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By Sunita Sohrabji and Pilar Marrero In a country that is polarized and hurt

by Covid-19 and a divisive leadership, a massive turnout of voters resulted in a close election where Democrat Joe Biden was pushed across the finish line by large majorities of voters of color.

On Saturday, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the projected winners of the 2020 elections, relegating Donald Trump to a one term, even as he refused to concede, and his lawyers tried legal maneuvers to argue electoral fraud.

A man wears a shirt that says, “Black voters matter,” while dancing, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Fairhill Suare Park in Philadelphia, to celebrate after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become 46th president of the United States. (AP Photo/ Rebecca Blackwell)

The Democratic presidential ticket reached that goal mainly because communities of color rejected the Trump Administration by large margins, explained experts who discussed the numbers, the history,

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November 11, 2020 we have set aside to honor those brave men and women who have served in the military. As a reminder, it all started on November 11, 1918 when an Armistice between the Allied Forces of World War I and Germany went into effect. In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11th Armistice Day in recognition of the end of “the War that was to end all Wars.” In 1938, the U.S. Congress passed an Act declaring November 11, Armistice Day, a national holiday. In 1954, after World War 11, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed, and the Congress approved, changing the name “Armistice Day” to “Veterans Day”, honoring all Americans who had served in all wars.

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But the celebrations we have today, do not do justice to the African and Black Americans who have fought and died for America:

It also showed that there is limited support for progressive policies. Initiatives a majority of African Americans and young Californians supported such as affirmative action and rent control also fell short.

Crispus Attucks, son of a slave, first American casualty of the Revolutionary War. March 5, 1770; Nurse Susie King Taylor, who in the 18002 when it was illegal for Americans to be educated, snuck in lessons at an underground school which she put with her passion to help others. She met and worked alongside Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross.

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California’s unofficial 2020 proposition results have shown an electorate that is fairly moderate, supportive of business interests and concerned about issues affecting older citizens.

During the Civil War, Lewis Martin of the 29th U.S. Colored Infantry who lost a leg and a arm following the battle of the Crater in July 1864; the Buffalo Soldiers as the Colored Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry became known who fought both in the Civil War and the Indian Wars where they got the name “Buffalo” from Native Americans; Corporal Freddie Stowers who led the all-Black 371 Infantry Regiment in France in a successful battle against the German troops and was recommended for the Medal of Honor which was not given to him until 70 years

Prop 16, the ballot initiative to reinstate affirmative action programs in California, failed with 56 % of voters voting no. The proposition would have allowed public universities and state and local governments to consider race, sex, ethnicity and national

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Fate of the Affordable Care Act At least 20 Million Could Lose Coverage

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The Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” is on the line, and so is health insurance for millions of Americans as the U.S. Supreme Court began review of the law on Tuesday, November 10.

With a 6-3 conservative super-majority, thanks to outgoing President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans’ rapid confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett last month, former President Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation now hangs in the balance.

Three of the Trump’s appointees, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch are viewed as more likely than their colleagues to support the now lameduck President’s long-stated desire to kill Obamacare.

“Severability is designed to say, well, would Congress still want the statute to stand even with the provision gone?”

Coney Barrett said during her confirmation hearings.

“It’s kind of like a Jenga game, it’s kind of like if you pull one out, can you pull it out while it all stands? If you pull two out, will it all stand?”

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and the motivations of electoral choices by communities of color in the United States in a briefing with ethnic media.

Election eve surveys and exit polling confirmed that the majority of white voters voted for President Donald Trump, but that Asian Americans, Latinx, and Black voters turned out in record numbers to oust the incumbent, and to propel the first woman of color into the White House.

According to the American Election Eve Poll by Latino Decisions, 56% of whites voted for Trump.

A CNN exit poll found a similar number, 57% of whites voting for the President.

But voters of color were a different story. According to the LD poll, 70% of Latinos, 89% of Blacks, 68% of Asians and 60% of American Indians voted for Biden.

“I want to thank people of color and communities of color for saving our democracy,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice at the Nov. 6 briefing organized by Ethnic Media Services.

“Speaking as a white man, I come from a community that voted in the majority for Donald Trump.

And if it were not for the African American, Latinx, and Asian American Pacific Islander Community, we would not be celebrating the victory that we’re celebrating today,” said Sharry.

It was a very close election, a cliffhanger that lasted from Tuesday November 3rd until Saturday morning, November 7th, when the official numbers made it clear that Biden-Harris had clinched the 270 electoral college votes needed.

That polarization and the states in which the Biden

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origin in their hiring, contracting or admission decisions. Although supporters of the proposition argued that it would increase racial equity in the state, it faced heavy opposition. With the no vote, affirmative action is still banned in California.

The most recent attempt at rent control also failed, with 60 % of voters rejecting Prop 21. The initiative would have allowed local governments to enact rent control on housing built over 15 years ago, while exempting landlords who own no more than two properties. Instead, California’s statewide ban on new forms of rent control will stay in effect, at a time when millions of Americans are struggling with rent or facing eviction due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

After months of high spending and heated debate, Proposition 22 passed with over eight million yes votes, as of Nov. 8. Gig economy companies including Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are now exempt from AB 5, the California law that classifies workers. The companies will be allowed to continue classifying their drivers as independent contractors.

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provision is arguably unconstitutional.

However, eliminating the law also means eliminating its protections and access. Medicaid for low-income Americans expanded under Obamacare, and it allowed children to remain on their parents’ policies until age 26. The law also guarantees coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions like cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.

Most healthcare experts agree that during the ever-worsening coronavirus pandemic, an already rising infection and death rate would climb if the Court strikes down the law.

The judges will hear California vs. Texas, which tackles Congress’ 2017 policy that removed the tax penalty from those who didn’t sign up for coverage under the health care law.

Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit claiming that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because there’s no longer a tax penalty.

advantage played out made it clear that lopsided democratic votes by people of color had an outsize role in the results.

Milwaukee change Wisconsin, and Detroit change Michigan,” he said. “That’s the enthusiasm and power of the Black vote.”

Stephen Nuño-Perez, a senior analyst at Latino Decisions, whose firm conducted an election eve poll of ethnic voters in key battleground states, said that “it’s extremely difficult to win an election when you have mobilized minorities and Latinos in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Albuquerque”.

Overall Black voters were pragmatic, Johnson noted, pointing to South Carolina where they opted for Joe Biden over Kamala Harris or Corey Booker. “They picked the candidate they thought had the best chance of winning over white voters.”

Latinx voters were critical in flipping Arizona blue, said Nuno Perez of Latino Decisions, pointing to counties such as Maricopa, Pima, and Yuma, which all have significant Latino populations.

Johnson attributed the small increase in Black males voting for Trump to those Black Republicans who had opted to vote for the first Black president in 2008 and 2012 and who were now returning to the Republican Party.

Latinx voters also made their presence known in Florida, handing Biden victories in Miami-Dade, Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Broward County. In Miami, Cuban Americans threw their support behind Trump.

Asian Americans turned out in significant numbers for the 2020 election, said John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice/ AAJC. Some 300,000 were firsttime voters.

Nuño warned about taking some outliers, like the Cuban vote in Miami-Dade and a couple of counties near the border in Texas where Trump did much better with Latinos, to project that into the larger narrative.

Exit polls plus pre-election polls showed there was much more enthusiasm to vote, Yang noted. Between 65%-70% of AAPI voters supported Biden, with 30 percent voting for Trump, consistent with voting patterns in 2012 and 2016.

“Yes, Latinos are not a monolith, and yes, they are a monolith, they do respond to certain types of messaging and at the national level, seventy percent of Latinos voted for Biden. That’s a clear pattern”, he said.

While one-third of Asian Americans live in the 10 battleground states, and it would be easy to attribute the margin of victory in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania to the AAPI vote. But Yang said it was the common values that brought Black, Latinx, Native and Asian Americans together that provided the margin of victory for Biden in those states.

Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that a summer of protests for racial justice along with the disproportionate numbers from COVID-19 and record levels of unemployment in black communities, galvanized Black voter turnout in record numbers to remove Donald Trump from office.

“That explains why we’re seeing Atlanta change Michigan, Philadelphia change Pennsylvania,

The Yes on 22 campaign received over $202 million in contributions, making Prop 22 the most expensive ballot initiative campaign in California history. According to Ballotpedia, the top five donors for Yes on 22 were Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, InstaCart and Postmates, with Uber and Lyft spending over $50 million each.

Voters also struck down Prop 23, which would have required dialysis clinics to have at least one licensed physician on site during treatment. Opponents of the proposition had argued that the ballot initiative’s passage would force multiple clinics to reduce hours or shut down due to the increased hiring costs.

“An American public was forced by Donald Trump and his extremism to choose, and they chose to come down on the side of refugees and immigrants.

This is a statement of what a multiracial majority in America said through this election. They said ‘we want to be a welcoming country. We don’t like Trump’s separation of families.’”

suspects awaiting trial.

Two propositions this year focused on voter rights.

Prop 17 passed with 59 % of yes votes, giving parolees the right to vote upon release from incarceration. With Prop 17’s passage, tens of thousands of predominantly Black and Brown parolees have regained their voting rights. However, Prop 18 fell short, with 55 % of voters saying no to allowing 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they turn eighteen by the next general election.

Voters said no to rolling back previous criminal justice reforms, rejecting Prop 20 by the widest margin, with 62 percent of voters voting no on upgrading several crimes to violent felonies and upgrading some theft crimes to be chargeable as either misdemeanors or felonies.

In both of this year’s propositions related to property taxes, voters resisted tax increases. Prop 15, which proposed an increase on property taxes for commercial properties to fund education and local governments, failed by a margin of about 425,000 votes as of Nov. 8. Prop 19 passed, with 51 % of the vote approving tax breaks for property tax assessment transfers for homeowners over 55 years old, people with severe disabilities and victims of natural disasters.

Voters also rejected replacing money bail with a risk assessment system, with 55 % voting no on Prop 25.

Although it was billed as an attempt at serious bail reform, multiple social justice groups had concerns that the risk assessment system would lead to increased racial profiling against Black and Brown

Voters approved Prop 24, to strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act and establish and limit the use of sensitive consumer data among businesses. Also, Prop 14 passed, approving the issue of $5.5 billion in state bonds to fund stem cell and other medical research.

Democratic state attorneys general argue that if Congress wanted to end Obamacare, it would have done so. They argue that the Trump administration and the GOP have no replacement, and, importantly, the law is what Congress always intended.

The Obama administration instituted the penalty to ensure that the pool of insured would include young healthy people that might otherwise fail to sign up for health insurance.

Increasing and broadening the pool of insured Americans under the plan (most Americans still receive their insurance from their employers) reduces risk for providers and means that premiums will be less expensive for those Americans participating in either local or federal exchanges.

“The Affordable Care Act now dangles from a thread,” declared Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan specializing in health issues.

Health care expert Seth Denson said it’s essential to understand the specifics about the case that the Supreme Court will consider.

The Constitutionality of the individual mandate will be determined because in 2018, Judge Reed

O’Connor, a federal judge out of Texas, ruled that the individual mandate, a result of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, is no longer constitutional.

Denson noted that the first time Obamacare came before the High Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, was the swing vote upholding the law’s mandate.

He did so, stating the penalty found in the law was not a penalty but a tax.

The 2012 argument stated that Obamacare violated the Commerce Clause, that the government could not require someone to buy something.

“However, Justice Roberts upheld the law saying the Congress has the right to tax and the Affordable Care Act did not require someone to buy health insurance, rather it imposed a tax which could be avoided by purchasing health insurance,” Denson stated.

A component of the case judges will hear is “severability.”

“In their haste to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2009, Democrats failed to include severability language in the draft of the law,” Denson said.

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later, awarded posthumously to his family. We also remember Corporal John T. Van Rensalier of the 350th HQ who was awarded the French Legion of Honor in WWI; Doris, “Dorie” Miller, a Mess Stewart in the U.S. Navy, who became the first African American to win the Navy Cross based on service at Pearl Harbor in WWII. Let us not forget African American women like Colonel Margaret Barley serving in WWII and fought for integrated military housing when Blacks were still fighting and living in a segregated army.

Let us remember Colonel Charles Young, the 3rd African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and the first African American to reach the rank of “Colonel” in the U.S. Army; or the Tuskegee Airmen, Colored fighter pilots who never lost a plane they were escorting during WWII and who paved the way for more than 1.2 million African Americans to enter the service during and following that War. We remember with pride our pioneering Black Generals like Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. U.S. Army, and first African American to obtain that rank in the U.S. Army, and his son, Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., U.S. Air Force; as well as General Daniel “Chappy” James, fighter pilot, U.S. Air Force; and General Colin Powell, City College of New York ROTC graduate who rose to become a four star general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, twice, as well as the first African American Secretary of State under President George Bush.

Of the 3470 Medal of Honor given out since the beginning of this award, 89 have been given to African Americans.

The first African American to receive the medal was William Carney on July 18, 1863.

This Veteran’s Day is one to put special emphasis on remembering our Black veterans who fought with loyalty for a nation that neither showed love or respect for them, even as they bled and died to keep America free. Let us honor our “Band of Brothers and Sisters” who faced a lot worse than our present pandemic. “And still we rise”.

He explained that severability, in short, is a process where if one part of the law is found unconstitutional, it can be severed from the remainder of the law.

This provision isn’t part of the law.

“The 5th circuit did not rule on whether the individual mandate can be severed and sent it back to the lower court for further clarification.

However, the justices will have to weigh in on this as well,” he offered.

“Judge Barrett has called into question the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, but that isn’t what the case in front of SCOTUS will argue,” Denson continued.

“What’s being argued is the mandate and whether it is severable from the law as a whole.”

Denson continued: “With regards to pre-existing conditions, it’s highly unlikely that they will ever be part of our healthcare system again – as my father says, the ‘toothpaste is out of the tube’ meaning that it would be political suicide to allow them into the conversation.”

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The Presidential Race: The ‘Projected Winner is Racism’

The question is when will Blacks here in the West decide that the good of the many outweigh the petty desires of the few. When will those who want to lead come to understand that leadership is inclusive, not singular?

By Rev. Dr. John E. Warren Publisher

Its is clear that the African American voters, and black women in particular, are responsible for the election of our New President and Vice President. We have seen the solidarity of African Americans as they stood in line for hours to vote; we saw the Black voter turnout in Philadelphia deliver the 20 Pennsylvania electoral votes. Detroit delivered the Michigan vote where the majority of those voters were Black; we see that the Black vote in Georgia is now poised to give us the two U.S. Senators needed to take power

from McConnell and have a Senate that will support Biden and Harris.

Vice President Harris becomes the President of the U.S. Senate with a vote to break any ties that occur.

What is the one thing that made all this possible? Black people who are still committed to working together for the good of all of us. From South Florida’s heavy voting Black counties to Wisconsin, we have seen that our votes do count and have made a difference.

While we applaud those who are working for the benefit of the many, as evidenced by the army of young volunteers serving the food distribution efforts, it appears that there are still those among us still not willing to work with some others. There are still some who refuse to share information with others when the need is so obvious. This must end. Now is the time to put aside differences, feed the hungry, help the needy and once again start thinking in terms of “we the collective’ in terms of how we help one another.

This message is not for everyone, but hopefully those who need it will recognize who they are and use the opportunity to make positive change for the good of everyone.

With a large swath still left uncounted as of Wednesday morning, Biden maintains an electoral college lead of 238 to 213 – 270 is needed to win. The Democrat currently leads the popular vote by 50 percent to 48 percent.

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

Perhaps a single sobering Twitter post best summed up the state of America on the morning following an Election Night that’s far too close to call — and frustratingly so.

“This was a referendum on the potential for a fundamental shift in that perspective,” Actress and writer Natasha Rothwell wrote. “The race might be too close to call, but the projected winner is racism.”

Others agreed.

A White House That Once Again Calls on Our Better Angels be driven into a new downturn. A new mood. A new plan of action.

Once more, hope is reborn. I harbor no illusions.

By Jesse Jackson “The people of this nation have spoken. They have delivered us a clear victory. ... We have won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential ticket in the history of this nation... I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify. ... Let this grim era of demonization in America begin to end here and now.”

With these words, the president-elect, Joe Biden, set a new tone and a new mood in Washington.

No longer will the bully pulpit of the White House be used to spew lies and insults or to fan division and hatred. The White House will once again call on the “better angels” of Americans and not our “darkest impulses.”

With the new tone, Biden offered new priorities and action. He listed the staggering challenges that face the country and its new president: the battle to control the coronavirus, to build prosperity, to secure health care, to “achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism,” to save the climate.

The most urgent, of course, is the pandemic, with the virus now peaking once more in states across

the country. Gone is the magical thinking that it would soon disappear. Gone is the illusion that the economy could be rebuilt while the pandemic raged. “We cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life’s most precious moments — hugging a grandchild, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the moments that matter most to us — until we get this virus under control,” said Biden.

Common sense, perhaps, but something that has been missing for too long. Biden announced that he was ready to act, putting together a task force of leading scientists and experts to detail how to go forward.

When he is sworn in on Jan. 20, he will hit the ground running. At the same time, he will push strongly for the passage of a rescue package in the coming lame-duck session of Congress — with aid for the millions still unemployed, action to avoid a blizzard of evictions and foreclosures, resources to get the disease back under control, aid to states and localities whose budgets have been savaged by the virus and economic recession and more.

Without this, as the Trump appointed head of the Federal Reserve has been warning, the economy will

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This country is deeply divided.

Trump is howling at the moon about the election, but he will spread his poison to millions. Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has shown in the past that he is willing to obstruct everything in order to bring down a Democratic president. Biden’s faith and good will is already being tested. Biden owes his election to the growing citizen movements that demanded change — from Black Lives Matter, to #MeToo, to the growing climate movement and more. His campaign was aided by thousands of community organizers who worked tirelessly to make that change happen.

He graciously acknowledged his debt to the African-American voters who saved his candidacy and helped propel his victory.

Those movements and organizers now must redouble their efforts. The last great reform period in America came when Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement joined with a president, Lyndon Johnson, to move this country closer to equal justice for all. That same energy and more will be needed to meet the challenges of this day. It is always darkest before the dawn. And now, with this election, the first rays of a new day begin to shine. Now is the time to come together, to build, and to keep hope alive.

“Look at the cities the nation is depending on in order to not reelect an incompetent, racist, misogynistic president who has killed 230,000 Americans in seven months… Philly, Atlanta, Milwaukee and realize America is always leaning on Black people to save the day,” added Dr. Ebony Hilton, an associate professor of Anesthesiology and a critical care physician at the University of Virginia.

African Americans heavily populate each of those cities, and each are critical as the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Milwaukee.

They hang in the balance as votes are tabulated to determine whether President Donald Trump retains office, or the U.S. begins to heal under a Joe Biden administration.

With Biden holding a slight electoral and popular vote edge early Wednesday, he called for patience.

To no one’s surprise, Trump declared victory and has threatened legal action to stop the vote count in those critical states where he currently has a slight edge.

Hilton and others believe that slight edge could likely disappear in those large urban cities as counting continues there.

Still, the stunningly close election and with the GOP likely retaining control of the Senate, many say they’ve come to understand a sobering fact: America’s standing on race, women’s rights, and equal opportunity hasn’t been this obvious since slavery.

“I wake up every day to the reality that I live in a country that thinks my life is less valuable than it would be if I were white,” decried Rothwell.

Biden also flipped Arizona, making him the first Democrat to win that state since 1996 when Bill Clinton claimed victory. Winning Arizona means Biden could lose one of either Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, but still capture the presidency.

Georgia, where a large swath of votes remain uncounted in predominately Black Atlanta and Fulton County, also remains in play for Biden.

Trump, who led Republicans in slamming through a Supreme Court Justice last month in record time for scenarios just like this, promised to ask the high court to intervene before the ballots are counted in those four swing states.

At press time, Trump leads in all those important states except Wisconsin.

However, each of those states counts ballots cast on Election Day first. Trump wants the count to end before officials tally mailin votes, which arrived in record numbers.

It’s also why the President pulled out all of the stops this year to cripple the U.S. Postal Service, whose Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has openly defied federal court orders to refrain from slowing delivery of mail-in ballots.

“In the midst of a pandemic that he had time to manage and, he held super-spreader events to spread the virus. And, with racial unrest still rampant which he stokes daily, the race is too close,” Actress Yvette Nicole Brown railed. “No need to question whether systemic racism exists in America. Many proudly chose the inept racist … again!”

Hilton also provided a follow-up.

“The only demographic who’s consistently shown up for America is Black people,” she remarked. “We are the greatest patriots despite facing a nation set on disenfranchising us, a nation having rallies to cheer the number of us dying at disproportionate rates from COVID, and mandates we live in poverty.”

Regardless of who wins, Author John Pavlovitz said America already knows that the country is “as fractured as we imagined.”

“We’re as afflicted with racism as we feared,” Pavlovitz wrote. “We’re as far from equity as we thought.

Good people are needed now more than ever. The fight doesn’t begin or end, it continues.”

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OBITUARIES CENTENARIAN

John Henry Mahaffey Sr.

Louise Inez Overstreet

J.T. Inge

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7/12/1929

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Services were held on Friday, October 30, 2020 at Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary, Memory Chapel. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery

Services were held on Friday, October 9, 2020 at Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary; interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.

Celebration of life service was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at AndersonRagsdale Mortuary; interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

JOHN HENRY MAHAFFEY made his earthly arrival on July 12, 1929, in Pinola, Mississippi. He was the first of five children born to Carlie Mahaffey and Willie Mae Parker. John received his primary education in Pinola, Mississippi. John met and married Dorothy Mae Burnett in 1949. From this union they were blessed with five children Grace, Viola, Henrietta, Lynetta, and John Henry Jr. In 1954 they relocated to San Diego, California. John worked for Corona Furniture for several years and later became self-employed with his own Hauling business. In 1999 John met and married Louise Fisher and gained three stepsons John, Gary, & Timothy. John was an avid fisherman in which he would spend days out on the lake fishing and enjoying friends. This brought him great joy. He also loved gardening and would spend hours out in the yard planting and weeding his garden. He was known for his greens, the best in town many would say. He enjoyed spending time with his children, grandchildren, family and friends. In 2010 at the age of 81 years old John decided to give his life to Christ and was baptized at Helping Hands Church of God in Christ. In 2015 John became a Deacon. On October 17, 2020 John made his transition to heaven. He will truly be missed by many friends and family. He was preceded in death by his father Carlie Mahaffey, Mother Willie Mae Parker, brother George Barnes, sister Frankie Jean Ginns, her two children Shirley Smith and Arthur Ginns and his beloved daughter Viola Ernestine Mahaffey. John leaves to cherish his memories his wife Louise, brother Roy Jean, sisters Tara Belt, Bertha Scott, Christine Lewis and Viola Butler, three daughters Grace Riser (David), Chesapeake, VA, Henrietta Robinson and Lynetta Daniels both of San Diego, CA, son John Henry Mahaffey Jr. San Diego, CA. step sons John Fisher, San Diego, CA, Gary Hosey (Tanay), and Timothy Fisher both of Riverside, CA, and a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren, niece’s, nephew’s, cousin’s and other relatives and friends.

LOUISE INEZ OVERSTREET was born August 20, 1919 in Wiggins, Mississippi.

She was the seventh of nine children born to John Evett and Annie Boutchie Overstreet. Her siblings were: Virgil, David, Katie, Irma, Grace, Shirley, Floriece and Bessie Overstreet.

J T INGE was born in Danville, Virginia on April 15, 1929.

Louise accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized. She was educated in Wiggins, where she received her high school diploma. She continued her education by earning an Associate of Arts Degree.

After graduating from college, Louise worked as a school teacher in Jackson. In 1942, God blessed her with a son, Fredrick. She later relocated to San Diego to join her sister, Floriece and her husband, Rev. Louie L. Henderson. She accepted employment with Convair as an airplane parts worker. She later worked as a paraeducator with the San Diego Unified School District.

Louise was an entrepreneur. She was an excellent seamstress and an outstanding author, excelling in the genre of poetry. Louise was a winner of the prestigious Diamond Homer Trophy, sponsored by the Famous Poets Society. Her inspiring book of poems are displayed in the Museum of Poetry in Washington D.C. Louise Overstreet was passionate about her Christian ministry. She was a Sunday School Teacher; first with Bethlehem Baptist Church in Wiggins, then with Calvary Baptist Church in San Diego, followed by Bayview Baptist Church, and later returning to Calvary. Afterwards, she united New Creation Church.

When her health failed, she relocated to Los Angeles to be near her son, Fredrick and his family. There, she united with Light and Life West Christian Fellowship in Long Beach, California.

Louise spent her entire life, doing the work of her Lord. She was a selfless individual. She was elegant and generous with all of her resources and talents until her Heavenly Father called her home to receive her reward.

On September 21, 2020, Louise Inez Overstreet was summoned to be with the Lord. She was preceded in death by her parents and eight siblings.

Louise leaves to cherish her legacy and precious memories, her beloved son, Fredrick Smith (Sylvia); grandchildren, Christopher and La Tanya; great-granddaughter, Zaneia; Godson, Evett Manley (Tyan) and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Love Lives On

He entered the Marine Corps on July 11, 1946 and underwent basic training at the segregated training facility Camp Montford Point.

His initial assignment was Interior Guard Duty on Saipan from 1946 to 1947. In 1947 he was reassigned to Guam.

After completion of his tour on Guam and being promoted to Corporal, he returned to Camp Montford Point. He was transferred to Camp Lejeune during the start of the FULL INTEGRATION of African Americans into the Marine Corps.

While there, he was promoted to Sergeant.

In 1953 he was transferred to Korea and was promoted to Staff Sergeant. He also served in Fuji and Yokosuka, Japan until 1956.

In 1956 he served stateside in San Francisco, Barstow and Twenty-Nine Palms, California.

In 1964 he received orders to report to MCRD. After completion of Drill Instructor School, he served as a Drill Instructor and Platoon Sergeant for recruit platoons.

In 1967 after being promoted to Gunnery Sergeant, he reported to Vietnam. He was attached to the Bridge Company of the 7th Engineers in Da Nang until 1968.

In 1968, he was again assigned to MCRD. He served as a Series Gunnery Sergeant until his retirement in 1969 after serving twenty-three years of honorable and faithful service to America with Love to the Corps and Country.

After retirement, he assumed a position with the US Postal Service from 1969 to 1990. From 1990 to 1992 he worked for Continental Airlines until his final retirement. He also volunteered at MCRD and worked with Drill Instructors and Recruit training.

He was married to Mae Inge (Deceased) for forty years and Father to four children: Pamela, Asma, Valerie & Giani. He also leaves behind sisters Hallie Martin & Kaye Chandler, brother-in-law Augustus Magee, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

J T was an active life member of Montford Point Marine Association, Inc. San Diego Chapter #12, the VFW, American Legion and the Elks Lodge.

June 27, 2012 Gunnery Sergeant J T Inge was awarded the Congressional Gold Metal authorized by President Barack Obama.

Those we love are never really lost to us — we feel them in so many special ways —

through friends they always cared about and

Dorothy Toole

dreams they left behind, in beauty that they

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added to our days... in words of wisdom we

still carry with us and memories that never will

be gone... Those we love are never really lost to us —For everywhere their special love lives on.

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On March 31, 1971 Dorothy gave birth to Michael Keith Price. He was the joy of her life.

Dorothy married Perry Tootle on May 1, 1978.

The family moved from Virginia Beach in 1978 and began a new life in San Diego CA. Shortly after, she joined Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church and was baptized. Dorothy joined the usher board in 1980 and was active in the district. She really enjoyed ushering, and in 1993 she became an active member in the choir.

She attended Sunday School, volunteered at Vacation Bible School, made choir robes, and usher uniforms.

Dorothy had a passion for sewing and got a job working at Yardage Town in National City as a sales representative. She made most of her clothes and had her own unique fashion that made a statement about her sewing talent.

Dorothy did lots of alterations and was the seamstress for many. She worked at Yardage town for over twenty-eight years until her health began to fail.

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Dorothy was so full of life she enjoyed going on vacations, playing pool, going to the movies, attending plays, and playing softball. While playing on various softball teams she was always teammates with her bestie, Chakesha. Dorothy loved her neighborhood and T Street neighbors that some became just like her family.

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On October 31, 2010 she was blessed with a beautiful granddaughter Ani’ Nicole Price.

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God saw that His child was getting tired, so on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, He called her to eternal peace and rest”.

Dorothy was preceded in death by parents Judith and Luther Price, Sr. and one brother Michael Price.

Those left to cherish Dorothy’s sweet precious memories are her loving and devoted son Michael; granddaughter Ani’; three sisters Barbara Owens, Lovie Harris (Allen), and Yvette Price; two brothers Luther Price, Jr., and Willie Price, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, one goddaughter Deveny Bugg; sister/best friend Aderian Bugg (Chakesha); church members, co-workers, and many other friends to mourn her passing.

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EDUCATION SDUSD Students, Staff to Receive COVID-19 Rapid Test Results Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Stu d e nt s an d s c h o o l employees throughout San Diego Unified will receive regular COVID-19 tests with rapid results under a proposed agreement with UC San Diego Health. At press time, the San Diego Unified Board of Education was set to meet to authorize an initial $5 million investment in the testing plan, which includes a

joint laboratory services testing agreement with UC San Diego Medical Center.

Following approval, the county’s largest school district and UC San Diego Health will select several campuses where testing will begin. Eventually, the program could be expanded to include all 100,000 students within the district and its more than 10,000 staff members.

“The science is clear. We can

prevent 90 percent of disease spread at schools simply by putting in place a robust testing program like the one we are announcing t o d a y,” Superintendent Cindy Marten said.

Under the testing plan with UC San Diego Health, all employees and students would have access to PCR

testing every two weeks on San Diego Unified campuses. Testing frequenc y would be adapted over time and based on virus and t ransmission rates, among other parameters.

No decision has been reached on whether the testing would be mandatory, as dis-

trict leaders say they want to assess voluntary compliance rates once implementation begins.

San Diego Unified has been in close collaboration with UC San Diego since it jointly established strict health and safety guidelines for reopening schools with a panel of its top scientific experts in August. Scientists from UCSD have worked closely with district leaders to protect students and staff from

the airborne transmission of COVID-19 disease.

“We were all encouraged by news this week of a potential vaccine,” Board President John Lee Evans said. “But even if a vaccine should become available, we are talking about months and months before it would actually reach all our students and staff. That is why this testing agreement is essential to our continued ability to operate safely.”

NATIONAL NEWS Many praise Stacey Abrams for Democratic resurgence in Georgia

By Patricia Murphy And Tia Mitchell Atlanta Journal-Constitution

the ticket in 2020, many fellow Democrats believe it is Stacey Abrams.

The election results in Georgia are not final, but for the first time in nearly 30 years, a Democratic nominee for president edged ahead in the vote count when former Vice President Joe Biden moved past President Donald Trump in the state early Friday morning.

“Stacey led the parade,” former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said Friday as she waited for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff to address supporters about his apparent runoff Jan. 5. against Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue. “She provided the kind of leadership that reached out to every county in the state, that understood that every Georgian needed to understand the value of politics and public policy.

And she’s been doing that for five, six, seven, eight years.

Prior to her own election.”

Two Republican U.S. senators in the state have been forced into a runoff, and suburban seats on county commissions, school boards and the General Assembly are leaning toward the Democrats for the first time in a generation.

Republicans still control all statewide offices and the lion’s share of county posts.

But if there is a single person who deserves the credit for Georgia’s potential move to blue, at least at the top of

Nikema Williams, the congresswoman-elect for the 5th Congressional District and first black chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, agreed.

“There had been civil rights organizations registering

voters year after year, but Stacey brought the game to scale,” Williams said. “She raised money across the country and sold the belief system in Georgia that if we register voters, if we build it, they’ll come. If we build it, the state will flip.”

Georgia has not “flipped,” but it has become significantly more competitive for Democrats after nearly 20 years of single-party rule by Republicans.

On Friday, The Associated Press declared Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux the winner in the 7th Congressional District, the second new seat in Congress that state Democrats have won in as many years.

While demographic trends have been pushing modest gains for Democrats since 2012, Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory University,

said that Abrams has accelerated the change.

country—that has led to her outsized impact today.

“It was Democrats being led

by Stacey Abrams, learning how to organize a state and learning how to target, register and mobilize voters,” Gillespie said. “If they had just gone with their status quo inertia, you would have seen the tightening, but it would have taken a longer time.”

In 2013, she founded the New Georgia Project to create a vast infrastructure to find, register and turn out Democratic voters in the state, especially those in minority communities who had long been overlooked by Democratic Party leaders.

‘A NEW PLAYBOOK’ Abrams was first elected to the Georgia House in 2006 and served 10 years in the chamber, including six as House minority leader.

She rocketed to national prominence in 2018 as the Democratic nominee for governor, losing by 1.4 percentages points to Brian Kemp.

But it has been her less visible work—focusing on the unglamorous nuts and bolts of voter registration in Georgia and across the

After the 2018 race, she launched Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action, which made the effort national and became fundraising juggernauts, raising more than $32 million in the 2020 election cycle, with millions going to state Democratic parties to register and turn out voters in November.

Along with focusing on voter turnout, Abrams also urged Democrats to abandon the habit of soft-pedaling their message.

That was a change Williams called “a new playbook.”

“I think Stacey showed us that it’s OK to be bold and unapologetic about who you are and stand strongly in your belief system,” she said.

Imara Canady, who worked under three Atlanta mayors, first met Abrams when she was a student at Spelman College and has followed her career.

“That is what Stacey has done for all people, particularly our young people, particularly for people of color, particularly for women, particularly for our immigrant community,” Canady said.

“She simply said, ‘I see you, I hear you and you matter.’”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Fashion-forward: Affirmative action hits Brazil’s runway

By David Biller And Mauricio Savarese Bold styles are usually the talk of the town for Sao Paulo Fashion Week. This year, couture connoisseurs in Brazil’s most cosmopolitan city have focused on the models—more specifically, the color of their skin.

For the first time, designers in Latin America’s largest fashion show, which wraps on Sunday, have been obliged to ensure 50% of their models are either Black, Afrodescendant or Indigenous.

The Brazilian fashion world was jolted into doing some soul-searching this year when—after the killing of George Floyd by police in the United States sparked protests and discussion over racial injustice—three Black models shared personal stories of experiencing racism in the industry during a raw, hourslong talk with Sao Paulo Fashion Week founder Paulo Borges.

Broadcast live via social media, that conversation was the first of many culminating in SPFW’s adoption of the new rule, Borges said in an interview with The Associated Press

“Ever yone understands there needs to be a bigger effort. We need to leave the space of white privilege to be able to make this change in the world,” he said. “The Eurocentric aesthetic of beauty cannot apply to the country of Brazil.”

Fashion-forward affirmative action is the latest effort to boost representation through edict in Brazil, where a previous, left-leaning government enacted race-based quotas in federal universities.

Others have followed more recently, with one retail giant, Magazine Luiza, creating a Black-only trainee program in September and a Supreme Court ruling that required political parties to distribute campaign funds this month using new racial guidelines.

More than half of Brazilians identify as either Black or biracial, but you wouldn’t know it from the country’s magazines and ads, where images of light-skinned people remain dominant.

A century after Brazil became the Western Hemisphere’s last country to abolish slavery, in 1888, the phenomenon was exemplified by the popular TV show “Xou da Xuxa,” or “Xuxa’s Show,” hosted by the blonde, blue-eyed entertainer

of the same name and backed by a bevy of young women with mostly matching features. Launched in the 1980s on the monolithic Globo network, it moved a generation of Black girls to straighten their hair, according to Marcelo Dias, national coordinator for entrepreneurism at Brazil’s Unified Black Movement.

“Do you know how that destroyed Black girls’ self-esteem, watching that? Not even one Black girl to see and identify with,” Dias said. “The result was that our Black girls didn’t want to use their natural hair; they wanted to use the hot comb.”

Sao Paulo Fashion Week was born in 1995. In 2009, facing an investigation over discrimination, organizers signed an agreement with public

prosecutors requiring 10% of models to be Black, Afrodescendant or Indigenous.

Still, there were calls for stronger action. SPFW began recommending designers’ models be at least 20% Black, Afro-descendant, Asian or Indigenous.

Angela Brito, a Rio de Janeirobased designer who moved to Brazil from Cape Verde more than two decades ago, on Friday showed the AP her 2020 collection which she dubbed “Identity,” blending traditional woven cloth from her home country with other styles.

Even before SPFW’s race requirement, she employed all-Black casts and has sought to highlight the issue.

“The first question people always asked me has been,

‘Why is your whole cast Black?”’ Brito said. “And I always asked, ‘Why is it that there were only whites before, and you never noticed?”’

other over their race and people often changing how they self-identify, so how Blackness gets defined isn’t a simple question.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the usual cloistered runway shows this year were jettisoned in favor of videos that were projected onto the sides of buildings and monuments, displayed on a truck circulating throughout the city and broadcast on social media.

SPFW considers models with at least one Black grandparent to be Afro-descendant and able to help designers meet their diversity quotas. Should doubts arise about a model’s race, it requests additional documentation, its press representative said in a message.

One of the most popular videos has been an eight-minute clip by the Korshi 01 brand.

It opens with a Black woman swiveling in a chair and then staring defiantly through square-shaped glasses, before cutting to a second Black model being made-up by a woman with flowing curls.

The piece suggests that models who before were waiting in the wings are now taking center stage.

Over the past decade, a rising percentage of Brazilians have been identifying as biracial or Black in government surveys, and less as white—reflecting a greater embrace of Blackness, according to Dias.

Race is a fluid thing in multihued Brazil, with siblings often disagreeing with each

While the SPFW’s diversity rule hasn’t generated any notable public opposition, affirmative-action policies in both the private and public sectors have drawn fire from the political right, including Sergio Camargo, who runs a governmental institution promoting Black culture.

When Magazine Luiza launched its trainee program for Black applicants, Camargo, who argues that structural racism does not exist, blasted the initiative.

“We don’t want to be treated like a sub-race of incapable people who depend on benefits to ‘triumph,”’ Camargo, who is Black, tweeted in September. “The company should cancel its racist selection and ask forgiveness from all Brazilians. Disgusting!”

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Serves Up Music & Food for th Voice & Viewpoint Newswire This past Saturday November 7, 2020 from 12:30 pm to1:30pm, R Baron Music Management Group Artist Sietegang Yabbie, Young Whomm and mentorship organization SD Hip Hop Health and Wellness 5k & Festival hosted a catered BBQ meal courtesy of Anela’s Kitchen for the homeless in Downtown San Diego. Led by an opening prayer by Dr. John Warren, the group of volunteers prepared BBQ chicken, hamburgers, and sides for an eager crowd. PPE items were also distributed.

As a way to celebrate the release of Yabbie’s latest hip hop album release, “Original Jank Baby,” the executives at R Baron Music Management and community leader Carleton Overstreet Jr. organized an impromptu community give back campaign to establish unity amongst the community and those in need of nourishment during a rainy day in San Diego. Participants were able to jam along with the new music while they ate.

Event organizer Carleton Overstreet, Jr. was proud of the turnout. “There was no promotion for this event. The artists came to me and said they wanted to give back to the community and the rest was history. Thanks to DJ Artistic and the staff at “God’s Extended Hand” mission who stepped up in lieu of a rainstorm.

Team work made the dream work.”

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By Cori Zaragoza Contributing Writer

In such turbulent times, it can be hard to see the beauty in politics and protests. Angel Farrah is here to remind us how to create art out of chaos.

Farrah, a local musician, was changed by her first protest. “I saw so much unnecessary unrest, violence, and so many people attempting to agitate each other. Seeing a 16 year old Latin American male maimed by a rubber bullet definitely affected me and was a huge part as well. That could have been one of my cousins. It brought confusion and tears to my eyes before the tear gas.” Armed with her saxophone (named Lisa); Farrah has persisted by focusing her energy into providing music for her fellow protestors. And she’s not alone; many others show up with their own instruments and equipment in tow, ready to throw down a beat at a moment’s notice.

The music uplifts protestors, even if there is still turmoil. Farrah says, “Music reminds us that we are all human regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, culture, background, gender, sexual orientation, and more. That is the thought we must foster and hold within to prosper in our nation and around the world.

There is something about music that gets anyone to just stop and listen if it is good regardless of what side they are on. I have always seen music as a tool to heal and unite.”

There is a rally for artists to protest and use their creative tools for empowerment and the betterment of, not only San Diego, but all of America. Farrah explains, “A protest in all forms exudes artistry. The planning, vision, organization, the chants, and the oneness in why people are uniting tell me that protesting is a form of art.”

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COVID-19 RESOURCES & INFORMATION County Moves to Purple Tier; ICYMI Tips and Information Restrictions to Start Nov. 14 from the CDC

(In Case You Missed It)

By José A. Álvarez County of San Diego

Use Face Coverings to Protect Others

After posting a case rate of more than 7 cases per 100,000 residents for two consecutive weeks, the state is placing the County in the Purple Tier, the most restrictive level of its system that limits activities based on risk of spreading COVID-19.

The County’s case rate increased to 7.4, then 8.9 over the past two weeks; therefore,

the region must stop indoor operations at restaurants, gyms, churches and movie theaters starting Sat., Nov. 14. Retailers will need to keep customers at 25% of capacity.

mendations,” said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., County public health officer.

“We understand that people have COVID fatigue, but we have to do what we know works.”

“The key to decreasing cases is wearing a mask, maintaining social distance, avoiding gatherings and following other public health recom-

The County will remain in the Purple Tier for at least three weeks. It won’t be able to advance to the Red Tier unless it posts a case rate

below 7 cases per 100,000 residents two weeks in a row.

The California Department of Public Health assesses counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 17.

The more detailed data summaries found on the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website.

• Wear a face covering to help protect others in case you’re infected but don’t have symptoms • Keep the covering on your face the entire time you’re in public • Don’t put the covering around your neck or up on your forehead • Don’t touch the face covering, and, if you do, wash your hands

Understanding the Covid Tier System California is now following California Department of Public Health’s County Monitoring Metrics. Every California county is assigned a tier based on test positivity and case rate. These factors are now known as “triggers.”

As tiers get less restrictive, there are different allowances for business openings and gatherings.

Case rates are measured by taking the number of new cases per 100,000. Testing

positivity percentage results are from the week 7-14 days prior to the day of announcing. That is, for results November 10, numbers are used from the dates October 28 - November 2.

Before moving to the next tier, a county must remain in the current tier for at least 3 consecutive weeks. The county must also meet the criteria for the next, less-restrictive tier for at least 2 consecutive weeks. Metrics are assessed

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

Covid-19 Status SOURCE: County of San Diego, HHSA as of 11/10/20

Widespread

Substantial

Moderate

Minimal

TIER 1

TIER 2

TIER 3

TIER 4

Adjusted Case Rate for Tier Assignment

>7

4-7

1-3.9

<1

Test Positivity

>8%

5-8%

2-4.9%

<2%

Measure

SOURCE: California Department of Public Health

on Mondays and tiers are updated on Tuesdays.

A county will regress to a

CONFIRMED CASES

61,053

more restrictive tier if the test positivity and/or case rate falls into a more restrictive tier for 2 consecutive weeks.

REPORTED TESTS

1,562,879

Statewide COVID-19 cases per 100k: 8.4 Positivity rate: 3.4%

San Diego County Status: WIDESPREAD COVID-19 cases per 100k: 10.0 Positivity rate: 2.6%

HOSPITALIZED

4,084

ICU

944

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The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

• Thursday, November 12, 2020

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

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WILMA J. WOOTEN, M.D. PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER

3851 ROSECRANS STREET, MAIL STOP P-578 SAN DIEGO, CA 92110-3134 (619) 531-5800 • FAX (619) 542-4186

ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER AND EMERGENCY REGULATIONS (EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 3, 2020) Pursuant to California Health and Safety Code sections 101040, 120175, and 120175.5 (b) the Health Officer of the County of San Diego (Health Officer) ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Effective 12:01 a.m. on Effective 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and continuing until further notice, the following will be in effect for San Diego County (county): 1. All persons are to remain in their homes or at their place of residence, except for employees or customers traveling to and from essential businesses or reopened businesses as defined in sections 10 and 11, below, or to participate in individual or family outdoor activity as allowed by this Order.

2. All “gatherings,” as defined in section 15 below, that do not comply with the requirements of the California Department of Public Health Guidance for Private Gatherings found at https:// www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/ CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ CDPH-Guidance-for-thePrevention-of-COVID-19-Transmission-for-Gatherings-10-09. aspx, are prohibited.

3. SCHOOLS a. All public, charter, and private schools may hold classes and other school activities only under circumstances permitted by the State and in compliance with the COVID19 Industry Guidance: Schools and School - Based Programs, and as may be updated or superseded by further State guidance. Institutions of higher education may hold classes or other school activities only under circumstances permitted by the State and in compliance with the COVID – 19 Industry Guidance: Institutions of Higher Education and as may be u dated or superseded by further State guidance. A written, worksite-specific COVID-19 prevention plan as stated in their applicable state guidance may be used by schools and institutions of higher education in lieu of a Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol or Safe Reopening Plan. b. All school districts, charter schools, and private schools serving grades TK – 12 inclusive, shall report the following to the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) on or before the second and fourth Monday of each month, in a format designated by SDCOE: i. Number of students participating in full-time in-person learning, by school site and school district, if applicable. ii. Number of students participating in hybrid learning (a mix of in-person and distance learning) by school site and school district, if applicable. iii. Number of students participating in distance learning by school site and school district, if applicable.

iv. Number of school employees who work onsite at a school, by school site and school district, if applicable. v. The name, email, mailing address, and phone number of the person responsible for responding to complaints regarding COVID-19 prevention, by school site and school district, if applicable.

SDCOE shall report this information to the County of San Diego by the end of business on the following day (Tuesday) and shall post this information on its publicly facing website. c. All school districts, charter schools, and private schools serving grades TK – 12 inclusive, as required in the most recent COVID -19 Industry Guidance: Schools and SchoolBased Programs, shall notify local health officials immediately of any positive case of COVID-19, and exposed staff and families, as relevant, while maintaining confidentiality as required by state and federal laws.

4. Child daycare and child care providers shall operate in compliance with the measures set forth in State COVID-19 Updated Guidance: Child Care Programs and Providers and shall prepare and post a Safe Reopening Plan pursuant to section 11c, below.

5. “Non-essential personnel,” as defined in section 15b below, are prohibited from entry into any hospital or long-term care facility. All essential personnel who are COVID-19 positive or show any potential signs or symptoms of COVID-19 are strictly prohibited from entry into hospitals or long-term care facilities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, individuals requiring medical care for COVID-19 or related conditions may be admitted to hospitals or other medical facilities if the hospital or medical facility is appropriate for treating COVID-19 and has adequate precautions in place to protect its patients, medical personnel and staff.

6. Hospitals and healthcare providers, including dentists shall: a. Take measures to preserve and prioritize resources; and, b. May authorize and perform non-emergent or elective surgeries or procedures based on their determination of clinical need and supply capacity, and where consistent with State guidance. c. Nothing in this Order shall prevent physicians and other healthcare providers from conducting routine preventive care provided it conforms to any applicable State guidance. d. Nothing in this Order shall prevent dentists or dental hygienists from conducting routine preventive care provided it conforms to any applicable

State guidance.

7. Hospitals, healthcare providers, pharmacies, commercial testing laboratories, and any other setting conducting testing shall report all positive and non-positive (i.e., negative, indeterminate, and specimen unsatisfactory) test results from nucleic acid amplification tests, antibody tests, and antigen diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 to the Public Health Officer immediately after such results are received.

8. Face coverings shall be worn as described and required in California Department of Public Health Face Covering Guidance issued on June 18, 2020, (available at: https:// www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/ CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/ Guidance-for-Face-Coverings_06-18-2020.pdf).

9. All businesses not meeting the definition of essential business or reopened business in section 10 and 11 below are referred to in this Order as “non-essential businesses” and shall be and remain closed for the duration of this Order. All essential businesses and reopened businesses must comply with the requirements of this Order. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any business may remain open if its employees and owners can provide its services from home, including by telecommuting, without direct contact with the public.

10. ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES a. “Essential business” is any business or activity (or a business/activity that employs/utilizes workers) designated by the State Public Health Officer as “Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers” set forth in: https://covid19.ca.gov/img/ ‌Essential‌CriticalInfrastructureWorkers.pdf) as that list may be updated from time-totime, and referenced in Executive Order N-33-20 issued by the Governor of the State of California. b. All essential businesses that allow members of the public to enter a facility must prepare and post a “Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol” on the form available at: https:// www.sandiegocounty‌.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/ phs/Epidemiology/c ovid19/ SOCIAL_DISTANCING_ AND_SANITATION_PROTOCOL_04022020_V1.pdf ), or on a form required by another governmental entity requiring substantially similar information, for each of their facilities open to the public in the county. The Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol must be posted at or near the entrance of the relevant facility, and shall be easily viewable by the public and employees.

A copy of the Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol must also be provided to each employee performing work at

the facility. All essential businesses shall implement the Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol and provide evidence of its implementation to any authority enforcing this Order upon demand. The Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol must describe all measures required in section c below.

Any business that fails to prepare and successfully implement a Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol shall immediately close. c. When the State of California has issued an industry guidance, or any subsequent amendments thereto, with mandatory or suggested restrictions and/or measures to be implemented by a particular sector of essential business, every essential business in that sector must comply with the guidance and shall include in its Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol (prepared pursuant to section b, above) all of the measures listed in the industry guidance. Any mandatory measures required by this Order must also be included in a Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol.

11. REOPENED BUSINESSES a. “Reopened business” is a business that is not an essential business as defined in section 10a above, and has reopened in conformance with the State of California’s Plan for Reducing COVID-19 and Adjusting Permitted Sector Activities to Keep Californians Healthy and Safe (available at https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/ COVID-19/COVID19CountyMonitoringOverview.aspx Statewide Public Health Officer Order, issued by the California Department of Health Services on August 28, 2020, all portions of which are operative in San Diego County effective immediately, and available at { https://www.cdph. ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/ CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/8-28-20_ Order-Plan-Reducing-COVID19-Adjusting-Permitted-Sectors-Signed.pdf}. A reopened business may open when the Public Health Officer has posted an acknowledgement of the reopened status on the County of San Diego Coronavirus website and the business has complied with the requirements of this Order. b. The State of California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy establishes a four tier system for reopening business sectors.

Those business sectors listed in the “Substantial/Tier2” column of the Activities and Business Tiers chart are allowed to reopen under the conditions set forth in the chart. i. Every business in the following sectors listed in the Activities and Business Tiers shall require all customers who receive services indoors or use indoor facilities to sign in with their

name and telephone number: • Hair Salons & Barbershops • Personal Care Services • Gyms & Fitness Centers • Restaurants, Wineries, Bars, Breweries, and Distilleries (where meal is provided) as required in section g below. c. All reopened businesses, with the exception of restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries which do not limit services to take-out or delivery, must prepare and post a “Safe Reopening Plan” on the form available at:https://www. sandiegocounty.gov/content/ dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/ Epidemiology/covid19/Community_Sector_Support/BusinessesandEmployers/SafeReopeningPlanTemplate.pdf for each of their facilities in the county. Restaurants bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries which do not limit services to take-out or delivery, must prepare and post a “COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol” on the form found at https://www.sandiegocounty. gov/content/dam/sdc/deh/fhd/ food/pdf/covid19sdrestaurantoperatingprotocol_en.pdf for each restaurant in the county. d. The Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol must be posted at or near the entrance of the relevant facility, and shall be easily viewable by the public and employees. A copy of the Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol must also be provided to each employee performing work at the facility. All reopened businesses shall implement the Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol and provide evidence of its implementation to any authority enforcing this Order upon demand. The Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol must describe all measures required in section e, below. Any business that fails to prepare and comply with its Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol shall immediately close. e. When the State of California has issued an industry guidance, or any subsequent amendments thereto, with mandatory or suggested restrictions and/or measures to be implemented by a particular sector of reopened business, every reopened business in that sector must comply with the guidance and shall include in its Safe Reopening Plan or COVID-19 Restaurant Operating Protocol (prepared pursuant to section c, above) all of the measures listed in the industry guidance. Any mandatory measures required by this Order must also be included in a Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol.

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NICK MACCHIONE, FACHE AGENCY DIRECTOR

The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

WILMA J. WOOTEN, M.D. PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER

3851 ROSECRANS STREET, MAIL STOP P-578 SAN DIEGO, CA 92110-3134 (619) 531-5800 • FAX (619) 542-4186

ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER AND EMERGENCY REGULATIONS (EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 3, 2020) CONTINUATION f. All restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries shall be closed from 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. every day. Guests already in the facility at 10:00 p.m. may remain in the facility until 11:00 p.m. Only staff needed to close, open or clean shall be in the facility between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. g. All restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries which are allowed to provide indoor service pursuant to the State of California Dine-in Restaurant Guidance shall comply with the following additional requirements applicable only to persons dining indoors: i. Limiting persons sitting at a table to members of the same household is strongly encouraged. ii. The restaurant shall obtain the name of each guest seated at a table and the telephone number of at least one guest and shall maintain the list of names and telephone numbers for three weeks. iii. Guests will be required to wear face coverings at all times while in the facility, including when seated at a table before the meal is served and after the meal is finished.

12. Each essential business and reopened business shall take all of the following actions if an employer becomes aware that an employee is diagnosed with COVID-19: a. Promptly notify the County Department of Public Health that there is an employee that is laboratory-confirmed diagnosed with COVID-19, together with the name, date of birth, and contact information of the employee. b. Cooperate with the County Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 response team to identify and provide contact information for any persons exposed by the employee at the workplace. c. Provide notice of the exposure to any employees, and contractors (who regularly work at the workplace), who may have been exposed to COVID-19, as stated in the State’s COVID-19 Employer Playbook for a Safe Reopening, available at {https:// files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/employer-playbook-for-safe-reopening--en.pdf}.

13. Outdoor Recreation a. Each public park and recreation area or facility, shall operate in compliance with the measures set forth in the State COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Campgrounds, RV Parks and Outdoor Recreation. The operator of the park shall prepare a Safe Reopening Plan pursuant to section 11, above, indicating how the park or recreation facility will implement the required measures. Any park or recreation area/facility at which the

Protocol requirements cannot be effectively implemented may be required to close. b.

Outdoor recreation instruction and day camps that comply with the State COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Day Camps, may be conducted in park and recreation areas/facilities. c. Recreational boating may occur in compliance with applicable State guidance: https:// files.covid19.ca.gov/pdf/guidance-campgrounds.pdf. d. Outdoor playgrounds may operate in compliance with the State guidance Outdoor Playgrounds and other Outdoor Recreational Facilities, available at: {https://www.cdph.ca.gov/ Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/ COVID-19/Outdoor%20Playgrounds%20and%20other%20 Outdoor%20Recreational%20 Facilities.aspx}.

14. Persons who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or who are likely to have COVID-19, shall comply with the Order of the Health Officer titled: “Isolation of All Persons with or Likely to have COVID-19”, or as subsequently amended. Persons who have a close contact with a person who either has COVID-19, or is likely to have COVID-19, shall comply with the Order of the Health Officer titled: “Quarantine of Persons Exposed to COVID-19,” or as subsequently amended. Both orders are available at: https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/ hhsa/programs/phs/community_epidemiology/dc/2019-nCoV/ health-order.html. If a more specific isolation or quarantine order is issued to a person, that order shall be followed.

15. For purposes of this Order: a. “Gathering” is any event or convening that brings together more than one person in a single room or single indoor or outdoor space at the same time.

A gathering does not include: i. A gathering consisting only of members of a single family or household. ii. Operations at airports, public transportation or other spaces where persons in transit are able to practice social distancing.

Operations at essential busiiii. nesses as defined in section 10a above and reopened businesses as defined in 11a above and where the other requirements set forth in this Order are followed. iv. A religious service or cultural ceremony including a wedding ceremony which is allowed provided the State Guidance on Places of Worship and Providers of Religious Services and Cultural Ceremonies is followed. However a wedding reception is a gathering and is not allowed. v. Outdoor protests in which participants maintain social

distancing and wear face coverings at all times. b. “Non-essential personnel” are employees, contractors, or members of the public who do not perform treatment, maintenance, support, or administrative tasks deemed essential to the healthcare mission of the long-term care facility or hospital. Non-essential personnel do not include first responders, nor State, federal, or local officials, investigators, or medical personnel carrying out lawful duties. Non-essential personnel do not include visitors to hospitals and long-term care facilities who are granted entry by the facility’s director, or designee, because they are family or friends who are visiting a resident in an end of life or similar situation, are parents or guardians visiting a child who is a patient, or because of any other circumstances deemed appropriate by the facility director, or designee, and where appropriate precautions by the facility that follow federal, State, and local public health guidance regarding COVID-19 are followed. c. “Social distancing” is maintaining a six-foot separation from all persons except for household members, first responders and medical providers or employees conducting temperature screenings.

16. This Order is issued as a result of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 disease, also known as “novel coronavirus.”

17. This Order is issued based on scientific evidence regarding the most effective approaches to slow the transmission of communicable diseases generally and COVID-19 specifically, as well as best practices as currently known and available to protect vulnerable members of the public from avoidable risk of serious illness or death resulting from exposure to COVID-19. The age, condition, and health of a significant portion of the population of the county places it at risk for serious health complications, including death, from COVID-19.

Although most individuals who contract COVID-19 do not become seriously ill, persons with mild symptoms and asymptomatic persons with COVID-19 may place other vulnerable members of the public—such as older adults, and those with underlying health conditions—at significant risk.

18. The actions required by this Order are necessary to reduce the number of individuals who will be exposed to COVID-19, and will thereby slow the spread of COVID-19 in the county. By reducing the spread of COVID-19, this Order will help preserve critical and limited healthcare capacity in the county and will save lives.

19. This Order is issued in accordance with, and incorporates by reference: a) the Declaration of Local Health Emergency issued

by the Health Officer on February 14, 2020; b) the Proclamation of Local Emergency issued by the County Director of Emergency Services on February 14, 2020; c) the action of the County Board of Supervisors to ratify and continue both the local health emergency and local emergency on February 19, 2020; d) the Proclamation of a State of Emergency issued by the Governor of the State of California on March 4, 2020; e) Executive Order N-25-20 issued by the Governor of the State of California on March 12, 2020 which orders that “All residents are to heed any orders and guidance of state and local health officials, including but not limited to the imposition of social distancing measures, to control COVID-19”; f) Proclamation 9984 regarding COVID-19 issued by the President of the United States on March 11, 2020; g) Executive Order N-33-20 issued by the Governor of the State of California on March 19, 2020; h) the “Interim Additional Guidance for Infection Prevention and Control for Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 in Nursing Homes” issued by the CDC; i) COVID-19 guidance issued by the California Department of Public Health on including, but not limited to the Face Coverings Guidance issued on April 1, 2020; j) the State of California’s “Resilience Roadmap;” the State of California’s Plan for Reducing COVID-19 and Adjusting Permitted Sector Activities to Keep Californians Healthy and Safe; and, the California Statewide Public Health Officer Order dated August 28, 2020.

20. This Order is issued to prevent circumstances often present in gatherings that may exacerbate the spread of COVID-19, such as: 1) the increased likelihood that gatherings will attract people from a broad geographic area; 2) the prolonged time period in which large numbers of people are in close proximity; 3) the difficulty in tracing exposure when large numbers of people attend a single event or are at a single location; and 4) the inability to ensure that such persons follow adequate hygienic practices.

21. This Order is issued to provide additional opportunities for recreational activities while also requiring additional protections from the spread of COVID-19 to the public who are taking advantage of these opportunities for recreational activities. And providing additional protections for employees of essential businesses or reopened business and their customers/clients.

22. This Order is issued to protect the public health as businesses are allowed to reopen by requiring businesses to implement procedures necessary to ensure their employees and customers comply with social distancing, sanitation and screening practices.

23. This Order comes after the release of substantial guidance from the Health Officer, the California Department of Public

Health, the CDC, and other public health officials throughout the United States and around the world.

24. The statement of facts and circumstances set forth as justification for each Guidance issued by the California Department of Health Services that is referenced in this Order are hereby accepted and incorporated by reference into this Order.

25. Pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 120175.5 (b) all governmental entities in the county shall take necessary measures within the governmental entity’s control to ensure compliance with this Order and to disseminate this Order to venues or locations within the entity’s jurisdiction where gatherings may occur.

26. Violation of this Order is subject to fine, imprisonment, or both.

(California Health and Safety Code section 120295.)

27. To the extent necessary, this Order may be enforced by the Sheriff or chiefs of police pursuant to Government Code sections 26602 and 41601 and Health and Safety Code section 101029.

28. Once this Order takes effect it shall supersede the Order of the Health Officer and Emergency Regulations dated October 9, 2020.

IT IS SO ORDERED: Date: November 2, 2020 Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., M.P.H. Public Health Officer County of San Diego

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS As Director of Emergency Services for the County of San Diego, I am authorized to promulgate regulations for the protection of life and property pursuant to Government Code Section 8634 and San Diego County Code section 31.103. The following shall be in effect for the duration of the Health Officer Order issued above which is incorporated in its entirety by reference: The Health Officer Order shall be promulgated as a regulation for the protection of life and property.

Any person who violates or who refuses or willfully neglects to obey this regulation is subject to fine, imprisonment, or both. (Government Code section 8665.)

Date: November 2, 2020 Helen Robbins-Meyer Chief Administrative Officer Director of Emergency Services County of San Diego

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BUSINESS NEWS Mcdonald’s Hires Diversity Chief

Amid Corporate Turmoil

By Dee-Ann Durbin AP Business Writer

“Reggie and I share the same goal: that in order to move forward, we must move away from the notion that the responsibility of diversity lies with one person, one department or one group,” McDonald’s human resources chief Heidi Capozzi said in a letter to employees that was viewed

by The Associated Press.

Miller replaces Wendy Lewis, who retired in September.

Chicago-based McDonald’s fired its former CEO Steve Easterbrook last November after he admitted sending explicit text messages to an employee. The company’s former human resources chief, David Fairhurst, was also fired.

Capozzi was hired in March.

In August, McDonald’s said it had hired an outside law firm to probe its human resources department after employees said complaints about its club-like atmosphere under Fairhurst were ignored.

Sisters Network Founder

Inspires Others in New Book

By Dominique Talbert Defender News Network

McDonald’s is hiring a new chief diversity officer as it struggles with charges of harassment and racism at all levels of the company.

Reginald Miller will become the company’s global chief diversity equity and inclusion officer on Nov. 9. Miller was previously the chief diversity officer at VF Corp., the owner of brands such as The North Face, Timberland and Vans.

KAREN JACKSON,

At least 50 workers have filed separate sexual harassment charges against McDonald’s with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or in state courts over the past four years.

McDonald’s is also facing charges of racism across its system. In January, two Black McDonald’s executives sued the company, claiming McDonald’s shifted advertising away from Black customers, graded Black-owned stores more harshly than white ones and implemented business plans that had a discriminatory impact on Black franchisees.

In recent weeks, current and former franchisees filed two federal lawsuits against McDonald’s, saying the company steered them to less-profitable, inner-city stores with high security and insurance costs and didn’t give them the same opportunities as white franchisees.

Miller, who is Black, served in the U.S. Army from 1997 to 2005. He has also led diversity efforts at Walmart. His first job, in high school, was at McDonald’s.

When four-time breast cancer survivor, Karen Jackson was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she had no experience nor knowledge of the disease. Jackson felt alone and knew the importance of having people around during this difficult time. That was the reasoning behind her founding Sisters Network Inc. in 1994. And it’s why she’s detailing her journey in a new book, In the Company of My Sisters: My Story, My Truth.

Jackson: It is for African American breast cancer advocates, so that includes people who have breast cancer, those who know someone battling it, or those who just want to educate themselves.

Defender: Why did you decide to write In the Company of My Sisters?

Jackson: It gave me an opportunity to speak on my

educate others. In retrospect, my need to make a difference in the lives of Black breast cancer survivors was my total focus. This memoir is a culmination of my journey through breast cancer—from my personal experiences and observations as a survivor, to my life’s path and commitment to increasing local and national attention, to the devastating impact that breast cancer has in the African American community.

Jackson: I never thought of it that way. I feel knowledge is power and when you gain that power, you should share that with others. It’s just second nature for me to give back.

Jackson: Yes. I was wondering when it would happen.

It took a long time. I never doubted but I didn’t think it would take so long.

Defender: What do you hope people walk away with after having read the book?

Defender: Is this just for those diagnosed with breast cancer, or does it contain information for others?

Defender: How does it feel to be an inspiration to countless African American women?

Defender: Did you ever think the Sisters Network would expand to this extent to help numerous African American women?

Jackson’s new book speaks about her life dedicated to assisting other breast cancer survivors. She talked with the Defender about the book, Sisters Network Inc. and her motto in life.

Karen Jackson: Well, the biggest thing is that there is no need for women to die of breast cancer. They don’t need to be alone. I share my story in hopes that people will be educated and inspired by my battling – and surviving – breast cancer four times.

Jackson: To live the best life.

A purposeful life.

Sisters Network Inc. Founder and CEO Karen Jackson (center) greets Greensboro members Jeannette McCall (left) and Rokisha Rover-Simrel (right) in Durham, N.C.

story and my truth. When I was first diagnosed, I had little knowledge of the disease, so I immersed myself in information. It didn’t take me long to discover that finding information was difficult due to the limited amount of culturally sensitive material. You learn quickly how to become your own best advocate and sometimes even your own best friend. And as I educated myself, the fire was fueled to

Defender: A lot of people would give up after being diagnosed four times. How did you find strength to go on?

Jackson: I have inner strength that developed over the years. I needed to know what my body was trying to tell me. I had to pay attention and it saved my life. I call it my inner spirit.

Defender: What is your motto in life?

Defender: Did you experience any struggles when starting the Sisters Network Inc? Jackson: Black non-profits were not taken seriously and there was little funding. The Sisters Network shines bright because we were doing the work but we didn’t have the funding or support. We never were able to spend money on advertising. So we would have to post on social media or word-of-mouth. Black women, breast cancer is real and should be a priority.

STUDY: Minority-Owned Small Businesses

Are Better At Adapting To COVID-19

It’s not surprising that many small businesses are struggling to maintain operations, earn profits and sustain their work forces in the wake of the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, many minorities who own small businesses across the U.S. remain more optimistic about the future than their non-di-

verse counterparts, though they acknowledge a need for greater support from the government from their communities and from the private sector.

Those were some of the findings of the nationwide Small Business Mindshift 2020 survey recently completed

by Union Bank, a financial institution that’s been serv-

ing small businesses on the West Coast for more than 155 years.

The survey determined that in the U.S., 34% of minority small-business owners (SBOs) can “see a path forward” for future business success and survival despite COVID-19.

In comparison, only 20% of non-diverse SBOs are predicting such outcomes. Minority

SBOs have also been comparatively more proactive than their peers in forming new strategies to cope with pandemic-imposed changes. In fact, 24% believe COVID-19 has had a positive effect on their businesses, compared to just 12% of non-diverse SBOs. Minority SBOs include those owned by Black, Latinx and Asian respondents.

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In other findings from the bank’s latest survey: U.S. minority SBOs are better at adapting their business strategies In general, U.S. minority SBOs have shown significantly more innovation than others when it comes to adjusting business practices to stay afloat; 52% have altered products or services, 50% have changed online retail options and 47% have switched their online advertising messaging.

California-based SBOs are struggling, but minority owners are more optimistic SBOs in California are feeling more deflated and uncertain compared to other small business owners across the U.S. Only 13% of California small business owners say they see a path forward for how their business can survive versus 23% U.S. SBOs overall.

Additionally, 41% said that applying for the financial aid that could help their businesses is too complex to even attempt.

Again, however, minority SBOs in California have demonstrated more innovation and optimism during this time and have been more likely than their peers to implement new strategies.

Not only are minority SBOs in California more likely to have embraced their community leadership roles—

with 55% feeling an increased sense of responsibility to help their community vs.

44% of non-diverse SBOs— but they’re also getting more support in return, with 39% feeling supported by their local community vs. 33% of non-diverse SBOs. COVID-19 vaccine key to success A third of U.S. small-business owners said their future success and survival will be determined by the Presidential election, and two in three see the 2020 election as the most important in their time as business owners. However, the overwhelming majority said that the availability (or lack thereof) of a COVID-19 vaccine will be the No. 1 issue affecting their success over the next six months.

As a way of supporting minority businesses and helping to address social and racial injustices in the U.S., Union Bank took the initiative in June to launch a $10 million Community Recovery Program aimed at providing SBOs access to capital, entrepreneurship, job retention and retraining.

More information about Union Bank’s Community Recovery Program is available at UnionBank.com/about-us/ newsroom/community-recovery-program.

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Located at: 914 East 8th Street, Suite 112 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 08/26/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Troy Lynn Rawls 914 East 8th Street, Suite 112 National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 13, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 13, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9018309 Fictitious business name(s): Peacefull Mind Clohting

Located at: 4734 Crooked Creek Ct. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Timothy Omario Douglas

4734 Crooked Creek Ct. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 5, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on November 5, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017013 Fictitious business name(s): ABR Golf Extravaganza

Located at: 371 Blue Cape Lane #276 San Diego, CA 92154 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: Co-Partners

LEGAL NOTICES The first day of business was 9/23/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Avis Lee Brown-Riley

371 Blue Cape Lane #276 San Diego, CA 92154 County of San Diego --Gordon Brown Jr. 1937 Setting Sun Trail Tallahassee, Florida 32303 County of Leon This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 12, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 12, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017829 Fictitious business name(s): SDiegans

Located at: 537 S. 38th St San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Webster Drew Stephenson III

537 S. 38th St San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 31, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 31, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017227 Fictitious business name(s): Plaza Village Barber Shop

Located at: 3102 East Plaza Blvd National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 05/01/1995 This business is hereby registered by the following: Emmanuel Jacalan Navida

6730 Palo Alto LN. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 17, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 17, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017929 Fictitious business name(s): Las Vegas Hair & Nails Beauty Supply

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County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 08/20/1992 This business is hereby registered by the following:

Company The first day of business was 07/23/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Real Medical Transportation LLC 9821 Apple St Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 17, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 17, 2025 10/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9015638 Fictitious business name(s):

This business is hereby registered by the following: Money Moguls United LLC 6551 Utica Court San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 9, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 9, 2025 10/22, 10/29, 11/05, 11/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9016279 Fictitious business name(s):

Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

PROPOSED NAME: Amanda Nicholle Fowler

Reneil Patton Victoria

345 Ringwood DR. San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 31, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 31, 2025 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017594 Fictitious business name(s): Morton Acupuncture

Located at: 7290 Navajo Road Suite 110 San Diego, California 92119 County of San Diego --6311 Lake Lomond Drive San Diego, CA 92119 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was 11/1/2017 This business is hereby registered by the following: Tomodachi Acupuncture Inc 6311 Lake Lomond Drive San Diego, California 92119 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 27, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 27, 2025 11/05, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017260 Fictitious business name(s): Total Altruistic Project Foundation

Located at: 2838 Farragut Rd., suite 125 San Diego, CA 92106 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Total Altruistic Project Foundation 2838 Farragut Rd., suite 125 San Diego, CA 92106 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 17, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 17, 2025 11/05, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017122 Fictitious business name(s): AAA AGELESS

Located at: 553 Parkway Plaza El Cajon, CA 92020 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Nan Wang 1547 Golden Rose Ave Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 14, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 14, 2025 11/05, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9017281 Fictitious business name(s): Real Medical Transportation LLC

Located at: 9821 Apple St Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liabillity

J.J.'s Mobile Detailing --J.J.'s Janitorial Services

Located at: 5895 Parkmead Ct San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 03/21/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: John Anthony Jordan SR. 5895 Parkmead Ct San Diego, CA 92114 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 19, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 19, 2025 10/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9016797 Fictitious business name(s): Innovative Wellness Clinic, Inc., A Nursing Corporation

Located at: 9239 Camp Rd. Suite A Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above This business is hereby registered by the following: Innovative Wellness Clinic, Inc, A Nursing Corporation 9239 Camp Rd. Suite A Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 9, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 9, 2025 10/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11/19 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9016303 Fictitious business name(s): M. Camila Photography

Located at: 4717 Oregon St San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 09/01/18 This business is hereby registered by the following: Maria-Camila Murcia 4717 Oregon St San Diego, CA 92116 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 26, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 26, 2025 10/22, 10/29, 11/05, 11/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9016787 Fictitious business name(s): GTB --Get The Bag

Located at: 6551 Utica Court San Diego, CA 92139 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company Registrant Has Not Yet Begun To Transact Business Under The Name(s) Above

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Located at: 6831 Missy Ct San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 11/01/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Dulce Cristal Garcia 6831 Missy Ct San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on September 26, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on September 26, 2025 10/22, 10/29, 11/05, 11/12 -----------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2020-9016703 Fictitious business name(s): Ralonda's Inkredible Creations

Located at: 8117 Brampton St Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was 09/28/2020 This business is hereby registered by the following: Ralonda LaVoi Shannon 8117 Brampton St Spring Valley, CA 91977 County of San Diego This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on October 8, 2020 This fictitious business name will expire on October 8, 2025 10/22, 10/29, 11/05, 11/12

NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division Hall of Justice 37-2020-00038766CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Rebeca Vazquez on behalf of Zarahi Martinez To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Rebeca Vazquez on behalf of Zarahi Martinez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Zarahi Martinez PROPOSED NAME: Zarahi Martinez-Vazquez THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 09, 2020

(Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/03 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2020-00029656CU-PT-CT Petitioner or Attorney: Ja'Lyn Claudette Nadia Wilkinson on behalf of a minor To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Ja'Lyn Claudette Nadia Wilkinson on behalf of a minor filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Ja'Lyn Claudette Nadia Wilkinson PROPOSED NAME: Ja'Lyn Claudette Nadia Green THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 02, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 11/05, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2020-00037315CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Amanda Nicholle Vaughn To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Amanda Nicholle Vaughn filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Amanda Nicholle Vaughn

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 03, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 10/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11/19 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway Rm #225 San Diego, Ca 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2020-00038303CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney:

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Meet ‘The Deacons’:

Tasha Whitley and Jayon Whitley and Jazlyn Whitley

Armed Black Christians

To All Interested Persons:

Petitioner Tasha Whitley and Jayon Whitley on behalf of Jazlyn Whitley, a minor filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows:

Who Protected MLK

Little-recognized group played key role in ’60s civil rights movement.

PRESENT NAME: Jazlyn Nicole Whitley PROPOSED NAME: Jazzlyn Nicole Whitley THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

By Kevin Michael Briscoe Zenger News

D

uring the 1950s, a single house was built at 924 E. 9th St. in the city of Bogalusa, La.

This unremarkable single-story, 1,590-square-foot mill town structure was similar to the ranch houses and bungalows built to house workers of the Great Southern Lumber Co. However, its modesty belies its social, cultural and political significance as the hub of the city’s civil rights movement in the 1960s.

It was here, on Feb. 21, 1965, that activists Robert “Bob” Hicks, Bert Wyre, Fletcher Anderson and Charles Sims founded the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 07, 2020 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which poses a substantial risk to the health and welfare of court personnel and the public, rendering presence in, or access to, the court's facilities unsafe, and pursuant to the emergency orders of the Chief Justice of the State of California and General Orders of the Presiding Department of the San Diego Superior Court, the following Order is made: NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120).

If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions.

If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a remote hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.

A RESPONDANT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future remote hearing date.

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachement served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court.)

The address of the court is: 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 10/29, 11/05, 11/12, 11/19

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In this Dec. 11, 2015 photo, Barbara Hicks Collins poses in front of her childhood home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in honor of her father, civil rights activist Robert Hicks, in Bogalusa, La. The home was both the site of mobilization of civil rights activism, and the target of Ku Klux Klan hostility. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Deacons: An Ironic Forgotten Footnote in History?

In his book, “The Deacons for Defense: Armed SelfDefense and the Civil Rights Movement,” historian Lance Hill wrote, “Much of the history of the civil rights era rests on the myth of non-violence: the notion that the civil rights movement achieved its goals through non-violent direct action.

[On the contrary], black violence and civil disorder played an indispensable role in forcing the federal government to enforce the newly enacted civil rights laws.”

The Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed African-American self-de-

fense group founded in 1964

by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick in Jonesboro, La, included World War II and Korean War veterans working to protect members of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, from Ku Klux Klan violence. CORE and other organizations that promoted nonviolence supported armed self-defense, arguing that the changing federal laws were doing little to protect activists at the local level.

the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Urban League, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) — headed by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. — to take up his cause.

“In the southern freedom struggle, armed self-defense became a pragmatic necessity because of the daily threats and the violence that activists faced,” said Simon Wendt, associate professor of American Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. “As one CORE activist once said in 1965 — and I’m paraphrasing here — protected nonviolent protest tended to be more popular than unprotected nonviolent protest.

As in the case of nonviolence, many activists viewed self-defense as something that the violent situation simply required, not necessarily an ideological choice.”

“King initially disagreed with including the Deacons in the march, but was ultimately convinced to allow their participation if the march maintained the banner on nonviolence,” said Akinyele Umoja, professor of African American studies at Georgia State University.

Pragmatism and ideology intersected on a national level during James Meredith’s one-man March Against Fear from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., on June 6, 1966. Wounded by a sniper’s bullet and unable to complete the march, Meredith reluctantly agreed to allow the NAACP, CORE,

On Feb. 1, 1965, Robert “Bob” Hicks, a local mill worker and activist, and his family were having dinner with two white CORE workers who were in town to protest segregated public accommodations in Bogalusa.

“The police watched my father’s friends and neighbors arrive and take positions in the yard, and on the roof, and around the house,” said Barbara Hicks Collins, Hicks’ daughter, now 73. “After learning that black men in Jonesboro had done something similar, my father got those friends and neighbors together and formed the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for

Fearing a blow to their identities as proponents of nonviolence, the Urban League and NAACP opted not to participate.

“The Deacons’ inclusion in a march sponsored by national civil rights movement organizations represented an important shift in the black freedom struggle,” said Umoja, author of “We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Mo v e m e nt .”

“SNCC, CORE and SCLC, as well as their national leadership, were relying upon organized black militants, not the federal government, to defend their organizations and the participants in

their rights to picket, assemble peaceably and advocate

The Movement in Bogalusa

Their meal was interrupted by a visit from Bogalusa Police Chief Claxton Knight, who told Hicks that a mob of 200 was threatening to murder him and his family and burn his house to the ground if the activists did not leave. Undaunted and expecting no help from the police, Hicks called in a mob of his own. Within minutes, the Black men of Bogalusa — armed with shotguns — filed into the Hicks home.

After much deliberation and at the urging of SNCC’s Stokely Carmichael, all but two of the groups agreed to deploy a contingent of Deacons from Chicago, Louisiana and Mississippi to protect the route to Jackson, including King’s SCLC.

this campaign.”

Although the march continued without incident, these organizations gave little public credit to the Deacons.

“For CORE and others, nonviolence had to be the face of the movement for federal support, for northern support, for president of the United States support,” said Umoja. “Black men with guns was not the best way to get support.”

Dr. Akinyele Umoja, professor

Although the public face of the movement was of nonviolence, the Deacons boasted 20 chapters across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in its heyday. Yet, with the emergence of the Black Power movement and an increasing number of Black elected officials across the South, the Deacons were all but obsolete by 1968.

Bogalusa is remembered as the apex of the Deacons’ power.

equal rights” for African Americans.

The Past as Prologue Hicks died of cancer on April 10, 2010. Four months later, 924 E. 9th St. became 924 Robert “Bob” Hicks St. In front of the Hicks Family/Civil Rights House. The men are members of the Deacons for Defense and Justice(Bogalusa Chapter) Robert Hicks is standing with his daughter; Valeria Hicks and Charles Sims, President of the Deacons is to the far left with the hat and white shirt.Courtesy Robert Bob Hicks Foundation, Stanley Rapoport, MD Collection 1965.

Defense and Justice.”

Likely alerted by the police, the white mob never showed up.

Soon after, Hicks and his fellow Bogalusa Deacons set up shop in his home, converting it into a radio communications and command center, meeting place and medical triage station.

The Bogalusa Deacons, led

by Hicks, gained national notoriety due to the events of May 19, 1965, when they led a group of Black citizens to the whites-only Cassidy Park, the largest public park

in the city. The black citizens were soon set upon by a white mob who, along with local police, attacked them with clubs and leather belts.

The Cassidy Park incident did yield positive results.

Four days later, Bogalusa Mayor Jesse Cutrer signed a six-point desegregation agreement and, on July 10, Hicks v Knight resulted in an injunction ordering law enforcement to protect protesters from “physical assaults and beatings” and to cease “preventing or discouraging the exercise of

In the front yard sits the first official Louisiana Historical Land Marker for an African American in his honor. The Robert “Bob” Hicks House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role in Bogalusa’s civil rights movement and is the first African-American historical site in Washington Parish to gain this recognition.

four to six months,” said Hicks Collins, a retired New Orleans public health official. “We don’t have a projected opening date, but it should be some time in the next year, if we all survive COVID-19.”

(Edited by Ron Panarotti and Mara Welty)

Now, Barbara Hicks Collins, who runs a foundation in her father’s name, is converting the home into Bogalusa/ Washington Parish’s first civil rights museum and multicultural center.

“We are projecting completion of the construction phase within the next

Barbara Hicks Collins, daughter of Robert Hicks, is Executive Director of the Robert “Bob” Hicks Foundation.

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ist to achieve international acclaim when his 1895 painting, “Daniel in the Lion’s Den”, was awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exposition.

1977

BLACK FREEDMEN & SLAVES BARRED FROM THE CONTINENTAL ARMY

Born in 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tanner’s parents tried to turn him from art to “practical” ambitions by apprenticing him to a miller.

When the poor air quality caused severe illness, his parents relented during his multi-year recovery. In 1880, when Tanner was twenty-one, he enrolled in the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and established a small photo gallery and taught classes at Clark College. With help from his primary American patrons, Tanner travelled to Europe in 1891. Love for Paris made him abandon his tour. Tanner enrolled in the Académie Julian and began painting scenes of African-American life and Bible stories.

DUTCH MORIAL ELECTED THE FIRST BLACK MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS

General George Washington’s council of general officers barred enlisting any Black men, whether slaves or freedmen, in the Continental Army. His general orders of November 12, 1775, directed that “neither Negroes, boys unable to bear arms, nor old men unfit to endure the fatigues of the campaign” were to be recruited. Blacks had already enlisted and fought with distinction. One of the reasons for blocking further recruitment centered around Blacks demanding freedom after the war. There were also efforts to push out Black soldiers enlisted prior to the orders. Just over a month later, Washington noted in a report to Congress that “free Negroes who have served in the Army, are very much dissatisfied at being discarded.”

In 1776, to prevent them from enlisting with the British, Washington reversed his orders and the removals, re-enlisting Black men who were removed and re-allowing recruitment of new Black men.

1900 CLOSE OF THE PARIS EXPOSITION One of the most famous of the World’s Fairs, the Exposition Universelle de 1900 (known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition), was particularly significant for AfricanAmerican artists. Henry Ossawa Tanner was the first artist African-American art-

After the Paris Expo, Tanner received several other awards for his work.

Encouraged by his new-found fame, Tanner returned to the USA in 1893, visiting Philadelphia for several months. Sadly, the visit convinced him that he could not fight racial prejudice. He returned to Paris and focused on painting. Marrying in 1899, Tanner and his wife decided to settle in France permanently. In his later years, Tanner was a symbol of hope and inspiration for African-American leaders and young Black artists, many of whom visited him in Paris. On May 25, 1937, Tanner died at his home in Paris.

1922 SIGMA GAMMA RHO SORORITY FOUNDED Based on a desire to raise the standards of teachers in schools, Mary Lou Allison Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Dublin Redford, Bessie M. Downey and Cubene McClure, seven teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana founded Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha Chapter at Butler University. Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority’s aim is to enhance the quality of life within the community.

Focusing on public service, leadership development and youth education, Sigma Gamma Rho attempts to address education, civic, and economic concerns.

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Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial was a man who made an impression. He was the first Black graduate of the Louisiana State University Law School in 1954. Morial devoted his first two years as a lawyer to working for the US Army intelligence group during and after the Korean War. Returning to his hometown, Morial quickly advanced through the ranks of the local NAACP chapter, serving as its president from 1962 to 1965. He campaigned for racial justice through the use of nonviolent tactics, from organizing boycotts to spearheading the drive for the integration of a variety of public resources, including public schools, parks, recreation programs, taxicabs, the Municipal Auditorium, and the airport. Morial was a key player in bringing racial reform to New Orleans.

In 1967, he became the first African-American in the Louisiana State Legislature since Reconstruction. A decade later, he was elected the first Black mayor of New Orleans. He remained mayor for two terms (the maximum allowed), serving from 1978-1986. In his first mayoral election, Morial won with 95% of the Black vote without any support from major Black political organizations. Most commentators viewed Morial as having little chance of victory.

In his first term, Morial faced a sanitation workers’ strike and a police strike which led him to cancel the 1979 Mardi Gras parade season. The police union wagered a strike coinciding with Mardi Gras would force the city to grant their demands, but Morial was supported by leaders of many of the city’s Carnival krewes. Expanding upon the efforts of his predecessor, Morial redoubled the city’s commitment to affirmative action in hiring city workers and introduced minority hiring quotas for city contractors. The proportion of Black employees in the city’s workforce increased from 40% in 1977 to 53% in 1985 under Morial’s tenure.

The number of Black officers in the NOPD was increased to make up one third of the force. Continued incidents of police brutality unfortunately overshadowed these achievements, especially in the Black community.

Morial’s political strength did not end after he left City Hall. He was planning to run for mayor again in 1990, but died suddenly from asthma-related complications in 1989. His eldest son, Marc, would go on to serve as the city’s mayor from 1994 to 2002, creating the first AfricanAmerican, father-son legacy to lead a major American city.