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“People Without a Voice | Thursday, | Thursday Vol.Vol. 6057 No. No. 7 35 February August 13,31, 2020 2017
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Serving Serving San Diego SanCounty’s Diego County’s African & African AfricanAmerican & African Communities American57Communities Years 60 Years
SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT’S
60th Diamond Anniversary Gala Dr. John. E. Warren, Publisher of the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, congratulates Voice & Viewpoint Unsung Hero Award Honoree, Paul Simms
60 YEARS AGO:
STUDENTS LAUNCHED A SIT-IN MOVEMENT inaugural �family day� in southeast
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Photo by Steve Peterson
By Helen O’Field Voice & Viewpoint Contributor
party on Feb. 7 in the Great Room of the Jacob Center.
Sixty never looked so good or meant so much.
Dr. John Warren, CEO of Warren Communications, which publishes SDV&V, and his daughter, Latanya West, managing editor of the newspaper, shepherded a jam-packed room through a lively program punctuated by applause, laughter and affectionate shout-outs.
Amid digital showers of diamonds, nine honorees showed the strength and depth of San Diego’s African American community when San Diego Voice & Viewpoint (SDV&V) threw its big 60th birthday
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Journalist & Visionary Reformer
Ida B. Wells 1862 - 1931
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” See WELLS page 5
fourth district senior center black history luncheon
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Unidentified sit-in demonstration. Photo: New Journal and Guide Archives
Violent episodes were the exceptions and not the rule of the massively spreading Sitin Movement. In nearly all sit-in cities, black protesters made immeasurable efforts to avoid violence at all cost since the movement and training centered on non-violent demonstrations in confronting inequality.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS
“STATE OF BLACK CALIFORNIA” AT UCLA
By Dr. Kelton Edmonds NNPA Newswire Contributor
horton elementary celebrates ���th day
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February 1, 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of the launch of the historic Sit-in Movement, when four African-American freshmen from North Carolina A&T State College (now University) in Greensboro, NC sparked the non-violent and student-led wave of protests that ultimately resulted in the desegregation of F.W. Woolworth and other racially discriminatory stores. Read more on that historic movement: The Legacies And Larger Significance Of The 1960 Sit-in Movement, Sparked In Greensboro
black history month events See page 17
Similar to the successful 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the students’ triumphant coordinated protests in 1960 further demonstrated how mass economic boycotts could lead to desegSee MOVEMENT page 5
BLACK VOTERS:
CORNERSTONE
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Trump is increasingly highlighting his pitch to African Americans as Democrats struggle to decide amongst a crowded field. Political observers understand that Trump is unlikely to win more than ten percent of the Black vote. But it is also understood that any percentage higher than average could be the margin of victory in a close race.
Several members of the California, L to R: Legislative Black Caucus Sen. Steve Bradford ( D-LA) Assemblymember Kevin McCarty ( D-Sacramento) Holly Mitchell ( D-LA) Assemblymember Dr. Shirly Weber ( D-San Diego) Assemblymember Reggie Jones Swayer (D-LA) Photo by California Black Media
By Lauren Victoria Burke
By California Black Media
NNPA Newswire Contributor
On Saturday, Feb. 8, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) in partnership with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA hosted a daylong series of panel discussions titled the “State of Black California” in Los Angeles. See CLBC page 5
During the State of the Union, Trump featured several African Americans from the gallery with long words of praise and detailed introductions. The Republican party has always struggled with Black See VOTERS page 5