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Vol. 63 No. 18 |
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 63 Years
Biden’s Re-election Announcement to
test Resolve of Black Voters SECOND CHANCE 30th ANNIVERSARY SEE PAGE 9
ANNUAL CHILDREN’S BOOK PARTY
FLO JO YOUTH TRACK & FIELD
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California Black Media
Political Playback Your roundup of news stories you might have missed last week. By Tanu Henry CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
Assemblymember Mike Gipson Demands Sac County Remove Foster Children From Former Jail
The lawmaker, who authored Assembly Bill (AB) 175 that expanded and clarified the Foster Youth Bill of Rights, says what Sacramento County is doing is “unacceptable” and is in violation of state law.
Last week, Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson) demanded Sacramento County officials stop housing foster children in a former juvenile correction center.
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Covid-19 cases in southeast SOURCE: County of San Diego [Data through 4/27/2023 Updated 4/20/2023]
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT The news that President Joe Biden will seek re-election has many curious about how well he will perform among African American voters. According to the results of a recent poll conducted by TheGrio and KFF, black people had a positive opinion of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. There remains some debate among Black Americans about whether or not
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they will support Biden for president in 2024. According to the results of the poll of one thousand Black voters who were registered between August 24, 2022, and September 5, 2022, 69% of respondents were pleased with Biden’s performance. When asked whether the Democrats should select someone other than Biden in the next presidential election, 58% of Black voters answered that they would rather see another candidate run than Biden. See BIDEN page 2
Carolyn Bryant Donham,
Emmett Till’s False Accuser,
Are We Out of the Woods
with covid?
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Omicron variants are killing 200-300 people a day but population immunity in the U.S. is higher and more stable than a year ago. By Peter White ETHNIC MEDIA SERVICES The Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco says the number of new COVID-19 cases is decreasing, wastewater infectiousness is relatively low and hospitalizations are going down. “The state of COVID, at least as far as I can tell, feels reasonably mild
compared to what we’ve seen in the past 3 years, and remarkably stable,” says Dr. Robert Wachter. Wachter briefed reporters on an Ethnic Media Services conference call last week. He said the biggest surprise about new variants driving the pandemic in the last 18 months has been the relative lack of surprises. See COVID page 2
Dies at 88
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT The white woman who testified that a Black teenager named Emmett Till had made inappropriate approaches toward her, which led to his lynching and murder in Mississippi in 1955, has died. According to a coroner’s report, Carolyn Bryant Donham, 88, died while receiving hospice care in Louisiana. A death record issued on Thursday, April 27, in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office noted that Donham died in Westlake, Louisiana, two nights earlier. Donham’s false claims against Emmett Till set off a chain of events that sparked the modern civil rights movement. After the teen’s mother insisted his casket remain open during the
funeral and photos of Till’s battered and mutilated body appeared in Jet Magazine, the world received a birdseye view of the brutality of America’s rampant racism. In August 1955, Till traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to spend time with relatives. Donham, then 21 years old and going by the name Carolyn Bryant, accused Till of making inappropriate approaches toward her while she worked at a grocery shop in the small town of Money. According to the Reverend Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was present at the time, the 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, which was an act that violated the racist social standards that were prevalent in Mississippi. Evidence suggested a lady identified Emmett Till to Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who
were responsible for Till’s murder. An all-white jury acquitted the two white suspects, but the men later confessed their guilt in an interview with Look magazine. In 2022, the Associated Press secured a copy of Donham’s unpublished memoir, in which she claimed that she had no idea what would become of Till. The outlet noted that the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting was the first organization to reveal the contents of the 99-page book titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle.” See TILL page 16
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