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Freedom Gerri Warren The following is the story of Juneteenth, a day of celebration in African American communities across the country. The following is the development of that Independence Day for Black people starting in the state of Texas. It is reprinted here so that we may continue to understand this very special part of our history:

IN CITY’S HISTORY Mayor Faulconer prioritizes road repair, housing and homeless services, Climate Action & Clean SD

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San Diego – Monday, June 10, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer won support from a City Council supermajority for his Fiscal Year 2020 Budget to fund the largest infrastructure investment in City history for the second year in a row while. The budget focus is on the county’s most vulnerable citizens, prioritizing funding for homelessness, the “Clean SD” initiative, housing reforms, road repair and neighborhood quality of life.

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star on the rise

malcolm x library promotes summer reading

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THE MAKING OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PUBLIC POLICY GUMBO Empowerment expert Pametria Brown (right) shares a reflection as part of a symposium panel that also featured (l-r) Archie Moss Jr., Shahidah Jones, Cameron Jones and state Sen. Raumesh Akbari, who was the moderator.

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EXPLORE HISTORY OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

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The four-part documentary will be the final installment in Firelight’s three-part series for Independent Lens, called America Revisited, which began with “The

SACRAMENTO – Monday, June 10, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of Alva Vernon Johnson, 51, of Elk Grove, CA. Johnson has been appointed director of the California State Lottery.

He was director of intergovernmental affairs for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians from 2016 to 2018 and was executive director of governmental affairs and public relations for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians from 2005 to 2015 and director of governmental affairs at Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan LLP from 2004 to 2005. He was chief consultant for the California State Assembly Governmental Organization Committee from 2002 to 2003,

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Stanley Nelson, Documentary Filmmaker, “Tell Them We Are Rising”

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By Stacy M. Brown middle school, where she said there were only a handful of other black students.

“I was the only person in my class to ever get detention,” she said. “I would get it for things like being stopped in the hall because they thought my skirt was too short, although I was the tallest girl in 7th and 8th grade. Or because they thought I was talking back when I asked See JUSTICE page 2

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This charge came after Sawyer gave a personal account of her experiences with racial biases while attending a local private

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ALVA JOHNSON new state-of theart classrooms at horace mann

“Don’t be afraid to disrupt the system,” Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer said to a crowd of advocates, parents, and educators gathered at the inaugural Public Policy and Restorative Justice Symposium.

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Mayor Faulconer’s $4.3 billion budget focuses on core community services. Major expansion of the popular

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Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. state of Texas, and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African Americans

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“This plan builds on the progress we’ve made over the past few years to put neighborhoods first and delivers the largest infrastructure investment in city history,” Mayor Faulconer said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to reduce homelessness, make housing more affordable, fix our streets and clean up our neighborhoods, and this budget prioritizes each as we work together to solve San Diego’s biggest challenges.”

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Acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson and his production company Firelight Films announced that, “Creating the New World: The Transatlantic Slave Trade,” will air on PBS in 2021.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION Budget: continued from page 1

“Clean SD” program to remove trash and debris from public spaces and key initiatives like the Climate Action Plan, Pure Water San Diego, Vision Zero and the expansion of housing and homeless programs are all earmarked for funding.

Budget highlights include: • Fiscally responsible budgeting: Fully funding General Fund reserves to policy targets and making $350.6 million annual pension payment in full for 16th consecutive year • Largest Capital Improvement Program in City history: $710.4 million • Street repair: $79.9 million to pave, repair and replace 430 miles of roads – putting the City on track to fix half of its nearly 3,000mile street network during MayorFaulconer’s tenure • Homeless services: $36.7 million for homelessness solutions and

Correction: In our 6/6/19 article, Boys to Men Mentoring Gives Youth Tools for Manhood, Vista La Mesa Middle School is the correct name of the school site where Boys to Men Mentoring was featured.

programs, including Bridge Shelters, interim housing programs, multifamily rehabilitation, Safe Parking Program sites, storage facilities, new Housing Navigation Center, rental assistance, and youth-serving homeless programs • $9.9 million from General Fund and Low to Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund • $12.7 million from Community Development Block Grants • $14.1 million from the State’s Homeless Emergency Aid Program through FY2021 • Cleaning up our communities: An additional $6.5 million to expand the “Clean SD” initiative to communities beyond Downtown, East Village, the Midway District and the San Diego River so personnel can provide a clean and safe environment at beach areas, canyons, parks and other open spaces throughout the city • Climate Action Plan implementation: Over $350 million in projects and programs

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questions.”

Sawyer, who was the first guest speaker at the symposium, set the tone for the conversations that would follow throughout the five-hour event, hosted by the Memphis Restorative Justice Coalition. The Memphis-based group consists of a collection of four organizations working together to reduce the rate of suspensions for African American and Latino students.

“There are so many people in silos doing this work, but there hasn’t been a space where people can all come together and do it collectively,” said Tim Green, co-founder of the symposium and founder & executive director of The Dividend, a social emotional empowerment organization for youth.

Saturday’s panelists included, Pametria Brown (empowerment expert), Shahidah Jones (Black Lives Matter), Archie Moss Jr. (principal, Bruce

• Public safety: • $8.4 million to continue with four academies of police recruits • $3.5 million for additional patrols by the Neighborhood Policing Division • $2.6 million for a relief pool division, two additional fire academies, a lifeguard academy, helicopter maintenance and pilot training, diversity training and a dedicated bomb squad unit • $250,000 for a police recruitment housing pilot program • Mobility and Traffic Improvements: $14.3 million to improve infrastructure and bring new mobility choices to neighborhoods to meet the City’s Climate Action Plan and Vision Zero goals.

• $11.9 million for projects to support Vision Zero safety goals, including bike facilities, sidewalks, traffic signals, crosswalks and traffic calming measures

Elementary) and Cameron Jones (recent high school graduate). State Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-29) served as the moderator for the panel.

Earlier this year, Akbari co-sponsored a bill requiring local education organizations to provide adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) training to teachers. During the symposium, the Akbari noted that understanding childhood trauma could aid in preventing some disciplinary infractions and biases.

Organizers of the event said the symposium grew from an immense need to have conversations surrounding restorative justice practices in schools. Emerging statistics back up their claims.

According to a 2019 study conducted by a group of Princeton University researchers, African-American students are four times more likely to be suspended than white students. The study also suggests that these students usually face more challenging life outcomes as a result of the harsh disciplinary actions.

• $2.4 million for mobility programs and infrastructure projects supported by dockless mobility device fees • Libraries: Maintaining library hours at the highest level in a decade • $345,000 to operate two new libraries (Mission Hills/Hillcrest and San Ysidro) • Parks: Maintaining recreation center hours at the highest level in a decade • $1.6 million for operations and maintenance for five new facilities/open space in the Parks and Recreation Department (North Park Mini Park, East Fortuna Staging Area Field Station, and three joint-use parks with San Diego Unified) • Housing: $600,000 for fee waivers for accessory dwelling units, also known as granny flats, and $100,000 for the Housing Affordability Program

funding at FY2019 levels minus 3 percent consistent with citywide reductions • Equal Opportunity: $1 million to conduct the City’s first disparity study to review the City’s practices of hiring women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, and other companies that reflect San Diego’s diversity • Other Highlights: • Brush management, million

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• Graffiti abatement, $300,000 • Compensation equity study, $250,000 • Public Records Act program support, $150,000 The budget sets spending for city operations and capital projects for Fiscal Year 2020, which runs from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020.

View the Fiscal Year 2020 Proposed Budget online at https://www.sandiego.gov/finance/proposed.

• Arts & Culture: $14.3 million to maintain arts and culture

“When I was in the classroom in 2012, that’s when I saw how much we needed restorative practices in schools,” Green said. “I saw students get suspended for things that we could have just talked about.”

Cameron Jones, the youngest panelist, gave his personal account of biases while a student.

“I noticed that I was treated differently when I wore Jordan’s than when I wore button-ups and chinos,” said Jones. “There were definitely predetermined stereotypes.”

Dr. Joris Ray, Shelby County Schools superintendent, who received the Pioneer in Justice Award at the symposium, said he and his team have restorative justice plans in the works for the 2019-20 school year.

“How are we going to change the narrative for all children particularly African American males?” he asked the crowd rhetorically, adding that his leadership team will launch an equity office within SCS.

“I look forward to pioneering justice for all students.”

According the Restorative Justice Coalition, although suspension rates are down in SCS, 95 percent of the students who receive suspension are African American or Latino.

“We have an opportunity to move Memphis forward through our kids,” Sawyer said. “And it starts with restorative justice.”

With a long-term goal of establishing partnerships with local schools to facilitate mandatory restorative justice training, organizers said the symposium is just a small piece of the puzzle.

“We are making restorative justice public policy gumbo,” Green said during the event.

“And we hope everyone who attended the symposium will leave with something that they can take back to their homes or schools to begin implementing immediately.”

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staff consultant for the Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education from 2001 to 2002, and legislative liaison at the California State Lottery in 2001.

Johnson served as a deputy legislative secretary in the Office of Governor Gray Davis from 1999 to 2000 and as legislative liaison for the California Department of Education from 1998 to 1999.

Johnson earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. This position requires Senate confirmation.

Johnson is a Democrat.

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For Some, Juneteenth Still Has Not Come people who had never known freedom, with conditions that encouraged them to stay where they had been held - even though free - suggested that freedom was not really real afterall.

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

When one revisits what happened in Galveston, Texas, one realizes that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed almost two years before the slaves in Texas learned they were free. But notice that, with the proclamation, came some conditions; like the suggestion that they continue to work for the Whites who had owned them and that they not gather or be found standing around idle. It would appear that freedom, to such

Consider today that there are those among us still in bondage that has been, in many ways, self imposed. There is the bondage of alcohol, drug addiction, and a lack of will to help each other; as some seek to help themselves. With freedom comes responsibility for self and others.

Today we have constitutional guarantees. The former slaves only had an Executive Order of President Lincoln. But like those slaves in Texas, some, not all of us, are allowing our freedom to be defined by others. Many of our Black men in prison are there because of bad decisions, even when they knew better. Why should we have Black-on-Black crime when others are seeking to hurt us in so many ways?

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with various articles and studies stating that millennials feel entitled and privileged. I can agree to a certain point, but I think it applies to more than just millennials.

I feel many of us feel so eager for success or accolades that we forget to do the steps. To appreciate the journey of highs and lows, to learn from our mistakes and from our achievements.

came before us by doing our very best to build on what they sacrificed for. Let’s Bar-B-Q and have some fun and then see what we can do along with others to make things better for us all.

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...there are those among us still in bondage...

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My father always told me I needed to “pay my dues” in life and I never truly understood what that meant and why I needed to.

My life was planned: you go to school, you go to college, you graduate, and you get a good job.

I learned the hard way that life isn’t a step-by-step puzzle and the pieces will not fit perfectly or easy together. It doesn’t matter if you went to a prestigious school or come from a great family – no one is going to just hand me success. I have to earn it.

Not just millennials

As we seek to celebrate Juneteenth, we can really honor those who

The media has inundated us

I talk in my book “Finding My Sparkle” about how I hated the way I looked, but had to take a deeper dive into what I was doing about it. I was complaining, I was living in my feelings of sadness – but what was I doing to change it?

I had to put in the work.

In that case, it was making a plan to change my eating habits, working out more and overall making a lifestyle change. This applies to everything in life, including climbing the corporate ladder or building a successful business.

Master current level Too often, I see clients and others give up because life is not going their way, but then when asked, “Did you do XYZ?” they only did X. You can’t skip to the next level

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U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman of southern land.

The attempted erasure of Tubman represents yet another move in the Trump playbook to disconnect racial reality from white fantasy.

By A. Scott Bolden NNPA Contributor

With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Tubman would be the first African-American woman featured on U.S. currency.

The $20 currently features a former president, Andrew Jackson, who not only owned slaves, but ordered the death march of thousands of Native Americans.

Euphemistically called “Indian Removal,” the Trail of Tears made way for white settlers to claim millions of acres

In the fantasy of white supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored.

Erased.

In the fantasy of white supremacy, white people are always justified in killing unarmed black men, women and children, either with their own guns or by aiming the unquestioned power of the police. No act is too repugnant, even those resulting in the sexual abuse or death of immigrant children in American custody, if it can be framed as a defense of white superiority.

In the fantasy of white supremacy, the FBI spent millions in time and treasure to plant false evidence of Communist influence on Martin Luther King — while in reality, Russians today are using the racial tension in American to

incite violence and paralyze our society, while they work towards global dominance.

By erasing Tubman, the Trump forces again deploy their most effective weapon in the quest to maintain power— t he unholy alliance of racism and misogyny.

Because in America, it seems, freedom is for whites only, and more specifically, for white men.

To be sure, Trump has ordered his own digital Trail of Tears, as he rolls back civil rights protections for people of color, for women, for immigrants fleeing starvation or oppressive regimes, for LGBTQ people, for the poor and the voiceless.

And currently, the cognitive dissonance in America has reached a new, critical level of psychosis. As a nation we exalt independence, freedom and equality—we boast of our shining city on the hill. Yet our shining city was built on genocide of the native peoples, enslavement of Africans and exploitation of immigrants.

Without a doubt, every people and every culture on Earth have had to deal with unpleasant facts of its history—America is not

special in that regard. Where most of white America goes off the rails is in completely denying and minimizing the facts of racial oppression. This erasure makes racial reconciliation—and true equality—impossible to achieve.

In 2019, Harriet Tubman should be a respected and lauded icon for people of every race and ethnicity. Did she not personify American ideals, at the risk of her own life? As a black woman in antebellum times, she was vulnerable to capture, prison, assault or lynching, but did she falter? Did she not refuse to kneel to any man or any king? Did she not fight for freedom against overwhelming odds?

Are these not the qualities we hold dear in our American heroes?

Instead, Tubman is erased.

Instead, our current administration embraces the slave owner, the mass murderer, the white supremacist—and calls him a hero.

For a psychiatric patient—in this case, white America—the reality of racism, misogyny and oppression is incompatible with their self-identity as lovers of

freedom and defenders of equality.

But instead of taking the painful but therapeutic steps to achieve reconciliation and closure, the patient has opted instead to selfmedicate, and maintain the delusion of white supremacy at all costs.

Jackson, a president who authored one of the cruelest and most brutal acts in American history, is a Trump hero, which is perfectly logical — t hey share a deep, entitled belief in the superiority of white men, and a world order in which Manifest Destiny is not a just doctrine but a divine right.

Jackson should never be forgotten.

He should be remembered always as an example of what kind of horrors our leaders can inflict when their values and morals are wildly askew.

Trump will be remembered in the same light— if enough of us survive to tell the story.

And despite their best efforts, the legacy of Harriet Tubman can never be erased. She embodies the spirit of everything our nation claims to stand for, and each one of us — every race, every gender — should be proud to call her our fellow American.

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Janice Marie Robinson was born in Oakland, CA on April 11, 1945 to James Homer Black and Hazel Mable Southall. She received her formal education through the Berkeley Unified School District and graduated in 1962 from Berkeley High School. She continued her education by attending Howard University, where she majored in music and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1966. Janice began her professional career with Blue Shield as an operations trainer, where she later relocated to San Diego in 1969. In 1970, she began working for Electronic Data Systems Corporation where she retired after 30 years of service., She then embarked upon a new career as a real estate consultant for Keller Williams Realty.

While at Howard University, Janice was initiated into Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, in 1964. She demonstrated her love and commitment for Delta by becoming a Golden Life member. She was active in the San Diego Alumnae chapter where she served in many capacities including chapter president. She was a founding board member of the San Diego Delta Foundation. She also was a member of the national Delta choir that sang at each national convention. Her final personal campaign was establishing an Aquatic Center Endowment Fund at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA in honor of her beloved Raymond Robinson.

Janice married the love of her life Raymond T. Robinson in 1990. They were also members of Toastmasters International. Janice used her speaking skills that she honed with Toastmasters to serve many years as Mistress of Ceremonies for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade and the San Diego Mother Goose Parade. Janice became a member the Silhouettes, an international organization composed of wives of members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. She was a leader of the Western Province of Silhouettes for many years. Janice joined the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA Board of Advisors in 2002 shortly after her husband Raymond transitioned in 2001. With commitment and dedication, Janice was a captain in the YMCA Strong Kids Annual Support Campaign that raised over $4.5M from 2002 through 2019. Janice remained committed to Ray's vision of establishing a state of the art Aquatic Center at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA where the Aquatic Director's Office was named in their honor in perpetuity through their personal philanthropy.

Janice was preceded in death by her husband Raymond T. Robinson, mother Hazel Trent, father James H. Black, two stepsons Raymond Terry and Brian Wayne, and her maternal grandparents Charles Southall and Stella Bergeron Southall.

Janice Marie Robinson leaves to cherish her memory and legacy, her cousins Mary Bridgette, Danette Brown, Kenneth Brown, Jacqueline Jackson, Donald Smith, John Wesley Southall, Russell W. Southall, Sr. their families and a host of relatives and friends who will always hold her close in their hearts.

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Lottie Bell Smith was born March 3, 1943 in Rayville, Louisiana. Lottie was the youngest of six children to the union of Samuel and Ruthie Smith.

Vergie passed away with a smile on her face on May 30, 2019 at 11:40am. She was a very caring and loving person.

Lottie met and married the Love of her life, Kenneth Carlton Jones Sr. in San Diego. To their union four children (Lavon, Kenneth Jr., Lamont and Sharon) was born. Lottie’s love for her children was unconditional and never ending. She sacrificed and gave everything to and for her children. Lottie practiced tough love; she taught common sense and instilled in all of her children the faith in God, toughness, independence and family. Her door was always open for everyone, there was always a meal to be shared and words of wisdom provided. Lottie Loved family gatherings, traveling, fishing, dominoes, going to the casino and was a voracious reader.

She was married to the late Benjamin Franklin and together they had four daughters. She was more concerned for the happiness and well-being of her daughters than herself. This is just the way she was and she enjoyed it.

Lottie was a mother, grandmother and auntie to every child in the neighborhood that she would feed and whoop with an equal amount of love.

No one was spared!

Lottie’s Home going was preceded by her father, mother, sisters: Sarah, Katie and Louise, bothers Oscar and Wille, son-in -law Wille, brother-n -law Floyd and husband Kennth Sr. Lottie’s life and light will continue to be celebrated by her children: Lavon, Kenneth Jr., Lamont and Sharon; her daughters-in-law, grandchildren, great grandchildren, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family members that she loved dearly.

Ethel Pearl Bennett SUNRISE December 26, 1944 SUNSET May 27, 2019

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On December 26, 1944, the home of Deacon Jesse M. Blair and Sister Velma Cunningham was blessed with the arrival of their first child, Ethel Pearl Blair. She was the oldest of four children.

After graduating from high school she moved to Petersburg, Virginia to attend college. After a few years she decided to relocate to San Diego, California. she immediately found employment with the San Diego Union Tribune. She remained employed there for

Born in Louisiana, she moved to San Diego in 1986 where she continued caring for her grandchildren and other children. She enjoyed every minute of preparing the meals for the children and telling them to “Eat until you burst!"

She was a devout Christian and loved attending Church services on Sundays. She particularly liked old time gospel music and would hum these melodies constantly. While at home she kept a Bible beside her chair and coined the phrase “I gotta read my scriptures before I do anything!" Vergie was happiest when her family visited and she could prepare her famous fried chicken and enjoy watching them eat and boast about how good it was.

Survived By: Sister - Minerva McCrea, Daughters - Linda Carrington, Opel Oliver, Kathryn Franklin, Jessica Webber, Special Daughter – Sharon LeDoux Special Son - Ray Kidd .Vergie is also survived by 13 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews who she loved dearly. Forever With Us Vergie Fontenot Franklin

over twenty years. she attended San Diego City College. After the Union Tribune she secured employment with the City of San Diego, working in the office of the City Council and the City Attorney. She retired from the City of San Diego because of declining health.

In March of 1975 Pastor Julius R. Bennett met Sister Ethel Blair in the parking lot of Macedonia Missionary. They married in November of 1975.

On a historical note, Ethel was subjected to water cannons during the height of the Birmingham riots. She endured the velocity of the water, which was so strong it tore her clothes off before being sent to jail. God’s divine providence kept her from attending service at the16th Street Baptist Church with four of her fellow church members who died in the infamous bombing of September 15, 1963.

Ethel transitioned from this world on May 27, 2019. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother Jessie Blair, Jr. Left to mourn her loss and treasure her memories are husband Rev. Julius R. Bennett; sister Francis Robinson, brother Oscar Blair, niece Jamillah Robinson, nephew Migayle Robinson, and a host of cousins, and other relatives in Birmingham Alabama; and her Church Family of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, San Diego, CA.

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Juneteenth,

A Celebration of

throughout the former Confederate States of America. Its name is a portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth”, the date of its celebration. Juneteenth is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in forty-five states.

troops to occupy Texas on behalf of the federal government. The following day, standing on the balcony of Galveston’s Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of “General Order No. 3”, announcing the total emancipation of those held as slaves:

Today it is observed primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, and readings of works by noted African- American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations may include rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, or Miss Juneteenth contests. The Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles, of Coahuila, Mexico also celebrates Juneteenth.

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on

Formerly enslaved people in Galveston rejoiced in the streets after the announcement, although in the years afterward, many struggled to work through the changes, against resistance of whites. The following year, freedmen organized the first of what became the annual celebration of Juneteenth in Texas. In some cities African-Americans were barred from using public parks because of state-sponsored segregation of facilities. Across parts of Texas, freed people pooled their funds to purchase land to hold their

September 22, 1862, with an effective date of January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved persons in the Confederate States of America in rebellion and not in Union hands were to be freed. This excluded the five states known later as border states, which were the four “slave states” not in rebellion – Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri – and those counties of Virginia soon to form the state of West Virginia, and also the three zones under Union occupation: the state of Tennessee, lower Louisiana, and Southeast Virginia.

More isolated geographically, Texas was not a battleground, and thus the people held there as slaves were not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation unless they escaped. Planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought enslaved people with them, increasing by the thousands the enslaved population in the state at the end of the Civil War. Although most enslaved people lived in rural areas, more than 1000 resided in both Galveston and Houston by 1860, with several hundred in other large towns.

By 1865, there were an estimated 250,000 enslaved people in Texas.The older, and Hispanic, town of San Antonio had 168 slaves among a population of 3,436.

The news of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender on April 9 reached Texas later in the month. The Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June 2. On June 18, Union Army General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston Island with 2,000 federal

celebrations, such as Houston’s Emancipation Park, Mexia’s Booker T. Washington Park, and Emancipation Park in Austin.

Although the date is sometimes referred to as the “traditional end of slavery in Texas” it was given legal status in a series of Texas Supreme Court decisions between 1868 and 1874.

In the early 20th century, economic and political forces led to a decline in Juneteenth celebrations. From 1890 to 1908, Texas and all former Confederate states passed new constitutions or amendments that effectively disenfranchised black people, excluding them from the political process.

White-dominated state legislatures passed Jim Crow laws imposing second-class status. The Great Depression forced many black people off farms and into the cities to find work.

In these urban environments, African Americans had difficulty taking the day off to celebrate. The Second Great Migration began during World War II, when many black people migrated to the West Coast where skilled jobs in the defense industry were opening up. From 1940 through 1970, in the second wave of the Great

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Migration, more than 5 million black people left Texas, Louisiana and other parts of the South for the North and West Coast.

As historian Isabel Wilkerson writes, “The people from Texas took Juneteenth Day to Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, and other places they went.”

Following the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign to Washington, DC called

by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, many attendees returned home and initiated Juneteenth celebrations in areas where the “Day” was not previously celebrated.

Since the 1980s and 1990s, the holiday has been more widely celebrated among African-American communities. In 1994 a group of community leaders gathered at Christian Unity Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana to work for greater national celebration of Juneteenth. Expatriates have celebrated it in cities abroad, such as Paris. Some US military bases in other countries sponsor celebrations, in addition to those of private groups.

Although the holiday is still mostly unknown outside African-American communities, it has gained mainstream awareness through depictions in entertainment media, such as episodes of the TV series Atlanta (2016) and Blackish (2017), the latter of which featured musical numbers about the holiday by Aloe Blacc, The Roots, and Fonzworth Bentley.

In 1980, Texas was the first state to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday under legislation introduced by freshman Democratic State Representative Al Edwards. Juneteenth is a “partial staffing” holiday in Texas; government offices do not close but agencies may operate with reduced staff, and employees may either celebrate this holiday or substitute it with one of four “optional holidays” recognized by Texas.

By 2008, nearly half of US states observed the holiday as a ceremonial observance. To date, 46 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as a state holiday or a day of observance. Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota are the only states that refuse to show respect for the free labor and horrific treatment of our ancestors. The free labor of our ancestors paved the way for the United States of America to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

Portions of this article originally appeared in African American Voice

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IN OTHER NATIONAL NEWS STUDY FINDS MOST OF THE

WORLD FAILING AT GENDER EQUALITY

CUMMINGS STATEMENT ON ATTY. GENERAL BARR’S

REFUSAL TO PRODUCE

SUBPOENAED CENSUS DOCUMENT Newswire Voice & Viewpoint

Washington, D.C. —Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice and theDepartment of Commerce sent letters late Thursday, June 6 refusing to meet the Committee’s deadline to produce documents in response to bipartisan subpoenas issued more than two months ago for documents relating to the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

Altogether, 2.8 billion girls and women live in countries that get either a “very poor” (59 and below) or “poor” score (60 – 69) on gender equality.

(Photo: Illustration: iStockphoto / NNPA)

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

Nearly 40 percent of the world’s girls and women live in countries that are failing on equality issues, including public finance, climate change, and gender equality in industry and innovation, according to information compiled by Equal Measures 2030 and its partners.

According to the website for the project, “The 2019 SDG Gender Index measures the state of gender equality aligned to 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 129 countries and 51 issues ranging from health, gender-based violence, climate change, decent work and others. The 2019 SDG Gender Index provides a snapshot of where the world stands, right now, linked to the vision of gender equality set forth by the 2030 Agenda.”

The SDG Gender Index is considered the most comprehensive tool available to measure the state of gender equality when compared to defined SDGs.Altogether, 2.8 billion girls and women live in countries that get either a “very poor” (59 and below) or “poor” score (60 – 69) on gender equality.

The 129 countries featured in the index cover five regions – Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The countries with the lowest scores in the index – Niger, Yemen, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Chad – have all faced conflict and fragility in recent years.

In 2015, world leaders from the participating countries committed to achieve gender equality by 2030 for every girl and every woman when they signed on to the ambitious goals and targets of the SDGs. “With just 11 years to go, our index finds that not a single one of the 129 countries is fully transforming their laws, policies or public budget decisions on the scale needed to reach gender equality by 2030,” Alison Holder, the director of Equal Measures 2030 said in a news release.

The index also shows that countries with far fewer resources, like Senegal, are still able to tackle key gender inequalities. Kenya has very high rates of women who use digital banking (75 percent) – higher rates than three quarters of the world’s countries.

Colombia has better coverage of social assistance (81 percent) amongst its poorest people than the United States (65 percent), a higher-income country.

“This report should serve as a wakeup call to the world. We won’t meet the SDGs with 40% of girls and women living in countries that are failing on gender equality,” said Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“But the SDG Gender Index also shows that progress is possible. Many countries with the most limited resources are making huge strides in removing the barriers for girls and women across economies, politics and society – demonstrating that when it comes to gender equality, governments shouldn’t have excuses for inaction,” Gates said.

Officials said it’s also imperative that the global community provides investment and support to fragile and conflict-affected countries – those with the lowest scores in the Index, such as Yemen, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad.

View the full report at https://data.em2030.org.

Cummings warned Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday, June 3rd that the Committee would vote to hold them in contempt of Congress if they did not produce key documents required by the Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas issued on April 2, 2019.

Monday, June 10, Cummings announced his intention to follow through on his warning, and did in fact schedule a committee vote to hold the attorney general and the commerce secretary in contempt of Congress. At press time, President Trump claimed

executive privilege, blocking Congress’ access to the documents.

“We gave Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross every opportunity to produce the documents the Committee needs for our investigation, but rather than cooperate, they have decided that they would rather be held in contempt of Congress. They produced none of the documents we asked for, they made no counter-offers regarding these documents, and they seem determined to continue the Trump Administration’s cover-up.

“The letters last night were case studies in double-speak. They claim that fighting witness interviews for months under threat of subpoena is evidence of a ‘good faith accommodations process,’ they suggest that Secretary Ross’ refusal to meet demonstrates that the Department ‘is eager to continue its cooperation with the Committee,’ and they argue that withholding every single one of the key unredacted documents we subpoenaed somehow proves that ‘there is no information to hide’.”

Although the Administration claimed that contempt

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.

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was “premature,” Committee Democrats originally requested these documents more than a year ago, and Barr and Ross have been under subpoena for more than nine weeks.

During that time, the Administration has produced thousands of pages of documents that are heavily redacted, non-responsive, and are already public—but has consistently refused to turn over the narrow set of priority documents the Committee identified.

The Department of Justice and Department of Commerce have cited no valid

reason for withholding these critical documents.

The Supreme Court has ruled that ongoing civil litigation is not a reason to withhold information from Congress.

After President Trump claimed executive privilege, Cummings remarked that the move was “another example of the administration's blanket defiance of Congress’ constitutionally mandated responsibilities.”

“This begs the question,” Cummings said. “What is being hidden?”

REPARATIONS MUST INCLUDE THE COSTS OF PREDATORY LENDING New university studies track high costs of discriminatory housing

By Charlene Crowell Center for Responsible Lending

While no amount of money could ever compensate for the loss of Black lives to violent deaths, a growing body of research is delving into the underlying causes for high poverty, low academic performance and -- lost wealth. Public policy institutes as well as university-based research from the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University are connecting America’s racial wealth gap to remaining discriminatory policies and predatory lending.

The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years After the Kerner Commission Report, returns to the findings of the now-famous report commissioned by President Lyndon Johnson. The UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute tracks the consequences of recommendations that were either ignored, diluted, or in a few cases pursued. It weaves connections between education, housing, criminal justice – or the lack thereof.

As many banks and insurance companies redlined Black neighborhoods, access to federally-insured mortgages were extremely limited.

At the same time, few banks loaned mortgages to Blacks either.This lack

of access to credit created a ripe market for investors to sell or rent properties to Black families, usually in need of multiple needed repairs.

Even so, the costs of these homes came at highly inflated prices.

According to The Plunder of Black Wealth in Chicago: New Findings on the Lasting Toll of Predatory Housing Contracts, published this May

by Duke University, Black consumers were often targeted for high-cost, unsustainable mortgages during the 1950’s and 1950’s, even when they qualified for cheaper ones. With mortgage characteristics like prepayment penalties and low teaser interest rates that later ballooned to

frequent and eventually unaffordable adjustable interest rates, a second and even worse housing financial exploitation occurred.

As reparation proposals are discussed and debated, the sum of these financial tolls should rightly be a key part. While the Kerner Commission recommendations remain viable even in 2019, it will take an enormous display of public will for them to be embraced and put into action.

“The Kerner Report was the ‘road not taken’, but the road is still there,” noted John A. Powell, the Hass Institute’s Director.

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Celebrate New Stateof-the-Art Classrooms Photography Courtesy Jamie Ries, SDUSD

valencia park/malcolm x library event promotes

Literacy in the Community

Photography by Voice & Viewpoint and courtesy of Curtis Mcniel

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On Tuesday, June 11 newly graduated Horace Mann Middle School eighth-graders commemorated their campus’ new state-of-theart classrooms and administration building with a groundbreaking ceremony and ribbon cutting. Dozens of students handwrote “thank you” cards in advance to thank the construction crew for helping to modernize the campus. Speakers included SDUSD Board President, Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne; Horace Mann Middle School Vice-Principal, Erica Herrera and Horace Mann Eighth Grader, Devonte Allen. The Whole Site Modernization project includes a new 32,000 square foot three-story administration building, dining courtyard, parking lot, and student drop-off/pick up area and is expected to complete in August 2019.

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SAN DIEGO – On Saturday, June 8, the City of San Diego Public Library partnered with the Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (DEEP) to host a “Summer Time is Reading Time in the Diamond” kickoff event at the Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The free event marked the beginning of a community-wide program to promote reading and literacy in Southeast San Diego.

Community members who attended the event signed up to participate in the reading program while enjoying family-friendly activities including live music performances and face painting. The Library also gave away 2,000 new books to children and teens attending the event to help jump-start their summer reading.

The “Summer Time is Reading Time in the Diamond” program runs from June 8 through Aug. 17, 2019.

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‘What You Are’ Features Star on the Rise

What You Are, running May 30 – June 30, 2019 at The Old Globe.

Q & A wıth Jasmın Savoy Brown VV: What was it about the play that made you want to get involved?

Jonathan Walker as Don and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Katie in What You Are. (Photo: Jim Cox)

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Katie, in What You Are. (Photo: Courtesy of The Old Globe)

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The Old Globe has a new play in town, playwright JC Lee and director Patricia McGregor’s What You Are, a tour-de-force production playing at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in Balboa Park. Oregon native Jasmin Savoy Brown (HBO’s “The Leftovers” and ABC’s “For the People”) steals the show.

Brown plays Katie, the opinionated, passionate, and decidedly flawed biracial daughter of Sigourney and Don. Brown’s nuanced performance brings added depth to the production and her character, Katie, proves to be the heart and soul of the raw and emotionally wrenching drama that unfolds.

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Katie, Omozé Idehenre as Sigourney, and Jonathan Walker as Don in What You Are. (Photo: Jim Cox)

Katie’s father, Don, is the play’s middle-aged white male main character. Katie, in often uncomfortable and in-your-face ways, brings voice to the often complex father-daughter relationship, living a biracial identity, the stresses of being a caregiver, and what it means to step into one’s full womanhood.

Don, though married to a black woman, and a devoted family man, still struggles with white privilege in a world that no longer regards him as essential. When a misunderstanding erupts between Don and Hector, his young hot shot Latino boss, Don hatches a plan to set things right. But in the process, his family nearly falls apart.

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JSB:I really love that the play deals with things we are dealing with everyday, but without hitting you over the head with it. People learn something.

VV: What did you learn?

JSB: I learned to give people the benefit of the doubt more often. To really listen to everyone’s perspective and experience. The people that I might write off as being entitled or being blind to reality, I might decide that, even if they are that, they’re also a human being really just trying to survive and take care of their family. In the end, we’re all doing that.

Omozé Idehenre as Sigourney and Adrian Anchondo as Hector in What You Are. (Photo: Jim Cox)

VV: What about the audience reactions?

JSB: We can feel who the audience is based on which character they are reacting to. It’s interesting to feel that audience feedback and get a feel for whose out there.

VV: Who are your role models as an actor?

JSB: I adore Viola Davis and Regina King.

VV: What is your advice to other young actors starting out?

JSB: Keep yourself in community, whether that’s an acting class or a group of friends. That’s how you stay grounded and stay happy and true to yourself and artistically fulfilled when you’re not getting a lot of auditions. That’s also how you‘ll get connections for more work, too.

Mike Sears as Randy and Jonathan Walker as Don in What You Are. (Photo: Jim Cox)

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MORE LOCAL NEWS FROM ‘SLEEPING UNDER BUSHES’ TO HER OWN APARTMENT:

ONE WOMAN’S STORY According to a January 2019 Pointin-Time Count report, 8,102 men, women and children were living on the street or in shelters. 25% of them suffer from mental illness.

By José A. Álvarez County of San Diego

Her apartment is modest, nearly unfurnished.

But Melanie Bryant is thankful.

Months prior, she was sleeping underneath bushes and bridges on the streets of El Cajon.

Bryant is one of hundreds of people who have found a stable place to live thanks to Project One for All, the County of San Diego’s extensive effort to house and provide needed services to homeless people with serious mental illness.

Multiple Drugs and Diagnoses Bryant started hearing voices at the age of 10, but she tried to suppress them. As a teenager, she started using marijuana and other drugs. By her early 20s, she was hooked on meth.

“I did it to self-medicate. I did not want to feel anything,” said Bryant, 47.

Raped and molested as a youngster, later, Bryant was diagnosed with schizophrenia, multiple personality and bipolar disorders. She was prescribed medication.

Along the way, Bryant had three daughters, but lost contact with two of them because of her continued drug use. In 2008, she had a nervous breakdown.

“I’ve had a rough life. It caught up with me,” Bryant said. She was living in Santee when she got evicted. “Losing my apartment was very hard. It was devastating,” Bryant said. “People treat you like trash. Literally, I was sleeping under bushes.”

Helping the Homeless In San Diego County, 9% of adults report a serious psychiatric distress in any given year. More than 4% of adults in the region are estimated to have a serious mental illness. Also, 9% of adults in San Diego County are estimated to suffer from substance abuse disorder.

Over the past few years, the County has made significant investments in outreach, treatment and housing services to people who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness.

This coming fiscal year, in alignment with the County’s Live Well San Diego vision, the County will be adding $50.3 million to Behavioral Health Services, bringing to $708.5 million the annual budget for mental health and substance use, with emphasis on crisis stabilization efforts and expanding the continuum of care.

The County provides housing and services to more than 1,900 clients with serious mental illness. The homes are funded through the Mental Health Services Act. “What we really are trying to do here in San Diego is break the cycle of homelessness, but also of repeated visits to the emergency department and hospital” said Luke Bergmann, director of County Behavioral Health Services. “The idea is to help people stay connected to ongoing supports so that they are able to live on their own and remain healthy.”

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New Connections After over a year of being homeless, Bryant lost all hope. Last November, she tried to kill herself.

“I was so desperate. I was homeless.

I was on drugs,” she said. “I didn’t want to live that life anymore.”

She went to a bridge, intending to jump. Luckily for her, some people intervened.

Bryant entered a psychiatric hospital, where she was connected to mental health services the Alpha Project, a County contractor and partner in helping people get off the streets. Bryant received a hotel voucher, processed her Section 8 housing application, and eventually found a new apartment in El Cajon in less than a month.

“That was the turning point for me,” Bryant said, adding that she’s been in recovery since. She stopped using drugs. Stopped see her old friends who used drugs. She began seeing a psychiatrist. She got back on her prescribed medications.

“When I got my apartment, I cried and cried,” she said. “It was a miracle. I was so in awe and so thankful.”

Slowly, Bryant is starting a new life.

Bryant said she agreed to share her story in hopes that other people in her situation realize that there is help and hope.

“There are people and programs that work for you and care for you,” Bryant said. “There’s a way out of this.”

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REPRESSION FAILS TO QUELL GHANA’S GROWING OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT GOVERNMENT OF CAMEROON

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Facing a growing pro-democracy movement, Cameroon is resorting to an old formula – namely unleashing government power in the form of threats, arrests and excessive force.

This week, hundreds of supporters of Maurice Kamto, leader of the opposition Cameroon Resistance Movement, filled the streets, demanding his release from detention but were detained themselves by security forces. According to his lawyer, Kamto could be charged with: insurrection, hostility against the homeland, criminal association, threats to public order, rebellion, group rebellion, and inciting insurrection.

A respected professor of international law, former dean of the faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences at University of Yaoundé II, and former chairman and special rapporteur of the U.N. International Law Commission, Mr. Kamto has been locked up since January 28 after he challenged the sweeping electoral victory of President Paul Biya. His offenses could result in the death penalty.

He and his other jailed supporters are reported to have begun a hunger strike.

Ida Sawyer, deputy Africa director at the NY-based Human Rights Watch, commented: “The Cameroonian government’s crackdown shows that it is unwilling to accept a role for opposition parties, sending a chilling message to those who would dare challenge the status

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quo.”

“The latest crackdown was consistent with the methods of a government whose security forces have committed grave abuses against civilians and dissenting voices in recent years.”

Local activists condemned authorities for denying lawful permits to protest – a violation of the Constitution. “We are exercising our constitutional rights,” said Christopher Ndong of the Cameroon Resistance Movement, “because we have a right to march and protest when things are going wrong.”

Human rights activist Jean Pierre Bengono also criticized the government of Paul Biya for deploying the security forces in riot gear to disperse crowds in Yaounde, Douala and Mbouda.

Organized democracies need the opposition to check political

excesses and discuss the wellbeing of its people, he maintained.

Kamto challenged the vote totals in the presidential election of October 7, 2018, and accused President Paul Biya, who has led the country for 36 years, of stealing his victory.

Beyond Cameroon’s borders, calls for his release have come from the U.N. secretary general, Amnesty International, and Board of The Hague Academy of International Law, in which Mr. Kamto serves, among others.

Government minister Paul Atanga Nji responded to the growing chorus of condemnation with a warning. “We can no longer tolerate those who undermine the laws of the republic. He [Kamto] has a hidden agenda to destabilize Cameroon. We will not give him the opportunity,” he said.

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A citizen action group – the Council of Patriots (COP) – has a long list of demands covering governance, human rights and the rule of law, national peace and reconciliation, integrity and accountability, among others.

The President was taking issue with 52 percent of Ghana’s population, the percentage of the nation comprised of women, whom he called insufficiently active to change the political structure that keeps women from leadership roles.

“I’m talking about dynamism where it matters…electing people to Parliament, controlling political parties because they are the instruments by which our societies make decisions.

“We are talking about decisions, not wishes and hopes, we are talking about decisions that are going to make the difference,” President Akufo-Addo said.

The Ghanaian President then added more fuel to the fire, implying that although his cabinet is made up of 30 percent women, they too lacked dynamism and activism.

“Ghanaian women are dynamic and passionate about gender equality,” wrote Ruby Ofori in an early tweet. @NAkufoAddo should stop complaining & start using his presidential power to remove the barriers that hold women down.”

The group has called on President Weah to part ways with some of his closed lieutenants they believe are not up to the task and may cause him more harm politically.

“We feel downhearted. We feel dissatisfied,” said Marian Barrole, a student at United Methodist University. “We feel that we are not being treated the right way.

Did he really say this at the recent Women Deliver Conference at Vancouver attended by gender activists from around the world?

Really?

Hours after his comments went viral, the earth shook with the fury of Ghanaian feminists and gender advocates calling on the President to apologize for his ill-considered remarks. Their voices echoed around the world in the form of activism hashtags on Twitter including: WeAreThe52Percent.

Liberian President George Weah is having a few bad days. And more may be on their way.

Thousands of Liberians turned out on June 7 to protest corruption and economic decline that many blame on their once hugely popular president, former soccer star George Weah.

In this day and age of “Me Too” shaking up outdated gender relationships around the world, it was somewhat unsettling to hear Ghana’s President Nana AkufoAddo demean his country’s working women as insufficiently activist and dynamic enough to obtain better leadership jobs.

We voted Ambassador George Manneh Weah for change but we have not seen the change.

We have seen the worst. So, we gather here today in our numbers to make him understand that we are suffering and he should do something about it.”

She urged the President to take

immediate action against sexual violence. “Rape matters to me so much because as a female we are being abused by many people, especially male government officials and other cruel men.

We feel that whenever girls are raped, the government cannot do

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Francis Abban followed up: “When will the affirmative action bill be sent to parliament? The fourth republic still waits almost two decades after its drafting and formulation.”

Incorporated in the so-called Women’s Manifesto, the

affirmative action bill would cement Ghana’s commitments to global declarations and protocols that called for increased women’s participation and representation in public life. But it hasn’t been enacted.

“Despite promises, assurances, pronouncements and proclamations in an election year after election year, very little action has been taken to address the systemic inequalities that prevent women from being part of the decision-making processes,” commented Ms Hamida Harrison, Program Manager at ABANTU for Development a gender and policy advocacy NGO and convener of the Women’s Manifesto Coalition.

As the crisis escalated, supporters of the President came forward to limit the damage. The women government ministers blamed the gender activists for misconstruing the President’s remarks.

“President Akufo-Addo did no wrong because he was calling on women to use their agency to amplify their voice in decisionmaking positions,” declared Minister Hajia Mahama.

“The President has challenged us and we should take up that challenge. We thank him for waking us up to do more as women,” added Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.

“Nobody in this country will dispute the dynamism of our women,” commented Prof.

Audrey Gadzekpo, Dean of the School of Communication at the University of Ghana. “From the market to other spaces, women’s dynamism is all around us.”

Underscoring efforts made by women NGOs to ensure a greater number of women in district assemblies, she concluded: “That is activism, that’s dynamism.

So by the time he says ‘people are not dynamic’, we are asking ‘what is he looking at, what is he expecting?”

Esther Armah, one of the activists behind #WeAreThe52Percent, writing in Business and Financial Times Online, declared: “The outrage continues. The activism continues too.”

The floodgates have been opened and the President, who holds the coveted African Union’s Leader on Gender and Development prize of 2017, will have his day of reckoning.

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HEALTHY LIVING

Study: Suicide second leading cause of death for African-American youth Courtesy of The Charleston Chronicle

Suicide rates for African-American adolescents are skyrocketing, says Ball State University researcher Jagdish Khubchandani, a health science professor, found that African-American adolescents (13–19 years of age) discovered that the rate of African-American male suicides The study found •

Suicides were the second leading cause of death for AA adolescents.

• In 2017, 68,528 African-American males and 94,760 females made suicide attempts serious enough that they had to be treated by health professionals.

• Males were most likely to use firearms (52%) or to hang/suffocate themselves (34%) to commit suicide.

• Females used hanging/suffocation (56%) or firearms (21%) to commit suicides.

• The 10 states with the greatest number of AA adolescent suicides (2015–2017) were: Georgia, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and Missouri.

increased by 60% and for AA females increased by 182% from 2001 to 2017. Over the 16-year period, there were 1,375 male suicides and 377 female suicides.

“The Changing Characteristics of African-American Adolescent Suicides, 2001–2017,” was recently published in the Journal of Community Health. Khubchandani worked with James Price, a professor at the University of Toledo, on the study.

To explore the nature of suicidal deaths and suicide attempts in African- American adolescents, researchers utilized the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) and the Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) database from years 2001 to 2017.

Khubchandani said firearms in the home is the greatest risk for teens and must be the greatest focus for intervention.

“Research has shown that 75% of inner city primary grade elementary school students know where their parents keep their handguns and children as young as 2 years of age have the tensile strength to pull the trigger of handguns,” he said. “A second form of protection against suicides in adolescents is having ready access to mental health care.

African-American adolescents are at higher risk than the general population to encounter serious forms of violence.

“Schools are the leading provider of mental health services for youth. Thus, there needs to be a greater emphasis on urban public schools providing adequate screening, treatment and referral services for adolescents with mental health disorders.”

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Big Boned or Overweight? How to Tell the Difference

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Chances are, you’ve probably heard these lines before.

“I’ve always been a big woman. I’m big-boned!”

“He’s a big guy; he’s not overweight. It’s just that he has a large frame.”

Somewhere along the way, many people have mistaken bones for fat, especially on overweight people who are very tall. First of all, unless you have X-ray vision, you can’t tell if someone has big bones if there’s a lot of body fat over them.

Tall people who are overfat are often referred to as “big-boned” or “large framed.” Itls fascinating, because the size of a thigh bone does not determine how much body fat is stuffed into that thigh. And how do big bones create a 40-inch waist?

A 5’10” woman who’s overweight is hardly referred to as plump or pudgy. But a 5’ 2” woman with proportionately the same amount of excess body fat is typically called plump or pudgy. Hmmm…..

The size of the fat cells and the height of a person are not related.

A tall person has longer than average bones. But

bone length has nothing to do with bone mass or body fat. A “solid” build is not to be confused with a muscular build. “Solid” is a polite way of saying that someone is overweight.

Excess body fat can be so densely packed within a particular space (such as thighs), that it almost mimics the appearance of muscle because it’s not a “fluffy” or jiggly kind of fat. When this tightlypacked fat is on a tall frame, the person is perceived as being big-boned.

Resistance training, not height, is what influences bone density and thickness.

Next time you see a “bigboned” person, imagine what his or her body fat

reading would be with a caliper skinfold test.

And even when a person has thick bones, this doesn’t necessarily mean generous girth. A thick bone on a sixfoot-tall woman can still be surrounded by a thin layer of body fat and lean muscle.

Look no further than many competitive tennis players such as Venus Williams (6’1”) and Maria Sharapova (6’2”).

And a delicate, thin bone on a six-foot-tall woman can be surrounded by layers of fat, creating the appearance of that “large frame.”

There is no relationship between bone length and fat cells period.

Diet and exercise are the key players here.

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Mrs. Gerri Warren June 22, 1946 to June 8, 2009

It was a few minutes after 10pm, and my little eyes were getting heavy. I had been working diligently on a homework assignment, and found that I was growing tired. The assignment was to make a map of a state out of dough. My mother lent her expertise toward my fifth grade project, wanting to put that extra special touch on it to ensure my good grade. She was known to be the night owl of the family, but at ten years old, I hadn’t picked up that trait. “Mommy, I’m tired. I can’t do this anymore,” I whined. She ignored me. Again, I mentioned how tired I was and that I couldn’t complete the assignment. Again, she ignored me. On my third attempt to get her attention, and approval to give-up, she left the spot where she was standing, and came and sat next to me at the kitchen table. “Chida, you have MY blood running through your veins, and as long as you do, I don’t EVER want to hear you say you’re tired.” Some way, somehow, I knew that statement was meant for more than just me completing my homework for the night, and I never forgot it.

Gerri (which means ‘Warrior’) Warren, came from a hardworking family from the South. Tired wasn’t in her vocabulary, especially when there was something to be done. Those worker bee traits she picked up in her formative years helped her to create her pathway to success. She was a true foot soldier and woman, who I can now see, was well ahead of her time. My mother was always encouraging

someone to think outside of the box, and go beyond what they believed their boundaries were. As far as she was concerned, there were no boundaries to what you could achieve. She believed that the only limits that existed were the ones placed on ourselves, due to complacency or ignorance.

Shortly after my mother passed, I found the one thing of hers that I wanted with me always… her Bible. The tattered and worn leather bound book that she left behind is what she strived to live by. Upon opening it, I found a note that she had written to herself as a reminder of her abilities.

It said “I am responsible for my environment.” I reflect on that statement often, and I reflect on the impact she had on her environment, which we are all products of. Like a pebble thrown in a pond, her accomplishments have rippled throughout this city, state and nation. If you ever had the chance to experience her – her laughter, her tears, her jokes, he anger, her sadness, her happiness, her frustrations, her love, her preaching, her compassion, her teaching, her wisdom, or her God, then take that piece of her and know that you experienced someone inimitable. As we, the family and the community, celebrate her life and legacy, I would like to remind you, to not become weary in well doing.

If you are in Christ, your reward is with the Father.

Chida R. Warren-Darby

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Words don’t convey what my heart wants to say about you. Your essence and impact on my life and members of the community is beyond words. I LOVE YOU MOM. Rest in Peace.

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Love Charles Warren

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She believed that the only limits that existed were the ones placed on ourselves, due to complacency or ignorance.

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This business is hereby registered by the following: Panorama Mortgage Group, LLC 350 S. Rampart Blvd., Ste. 310 Las Vegas, NV 89145 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 20, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 20, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012857 Fictitious business name(s): ALTERRA HOME LOANS Located at: 100 E. San Marcos Blvd., Ste. 413 & 414 San Diego, CA 92069 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 10/07/16 This business is hereby registered by the following: Panorama Mortgage Group, LLC 350 S. Rampart Blvd., Ste. 310 Las Vegas, NV 89145 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 20, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 20, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9013887 Fictitious business name(s): MALONE SWIFT COURIER SERVICES MSC SERVICES Located at: 7777 Linda Vista Rd, Apt. 9 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Byron Lamar Malone 7777 Linda Vista Rd, Apt. 9 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 30, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 30, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012717 Fictitious business name(s): A6 MOTOR SPORTS LLC Located at: 2877 53rd Street San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 03/26/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: A6 Motor Sports LLC 2877 53rd Street San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 16, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2019-9012879 Fictitious business name(s): LEVERAGE RX MORTGAGE Located at: 100 E. San Marcos Blvd., Ste. 413 San Diego, CA 92069 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limted Liability Company The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in

San Diego County on: 02/20/18 and assigned File no. 2018-9004694 Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned by: Alterra Group, LLC 350 S. Rampart Blvd., Ste. 310 Las Vegas, NV 89145 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 20, 2019 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2019-9012876 Fictitious business name(s): ALTERRA HOME LOANS Located at: 100 E. San Marcos Blvd., Ste. 413 & 414 San Diego, CA 92069 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limted Liability Company The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 10/07/16 and assigned File no. 2016-026332 Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned by: Alterra Group, LLC 1300 So. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89145 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 20, 2019 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2019-9012855 Fictitious business name(s): ALTERRA HOME LOANS Located at: 7676 Hazard Center Drive, Ste. 220 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limted Liability Company The Fictitious Business Name referred to above was filed in San Diego County on: 12/21/18 and assigned File no. 2018-9031207 Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned by: Alterra Group, LLC 350 S. Rampart Blvd., Ste. 310 Las Vegas, NV 89145 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 20, 2019 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9013314 Fictitious business name(s): KINDRED CONNECTIONS VISITATION Located at: 4816 Federal Blvd San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/23/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Stephanie Lorraine Branigan 4816 Federal Blvd San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 23, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 23, 2024 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012598 Fictitious business name(s): PEPE'S CARPET STEAM CLEANING Located at: 2626 Menlo Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 01/07/08 This business is hereby registered by the following: Isaias Espinosa Ordones 2626 Menlo Ave San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with

the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 16, 2024 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012569 Fictitious business name(s): SOUTHEAST FUSION 619 ENTERTAINMENT PIECES Located at: 8107 Helm Street San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/15/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Lamicka Shawntae Motton 8107 Helm Street San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 15, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9011197 Fictitious business name(s): ON TIME TRANSPORTATION Located at: 7614 Lemon Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 07/01/15 This business is hereby registered by the following: On Time LLC 7614 Lemon Ave Lemon Grove, CA 91945 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 1, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 1, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012541 Fictitious business name(s): EXTRAORDINARY BANANA PUDDING Located at: 4041 Home Ave. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/15/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Toran Daveh Grays 4041 Home Ave. San Diego, CA 92105 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 15, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 15, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012705 Fictitious business name(s): DAVIS TRUCK RENTAL Located at: 2776 Sweetwater Blvd Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/16/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kevin Davis 4525 Alta Lane ste B La Mesa, CA 91941 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 16, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012698 Fictitious business name(s):

Located at: 3415 Lou Street National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Melissa Moses 3415 Lou Street National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 06, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 06, 2024 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9013144 Fictitious business name(s): MARC'S DOES IT ALL Located at: 1678 Klauber Avenue #3 San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Marcquel Anthony Rogers 1678 Klauber Avenue #3 San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 21, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 21, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 -----------------------------------

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NATIONAL BATHTUB REFINISHERS Located at: 732 1st Avenue Chula Vista, CA 91910 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Married Couple The first day of business was 01/01/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: a. Frances M. Morales b. Jose Gonzalo Morales Rios 732 1st Avenue Chula Vista, CA 91910 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 16, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 16, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012019 Fictitious business name(s): A LOVE CHECK Located at: 7841 Shorwood Drive San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was 04/22/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Davin & Hughes LLC 7841 Shorwood Drive San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 9, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 9, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9011602 Fictitious business name(s): K-CUTZ BARBERSHOP SAN DIEGO BARBERFEST Located at: 6461 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/01/12 This business is hereby registered by the following: Khalil Je Bryant 1608 So. 42nd Street San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 6, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 6, 2024 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13 -----------------------------------

matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 1, 2019 Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101.

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,Voice & Viewpoint.

6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00028095-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Thomas Ashmore and Azaleah Ashmore TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Lealani Antoinette Ashmore LaFleur PROPOSED NAME: Lealani Antoinette Ashmore THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 15, 2019 Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101.

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,Voice & Viewpoint.

6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00021220CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Leelahnie Gordillo TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows:

NAME CHANGE

PRESENT NAME: Leelahnie Gordillo

California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00020206-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: Le Da Huyen Nhi TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows:

PROPOSED NAME: Leelahnie Tortoledo

PRESENT NAME: Le Da Huyen Nhi PROPOSED NAME: Nikki Tran, L THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 11, 2019 Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept. 903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101.

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,Voice & Viewpoint.

6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------California County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 37-2019-00024492-CU-PTCTL Petitioner or Attorney: AnnaMarie Ashley Martinez TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: filed a petition with this court for decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: AnnaMarie Ashley Martinez PROPOSED NAME: Abena Jua Abdallah THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court hearing to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted: NOTICE OF HEARING Date: June 27, 2019 Time: 9:00 A.M. Dept.

C-903, The address of the court is: 1100 Union Street San Diego, CA 92101.

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,Voice & Viewpoint.

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PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Gladys Hollins Case Number: 37-2019-00016970-PR-LACTL To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwside be interested in the will or estate, or both of GLADYS HOLLINS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by COSTANSIA CROSBY Petitioner, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

THE PETTION FOR PROBATE request that COSTANSIA CROSBY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority

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will allow the personal an inventory and appraisal of representative to take many estate assets or any petition actions without obtainin or account as provided in gcoura pproval.

Probate Code Section 1250.

Before taking certain very A Request for Special Notice important actions, however, form is available from the the personal representative Court Clerk. will be required to give notice to interested persons unless Attorney for petitioner: they have waived notice or Marquetta Stewart Brown consented to the proposed 283093 action.) The independent Law Office of Rosemary adminstration authority will Meagher-Leonard: be granted unless an interested 4456 Florida Street, San person files an objection to Diego, CA 92116 petition and shows good cause (619) 295-8705 why the court should not grant 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held at the following court on June 26, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 502 located in Superior Court of California 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101.

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 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9052.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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 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: Marquetta Stewart Brown 283093 Law Office of Marquetta Stewart-Brown PO BOX 881363 San Diego, CA 92168 (619) 656-2128 6/6, 6/13, 6/20 -----------------------------------NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Marjorie Mitchell Case Number: 37-2019-00028738-PR-LACTL A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROSEMARY MEAGHERLEONARD Petitioner, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

THE PETTION FOR PROBATE request that DANIELLE MITCHELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of 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 obtainin gcoura pproval.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held at the following court on July 25, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. in Department 503 located in Superior Court of California 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101.

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 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9052.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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

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the vice president overnight.

Do it over time. There is no continued from page 3 such thing as an overnight success. Social media can be very misleading where without mastering the level people seem to pop out of you are on currently. nowhere with the perception that are doing great things.

Often, we get wrapped up Most certainly, they have in someone else’s journey been working hard at their and want to compare theirs career or business for a to ours. Truth is, you never while, but their work is just know what work they did now starting to “bloom” behind the scenes to get from the seeds they have to where they are today. planted. Stay consistent and People only show you what you will see growth soon. they want to show you. The struggle and work are often Do the work. There isn’t left out. much explanation needed for this one. You have to The work can be unsexy. I devote the time, sweat and totally get it and understand. tears into making your goals We often find ourselves realities. Seek out mentors unmotivated to just even that will help you stay start. Our checklist is next accountable, steer towards to us but then we seem what you need to do, and to use every excuse and give constructive criticism distraction to delay us from (and not just a pat on the diving into what needs to be back). Wake up, get dressed done. and do the work, every day.

This is where determination kicks in. If you truly want to succeed you have to start.

There is no magic pill, secret sauce or easy button – the magic is in the action.

Here are a couple ways to help you navigate the work: Do it with purpose. Don’t confuse purpose with passion. Many of us lead with passion because we are ready for an end result such as a paycheck or an award.

At the end of the day, purpose will prevail due to it being your calling. Many people working in corporate or as an entrepreneur lead with purpose because it’s what we truly love doing.

We wouldn’t endure the sacrifices, long nights, stress if we weren’t truly doing it for purpose. I’m not saying you can’t have passion about your purpose, but make sure purpose is your number one focus.

Don’t skip the steps. Make a plan. Want to move up the corporate ladder? Map out a 5-year plan on how you’re going to get to your desired position(s). Along the way you may need to complete additional educational or professional development courses. Do them. You can’t jump from an assistant to

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anything, no investigation.

“The case of the students at the United Methodist School on the highway that was allegedly raped and killed and many other victims, most of them young girls and nothing can be done.

So, I am holding my placard to say stop the rape. We are future leaders and they should stop destroying our future.”

Economic issues are at the forefront of the list of many complaints, starting from a stagnant economy in which most still live in deep poverty and a scandal in which the country last year lost $100 million in newly printed bank notes destined for the central bank.

“Weah is not governing our state the right way,” said Ishmael Hassan, who voted for Weah in 2017 but has since become disillusioned.

“The economic situation in our country is going down the drain,” he told a reporter.

Among the other allegations against the government the misuse of public funds, violating press freedoms, and failing to adequately fund health and education programs.

Even Weah is accused of constructing “scores of luxury homes” after he declined to publicly declare his assets.

“I supported this government, but the way things are going, we want to save the state,” said protestor Bob Blue.

Netblocks, an NGO that monitors internet freedom, said that the Liberian government has blocked Twitter, F a c e b o o k , Instagram, Snapchat and Whatsapp in response to the protests.

Liberia’s Minister of Information confirmed the black out to CNN and said it was due to “security concerns.”

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A member of the Council of Patriots, Henry Costa, told Deutsche Welle news: “We are in North Korea.

We have a dictator on our head.”

The protests were given the #SavetheState hashtag on social media.

The Council of Patriots held out the prospect of saving Liberia from “total breakdown”.

“Encouraged by growing consensus among Liberians at home and abroad about the need for urgent, peaceful and concerned citizens’ mass actions to save the Liberian state from total breakdown as the governance environment continues to worsen.”

DOCUMENTARY: continued from page 1 Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” the first comprehensive historical documentary on the iconic organization, and “Tell Them We are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities,” which chronicled the 150-year history and impact of HBCUs. Both films garnered the highest AfricanAmerican viewership for any Independent Lens broadcast, according to a news release.

The announcement comes just as the country begins to mark the 400thanniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to colonial Virginia in August 1619.

The date commemorates the deep impact the transatlantic slave trade would have upon the founding of the United States.

“The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that took place across centuries and reached every corner of the globe,” said Nelson whose most recent work included, “The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords.”

“It’s impossible to understand the modern world without a grasp of the transatlantic slave trade.

The business of buying and selling human beings shaped economic, social and political institutions; established racial and geographic hierarchies; and entrenched wealth disparities,” Nelson said in a news release.

In four one-hour programs, each covering a defined historical period and featuring a specific voyage as its narrative spine, the series explores the demographic, economic and moral transformations wrought by the slave trade, African participation and resistance to the trade, the business of the trade and the experience of enslaved people at the heart of the trade.

Leveraging the latest scholarship, forensic science and recently unearthed archival material found across four continents, the series will challenge widespread popular misconceptions about the slave trade.

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AROUND TOWN In collaborataion with Black Men & Black Women United The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint please join us for

CONGRATULATIONS! Andrea Michelle Floyd

Your family and friends take pleasure in commending you on earning a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies Education with a focus on Literacy from San Diego State University. It has been a long and winding road little sister. You stayed focused and demonstrated grit and determination.

BLACK STUDENT ACHIEVEMET AND SUCCESS FORUM with Special Guest President of San Diego City College

Dr. Ricky Shabazz

Calling all parents, teachers, activists,educators and community members, please join us in our meeting in which Dr. Ricky Shabazz will express his mission and goals to actively and effectively support Black student success and prepare them to transition into a four year University.

Dr. Shabazz will also be introducing the College Promise Program that guarantees two years of free college for all city college students.

You are all encouraged to come out to participate in this open forum and engage in this necessary dialogue to ensure that African American students are given the tools in order to thrive at the community college level and beyond.

As statistics demonstrate, African Americans have disproportionately failed at the Community College level.

Let’s change the narrative. Black minds do matter!

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You finished strong with a high GPA. Your accomplishments are no surprise to us because you are a very gifted, bright and special person.

Remember, contrary to what some people will have you believe, there has never, nor will there ever be a substitute for Academic Excellence, Scholarship and Ethical Behavior in America. Are you listening people?

Always remember the values taught to you by your family, because they will serve you well in the future...

Affiliate yourself with a good Bible-based house of worship, be knowledgeable of and proud of your heritage. Stand your ground. There is little room for compromise here. Worship daily. You will find this to be a source of strength in challenging times. “For unto whomsoever much is given, much is required.”

(Luke 1:48). Be kind and truthful to people and you’ll get along alright. Do unto others as you have them do unto you for such is the Golden Rule. By the grace and blessings of Almighty God and prayers you will be fine.

Again, congratulations and you will never know how proud you make your family feel. We love you!

Your Family: Nate and Pam Floyd, Nick & D.J., Jimmy Jr., Aunt “T” Dell, Grandma Doris and Papa Lovett.

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