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DEMOCRATS HOLD HEARING ON WHITE SUPREMACY

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The following is a summary of a 2017 study of conventional and non-conventional home-purchase lending patterns in San Diego County’s Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino communities by the San Diego City- County Reinvestment Task Force member banks. It

confirms what many already know: racism continues to show itself in the lending practices of six financial institutions in San Diego County that are a part of the Task Force which was established in 1977 to implement the federal Community Reinvestment Act at the local level.

This study, which looked at those six banks from 2013 to 2017, revealed that all six of the financial institutions granted less than one percent of their county-wide home-purchase loans to area Blacks/African Americans in calendar year 2017. This community, according to the data,

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BLACK POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION HONORS

Democratic committee members have said they would press those members of Trump’s cabinet on their “budgets and allocations of personnel, data collection practices, and strategic plans” to address threats from white supremacists.

BLACK PIONEERS OF POLICING

By Rulette Armstead Contributing Writer

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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

House Democrats on Tuesday, June 4, grilled officials from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security during a hearing focusing on how the Trump administration is addressing the growing threat of violent white supremacist groups.

The House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing, titled “Confronting White Supremacy: Adequacy of the Federal Response,” reportedly is the latest effort by Democrats to spotlight ways they say the Trump administration has systematically cut back on resources used to address threats from domestic extremists even as the FBI has reported a 30 percent to 40 percent rise in domestic terrorism cases just since October.

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The Black Pioneers of Policing Committee celebrated its Second Annual Gala on June 14, 2019, at the Jacobs Center with Retired Assistant Chief of Police Rulette Armstead as its keynote speaker. Chief Armstead retired from the San Diego Police Department 14 years ago, after 31 years of service to the San Diego community. In her remarks, she readily admitted that all the changes she had hoped for in policing during her years of service had not happened. However, she stated that her continued vision for 21st century policing leadership is to see 7 (seven) seeds planted, cultivated, and grown in the field of policing, to include the seeds of leadership, knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, diversity, control of the use of force, and community policing.

Regarding the seed of leadership, Armstead spoke about the need to change the policing authoritarian organizational culture to one of transformational and

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servant leadership in order to move decision-making down to the lowest levels so that sergeants and lieutenants can actively make decisions and lead officers into true professionalism; thus moving policing from fear to fostering, with increased listening by administrators to officers and people in neighborhoods, with coaching, mentoring, and shared responsibility as the most important characteristics of

a police leader. Armstead quoted a published article written by the President of the Black Police Officers’ Association, Benjamin Kelso, in which he writes, “When considering best practices, law enforcement models of the past do not provide solutions for today’s problems…many times, police leadership tends to resist or reject change in favor of maintaining the status quo.”

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NEWS & ARTICLE CONTINUATION Hearing:

BERNIE SANDERS SOLE CANDIDATE TO ADDRESS

BLACK PRESS AT NATIONAL CONVENTION

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

Every major newspaper and news organization in the country has labeled the Black vote crucial to success in the 2020 presidential election, and statistics show that African Americans are 60% more likely to utilize and trust print-related resources for information than the general public.

However, of the 24 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Bernie Sanders (IVT) is the only one that has agreed to address key influencers of the African American community — the Black Press of America — at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual convention later this month in Cincinnati, Ohio.

It’s no secret that Sanders has work to do to get his campaign message through to African Americans. “We thought we could do respectably in South Carolina, and we got decimated,” Sanders said in a campaign memo released earlier this year in which he discussed losing the Black vote to Hillary Clinton in South Carolina.

Clinton won an astonishing 86 percent of South Carolina’s Black voters in 2016.

The NNPA represents Black-owned newspapers with millions of weekly readers across the country, including

major markets like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, Chicago and all of the nation’s “swing” states.

U. S. Senator Bernie (I-VT) has openly reached out to African American leaders like NAACP President Derrick Johnson and others, where he’s discussed the economic climate, voter suppression, jobs and other issues facing the Black community.

“You’ve got to win Black voters to win the primary,” Lawrence Moore, a former Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention, told NBC News.

“It took [Sanders] a while to grow into and learn the issues, but he’s willing to listen and understand, unlike other politicians,” Moore said.

In a poll commissioned by The Black Economic Allianceand conducted

by Hart Researchand Brossard Research, Sanders currently trails former Vice President Joe Biden among Black voters.

The poll, which measured how enthusiastic Black voters are about the Democratic presidential candidates, showed that 76 percent of respondents said they were most enthusiastic about Biden; 64 percent said they were most enthusiastic about Sanders who finished ahead of Sens. Kamala Harris of California (53 percent) and Cory Booker of New Jersey (43 percent).

African Americans surveyed said affordable healthcare, college and the creation of more jobs with good benefits, were most important.

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Sanders has openly reached out to African American leaders like NAACP President Derrick Johnson and others, where he’s discussed the economic climate, voter suppression, jobs and other issues facing the Black community.

In addition to Sanders’ campaign office, NNPA Newswire has contacted each of the remaining 24 Democratic presidential candidates for comment, including Biden, Harris, Booker, and Texas’ Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand.

“The path to economic security is rocky for families in America but that path is even rockier for Black families who have stared down

decades of government sponsored discrimination and institutional racism,” Sen. Warren told NNPA Newswire in an email.

“This campaign is about making our government and our economy work for everyone and Black Americans will be on the frontlines of that conversation. The Black Press of America and its journalists are an integral part of how we make our democracy work,” Warren said.

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The hearing included FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Michael McGarrity, FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Criminal Investigations Calvin Shivers and DHS assistant secretary Elizabeth Neumann.

Democratic committee members have said they would press those members of Trump’s cabinet on their “budgets and allocations of personnel, data collection practices, and strategic plans” to address threats from white supremacists.

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In addition to the decision to skip the NNPA’s Annual Convention, With the exceptions of Warren and O’Rourke, no other candidates responded to our request for comment.

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represents 4.3% of the county population, according to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).

Other key findings of the study revealed that Citibank granted zero home purchase loans to Blacks/African Americans in 2017. Of 173 applications accepted county-wide, only one was submitted by local Blacks/African Americans.

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Bank of America granted less than five percent (4.65%) of its home purchase loans to local Hispanics/Latinos in 2017.

But this bank’s Task Force member banks in 2017 invested only 3% of their total local deposit base in area low-and-moderate income communities. This represented a reduction of forty-eight percent, when compared to a 5.8% output in 2013.

Low-and-moderate income is defined as between zero and seventy-nine percent of an area’s median household income. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 2017 San Diego region’s median household income was $76,207.00.

Therefore, the low-and-moderate income category would have been from $0$60,203.50. While these few figures only

touch the surface of the data reviewed for this study, all the home loan lending data used for this report are available on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Home Mortgage Disclosure Act database.

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act is a federal law that was enacted in January 1976. Its purpose is to provide citizens and public officials with sufficient information to enable them to determine whether financial institutions are serving the housing needs of the communities and neighborhoods in which they are located.

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data shows the geographic distribution of home loans and applications; ethnicity, race, sex, and income of applicants and borowers; as well as information regarding loan approvals and denials.

The author of this study is David Gilbert Oddo, a longtime San Diego resident with extensive knowledge in the field of mortgage lending discrimination. He is a graduate of the University of San Diego and a former VISTA Volunteer at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.

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Things to Remember as Politics Heat Up

By Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

As candidates come before us, many will rush to endorse people because you either know them or have seen them or think they are nice people; because they recite some things that you are either familiar with or you like how they sound.

None of these are reasons for early endorsements of people running for office. Here are a few reasons why: (1) If you are a person of your word, an early endorsement locks you in with support of a candidate you might later want to reconsider as other candidates emerge; (2) An early endorsement takes away your bargaining power for things that might be considerably important to you. An endorsement gives that power to the person you support

without any upfront assurances that they will protect or fight for your interest and (3) It makes your voice unimportant to all others who don’t support your candidate.

Let’s make some demands that reflect our known interest and not just buy speeches that recite problems with no known solutions to solve them. Remember there are only three things America respects: the dollar, bad publicity and a vote cast against their interest. Let’s not give away what little we have without getting something real and tangible in return.

racism as a public health crisis decided to take a unique approach by declaring racism a public health crisis.

Milwaukee is one of the most racially unequal cities in the country, coming in at No. 2 last year on a list of “The Worst Cities for Black Americans” by 24/7 Wall Street, a financial news site. The report blamed Milwaukee’s discriminatory housing policies throughout the 20th century for the city’s current inequality.

By Jessicah Pierre Guest Commentary

Racism is often viewed as an action performed by individuals. But even if we got rid of all America’s prejudiced individuals, racism would still exist in the systems they built.

Systemic racism, writer Jenee Desmond-Harris explains, refers to how racial disparities operate “in major parts of U.S. society: the economy, politics, education, and more.”

Racism, in other words, isn’t just someone using a racial slur.

It’s also the poor schooling in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods, the racial wealth gap, housing discrimination, mass incarceration, police killings of unarmed black and brown people, higher infant mortality rates for people of color, and unequal access to health care.

As governments struggle to address (or even acknowledge) these racial inequalities, officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Citing research by the University of WisconsinMadison, it noted that “16 of the 18 suburbs of Milwaukee County enacted restrictive housing covenants in the 1940s, many of which remained in effect into the 1960s and 1970s.”

This segregation contributed to deep income and wealth inequality today.

Even now, the typical black household in Milwaukee earns less than half the typical white household. And “while the white poverty rate in Milwaukee of 7.6 percent is one of the lowest in the country,” the report notes, “the black poverty rate of 36.4 percent is among the highest.”

When it comes to imprisonment, the story is the same. Black people in Wisconsin are locked up at nearly 11 times the rate of whites, and more than half of Milwaukee’s black people in their 30s have served time behind bars.

In the end, where does all this lead? Across the state of

Wisconsin, it means black people live about six years fewer than white people, with even greater disparities at the local level.

By declaring such racism a public health crisis, Milwaukee County officials are committing to put racial equity at the core of all city procedures, to advocate for policies that improve health in communities of color, and to train their employees on how racism impacts residents.

Finally, they hope to encourage other local, state, and national officials to recognize racism as a public health issue. “We have a moral imperative to put our indifference aside in the face of injustice,” said Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, and to “ensure every resident in every neighborhood benefits.”

Abele couldn’t be more right.

Like the late great Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Black Americans deserve an end to racial inequality, but eradicating systemic racism would strike at the heart of inequalities that hold down Americans of all colors.

The solutions can be complex, but bold ideas like Milwaukee’s are a great start.

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JOINT POSITION STATEMENT CONCERNING THE SAN DIEGO CHIEF OF POLICE

By The Cannon Justice Coalition Open Letter

We, the undersigned, are a coalition of concerned citizens of San Diego. Our affiliations are diverse nonprofit organizations, religious institutions, educators, business professionals, parents, social services advocates, students, and neighborhood residents; we are a cross section of our community – and are united in our outrage over the circumstances of the arrest of Trenelle Cannon, and the subsequent public pronouncements made by the City of San Diego Chief of Police regarding the incident.

Warrants do not warrant a beating. Trenelle Cannon was unarmed and nonviolent at the time of his apprehension. The edited clips released by SDPD do not accurately depict the true events surrounding his arrest.

The police officer aggressively threatening Trenelle’s girlfriend (and witness) Shakira against filming the arrest with her cell phone is a clear violation of her rights - an apparent effort to obfuscate the facts, and to rationalize the heavy-handed police action. The helicopter footage subsequently released supports Shakira’s assertions of the incident, belying the public statement of the Chief of Police.

The public must be able to trust the police department, its officers, and its leadership.

When the City of San Diego, its representatives, and its leadership, try a criminal case in the court of public opinion, it impairs the ability of the public, and especially the Black community, to trust that due process will be received by those of us who have encounters with public safety officers. We fail to see how there can be a truthful internal fact-finding investigation by the SDPD Internal Affairs Department, when the Chief of Police has tainted the investigation with false, misleading statements, and come to a publicly announced conclusion that the officers were justified in their treatment of Trenelle.

There have been repeated complaints of excessive force, racial discrimination and profiling, and police brutality involving The Gang Suppression Unit. Further, even in cases resulting in death, the investigations conducted by Internal Affairs and/or the District Attorney have exonerated public safety

officers who have engaged in activities that not only would not be tolerated, but would incur criminal charges, if committed by civilians. This calls into question whether departmental policies will be created and city, county, and state legislation passed that hold accountable those police officers who do to our children things we know they would never allow to be done to their children.

Given these heinous and unacceptable circumstances that repeatedly occur, particularly with people of color, we hereby make the following collective demands: A. An independent third party investigation of the behavior and background of the officers involved in the arrest of Trenelle Cannon B. The release of the personnel records of the officers involved, to the extent allowed pursuant to recently enacted SB 1421 C. An independent third party investigation of other similar excessive force incidents with the SDPD D. All footage from the body worn cameras of the officers involved be released E. All previously released edited footage be re-released as unedited, original footage F. The Coalition be given access to the same footage as the SDPD, that allegedly demonstrates Mr. Cannon’s combativeness G. The abolishment of the Gang Suppression Unit that is at the core of many similar complaints of police brutality and excessive force here in San Diego H. An apology Police to the his misleading edited footage public

by the Chief of community for statements and released to the

I. Corrective measures being taken with regard to the current SDPD policies and practices surrounding racial discrimination, racial profiling, and excessive force J. Absent Points F, H, and I above, we expect the resignation, or removal, of Chief of Police David Nisleit from office The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, “It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in See STATEMENT page 13

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OBITUARIES Minnie Bell Scott

Dale Rodney Murdock

Larry Torrey

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SUNRISE April 27, 1965

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MINNIE BELL MORGAN was born June 1, 1924 in Ellisville, Mississippi to Morris and Minnie Morgan. Minnie Bell was the fifth of seven children. She began her education in Mississippi.

The family later moved to Florida, where she graduated and earned her high school diploma.

On October 10, 1948 in Dayton, Ohio Dale Rodney Murdock was born to Claudius Iles and Emma Carolyn Iles. He was in the womb with his late brother Dave Roger Iles. He went home and joined his older brother Don Robert Iles.

Larry Torrey was the third child born to Donald and Junko Torrey, on April 27, 1965 in San Diego, California.

In 1945, Minnie Bell met Norman E. Scott. They were united in marriage on June 18, 1947 in Georgia. There were four children born to their union: two sons, Norman Jr. and Larcellus Sr. and two daughters, Dolores Ann and Dorothy Mae . The Scott family permanently relocated to San Diego, California in 1955.

Minnie Bell was a homemaker while raising her four children.

She later was employed by the San Diego City School District, where she worked as a service worker for over twenty years. She was the neighborhood mom, and her beauty was seen by all who knew her. She was a devoted wife and mother; family always came first. She was an exceptional baker, and she loved to bake cakes for family and friends.

On September 23, 1971, she initiated into S.P Johnson and became an Eastern Star in San Diego, California. Later, she merged with Ada B. Cleveland in 2008, and was a lifetime member. Minnie Bell served as Worthy Matron in 1977 and 1993. In 1998, she became a member of the Golden Circle Silver Strand Assembly No. 91, and was also a member of the Azeem Court No. 104 DOI.

Dale spent his childhood in Dayton Ohio later moving to Cleveland. Emma and sons headed West to San Diego where she met Brister O. Murdock. They married becoming the Murdock Family. Dale attended Crawford High School then went on the Tuskegee University. Dale spent his early career at the Post Office. Dale married Gwendolyn Moore and they had a son, Dale Rodney Murdock II. Dale loved to cook and make food for his friends and family and competed in a chili cookoff. Later in life Dale was employed

by Costco the job that he eventually retired. Dale was an awesome friend and faithful companion to his favorite person Gwen Murdock. Augie Cowan being his best friend was always spending time with Dale, watching sports and taking one another’s children for fun and games.

Dale passed away on the morning of June 8, 2019. He will be sorely missed.

Larry received his formal education in the San Diego school district and obtained his high school diploma.

Larry met Julia Reid in 1997 and she became his wife in 2003.

Larry was baptized at an early age, and was committed to kindness, generosity, seeing the best in every person he came in contact with and striving to always do the right thing. He was a happy go lucky kind of guy, always smiling and never said no.

“Yes” was his favorite answer. As a worker, he was a handyman extraordinaire.

Preceding Larry in death was; mother and father, Junko and Donald Torrey; and brother Dwight Torrey.

Larry was called to rest on Monday, May 27, 2019 in Jamul, California. Left to celebrate his home going is his wife Julia Reid-Torrey, three children daughter, Alzia, sons, Larry, Jr., Tivis John, and Jurral, all of San Diego. He also leaves his big sister Rumi Doherty (James Doherty), nephew Jalen, and grandchild Alzary, and a host of other relatives, as well as many friends who mourn his passing.

Minnie Bell answered our Father’s call to have forever Peace and Happiness, parting from this life at the age of ninety-five.

Minnie Bell was preceded in death by her parents, Morris and Minnie Morgan; her husband, Norman E. Scott Sr.; her son Larcellus Scott Sr.; four brothers: Morris Morgan Jr., Joseph Morgan, J.P. Morgan and C.J. Morgan; one sister, Annie Laura Fulton; and two grandchildren, LaShannette Mitchell and Larcellus Scott Jr. She leaves to cherish her memory of an amazing life lived one son, Norman E. Scott Jr.; two daughters, Dolores Greenlee and Dorothy Nash and nine grandchildren: great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. She has a host of family and friends that she will also be greatly missed by.

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

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OBITUARIES Vickie Oaks

Lillie Mae DeRouen

Evelyn Hamilton

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Vickie Lynn Oaks was a wonderful woman that will be loved, missed, and will always be cherished. She was smart always helpful to others and a caring person, mother and daughter.

Lillie Mae Derouen came into this world on May 3, 1927 the same day as her mother in River Rouge, MI, to the union of Hattie Bell and Fletcher Lee Jackson. She was the sixth child of 14 children. Lillie started school in River Rouge and later graduated and obtained her high school diploma.

EVELYN ANN HAMILTON was born April 25, 1931 in San Diego, CA. She was the second of five children born to Ozie Lee Simmons and Ethel Marie Ford. She attended Logan Elementary, Memorial Junior High, and San Diego High. When Evelyn was 21 years old her mother passed away, so she took on a parental role in caring for her younger sister Dorothy, ensuring she finished her education and putting her through nursing school.

Vickie was born on July 1, 1954, the third child of seven to Ruby Montgomery and Eddie Smith in Chickasha, Oklahoma. When Vickie was young Ruby moved their family to Anthony, Kansas, where Vickie would spend her early years into adulthood. As a child Vickie was really active and known as a tomboy. After her early education she attained her Associates Degree in Nursing and worked as a nurse until 1973. Then she decided to relocate to Odessa, Texas where she continued her career. There she met Felix Toca, spending many years together and later welcoming two sons into the world. Vickie also worked as a secretary, moving up to a high demand managerial position with Manpower.

In 1987, after their son Juan Felix Morales Toca was born, Vickie and Felix moved the family to San Diego, CA., where they welcome their second son into the world Antonio Ray Morales Toca the following year.

Vickie’s children, extended children, and grandchildren were her heart and joy, there’s no denying that. Her love was limitless. She touched so many hearts throughout his her life, teaching and caring for children, family, and people in general. Leaving us all with such beautiful memories.

Loved ones that cleared the path for Vickie are her grandmother Jesse Lee Hooper, grandfather King Taylor, great-grandmother Gertrude West, great-grandfather Jack Knoll, and in-law Bessie Richardson.

Loved ones that will miss Vickie until they meet again; mother Ruby Montgomery; sons Juan Felix Morales Tocaon and Antonio Ray Morales Toca; grandchildren Trevion Morales Toca, Antonio Ray Toca, Jojuan Morales-Toca, Tania Rivera, Mia Riviera and Q’Ayden Morales Toca; siblings and in-laws, brother Jack and Louis Richardson, brother Jon and Sheila Taylor, brother Charles and Tammy Ricks, sister Merle and Charles Young, sister Rebecca and Samuel Wallace, brother James Ricks; extended brother Donald Estridge; best friend and father of her children Felix Toca; brother-in-laws Juan Morales, Antonio Morales and Lazaro Toca; extended children Thishonna Bonner, Nicole Bohanon, Cora Fuller, Daniella Estridge, Marcus Bishop, Lavion Estridge, and Tamara Bryant; and a host of other family and friends.

Lillie was baptized and became a member of Calvary Baptist Church for many years before she became shut-in. Lillie also served on the Usher Board for many years. She enjoyed her time on the usher board and spreading the word of God to each and everyone. Lillie volunteered at St. Stephens COGIC with infants and toddlers in child care and was affectionately known as Grandma Lillie. After completing beauty school she took a strong liking to the hair weaving process and enrolled herself into the Christine Jenkins Hair Weave Academy.

Lillie was the first black female to bring the hair weaving techniques to San Diego, where she opened her first shop on Imperial Avenue. In 1988 sister Lillie Derouen thought she could make a difference in her community by helping those who had fallen on hard times with food, shelter, and clothes. Most importantly introducing them to the word of God. Jesus Is The Way Ministry was founded by Lillie providing 24-hour referral service, job training, clothes, food, and shelter. She continued to help her community by fostering and adopting those in need. She was even in numerous clubs and organizations such as the Women’s Civic League, Eastern Stars, and the ToastMasters.

Lillie enjoyed traveling with various church members. She had the privilege to visit places such as the Tombs of Egypt, Jerusalem, and Paris just to name a few. Lillie had a love for gardening, especially flowers. A person could brighten her day if they gave her a bouquet of flowers. Lillie’s favorite pastime was eating. She would often say, you know I have a hearty appetite. Her favorite cuisine was soul food and barbeque. Lillie truly made a difference in her community with her kind loving-heart and spreading the word of God with her beautiful smile.

Lillie was preceded in death by her parents, eight siblings, two children Jackie and Belinda Anders, Lillie is survived by three daughters, Tanya Anders, Norweida Brashear Kimiko Brashear, four sons Tyrone Anders, Zardis Brashear, Darnell Anders, Demetrius Brashear; two sisters Ruth Flowers, Addie Lee Jackson; three brothers Gus Jackson (Patricia) Harry Jackson (Eunice), Samuel Jackson (Barbara); twenty-one grandchildren Ronnie, Jr., Tanzania, Nena, Jamal, Sierra, Tracey, Donzale, Lonnie, Marcus, Renee, La Shay, Kyiesha, Tyresha, Dupri, Joshua, Kenya, Demetrius, Khadijah, Tasha, Malik, and Mecca; and many great-grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives and many, many good friends.

Evelyn married Hubert Hamilton, from Seminole, OK on July 4, 1959 after meeting on a blind date. This union produced three children, Elyse and twins Maurice and Marilyn. As a Navy family, Evelyn and Hubert were stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years before returning to the mainland. Through the years, Evelyn worked for the San Diego Unified School District, General Dynamics, and after several years of service went on to retire as a valued employee of Union Bank in 1991.

She was a faithful member of Logan Temple AME Zion church for over 60 years. Evelyn was involved in the Hospitality Club, and on the Financial Board. Her biggest accomplishment at Logan Temple, was faithfully making her children go to church as each of them, in God’s timing, accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and her husband eventually joined the church and began attending and serving as well. Evelyn had many pleasures in her life – she enjoyed dancing and was involved in quite a few dance contests as a youth. She enjoyed tending to the roses that grew in her front yard, she loved putting up Christmas decorations, and enjoyed going to the Del Mar Fair. She enjoyed attending various social functions and events with friends and family, including her annual high school reunion with BFF since junior high, Lallene Burns. Evelyn was also a faithful friend, maintaining relationships that have lasted decades. She also became quite the traveler later in life – traveling to North Carolina, revisiting Hawaii after 50 years, and Washington DC to visit family, attend a Vietnam Veterans’ event and enjoyed the opportunity to tour and dine at CIA headquarters.

Evelyn was deeply loved by her family and friends and will be greatly missed. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters Elise Simmons and Irene Dilsworth, and her brother Al Simmons.

On June 7, 2019, Evelyn passed away peacefully at home with her family by her side. She leaves to cherish her memory her husband of 59 years, Hubert Hamilton; daughters Elyse Keon and Marilyn Hamilton; Son Maurice Hamilton; grandson Matthew Keon; sister Dorothy Woolfolk and a host of other relatives and many friends.

If Tomorrow Never Comes

If I knew it would be the last time that I’d see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in the more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.

If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.

If I knew it would be the last time I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would videotape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.

If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare and extra minute or two to stop and say, “I love you,” instead of assuming, you would know I do.

If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well I’m sure you’ll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away. For surely there’s always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything right.

There will always be another day to say “I love you’s”, And certainly

there’s another chance to say our “Anything I can do’s?”

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I’d like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget,

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight. So if you’re waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if tomorrow never comes, you’ll surely regret the day, That you didn’t take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.

So hold your loved ones close today, whispher in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and chat you’ll always hold them dear.

Take rime to say “I’m sorry,” “please forgive me, “thank you” or “It‘s okay” And if tomorrow never comes, you’ll have no regrets about today.

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Black Pioneers Port of Policing Master Plan

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Chief Rulette Armstead

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On June 12th the Port of San Diego held a community meeting at the La Mesa Community Center on the integrated planning port master plan update. The Port of San Diego has been conducting a comprehensive and inclusive Integrated Planning initiative to update our Port Master Plan, which is similar to what is known as a General Plan in a city or county. This effort spans 6,000 acres of water and land on and around San Diego Bay and is often referred to as “the future of the Port.” As a blueprint for baywide development, it will create certainty for developers and community members by codifying a vision for how future projects will fulfill public goals.

An updated Master Plan supports the Port’s mission to develop the bay for multiple purposes and uses for the benefit of the people of the State of California. (Port Act.) On April 25, 2019, the Port released a Discussion Draft of the Port Master Plan Update (PMPU) for a 90-day public review period ending on Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The Discussion Draft includes and addresses allowable uses and activities, future development, and management of water and land within the Port’s jurisdiction on and around San Diego Bay. It is available for public review by going to this website https://pantheonstorage.blob.core.windows.net/

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waterfront-development/PortMaster-Plan-Update-DiscussionDraft-042419.2-Port-of-San-Diego.pdf, or a hard copy is available to review at the District Clerk’s Office located at 3165 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92101.

Please know that comments on the Discussion Draft will only be accepted in writing and should be submitted to PMPU@portofsandiego.org or mailed to the Port of San Diego, Attn: Planning Department, 3165 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA, 92101.

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“The Future of San Diego Bay: A Community Discussion”

By Rulette Armstead

“As part of the 90-day review period for the Discussion Draft of the PMPU, the Port is hosting a series of events, titled - “The Future of San Diego Bay: A Community Discussion.” Each event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a presentation on the process of drafting the PMPU and an overview of the Discussion Draft. Attendees will then be able to ask questions of the Port’s planning staff. Join a Community Discussion near you: • June 20: Palomar College Rancho Bernardo Education Center, 11111 Rancho Bernardo Road, San Diego, CA 92127 • June 27: Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, 301 Caspian Way, Imperial Beach, CA 91932”

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In terms of the seed of knowledge, she spoke about the need for officers and first line supervisors to possess Bachelor’s Degrees and police administrators to possess advanced degrees in order to continue to professionalize the field of policing. Chief Armstead cited examples of how officers with degrees tended to perform their duties more professionally and more efficiently in her opinion.

Within the seed of creativity, Chief Armstead talked about how the current policing authoritarian style stifles creativity and the need for law enforcement to practice new and creative ways of addressing law enforcement problems. She cited the multidisciplinary approach brought forth by San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, to prevent school shootings as a creative approach to seriously address this issue.

Regarding the seed of problem-solving, Chief Armstead called on law enforcement to move from suppression to solution by continuing to use proactive prevention and intervention strategies to keep our children out of the criminal justice system. She asked officers to continue to work closely with our schools and churches by mentoring, coaching, and modeling appropriate, lawful behavior.

Chief Armstead stated that within the seed of diversity, law

enforcement agencies are still not reflective of the communities they serve. She pointed out that although the San Diego Police Department recently celebrated its 130 year anniversary, only two black women have ever been promoted above the rank of sergeant in its 130 year history, those women, Lieutenant Kimberly McElroy, who retired as a police lieutenant, and Assistant Chief Armstead herself.

She emphasized that currently, there are no black women above the rank of police detective at the Department, and that the last black woman that was promoted to sergeant was Alexis Blaylock, who was promoted 14 years ago, and who has since left the police department.

Chief Armstead encouraged women to move out of their comfort zone, study, and pass the promotional exams in order to become supervisors and managers. She said, “We must stop hiring relatives and start harnessing rainbows.” She asked the question, “Are we really recruiting, or merely reinstituting.”

Within the seed of force control, the Chief said that she views police officers as peacekeepers. As such, they should move from muscle to mediation, stating that deadly force should only be used to save a human life.

In terms of the seed of community policing, Chief Armstead described how Eric Jones, Chief of Police of the Stockton, California Police Department demonstrated true community policing when he decided that he needed to do

something in order to curb violent crime in his city. He began to listen to those formerly incarcerated. He listened to victims and survivors of crime. He listened to those in neighborhoods that were the most impacted by violent crime and that had the least trust in his police department.

Then he began to change policies and practices based on what he learned during his listening sessions. For instance he trained his officers in implicit bias, which is how biases can form and how they can jeopardize good judgment. He trained them on procedural justice, which is being fair, being neutral, giving a voice to people, and respectful communication. As a result, community trust exploded throughout his department. Citizens began calling the police, giving them information on violent crime cases, which reduced the violent crime rate significantly. In fact the homicide rate went from 40% in 2017, to 66% in 2018.

In her concluding remarks, Chief Armstead stated that the police must move from “just the facts” to philosophy because community policing is not a program, it is a philosophy set forth by the “boss.” It permeates throughout the department. It spreads throughout the community. Every janitor, every clerk, every police officer, every manager, including the City Manager and the Mayor must know how they fit into the scheme of things and must live and breathe that philosophy. Community policing is the glue that bonds us together.

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cooPer familY celeBration

Juneteenth: Healing Our Community

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It was another great year for a family tradition started years ago when the late Mr. Cooper, then known as the Mayor of Imperial Avenue, started the celebration of Juneteenth better known as “Black Independence Day” by many.

This year’s celebration spanned blocks of Imperial Avenue with stages at each, from 28th street on. There were jumpers for the kids, food trucks and vendors of many varieties. There were booths for the city and county functions and a health van for screening staff by Dr. Suzanne Afflalo and Assistants. It is estimated that at least 1000 people made their way to this event at some time between its 10:30 a.m. start and closure at sunset.

From the sounds and movements of African music and dancers to a display of the history of Juneteenth, there was something for everyone.

The pictures presented here tell the rest of the story.

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2019 Black Graduation Ceremony!

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By Contributing Writer Voice & Viewpoint

The 2019 Black Graduate Recognition.

Ceremony took place on 6pm Friday, June 14 ,2019 in the Mandeville Auditorium of the UCSD campus. The Black Graduation Ceremony is a pre-commencement celebration that takes place at the end of every spring quarter to honor African and African American students who have successfully completed an undergraduate or graduate degree from the University of California, San Diego. The event recognizes their accomplishment and provides an opportunity for graduates to honor significant people who have helped them achieve their goal. The ceremony reinforces the bonds of scholarship and extends the sense of community. The intimate ceremony is representative of African and African American culture and culminates with a Kente Stole presentation.

The director of The Black Resource Center (Porsia Curry) had her pulse on this event, making sure it went off without a hitch. The

Senior speakers were Sidney Yerger, Class of 2019 and Al Daniel, Class of 2019. The award presentations were given to students for Outstanding Senior, Outstanding Graduate Student, Outstanding Faculty member and Outstanding Staff. The Keynote speaker was Kimberly Phillips Boehm, Ph.D. Kimberley is a writer who most recently had a long career as a university academic and administrator. Her academic career began at the College of William and Mary as tenured faculty in the Department of History and the American Studies Program. She then moved to college administration, first as the Founding Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College-CUNY, then as Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Mills College. Her research and scholarship have focused on the history and culture of African Americans and U.S. workers. She has authored numerous articles and award-winning books. She now serves on university and community boards. Kimberley received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from UC San Diego’s Warren College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

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June 15 SMOKEY ROBINSON

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June 27 WHO’S BAD

The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band

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Holds Candidate’s Forum

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FUN AND FELLOWSHIP! 2ND ANNUAL

Kosher

Jazzspel Concert

Photography by Dennis Hodges

By Staff Writer Voice & Viewpoint

BAPAC, San Diego Chapter, met on Saturday June 15th, to hold a candidates forum at its monthly meeting. The event drew about 50 people, candidates, their supporters and BAPAC members to the Educational Cultural Complex for a lively discussion.

There were candidates there for the State Assembly, the U.S. Congress both in terms of Congresswoman Susan Davis’ and Congressman Juan Vargas’ seats; there were candidates for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and City Council seats. Some have declared, others are just making announcements, but all expressed a desire for change.

There will be more to come in the months ahead.

San Diego Continuing Education Congratulates the Class of 2019

MORE THAN 70 FREE CAREER TRAINING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS INCLUDING:

By Deborah Hodges Contributing Writer

On Friday Night June 14, 2019 the Church of Yeshua Ha Meschia held its second annual Jazzspel Concert located @ 1819 Englewood Ave, in Lemon Grove, CA. Hosted by Pastor Dennis Hodges and Dr. Eric J. Chambers.

The night was full of food, fun, fellowship and Jazz! Performers included Darryl Williams guitarist and one of the up and coming stars of Jazz, performed many many selections and a lovely tribute to Michael Jackson.

Greg Manning, a pianist from Sweden. gave us beautiful examples of his new music. His album is to be released soon. Rocky Powell hit us hard as he blessed us with his tantalizing saxophone.

Maria Antoinette, harpist, came and shared her gifts and See JAZZSPEL page 16

More than 6,000 certificates of completion awared to graduates in 2018-19

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former president orthodox church in ethiopia blocks gay of egypt dies group planning tour on the stand in contentious court hearing Global Information Network

Pride parades, gay friendly diners, movies, books and fashion.

The gay life style is coming to town but the welcome mat is still far from ubiquitous.

Ethiopia, home to Abiy Ahmed, the “hugging president”, has yet to come to terms with LGBT or Q. In fact, some Ethiopian bloggers have been openly unfriendly to say the least.

Africa was once the place where alternative lifestyles might even land someone in jail. But Dan Ware, president of the U.S.-based Toto Travel, which organizes trips for gay and lesbian travelers, as well as close friends and family, was not deterred.

Ware, who was raised as a Pentecostal Christian before converting to the Baha’i faith, now simply believes in what he calls “the power of love.”

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Egyptian ex-president Mohammed Morsi, persecuted by the current military regime according to rights activists, collapsed on the stand and died after giving testimony in his trial, it was reported on state TV. Morsi, 67, had been speaking from the glass “cage” where he was confined during sessions.

He warned of “many secrets” he could reveal, when suddenly he collapsed.

The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was stricken by a heart attack, sources said. State TV said Morsi died before he could be taken to the hospital.

Mohammed Sudan, leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in London, described Morsi’s death as “premeditated murder” saying that the former president was banned from receiving medicine or visits and there was little information about his health condition.

“He has been placed behind glass cage (during trials). No one can hear him or know what is happening to him. He hasn’t received any visits for a months or nearly a year. He complained before that he doesn’t get his medicine. This is premediated murder. This is slow death.”

The former president was known to have been suffering from several ailments, including diabetes and liver disease.

Morsi was elected in 2012 after the nation’s Arab Spring revolts that toppled the autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, an ally of the U.S. who ruled with an iron fist. He led Egypt to become the first Arab state to join the attack on Iraq but estranged his people by the use of torture, denying freedom of speech, and enabling police violence.

Morsi improved relations with the U.S., recognized the state of Israel, and developed a working relationship with President Obama that brought temporary

peace between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.

But his national legislation was a let-down to followers.

He granted himself unlimited powers without judicial oversight or review.

Soon, the young population wanted Morsi to step down as well. He was ousted by the military in 2013. Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members were sentenced to death following proceedings that violated due process rights and failed to establish individual guilt, Human Rights Watch said.

Now, even Morsi’s opposition has denounced his treatment in prison and the long time he spent in solitary confinement.

He founded Toto Tours nearly 30 years ago when he left his job working in the Chicago area after co-workers learned he was gay.

Since then, he said, Toto’s gay and lesbian customers have had good experiences. The travelers have learned something new, as do the people they meet during the trips.

“When you go in a group to another culture is you learn, you’re changed, your perspectives are altered,” Ware explained. “And the same happens with the people you visit. They go, ‘Wow, we’ve never met gay people before.’”

“It’s like we’re ambassadors, and always it has been something positive.”

Toto’s planned 16-day tour of Ethiopia, still shown on its website, includes visits to holy sites such as the ancient rock-

hewn churches in Lalibela and the Debre Berhan Selassie church in Gondar.

The website describes “two exciting days” exploring Lalibela and the chance to meet with clergy there to discuss the history of the churches. The country is described as the “ancestral home to all of mankind,” noting its “fascinating history stretching back more than 3,000 years to the fabled reign of the Queen of See CHURCH page 13

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“Egyptian authorities unlawfully prevented former President Mohamed Morsi from contacting or receiving visits from his family and lawyers.

On June 4, 2017, Egyptian authorities allowed Morsy to receive visits from his family and lawyer for only the second time in nearly four years,” wrote Human Rights Watch.

“Morsi’s treatment is a window into the appalling conditions suffered by thousands of political detainees in Egypt.”

In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted angrily to news of Morsi’s death. “History will never forget those tyrants who led to his death by putting him in jail and threatening him with execution,” he said in a televised speech.

And on Twitter, newspaper columnist Hisham Melhem wrote: “One could argue #MohamedMorsi was not fit to be pres.of #Egypt, that he was not a true democrat & with known prejudices; but he was the first civilian democratically elected in Egypt’s history. Not as brutal as those preceded him or the monstrosity that toppled him.”

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Strike! That’s the sound of the world’s top two producers of cocoa who say they are suspending their sales for better prices.

The governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana are trying this timehonored strategy to address the imbalance between farmers’ income and money made by foreign commodity markets who scoop up most of the profit.

If the strategy sounds familiar, it’s the same one described in the Greek play Lysistrata where the women withheld affection

from their husbands in order to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. Currently, the majority of money does not reach the farmers who live in poverty.

Globally, 85% of the market is controlled by companies such as Kraft, Mars, and Nestlé.

But according to Ed Croply, a journalist, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and his Ghanaian counterpart Nana Akufo-Addo would do better to focus on processing cocoa beans,

rather than just growing them.

As with other commodities like diamonds or crude oil, the labor-intensive work happens elsewhere.

Of the $100 billion spent annually on chocolate, the African Development Bank reckons the continent keeps just $5 billion.

A meeting in the Ivory Coast in Abidjan on July 3 will discuss how to implement this measure for the next two years crops.

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HEALTHY LIVING

scientists reveal “ideal diet” for people and the planet

seniors say no to “free” genetic tests

By Greg Dill Medicare’s Regional Admimnistrator for Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories

If you’re approached by someone who offers “free” genetic testing or cancer screening, turn them down.

Medicare doesn’t cover such tests unless a doctor who’s treating you orders them and they’re medically necessary.

Laboratory representatives have allegedly been taking swabs inside the mouths of Medicare beneficiaries at health fairs, senior centers, residential complexes for older people, and veterans’ centers.

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LONDON (Reuters) Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its people including a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake.

If the world followed the “Planetary Health” diet, the researchers said, more than 11 million premature deaths could be prevented each year, while greenhouse gas emissions would be cut

and more land, water and biodiversity would be preserved.

“The food we eat and how we produce it determines the health of people and the planet, and we are currently getting this seriously wrong,” said Tim Lang, a professor at Britain’s University of London who co-led the research.

Feeding a growing population of 10 billion people by 2050 with a healthy, sustainable diet will be impossible without transforming eating habits, improving food

production and reducing food waste, he said.

“We need a significant overhaul, changing the global food system on a scale not seen before.”

Many life-threatening chronic diseases are linked to poor diets, including obesity, diabetes, malnutrition and several types of cancer. The researchers said unhealthy diets currently cause more death and disease worldwide than unsafe sex, alcohol, drug and tobacco use combined.

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Some seniors are getting cold calls about genetic testing kits. The caller usually offers to send a “free” genetic testing kit and asks only that you return the completed kit with your insurance information – including a Medicare number.

Beneficiaries’ numbers are then used to bill Medicare for thousands of dollars of medically unnecessary genetic testing.

More creative schemes involve sending invitations to an “ice cream social” where seniors hear a presentation about “no cost” genetic testing and/ or cancer screenings.

During the presentation, seniors are asked for their Medicare numbers – and Medicare is later billed thousands of dollars per test.

Seniors are also being

asked for the Medicare numbers and other private information after being brought into health-fair booths for DNA swabs of their cheeks.

In some instances, seniors are given gift cards and told that Medicare will be billed for the tests, even though there’s no physician order for them.

Remember: · Don’t give your DNA away to a stranger! Beware of people who cold-call you or show up at your front door uninvited to push genetic tests and cancer screenings. Watch out for people who claim such tests are “100% covered by Medicare.”

Medicare does cover such tests, but only when they are medically necessary

and have been ordered by your doctor. · Look for charges on your Medicare Summary Notice statements for unnecessary tests or screenings that you didn’t want or weren’t ordered by your doctor.

In general, don’t give out your Medicare number or Social Security number to anyone you don’t know and trust. Be cautious of unsolicited requests for your Medicare or Social Security numbers. If your personal information is compromised, it may be used in other fraud schemes.

Medicare will never contact you out of the blue and ask for your Medicare number or other personal See TEST page 13

Seasoned Journalist Takes Nontraditional Path to Education

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Most incoming freshmen do not have a resume as impressive as Buddy Sampson.

But then again, Sampson is no ordinary student.

A seasoned journalist, editor and musician from Philadelphia, he took the non-traditional path to higher education and

eventually ended up at UC San Diego, studying communications.

“UC San Diego has a great communications program,” he said. “I also wanted to show older people, of all races and ethnicities, that it’s never too late to achieve your dream of getting a degree.”

Before arriving at UC San Diego, Sampson worked as a journalist starting in 1989 and covered a variety of major events such as the OJ Simpson trial, the Los Angeles Riots and presidential elections.

“It’s hard for me to pick one favorite memory from my career,” he said.

“I’ve interviewed people like Bill Clinton, Nicole

Kidman and Tom Cruise, but my favorite interview has to be with my friend Johnny Sherman, who raised children as a single black dad, countering the negative stereotype of the deadbeat, black dad.” From 2002-08, he produced a critically acclaimed television show, “People You Should Know,” where he would perform with and interview entertainment and music stars. As a musician, Sampson has played with several Philadelphia and Los Angeles music stars and generated a reputation as an energetic performer.

He still produces and performs charity shows.

As an older student, Sampson loved being a part of UC San Diego’s graduate housing and enjoyed the beautiful beaches and surrounding area of La Jolla. He managed to juggle being a full-time student as well as

working as the editor-inchief and publisher of The Scoop LA, a newspaper targeted toward AfricanAmerican readers that was founded in 1967. “It was very challenging,” he said about supervising The Scoop LA with a full course load. “The publishing industry has changed a lot and being at UC San Diego has given me some new ideas to bring back to my work.”

During his time at UC San Diego, Sampson has been a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success, worked as a community service officer and is an active member of the executive committee at Thurgood Marshall College.

For his honors thesis, Sampson drew on his experiences as an older African-American student on campus. “Being a nontraditional student is how true change happens in the

world, so I hope to inspire other, non-traditional students to think that anything is possible,” he said. “I want to say to students that they are the light of the world, that they can change the world paradigm and not to listen to people that say, ‘you don’t matter’ or ‘they don’t matter.’ You do matter, and each of us are capable of making change in the world.”

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I also wanted to show older people, of all races and ethnicities, that it’s never too late to achieve your dream of getting a degree.

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ARTICLE CONTINUATION CHURCH: continued from page 11 Sheba and King Solomon.”

Countries updating their LGBTQ laws include Angola which now prohibits discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation.

Anyone refusing to employ or provide services to individuals based on sexual orientation could face two years in jail.

Parliamentarians for Global Action member Hon. Kilamba Kiuyima Van-Dúnem, declared: “The archaic criminalization of same-sex conduct was discriminatory in nature and contravened the inherent dignity and right to privacy of LGBTI people in Angola, contributing to stigma and ill-treatment against this community.

“I applaud the decision of Angola’s Parliament to modernize our penal code by removing this harmful relic from our books. This is an important step towards equality and inclusion for all people in my country.”

Other countries that have struck down anti-gay laws include Lesotho and São Tomé and Príncipe (2012), Palau (2014), Mozambique (2015), Belize, Nauru and Seychelles (2016) and, last year, India and Trinidad and Tobago.

DIET:

It says global average consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar should be cut by 50 percent, while consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes should double.

For individual regions, this could mean even more dramatic changes: People in North America, for example, eat almost 6.5 times the recommended amount of red meat, while people in South Asia eat only half the amount suggested by the planetary diet.

continued from page 12 Meeting the targets for starchy vegetables such as potatoes and cassava The proposed planetary would need big changes diet is the result of in sub-Saharan Africa, a three-year project where people on average commissioned by The eat 7.5 times the suggested Lancet health journal and amount.Presenting the involving 37 specialists diet at a briefing in from 16 countries.

January, the researchers

said they acknowledged it was very ambitious to hope to get everyone in the world to adopt it, not least because there is vast global inequality of access to food.

“More than 800 million people have insufficient food, while many more consume an unhealthy diet that contributes to premature death and disease,” said Walter Willett of Harvard University in the United States.“If we can’t quite make it, it’s better to try and get as close as we can,” he said.

TEST: continued from page 12 information.

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If you think you’ve been a victim of fraud, we want to hear from you.

Please call us, toll-free, at 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227).

You can also report suspected fraud at 1-800-HHS-TIPS. One last tip: enter your phone number on the Do Not Call Registryhttps://www. donotcall.gov.

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of the San Diego Police Department must be raised to a higher standard, one more in keeping with what should be the highest values of our society - that all persons are created equal, and should not be discriminated against because of the color of our skin; that we are all entitled to due process, and should not be punished on the street, rather than in a fair trial; and that we are innocent until proven guilty - not tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.

Respectfully submitted, The Cannon Justice Coalition

favor of justice for all people” and “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

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This business is hereby registered by the following: Deja Monique Williams 9211 Amy's Street, Apt. 20 Spring Valley, CA 91977 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 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9014547 Fictitious business name(s): WWW WOMEN-N-WINE Located at: 2533 Northside Dr. #534 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Joint Venture The first day of business was 6/07/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Shelley D. Winn 2533 Northside Dr. #534 San Diego, CA 92108 Ardell Clay Daniels 9450 W. Cabela Dr. #1210 Glendale, AZ 85305 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 07, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 07, 2024 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9014191 Fictitious business name(s): SMART MEDICAL TRANSPORT SMART MARKETING AND REFERRAL SERVICES Located at: 6640 Lusk Blvd., Suite A207 San Diego, CA 92121 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Limited Liability The first day of business was 01/01/10 This business is hereby registered by the following: Smart Medical Transport, LLC 6640 Lusk Blvd., Suite A207 San Diego, CA 92121 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 04, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 04, 2024 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012713 Fictitious business name(s): THINC DISTRIBUTION Located at: 4655 Ruffner Road, Suite 140 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 03/01/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: San Diego Alternative Care Cooperative, Inc. 4655 Ruffner Road, Suite 140 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego This statement was filed with

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This business is hereby registered by the following: Diana Nayeli De Jesus Layna 4045 Park Haven Court, Apt. H San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 3, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 3, 2024 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9014490 Fictitious business name(s): SEMPRE MUSIC STUDIO Located at: 4535 30th Street, Suite 115 San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Idividual The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

This business is hereby registered by the following: Shayla Brittani James 4033 Dove Street, Apt 14 San Diego, CA 92103 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on June 07, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on June 07, 2024 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4 -----------------------------------

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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 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9014015 Fictitious business name(s): ANGEL'S NAILS AND SPA BY THAI Located at: 5329 El Cajon Blvd.

San Diego, CA 92115 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: Thai Ha Huynh 8394 Lake Adlon Drive San Diego, CA 92119 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 31, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 31, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9013490 Fictitious business name(s): WILD HARMONY WELLNESS Located at: 3633 Camino del Rio South, Ste. 206 San Diego, CA 92108 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 7/01/05 This business is hereby registered by the following: Vickii Gervais 7133 Purdue Avenue San Diego, CA 91942 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 24, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 24, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9013710 Fictitious business name(s): ROSE DONUTS Located at: 7612 Linda Vista Road #101 San Diego, CA 92111 County of San Diego The business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/29/19 This business is hereby registered by the following: Kenneth K. Chu 45518 Bayberry Place Temecula, CA 92592 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on May 29, 2019 This fictitious business name will expire on May 29, 2024 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012618 Fictitious business name(s): SAN DIEGO TILE & STONE Located at: 13490 Highway 8 Business #4 Lakeside, CA 92040 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: Lucy Marentes 13490 Highway 8 Business #4 Lakeside, CA 92040 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 ----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2019-9012860 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 Limited Liability Company The Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name Above.

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 -----------------------------------

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.

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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 -----------------------------------

----------------------------------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:

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwside be interested in the will or estate, or both of GLADYS HOLLINS

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.

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 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 -----------------------------------

NAME CHANGE 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.

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PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Gladys Hollins Case Number: 37-2019-00016970-PR-LACTL

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 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 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

Attorney for petitioner: Marquetta Stewart Brown 283093 Law Office of Rosemary Meagher-Leonard: 4456 Florida Street, San Diego, CA 92116 (619) 295-8705 6/13, 6/20, 6/27

• Thursday, JUNE 20, 2019

INVITATION FOR BIDS Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the San Diego Unified School District, acting by and through its governing board, will receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, equipment, and services for: INSTALLATION OF BIOSWALES AND PERMEABLE PAVING AT GOMPERS PREPARATORY ACADEMY AND MILLENNIAL TECH MIDDLE SCHOOL (DROPS) A mandatory site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on JUNE 28, 2019 in front of the main office of Gompers Preparatory Academy, 1005 47th St. San Diego, CA 92102 and upon completion will proceed to Millennial Tech Middle School, 1110 Carolina Ln. San Diego, CA 92102. PLEASE SEE BID FOR DETAILS (No. CZ20-0137-05). All bids must be received at or before 1:00 p.m. on JULY 10, 2019, at the Strategic Sourcing and Contracts Department, 2351 Cardinal Lane, Bldg. M, San Diego, CA 92123, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Under Public Contract Code 3400, the District has made a finding that the following particular materials, products, things, or services are designated by specific brand or trade name in order to match other products in use on the particular public improvement either completed or in the course of completion: ● Specification Section 32 84 00 Irrigation The project estimate is between $660,000 and $675,000. This is not a PSA project and does not require prequalification. The District requires that Bidders possess any of the following classification(s) of California State Contractors License(s), valid and in good standing, at the time of bid opening and contract award: A, B or other appropriate license, subject to District approval. All late bids shall be deemed nonresponsive and not opened. Each bid shall be in accordance with all terms, conditions, plans, specifications and any other documents that comprise the bid package. The Bid and Contract Documents are available in three formats, hard copy, CD, or online from PlanWell. Hard copy bid documents are available at Crisp Imaging, 8375 Camino Santa Fe, Unit B, San Diego, CA 92121, phone number 858-535-0607, for a refundable payment of Two Hundred Dollars ($200) per set; CD’s are available for a non-refundable charge of $50. Payments shall be made by check payable to SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. If the payment for Bid and Contract Documents is refundable, refunds will be processed by the District only if the Bid and Contract Documents, including all addendums, are returned intact and in good order to Crisp Imaging within ten (10) days of the issuance of the Final Bid Tabulation. Online documents are available for download on PlanWell through Crisp Imaging. Go to www.crispimg.com, click on PlanWell, Public Planroom, search SDUSD (Questions? 949-285-3171). All bids shall be submitted on bid forms furnished by the District in the bid package beginning June 18, 2019. Bid packages will not be faxed. SENATE BILL (SB) 854 REQUIREMENTS: Effective July 1, 2014, no contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal, or awarded a contract for a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to Labor Code §1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code §1771.1(a)]. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Prime contractors must add the DIR Registration Number for each of their listed subcontractors to the Subcontractors List AND submit a certificate of registration for their own firm and those of their listed subcontractors upon request by the District. Failure of the bidding prime contractor to list their subcontractors DIR Registration Number on the Subcontractors List at time of bid may result in rejection of their bid as non-responsive. Refer to the following DIR Website for further information: www.dir.ca.gov/Public-Works/PublicWorks.html PREVAILING WAGES: Prevailing wage requirements apply to all public works projects and must be followed per Article 17 of the General Conditions of this bid. DISABLED VETERAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION PROGRAM: Pursuant to Resolution In Support of Service Disabled Veterans Owned Businesses (SDVOB) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) approved on May 10, 2011 by the Board of Education, the Bidder is required to satisfy a minimum DVBE participation percentage of at least three percent (3%) for this project. In compliance with this Program, the Bidder shall satisfy all requirements enumerated in the bid package. Each bid must be submitted on the Bid Form provided in the bid package and shall be accompanied by a satisfactory bid security in the form of either a bid bond executed by the bidder and Surety Company, or a certified or cashier's check in favor of the San Diego Unified School District, in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of their bid value. Said bid security shall be given to guarantee that the Bidder will execute the contract as specified, within five (5) working days of notification by the District. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of 120 days after the date set for the opening of bids. For information regarding bidding, please call 858-522-5835.

SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Andrea O’Hara, M.A. Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Officer, Strategic Sourcing & Contracts Dept.

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Thousands of Police Officers Outed in Slew of Racist Facebook Posts

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

Far too many law enforcement officers – from rookies to the highest ranking – view African Americans as “dogs,” and some punch in believing that, “it’s a good day for a chokehold.”

Others believe women in hijabs are tantamount to “trash bags.”

Those of just some of the alarming public posts on Facebook written by police officers in departments across the country – they were identified by the Philadelphia-based Plain View Project, a database that chronicles police use of social media.

Already, authorities in Philadelphia and St. Louis said they’ve opened an Internal Affairs investigation into the posts, which number exceeds 3,000, according to the Plain View Project.

The departments thus far implicated are Dallas, Tex; Denison, Tex.; Lake County, Fla.; Philadelphia, Penn; Phoenix; St. Louis, Mo; Twin Falls, Idaho; and York, Penn.

The Plain View Project, headed by Philadelphiabased attorney Emily Baker-White, said its analysis determined that at least 328 active-

duty police officers posted content that championed violence against Muslims, immigrants and African Americans.

“We found a very high and concerning number of posts that appear to endorse, celebrate or glorify violence and vigilantism,” BakerWhite said in a televised interview with ABC News.

“We included posts that we thought could affect public trust and policing,” she said.

“We also included posts that seemed to emit some sort of bias against a group of people – whether if that’s a minority faith, a minority race, ethnicity, immigration status, whatever it is. We saw a number of posts that appeared to denigrate those groups of people,” Baker-White said.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross confirmed that an investigation is underway in that city.

“We have reviewed the social media transcriptions you provided and find many of them to be not only incongruent with our standards and policies, but also troubling on a human level,” Ross said

in a statement.

While some of the Facebook posts, which also included images of the Confederate flag, have been deleted, the Plain View Project provided screenshots of the posts in their public online database.

Since its establishment in 2017, the group has compiled more than 5,000 posts from current and former officers, both in big cities such as Dallas and in smaller jurisdictions like Lake County, Florida.

The St. Louis Police Officers’ Association said it has contacted the Council on American Islamic Relations to set up a meeting but declined further comment.

“We strongly condemn violence and racism in any form.

The overwhelming majority of our 7-thousand officers regularly act with integrity and professionalism,” Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 President John McNesby said in a statement.

Baker-White told the New York Times that the Facebook posts are far from isolated incidents and are very disconcerting.

“One of the reasons that I don’t think it’s an individual problem is that

these folks are talking to each other. There are a lot of posts that have eight comments underneath them, and three of those comments are by other police officers, and in those long comment threads you often see a kind of piling on,” Baker-White said.

“If one guy makes a comment that’s sort of violent, another guy will say, ‘Oh, that’s not enough, I would have hit him harder.’ ‘I would have shot him. ‘I would have killed him.’

“It creates a space where officers feel like this is what they should do or think, and I fear that leads more officers to do and think this stuff,” she said.

B a k e r - W h i t e acknowledges the tough job of law enforcement in general.

“Yes, police officers have an incredibly hard job,” she said. “There’s probably an incredible amount of PTSD; there’s an incredible amount of stress. But, it’s not OK then to say, ‘Let’s go get these animals tonight.’”

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GRADUATION:

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talents with playing beautiful melodies and some of her own soon to be released music! Maria has played for the likes of the Obama's. She was featured at the Hollywood Bowl, and other venues that were blessed with her talents. Such an honor to have her grace our stage on Friday night. Elisha Nicole, saxophonist, performed her rendition of many Gospel songs and also blessed everyone there.

UCSD Black Resource Center plays an integral part in the celebration of black graduates. The Black Resource Center was born out of strong student advocacy and adamant demands. Though the existence of such a campus unit had been desired for years, a series of racially motivated events during the Winter Quarter of 2010 elevated the need for a campus space which would cultivate community and create sustainable support for the African and African American community.

Student protests and demonstrations culminated in the establishment of the Black Resource Center.

Food was provided by Stockdale's Seafood establishment, and it was oh so good!

It was an evening we will never forget! If you missed it, you really missed something good.

As Pastor always says, "Being a Christian doesn't mean you can't still have good clean fun in the Lord, which is exactly what we experienced Friday Night.”

A big thanks to all who came and supported and to the participants. The Church of Yeshua Ha Meschia truly was blessed by everyone’s presence and they look forward to their 3rd annual Jazzspel event next year.

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The Black Resource Center officially opened in late May 2013. There mission is to provide a supportive campus community space for the Black experience at UC San Diego. The BRC is committed to intracommunity diversity and the development of the whole person. The BRC seeks to promote scholarship, foster leadership, and cultivate community for student success through the collaborative effort and support of faculty, staff, and the broader UC San Diego community.

It was an evening we will never forget

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