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Vol. 64 No. 29 | Thursday, July 18, 2024
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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 64 Years
INSIDE
THIS WEEK'S ISSUE:
60 Anniversary of Civil Rights Act
NEW FOOTBALL YOUTH CAMP PROMOTES SELF-RELIANCE SEE PAGE 9
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BOYS TO MEN HONORS COMMUNITY LEADERS PHOTO: Courtesy of NNPA
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Reflecting on Progress and Persistent Challenges By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT As the United States commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the nation reflects on a transformative law that reshaped American society by prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The landmark legislation emerged from a period of intense struggle and demand for the fulfillment of the 14th
Amendment’s promise of “equal protection of the laws.” Due to widespread opposition to desegregation and the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, President John F. Kennedy urged Congress to pass a comprehensive civil rights bill in June 1963. After Kennedy’s death, President Lyndon B. Johnson, with crucial support from civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and Clarence Mitchell, championed the bill’s passage. See ANNIVERSARY page 2
WWI Vet Identified as First Tulsa Massacre Victim From Mass Graves By Ken Miller ASSOCIATED PRESS A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that devastated the city’s Black community, the mayor said Friday, July 12. Using DNA from descendants of his brothers, the remains of C.L. Daniel from Georgia was identified by Intermountain Forensics, said Mayor G.T. Bynum and officials from the lab. He was in his 20s when he was killed. “This is one family who gets to give a member of their family that they lost a proper burial, after not knowing where they were for over a century,” Bynum said. A white mob massacred as many as 300 Black people over the span of two days in 1921, a long-suppressed episode of racial violence that
Crews work at Oaklawn Cemetery during an Oct. 27, 2022 excavation while searching for bodies from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in Tulsa, Okla. PHOTO: Mike Simons/AP
destroyed a thriving community known as Black Wall Street and ended with thousands of Black residents forced into internment camps overseen by the National Guard.
Biden Needs The Black Press to Win in November By Anthony Tilghman SPECIAL TO NNPA NEWSWIRE If the Trump era has taught us anything — and it has indeed been a jarring ride in learning the hard way, one lesson that needs to be emphasized is that the illusory sense of normalcy surrounding the American two-party system has
rapidly evaporated. For most Americans, the comfortable mirage of living under political stability and a functioning democracy was simply too fragile to withstand the constant barrage of blatant hypocrisy and bigotry coming from the far-right figureheads of the MAGA movement. See BIDEN page 2
Slavery Ban, Minimum Wage, Smash and Grab Penalties on November Ballot
Brenda Nails-Alford, a descendant of massacre survivors and a member of the committee overseeing the search for victims, said the identification brought her to tears. See GRAVES page 2
Historic Deal Tackles Racial Inequity in Real Estate Appraisal
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA NEWSWIRE
By Edward Henderson CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
To address systemic racial disparities in the real estate appraisal profession, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced last week an historic Conciliation Agreement with The Appraisal Foundation (TAF).
The general election on Nov. 5 is less than four months away.
See APPRAISAL page 2
This year, Californians will vote yes or no on 10 propositions that have qualified for the ballot covering a range of issues from raising the minimum wage to amending the state constitution to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for
crimes. Five of those measures were placed on the ballot by the Legislature and five of them qualified through the initiative process. See Ballot page 2
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