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REV. SHANE HARRIS’ CHRISTMAS DAY GIFTS
2020 Obituaries Special Edition
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– see pages 13-24
Waiting to be Tested Death of
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COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
Black Doctor from COVID-19
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COVID-19 CASES IN SOUTHEAST 3,795 2,469
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Source: County of San Diego a/o 12/28/20
PRESIDENT-ELECT
By Lauren Victoria Burke
Biden Nominates More Top
NNPA Newswire Contributor
BLACK TALENT
Lines are long as residents in Southeast San Diego continue to seek out COVID-19 tests at the Tubman Chavez Community Center in late December 2020. Photos by Voice & Viewpoint
Some Contract Workers Worry: WILL THEY OWE EDD? By Quinci LeGardye California Black Media
Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin Photos courtesy of NNPA
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Ret. Army Gen. Lloyd Austin - Secretary of Defense President-elect Joe Biden has nominated retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former U.S. Central Command commander, as secretary of defense. If confirmed by the Senate, Gen. Austin would be the first Black man to lead the Department of Defense. The selection also would make Gen. Austin one of the most prominent members of the incoming Biden-Kamala Harris Cabinet. The secretary of defense controls the country’s largest government agency, commanding
See BIDEN page 2
A difficult year for unemployed Californians is closing out with one more thing for them to worry about. The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has asked at least 920,000 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) recipients to verify their income. Now, some of those Californians who lost their jobs because of the pandemic are concerned that an unclear question the EDD used to determine their income may be coming back to haunt them. Whether it was intentional or an honest mistake, if they received too much money in emergency unemployment payments from the department based on the amount of income they reported, they may now have to pay it back.
EDD began sending out notices on Nov. 21, and the agency has added a page to their website clarifying which documents can be used to verify income. The notice requires workers who received more than the PUA minimum benefit of $167 per week to verify their 2019 income using a copy of a 2019 federal or state tax return document. If they don’t have one, they can send business records, contracts, billing statements or similar records. If the EDD determines that a person’s net income was less than the amount they reported on the initial PUA application, the person’s benefit will be reduced to ref lect their net income, and EDD will seek repayment of the difference between their “current weekly benefit and the decreased benefit amount, for each week you were paid,” according to the notice. See EDD page 2
“He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore, 52, said on a video days before her death on December 22 due to See DOCTOR page 24
RASHIDA JONES
TO TAKE MSNBC HELM FEB. 1 Jones is first African American to Lead a Cable News Network By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
In a year plagued by a pandemic that has disproportionately affected African Americans, and one rife with racial strife, MSNBC has named Rashida Jones the first Black person and Black woman president of the network. Jones, who easily becomes the most prominent woman in cable news, is scheduled to step into the top role on Feb. 1, Black History Month, replacing Phil Griffin, who had been at the cable news channel for more than 25 years. “Rashida knows and understands MSNBC, in part because it’s where she started when she first joined NBCU seven years ago,” the company reportedly wrote in an email to NBC News employees. “She knows that it is the people who work here that make it great, and she understands its culture. She also ap-
“Her promotion is bigger than our industry,” NABJ President Dorothy Tucker wrote. “It’s the kind of story Black and Brown children everywhere need to see, so they can know what’s possible.”
preciates the impact and potential of the brand.” Currently serving as senior vice president for NBC News and MSNBC, Jones oversees MSNBC’s daytime and weekend programming. In the past year, the company noted See JONES page 2