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Vol. 62 No. 50 | Thursday, December 15, 2022
LINCOLN HORNETS WIN CIF CHAMPIONSHIP!
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HOLIDAY BAZAAR AT FDSRC SEE PAGE 10
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 62 Years
MIKE NORRIS RECOGNIZED
THE BLACK RAC SHOWS OUT
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First Black Woman VP Swears in BLACK SUBCONTRACTORS BEHIND THE SCENES WITH
First Black Woman Mayor of Los Angeles
AND SELWC
By Yvette Porter Moore
This is the third of a series of articles highlighting the various subcontractors working on the County of San Diego Southeastern Live Well Center project scheduled for completion by the Summer of 2023. The County of San Diego plays a critical role in the well-being of its residents by expanding access to health and services in areas accessible to the community. Wendell Stemley, President CEO of Black IPO, Inc See SUBCONTRACTORS page 4
PHOTO: Mike Norris
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER, COVID-19 & MONKEYPOX UPDATES – SEE PAGE 16
HUMAN MONKEYPOX
Covid-19 cases in southeast SOURCE: County of San Diego [Data through 12/3/22 Updated 12/8/2022]
14,153
21,476
20,128
24,206
17,775
11,930
Number of Confirmed & Probable County Cases
92102
92105
92113
92114
92115
92139
SOURCE: County of San Diego Data a/o 12/10/2022
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Big Cities Fail to Provide Karen Bass is sworn in as Mayor of Los Angeles by Vice President Kamala Harris with performances by artists such as Amanda Gorman and Stevie Wonder on December 11, 2022 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. PHOTO: Maxim Elramsisy
By Maxim Elramsisy California Black Media On Sunday, Dec. 12, Karen Bass was sworn in as Los Angeles’ first Black woman
and second Black mayor. Vice President Kamala Harris, who has a home in Los Angeles, conducted the swearing-in of the new mayor. Though originally planned to be
New FBI Hate Crimes Data
conducted at Los Angeles City Hall, rain moved the ceremony to the Microsoft Theater in downtown. See MAYOR page 2
COUNCIL PRESIDENT PRO TEM
MONICA MONTGOMERY STEPPE
SWORN IN FOR 2ND TERM
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Critics immediately threw cold water on a new FBI 2021 Hate Crime Statistics Act Report released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials on Monday, Dec. 12.
VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWSWIRE Council President pro Tem Monica Montgomery Steppe was sworn into her second term of service for Council District Four in the City of San Diego at
Margaret Huang, the president, and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said while underreporting of hate crimes to the FBI remains an ongoing problem, the failure of state and local jurisdictions to report data makes the new report worse. Over one-third of the nation’s 18,000 federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies failed to report data to the FBI. In 2020, the number of agencies reporting was 3,300 fewer than in 2021.
See COUNCIL page 2
PHOTO: Courtesy of Council President pro Tem Monica Montgomery Steppe’s office
The latest reporting year counted as the
PHOTO: NNPA
first in which the FBI required every agency to report all crimes, including hate crimes, through its National IncidentBased Reporting System (NIBRS). Huang said that even though the FBI provided technical assistance and funding for its new requirement, many jurisdictions were unable or unwilling to report through the new system. She said the result is dramatically incomplete. It needs more data from major population centers, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, and the entire states of Florida and California. See FAIL page 2
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