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Vol. 61 No. 52 | Thursday, December 30, 2021
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 61 Years
More than 800 Faith Leaders
Demand Biden, Senate
Pass Voting Rights Bill By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and more than 800 faith leaders from various religions
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are demanding that President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats immediately push through voting rights legislation.
Some of Those We’ve Loved and Lost in 2021 SEE PAGES 13-23
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Lecrae, Rapper With San Diego Ties, Quilts Honor Victims Shares Wealth Building Ideas of Racial Violence ‘A WAY WE RESIST’:
By Kassidy Henson California Black Media
Shane Harris’ Christmas Giveaway
Grammy Award-winning Christian Hip-Hop artist Lecrae is on a mission to increase financial literacy among African Americans. Growing up in a “marginalized” community in San Diego, Lecrae says he was exposed to incredible wealth and opportunity when he visited communities along the See LECRAE page 2
Gloria Green-McCray, the younger sister of James Earl Green, who along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs were killed by Mississippi Highway Patrolmen in 1970 on the campus of Jackson State, reacts to viewing a section of one of two hand crafted quilts adorned with more than 115 cross-stitched portraits honoring African Americans who lost their lives to racial violence. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Covid-19 Updates SEE PG. 8
Covid-19 cases in southeast
“She just kept it until it dry-rotted because that was all she really had to remember his dream — his vision,” GreenMcCray said of her mother. A cross-stitch portrait of Green wearing his track jacket is now included with 115 others in a quilting project
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Despite Recent Storms, Expect Warmer, Drier Winter Weather By Edward Henderson California Black Media In 1990, Tony! Toni! Toné!, the R&B trio from Oakland, released their hit song ‘It Never Rains in Southern California.”
dedicated to memorializing lives lost to racial violence in the U.S. The two quilts were open for public viewing at Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center. James Earl Green and 21-year-old Jackson State student Phillip Lafayette Gibbs were fatally shot on the Jackson State campus during a violent police response to a protest against racial injustice in 1970. Green was not a student at the historically Black university, but was walking through the campus on his way home from his grocery store job. Twelve more people were injured. No officer ever faced criminal charges.
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By Leah Willingham Associated Press/Report for America Long after he was killed, Myrtle Green-Burton wouldn’t let anyone wear her 17-year-old son’s high school track team jacket. James Earl Green, an aspiring Olympic runner, was supposed to receive the green and yellow coat at his graduation in Mississippi half a century ago. It became a symbol of his life — and her loss, said his sister Gloria GreenMcCray.
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For decades now, the words in the hook of that timeless R&B song has become a sort of a go-to jingle (or photo caption) for some proud Southern Californians. They use it to hype up their typically mild
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winter climate, playfully taunting East Coast or Midwestern family and friends -- whether they are grilling outdoors for Thanksgiving or taking a selfie on a beach in the fall. The “never rains” thing is an exaggeration for sure. On average, Southern California gets about 16 inches of rainfall each year. It is much less than the national annual average (about 38 inches), of course. See WEATHER page 2
GOV. NEWSOM:
Battling Omicron Will Take Boosters Plus Other Measures By Aldon Thomas Stiles California Black Media Last week, speaking at a press conference at the Native American Health Center in Alameda County, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Californians will have to take
booster shots as the state adopts new COVID-19 measures to fight the Omicron variant. He specified that California healthcare workers will be required to get booster shots by Feb. 1, 2022. See OMICRON page 2
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