye Post Office.

Because of solo hits such as “How Sweet It Is,” “Ain’t That Peculiar,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “What’s Going On” and “Sexual Healing” and his duet singles with such singers as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, Gaye was dubbed “The Prince of Motown” and “The Prince of Soul.”

He won Grammys in 1983 for best male rhythm and blues vocal performance and best R&B instrumental performance for “Sexual Healing.”

Gaye — shot and killed by his

father on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday — was posthumously elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. In 2016, he was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

“His music was cathartic,” biographer David Ritz said. “His songs were prayers, meditations, strategies for survival.”

The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in honor of Gaye on April 2, which would have been Gaye’s 80th birthday, as part of its Music Icons series.

The post office had been known as the Dockweiler Post Office, named in honor of Isidore B. Dockweiler, a prominent lawyer in the first half of the 20th century who held numerous government positions and was once called by humorist Will Rogers “the Democratic Party of California.”

This article originally appeared in Wave Newspapers.

Mary J. Blige signs production deal with Lionsgate By Defender News Service

WHEN: Wednesday, July 17th 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE: Montclair Place At the Video Wall, Near Macy’s 5060 East Montclair Plaza Lane Montclair, CA 91763 www.montclairplace.com

Mary J. Blige seems to be winning in every way. Days after she honored her damn self at the BET Awards, Lionsgate announced that the Grammyaward-winning singer turned Oscar-nominated actress has

signed a first look deal with Lionsgate.

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Mary J. Blige signs production deal with Lionsgate...continued Productions. The deal will also allow Blige to create content for the studios various platforms.

In a statement, Blige said, ““I couldn’t be more excited to be working with Lionsgate,” Mary J. Blige said on Wednesday in a statement about the deal. “They are incredible collaborators and have been natural partners from when we first started talking. I can’t wait to bring all of our projects to life.”

Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate Television Group chairman, also spoke about the partnership: ““Mary is a very talented artist, fearless visionary and an incredible human being. We’re delighted to be working with someone with such a powerful

and impactful creative voice.

Every art she touches blossoms, and we’re humbled she’s chosen us as her home. We look forward to all the exciting new content Mary and her Blue Butterfly banner will bring to our television slate and Lionsgate 360 orbit.”

The partnership comes after Mary is set to star in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy and the third season of Scream, which will air next month on VH1.

Mary joins a list of other artists like “Power” creator Courtney Kemp, “Love & Hip Hop” creator Mona Scott-Young and Common.

This article originally appeared in the Defender News Network.

“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro!” By: Lou Yeboah

Lou Yeboah

Oration delivered by abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Rochester, N.Y. on July 5, 1852, entitled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”.

“Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?

The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. —The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day?

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim.

To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages... For black men there are neither law, justice, humanity, not religion.”

[Frederick Douglass] “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote

the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.

This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixtythree is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges....

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true...” [Martin Luther King Jr].

“Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery.

“The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope [Frederick Douglass].

“True Freedom is yours Forever in Christ!”

“Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty I’m Free At Last!” [Martin Luther King Jr.]

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Senator Mitch McConnell believes Barack Will White House Advisory Council Act to End America’s Affordable Housing Crisis?...continued Obama’s election made up for slavery from page 3

By A.R. Shaw

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell believes Black people in America do not deserve reparations because Barack Obama was elected president.

On June 18, Republican Sen. McConnell revealed his thoughts on reparation one day before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on reparations. The hearing will include journalist TaNehisi Coates, who wrote the 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations,” actor and activist Danny Glover who will testify in favor of compensation for the descendants of slaves.

Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has proposed legislation that would establish a 13-member commission to study and consider remedies for Black people who are descendants of slaves. The commission would also consider a national apology for the 200-year history of slavery in America which began in the early 1600s.

However, McConnell believes that Black people have been compensated enough because of Obama’s election victory in 2008.

“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” McConnell told reporters. “We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation.

We’ve elected an African American president.”

In 1998, 80,000 JapaneseAmerican survivors of World War II internment camps received a total payout of $1.6 billion.

Black slaves were promised reparations in 1865 by the U.S. government. Roughly 400,000 acres of land stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John’s River in Florida, including Georgia’s Sea Islands and the mainland 30 miles in from the coast, would be redistributed to newly freed slaves.

However, President Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor and a sympathizer with the South, overturned the Order in the fall of 1865.

This article originally appeared in Rollingout.com.

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country could have extended its hallowed principles—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness— to all, regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind. And so for a century after the Civil War, black people were subjected to a relentless campaign of terror, a campaign that extended well into the lifetime of Majority Leader McConnell.”

While economists, public policy think tanks and other entities may sing a chorus of how well the American economy is performing and expanding, people of color – especially Blacks and Browns – have yet to see or feel economic vibrancy in our own lives – particularly when it comes to housing and homeownership.

On June 25, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released its annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing. One of the housing industry’s most broadly anticipated and cited reports, it once again chronicles recent trends and issues.

“The limited supply of smaller, more affordable homes in the face of rising demand suggests that the rising land costs and the difficult development environment make it unprofitable to build for the middle market,” said Chris Herbert, JCHS’s managing director.

Among this year’s key findings: Since 2018, the monthly housing payment on a medianpriced home has been $1,775; In 2019, the cost of a medianpriced home rose by 4% to $261,600 when a comparable home in 2011 was priced far lower at $177,400.

This rise in home prices is also the seventh straight year that median household incomes have failed to keep pace in 85 of the nation’s largest 100 markets.

Nearly $52,000 would be required to make a 20% down payment on a median priced home. Even if buyers opted for an FHA 3.5% down payment mortgage, more than $9,000 would be needed to pay it, closing costs, and related fees; In rental housing, four million units of housing priced at $800 or less were lost between 2011 and 2019. Also, since 2010, renters now include consumers earning $75,000 or more.

Families who already own their own homes, these findings signal that their investments are

appreciating, growing in equity and wealth.

But for those trying to make that important transition from renting to owning, it’s a very different outlook. As rental prices continue to soar and moderately priced apartments disappear from the marketplace, both prospective homeowners and current renters face a shrinking supply of affordable housing.

When homeownership is possible, housing costs can be better contained with fixedinterest rate mortgages, tax credits, and eventual equity. Even so, the Harvard report finds that only 36% of all consumers could afford to buy their own home in 2018. With higher priced homes in 2019, the affordability challenge worsens.

“It is equally noteworthy that once again this key report shares how consumers of color continue to face challenges in becoming homeowners, noted Nikitra Bailey, an EVP with the Center for Responsible Lending.

“According to the report, only 43% of Blacks and 47% of Latinx own their own home, while white homeownership remains at 73%.

“This 30% disparity deserves further examination and proportional remedies,” continued Bailey. “Greater access to safe and affordable credit, better fair housing enforcement, preservation of antidiscrimination laws – including disparate impact – can play a role in eliminating homeownership gaps. Further, as the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are publicly debated, a renewed commitment to serve all creditworthy borrowers must be embraced.”

Calvin Schermerhorn, a professor of history in Arizona State University's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and author of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, holds similar views to those expressed by Bailey. In a recent Washington Post op ed column, Schermerhorn addressed the historic disparities that Black America continues to suffer.

“One-fifth of African American families have a net worth of $0 or below; 75 % have less than $10,000 for retirement,” wrote Schermerhorn. “The enduring barriers to black economic equality are structural rather than individual…. “Escalators into the

Will White House Advisory Council Act to End America’s Affordable Housing Crisis?...continued middle class have slowed and stalled, and the rung of the economic ladder one starts on is most likely where one will end up.”

On the same day as the Harvard report’s release, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that establishes a new advisory body that will be led by HUD Secretary Ben Carson. A total of eight federal agencies will work with state and local government officials to remove “burdensome governmental regulations” affecting affordable housing.

“Increasing the supply of housing by removing overly burdensome rules and regulations will reduce housing costs, boost economic growth, and provide more Americans with opportunities for economic mobility,” stated Secretary Carson.

If Secretary Carson means that local zoning rules favor single family homes over multi-family developments is a fundamental public policy flaw, he may be on to something. However this focus misses the crux of the affordable housing crisis: Wages are not rising in line with increasing housing costs. And now, after the housing industry continues to

cater to more affluent consumers, while many older adults choose to age in place, the market has very little to offer those who want their own American Dream, including some who are anxiously awaiting the chance to form their own households.

Builders have historically, not just of late, complained about the time it takes to secure permits or the series of inspections that must be approved during construction and before properties can be listed for sale. What is missing from this new initiative is a solution to the financial challenges that average people face.

It was scant regulation and regulatory voids that enabled risky mortgage products with questionable terms that took our national economy to the brink of financial collapse with worldwide effects. Taxpayer dollars to rescue financiers while many unnecessary foreclosures stripped away home equity and wealth from working families.

Time will tell whether new advisors and proposals remember the lessons from the Great Recession.

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