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Vol. 63 No. 13
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 63 Years
Reparations Should Be Cash Plus “Investments,” S.F. NAACP Says
“AIN’T I A WOMAN?” AT MALCOLM X LIBRARY SEE PAGE 18
Equity Report Reveals Comparative Statistics Eric McDowell, right, the chairperson for San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), said the committee presented 111 recommendations of reparations to the city’s Board of Supervisors. PHOTO: Antonio Ray Harvey. December 2022.
By Antonio Ray Harvey and Manny Otiko CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA The San Francisco Branch of the NAACP is engaged in a public information blitz to clarify a press release it sent out urging the San Francisco city government to reject a proposal to pay each qualifying Black city resident a one-time lump sum reparation payment of $5 million. See REPARATIONS page 2
on Black Women By McKenzie Jackson CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
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lack women in the Golden State trail behind their counterparts from other ethnic groups in median wealth and a lower percentage of them have obtained higher education degrees. Black mothers and their babies have mortality rates that surpass women from other racial and ethnic backgrounds.
California Black Women’s Collective Empowerment Institute (CBWCEI) President and CEO Kellie Todd Griffin said the state of Black women in California is troubling. “There is so much work to do,” she explained. “There is a gap with Black women. Without immediate interventions from a policy and practice transformation standpoint, we’re not going to be able to change the trajectory.”
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER & COVID UPDATES SEE PAGE 11
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She was deeply involved with social justice causes before she met and married Martin Luther King Jr., and long after his death.
CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
The only Black woman in the California State Senate, Lola Smallwood-Cuevas represents state Senate District 28, a small, densely populated section of Los Angeles County that includes Culver City and parts of mid-city Los Angeles and unincorporated Los Angeles County.
SEE PAGE 19
SOURCE: County of San Diego [Updated 3/23/2023]
By Mark Hedin
LOLA SMALLWOOD-CUEVAS (D – Ladera Heights)
WOMAN 2 WOMAN
See EQUITY page 2
Shaping California Policy
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PHOTO: Courtesy of CBM
Meet the Black Women Legislators n 2023, five of California’s Black Legislative Caucus’ (CBLC) 12 members are women. They are:
THE NINETEENTH: A BRILLIANT MUST-SEE
And sustained a movement for social change Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is accompanied by his wife Coretta at New York’s International Airport, on December 4, 1964. The reverend is en route to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him. PHOTO: Associated Press
the women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr.
Scott King served with civil rights groups throughout her time as a student at Antioch College and the New England Conservatory of Music. Shortly after she and King married in 1953, the couple returned to the South, where they lent their support to local and regional organizations such as the NAACP and the Montgomery Improvement Association. They also supported the Women’s Political Council, an organization founded by female African American professors at Alabama State University that facilitated voter education and registration, and also protested discrimination on city buses. See WOMEN page 24
By Vicki Crawford THE CONVERSATION
See LEGISLATORS page 2
Left: Asm.Dr. Akilah Weber (D- San Diego), Asm. Mia Bonta (D- Oakland) Asm. Tina Mickinnor (D- Los Angeles) Senator Lola Smallwood Cuevas (D- Los Angeles) Asm. Lori Wilson (D- Solano). PHOTO: CBM
an activist in her own right Coretta Scott King is often remembered as a devoted wife and mother, yet she was also a committed activist in her own right.
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