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Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 64 Years
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Changes Coming to San Diego’s Federal Rental Assistance Program By Dr. John E. Warren
PUBLISHER With costs rising while federal funding remains insufficient, the San Diego Housing Commission is making SDHC Board of changes to its program that helps to Commissions, April 2024. PHOTO: pay rent for about 14,500 families with Courtesy of SDHC low income in the city of San Diego.
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THIS WEEK'S ISSUE:
PUBLISHER’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
To prevent some families from losing the assistance they currently rely on, SDHC’s updates would instead increase the amount every participating family in the program pays toward their contract rent, which is known as the family contribution.
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CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHEAST
Pinback button celebrating Kwanzaa 1960-1999. PHOTO: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Kwanzaa:
Let’s Celebrate Our Heritage & Culture!
Snow fell at the Mountain View Community Center on December 12, 2025, as families gathered for a Winter Wonderland event. One of many Christmas holiday events celebrating the season of joy and giving. PHOTO: Olivia Clark/Voice & Viewpoint
Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration honoring African heritage and culture, observed from December 26 to January 1. Created in 1966 by scholar and activist Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga, the holiday was initially a response to the social and political upheaval of the 1960s, and the cultural disconnection experienced by African Americans.
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Rooted in African traditions and communal values, Kwanzaa is not a religious observance but rather a cultural celebration that can be celebrated by people of all faiths. The holiday emphasizes family, history, core values, community, and shared responsibility, while fostering pride, reflection, and unity. See KWANZAA page 2
What’s Behind the Medicare Advantage Care Gap for California’s Black Seniors By Charlene Muhammad
CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people 65 or older, and some people under 65 with certain disabilities or conditions. Medicare Advantage is a localized Medicare option offering insurance services that vary by county or Zip Code. The cost of premiums, coverage, and benefits also differ by location.
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Advocates say Medicare Advantage plans simplify health coverage for older adults, typically offering comprehensive plans with low or no premiums and deductibles. They also offer specialized care like dental, hearing exams, eye tests, transportation services
— and sometimes even gym memberships. But due to coverage gaps, many Black seniors still lack the care they need. These gaps often show up as difficulty seeing specialists, lower-rated plans, confusing rules, and limited access to Black physicians. Unlike Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage—also known as Part C—is provided through private companies approved by Medicare and typically includes drug coverage (Part D). Medicare Part A covers hospital insurance and Medicare Part B covers medical insurance. See MEDICARE page 2
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ARTICLE CONTINUATION ASSISTANCE Continued from cover
The SDHC Board of Commissioners approved the updates on December 11. SDHC will next submit the updates to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would need to approve them before SDHC can implement the changes. If approved, SDHC would begin providing multiple notices to affected families over the ensuing months before the changes would be implemented, perhaps late in 2026. “We are committed to continuing to serve as many families as possible who are currently in our rental assistance program,” SDHC President and CEO Lisa Jones said. “If the changes we have proposed are not approved and implemented, about 1,700 families—which
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The History of Kwanzaa Kwanzaa gets its name from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning “first fruits.” The holiday is rooted in first fruit celebrations or harvest festivals which are found in cultures throughout Africa in both ancient and modern times. Dr. Karenga, an active participant in the Black Power movement during the 1960s, created Kwanzaa in the immediate aftermath of the Watts Riots in Oakland, California to reaffirm and restore African heritage and culture, introduce and reinforce shared values, and establish a nationally celebrated communal holiday that centers collective rather than individual achievement. He drew the concepts and symbols of Kwanzaa from traditions and practices found throughout the African diaspora. Karenga recognized that, on the whole, African Americans do not live in an agricultural setting. Nonetheless, he sought to emphasize that the basic principles found in producing the harvest are vital to building and maintaining strong and wholesome communities. In this-way, Kwanzaa was developed. Kwanzaa is that time when we reflect on our use of the basic principles, share and enjoy the fruits of our labor, and recommit ourselves to the collective achievement of a better life for our family, our community, and our people.
include up to 6,000 individuals—would lose their rental assistance entirely. By increasing each household’s contribution toward the contract rent, we are reducing the risk of having to end rental assistance for some families.” Generally, families in SDHC’s rental assistance program pay a percentage of their income as their contribution toward the full contract rent amount. Using federal funding, SDHC pays the rest of the contract rent amount to the landlord on the family’s behalf, this is called rental assistance. In the city of San Diego’s high-cost rental housing market, the average amount SDHC pays each month to assist families in the program has risen 80 percent since Fiscal Year 2020 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020). However, federal funding has not kept pace with these increases. That has produced a $26.6 million gap between allocated federal funds and SDHC’s costs for its payments on behalf of families. • Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. • Imani (Faith) To believe with all our hearts in our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. For suggested songs for reflection, reading, recipes, and activities for each day, visit nmaahc. si.edu/explore/stories/seven-principles-kwanzaa
A Time of Learning, Family and Celebration of Heritage The celebration incorporates various cultural practices, including lighting the kinara, sharing stories, and participating in communal feasts. Kwanzaa is a time for families and communities to come together to remember the past and to celebrate African American culture.
Families made up of seniors or people with disabilities currently contribute 28.5 percent of their income toward their contract rent. Under SDHC’s updates, that would rise to 32 percent. If seniors or people with disabilities have no income, SDHC pays the full contract rent on their behalf. For families deemed able to work, SDHC set minimum family contribution amounts based on what those families would earn working at minimum-wage jobs. The minimum family contribution amount for a family with one work-able adult would rise from $400 to $580 per month. For a family with two work-able adults, the minimum family contribution would increase from $650 to $1,155 per month. SDHC would also create a new category with a minimum family contribution of $1,735 per month for a family with three or more workable adults. The new minimum family contribution amounts assume that each work-able
The candlelighting ceremony, central to the celebration of Kwanzaa, takes place at a time when all members of the family are present. Children are encouraged to take an active role in all activities. Kwanzaa at WorldBeat Center Dec. 2024. PHOTO: Voice & Viewpoint
At the heart of Kwanzaa are the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, which guide daily reflection and activities throughout the week. For each one of the seven days, families light a candle on the Kinara (candle holder) to honor that day’s principle: • Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. • Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. • Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our community’s problems our problems and to solve them together. • Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. • Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
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Although Medicare Advantage plans must follow federal rules, some seniors, like Joanne Craig, 76, have struggled to access full benefits through her Kaiser Permanente Senior Advantage plan. Still, she said the plan works for her overall. “You have to stay on top of it. I haven’t had problems with the insurance. I’ve had problems with the insurer representatives and medical professionals not treating you the way that you should under Medicare. They don’t want to give you specialists, and they try to work around the system giving you the best
Work-able families with higher incomes would pay up to 40 percent of their income as their family contribution toward their rent. SDHC will provide a hardship program to assist eligible families who need additional time to be able to pay the higher family contribution amounts. SDHC is also collaborating with community organizations to make sure families know about many resources available in the community for them. A list of resources is available in multiple languages on SDHC’s website. “We want all of our families to remain in their homes with the financial help they need to pay their rent,” Jones said. “We’re taking the steps necessary to make that possible.”
After the Tambiko, as a gesture of unity, the elder drinks from the Kikombe Cha Umoja and then passes it for all to share. The elder leads the call, "Harambee" (Let's pull together), and everyone participates in repeating the phrase seven times. Candlelighting, central to the ceremony, reinforces the meaning of the principles. The placement of the mishumaa saba (candles) in the Kinara is as follows: Black, for the color of African peoples everywhere, is located in the center. Three red candles, representing the blood of the ancestors, are placed to the left. Three green candles that symbolize the earth, life, and the ideas and promise of the future, are placed to the right. Beginning December 26 with the black mushumaa, a different candle is lit for each day, alternating from left to right. After the candlelighting, the Family Kwanzaa Celebration at Malcolm X Library Dec. 2023. PHOTO: Darrel Wheeler principle of the day is discussed.
During the celebration of Kwanzaa, it is customary to greet friends and family with the Swahili phrase, "Habari gani", meaning, "What is the news?" To respond, answer with the principle of the day. (Umoja, for example, is the response given on December 26th.)
The Nguzo Saba: Seven Principles of Kwanzaa
adult works 25 hours per week at minimum wage, which will be $17.75 per hour on January 1, 2026. The minimum family contribution is about 30 percent of that income.
to represent the struggle, black to represent the people, and green to represent the future– are used throughout the space and often in the clothing worn by participants. These colors were first popularized and proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be the colors for all people of the African Diaspora in 1920. Along with the lighting of the candles on the Kinara, the principle of the day is further emphasized by various activities such as reciting the sayings or writings of great Black thinkers and writers, reciting original poetry, African drumming, storytelling, and discussion. Meals play a large part in the celebration of Kwanzaa. Throughout the week, favorite African-American dishes, as well as traditional African, Caribbean, and South American recipes, are on many menus. On December 31, the sixth day of Kwanzaa, there is a joyous celebration with food, drink, dance, and music called Karamu. It is a time of rejoicing, reassessment and recommitment. The Zawadi, handmade or similarly meaningful gifts for children, may be opened at the Karamu, or on the final day of Kwanzaa, when Imani is observed. For short educational children’s videos about the seven principles of Kwanzaa — umoja, kujichagulia, ujima, ujamaa, nia, kuumba, and imani — as well as some recipes and celebration suggestions, visit nmaahc.si.edu/explore/ moments/kwanzaa All information compiled from the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Black PR Wire.
Kwanzaa at WorldBeat Center Dec. 2024. PHOTO: Voice & Viewpoint
The ceremony begins with the Tambiko (libation), an African form of praise which pays homage to personal and collective ancestors. To begin, the elder of the household pours wine, juice or distilled spirits from the Kikomba Cha Umoja (unity cup) into the earth or an earth-filled vessel. While pouring, the elder makes a statement honoring departed family members for the inspiration and values they have left with descendants. Friends are also remembered.
Meal sharing happens throughout the week, as families and communities come together to share a feast to honor the ancestors, and celebrate creativity and culture. The table is decorated with the essential symbols of Kwanzaa, including the Kinara, Muhindi (ears of corn representing children), Mazao (fruits to represent the harvest), and Zawadi (gifts), that are all placed on the Mkeka (woven straw mat representing the foundation on which all else rests). The colors of the Pan-African flag–red
service,” said Craig.
For example, the out-of-pocket maximum payment is projected to increase by $100 next year for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. The number of plans being offered are also shrinking and premium beneficiaries pay for outpatient services are likely to go up by an average of $15.
“I am a victim of cancer — breast, uterus — and I had to identify it because it was early stages and they kept saying there was nothing wrong,” said Craig. She said she wrote to Kaiser noting that, at her age, she shouldn’t be struggling to get care. “To this day, the doctor has never acknowledged it. I just had to get other doctors. But somebody else might not be able to do that, write letters and do stuff,” she added. Complicating the information available on selecting which option to get or which services are provided, both Medicare and Medicare Advantage are currently evolving.
Although the end date for Medicare open enrollment was Dec. 7. people who qualify will be allowed to enroll or dis-enroll until March 31, 2026. Medicare Advantage enrollment is on the rise, but access isn’t equal, according to a report, “Medicare Trends and Tactics in California,” by Blooming Health, an AI-powered platform that connects organizations serving aging and
2003 Kwanzaa celebration with Ron Karenga. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons
underserved communities to resources. “California’s Medicare-only population includes nearly 5 million people, 13% of whom fall between 139–200% of the federal poverty level — too high for Medi-Cal but still financially vulnerable. Many people in this group often lack access to care. Race, income, geography, and language continue to shape health outcomes. For example, Black Californians have the highest mortality rates from several cancers and are more likely to experience unmanaged chronic conditions,” reported Blooming Health. See MEDICARE page 5
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PUBLISHER’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE season. The fact that those of different faiths are allowed to exercise their religious beliefs does not negate that which many of us profess. Neither do we require others to acknowledge or share in our beliefs. This is the beauty of the Freedom of Religion Clause in our Constitution. But the differences in faith do not stop the Spirit of Christmas and here is the reason why. The Gospel of John, recorded in the Bible at 3:16, states that: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The operative word is “gave”. It is the gift of Jesus that is responsible for the desire we all have to “give” gifts. It is because that with the gift of Jesus to mankind came the Spirit of giving which is released each time we celebrate His birth. The angel of the Lord that appeared to the shepherds that night over Bethlehem made a pronouncement that we still feel each Christmas. The angel said: “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”
By Dr. John E. Warren PUBLISHER, THE SAN DIEGO VOICE & VIEWPOINT
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e at the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere desire for God’s blessings upon you and your families. It is also a time to remind each of us why we have and celebrate Christmas. This country, and most of our lives, were founded upon Christian principles that are at the very essence of this
Consider that Christmas is the only time in the year that just about everything shuts down; it is the one time of the year that we see an outpouring of kindness not seen at any other time. That kindness is the “goodwill” toward men that the angel spoke of. It was that which the angels spoke of that caused what is called the Christmas Truce of December 24, 1914. It occurred when soldiers in the muddy trenches on the Western Front of World War I put down their weapons on both sides, stepped out of trenches, met each other face to face and sang Christmas songs because both sides missed being away from their families. In some areas the truce persisted until after New Year’s
WHAT’S IN A COIN? By Frances ‘Toni’ Draper
AFRO PUBLISHER, WORD IN BLACK More than metal. More than money. More than nostalgia. A coin is a declaration — of who a nation chooses to honor, what it chooses to remember and what it is willing to erase. That is why what happened at the U.S. Mint should unsettle anyone who cares about truth, history and the health of our civic life. At a recent ceremony unveiling coins meant to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, the federal government rejected designs that would have acknowledged abolition, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement. These designs were not improvised or ideological. They were developed through a lawful, bipartisan process by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a body created by Congress to ensure that U.S. currency reflects the full American experience. Those recommendations were ignored. As reported by The New York Times on Dec. 14, 2025, proposed designs featuring Frederick Douglass, a suffragist carrying a “Votes for Women” banner and six-year-old Ruby Bridges walking into a desegregated school were set aside in favor of a narrower, sanitized narrative — Pilgrims, founding fathers, familiar profiles. History without friction. Progress without struggle.
The erasure hidden in plain sight So dismissive was the process that none of the advisory committee’s members attended the unveiling. That absence matters. When experts appointed to safeguard public trust collectively stay away, it reflects how profoundly the process itself had been disrespected — reduced to a formality rather than honored as the law intended.
This moment cannot be understood apart from the so-called anti-woke movement now shaping federal decisions. That movement does not reject ideology; it replaces honest history with denial. It insists that acknowledging injustice is more dangerous than ignoring it, that telling the full American story is divisive, and that comfort should take precedence over truth. Under this logic, struggle becomes an inconvenience. Resistance becomes suspect. And the people who forced America to live up to its ideals are treated as optional to the national narrative.
This is bigger than the U.S. Mint This pattern does not stop with coins. In early December 2025, the National Park Service publicly released its 2026 schedule of fee-free admission days. For the first time in years, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth were omitted — despite both being federally recognized holidays and long-standing days of free access for families and communities. At the same time, Flag Day was added as a free-admission day. That date happens to coincide with the birthday of the sitting president, who is simultaneously advancing efforts to place his own likeness on U.S. currency. No law changed. No explanation was offered. But the message was unmistakable. That is priority. It reveals a governing posture defined by arrogance and narcissism — the belief that personal glorification belongs on national symbols while collective struggle does not. It is the same impulse that dismisses expert committees, rewrites history, and treats democratic norms as optional rather than binding.
Day. That same Spirit of Peace continues to settle on each Christmas season as God honors our recognition of the birth of His Son. There are still so many without food or shelter, especially this Christmas season with major wars underway and a people by the thousands seeking shelter and refuge in our land; those without the basic necessities and comfort. So many are knocking at our doors and so many of us are responding in every way possible. This is a time for us to be thankful for what we do have as opposed to complaining about what we want or don’t have. To many, the stable at Bethlehem would be a welcomed shelter as compared to the streets on which they sleep. For many of our families there are personal problems, an empty chair at a table because of a missing loved one, but we are still blessed and should find comfort in helping others through this dark time in their lives. While many of us do not have the shelter, food or comforts that so many others have, yet we are blessed with health or family or the meeting of our basic needs, if not our wants. Let us remember those who lost so much during the recent storms. Let us seek ways to be of help to others and, by doing so, help ourselves.
We give thanks for those among us seeking to help and feed and shelter so many others. Let us commit to seeking what each of us can do to make a difference in the lives of others, and by doing so, participate in the gift that keeps on giving. May God bless and keep you, regardless of your circumstances. Let us offer up prayers of praise and thanksgiving and sing glory to God in the Highest as well as peace on earth and goodwill toward all men.
WE DON’T HATE AMERICA
—BUT WE DON’T TRUST IT, EITHER By Julianne Malveaux
We don’t hate America. We built America. Brick by brick, cotton bale by cotton bale, invention by invention, we shaped this nation while it denied our humanity. Our ancestors sowed its fields, cleaned its houses, fought its wars, and fueled its economy. If we hated America, we would have left long ago—or let it collapse under the weight of its own hypocrisy. But love and hate are not opposites here. The opposite of hate is trust, and trust is something America has never truly earned from Black folks. Every generation of Black people has been asked to prove our patriotism. We’ve marched, bled, and died for freedoms we were rarely allowed to enjoy. From Crispus Attucks to the Tuskegee Airmen, our loyalty has been tested, questioned, and betrayed. The nation that celebrates “liberty and justice for all” has always added an invisible asterisk next to “for all.” So, no—we don’t hate America. But we’ve learned to be cautious with a country that too often confuses our survival with its generosity.
That is not a coincidence.
Consider the No Kings rallies last month. Millions—Black, brown, White, young, and old—marched to reject creeping authoritarianism. The name said it plainly: No Kings. No man above the law. Yet critics dismissed the protests as “un-American,” “radical,” even “Marxist.” The Speaker of the House called demonstrators a “hate-America mob.”
This is not harmless symbolism; it is the misuse of power with lasting civic consequences.
That’s rich. What could be more American than dissent? What could be more patriotic than demanding that power answer to the people?
See COIN page 8
When Black people raise our voices, our love for this nation is called hatred. When Colin Kaepernick knelt to protest police violence, they said he disrespected the flag. When Fannie Lou Hamer said she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” they called her divisive. See TRUST page 11
CORRECTION FOR 12/18/25 ISSUE
In an article in our 12/18/25 issue, pages 6 and 7, entitled “The Last Wreath of Remembrance Laid at Greenwood Memorial Park” inaccurately stated that the Wreaths Across America organization ended its support for the event at Greenwood Memorial Park. Greenwood Memorial Park’s headquarters itself cut back funding. This has been corrected in the story published online as well. We apologize for the error.
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New Generation of Black Church Leadership Rising to Continue Battle for Freedom By Hazel Trice Edney
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t was on Nov. 24, 2014, when then Howard University student Kevin Lamár Peterman first felt a sermon rise from his belly.
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Also, the Rev. Devon Jerome Crawford, pastor of the Third Baptist church in San Francisco, the home church of former Vice President Kamala Harris; the Rev. Art Gordon is pastor of the oldest Black Baptist church in New England, the People’s Baptist church in Boston;
ARRANGEMENTS BY PREFERRED CREMATION & BURIAL Service was held December 17, 2025, at Community Baptist Church. *************************************************************************** Jimmy Louis Fuller, fondly known as “Jim” to some and “Jim Slick” to others, was the sixth of seven children born to Posey Sr. and Zola Mae Fuller on May 22, 1941, in Opelika, Alabama. He spent his early years in the Opelika area and graduated from J. W. Darden High School in 1958.
Pastor Peterman speaks to the congregation after being robed by his mother, Mrs. Donna Holley-Nelms.
That was the same day that a grand jury decided not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri police officer, Darren Wilson, in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown, an unarmed Black teenager walking down the street in his neighborhood. It was a police killing that sparked historic protests across America; including fiery demonstrations in Ferguson that were met with military force. Having returned from the uprisings in Ferguson, Peterman was leading a community and student protest on the steps of Howard’s Douglass Hall when the announcement came that Wilson would not be indicted. “I remember giving a speech that night that I felt turn into a sermon. And it was really social justice that led me to ministry,” Peterman said in a recent interview. “I felt that the best way to advance the cause of Black people in America was through the church and through education. And so that’s kind of how my ministry began.” A little more than 10 years later, the stirring that Peterman felt that night has now come full circle. On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, at the age of 32, he was installed pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, the oldest and most historic Black Baptist congregation in Washington, DC, dating back through enslavement more than 180 years.
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“Every generation of ministers is called to move the thermometer one notch, one pace forward. It’s like a race. The baton has been passed to the next generation to run our leg of the race.”
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of salvation, the battle for social justice, and the sharing of wisdom and experience. Aker, the pastor who ordained Peterman at Cornerstone, where he served as young adult and Pastor Peterman receives laying on of hands and prayer by attending social justice minister, preached from the scripture, II Timothy 1:7, clergy during the installation service. “For God has not given us a spirit the Rev. Malcolm J. Byrd is senior pasof fear, but of power and of love and of tor of the Mother African Methodist a sound mind.” The title of the mesEpiscopal Zion Church, the oldest Black sage was “A Divine Assignment.” Church in New York State, founded in Peterman listened intently, having 1796; the Rev. Marissa Farrow has been been ceremoniously robed by his mothnamed senior pastor-elect of Baltimore’s er, Mrs. Donna Holley-Nelms. He reMt. Calvary Church & Ministries; and counted that he was raised by a “sinthe Rev. Rodney Carter is pastor of the gle parent mother and grandmother in Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, Vauxhall, New Jersey with the church the largest Pentecostal congregation in as the center of our life.” D.C. “So, you’re seeing a new generation of pastors coming into the pulpit and taking over historic churches and many of us are trying to do the work that was being done 60 years ago, prior to the civil rights movement,” Peterman says. “It’s not a new vision. It’s a continuum. And hopefully, when we die, life in America will be better than it was when we were born.” Therefore, during the services surrounding Peterman’s installation, it was made clear that his generation will not carry the mantle alone. As they rise to leadership, they join their mentors, their fathers and mothers in ministry who remain alongside them in the preaching
Essentially, Aker elaborated that Peterman has been called to preach in a time that has been described as the “fourth industrial revolution,” which, in part, means the world’s rise to 21st century technology; including AI, (artificial intelligence) and that the multi-generational Black church must not be afraid. “We have to communicate our story. We have to communicate the work that we’re doing at Nineteenth Street. We have to embrace technology one hundred percent. We have to communicate what we’re doing and the work that we’re doing in 21st century ways. Social media for us has been on the back burner,” Peterman said.
On February 14, 1960, Jim enlisted in the United States Navy. During his 10 years of honorable service, he was stationed aboard the USS Taussig and USS General Mitchell, as well as on shore duty. He was honorably discharged on February 14, 1970. In 1967, Jimmy met the love of his life, Ms. Glen Dean Bell, and they were married on April 27, 1968, in San Diego, California. Two children were born to this union: their son, Eric Demarest, born March 10, 1971, and their daughter, Summer Dior, born December 17, 1977. After completing his military service, Jim attended San Diego City College, earning an Associate’s Degree in Accounting. He later graduated from San Diego State University in 1974 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration. Shortly thereafter, Jim accepted a position with the San Diego Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC). While working bi-vocationally and serving in ministry, he eventually answered the call to full-time ministry. After relocating to San Diego through his Navy service, Jim united with Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, where he was baptized under the late Rev. H. V. Bennett. He later joined St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church on January 5, 1975, under Pastor Devonie Morrow, Sr. There, he was ordained as a Deacon and faithfully served until answering his call to preach. On July 6, 1980, Reverend Jimmy L. Fuller was licensed and ordained. In 1984, with Pastor Morrow’s support, Jim organized Ambassadors for Christ Missionary Baptist Church, serving as its Pastor. Committed to serving the marginalized, he established a weekly feeding ministry and led efforts to relieve financial burdens within the church and community, believing faith must be lived through service. Jimmy departed this life on December 5, 2025. He was preceded in death by his siblings; Robert L. Fuller, Posey Fuller, Jr., O. Z. Fuller, Lola Mae Carr, Doris Cloud, and Thelma Shealey. He leaves to cherish his memory his devoted wife of 58 years Mrs. Glen Dean (Bell) Fuller, son Eric (LaTashia), daughter Summer, four grandchildren, one great-grandson, extended family, and a host of relatives and friends.
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Today, as issues of racial justice continue to simmer – and grow - across the nation, the pastoral installation of Peterman and other young men and women in his age group is being viewed as a resurgence of sorts, part of a spiritual uprising of a new generation of civil rights leadership in the Black church. “What you’re seeing is that there are a number of young Black preachers who are taking over historic Black churches in historic cities, who are doing this work of social justice and also doing the work of social impact while also preaching salvation,” Peterman said.
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Pastor Peterman, on front row (center) in suit and tie, stands in front of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, surrounded by guest clergy who attended to support and celebrate.
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The report says closing these disparities requires better data collection, integration with community-based organizations, and targeted investments in underserved areas. Some cases of inadequate or denied care are driven by algorithms, said Christine Huberty, an attorney with the Center for Medicare Advocacy. During a recent STAT News Summit in San Francisco, she discussed UnitedHealth’s 2024 phase-out of its NaviHealth brand, which used an algorithm to predict how long patients should stay in medical facilities. The report highlighted Megan Bent, whose mother won an appeal against UnitedHealth’s denial of care for her father, who was recovering from brain surgery. UnitedHealth has denied using artificial intelligence to automatically deny claims. Jill Baker, 69, of South Los Angeles,
shares a different experience. She said she was fortunate to find a good Medicare Advantage plan with UnitedHealth. “They’ve been pretty good. I’ve been able to keep my same doctor through the years,” Baker said. “That ensured continuity because they were familiar with my medical history.” Baker said her plan has also been good about referrals, including for a recent bone scan. She credits her background as a researcher for helping her make an informed decision. “You hear those things, ‘Oh! It’s the medical profession,’ but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the care and the attention that they’ve given me,” she said. Advocates recommend that seniors research their options and seek guidance from navigators to understand Medicare Advantage plan differences. “Many Black seniors try to manage their chronic illness, like high blood
pressure or diabetes, because the health insurance that they have is not adequate or doesn’t cover the medications and the visits they need,” said Janette Robinson Flint, founder and executive director of Black Women for Wellness, an advocacy group for Black women and girls. “Medicare is such a good thing -- lifesaving for many Black seniors. But others have not figured out how to use it, and the rules are so complicated,” she said. Seniors start receiving mail about Medicare Advantage plans after age 64 and must sign up within three months after their 65th birthday. But at that time, Flint said, they’re inundated with so much information that selecting the right plan can be overwhelming. “We need to uncomplicate the rules. It’s a wonderful program, one that absolutely should not go away — and if it does, it’s going to cost lives, for sure,” said Robinson Flint.
Learn more about coverage options at Medicare.gov and check your plan’s rating at the California Center on Data, Insights and Innovation. Seniors needing help understanding Medicare or Medicare Advantage can contact the
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now fell at the Mountain View Community Center on December 12, as families gathered for the Winter Wonderland event. Children took turns flying down the sledding hill made with fresh snow that morning, with bright smiles on their faces. Families enjoyed games, arts and crafts, balloon animals, face painting and a petting zoo. Pre-registered families received toys through Toys 4 Tots, and Santa made a special appearance, giving families a festive day of winter fun and community celebration. Read the full story online at www.sdvoice.info.
“Christmas with Characters” Brings Holiday
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n December 20, the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA hosted its annual free holiday event, welcoming families for a morning of celebration, community, and holiday cheer. Characters including Santa, The Grinch, Bluey, and Jack Skellington greeted children and posed for photos. Christmas music and children’s laughter filled the air. Families visited the toy giveaway area, where staff and volunteers helped children select a toy. Teens had their own dedicated space in the Michael Brunker Gymnasium. The main event area featured inflatables, games, community booths, and a pile of snow, creating a festive holiday atmosphere that could be felt blocks away. Read the full story online at www.sdvoice.info.
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givers. IHSS has faced significant challenges recruiting and retaining enough qualified caregivers to meet growing demand — especially as San Diego’s senior population rapidly expands. The 30-month Memorandum of
from the same trusted caregiver. “Thousands of San Diegans depend on a caregiver showing up every day,” said Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer. “By strengthening this workforce, we can reduce turnover, encourage more San Diegans to train as caregivers, and help families that count on reliable support for their parents, grandparents, and loved ones.” Key improvements include: Modest wage increases - rising to $21/hour in 2026 and $22/hour in 2027, pending State approval — helping reduce turnover that disrupts care. Expanded training and skill development improve caregivers’ ability to support clients with complex physical and behavioral needs. Safety equipment and injury-prevention resources, helping caregivers perform demanding duties safely and consistently.
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Tuesday, December 9, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a new labor agreement that strengthens recruitment and retention for the region’s In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) care-
Under-standing (MOU) between the IHSS Public Authority and United Domestic Workers is designed to strengthen the caregiving workforce so clients receive dependable, long-term support
Transportation assistance and MTS transit passes, ensuring caregivers can reliably reach clients’ homes across the region. Life insurance and supplemental benefits, providing contin-
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City of San Diego Begins Road Repair Projects in Skyline Hills, Paradise Hills, Otay Mesa, Encanto and Eastern San Diego
Multiple slurry seal projects are happening across the City simultaneously and are often coupled with other upgrades.
Several communities in the City of San Diego will soon have improved street conditions thanks to the continued efforts of the Transportation Department’s slurry seal program, part of an overall effort to repair and resurface roads citywide. Slurry seal is used to slow street deterioration, which is vital to improving the overall condition of San Diego’s network of roads. Information about different types of street repair can be found on the City’s Transportation webpage at https://www.san-
Seven slurry seal projects are scheduled to be completed within this current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2026. Each street segment is assigned a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) score based on the pavement’s roughness and cracks. Residents can view the PCI scores for their neighborhood streets and maps of planned street repair by visiting StreetsSD. Read the full article at www. sdvoice.info to see if your neighborhood will be affected by the planned street repair.
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Cold Weather, Heat Sources SDCCE 2026 Apprenticeship Application Process Underway and New Year’s Safety Through January 9, 2026
VOICE & VIEWPOINT NEWSWIRE Cooler temperatures can affect older pets or those with thin coats. Provide a warm, dry place to sleep, limit time outdoors during cold nights, and keep an eye on senior pets who may be more sensitive to temperature changes.
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Indoor heating also brings risks: • Keep pets away from space heaters PHOTO: Freepik and fireplaces. • Use sturdy screens around fireplaces Travel: to prevent burns. Use a well-fitted harness, carrier or crate • Watch for chewing on heated blankets or during car rides. Make sure pets have access cords. to water on longer trips and keep the vehicle at a comfortable temperature. On New Year’s Eve, fireworks can frighten pets and cause them to run away. Give them Boarding: a safe, secure space indoors, close windows If your pet will stay at a boarding facility or and curtains to soften loud booms, and make with a sitter, check ahead to confirm their sure microchip and ID tag information is requirements. Most facilities require curcurrent. rent vaccinations and parasite prevention. Bringing familiar bedding or toys can help Travel and Boarding pets settle in a new environment. Many families travel during the holidays, and a little preparation helps keep pets comfortable and secure.
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Coins circulate values as surely as they circulate money. They teach people — quietly, persistently — who mattered enough to be remembered and who did not. To erase abolitionists, suffragists and civil rights heroes from our currency is to teach a false lesson: that freedom was inevitable, that equality came easily and that resistance was unnecessary. That is a dangerous lesson to teach or reinforce — for anyone. It advances a broader fiction — that America was and is broadly equitable, that disparities are exaggerated and that unfinished work is merely a matter of opinion. This is modern racism in institutional form. Not always loud. Not always crude. But effective precisely because it hides behind procedure, omission and respectability. And when language itself comes under pressure — when words like democracy and journalism are treated as suspect in some funding and policy spaces, and when the language of diversity, equity and inclusion is routinely reframed as a threat rather than a civic com-
mitment — the pattern becomes unmistakable. Control the vocabulary, and you constrain the imagination. Narrow the story long enough, and people forget what was ever possible. Let us be clear: telling the whole truth is not wokeness, whatever that word is supposed to mean. Telling the whole truth is the foundation of a functioning democracy, no matter how deliberately that word is being stripped of meaning and treated as suspect in certain circles. A democracy worthy of the name requires memory, honesty and the courage to confront complexity. This is not a burden the Black press carries alone—but it is one the Black press has long carried faithfully. The Black press exists because truth has never been evenly distributed. Because official narratives have often excluded Black lives, Black resistance, and Black achievement. And because someone has always had
San Diego College of Continuing Education (SDCCE), in partnership with the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP), is now accepting applications for two Spring 2026 cohorts of the Apprenticeship Readiness Program (ARP), a 9-week, industry-aligned trainReadiness students receive free PPE gear (e.g. safety vest, hard ing program designed to prepare indi- Apprenticeship hats, gloves, safety goggles, work boots, etc.) upon graduation to readily join the viduals for high-demand careers in the workforce. PHOTO: SDCCE union construction trades. By graduation, students are fully equipped Both Spring 2026 ARP cohorts will run and competitive candidates for apprenticeJanuary 26 through March 26, 2026, at ships across 23 high-demand union construcSDCCE’s Educational Cultural Complex tion trades. In addition to work-readiness in Southeastern San Diego, and a designattraining, participants receive job placement ed all female cohort at Cesar Chavez Camassistance, educational support, and a range pus in Barrio Logan. Application screenings of supportive services, including childcare, will take place from December 8, 2025 through transportation, and essential work supplies. January 9, 2026. Due to high demand, interestStudents also gain exposure to the industry ed participants are encouraged to apply early. through guest speakers from union partners Applicants must be 18 or older, live in San Diego and field trips to job sites and training centers or Imperial County, and be eligible to work in throughout San Diego. the U.S. For many graduates, the impact has been The program arrives at a critical time for life-changing. Fall 2025 graduate Jessica the region’s workforce. According to SDWP, Albright, 38, who is now pursuing a carpenover 40% of San Diego’s construction worktry apprenticeship, shared, “This whole expeers are expected to retire within the next rience has been mind-blowing. The program decade, creating significant openings across teaches you to persist against all odds.” the industry. Construction workers in San Applications can be submitted through the Diego County earn an average salary of San Diego Workforce Partnership at: work$55,563, with even higher earning potential force.org/ARPSDCCE in specialized trades. to insist that America be judged not only by its promises, but by its practices. Today, that insistence is shared by educators of all races, museums committed to accuracy, historians and archivists, lawmakers who respect democratic norms, corporations and philanthropies that understand inclusion as strength, and citizens who refuse to confuse comfort with truth. That coalition matters — and it must act. Support the Black press and independent journalism. Demand congressional oversight when lawful processes are ignored. Stand with educators and cultural institutions that refuse to sanitize history. Engage civically, including voting, because these decisions are made by people placed in power by elections and more decisions are coming as the 2026 midterms approach. Silence, too, is a choice. What’s in a coin?
Memory. Values. Power. And if we allow our history to be reminted without resistance — stripped of struggle and polished for comfort — we will have taught people that truth is negotiable, that power need not listen, and that democracy itself can be diminished quietly, while some insist the word is the problem rather than the deliberate erosion of its practice. History is not woke. It is real. And telling it whole is not radical. It is the bare minimum a nation owes its people — and its future. This article was originally published by Word in Black.
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Rising Unemployment By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent
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he U.S. labor market showed further signs of strain in November, with new federal data revealing rising unemployment, steep losses in government jobs, and worsening conditions for Black workers, particularly Black men, according to an analysis of the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report and a review by the National Women’s Law Center.
employment continued to fall sharply. Since January, when Donald Trump returned to office, federal payrolls have declined by 271,000 positions. The November report reveals continued reductions tied to deferred resignation programs and layoffs that accelerated earlier in the fall, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rise in unemployment has been uneven, with Black workers experiencing some of the most severe impacts. Black men ages 20 and older saw their
ployed are typically out of work for 14.5 weeks, while Black men face average unemployment spells of 12.1 weeks. By comparison, white women experience unemployment lasting about 8.6 weeks, and white men about 9.6 weeks, according to the National Women’s Law Center’s review of federal labor data. The November report shows that overall job growth remains concentrated in a narrow set of sectors. Healthcare added more than 46,000 jobs, while construction employment rose by 28,000. Manufacturing lost 5,000 jobs, and transportation and warehousing shed nearly 18,000 positions. Leisure and hospitality also declined, reflecting broader weakness outside a handful of growth industries. Federal officials cautioned that November’s data carries higher-than-usual margins of error due to the shutdown-related survey delays. Even so, economists reviewing the report noted that revisions to late summer and early fall payrolls showed fewer jobs than initially reported, reinforcing signs of a cooling labor market.
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Employers added 64,000 jobs nationwide in November, a modest gain following months of data disruptions caused by the federal government shutdown. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, up from 4.4 percent in September, the last month for which a full labor force survey was completed. The increase places unemployment at its highest level in four years. Behind the headline figures, federal
unemployment rate jump from 6.6 percent in September to 7.5 percent in November. Black women ages 20 and older recorded an unemployment rate of 7.1 percent in November, slightly lower than September’s 7.5 percent but still higher than any other racial or ethnic group. Long-term unemployment has also become more pronounced for Black workers. Black women who are unem-
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the number of people unemployed for more than six months rose to 1.9 million in November, up from 1.7 million a year earlier. Wage growth slowed to 3.5 percent over the past year, the weakest pace since before the pandemic, adding pressure on households facing elevated prices and limited job mobility. The National Women’s Law Center said it will continue monitoring labor market data by race, gender, and industry to assess how job losses and prolonged unemployment affect women and families as federal employment contracts and hiring remain subdued.
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NAME STATEMENT 2025-9022602 Fictitious business name(s): 619 Fly & Dive --Fishing With Beans --Q & Beans Adventures 4091 Newton Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Rachelle Marie Ivy 4091 Newton Ave. San Diego, CA 92113 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 01, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on December 01, 2030 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9023068 Fictitious business name(s): JC Janitorial 128 Hensley St San Diego, CA 92102 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual The first day of business was: 11/07/2025 This business is hereby registered by the following: Jesus Cruz Jaimes 128 Hensley St San Diego, CA 92102 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 09, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on December 09, 2030 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9021405 Fictitious business name(s): AI Multimedia 4330 La Jolla Village Drive #3 San Diego, CA 92122 County of San Diego --8070 La Jolla Shores #528 La Jolla, CA 92037 This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 09/22/2025 This business is hereby registered by the following: Gopher Media LLC 8070 La Jolla Shores #528 La Jolla, CA 92037 State of Incorporation/ Organization Nevada This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on November 12, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on November 12, 2030 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9022291 Fictitious business name(s):
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9022830 Fictitious business name(s): Straight Up Sober Living 6460 Montezuma Rd San Diego, CA 92115 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company The first day of business was: 08/04/2025 This business is hereby registered by the following: Straight Up Sober Living LLC 6460 Montezuma Rd San Diego, CA 92115 State of Incorporation/ Organization California This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 04, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on December 04, 2030 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26, 01/15/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9023531 Fictitious business name(s): The Advocate SLP 333 N Melrose Dr. Unit E Vista, CA 92083 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: A Corporation The first day of business was: 07/16/2025 This business is hereby registered by the following: Ashford Speech Therapy and Advocacy P.C. 333 N Melrose Dr. Unit E Vista, CA 92083 State of Incorporation/ Organization California This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 16, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on December 16, 2030 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26, 01/15/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 2025-9023545 Fictitious business name(s): Jaye's Livescan 3403 E. Plaza Blvd. #J National City, CA 91950 County of San Diego This business is conducted by: An Individual Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the name(s) above This business is hereby registered by the following: Johnny Lytle 3403 E. Plaza Blvd. #J National City, CA 91950 This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on December 16, 2025 This fictitious business name will expire on December 16, 2030 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26, 01/15/26 --------------------------------FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
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Desis Dollhouse San Diego County on 7733 Palm St Suite 213 November 19, 2025 Lemon Grove, CA 91945 This fictitious business name County of San Diego will expire on --November 19, 2030 955 11th Ave Apt 2203 12/04, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25 San Diego, CA 92101 Abandonment of This business is conducted by: An Individual Fictitious Business Name Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the STATEMENT OF name(s) above ABANDONMENT OF USE This business is hereby OF FICTITIOUS registered by the following: BUSINESS NAME Eliana Marie Torres 2025-9023040 955 11th Ave Apt 2203 Fictitious business name(s) San Diego, CA 92101 to be abandoned: This statement was filed with City Care the Recorder/County Clerk of Located at: San Diego County on 6470 El Cajon Blvd #231 November 24, 2025 San Diego, CA 92115 This fictitious business name County of San Diego will expire on This business is conducted by: November 24, 2030 A Limited Liability Company 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 The Fictitious business name --------------------------------- referred to above was filed in FICTITIOUS BUSINESS San Diego County on: NAME STATEMENT 01/25/2022 2025-9022711 and assigned File no. Fictitious business name(s): 2022-9001990 SD Vibe Vault The fictitious business name 3030 Plaza Bonita Rd. is being abandoned by: Unit 2075, Suite 122 City Roadside Assistance LLC National City, CA 91950 6470 El Cajon Blvd #231 County of San Diego San Diego, CA 92115 This business is conducted by: State of Incorporation/ An Individual Organization Registrant has not yet begun California to transact business under the This statement was filed with name(s) above the Recorder/County Clerk of This business is hereby San Diego County registered by the following: December 08, 2025 Elsy Carina Iriarte 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 3030 Plaza Bonita Rd. --------------------------------Unit 2075, Suite 122 STATEMENT OF National City, CA 91950 ABANDONMENT OF USE This statement was filed with OF FICTITIOUS the Recorder/County Clerk of BUSINESS NAME San Diego County on 2025-9021731 December 03, 2025 Fictitious business name(s) This fictitious business name to be abandoned: will expire on Alpha & Omega: December 03, 2030 Professional Flooring 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 Located at: --------------------------------3537 Kenwood Dr FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Spring Valley, CA 91977 NAME STATEMENT County of San Diego 2025-9022763 This business is conducted by: Fictitious business name(s): An Individual Get it Done Mobile The Fictitious business name Notary referred to above was filed in 8340 Jamacha Rd San Diego County on: San Diego, CA 92114 05/21/2024 County of San Diego and assigned File no. This business is conducted by: 2024-9010837 An Individual The fictitious business name Registrant has not yet begun is being abandoned by: to transact business under the Glendy Daney Cisneros name(s) above Lagarde This business is hereby 3537 Kenwood Dr registered by the following: Spring Valley, CA 91977 Sherrice R. Williams-Ivory This statement was filed with 8340 Jamacha Rd the Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego, CA 92114 San Diego County This statement was filed with November 14, 2025 the Recorder/County Clerk of 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 San Diego County on December 03, 2025 NAME CHANGE This fictitious business name will expire on SUPERIOR COURT OF December 03, 2030 CALIFORNIA 12/11, 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26 330 West Broadway --------------------------------San Diego, CA 92101 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Hall of Justice Courthouse NAME STATEMENT 2025-9022027 Case Number Fictitious business name(s): 25CU066867C Lesole 3425 Hershey Street Petitioner or Attorney: San Diego, CA 92115 Aster Solomon Anteneh on County of San Diego behalf of minor This business is conducted by: An Individual To All Interested Persons: The first day of business was: Petitioner 11/19/2025 Aster Solomon Anteneh on This business is hereby behalf of minor registered by the following: filed a petition with this court Ryan Le for a decree changing names 3425 Hershey Street as follows: San Diego, CA 92115 This statement was filed with a. PRESENT NAME: the Recorder/County Clerk of Betty Tadesse Andualem San Diego County on November 19, 2025 PROPOSED NAME: This fictitious business name Bethlehem Tadesse Andualem will expire on November 19, 2030 THE COURT ORDERS that 12/04, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25 all persons interested in this --------------------------------matter appear before this FICTITIOUS BUSINESS court at the hearing indicated NAME STATEMENT below to show cause, if any, 2025-9021974 why the petition for change of Fictitious business name(s): name should not be granted. Wild Berry Picker Any person objecting to the 2017 Via Esmarca #1 name changes described Oceanside, CA 92054 above must file a written County of San Diego objection that includes the This business is conducted by: reasons for the objection at An Individual least two court days before The first day of business was: the matter is scheduled to be 11/11/2025 heard and must appear at This business is hereby the hearing to show cause registered by the following: why the petition should not Nkwahnaki Naphas be granted. If no written Lightbourne objection is timely filed, the 2017 Via Esmarca #1 court may grant the petition Oceanside, CA 92054 without a hearing. This statement was filed with the Recorder/County Clerk of
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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 3, 2026 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. C-61
Megan Marie Cook AKA Megan M. Cook
A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date.
(To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court's website. To find your court's website go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-mycourt.htm) NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120). If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner. To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issue the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required. A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee. Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for the information on obtaining certified copies. If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions. If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions. A RESPONDENT OBJECTING TO THE NAME CHANGE MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION AT LEAST TWO COURT DAYS (excluding weekends and holidays) BEFORE THE DATE SPECIFIED. Do not come to court on the specified date. The court will notify the parties by mail of a future hearing date. Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court. The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26, 01/15/26 --------------------------------SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 Hall of Justice Courthouse Case Number 25CU064955C Petitioner or Attorney:
To All Interested Persons: Petitioner Megan Marie Cook AKA Megan M. Cook filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a. PRESENT NAME: Megan Marie Cook AKA Megan M. Cook PROPOSED NAME: Clementine Marie Cook [first][middle][last] THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: January 27, 2026 Time: 8:30 A.M. Dept. 61 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court's website. To find your court's website go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-mycourt.htm) NO HEARING WILL OCCUR ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. The court will review the documents filed as of the date specified on the Order to Show Cause for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-120). If all requirements for a name change have been met as of the date specified, and no timely written objection has been received (required at least two court days before the date specified), the Petition for Change of Name (JC Form #NC-100) will be granted without a hearing. One copy of the Order Granting the Petition will be mailed to the petitioner. To change a name on a legal document, including a birth certificate, social security card, driver license, passport, and other identification, a certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be required. Contact the agency(ies) who issue the legal document that needs to be changed, to determine if a certified copy is required. A certified copy of Decree Changing Name (JC Form #NC-130) or Decree Changing Name and Order Recognizing Change of Gender and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (JC Form #NC-230) may be obtained from the Civil Business Office for a fee. Petitioners who are seeking a change of name under the Safe at Home program may contact the assigned department for the information on obtaining certified copies. If all the requirements have not been met as of the date specified, the court will mail the petitioner a written order with further directions. If a timely objection is filed, the court will set a hearing date and contact the parties by mail with further directions.
Any Petition for the name change of a minor that is signed by only one parent must have this Attachment served along with the Petition and Order to Show Cause, on the other nonsigning parent, and proof of service must be filed with the court. The address of the court is: 330 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 12/18, 12/25, 01/01/26, 01/08/26
PROBATE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Pedro Manuel Dammert Coronado Case Number: 25PE003068C To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both, of Pedro Dammert, Pedro Dammert Coronado A Petition for Probate has been filed by Priya C. Singh in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego. The Petition for Probate requests that Priya C. Singh be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: January 28, 2026 at 1:45 P.M. in Department 1603 Room 331 located at the Superior Court of California County of San Diego 1100 Union St. Rm 331 San Diego, CA 92101 Central Division If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of
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LEGAL NOTICES the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Priya C. Singh 11672 Alderhill Terrace San Diego, CA 92131 12/11, 12/18, 12/25
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BLACK HISTORY 1853
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OCTAVIA VICTORIA ROGERS ALBERT IS BORN
CAB CALLOWAY IS BORN
RICKEY HENDERSON IS BORN
Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, born on December 25, 1853, was a formerly enslaved author and religious leader born on December 25 in Oglethorpe, Georgia. She attended Atlanta University, later taught in Georgia, and married A.E.P. Albert in 1874. Her book The House of Bondage was published posthumously in 1890 by her husband and daughter. The House of Bondage became one of the earliest collections documenting the lived experiences of formerly enslaved people, preserving their voices and histories before her death in 1890.
Cab Calloway, born on December 25, 1907, was a legendary jazz musician and bandleader born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Baltimore. After leaving pre-law studies in Chicago, he rose to fame as a charismatic performer at the Sunset Club and later led major bands in Harlem.
Rickey Henderson combined unmatched speed, power and passion to become one of baseball’s greatest players. Born Dec. 25, 1958, in Chicago and raised in Oakland, he chose baseball over football and debuted with the Athletics in 1980, quickly shattering stolen base records.
Calloway achieved national fame at the Cotton Club with hits like Minnie the Moocher, popularizing scat singing. A swing-era icon, he toured internationally, mentored future jazz greats, and remained active in entertainment for decades.
Over a 25-year career, Henderson played for nine teams, became MLB’s all-time stolen base leader, and set records for runs and walks. A 10-time All-Star, two-time World Series champion, and Hall of Famer, he redefined the leadoff hitter.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Why Somali Migrants May Still Aim For The US Despite Travel Restrictions By Omar Faruk Associated Press Somali migrant Mohamed Abdi Awale endured horrors on an ill-fated journey across Africa to seek a better life in the West — but he’s determined to try again one day, even aiming for the U.S. despite increasing restrictions.
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he City of San Diego is reminding residents to keep their pipes clean and clear this holiday season by keeping fats, oils and grease out of their drains. With many residents cooking at home this time of year, it’s important to remember that cooking grease can clog pipes and, over time, cause a complete blockage which could lead to a sewer spill. Spilled sewage can eventually reach San Diego’s bays, rivers and beaches, causing unsafe conditions and temporary closures. Following a few simple steps can help prevent costly sewer spills:
• Never pour fats, oils or grease down the sink drain or garbage disposal. Home garbage disposals do not keep grease out of the plumbing system. • Pour small amounts of cooled cooking oil (this includes salad dressing, frying oil and bacon fat) into a non-recyclable package or container and dispose of it in the garbage. Grease, oils and other liquids are not allowed in green bins for organic waste recycling. • Wipe dishes and pots coated with greasy leftovers with a disposable towel before washing or placing them in the dishwasher. • Put strainers in sink drains to catch food scraps such as meat trimmings and other solids to keep them out of the garbage disposal.
Awale is one of 165 Somali migrants recently repatriated after being detained in Libya, where the International Organization for Migration says those caught on journeys to Europe face “unacceptable and inhumane conditions.” Awale undertook a more than 5,000-kilometer (3,100-mile) journey, leaving Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, to cross Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan. He was captured by smugglers near the Sudan-Libyan border and taken to the Sahara oasis town of Kufra, where captors filmed him being tortured in a bid to extract a ransom from his family. “Torture became normal,” Awale said. “If you failed to pay, they beat you until you fainted. Some people lost their minds. Others didn’t survive.” Unable to afford the ransom, his mother, Hawo Elmo Rage, turned to social media, pleading with Somalis at home and abroad to help her save her son. “They told me to send the money or they would take his life,” Rage said. She ultimately raised $17,000, enough to free him. Awale was released from Kufra and put in a car bound for the
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Mediterranean coast with other migrants. After their vehicle broke down, the group trekked for more than two weeks, facing starvation and dehydration.
“I want him to stay,” his mother said. “But I know he wishes for a better life. I pray God gives him a safe future— not the dangerous one he found.”
“I thought we would die there,” Awale said.
Changes to immigration policy this year under Trump administration changed the calculus of migrants like Awale. U.S. President Donald Trump banned travel to the U.S. by citizens of Somalia and 11 other countries in June — so Awale set his sights on Europe.
The group was then detained outside of Tripoli, and Awale spent a month in prison in the coastal town of Sirte and another two months in detention in Tripoli before his repatriation to Somalia in November. Awale became one of hundreds of thousands of Somalis that have fled the country in more than three decades of civil war, according to UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, which estimates that another 3.5 million people are displaced within Somalia itself. While most Somali refugees live in neighboring countries like Kenya, according to UNHCR, many like Awale have been inspired to seek a future in the West. Awale said that he dreamed of moving to the U.S. since he was a child.
Awale remains hopeful that he will reach the U.S. one day, despite anti-Somali sentiment from the White House and a further tightening of immigration restrictions for Somalis. The White House also announced this week that it was pausing all immigration applications for people from 19 countries, including Somalia. “My dream was America, but I felt like Trump closed that door,” Awale said. “Maybe after Trump’s term ends.”
ARTICLE CONTINUATION trust: Continued from page 3
When today’s marchers chant “No Kings,” they’re labeled enemies of democracy— when, in fact, they’re its last defenders. Our mistrust of America isn’t born of cynicism; it’s born of experience. From redlining to racial profiling, from voter suppression to environmental racism, this nation has given us every reason to be wary. Trust is not a constitutional guarantee—it’s a social contract. And America has broken that contract repeatedly. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Why We Can’t Wait, wrote that Black people had waited “more than three hundred years for our constitutional and God-given rights,” and that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.” He warned against the narcotic of gradualism—the idea that freedom would come “on
the wheels of inevitability.” King’s words still sting because they still fit. We are still told to wait—wait for equity, wait for reform, wait for America to catch up with its conscience. But as King said, “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off.” Economically, the ledger is staggering. White wealth in the United States is roughly six to seven times that of Black wealth—a gap created by stolen labor, discriminatory lending, and a tax code tilted toward the comfortable. Black women, the backbone of this economy, still earn barely 64 cents for every dollar paid to White men. Yet we’re asked to believe in the fairness of a system designed to exclude us. Politically, our votes are courted but our needs are often ignored. Every election season brings promises, yet when it’s time for
legislation—on housing, healthcare, childcare, or reparations—the urgency fades. We don’t hate America for that inconsistency; we simply refuse to be naïve about it. Still, we remain. We teach, write, vote, build, and dream. We raise our children to believe in possibility even as we teach them to be cautious. Our relationship with America is like that of a family member who keeps letting you down—you don’t walk away easily, but you stop lending them money without collateral. The truest patriots are those willing to critique their country because they believe it can live up to its promise. Black people have always done that work. We’ve kept faith not in America’s perfection, but in its potential. That faith is not trust—it’s hope. And hope
is far stronger than blind trust. Let’s be clear: we don’t hate America, and we resent the accusation. We are the conscience of America. We march to keep it honest, not tear it down. We protest because protest is the path to transformation. We march because we understand that freedom is not free. Protest is the price we pay for a better society. Trust must be earned. And in the words of 40th President Ronald Reagan, trust but verify. This administration has verified the many reasons we don’t trust our country. The hateful rhetoric toward protestors widens, not narrows the trust gap. Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a DC based economist and author.
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