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Vol. 63 No. 37
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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 63 Years
NEVER FORGET:
HOW ONE BLACK FIREFIGHTER SURVIVED 9/11 “It looked like a war zone.” THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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(L-R) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber, 79th State Assemblymember Akilah Weber, MD. PHOTO: Mike Norris.
By Dr. John Warren, Publisher
SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWSPAPER Last Friday evening a very unusual and very special event took place in San Diego.
United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City during the September 11 attacks. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons.
The location was the home of the California Secretary of State, Dr. Shirley Weber, here in San Diego. The occasion was a fundraiser for San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
By Helen Bezuneh THE AFRO
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Regina Wilson looked up from her position on the fire engine to find her vision clouded by billowing clouds of white smoke.
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What made the event special in addition to the people of San Diego in attendance was the fact that three Mayors of the three largest cities in the state of California were present and two of them were African American women: Mayor Karen Bass of the City of Los Angeles and the guest of honor, San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The third big city Mayor was Todd Gloria of San Diego. But the power women outnumbered the men. See MAYORS page 11
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She couldn’t help but be stunned by what she was seeing: vehicles were ablaze, buildings were on fire, and screaming people covered in ashes ran through the streets of Lower Manhattan.
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She’d never seen the city like this before — and she’d seen some emergencies. After all, she was a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, at the dawn of a new millennium. But this was different. This was September 11, 2001.
MOTHER CURLY DAVIS DAY PROCLAIMED
See 9/11 page 5
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MOTHERS IN MOURNING: MOMS, ALLIES PROTEST GUN VIOLENCE IN CALIFORNIA By Aldon Thomas Stiles CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA On Sept. 9, elected officials, community leaders and concerned citizens took to the streets of Watts in South Los Angeles to march against gun violence in California.
PHOTO: Aldon Stiles/CBM
Dubbed the “Mothers in Mourning March,” the womenled event was organized by Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson), featured guest speakers and over 34 participating organizations. Participants marched from Jordan High School to Edwin Markham Middle School and walked back to Jordan in temperatures
BACK-TO-SCHOOLERS
“We are proud to be here at Jordan, and from the housing complexes to the highways we are making our voices known: Let our babies live,” Gipson posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. At a post-march rally, speakers shared personal accounts, some tearful, about their experiences with gun violence. See MOTHERS page 5 Some 233,000 thousand public school teachers left the profession between 2019 and 2021 alone, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office analysis, while 41 out of 50 states and two territories (D.C. and the Virgin Islands) report a shortage of teachers, particularly in STEM.
FACE TEACHER SHORTAGES, POLARIZATION AND LEARNING GAPS
Dr. Tuan Nguyen, associate professor in the College of Education at Kansas State University, explained that “teacher supply, retention and shortage in the United States are pieces of the same puzzle,” comprising a Gordian knot of
By Selen Ozturk, ETHNIC MEDIA SERVICES K-12 students returning to school this month face teacher shortages, pitched battles over curricula, and pandemic-era learning gaps, teachers and education officials explained at an August 18 briefing held by Ethnic Media Services.
that hovered up to the high 80s, shouting impassioned chants like “Put those guns down,” “Stop the killing,” and “Start the healing.”
PHOTO: Ethnic Media Services
See BACK-TOSCHOOLERS page 5
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