U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School Lessons
Congressperson Barbara Lee invited her fellow members of Congress and their key staff to visit Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School lessons.
By Paul Cobb “I’m deeply saddened to hear of the passing of President Jimmy Carter,” said Congresswoman Barbara Lee in a Dec. 29 post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “President Carter displayed a lifelong commitment to global peace, justice, and human rights. He inspired me and countless others.” “I send my condolences to his
family, his loved ones, and all who loved him. May he now Rest in Peace with his wife, Rosalynn,” Lee continued. Barbara Lee said she still treasures er CD Sunday school lessons that she participated in as a visitor to Jimmy Carter’s Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. She told The Post that she attended gospel concerts at the
Carter White House as the staff aide for the late Congressman Ron Dellums. “I also invited congressional staff to visit his Sunday school teachings. He taught us lessons of how to apply our faith to our policy work in government and in our respective communities. He practiced what he preached, and he represented a change in social
Barbara Lee with President Carter and First Lady Rosalyn. Lee has treasured the CD’s and notes of his Sunday School Bible lessons through the years. Photos courtesy of Rep. Lee’s office.
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Some faith and community leaders who attended the year-end Ceasefire press conference are (left to right): Rev. Damita Davis-Howard, Oakland Mayor Nikki Fortunato Bas, Rev. Michael Wallace, and Brooklyn Williams. Photo by Kevin Hicks.
‘In 2024, We Had a Decrease in Shootings and Killings,’ Says Oakland Mayor Nikki Bas and Ceasefire Leaders
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Oakland’s Ceasefire partners, including representatives from the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention (DVP), Faith in Action East Bay, and other community leaders held a press conference Monday to discuss year-end reductions in gun violence and share community support for the Ceasefire Strategy. “Our communities have never wavered from our support of the Ceasefire Strategy. We knew in the beginning that Ceasefire saves the lives of Oakland’s most vulnerable,” said Alba Hernandez, Faith in Action East Bay. According to the DVP, Oakland will finish 2024 as the safest year since the start of the COVID pandemic. As of Dec. 23, there has been a 35% decrease in murders accompanied by a 33% reduction in nonfatal shootings compared to 2023.
As Oakland’s primary violence reduction strategy, Ceasefire seeks to identify individuals at very high risk of being involved in gun violence. Those high-risk individuals who are arrestable are prioritized for law enforcement action. Others at the highest-risk are informed of their risk and offered intensive community-based services such as life coaching, workforce development, and mental health care. Ceasefire operates through close coordination and collaboration between the Mayor’s Office, DVP, the Ceasefire director, Oakland Police Department, and the Alameda County Probation Department, with the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) and California Partnership for Safe Communities (CPSC) providing training and technical assistance. “I am extremely grateful for the successful resurrection of the Ceasefire Strategy and for the hisContinued on page 8
Andrea Guerrero, co-chair of the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board. Courtesy photo.
New Report Shows Disparities in Police Stops of Youth in California
President Jimmy Carter sits casually with his feet on the table at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office of the White House on April 18, 1978. Photo by Valkoisen Tuntematon/Wikimedia Commons. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire
James “Jimmy” Carter, the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, who became the 39th president of the United States and later redefined the role of an ex-president through decades of humanitarian work, died Sunday at his home. He was 100. His son, James E. Carter III, known as Chip, confirmed the death but provided no immediate cause. Carter had been in hospice care since February 2023 after battling an aggressive form of melanoma that spread to his brain and liver. Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, with whom he shared 77 years of marriage—the longest of any presidential couple—died on November 19, 2023, at 96. The
African Americans were stopped ‘126% more frequently than expected’
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couple’s final years were marked by their enduring love, and Carter’s last public appearance was at Rosalynn’s funeral, where he sat in the front row in a wheelchair. Born in Plains on October 1, 1924, Carter grew up on a farm, served in the U.S. Navy, and rose to prominence as Georgia’s governor from 1971 to 1975. He was elected president in 1976, becoming the first man from the Deep South since 1837. The victory made Carter the only Democrat to hold the office between Lyndon B. Johnson and Bill Clinton. Carter’s presidency, defined by ambitious domestic and foreign policy initiatives, faced Continued on page 8
The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board this week released its annual report on police stops across California, analyzing 4.7 million vehicle and pedestrian stops conducted in 2023 by 539 law enforcement agencies in California. The analysis, conducted as part of the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA), shows disparities consistent with those observed in prior years’ data based on perceived race, age, and disability status. The report finds that the disparity between the proportion of stops and the proportion of residential population was greatest for individuals perceived to be Black, who were stopped 126% more frequently than expected, followed by individuals perceived to be Latino, who were stopped 44% more frequently
than expected. In addition to providing an indepth look into policing in 2023, the report contains a wide array of best-practice recommendations related to policing. “Like those before it, the 2025 RIPA report provides actionable information to address bias in policing. This year’s report is particularly important with its focus on young Californians. The racial disparities of policing stops, searches and use of force of youth is alarming,” said Andrea Guerrero, co-chair of the RIPA Board and executive director of Alliance San Diego. “Young Californians who are driving, biking, and walking and perceived to be Black or Brown are regularly stopped, asked to consent to a search, handcuffed, sat on the curb, put in a police car, and questioned for information that is recorded on a field interContinued on page 8
with governors Reuben Askew of Florida, Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, and Terry Sanford of North Carolina, were all a part of what was being dubbed the “New South” and so supported civil rights and voting rights for African Americans. Based on Julian’s comments I agreed to host the governor. We picked him up at the San Francisco Airport. With his toothy smile I could tell almost right away he was like no other politician I had ever met. On his arrival there was a message for him to go to the VIP room where he met then-Secretary of State Jerry Brown. After leaving the airport, we
went to a reception in his honor at the home of Paul “Red” Fay, who had served as the acting secretary of the Navy under President John Kennedy. (Carter, it turned out, had been himself a 1946 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a submariner in the 1950s.) The following afternoon, the Niagara Movement Democratic Club hosted a reception for Carter, which was a major success. Carter indicated that he would be considering running for president and hoped for our support if he did so. As the event was winding down, I witnessed the most amaz-
ing moment: Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, was in the kitchen with my former wife, Irene, wearing apron and busting suds! You would have to have been there to see it: The first and last time a white woman cleaned up my kitchen. A few months later, President Richard Nixon resigned in the midst of the Watergate scandal. He was succeeded by his vice president, Gerald Ford. On the heels of that scandal, Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976 represented integrity and honesty at a point in America’s history when he was just what the nation needed to lead as president of the United States.
In 1974, then-Gov. Jimmy Carter Visited the Home of Oakland Black Black Political Activist Virtual Murrell While Running for President By Virtual T. Murrell Special to The Post
Virtual Murrell chats with Jimmy Carter two years before Carter was elected president in 1976. Courtesy photo.
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On his way to seeking the presidency, then-Gov. Jimmy Carter visited the Bay Area in his capacity as campaign chairman of the Democratic National Committee in March of 1974. A friend of mine, Bill Lynch, a democrat from San Francisco, had been asked to host Carter who was then relatively unknown. Seeking my advice on the matter, I immediately called my friend, civil rights icon, Georgia State Representative Julian Bond, for his opinion. Bond said that Carter, along
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