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Peggy Fitzpatrick, 65, stands for a portrait holding an image of her great grandfather, Willie Fitzpatrick, at East Lake Park in Atlanta’s East Lake community, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Willie was a victim of the Tuskegee Experiments, which was an unethical medical study that targeted Black men for more than 40 years. Despite this experiment being a part of Peggy’s family legacy, she is still seeking to participate in the COVID-19 vaccination. (Alyssa Pointer/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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Peggy Fitzpatrick Tatum recently spent two weeks trying to book an appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine before eventually landing a date.

Tatum’s decision to get the vaccine may raise some eyebrows.

The 65-year-old retired federal employee is the See TUSKEGEE page 2

In this July 13, 2020, file photo, a chain-link fence lock is seen on a gate at a closed Ranchito Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Cannot be Heard”

White Person Who Jumped Vaccine Line in Black Area Shares Their Story

SPACEWALKING ASTRONAUTS PREP STATION FOR NEW SOLAR WINGS

By Bo Tefu

By Marcia Dunn

By Aldon Thomas Stiles

California Black Media

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Sprawling parking lots at California State University Los Angeles and Oakland-Alameda Coliseum in “Oaktown” are two locations in California where the state is set to conduct focused vaccine pushes for education workers. The effort is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s health equity plan as he prioritizes the reopening of schools.

Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.

On Feb. 22, a White Pasadena resident says “they” received an e-mail from a friend containing access codes to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in a nearby neighborhood that is predominantly Black. The problem? Those codes were meant for people in Latino and Black communities that have been hit hardest by the pandemic.

According to the equity-centered plan, as of March 1, 10 % of the state’s vaccine supply is dedicated to K-12 educators and staff. The mobile sites and vaccine drives will focus on “counties and school communities weighted by equity, including the proportion of students from low-income families, English learners, and homeless youth,” state officials said.

“Our top priority is getting students back in the classroom as safely and quickly as possible, and the expanded access to vaccines will build on the momentum and confidence that we can do so with urgency,” Gov. Newsom said.

Candidates eligible for the vaccination include teachers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers, childcare workers, and site-based administrators.

NASA’s Kate Rubins and Victor Glover emerged from the orbiting lab lugging 8-foot (2.5-meter) duffle-style bags stuffed with hundreds of pounds of mounting brackets and struts. The equipment was so big and awkward that it had to be taken apart like furniture, just to get through the hatch.

Last week, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services sent about 1,000 access codes to community groups that were to be used to register people for vaccinations in Los Angeles and Oakland, according to spokesperson Brian Ferguson. However, these codes were leaked. This resulted in people who the codes were not intended for reserving appointments and showing up at vaccination sites in heavily Black and Latino communities.

``We know it’s super tight in there,’’ Mission Control radioed.

The astronauts headed with their unusually large load to the far port side of the station, careful not to bump into anything. That’s where the station’s oldest and most degraded solar wings are located.

State officials have committed to providing 75,000 vaccinations each week at mobile sites set up to administer vaccines for registered school staff statewide.

The health equity plan aims to prioritize vaccine

With more people and experiments flying on the space station, more power will be needed to keep everything running, according to NASA. The six new solar panels _ to be delivered in

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NASA Astronaut Victor J. Glover, pictured here, was one of two NASA astronauts on Sunday’s spacewalk. Glover, the first African American astronaut to live full time at the space International Space Station, could end up traveling to the moon with NASA’s Artemis moon-landing program. Photo: NASA

“I was excited. I felt a rush to sign up at the chance to keep myself safe,” a White Pasadena resident accused of jumping the line in Black communities told California Black Media (CBM).

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Remembering Dr. Wille P. Blair, California Civic Leader, Dad and Mentor

By Tanu Henry California Black Media

Dr. Willie Blair, 69, a former U.S. Navy officer who served during combat in Vietnam and later became a champion of racial equity for African Americans in California, passed away in San Diego on Feb. 25.

His family has not released his cause of death.

In 2017, Blair was elected president of the Black American Political Association of California (BAPAC), a statewide public policy think tank and civic engagement organization committed to solving economic, political and social problems that confront African Americans. Before that, from 2008 to 2017, he served as BAPAC’s board chair.

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great-granddaughter of one of hundreds of Black men in Macon County, Alabama, who were part of a controversial U.S. Public Health Service study on syphilis, commonly known as the Tuskegee Study or Tuskegee Experiment, which began in 1932 and lasted 40 years.

Blacks and Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in terms of hospitalizations and deaths, according to health experts. Yet, they’re also receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at significantly lower rates than whites.

A big reason is lack of trust in medical research systems and the government. Some list the Tuskegee Experiment as reason for their hesitance.

According to a June 2020 Pew Research Center study, Black adults were more hesitant to trust medical scientists, embrace the use of experimental medical treatments and sign up for a potential vaccine to combat the disease.

“I do think they are using Tuskegee as an excuse, and it brings about fear and some anxiety for people,’’ said Tatum, who was raised in Tuskegee and now lives in metro Atlanta, in a recent interview with the AJC. In a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, 30% of Black respondents said the main reason they wouldn’t get the COVID vaccine is they distrust the health system. About 22% were concerned about side effects. Thirty-seven percent said they wanted to know more about the vaccines’ effectiveness.

Those facts are not lost on many in the community, as Black physicians, civic organizations and faith-based groups work to educate Black people about the vaccines.

“We’re at a different place from Tuskegee and also from other injustices and unethical medical behavior as far as research goes on human subjects,’’ said Dr. Lilly Immergluck, a professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.

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and knowing I could be safe from COVID before that happened would be really reassuring,” said the person who spoked to CBM on the condition of anonymity.

The incident brings to life the two dueling opinions in an enduring, deeply controversial and divisive public fight over race and state policy in California, a state where Proposition 209 outlawed affirmative action or any consideration of race in public employment, public education or public contracting in 1996. On one hand, the unauthorized use of the codes underscores how race-based policy may have unintended outcomes when implemented, leaving some people feeling left out or overlooked. On the other hand, it reveals the importance of targeting funding – in this case life-and-death assistance -- to particular racial and ethnic minorities who may be most affected by a specific problem.

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pairs by SpaceX over the coming year or so should boost the station’s electrical capability by as much as 30%.

Rubins and Glover had to assemble and bolt down the struts for the first two solar panels, due to launch in June.

The eight solar panels up there now are 12 to 20 years old - most of them past their design lifetime and deteriorating. Each panel is 112 feet (34 meters) long by 39 feet (12 meters) wide. Tip to tip counting the center framework, each pair stretches 240 feet (73 meters), longer than a Boeing 777’s wingspan.

Boeing is supplying the new roll-up panels, about half the size of the old ones but just as powerful thanks to the latest solar cell technology. They’ll be placed at an angle above

come from lessons learned in history.

educate themselves before making a decision.

“The protections that humans have in clinical research, to me, evolved from that situation (Tuskegee) along with some others.

“Back then, they didn’t understand what was going on,’’ she said. “Now you can ask questions. You can watch experts on the news 24/7.’’

“The way to be empowered is to get correct information,’’ she said. “We’re asking people to go to the people they trust in their communities, their circles, their networks and their health care providers.’’

But she makes it clear that it’s not just vaccine hesitancy that could account for lower numbers.

“Is the root cause for the low number truly because people don’t want it or is it an access issue, a distribution issue or an inequality of distribution issue that needs to be addressed?’’

Tatum is a board member of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit which was formed in 2014 to bring together Tuskegee Experiment descendants, provide scholarships, educate people about the study and tell the story of the men and their legacy.

Several group members have spoken out recently about the COVID vaccines and shared that they plan to take them. Their work has been in the spotlight more as people debate whether to take the vaccines.

Recently, Tatum and other descendants were part of a panel discussion on the syphilis study for a Chicago-based talk show when someone asked why, given their family histories, they would take the COVID vaccines.

She told them she was raised by her grandparents and when she was younger, whenever a vaccine became available whether for mumps or chickenpox, they would go down to the community clinic and get the shots.

“My grandmother never thought about any harm the vaccines would do to us, but she trusted in the Lord that it would do us all the good,’’ Tatum said.

Many times, people on social media harken back to the syphilis study.

Tatum doesn’t go as far as to encourage others to take the vaccines; she just wants them to

California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded last week, sharing what he plans to do to remedy the fiasco.

“We’re going to go away from group codes to individual codes,” Newsom said. “We don’t like to see those abuses.”

Newsom has since said that he plans on “revamping” the program.

According to Ferguson, state officials believe that most of the outsiders who received the codes did not misuse them intentionally.

“When I found out the codes were not meant for us, I was frustrated,” the Pasadena resident said. “I wouldn’t have cut the line if that’s what I knew we were doing, but I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t realize that was happening.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, this was a common story amongst nonresidents who received codes that weren’t meant for them.

The Pasadena resident, whose preferred pronouns are they, their, and them, said, after visiting the state online vaccine portal, “My

Tatum admits that she was hesitant at first, but the more she researched the vaccines, the more comfortable she felt.

She was only 2 years old when her great-grandfather died and can only piece together what he was like from other family members.

Papa Willie, as he was known, was a hardworking family man and sharecropper who lived right outside of Tuskegee in a community called Cotton Valley.

Lillie Tyson Head’s father, Freddie Lee Tyson, was also part of the study. Today, she advocates for people, particularly Blacks, to get vaccinated.

In Macon County, the men were not treated or informed they were in a study, said Head, 78, president of the Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation and a Virginia resident. “We, on the other hand, in this time and age, we have more information at our disposal about the vaccine.

“I do hope my African American brothers and sisters will take the vaccine if they are able to do it,’’ Head told the AJC. The retired educator and her husband are scheduled to take their second COVID vaccine dose in March.

Head was not born when her father, then a sharecropper, was in the Tuskegee Study.

The family found out after her brother read about the study in the news.

“Of course, you can imagine it was quite a shock. There were so many questions and Daddy didn’t know the answers either.’’ He only knew that a lady would come around and draw blood.

Despite that legacy, Head is speaking out.

“This is an opportunity for us to ensure that our safety and our health is being addressed,’’ she said.

Turn,” they entered their race and address into the system. However, the system did not inform them that they could not use the access code.

“We put in our information, including race and zip code and it didn’t deny us. There was no mention in the email or on the website,” they said.

Upon realizing what had happened, they attempted to correct the mishap on their end.

“My husband and I had conversations about it and decided to cancel our appointments,” they said.

This resident, along with many others, expressed outrage, complaining that the system did not efficiently assist those it was designed to help.

“I’m so angry that the system puts the responsibility on the recipient to do the right thing and be educated enough to know what is going on,” they said. “It feels like a conspiracy.”

the old ones, which will continue to operate.

to do new things,’’ he said.

A prototype was tested at the space station in 2017.

Rubins will float back out Friday with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi to wrap up the solar panel prep work, and to vent and relocate ammonia coolant hoses.

Sunday’s spacewalk was the third for infectious disease specialist Rubins and Navy pilot Glover - both of whom could end up flying to the moon.

They’re among 18 astronauts newly assigned to NASA’s Artemis moon-landing program.

The next moonwalkers will come from this group.

Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris put in a congratulatory call to Glover, the first African American astronaut to live full time at the space station. NASA released the video exchange Saturday. ``The history making that you are doing, we are so proud of you,’’ Harris said. Like other firsts, Glover replied, it won’t be the last. ``We want to make sure that we can continue

Glover and Noguchi were among four astronauts arriving via SpaceX in November. Rubins launched from Kazakhstan in October alongside two Russians. They’re all scheduled to return to Earth this spring.

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access for communities disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus. The equity plan also addresses the ethical issues presented by reports of individuals from outside target communities, including educators at a Los Angeles-based private school, skipping the line to get early vaccinations from medical providers.

Gov. Newsom said the state officials are working closely with medical providers, healthcare administrators, and local organizations to speed up vaccine delivery across California.

“The education professionals who nurture and support our children deserve to be and have been prioritized for vaccines, and I am proud to accelerate those efforts in all 58 counties,” Gov. Newsom said.

According to state officials, prioritization is based on occupational health exposure.

Eligible candidates will receive single-use codes to schedule vaccine appointments.

The health equity plan is an integral addition to Gov. Newsom’s “Safe Schools for All” plan which initiated plans to vaccinate education workers in January.

So far, 35 state counties have vaccinated education workers based on supply since the launch of multiple mobile sites statewide.

Efforts to Counter the Privilege Gap that Leads to Skipping Ahead for Vaccines According to administration officials with the California Health and Human Services Agency, part of the state’s plans to promote vaccine equity includes partnering with community organizations and understanding demographic data for appropriate vaccine access statewide.”

Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, said the state is working with trusted local organizations for outreach and education campaigns to engage underserved communities.

“We work hard to make sure we don’t have blind spots and we’re paying attention to where we can make improvements,” Ghaly said.

Public health officials are also moving forward with plans to work closely with third-party administrators to provide vaccines in communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.

The state can achieve health equity by, “simply doing more for those who’ve been disproportionately impacted. So, they are not overlooked and that is something that we are deeply committed to whether it’s on age or race, or sexual orientation, gender identity,” Ghaly said.

“Administration officials have also put metrics in place to help measure the impact of its outreach and education campaigns in California’s Black and Latino communities. Equity efforts by the state include keeping a “keen eye on the data” and “making adjustments” to address the privilege gap in California’s health care system,” he said.

Affluent people receiving early vaccinations discloses the important equity issue, “we know that we have more work to do in some communities than others,” administration officials said.

State lawmakers have prioritized school staff in efforts to accelerate and support the legislative proposal to reopen schools, “as safely and quickly as possible,” Gov. Newsom said.

The state has launched online tools for accountability and transparency to counter the imbalance of vaccine distribution and also provided routine testing for more than 1,000 schools in California.

Although the legislature’s proposal is a step in the right direction, “it doesn’t go far enough or fast enough,” Gov. Newsom said.

“I look forward to building on the growing momentum to get our schools open and continuing discussions with the Legislature to get our kids back in school as safely and quickly as possible,” Gov. Newsom said.

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The Solution to Trump,

White Privilege and The Republican Party Dr. John E. Warren Publisher We know f rom t he appearance of former President Trump at the conservative Republican gathering in Florida over the weekend that their agenda against America continues.

We see over 28 states with Republican controlled legislatures have introduced more than 100 bills aimed at voter suppression. These include: restricting the number of voting sites and limiting the hours of voting from 9 til 5pm Monday through Friday, with no weekend voting.There is also legislation to limit the number of drop boxes for return of mail-in-ballots and the requirement of state issued voting I.D. cards.

But the solution to this assault on democracy has already been demonstrated in both the state of Georgia, with its massive voter turnout that produced two U.S. Senators to change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate and, thereby, the empowering of our Vice President, Kamala Harris, to be the tie breaking vote as the President of the U.S. Senate. We

have also seen the State of Virginia pass a state version of the Voting Rights Act with amendments that were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.

African Americans, Africans who have become naturalized citizens with the right to vote, Latinos, Asians who are now under massive hate crime attacks, Native Americans and any other people of color who now make up the growing majority of Americans must become politically active.

We must follow the Stacey Abrams approach of voter outreach, education and turnout that Georgia used to elect two U.S. Senators.

We must do this in every state, starting now, with a look at who will run for Congress and the U.S. Senate in 2022. We must change the approach of civics now being taught in our schools, starting with an understanding of the political process at the very local level. We must come to understand that every vote counts and that we can not wait until there are more homicides and abuse of political power from racist law enforcement personnel and White Supremacists who think that democracy pertains only to them and their interest.

The Republican Party has demonstrated its lack of concern for human life other than their own throughout this pandemic. Now

that a 1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill is before the Senate, a bill that can mean the difference between life and death for millions of Americans, we see a solid and lockstep Republican block in the Senate determined to vote against the bill and further continue the suffering of all people in this country regardless of their color. This is the party opposed to food stamps to feed starving families, but yet believes in subsidies and tax benefits to corporations and big business with those same dollars that could be used to save lives. We must remember that the Republican Party is the Party of White Privilege, even though some mis-guided Blacks belong to it.

We must learn the track records of those who say they will represent us just as the FBI is learning the identities of those 57 white local elected officials that participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. We must start a collective movement because the Republican Party, its members, the White Supremist and those who use the term “Make American Great Again (MAGA)” to disguise their racism don’t think we are capable of long range planning.

We too must both plan now and act now as if the 2022 elections were tomorrow.

Let’s beat them at their own game.

BUILDING BACK BETTER FOR BLACK AMERICANS Can Biden close the Racial Wealth Divide where Obama couldn’t?

By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Tyler Bond Twelve years ago, the inauguration of A m e r i c a’s f irst Black president h a d m a ny Americans believing that a future free of racial discrimination and inequality was finally within reach.

This year, as Obama’s former vice president Joe Biden takes office amid a surge in far-right violence, it’s clear we have a long way to go — not just to build a safer country for all of us, but to close the vast racial wealth divide.

Despite Obama’s historic victory, his administration made little to no progress in bridging this divide.

Over Obama’s presidency, median Black wealth never returned to even its modest $10,700 from before the Great Recession. By 2013, it had dropped to just $1,700 — virtually nothing — even as white wealth rebounded. In fact, the racial wealth divide in the latter half of the Obama presidency was the largest it’s been in the last 30 years. Income inequality remained virtually unchanged, too. In 2007, Black Americans earned about 60 percent as much as whites. By 2016, that had fallen to 58 percent.

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, homeownership — the key source of wealth for most middle-class families — decreased for most Americans. But new Black homeowners were hit hardest, driving the Black homeownership rate down from 49 to just 44 percent, nearly 30 percentage points lower than the rate for white Americans.

Of course, the failure to bridge racial economic inequality is not unique to the Obama presidency. Whether under Trump, Clinton, or either Bush, there has been little to no progress in bridging the economic divide for African Americans in wealth, homeownership, and income. This lack of progress should be a wake-up call: Bold action is necessary. That’s why we’re calling on President Biden to announce a White House Office of Racial Economic Equity.

that moderation was the “Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom.”

He was right. In the 21st century, we have seen Black progress go from a “stride toward freedom” to being stuck in economic apartheid.

Moderate reforms by Democrats — along with often open hostility from Republicans — have corresponded with decades of failure in addressing racial economic inequality.

Biden will be the 45th white man to take the presidency. Unlike Obama, or his own vice president Kamala Harris, Biden’s inauguration will not make history. Still, Biden has the opportunity to do what the Obama administration and every other administration has failed to do over the last 40 years.

The Future of America is People of Color

By Roger Caldwell NNPA Newswire Contributor As America struggles with the challenges of Covid19, and a depression/recession, there is sunshine and a belief of tremendous success with people of color (POC). Truth, integrity and factual information are the foundation that President Biden and VicePresident Harris are building their administration upon. The past four years were based on corruption, lies and textbook racism. But Democracy — and America’s voice: the vote — won again.

Many Republicans and political pundits may see the new administration as a mistake, but 84 million people, the most in the history of America, voted with their hearts and their souls. So, this is the new truth. America has shifted, and Republican foolishness and corruption will be exposed and destroyed on a daily level.

There is dangerous behavior being exhibited in the R e p u b l i c a n P a r t y, w i t h C on g re s s w om an Mar j or i e Taylor Greene. On Thursday, 2/4/21, Congresswoman Greene was stripped of her committee posts, in education and budget.

The House Democrats joined by 11 Republicans felt she was a danger to the integrity of the body, and many are calling for her to resign her position as a Congresswoman.

“Mostly, the headlines have been about her (previously held) conspiratorial QAnon beliefs, claims that 9/11 did not happen, that school shootings such as the one at Sandy Hook 2012 in Connecticut that killed 26 children and adults were staged and more,” says Andrew Buncombe – reporter for The Independent. This is an indicator that millions of Americans think like her, and they are caught up in a delusionary reality.

As the Republicans remain in gridlock, the Democrats have learned that they cannot wait for them to make up their minds, nor wait to see which way they will go. The Democrats have majorities in the Senate/House, and they are preparing to move forward.

This office should develop a government-wide audit to rigorously assess all significant economic policies and programs for how they affect racial inequality. This office should also issue a public report with actionable reforms and legislative proposals for Congress.

Opening a White House Office of Racial Economic Equity should be a first step in steering the country toward greater opportunity and financial security for African Americans. It is way past due to finally “Build Back Better” for Black America.

There is a diversity explosion taking place across the country, in the White House, in Congress, with women and with people of color. The new census reports confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s growth.

Biden’s inauguration, just two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, was almost 60 years from the date King published his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” that bemoaned

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is the Chief of Race, Wealth and Community for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Tyler Bond is an intern at NCRC.

“The new census projections indicate that for youth under the age of 18, the post millennia population, minori-

ties will outnumber Whites in 2020,” says William Frey, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

This is amazing data for people of color, because Whites are not replacing themselves with babies. Soon there will be an inflection point, and there will be more people of color than White people in America.

William Frey is projecting in 2045; America will become “minority White.”

There is nothing Americans can do about this scientific fact.

As the Biden administration begins to address criminal justice and prison reform, the killing of Black and Brown people must end. There are many organizations across the country, fighting in solidarity to change policing in America.

There are now more than 40% of the residents in the country, who identify themselves as people of color (POC). The future of America is with people of color, because they are an interchangeable member of a shared group, and also has a unique identity such as Black or Hispanic.

Public discussion often overlooks the fact that groups called minorities can choose from several identities. A person of color can call themselves Black, Latino, Asian, Mexican, Jamaican, Chinese or any other culture they are comfortable with. Depending on the circumstances, this is a new identity that will get larger as people refuse to call themselves White.

As America shifts under the administration of Biden, the majority in the Democratic Party will be people of color (POC). This makes sense as it reflects the commonality of America, and the fight is for racial equity, and respect for people as human beings.

As anti-racist efforts and organizations continue to grow and unfold, the battle will be coordinated and organized by people of color. People of color will no longer be the minority, they will become the majority, and this will happen before 2045.

The responsibility of people of color is to stand up and be counted. To relax and wait for change is no longer an option.

If you want change, remember you are no longer the minority as people of color, and register and vote.

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1819 Englewood Dr. Lemon Grove, CA 91945

1962 N. Euclid Ave. San Diego, CA 92105

2701 East 8th Street National City, CA 91950

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The Church of Yeshua Ha Mashiach Hebrew for “Jesus the Messiah”

Pastor Dennis Hodge First Lady Deborah Hodges

Pastor Dr. John E. Warren

Sunday In the Know Bible Study 8 : 00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 9 : 00 a.m.

Saturday Shabbat Service 1: 00-2 : 30 p.m.

Dr. John W. Ringgold, Sr. Pastor

Sunday Morning Prayer 6 : 00 & Worship 7: 30 a.m.

Sunday School 9 : 30 a.m.

Morning Worship Youth & Children’s Church 11: 00 a.m.

Community Prayer (Hemera) Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat . 7: 30 a.m.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7: 30 p.m.

Mid Week Prayer Wednesday 12 : 00 noon and 7: 00 p.m.

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“It Takes Team Work to Make the Dream Work”

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3619 College Ave. San Diego, CA 92115

36 South 35th Street San Diego, Ca 92113

4995 A Street San Diego, CA 92102

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OBITUARIES Helen Brooks

Lula Porter

Michael Mitchell

SUNRISE

SUNRISE

SUNRISE

10/7/1922

3/29/1925

6/15/1959

SUNSET

SUNSET

SUNSET

2/7/2021

1/22/2021

1/13/2021

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY

Celebration of Life was held at Bethel Baptist Church on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

HELEN FAYE ELSTON-BROOKS was born in Dallas, Texas to Samuel and Lela Mae Elston on October 7, 1922. Helen attended Pacific Avenue and Julius C. Frazier Elementary Schools. She attended Booker T Washington High which was the only high school for Black students. In 1939, Abraham Lincoln High School opened for Black students and Helen was a student of the first graduating class in 1940.

Helen attended St Mark Baptist Church, and Bethlehem Baptist Church. Helen was an active member at Munger Avenue Baptist Church where she sang in the Congregational Choir, member of the Young Women’s Auxiliary, and BYPU. As a young woman, Helen worked as a Typesetter for the Dallas Gazette in Dallas and Joseph Owens Print Shop.

In May 1942, she married Leon Douglas Brooks Sr. To this union, four children were born. She attended Dallas Vocational School of Nursing in 1958 and graduated at the top of her class as a Licensed Vocational Nurse.

In 1962, Helen and family relocated to San Diego, California. She immediately commenced her employment in 1962 at Mercy Hospital. Helen sought better employment and moved on to U.S. Public Health in 1968 until early retirement in 1980.

In August 1962, Helen, united with Bethel Baptist Church. She was a member of the Jr. and Sr. High Fellowships Senior, Choir, Vacation Bible School, Pearl Frye Mission Circle, and Nurses Ministry. In 1984, she became an active member of the San Diego Black Nurses, Inc. Helen was a devoted mother, grand, and great-grandmother. She always instilled Christian morals, and values in her children and others. Helen is survived by four children, Leon Brooks, Jr., Charles Michael (Clara), Faye Helen (Larry), and Carolyn Joyce, sister Lelya Mae Sampson, grandchildren, Alycia Ballou (Gary), Julia Diane Whitley- Larsen (Michael), Leon Brooks III, Traza, Jabari (Nyshema), Eric Shakir (Chalae), Jamal (Natalie), Rashaad Brooks-Provost (Clara), sixteen great-grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren, niece Evelyn ElstonOlier, nephew Harry J. Elston (Yukari), Cashalla Bowens and a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Love Lives On

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

through friends they always cared about and dreams they left behind, in beauty that they

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.

A. Bradley

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY

Memorial Visitation was held on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary: Graveside and Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

Lula Dolores Porter, was the only child born to Charlie and Mable Johnson on March 29, 1925 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. On Friday, January 22, 2021 Lula was called home to be with the Lord. Lula received her education in Vicksburg, Mississippi at Cherry Street Junior and Magnolia High Schools. She later relocated to San Diego, California in 1944. In 1961 Lula met Merle W. Porter and married the love of her life.

They had one son, Kevin J. Porter, and in this blessed union she became a second Mom to five additional boys.

She had several businesses with the most popular being the Sportsman Dining & Dancing Club in Valencia Park where she brought famous entertainers to San Diego, including Sir Lady Java, Bobby Blue Bland, Mr. Clean, Muhammad Ali, and her personal favorite, Al Green. Lula later became co-owner and ran Picador Liquor & Deli in San Ysidro.

At 64 years young, Lula opened the San Diego Community Treatment Center in downtown San Diego. She accomplished this and so much more by helping thousands of men suffering from substance abuse, with a 21-day treatment program.

Lula ran this successful program for 19 years and earned the respect, admiration, and trust of those she helped. She was known as “The Eradicator” due to her style and poise that enabled her to keep more than 50 men in line daily. Lula also provided stable employment to many residents of the community until the Center’s closing in 2008.

In her later years, Lula, joined Christian Life Center of Spring Valley.

She was a civic leader, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend who will be greatly missed but never forgotten. Lula was preceded in death by her parents Charlie and Mable Johnson, husband, Merle W. Porter, Sr. and sons Calvert J., and Michael W. Porter.

She leaves to cherish her memory sons Kevin J. (Bridgett) Porter, Myron D. (Jocelyn) Porter, Merle W. Jr. (Helen) Porter, and Marshall J.O. Porter. She leaves a special granddaughter Kache’ M, one aunt, Nora Donahoo, one cousin, Kay Francis Carroll, 13 grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren, family members and friends.

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY

Virtual Memorial Service will be private. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

Today we celebrate the life of MICHAEL LAJUAN MITCHELL. Michael, who was affectionately referred to by his family as “Lajuan”, was born June 15, 1959 to Charlie and Pearlie Mitchell in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the fourth child born to this loving union. The Mitchell Family moved to Alameda, CA and Honolulu, Hawaii before making San Diego, CA their permanent residence. Michael quickly settled into San Diego as home. He discovered his love and natural talent for football.

Michael attended Madison High School and graduated with the “Class of 1977”.

Michael was a loving and kind father, brother, uncle, and friend. He was known for his light-hearted disposition and giving nature. His favorite pastime was listening to music and watching sporting events, especially football.

On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, Michael lost his fight with the Covid-19 virus. He was preceded in death by both of his parents; his sister, Hattie Rougeau; and brothers, Charlie Mitchell Jr. and Shannon Mitchell, and nephew Darrell Walter. He leaves to cherish his memory his daughters, Shayla Shajuan Mitchell of San Diego, CA and Maritza Estrella Mitchell of Tijuana, Baja CA; one grandson, Angel Shaim Mitchell of Tijuana, Baja CA; nieces: Lucrezia Mitchell and Tara Pugh of Los Angeles, CA and Teresa Jackson of San Diego, CA; his nephew, Tommy Walter; close nephews: Kevin Walter, Lejon Young Ray Morris, and Demario Morris; longtime friends, David Provençio, Sara Provencio, and Dwight Maxwell; and a host of additional nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.

Jay Hankins

Tilmon Jackson

SUNRISE 12/13/1962

SUNRISE 1/25/1921

SUNSET

SUNSET

1/25/2021

1/23/2021

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY

Graveside Service was held on Friday, February 19, 2021 at Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary: Entombment at Cypress View Mausoleum. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

TILMON JACKSON was born January 25, 1921 in Marquez, Texas to Van Jackson and Equilla Anderson Jackson. He was the third of seven children. The Jacksons were a loving, close-knit family who picked cotton from sun-up to sundown. They lived on a farm located between Dallas and Houston. One day, Tilmon and his brother Selma decided they’d had enough of picking cotton. So, they quit school, left the farm, and fled to Houston on a freight train and never again picked cotton.

While working in Houston, Tilmon met and married the love of his life, Helen Terrell.

They relocated to San Diego, California to start a new life. They were blessed with three sons. Tilmon joined Laborers International Union 89 in 1959 and worked for DPR Construction to support his family. He retired in 1983.

Tilmon united with Mt. Erie Baptist Church and became involved with The Progressive Baptist District Association for over 55 years. Pastor Walter G. Wells occasionally shared their heartwarming and life-changing Mt. Erie rooftop repair story. Bro. Jackson actively served as an Usher, Deacon, a key contact for Mt. Erie funerals, participant in Sunday School, and was honored with an award in 2019.

Tilmon maintained strong Jackson family values and practiced the faith God planted deep inside of him. Tilmon deeply loved his wife, Helen, (married over 65 years) was a devoted provider and a dedicated servant of God. It is now his time to receive his crown and live eternally with his Savior and King, Jesus the Christ.

Tilmon was preceded in death by his three sons, Marcellus Tilmon Jackson, Merlin Terrell Jackson and Todd Avery Jackson; his parents, three brothers: Wilbert Jackson, Selma Jackson, and Van Jackson, Jr; three sisters; a 2nd-born infant, Lula Mae Griffin and Louiza Hayward.

He leaves to cherish and celebrate his memory, his wife, Helen Jackson; grand-daughter, Taj Jackson; god-daughter, Charlene Lemon; grand god-son; Dante Lemon; god-daughter, Gracie Vaden; god-son, Marlon Scott; many nephews, nieces and a host of family and beloved friends.

ARRANGEMENTS BY ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY

Celebration of Life was held on Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 61st Street Church of Christ.

Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

I was born December 13, 1962, to Fritz Hankins Sr. and Lucille Bowman. Weighing only 2 pounds 8 ounces, the doctors did not expect me to survive. My grandmother Rosanna nicknamed me, “Joy”.

I faced many challenges. I was baptized at a young age. At fourteen, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease; I’ve had multiple surgeries, which kept me out of school. With determination and God’s strength, I graduated from Crawford High School.

I chased my dreams , on my road to entrepreneurship, I stopped by the San Diego Zoo, where I cared for animals and became a lifetime member. I have a passion for caring for animals, and own an African Grey named “Smokey”. I continued my life journey at Sam’s Club, dedicating 20 years of service. I perfected my janitorial craft to the extent that we named the new cleaning robot “Jay 2.0”.

Alas, I made it to my destination, “Mop and Glow Janitorial”; my own business and one of my greatest accomplishments. I was able to employ my brother, nephews, and friends. My business thrived for years until I became critically ill.

I loved my nieces and nephews like they were my own. I played an active role in their lives, and was affectionately known as “Uncle”.

My church home is at 61st Street Church of Christ. I am a faithful servant. Sunday evenings you will find me leading worship songs.

My life is a testament that God’s grace is sufficient. I spoke the word of God to those seeking refuge. My work here is done. I was called home to be with the Lord on Monday, January 25th, 2021.

I now entrust my legacy and memory to my devoted mother, Lucille Robinson; brothers, Melvin Goins and Keith Hankins; sisters, Sheila (Keith) Butler and Lisa (Randy) Cosby; nephews: Keith (Pam) Butler, Tranes Goins, Melvin Goins II, Keith Hankins and Lamont (Janine) Butler; nieces: Andrea Blankenship, and Deanna (Erik) Osakue and Alicia. Hankins; great-nieces, Kamryn and Amya; great-nephews: Quenton, Keiton, Langston, Chace, Seven, and Grayson; a host of other relatives, friends, and church family.

ANDERSON-RAGSDALE MORTUARY 5050 Federal Boulevard San Diego, California 92102 (619) 263-3141 www.andersonragsdalemortuary.com

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H.W. “Skipper” Ragsdale, III Owner (In Memoriam)

Valerie Ragsdale Owner

Continuing over 130 Years of Service

Kevin Weaver General Manager

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LOCAL NEWS BETHEL AME CHURCH Architecture and Design Festival - SAN DIEGO HOSTS 6TH ANNUAL CITYWIDE

March 5-12

COVID-19 TESTING SITE

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Free, behind-the-scenes access to San Diego’s unique architectural and cultural gems explores the impact of Design + Community

San Diego, CA - The Black church has long played the role of advocate and provider, a place of trust for the Black community. Bethel AME Church, the oldest African-American Church in San Diego County, will join 35 churches across the state of California in partnership with the Tabernacle Community Development Corporation (TCDC) and the African American Community Empowerment C ouncil, both non-profits based in San Francisco, to host pop-up and stationar y community-based COVID-19 testing sites. This comes as a response to the alarming number of infections and lack of a federal strategy to address the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

The sixth annual Open House San Diego (OH! San Diego) architecture and urban design event takes place on March 5 through 12. The program offers San Diegans a rare behind-the-scenes look at some of San Diego’s most impactful buildings and public spaces and encourages participants to discover something new. Open to people of all backgrounds and ages, the event will feature a youth-focused exploration of design and architecture, highlighting a diverse mix of seven neighborhoods including Barrio Logan, Chula Vista, City Heights, La Mesa, National City, San Marcos and Southeastern San Diego.

Participants in this year’s event will be invited to take part in a series of activities offering an exploration of each neighborhood’s history, public spaces, and behind-the-scenes views of architecturally and socially significant developments both existing and yet to come.

Activities are meant to inspire San Diegans to discover the value of design in the built environment, and how it affects our quality of life.

To participate, visit https://sdarchitecture.org/program/openhouse-2021/ for a preview of what’s coming.

Participants can explore on their own (both virtually and in-person) March

Photo courtesy of OH! San Diego

6-7 with additional programming including virtual panels and presentations that began March 3 and continuing through March 12. Participation options include: • Self-guided tours • Behind-the-Scenes Videos and Virtual Tours • Educational videos • Socially Distanced Outdoor Experiences • Kid and family activities While exploring these communities during OH! San Diego, participants are asked to wear a face covering, maintain

at least six feet of distance from others and do not attempt to enter any buildings unless they are otherwise open to the public.

"We are thrilled to welcome Open House San Diego to Southeastern San Diego, as we look to their expertise to provide a window into architecture and design for our communities of concern and beyond.

There is so much cultural diversity and rich history in our community that we remain committed to highlight and showcase for our region," said Monica Montgomery-Steppe, City of San Diego Councilmember for District 4.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Vaccines are: SAFE

California’s top medical experts have confirmed the safety of all COVID-19 vaccines.

BLAIR: continued from cover

His daughter and only child, Deborah Smith, an active-duty officer in the U.S. Air Force, says she cherishes many memories of her father, who was a mentor, advisor and avuncular figure for so many San Diegans and Californians, particularly in African American political circles.

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Testing is free at Bethel AME, 3085 ‘K’ Street, San Diego, 92102, and started Monday, March 1st, 10 am-4 pm, and every Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m.

– 4:00 p.m. through June 30, 2021. The testing is walk-up, parking will be available. For more information call (619) 232-0510 X103.

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“He was ver y much about trying to close the achievement gap for Black Americans, and improve the standing to the Black community in San Diego and California,” Smith told the San Diego Union Tribune.

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“Easy and free access to testing is one of the best tools we have to help reduce transmission of the virus in the community.”

Said Rev. Harvey L. Vaughn III, Senior Pastor. Black residents testing positive

for COVID-19 make up 4% of all cases in California, making us the 4th most affected group by the virus.

“We urge those in our community to get tested. Let’s stay safe and make sure that the people we live with stay safe too. Get tested, wear your mask and social distance.” Continued Vaughn.

Bethel’s COVID-19 test site goal is to test 100 individuals daily through June 30.

“He was a big influence on my love for the community and politics. I joined BAPAC-SD as a lifetime member because of him,” she said. “He dedicated every working minute on this earth to helping folks to advance in life. He would say, ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.’

We truly lost a giant in our community.”

B orn and raised in Knoxville, Tenn., Blair moved to San Diego in 1981 after serving in Vietnam.

There, he earned an MBA and doctorate from Point Loma Nazarene University

from San Diego’s National University.

Bl ai r c ompl e te d h is undergraduate studies at Maryville University in Tennessee. After college, the Officer’s Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, gave him an officer’s commission into the Navy.

In San Diego, he became active in politics. In 1985, he worked on the campaign of former San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor and served in her administration for two terms working in a communications role until 1991.

After that, he became a special assistant to former U.S Congressman Bob Filner, a Democrat. In that role he focused on national policy involving veterans.

In 2013, Blair retired from the Congressman’s office.

On Saturday, San Diego mayor Todd Gloria paid tribute to Blair on Twitter.

“Willie Blair was many things to our city,” the mayor said. “I’ll always think of him as an orator.

He would speak with such clarity and forcefulness, often on behalf of those who needed to be heard.

His voice in our community will be sorely missed.

Godspeed Dr. Blair.”

Taisha Brown, chair of the California Democratic Party Black Caucus (CDPBC) said she is devastated.

“Dr. Blair touched so many lives in San Diego. He mentored everyone -- the young and old,” she said. “He was a true leader and civil rights hero. He personally took me under his wing and guided me through the Politics of San Diego. He was very instrumental in my success in the political arena, and he will be greatly missed.”

In seven heartfelt tweets, Shane Harris, a social activist, civic leader and founder of the People’s Alliance for Justice, who was based in San Diego before recently moving to Washington, honored Blair. Harris remembered his mentor as “encouraging but firm.”

“I attended and spoke at BAPAC San Diego when he was President of the chapter multiple times and I believe those were the chapter’s best days. Dr. Blair was a power broker and understood the political process,” Harris praised Blair.

“He is one of the people who got me started and gave me the opportunities to make my case around various community issues that occurred,” Harris continued. “He embraced me when sometimes others would steer clear of me and he called me to challenge me to be more diplomatic and thoughtful of how I was doing my work. Dr. Blair gave nearly half of his life to the Black American Political Association of California (BAPAC).”

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COVID-19 UPDATES WHAT VACCINATION PHASE ARE WE IN? COVID-19 vaccinations will become available in phases.

Groups within each phase and distribution timelines are subject to change. For the latest vaccination information, visit coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

The Disparities in Our Diverse Communities are Severe

COVID-19 disproportionately affects California’s low income, Latino, Black, and Pacific Islander communities, as well as essential workers such as those in health care, grocery, and cleaning services.

Death rate for Latino people is

Phase 1A

Phase 1B

(Est. 3M People)

(Est. 12M People)

NOW VACCINATING - Healthcare workers - Long-term care residents

NOW VACCINATING AS SUPPLIES ALLOW - Individuals 65 and older - Sector populations: - Agriculture and food - Education and childcare - Emergency services

21% higher than statewide

Case rate for Pacific Islanders is

31% higher than statewide

Death rate for Black people is

7% higher than statewide

Case rate for communities with median income <$40K is

38% higher than statewide

Deaths per 100K people:

Cases per 100K people:

Deaths per 100K people:

Cases per 100K people:

142 Latino 117 all ethnicities

11,079 NHPI 8,446 all ethnicities

125 Black 117 all ethnicities

11,642 income <$40K 8,446 all income brackets

SOURCE: CDPH

How Would COVID-19

Vaccine Makers

Adapt to Variants?

By tweaking their vaccines, a process that should be easier than coming up with the original shots

By The Associated Press Viruses constantly mutate as they spread, and most changes aren’t significant.

First-generation COVID-19 vaccines appear to be working against today’s variants, but makers already are taking steps to update their recipes if health authorities decide that’s needed.

COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna are made with new technology that’s easy to update.

The so-called mRNA vaccines use a piece of genetic code for the spike protein that c o at s t he coronavirus, so your immune system can learn to recognize and fight the real thing.

If a variant with a mutated spike protein crops up that the original vaccine can’t recognize, companies would swap out that piece of genetic code for a better match — if and when regulators decide that’s necessary.

Updating other COVID19 vaccines could be more complex. The AstraZeneca vaccine, for example, uses a harmless version of a cold virus to carry that spike protein gene into the body. An

County Vaccinations

by Race & Ethnicity π

The distribution of first vaccine doses by race and ethnicity, age, and gender in San Diego

update would require growing cold viruses with the updated spike gene.

The Food and Drug Administration said studies of updated COVID-19 vaccines won’t have to be as large or long as for the first generation of shots. Instead, a few hundred volunteers could receive experimental doses of a revamped vaccine and have their blood checked for signs it revved up the immune system as well as the original vaccines.

More difficult is deciding if the virus has morphed enough to modify shots.

Globally, health authorities will monitor coronavirus mutations to spot vaccine-resistant mutations.

They’d also have to decide whether any revamped vaccine should protect against more than one variant.

Overall the process would be similar to what already happens with the flu vaccine. Influenza viruses mutate much faster than coronaviruses, so flu shots are adjusted every year and must protect against multiple strains.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

COVID-19 STATUS

County is shown to the right. Note: Providing this information is voluntary and not required for vaccination. The data to the right shows the cumulative total administered and is updated weekly on Thursdays.

VACCINE DASHBOARD

ADMINISTERED

6,435,184

DELIVERED

8,406,525

SHIPPED

8,748,075 SOURCE: Calif. Dept. of Public Health as of 3/1/21

Statewide COVID-19 cases per 100k: 24.2 Positivity rate: 6.5%

TOTAL CONFIRMED CASES

· Seven-Days A Week

260,356

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3,907,336 HOSPITALIZED

13,122 ICU

1,581 SOURCE: County of San Diego, HHSA as of 3/1/21

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To find a site near you, visit 211sandiego.org or call 2-1-1.

Status: WIDESPREAD COVID-19 cases per 100k: 25.9 Positivity rate: 6.4% LIVE WELL SAN DIEGO

SOURCE: Calif. Dept. of Public Health as of 3/1/21

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Women’s Pioneering Engineer Leverages

Success To Boost Minority Contractors

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(PART 1 IN A TWO PART SERIES)

Despite leading a multibillion-dollar firm, Deryl McKissack said she still encounters racism in the construction industry. engineers. She leads an architectural, engineering, program and construction management firm that today oversees more than $15 billion in projects nationwide.

Some of the nation’s most stunning and significant architectural projects of the 21st century were designed, managed or built by McKissack & McKissack.

McKissack & McKissack has overseen renovations at Washington, D.C., landmarks such as the Lincoln, Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials — and they are just a small fraction of the company’s national footprint.

Deryl McKissack is president and chief executive officer of McKissack & McKissack, a national architecture, engineering, program and construction management firm currently managing over $15 billion in projects nationwide.

By Cynthia Yeldell Anderson Zenger News

With a thousand dollars and a business plan drafted using a book purchased at Barnes & Noble, she launched McKissack & McKissack.

Deryl McKissack had worked hard in the construction business for years but was always told to put her head down, work harder and not ask any questions.

“I just think it was my passion that got me through, and my determination of, I’m just not going to let anybody define me,” she said. “No one can stop me from getting the work that I’m supposed to get. And whatever I get, I’m going to make sure that we do a great job.”

When her new boss wanted to demote her simply because she was a woman, McKissack said, “I quit.”

McKissack, president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, is one of the nation’s foremost African American female

It all started because she wanted to claim her seat at the table.

Under McKissack’s leadership, the company has worked in the energy, education, aviation, infrastructure, culture and commercial real estate sectors on noteworthy projects such as the O’Hare International Airport Modernization Program, the DC Waters Clean River Project and Nationals Park, the home stadium of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.

The company is an outgrowth of the oldest minority-owned architecture/engineering firm in the United States. Its roots predate the Civil War, when a slave named Moses McKissack learned the building trade. It was his grandson, Moses III (Deryl McKissack’s great-great-grandfather), who launched the first McKissack & McKissack in Nashville, Tennessee.

Since launching the newer McKissack & McKissack 30 years ago, Deryl McKissack has grown her company to include more than 150 employees and offices in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C. But building the billion-dollar company in an industry dominated by white men wasn’t easy.

The Howard University alum recalls making a presentation at a university to a room full of men in one of her first attempts to gain business for the company in 1990.

When the presentation was done, the man in charge looked at McKissack and said, “Little lady, there is nothing that you can do for us.”

“I looked him in the eye, I grabbed his hand, and I was shaking it really hard, and I said, ‘Thank you so much for taking your time to listen to my presentation, and I look forward to working with you,’” McKissack said. “Then I went out on that campus for two hours and I just looked at every job I was going to be working on. I mean, I just walked through the campus and I started thanking God for the work that I was going to be doing on this campus. I believe in planting seeds.”

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“I assisted in washing him and dressing him, and then laid him on the bed when Mr. Lincoln came in. I never saw a man so bowed down with grief,” Keckley wrote.

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A Black woman’s memoir published 153 years ago still tops Amazon’s books sales chart.

“Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House,” by Elizabeth Keckley, currently stands as the 24th most popular book in Amazon’s category of U.S. Civil War Women’s History.

The historical work was perhaps the bluntest and most controversial of its era. Keckley detailed her life as a slave who purchased her freedom and then worked in the White House for two U.S. first ladies – Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, and Varina Davis, the wife of President Jefferson Davis.

A seamstress to both Davis and Lincoln, Keckley practically lived in the White House during the Civil War. Because Keckley made her close relationships with the Lincolns so public, the reaction nearly ruined the Lincolns’ reputation and almost destroyed Keckley’s life.

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In the 166-page memoir, Keckley recalls

“He came to the bed, lifted the cover from the face of his child, gazed at it long and earnestly, murmuring, ‘My poor boy, he was too good for this earth. God has called him home. I know that he is much better off in heaven, but then we loved him so. It is hard, hard to have him die.’”

Immediately after President Lincoln’s 1865 assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln sent for Keckley.

According to WhiteHouseHistory.org, when Mrs. Lincoln was later “drowning in debt,” she reached out to Keckley to assist in selling off her wardrobe and other items to raise money.

Because the auctions failed to solicit any funds for Lincoln, Keckley reached out to prominent African Americans for assistance, including asking leaders in the Black church to take up offerings for her former boss.

“She even asked Frederick Douglass to take part in a lecture to raise money, although the lecture ultimately did not come to fruition,” the White House historians wrote.

The book was not well received by Lincoln or the American public.

Whites turned on Keckley for disclosing conversations and her relationship with Mrs. Lincoln.

Mostly, they claimed it violated social norms of privacy, race, class, and gender.

“Her choice to publish correspondence between herself and Mary Lincoln was seen

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Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women’s rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African American women. Height was a leader in addressing the rights of both women and African Americans as the president of the National Council of Negro Women. In the 1990s, she drew young people into her cause in the war against drugs, illiteracy, and unemployment. The numerous honors bestowed upon her include the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994) and the Congressional Gold Medal (2004).

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Years in the White House as an infringement on the former first lady’s privacy,” historians wrote.

Keckley addressed her critics in the preface to her memoir: “If I have betrayed confidence in anything I have published, it has been to place Mrs. Lincoln in a better light before the world. A breach of trust – if breach it can be called – of this kind is always excusable,” Keckley penned.

“My own character, as well as the character of Mrs. Lincoln, is at stake since I have been intimately associated with that lady in the most eventful periods of her life. I have been her confidante, and if evil charges are laid at her door, they also must be laid at mine, since I have been a party to all her movements,” she added.

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Keckley continued: “To defend myself, I must defend the lady that I have served. The world has judged Mrs. Lincoln by the facts which float upon the surface, and through her have partially judged me, and the only way to convince them that wrong was not meditated is to explain the motives that actuated us.”

Born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, in 1818, Keckley endured years of beatings and sexual assault as a slave. She bore her slave master’s child, George, and was then given away to her owner’s daughter, who moved her to St. Louis.

Keckley learned the art of dressmaking and, in 1852, married James Keckley, whom she believed was free.

Before her marriage, she negotiated a $1,200 price to buy her freedom but discovered she

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couldn’t raise the money for herself, her son, and her husband.

However, customers to her small seamstress shop loaned Keckley the money to purchase freedom for her and her son, and in 1860, she moved to Washington, D.C. “She left Washington in 1892 to teach domestic skills at Wilberforce University, but ill health forced her to return and spend her final years in the Home for Destitute Women and Children, which she had helped to establish,” historians wrote.

Elizabeth Keckley died in 1907 after suffering a stroke.

In California, Black residents are the 4th most affected group by COVID-19, making up 4% of all California cases.

Historically known as advocates and providers, Black churches across the state are stepping up to bridge the gap between the government and free access to community-based testing. As leaders in the community, the church testing sites are exemplifying the way to properly engage the Black community in providing resources and reducing the spread of COVID-19.

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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 FEBRUARY 6, 2021) 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 immediately, 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 a State authorized sector 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 the November 13, 2020 CDPH Guidance for the Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission for Gatherings found at https:// www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/ CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/ Guidance-for-the-Preventionof-COVID-19-Transmissionfor-Gatherings-November-2020. aspx shall comply with said guidance. Gatherings not in compliance 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 COVID-19 and Reopening In-Person Instruction Framework & Public Health Guidance for K-12 Schools in California, 20202021 School Year guidance (available at: https://www.cdph. ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/ CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/Consolidated_Schools_Guidance.pdf), 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 updated 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 School-Based 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 15a 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..

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 SARSCoV-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 November 16, 2020, (available at: https://www. cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/ DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx ).

9. All businesses not meeting the definition of essential business or State authorized sector 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 businesses and entities in State authorized sectors 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

6. Hospitals and healthcare providers, including dentists shall:

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/Essential CriticalInfrastructureWorkers. pdf) as that list may be updated from time-to-time, and referenced in Executive Order N-3320 issued by the Governor of the State of California.

a. Take measures to preserve and

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/covid19/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. STATE AUTHORIZED SECTORS a. A “State authorized sector” is a type of business or activity that is not an essential business as defined in section 10a above, and is operating 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/ CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/8-28-20_ Order-Plan-Reducing-COVID19-Adjusting-Permitted-Sectors-Signed.pdf}, and the Blueprint for a Safer Economy framework {available at: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/ Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/

COVID-19/COVID19CountyMonitoringOverview.aspx }. with the exception of places of worship which in addition to the listed sector activities are allowed to operate indoor at 25% capacity with singing and chanting being prohibited during indoor services. b. All State authorized sectors, 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. c. The Safe Reopening Plan 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 must also be provided to each employee performing work at the facility. All businesses or entities in a State authorized sector shall implement the Safe Reopening Plan and provide evidence of its implementation to any authority enforcing this Order upon demand. The Safe Reopening Plan 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. d. 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 State authorized sector, every business or entity in that sector must comply with the guidance and shall include in its Safe Reopening Plan or Restaurant Operating 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 Safe Reopening Plan. e. All restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries that are otherwise permitted to be open shall be closed from 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. every day

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

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ORDER OF THE HEALTH OFFICER AND EMERGENCY REGULATIONS (EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 6, 2021) CONTINUATION except for delivery, take-out, and drive-thru. Guests already in the establishment at 10:00 p.m. may remain in the establishment until 11:00 p.m..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.

12. Each essential business, and business or entity in a State authorized sector, 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%20 and%20other%20Outdoor%20 Recreational%20Facilities.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. “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. b. “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-2520 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-3320 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 November 16, 2020; j) the State of California’s “Resilience Roadmap;” k) the State of California’s Plan for Reducing COVID-19 and Adjusting Permitted Sector Activities to Keep Californians Healthy and Safe; l) 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. Section 11e of this Order requires a closing time for restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries commensurate with the traditional end of dine-in meal service. The State Health Officer found (as stated in the November 19, 2020 Limited Stay at Home Order) that “certain activities conducted during 10:00pm to 5:00am are often non-essential and more likely related to social activities and gatherings.” For restaurants, bars, wineries, distilleries and breweries, the time restriction is also imposed to reduce the occurrence of higher alcohol consumption and reduced food consumption after 10:00 p.m. CDPH Guidance on Closure of Sectors in Response to COVID-19, dated July 1, 2020, observed that “alcohol consumption slows brain activity, reduces inhibition, and impairs judgment, factors which contribute to reduced compliance with recommended core personal protective measures, such as the mandatory use of face coverings and maintaining six feet of distance from people outside of one’s own household.”

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 businesses or entities in State authorized sectors 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 December 9, 2020.

IT IS SO ORDERED: Date: February 6, 2021 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: February 6, 2021 Helen Robbins-Meyer Chief Administrative Officer Director of Emergency Services County of San Diego THIS ORDER AND EMERGENCY REGULATIONS DO NOT SUPERSEDE MORE RESTRICTIVE STATE ORDERS OR GUIDANCE. ALL PERSONS MUST REFERENCE BOTH THIS DOCUMENT AND APPLICABLE STATE ORDERS AND GUIDANCE. TO THE EXTENT THERE IS ANY INCONSISTENCY THE MORE RESTRICTIVE MEASURE APPLIES.

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EDUCATION Applications Now Being Life Expectancy of Black Men Accepted for Tuition-Free CDC:

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By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Correspondent Black Americans have lost three years in life expectancy over the last two years according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decline is the largest since World War II. The life expectancy gap by race is now the widest since 1998 and at a 15-year low overall.

Non-Hispanic Black males now have the lowest life expectancy of any group.

The new data shows that African Americans on average live six years less in life expectancy than Whites.

The Covid-19 pandemic hit Black and Americans harder than any other group of Americans. Underlying health issues and lack of health care were a factor.

Overall, African Americans are hospitalized at three times the rate of white Amer ic ans .

Af r ic an Americans die at double the rate from COVID than all other groups according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The impact of COVID-19,

which is the cause of 500,000 deaths in less than two years, is a leading cause, not just on deaths directly due to infection but also from heart disease, cancer and other conditions. The definition

doses and other health factors also factored into the data.

President Biden and Democrats in Congress are currently structuring a

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of “life expectancy” is calculated by how long someone born today is expected to live. The average life expectancy last year was 77.8.

Though Covid-19 was clearly the driver of the depressing new statistics on life expectancy, drug over-

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After Trump’s loss to Biden, departments of the federal government are focused on the COVID pandemic.

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BUSINESS NEWS Walgreens taps Starbucks Exec Brewer as Its New CEO

By Dee-Ann Durbin AP Business Writer Walgreens has tapped Starbucks executive Roz Brewer as its new CEO, which will make her the only Black woman leading a Fortune 500 company.

St a r b u c k s a n n o u n c e d Tuesday, January 26 that Brewer was departing after a little more than three years as its chief operating officer.

Walgreens later confirmed that Brewer will take over as its CEO on March 15.

Brewer succeeds Stefano Pessina, who served as CEO for six years following the merger between Walgreens and Alliance Boots in 2014.

Pessina will transition to

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On February 22, the BidenHarris Administration and the SBA announced steps the agency is taking with the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to further promote equitable relief for America’s mom-and-pop businesses. The following started last week:

Pessina praised Brewer’s expertise in operations, customer relations, talent development and digital innovation.

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executive chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s board.

“She is a distinguished and experienced executive who has led organizations globally through periods of changing consumer behavior by applying innovation that elevates customer experiences,” Pessina said.

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At Starbucks, Brewer revamped stores, taking out clutter and cutting down on administrative work so employees could focus on customers and speed up service. She helped grow Starbucks’ rewards program and pushed for more diversity in its ranks.

Prior to joining Starbucks, Brewer served as president and CEO of Sam’s Club, the members-only warehouse channel of Walmart Inc. She also grew membership and improved merchandise there.

Before that, Brewer was with Kimberly-Clark Corp. for 22 years. Brewer — who has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Spelman College — started at Kimberly-Clark as a scientist and ultimately served as president of the Global Nonwovens Sector.

default as disqualifiers to participating in the PPP.

PPP lenders. Visit sba.gov for more information.

1. Starting Feb. 24, A 14-day, exclusive PPP loan application period for businesses and nonprofits with fewer than 20 employees.

2. Allowance for sole proprietors, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals to receive more financial support by revising the PPP’s funding formula for these categories of applicants.

3. Elimination of an exclusionary restriction on PPP access for small business owners with prior nonfraud felony convictions, consistent with a bipartisan congressional proposal.

4. Elimination of PPP access restrictions on small business owners who have struggled to make federal student loan payments by eliminating federal student loan debt delinquency and

5. Access for non-citizen small business owners who are lawful U.S. residents by clarifying that they may use Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to apply for the PPP.

Now What? Steps You Can Take to Access PPP Funding

• Keep in communication with your PPP lender — regardless of the size of your small business, continue to work with your lender to keep the application process moving.

• Find a PPP lender if you don’t already have one — use the PPP Lender Map or Lender Match tools to find a lender accepting

• Work with an SBA Resource Partner — connect with local mentors and advisers to help you prepare your application and devise the best financial and strategic plan to move your business forward. Visit sba. gov and search “Get Local Assistance” for more information.

• Attend an informational webinar — local SBA staff and SBA Resource Partners are providing webinars that share program information, updates and resources to help you prepare for the PPP application process.

View upcoming webinars at sba.gov.

Brewer said she’s excited to innovate in the health care industry at Walgreens, especially as the company helps combat the coronavirus pandemic.

“I step into this role with great optimism for the future of WBA,” Brewer said in a statement.

Based in Deerfield, Illinois, Walgreens says it employs more than 450,000 people and has more than 21,000 stores globally.

Ursula Burns was the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. But she lost that role in 2016 when Xerox split into two companies.

There are only a handful of other Black CEOs in the Fortune 500, including Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison.

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NAME CHANGE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2021-00007748CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Elena Sara Greene To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Elena Sara Greene filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Elena Sara Greene PROPOSED NAME: Elena Ava Kozak 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: April 08, 2021 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61 NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE (Due to the COVID-19

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.

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Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment 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 3/04, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2021-00007361CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Aleena Mia Ramsey To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Aleena Mia Ramsey filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Aleena Mia Ramsey PROPOSED NAME: Aleena Mia Figueroa 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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 06, 2021 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 Attachment 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 3/04, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego North County Division 325 S. Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 37-2021-00006428CU-PT-NC Petitioner or Attorney: Davidean Suzanne Quijada To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Davidean Suzanne Quijada filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Davidean Suzanne Quijada PROPOSED NAME: Dena Suzanne Quijada 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.

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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.

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 6, 2021 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 25 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 Attachment 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: 325 S. Melrose Dr. Vista, CA 92081 2/25, 3/04, 3/11, 3/18 -----------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of San Diego 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice 37-2021-00004545CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: Thong Van Do on behalf of Anh Van Do To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Thong Van Do on behalf of Anh Van Do filed a petition with this court for a decree changing name as follows: PRESENT NAME: Anh Van Do PROPOSED NAME: Andy Do 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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 17, 2021 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.

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.

NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

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 The court will review the been received (required documents filed as of the date at least two court days before specified on the Order to the date specified), the Petition Show Cause for Change of for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120). Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing.

If all requirements for a One certified copy of the Order name change have been met Granting the Petition will be as of the date specified, and mailed to the petitioner. no timely written objection has been received (required If all the requirements have at least two court days not been met as of the date before the date specified), the specified, the court will mail Petition for Change of the petitioner a written order Name (JC Form #NC-100) with further directions. will be granted without a hearing. One certified copy If a timely objection is filed, of the Order Granting the the court will set a remote Petition will be mailed to the hearing date and contact the petitioner. parties by mail with further directions.

If all the requirements have not been met as of the date A RESPONDANT specified, the court will mail OBJECTING TO THE the petitioner a written order NAME CHANGE MUST with further directions.

FILE A WRITTEN If a timely objection is filed, OBJECTION AT LEAST the court will set a remote TWO COURT DAYS hearing date and contact the (excluding weekends and parties by mail with further holidays) BEFORE THE directions.

DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the A RESPONDANT specified date. The court will OBJECTING TO THE notify the parties by mail of a NAME CHANGE MUST future remote hearing date.

FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST Any Petition for the name TWO COURT DAYS change of a minor that is (excluding weekends and signed by only one parent holidays) BEFORE THE must have this Attachment DATE SPECIFIED. Do served along with the not come to court on the Petition and Order to Show specified date. The court Cause, on the other nonwill notify the parties by signing parent, and proof mail of a future remote of service must be filed with hearing date. the court.)

Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment 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 Any Petition for the name 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/04 change of a minor that is -----------------------------------signed by only one parent Any Petition for the name SUPERIOR COURT OF must have this Attachment change of a minor that is CALIFORNIA served along with the signed by only one parent County of San Diego must have this Attachment Petition and Order to Show 330 West Broadway Cause, on the other nonserved along with the San Diego, CA 92101 signing parent, and proof Petition and Order to Show Hall of Justice of service must be filed with Cause, on the other non37-2021-00002475the court.) signing parent, and proof CU-PT-CTL of service must be filed with Petitioner or Attorney: The address of the court is: the court.)

Fuad Mohamed Hussine 330 W. Broadway Fanay San Diego, CA 92101 The address of the court is: 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/04 330 W. Broadway To All Interested Persons: -----------------------------------San Diego, CA 92101 Petitioner SUPERIOR COURT OF 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/04 Fuad Mohamed Hussine CALIFORNIA -----------------------------------Fanay County of San Diego SUPERIOR COURT OF filed a petition with this court 330 W. Broadway CALIFORNIA for a decree changing name San Diego, CA 92101 County of San Diego as follows: Hall of Justice 330 West Broadway 37-2021-00003852San Diego, CA 92101 PRESENT NAME: CU-PT-CTL Hall of Justice Fuad Mohamed Hussine Petitioner or Attorney: 37-2020-00037410Fanay Kevin Doran Pohl CU-PT-CTL Petitioner or Attorney: PROPOSED NAME: To All Interested Persons: Yu Qiu Julia Qiu Mundy Fuad Hussein Petitioner Kevin Doran Pohl To All Interested Persons: filed a petition with this court THE COURT ORDERS that Petitioner all persons interested in this for a decree changing name Yu Qiu Julia Qiu Mundy matter appear before this as follows: filed a petition with this court court at the hearing indicated for a decree changing name below to show cause, if any, PRESENT NAME: as follows: why the petition for change of Kevin Doran Pohl name should not be granted.

PRESENT NAME: Any person objecting to the PROPOSED NAME: Yu Qiu Julia Qiu Mundy name changes described Kevin Duran Brooks above must file a written PROPOSED NAME: objection that includes the THE COURT ORDERS that Julia Qiu Mundy reasons for the objection at all persons interested in this least two court days before matter appear before this THE COURT ORDERS that court at the hearing indicated the matter is scheduled to be all persons interested in this heard and must appear at below to show cause, if any, matter appear before this the hearing to show cause court at the hearing indicated why the petition for change of why the petition should not name should not be granted. below to show cause, if any, be granted. If no written why the petition for change of Any person objecting to the objection is timely filed, the name changes described name should not be granted. court may grant the petition above must file a written Any person objecting to the without a hearing. objection that includes the name changes described reasons for the objection at above must file a written NOTICE OF HEARING least two court days before objection that includes the Date: March 8, 2021 the matter is scheduled to be reasons for the objection at Time: 8:30 A.M. heard and must appear at least two court days before Dept. C-61 the hearing to show cause the matter is scheduled to be NO HEARING WILL why the petition should not heard and must appear at OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE be granted. If no written the hearing to show cause objection is timely filed, the why the petition should not (Due to the COVID-19 court may grant the petition be granted. If no written pandemic, which poses without a hearing. objection is timely filed, the a substantial risk to the court may grant the petition health and welfare of court NOTICE OF HEARING without a hearing. personnel and the public, Date: March 18, 2021 rendering presence in, Time: 8:30 A.M. NOTICE OF HEARING or access to, the court's Dept. 61 Date: March 16, 2021 facilities unsafe, and NO HEARING WILL Time: 8:30 A.M. OCCUR ON ABOVE DATE pursuant to the emergency Dept. C-61

The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/04

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Donate Laptops,

Food Boxes March 13

The organization seeks to raise $25,000 Voice & Viewpoint Newswire San Diego Community Assist (SDCA), a San Diego-based nonprof it organizat ion, announced it will be giving out Laptops and Food Boxes to kids and families in need on March 13, 2021, in an effort to help kids, people, and families most affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The organization’s initiative is to raise $25,000 to issue laptops to kids who have been out of school as a result of the pandemic but with no technological facility to access online learning and also to issue food boxes to people and families who have lost their jobs and are presently with little or no source of income. SDCA is raising funds to distribute computers to kids in need in San Diego on March 13.

SDCA is also distributing 8-10 pound food boxes to families.

“To ensure that kids and families in need can see hope in these dark times, we at San Diego Community Assist have come up with this initiative to issue laptops to less privileged kids and food boxes to people and families in need. We hope this program will positively touch the lives of many kids and families as possible, who are not as lucky when it comes to eating a plateful of food or having the technology

that we readily have access to.”

Said Xavier Mitchell, SDCA founder.

In recent months, SDCA reported that it organized a series of social service programs and giveaway packages to help provide food and other basic necessities to workers still unemployed because of the pandemic, lower-income earners, and less privileged people in the community.

The organization is seeking donations from well-meaning members of the society who wish to be a part of the cause.

“Every penny you donate to this cause will be the harbinger of joy in the lives of people who’re struggling to stay afloat,” Xavier Mitchell added.

To make donations, visit: https://gofund.me/e66f941d, email info@mysdca.org, or call (619) 352-0003.

City Council Votes

to Define Short Term Rentals

By Cori Zaragoza Contributing Writer The San Diego City C ouncil voted on February 23, 2021 in favor of an ordinance s etting regulations on short term rental housing that will now require them to obtain licenses to continue operating. This ordinance will define rental units into 4 different tiers depending on what kind of housing is being offered, such as whole house rentals versus shared housing.

Renters will be able to obtain one license, given in a lottery system, with a preference towards renters currently in good standing. There will be a cap on licenses with the goal being that some housing will be made available again to San Diego residents who live and work here.

tions, the ordinance includes something called the “Good Neighbor Policy” which aims to help those living next to vacation rentals.

Vacation rentals and short term housing have been a contentious topic in San Diego— prior to the last city council meeting, there were no regulations on these accommodations. San Diego residents are often left frustrated at rowdy houseguests, tourists in their residential spaces, and the loss of affordable housing in their neighborhoods. Over 100 callers were present for the city council’s public comment, showing how deep-rooted this issue is to San Diegans. Many callers were in favor of at least some sort of regulation, as noise complaints for rented “party” houses have skyrocketed in recent years. While there are no set ways (yet) on how to enforce these regula-

While many public comment callers seemed wary about new regulations, Council President Campbell assured all that this ordinance’s passing was a “very good thing” and will be reviewed yearly to amend and change things as needed.

Councilmember Raul Campillo added to this sentiment by saying, “The ordinance will give the city the ability to finally regulate short term vacation rentals. Not being able to regulate them in the past has been a big public safety concern. Without the regulations, the city at its core cannot hold bad actors accountable.” The city council will revisit the specific details of this ordinance before the end of this year and hopes to have everything in place by 2022.

Council President Jen Campbell (left); Councilmember Raul Campillo (right); Photos by Cori Zaragoza

The Good Neighbor Policy’s goal is to keep renters educated on local laws and will fine them and guests up to $1000 dollars if noise ordinances or other laws are broken. The City Council will also set up a 24 hour hotline for residents to call specifically for vacation rental complaints.

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Andra Day Wins Golden Globe, Shines in Billie Holiday Biopic Voice & Viewpoint Newswire Some excerpts included here are from an article originally written by Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer On Sunday, February 28, local San Diegan Andra Day won Best actress in a motion picture, drama for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” at the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards. She is the second African American woman in the history of the Golden Globes to win Best Actress. The first went to Whoopi Goldberg in 1986, 35 years ago, for her work in The Color Purple. “First I want to say “Thank you so much,” first of all, to God, to Christ, my faithful in truth,” Day said in accepting her award Sunday night Billie Holiday has always been a monster of a role.

Diana Ross tackled her on film and Audra McDonald did it on stage. Now it’s time for Andra Day — a singer and actress perfectly named to play Lady Day — and she shines. In “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Day gives it her all as Holiday. Day plays Holiday in the last years of her life as a haunted and crushed icon, an addict with terrible choices in men

but the voice of an angel.

Day’s body is angular and lean and seemingly always prepared for blows to rain down, a piece of gum and a cigarette ever-present in her mouth. But she is also liable to punch back and rip into anyone crossing her. It is a remarkable performance, not least because it is Day’s first acting role.

The material is adapted from Johann H a r i ’s “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.” It’s now the third recent movie project to show government infiltration of Black leaders, following the “MLK/ FBI” documentary and the film “Judas and t he Black Messiah.”

The film start(s) with a sit-down Holiday interview — before going back in time 10 years and tracing the toll drugs and abuse slowly take on an increasingly haggard Holiday, leading to her death in 1959.

The natural villain in this piece would be the agent who rats out Holiday sev-

eral times before falling in love with her. The filmmakers haven’t quite figured him out. Why would Holiday allow a federal agent who has helped arrest her twice back into her life? “It’s complicated,” she says.

Trevante Rhodes, who was super in “Moonlight,” plays the infiltrator, a man torn between his job and his race. He and fellow Black agents toil in the basement in segregated areas, tasked with planting evidence to bring down Black icons for white America. “You ever feel strange about what we’re doing?” an agent asks Fletcher.

The real bad guy is Federal Bureau of Narcotics leader Harry J. Anslinger (a mustache-twirling Garrett Hedlund), who is a virulent racist and cartoonishly unsubtle about it. “This jazz music is the devil’s work. That’s why this Holiday woman has got to be stopped,” he says.

The best parts are listening to Day as her Holiday sings onstage _ perfectly put together with a red lip

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and a big blossom over her right ear — and watches the men in her life sit at lounge tables and determine her fate.

Sometimes her gowns hid cracked ribs. The film’s clear climax is a scene in which Holiday stumbles on a rural family after a lynching and it is searing, anguishing and horrific, images that will stay with the viewer as much as they fueled Holiday’s need to sing “Strange Fruit” despite the risks to her career.

The film is bookended by reminders of America’s history of lynching. It opens with an image of a Black man murdered by a mob and, heartbreakingly, closes with a note that a bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime has stalled in the Senate.

“The Un i t e d States vs. Billie Holiday,” debuted February 26th on Hulu.

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Andra Day (SDSCPA Alumni) and Southeast San Diego native seen filming a new music video with a Voice & Viewpoint nearby. Her debut movie comes out this Friday. Photo credit: Carleton Overstreet Jr.

California Launches “Covid-19 Community Champions” Campaign Honors African American Heroes in Local Communities Voice & Viewpoint Newswire The state of California in partnership with The Center at Sierra Health Foundation has launched a “COVID-19 Community Champions” campaign to recognize COVID-19 warriors who have made significant contributions in their communities.

Honorees of the campaign include medical community leaders, Dr. Elaine Batchlor, CEO, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (Los Angeles); Dr. David M. Carlisle, President, Charles R. Drew University (Los Angeles); Dr. Rodney Hood, Founder of the San Diego County COVID19 Equity Task Force; Dr. Adrian James, Chief Medical Officer for West Oakland Health Council; and Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett who was part of the National Institute of Health team that worked with Moderna, the pharmaceutical company that developed one of the two mRNA vaccines that have been proven to be up to 95 percent effective.

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The COVID-19 Community Champions campaign is in partnership with several California radio stations, including KJLH-FM and KDAY-FM (Los Angeles), KBLX-FM, KDYA-AM and KMEL-FM (Bay Area), KSSX-FM (San Diego), KHYL-FM and KDEE-FM (Sacramento/Stockton/ Modesto) and KKBB-FM (Bakersfield). The stations will celebrate honorees’ in 30 second pre-recorded radio spots with amplification in print advertorials and social media throughout February. Information

on COVID-19 vaccine will also be included in the campaign.

“COVID-19 champions are our neighbors, friends and our loved ones whose actions – big or small -- make an outsized impact in our lives,” said Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California Surgeon General. “This is an opportunity to recognize these Californians’ perseverance and resilience, while paying tribute to their valuable contributions in helping our community endure during the pandemic.”

The campaign will also recognize everyday COVID-19 champions in communities throughout the state. To join the campaign, Californians are encouraged to tune in to their local radio station for more information and to post a picture of their favorite local champion via Facebook or Instagram using #COVIDCommunityChampions.

State and local leaders hope the #COVIDCommunityChampions campaign will help encourage the community to stay optimistic and inspired to continue practicing safe behaviors like wearing a mask, washing hands, maintaining physical distance and making a game plan to get vaccinated.

Californians can visit VaccinateALL58.com or call (833) 422-4255 for information on the COVID-19 vaccine and can sign up at MyTurn. ca.gov to be notified when they are eligible to make an appointment for vaccination.