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By Staff Writer

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Rev Shane Harris, President of the People’s Alliance for Justice, held a Press Conference last week demanding that the San Diego City Attorney’s Office and the San Diego City Council settle its case with Mr. Raymond Wiley. Wiley is a 68 year old man wrongfully arrested, jailed and charged with two felonies for walking with a stick near his Encanto home on June 21, 2017. Photo Credit: Voice & Viewpoint

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Mr. Wiley, who is black, was charged by a white police officer with having “burglar tools” because he was walking with a cane to fend off dogs and Photo Credit: Voice & Viewpoint

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This year the San Diego Central Library was once again the location of the Fair Housing Conference. The one day meeting was sponsored by the San Diego Regional Alliance For Fair Housing consisting of a dedicated group of professionals working together to ensure that all residents in San Diego County have equal access to housing. The Alliance is comprised of members of the fair housing community, including 18 cities and the County of San Diego along with local government entities. The group has its roots in the early 1980’s when the U.S.

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BILL PICKETT INVITATIONAL RODEO

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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

By Lee Eric Smith The New Tri-State Defender

Reparations have fast become a major platform for Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential nomination.

The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo saddles up at Agricenter International this weekend, showcasing some of America’s top African-American cowboys and cowgirls. And if you thought black folk don’t go to rodeos, let alone ride bulls and rope calves in them, you’re in for a treat – and a history lesson.

Barbara Love is the local organizer for the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo – but she’s better known as “Miss Kitty,” pictured here in a TSD file photo with her horse Silver.

Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke joined that movement at the recent National Action Network convention when he said he’d support legislation for a slavery reparations commission if he were to win the White House next year.

Long before #OscarsSoWhite became a thing, Barbara Love knew something was off. Like a lot of people, she grew up watching Westerns on TV and at the theatres. It was who she didn’t see that caught her attention. “It fascinated me because television glorified the cowboy,” said Love, better known as “Miss Kitty” on the See RODEO page 8

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Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro have also raised the topic of reparations See SLAVE page 2

Money earned by schools during the famed March Madness tournament and the revenue generated from the College Football Playoff (CFP) series, will likely total $1 billion for the NCAA, according to the report. Photo Credit: NNPA

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

With March Madness entering its final stages and the recent college admissions scandal continuing to unfurl, all eyes are on higher education. Coming into view behind the excitement of the scoreboards and drama of the bribery scandal is a troubling dynamic playing out in real time: Big-time college sports are deepening the inequities faced by black male students seeking higher education. A new issue brief from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington D.C.based a nonpartisan research and educational institute, paints a vivid portrait of how college athletics distort the reality of black male experiences on college campuses and raises significant concerns about racial equity in college admissions and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The report, by Sara Garcia and Connor Maxwell, “The See NCAA page 2


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