Exploring the Affects the Reopening Will Have on the Black Community

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Exploring the affects the reopening will have on the Black community

Statistically Black Newsom ordered the projected California to Americans have been the state’s 40 million resi- be ranked as number one most susceptible ethnic dents to stay at home, and in the U.S. economy for group to the coronavirus; restricted non-essential “expanding GDP, raising data reflects a significant movements. These efforts household income, invest- imbalance in death rates were put into place to try ing in innovation,” accord- among Black and Brown to curve the spread of CO- ing to the news released communities VID-19. on Gov.CA., California Governor Newsom On Tuesday June has created more jobs than acted immediately and 15,2021, California as- any other state for the last called for a complete shut- sessed their economical three months, in addition to down, on March 19, 2020, standing and the studies {See REOPENING C-2}

California Governor Gavin Newsom talks during a news conference at Universal Stu- dios in Universal City, Calif., on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Starting Tuesday, there were no more state rules on social distancing, and no more limits on capacity at restaurants, bars, supermarkets, gyms, stadiums or anywhere else. AP PHOTO/RINGO H.W. CHIU

By Betti Halsell som, at Universal City Walk ity limits, and masks will Contributing Writer in Los Angeles. The gover- not be enforced throughout nor dissected a new reality, the state. June 15,2021 is a new that the State is looking to In March 2020, Dr. An- historical benchmark; Cali- face, in addition to elaborat- thony Fauci, director of the fornia has officially lifted ing on the Vax for the Win National Institute of Allergy COVID-19 restrictions that incentive program. and Infectious Diseases, were in place since March Starting June 15, all re- predicted millions of U.S. 2020. strictions that have been in citizens would be affected. The announcement was place for the past year will As of June 15, 2021 there made today by California be removed. That includes has been over 34 million California officially reopened on June 15 as the state celebrates a new chapter in State Governor, Gavin New- physical distancing, capac- cases recorded. the pandemic, which started a little over a year ago. AP PHOTO

By Bill HetHerman City News Service

Six Black Los Angeles fire department employees who work within the Fire Prevention Bureau are su- ing the City, alleging the department is governed by a ``good old White boys club,’’ where the plaintiffs are targeted for criticism and denied fair and equal chances for promotions. Arson investigators, Leslie Wilkerson, Joseph Smith, Justin Davis, Rob- ert McLoud, Sean Morris, A group of Black firefighters in Los Angeles allege rac- and Mario Newte brought ism within the LAFD. COURTESY PHOTO the 89-page Los Angeles Superior Court complaint tion. ``The fire department, on Wednesday, alleging ra- The plaintiffs seek un- as an agency, is very good cial discrimination, hostile specified damages. A rep- at putting out fires and Recording artist, Andre “Dr Dre” Young (left) and record producer, Jimmy Iovine work environment and fail- resentative for the City At- rescue services,’’ the suit cut the ribbon at the official opening and dedication of Iovine and Young Hall at the ure to prevent harassment, torney’s Office could not be states. ``But what is sorely University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct 2, 2019.AP retaliation, and discrimina- immediately reached. {See LAFD A-10} SEE FULL STORY E-2

By lauren ViCtoria Burke Congress over- NNPA Newswire Contributor whelmingly passes bill to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S.

By Cora JaCkson-Fossett Staff Writer

Black communities in greater Los Angeles and In 2014, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commis- throughout the United sion found that DNA testing verified a match to the next- States will observe June- door neighbor of the murder victim — the convictions of teenth with solemn memo- McCollum and Brown were on the road to being over- rials, spirited programs, turned. In September 2014, a judge ruled McCollum and singing and dancing, and a An Emancipation Day or Juneteenth celebration held Brown were, in fact, innocent. COURTESY PHOTO sense of jubilee. in Austin, Texas on June 19, 1900. AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER The various celebra- Brothers Henry McCol- victed at 19 and 15 and tions, which will occur on state of Texas learned that January 1, 1863. lum and Leon Brown spent 30 were sentenced to be ex- Saturday, June 19, honor they were free, two years The rejoicing reached years in prison for a crime they ecuted. The two had been the end of slavery and the after President Abraham a higher level this week didn’t commit. wrongfully convicted of date that African Ameri- Lincoln issued the Eman- when the U.S. Congress www.lasentinel.net The two brothers were con- {See 75M A-10} cans in the Confederate cipation Proclamation on {See JUNETEENTH A-10} A-2 LASENTINEL.NET NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 President Biden Announces First Nominees for Board to Review Civil Rights Era Cold Cases

BY STACY M. BROWN lished with nearly unani- the Stuart A. Rose Manu- dled with bullets, burned, vehicle and shot him in the NNPA Newswire Senior mous bipartisan support in script, Archives, and Rare and buried in a dam in head. National Correspondent 2019,” the official noted. Book Library at Emory Neshoba County. When she notified the President Biden’s nom- University. In this role, she The “Mississippi Burn- sheriff, he told her she did- Fourteen years ago, the inees are: partners with faculty and ing” case has largely gone n’t see what she “thought Southern Poverty Law • Clayborne Carson has other instructors to develop unsolved and primarily she saw” and closed the Center sent the FBI and the devoted most of his profes- courses and archives unpunished. case. U.S. Department of Justice research assignments for In 2005, Edgar Ray “No one cared, except a list of 74 cold cases undergraduate and gradu- Killen was convicted of his extended family, now involving African Ameri- ate students. three counts of manslaugh- scattered from Chicago to cans allegedly murdered in • Hank Klibanoff, a vet- ter and sentenced to 60 New York,” John Fleming, racially motivated circum- eran journalist who won a years in prison, but author- an editor at the Center for stances by White people Pulitzer Prize in History in ities closed the case and put Sustainable Journalism, between 1952 and 1968. FILE PHOTO an end to hopes of prose- wrote in a 2011 column. Most of the crimes took Margaret Burnham cuting others involved. “The case remains open, place in Mississippi, which recognizing a select group In Lowndes County, though the reality is that contained nearly half of the of scholars for their signifi- Alabama, there is the case this case will never be 74 cases. Alabama, cant work in the social sci- of 18-year-old Rogers prosecuted,” Fleming Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, ences and humanities. Hamilton. decided. Kentucky, Louisiana, The panel could consid- On a brisk night in “Though the family North Carolina, South Car- er cases like the three civil October 1957, two white wants justice, even if it olina, and Tennessee all FILE PHOTO rights workers in Missis- men arrived at Rogers’ means getting the local dis- made up the rest. Clayborne Carson sippi – James Chaney, home, summoned him out- trict attorney to indict a All went cold, and the Andrew Goodman, and side, and put him in a truck. dead deputy, what’s equally victims’ families never sional life to the study of Michael Schwerner – killed His mother, Beatrice important to them is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hamilton, trailed the truck fact that the story of a long- received justice. FILE PHOTO by the Ku Klux Klan in Today, a new path to and the movements Dr. Hank Klibanoff justice has opened to crack King inspired. Since these cold cases. receiving his doctorate 2007 for a book he co- On Friday, June 11, from UCLA in 1975, Dr. wrote about the news cov- President Joe Biden Carson has taught at Stan- erage of the civil rights announced the first set of ford University as the Mar- struggle in the South. nominees for the Civil tin Luther King, Jr., Cen- Klibanoff is the creator and Rights Cold Case Records tennial Professor of History host of Buried Truths, a Review Board. (Emeritus). narrative history podcast The panel would have • Gabrielle M. Dudley, produced by WABE (NPR) the power to declassify an Instruction Archivist at in Atlanta. government files and sub- • Margaret Burnham poena new testimony that has served as a state court could reopen cases and judge (appointed by Gover- reveal publicly why many nor Michael Dukakis, racially motivated lynch- 1977), civil rights lawyer, ings and killings of Black and human rights commis- people were never ade- sioner. A graduate of quately investigated. Tougaloo College in Jack- “The White House son, Mississippi, and the hopes that the Senate University of Pennsylvania moves quickly to [confirm] Law School, Burnham has Poster of the three Civil Rights workers in 1964, a cold case that gained attention during these nominees,” an admin- been on the Northeastern the 1988 movie, “Mississippi Burning.”/ An FBI poster seeks the missing workers. istration official told the University faculty since National Newspaper Pub- 2002. She was named to June 1964. on a dusty road and dead [man] in faraway Ala- lishers Association. FILE PHOTO the 2016 class of Andrew Two months later, the watched in horror as they bama has finally been “The Board was estab- Gabrielle M. Dudley Carnegie Fellows, an honor activists’ bodies were rid- pulled Rogers out of the told.” THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-3

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BY BETTI HALSELL released news about their happening within DWP.” pretty large and powerful Contributing Writer Racial Equity Action Plan, The results revealed a office and under that office it revealed a substantial gap in enforcement policies will be recruitment, pro- The Los Angeles amount of evidence to war- to reprimand members curement, equity manage- Department of Water and rant further investigation in from all levels who may ment, among other Power (LADWP) are plant- their work environment; step out of the boundary of things—among other ing new seeds of racial research and studies professional conduct. things, it’s a fully staffed equity within their princi- revealed a severe imbal- There is a history of harass- office that will be led by ple foundation, LADWP ance in the racial environment and “retaliation of someone who reports Board of Commission ment of LADWP. whistle blowers,” the focus directly to the general man- President Cynthia McClain The impetus that accel- groups revealed over half ager.” provided intensive details erated the question of the staff and supervisors There numbers were about the steps taken to inequality within public feel “DWP management transparent, and revealed a create balance within the service was highlighted by did not take appropriate true discourse happening organization that controls the call of action under an action in response to inci- among staff members who the city’s water and power. This is the first full year McClain-Hill has been in her seat of power as board president, she made every day count. McClain-Hill is leading the the LADWP Racial Equity Plan and credits part of her dedication to the rise in con- COURTESY OF LADWP sciousness that was show- Board President Cynthia McClain-Hill applied pressure cased during the George towards the change that needed to happen internally in Floyd uprisings across Los the LADWP. Angeles and beyond. She stated, “The departments tion, the company looks to department; the response work around racial equity add the necessity of racial rate was overwhelming. over the course of the last awareness within the work- This work is physical FILE PHOTO year has been nothing short force. evidence of the LADWP McClain-Hill has worn the colors for equity in a number of battles for justice, as a lawyer of breathtaking and it’s The LADWP is the responding to the Los and as national President of the National Association of the Women Business Owners, something that I am very largest public utility facili- Angeles City Mayor’s call McClain-Hill has built a stronger sense for justice and passion for balanced voice. proud of.” ty in the U.S., the depart- to action; a directive that McClain-Hill contin- ment serves over four mil- brought awareness to the executive directive dents of discrimination.” were people of color, 59 ued, “I have to though give lion residents. That sizable racial environment in all (No.27) issued by Los McClain-Hill wanted to percent of Black survey full credit for this effort to reach causes the LADWP sectors. This triggered the Angeles City Mayor Eric address the heavy air that participants witnessed dis- both the hundreds and to employ over 10,000 staff LADWP to take a “sub- Garcetti. During a peak surrounded people of color crimination, compared to thousands of people who members reflecting the stantive review” of the season of social awareness who worked for the only 36 percent of total sur- took to the streets all over diversity found within the department and creative a in the Summer of 2020, the country and the social city. This department pro- safe space for staff and Garcetti created a space for justice protests of 2020. It vides all of the water and member to speak honestly all the sectors in LosAnge- really lit a fire under every- power for the city of Los about the department. les to review their blue- one, and it lit a fire under Angeles. As the “molding of the print and add the focus of me.” McClain-Hill applied economic regeneration” for racial balance to its core. The fundamental mis- pressure towards the Los Angeles, the LADWP McClain-Hill has worn sion of LADWP is “Provid- change that needed to hap- is prepared to invest in the colors for equity in a ing clean, reliable water pen internally in the their growth and hold number of battles for jus- and power and excellent LADWP. She provided a themselves accountable for tice, as a lawyer and as customer service in a safe, platform and support for their internal climate of National President of the environmentally responsi- people to talk authentically equity and awareness of National Association of the ble and cost-effective man- about the treatment and racial balance. Women Business Owners, ner.” In the spriti of evolu- experience working in this The LADWP recently McClain-Hill has built a stronger sense for justice and passion for balanced voice. The press release that accompanied the out- lined racial equity plan stated, “Without the tenaci- ty and courage of Cynthia McClain-Hill, the deep dive analysis on issues of racial equity at DWP would likely not have occurred.” The former president of the National Association of the Women Business Own- ers, is now the first African American woman to sit as the Board President of the LADWP, leading the first ever all-female board of

LADWP. FILE PHOTO In reflection of the The former president of the National Association of the milestone, McClain-Hill Women Business Owners, is now the first African Ameri- stated, “What’s crazy about can woman to sit as the board president of the LADWP, it is that I recall when we leading the first ever all-female board of LADWP. became an all-female board—both celebrating LADWP. One of the physi- vey participants witnessing the moment, but also not- cal molds that took shape discrimination and as of ing that it taken more than in the department includes May 2021, there are no hundred years. I look for- the establishment of the Black executives in man- ward to the day when we’re Office of Diversity, Equity, agement. To learn more no longer counting ‘firsts’” and Inclusion. McClain- about the LADWP organi- Another first for the Hill commented on its uti- zation, head to their official LADWP includes another lization by stating, “It’s a website. African American woman is currently leading the retirement board that controls the LADWP pension and managing assets valued over $17 billion. McClain-Hill called upon her board colleagues, general managers and all senior leadership within the water and power department to discuss the exami- nation of the LADWP work environment. Extensive field research was conducted by minority consultant from Dakota Communications and Cor- doba Cordoba ran a top to bottom analysis. Staff members were invited to participate in focus groups, interviews, and employee surveys. The board president confirmed the process by stating, “The first thing The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was to have executive man- (LADWP) are planting new seeds of racial equity within agement to open their their principle foundation, LADWP Board of Commission minds to the possibility that President Cynthia McClain provided intensive details what was happening in the about the steps taken to create balance within the organ- world could actually be ization that controls the city’s water and power. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-5 Asm. Akilah Weber’s First Bill Pushes California to Be Prepared for Next Pandemic

BY ALDON THOMAS STILES Shirley Weber, in the ing a Pandemic Taskforce ner in [Rivas],” Blakespear California Black Media Assembly after Gov. New- through the passage of AB tweeted. som appointed the elder 1207 will do. The COVID- Weber spoke about the As more Californians Weber late last year as Cali- 19 pandemic touched the inevitability of another get vaccinated and new fornia’s 33rd Secretary of lives of every Californian public health crisis and COVID-19 cases are on the State. and impacted every busi- asserted that AB 1207 decline, there’s an argument Assembly Bill (AB) ness within our great State." would help Californians be to be made that the state has 1207 would establish the Weber went on to dis- prepared for it. rounded the corner from the Pathways Through Pan- cuss the way the pandemic “The next pandemic is worst stages of the global demics Task Force in the has pulled the curtain back not a matter of 'if' but rather crisis. California Health and on some of the vital sys- a matter of ‘when,’” Weber As of June 6, 53.1% of Human Services Agency as tems on which all Califor- warned. “AB 1207 makes a Californians had been vac- a vehicle to prepare the state nians rely. modest investment to cinated and there were 757 for the eventuality of a pan- “[COVID-19] changed ensure California has a new COVID-19 cases, demic. the way we learn, the way roadmap for the future pub- down from the 40,423 new “The bill would require we interact with each other lic health crises so that we cases on Jan. 7. the task force to convene and the way we live our can address the deficien- However, the worst various entities to engage in lives. It also exposed some cies we saw in our response numbers remain stark. discussions on the lessons deep gaps in our society to the COVID-19 pandem-

Some 63,544 Californians learned from the COVID- with regards to equity, FILE PHOTO ic and allow us to be better have died of the disease 19 pandemic, develop and access and our level of pre- Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego) prepared for the future.” since the beginning of the recommend best practices paredness for a public health According to the text of pandemic. for an equitable response to crisis,” Weber stated. leagues on the Assembly Together we are ensuring the bill, AB 1207 would Assemblymember Aki- future pandemics, and Weber specified who she floor June 3, tweeted that California prioritizes health require the established task lah Weber (D-San Diego), determine the impact of believes suffered from these AB 1207 is her first for all,” Weber tweeted. force to report their conclu- who was sworn in to repre- state laws on coordinating “deep gaps” during the pan- authored bill. She also Rivas expressed her sup- sions about pandemic sent the 79th District in the response to the COVID- demic in a Facebook post. thanked her partner on the port for the bill in response readiness to the Legislature April, has co-authored her 19 pandemic, as specified,” “California’s response bill Assemblymember Luz to this tweet. by Dec. 1, 2024. first bill in the lower house the bill reads. to the pandemic highlight- Rivas (D-North Holly- “Congrats! You’re the In a Facebook post, of the state Legislature. It Weber, who is a board- ed existing inequities for wood). right author that will bring Weber again stated why she aims to ensure that Califor- certified obstetrician/gyne- people of color and low- “Today I presented my public health expertise to believes this bill is neces- nia is more pandemic-ready cologist, stressed the impor- income neighborhoods,” first authored bill, AB 1207 this issue. Onward,” Rivas sary. than it was when the tance of this bill for Califor- Weber wrote. on the Asm floor. [AB 1207] tweeted. “Together, we are ensur- COVID-19 crisis began in nia’s future. The bill passed on the creates a taskforce that will Weber also received ing we do everything we can 2020. “We must learn from the assembly floor with 78 research and develop strate- praise from Mayor Cather- to invest in sustainable plans Weber won a special mistakes of our past in order votes in favor and zero gies for future pandemics. ine Blakespear of Encinitas. that value the life and health election earlier this year to to improve the possibilities votes against. Thank you [Assemblymem- “Great start to your of all Californians during a replace her mom and former for our future,” Weber stat- Weber, who unpacked ber Luz Rivas] for partner- illustrious career in SAC pandemic,” Weber wrote. Black Caucus chair, Dr. ed. “This is what establish- the bill before her col- ing with me on this bill. and good choice of a part- “Now, on to the Senate!” Mandatory Face Mask Requirements to Remain in LA County Courthouses CITY NEWS SERVICE Presiding Judge Eric C. guidelines,” he said. face coverings over their dation from the court in Taylor said workplaces “Please be patient and nose and mouth while in advance of their court hear- Mandatory face mask have to continue to comply continue to wear your public areas of a court- ing or appointment. requirements, along with with Cal/OSHA COVID- masks and remain six feet house, and bars non- Court-goers are also social distancing, will 19 Prevention Emergency apart in all court buildings. exempt people who refuse required to maintain at remain in place in Los Temporary Standards. If you forget your mask to wear a face mask from least six feet of distance Angeles County court- “The court is carefully when coming to the court- entry. from all people outside houses into effect immedi- monitoring rapid develop- house, one will be provided People whose disabili- their household and to ately, the presiding judge ments and will continue to to you at the entrance.” ties preclude them from comply with social dis- of the county's court sys- provide updates on any FILE PHOTO An earlier order wearing face coverings are tance signage throughout tem announced. changes to workplace Judge Eric C. Taylor requires all people to wear urged to seek an accommo- the courthouse. A-6 LASENTINEL.NET NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 BLM Activist Hurt in Fairfax District Protest Refiles Suit in Federal Court

CITY NEWS SERVICE refiled in U.S. District the system,” James said. her back to the officers, the Court. According to the Supe- Superior Court suit stated. After originally filing James alleged in her rior Court suit, James drove James said she tried to her case in Los Angeles Superior Court suit that her to the protest site about 4:20 reason with the officers and Superior Court, a Black constitutional rights were p.m. May 30, 2020 and was convince them to deescalate Lives Matter activist who violated when she was standing on the sidewalk the situation, but a brief sued the city of Los Angeles wounded by an officer who along Beverly Boulevard, time later, without provoca- alleging she was hit with a fired the projectiles into her east of the Erewhon Market, tion, a female LAPD officer baton and shot in the stom- stomach and arm in what and saw police enter the struck James on her back ach and arm with LAPD the suit maintained was a CBS Studios parking lot, with a baton. A male LAPD projectiles will take her case violation of department pol- then shortly thereafter, rush officer next to the female to federal court, her attorney icy. James, of South Pasade- out firing non-lethal bullets officer shot James twice said today. na, said previously that she at a group of people. from point-blank range with Fahren James, 39, was has been targeted by white She alleged she saw an bullets that left metal frag- hurt during a protest in the supremacists for her officer leave the line and ments in her stomach, her Fairfax District after the activism. point his weapon at her. She Superior Court suit stated. Memorial Day 2020 death James said she spent told the officer she was One shot struck James of George Floyd at the three days in a hospital for peacefully protesting and in the abdomen and another hands of Minneapolis COURTESY PHOTO merely asserting her First asked why he aimed his struck her under her left police. Her attorney, V. Fahren James Amendment rights in a weapon at her, according to arm, which she had raised in James DeSimone, filed peaceful manner. her court papers. When the vain to protect herself, court papers on June 2 with Judge Richard J. Burdge Jr. Jan. 12 be dismissed. He “We were there because officer turned the weapon according to the Superior Los Angeles Superior Court asking that her case filed said the case has since been we recognized a problem in away from her, she turned Court complaint. California Reopens, Public Health Notes Continued Vaccination Discrepancies As California opened on June 15, inequities still persist in vaccinations amongst younger demographics of color.

BY BRIAN W. CARTER “In any setting, if you are mask or a respirator, which 53,476 cases and Pasadena Contributing Writer not vaccinated and around offer more protection for the with 11,307 cases. people outside your house- wearer." According to race and On Tuesday, June 15, hold, your mask offers the There continues to be a ethnicity, COVID-19 statis- California officially best protection against the gap in COVID-19 vaccina- tics show: American Indi- reopened as the state cele- virus,” said Barbara Ferrer, tions in racial and ethnic an/Alaska Native with brates a new chapter in the PhD, MPH, MEd, Director groups in Los Angeles 2,008; Asian with 56,738; pandemic, which started a of Public Health. County. Of Black and Latinx Black with 47,141; Hispan- little over a year ago. Thanks She continued, “With teens, half are getting vacci- ic/Latino with 633,749; to vaccinations, people are distancing requirements and nated compared to White Native Hawaiian/Pacific able to interact and engage in capacity limits in almost all and Asian teens. Among Islander with 4,234; White everyday life once again settings lifted, wearing an teens, ages 12-15 years old, with 130,799; those of other with little to no restrictions. appropriate mask is critically 13% of Black and 18% of race and ethnicity with Statistics are still showing important for those not yet Latinx teens have been vac- AP PHOTO/RINGO H.W. CHIU 98,702 and 208,237 under inequities in vaccinations vaccinated, including the 1.2 cinated, compared with 48% People arrive at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif., investigation. among younger demograph- million children between the Asian and 34% of White Tuesday, June 15, 2021. On Tuesday, California lifted For more information, most of its COVID-19 restrictions and ushered in what has ics as public health urges ages of 2 and 12. Unvacci- teens.Among teens, ages 16- visit COVID19.ca.gov/vax- been billed as the state’s “Grand Reopening.” unvaccinated individuals to nated adults that are in close 17 years old, 23% of Black for-the-win. To schedule an get vaccinated before the 4th contact with others should and 35% of Latinx teens pared with 72% Asian and new deaths and 135 new appointment to be vaccinat- of July holiday. consider wearing a double have been vaccinated, com- 53% of White teens. cases of COVID-19. There ed, visit MyTurn.ca.gov or The differences seem to were 212 patients hospital- call the CA COVID-19 Hot- be the same for young ized with COVID-19 with line at 1-833-422-4255. adults, ages 18-29 years old: 17% of nearly 6,902,000 For more information 25% of Black adults and individuals testing positive and statistics on COVID-19 39% of Latinx adults have with symptoms. in Los Angeles County, been vaccinated, compared Public Health identified please visit http://pub- with 72% of Asian and 55% of White adults. L.A. Coun- ty continues to see a disproportionate rate among Black residents ages 30-49 years old with 36% of Black adults and 47% of Latinx adults have been vaccinated, compared with 70% of Asian and

60% of White adults. AP PHOTO “We continue to get vac- There continues to be a gap in COVID-19 vaccinations in cines to everyone who wants teens and young adults in Los Angeles County. one, and to help answer questions and provide vac- 1,246,436 positive cases of lichealth.lacounty.gov/ cine information to those COVID-19 across all areas For more detailed infor- making a decision on getting of L.A. County and a total of mation on COVID-19 vacci- vaccinated,” said Ferrer. 24,415 deaths. Cases across nation plans in L.A. County As of Monday, June 14, the Southland: Los Angeles and to sign up for a vaccina- the L.A. County Dept. of County shows 1,181,653 tion newsletter, visit: www. Public Health confirmed 2 cases, Long Beach with VaccinateLACounty.com. NAACP Student Members Can Apply for $15,000 Scholarships Until June 18 BY TANU HENRY empower students in the June 18. The winners, who California Black Media Black community studying the NAACP’s N-SPIRE STEM with financial sup- committee – a group that The NAACP and port so they can pursue their “focuses on the creation, SmileDirectClub, a Nashville-based oral care company specializing in teeth-straightening technology, have partnered to offer scholarships to African American and other students of color. They must maintain a 3.0 grade point average or above. The $15,000 awards will

be granted to young people ISTOCK studying Science, technology, engineering or math and education with less of an development and awarding must be used for tuition and economic burden,” said of scholarship programs” -- fees. Payments will be annu- Yumeka Rushing, Chief will be announced August 9. alized at around $3,500 each Strategy Officer, NAACP. “Through the SmileDi- year. “This partnership is one rectClub Scholarship with Winners must also be of the ways the NAACP is the NAACP, we’re investing high school seniors or under- working to secure education- in the next generation of graduates and members of al equality of rights to elimi- innovators and supporting the NAACP, the country’s nate race-based discrimina- the growth of diversity in oldest civil rights organization and ensure the health STEM, a field that affects tion, which was founded in and wellbeing of everyone,” almost all aspect of our 1909 and has over 20000 Rushing added. everyday lives,” said Cheryl branches across the country. Students interested in the DeSantis, Chief People & “The SmileDirectClub scholarship can apply on the Diversity Officer, SmileDi- Scholarship will help NAACP site. The deadline is rectClub. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-7 Cal Unemployment System Backlogged With More Than 200,000 Claims

BY QUINCI LEGARDYE tatives over the phone as fits is very stressful, espe- get benefits, the EDD told to get through the claims Services said, “We under- California Black Media “confusing.” cially when they do not him that he owed them backlog. He also urged the stand how challenging this She said that she have any human contact money. EDD to extend working pandemic has been for mil- California may be received conflicting infor- customer service available. Lozoya said, “I’m a hours and keep phone lines lions of people. Since April reopening beginning June mation from the EDD and With the ID.me verifica- welder, and I'm blessed to open during evenings and 2020, EDD call centers are 15, but for many unem- representatives asked her tion, everything is done have a career that I worked weekends. -- and have been open 12 ployed workers, the eco- for a different set of docu- hours a day, seven days a nomic struggle caused by ments each time she called. week -- which includes the COVID-19 pandemic “When you call and evenings and weekends, is nowhere near ending. speak with someone among many other efforts Many Californians are regarding the solution, to continually work to still waiting for the state’s you're not given the same improve the customer Employment Development information. You can call experience. EDD offers Department (EDD) to clear one representative and useful self-help informa- their backlog of claims, they'll tell you to submit a tion including a 24-hour with the department’s data documentation. You sub- self-help line 1-866-333- page showing over mit that documentation. 4606, AskEDD and an 221,000 claims are pend- You call to confirm that it online chatbot answering ing past 21 days as of June has been received. The frequently asked questions, 12. other representative will a YouTube channel with On May 28, Assembly- tell you that not only you helpful videos, and many member Mike A. Gipson weren't supposed to submit articles on at EDD.ca.gov. (D-Carson) hosted a press that documentation, but The call center can be conference featuring con- really you need to go to reached 8:00 am to 8:00 stituents from his district this step, and we need to pm seven days a week at 1- who are seeking immediate see this documentation.” 800-300-5616.” help from EDD. Three Williams also spoke EDD also shared the constituents spoke about about her difficulties going actions that the department their struggles while trying through the identity verifi- has taken to improve the to get their unemployment cation process with the customer experience, benefits. They experienced third-party company SHUTTERSTOCK including, “improving the extremely long wait times ID.me. online help text to clearly while calling EDD and EDD launched the through your phone. So hard to get. I pay a lot of Gipson also mentioned explain what is required by faced difficulties trying to ID.me verification process that in itself is very isolat- taxes and I pay into EDD. the state audits of EDD, the bi-weekly certification verify their identity or cor- in October 2020 as part of ing. I know how to work The only thing they con- and suggested that imple- questions to help claimants rect claim amounts with an effort to crack down on technology but what about stantly do to me is call me menting the recommenda- avoid delays, deploying the department. fraud. The department also the constituents that aren't a liar -- that I'm stealing tions of the State Auditor document upload, includ- The difficulties with suspended 1.4 million familiar with it. What from them. They told me I would likely help address ing a mobile-friendly ver- EDD that the speakers accounts last December about the constituents that owe them $69,000. How the backlog. sion, to help claimants expressed in their stories and made some claimants don't have a high-powered do I owe $69,000? At the “We absolutely have to save time over mail, mirrored complaints the verify their identities. or accurate camera on their time they were saying that do everything we can to launching a new feature department’s service and Since then, unemployed phone to send a copy of I was claiming it, I was make sure that the people that allows a caller to hold call centers have been Californians directed to their ID?” Williams said. working.” who need this help the their place “in line” when reporting since the pan- ID.me have faced delays Roger Lozoya, a In the months without most, get the help that contacting the call center demic began last year. and technical issues. pipeline welder who also income, Lozoya said that they're seeking to put food until the Department calls Roneisha Williams, a Willams also expressed lives in Gipson’s district, he has sold his posses- on the table, clothes their the claimant back, [and] Gipson constituent, is concern for less technolog- lost his job five months sions, including his work children's back and also a continuing to monitor cus- waiting on an appeal after ically-savvy claimants who ago, and has had no truck and tools, to support roof over the head,” said tomer areas of confusion receiving an incorrect ben- may have to use ID.me. income since. He said his his family. Gipson. and trending issues and efit amount. She described “Having to contact a identity was stolen and During the press con- In response to a Cali- addressing them with her experience communi- third party to qualify for used to receive EDD bene- ference, Gipson called on fornia Black Media request improved public informa- cating with EDD represen- your unemployment benefits. So, when he tried to the EDD to take measures for comment, EDD Media tion.”

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BROWN Board wrote. annual convention, which the Black Press of America. of that without Darnella NNPA Newswire Senior For her efforts, Darnel- begins on Wednesday, NNPA President and Frazier taking that video,” National Correspondent la is also receiving the June 23. CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Crump reiterated. Chavis, Jr., applauded Dar- The video was the most Add Pulitzer Prize to nella and called her a “free- damning piece of evidence the list of awards and dom fighter” who ensured during Chauvin’s trial, and recognition bestowed upon justice was finally done in Darnella took the witness Darnella Frazier, the teen the case of a police officer stand and offered powerful who bravely videotaped killing an unarmed African testimony to back up the the murder of George American. recording. COURTESY PHOTO Floyd in 2020. “We salute this brave Darnella Frazier “Even though this was The Pulitzer Prize young woman, who had the a traumatic life-changing board issued a special cita- courage to keep on filming actions. experience for me, I’m tion to Darnella, who is even as the officers tried to “It was Darnella Frazier proud of myself,” Frazier now 18. intimidate her,” Dr. Chavis who stepped up,” Crump wrote in an Instagram post “For courageously stated. asserted. on the one-year anniver- recording the murder of “My video didn’t save George Floyd,” said Darnella Fra- Floyd family Attorney Officials in Minneapo- sary of Floyd’s murder. “If George Floyd, a video that zier, “but it put his murderer away and off the streets.” Benjamin Crump told the lis reached a record $27 it weren’t for my video, the spurred protests against Black Press that there million civil settlement world wouldn’t have police brutality around the National Newspaper Pub- NNPA is the trade asso- would be no civil settle- with Floyd’s family, and known the truth.” world, highlighting the lishers Association’s ciation of the hundreds of ment or a trial and convic- Chauvin faces as much as “My video didn’t save crucial role of citizens in (NNPA) highest journal- African American-owned tion of former officer 40 years in prison when George Floyd,” she added, journalists’ quest for truth ism award and a monetary newspapers and media Derek Chauvin had it not he’s sentenced on June 25. “but it put his murderer and justice,” the Pulitzer scholarship at the NNPA’s companies that comprise been for Darnella’s “We wouldn’t have any away and off the streets.” Some Upbeat News for Black Businesses Still Reeling From Pandemic Losses BY ANTONIO RAY HARVEY operators who are strug- versity of California at able both at the state and non-profits and under- stated. California Black Media gling will need all the Santa Cruz report. federal levels for most busi- served businesses. “Our governor had a financial support available About six weeks later, nessowners. Sands was one of the tough choice to make,” This week, after more to them, Gray told Califor- after the onset of the global During a news briefing guest speakers along with Gray said. “You close than a year, California is nia Black Media (CBM) at COVID-19 pandemic, the things down to make sure expected to lift the majority a luncheon hosted by the number of Black business people are safe. Public of its COVID-19 related California Black Chamber owners had dropped to health is a serious issue. I restrictions and reopen its of Commerce in Sacramen- 440,000, a 41%, reduction. applaud him for doing that. economy at almost-full to. Many of them had to shut Yes, there are conse- capacity. “(Black businesses) down their businesses for quences to our small busi- But as the state pre- have been disproportion- good. nesses. But in the end, look pares for a long-anticipated ately affected by COVID- During the same time, at us now. We have the comeback, many Black 19,” Gray said. “Fortunate- only 17% of White propri- lowest positivity rate in the businessowners say enter- ly, the governor has etors had to shut down their nation. Also, it looks like prises across the state that stepped up and provided businesses, UC Santa Cruz our economy is coming African Americans own $2.5 billion dollars in relief research shows. Overall, back.” face an uphill road to funds to all small business- nearly four million minori- A survey conducted by recovery. es with priority to the dis- ty-owned U.S. firms, whose SHUTTERSTOCK H&R Block found that out “It’s a state of disrepair. advantaged communities of annual sales total close to of 3,000 small businesses, They need significant sup- color.” $700 billion, shuttered hosted by Ethnic Media U.S. Congressman Ro 53% of Black business port,” said Tara Lynn Gray, In February 2020, there because of COVID-19. Services last month, speak- Khanna (D-CA-17), a operators saw their rev- director of the California were 1 million Black- But despite the grim ers discussed how small member of the Congres- enues cut in half due to the Office of the Small Busi- owned businesses in opera- statistics, a number of small businesses in California sional Small Business Cau- pandemic as compared to ness Advocate. tion around the United business advocates say and around the country can cus, and Virginia Ali. Ali 37% of White owners. Black-owned business States, according to a Uni- there is financial help avail- emerge from this crisis, owns the nationally Black-owned small catch the wave of what renowned restaurant and businesses continue to seems to be a gathering Black-owned small busi- experience disproportion- economic boom, or contin- ness Ben’s Chili Bowl in ate difficulties, with 35% ue to tread water to stay Washington, D.C. of Black entrepreneurs GoingGoing back back to to work? work? PreparingPreparing to to travel? travel? afloat. Sands said before the reporting that business con- The main objective of virus surfaced, minority ditions are worsening. the briefing was helping businesses were already in Many say they may not sur- small businesses, particu- a “financially precarious vive the next three months. DON’TDON’T GUESS. GUESS. larly minority owned ones, position” with strained While the reopening of connect to various sources resources. Small businesses the economy signals of funding created to help had limited access to capi- progress, Sands is encour- GET THE TEST! them recover from the pan- tal, he said, and they lacked aging Black businesses to GET THE TEST! demic. the infrastructure to apply pay attention to Small The key is to apply for for loans or contracts and Business Administration FAST AND FREE COVID TESTING AVAILABLE NOW. the money, said Everett many of them couldn’t self- programs (SBA) that Sands, chief executive offi- finance in the long term. include loans, a restaurant cer of Lendistry, a leading, But on the cusp of the relief fund and venture cap- Black-led Community state and U.S. economies ital investments. Development Financial reopening, Sands says it is To apply for federal Institution (CDFI) and not too late for businesses small business funding, Community Development to get their financial foot- Sands says, a company Entity (CDE) that is also a ing. only has to show the sole small business and com- “As a result of the business's gross revenue. mercial real estate lender. American Rescue Plan, Applicants won’t be “Let’s make an assump- most states received rough- excluded if the proprietor tion. If you are allowed to ly a billion dollars to help has been a borrower on a open, and you can open, these small businesses defaulted student loan or then therefore you should increase their revenues,” he has a criminal history. With the goal of keeping our communities healthy and safe, be able to receive some said. “For amounts less than we are proud to oﬀ er FAST and FREE COVID-19 testing at a type of revenue,” Sands Of California’s 4.1 mil- $150,000, most of the red church near you! 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Now those are with debt forgiveness and gram that administered six the businesses that New- capital for those businesses rounds of grant funding for som intends to help, Gray that would not survive.” THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-9 NNPA Chair Prepares for Annual Convention After Leading Black Press to Most Successful Two-Year Period in History

BY STACY M. BROWN ica family. will receive the 2021 took the paper to its 50th NNPA Newswire Senior From June 23 to June National Congressional year. I was terrified because National Correspondent 26, the NNPA will host its Leadership Award, and the she had a massive heart national convention. The NNPA will present Min- attack, and she wasn’t even According to Karen convention will feature a nesota Attorney General sick. I was next in line, but I Carter Richards, the state special performance by the Keith Ellison with the Out- was ready because I had of the Black Press of Amer- legendary Grammy winner standing and Courageous shadowed my mother for ica is more robust than it Chaka Khan and Nu-Soul Leadership Award. years.” has ever been. and Jazz artist Candice • Chaka Khan will “My mother prepared The National Newspa- Hoyes. receive the 2021 National me for a lot of things that per Publishers Association The NNPA will also Lifetime Achievement have helped me to do what (NNPA) chair and the hand out its prestigious Legacy Award for Decades I’m doing now,” Carter Houston Forward Times Legacy Awards, including of Creative Genius and Richards said, noting that publisher expressed even to: Outstanding Leadership for both her parents once served more optimism for the • Darnella Frazier, the Freedom, Justice, and on the NNPA’s executive future. African American teenager Equality in American and committee. “I’m proud to chair this who courageously filmed Throughout the World. The upcoming conven- organization,” she told the police officer kneeling This year marks the tion theme – “Black Press NNPA President and CEO on George Floyd’s neck, second consecutive virtual Matters: Trusted Voice, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., will receive the Ida B. convention. Resilient Vitality, and Trans- during an extensive discus- Wells National Photojour- During the convention, formative Vision” – could sion inside the trade associ- nalism Award. Carter Richards will seek not be more appropriate. ation’s new state-of-the-art • The Rev. John P. Kee election to a second succes- NNPA/FILE “I think we have hit on television studio and head- will receive the 2021 sive term as national chair. NNPA Chair Karen Carter Richards has led the Black Press all of those points. We know quarters at the Thurgood National Gospel Transfor- While any potential to its most successful years in the 81-year history of the we are the trusted voice in Marshall Center in Wash- mative Award challengers for the position NNPA. the Black community, and ington, D.C. • Earth, Wind & Fire have yet to identify them- ‘resilient vitality’ is who we “We’ve always known Lead Singer Philip Bailey selves, Carter Richards’ run “I have to give [Dr. planning for the newspaper are,” Carter Richards deter- that we are a resilient peo- will be presented with the as chair has proved impres- Chavis] your due. You’ve five years before its 1955 mined. ple, but the pandemic 2021 National Lifetime sive. done a great job, and we launch when he returned “Our Black newspapers forced a lot of us to take a Achievement Legacy “We are doing better have a great team at NNPA. from serving in the U.S. have thrived, and so many deep breath because it was Award for Outstanding than we’ve done in the his- We can’t do it without the military. more are getting to the level new,” Carter Richards con- Achievement, Impact, and tory of the NNPA,” she team.” Julius Carter taught his that we want them to be. I’m tinued. Creative Genius. declared. She also praised the daughter and her sister the so proud of the Black Press “A lot of us were print • Scotty Barnhart, the Despite the pandemic NNPA’s all-women execu- value of community and the for all the work they are publications, but we had to legendary Count Basie that forced many out of jobs tive committee, Janis Ware Black Press. doing in the community and change the game. We took Orchestra leader, will and a topsy-turvy economy (The Atlanta Voice), the His steadfastness for for the work they are doing a breath and started doing receive the 2021 National where government stimulus First Vice-Chair, Fran Far- bringing forward hard facts to help each other.” what we do. Some of us Performance and Outstand- served to rescue most, Dr. rer (The County News in led to the Forward Times She continued: were already making digi- ing Leadership Award. Chavis said advertising and North Carolina), Second building bombing in 1971, “When I stepped inside tal strides, but it was grad- • The Rev. Dr. Starsky other revenue skyrocketed Vice-Chair, Brenda H. just days after he published this new studio, I was taken ual. The pandemic forced Wilson will receive the for the Black Press. Edwards (New Journal and an article critical of the aback. It is remarkable. We us to step it up, and we had 2021 National Achieve- Carter Richards credit- Guide in Virginia), Treasur- local police department. are on the move, and the a lot of help from the ment and Outstanding ed the national office led by er and Jackie Hampton Julius Carter died of a Black Press has for 194 NNPA office, and the pub- Leadership Award for his Dr. Chavis, Claudette Perry, (The Mississippi Link) Sec- heart attack days later, and years been the trusted voice, lishers helped each other.” work as President and CEO the NNPA’s executive retary. his wife, Lenora “Doll” and you can say that to the The NNPA represents of the Children’s Defense administrator, and the staff. “I’m loving being with Carter, immediately sprang Black community, we are the hundreds of newspa- Fund. “It feels wonderful to the ladies,” Carter Richards into action to keep the mainstream media. And we pers and media companies • Congresswoman have a great team,” Carter announced. “Black women paper alive. are going to continue to give in the Black Press of Amer- Joyce L. Beatty (D-Ohio) Richards exclaimed. do what Black women do. “They were taking bets the world information with- We are going to continue to that my mom wouldn’t last out fear or favor.” do great things.” six months at the newspa- Registration for the Renowned economist Julianne Carter Richards recalled per,” Carter Richards NNPA’s virtual convention her father’s vision for the remembered. is free. To register, click Houston Forward Times. “She was 29 years old, here or go to www.virtu- Malveaux set to head new College She noted that he began with two little girls. But she alnnpa2021.com. of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA SENTINEL NEWS SERVICE demia and her history of colleagues, I feel that we are advocacy will serve her well really fortunate to have Nationally renowned in her new role as dean of recruited such a distin- economist, scholar and the college. guished leader as our inau- columnist Julianne “I look forward to the gural dean,” said Professor Malveaux has been appoint- work that the college will do Jun Xing, who serves as ed dean of the new College and the collaborations that chair of the Department of of Ethnic Studies at Cal will emerge under Dr. Asian and Asian American State LA—the first such col- Malveaux’s leadership,” Studies. “Dr. Malveaux’s lege to be established in the Covino said. “This is a sig- rich experience, national U.S. in 50 years. nificant appointment for the stature and leadership vision will for sure help raise the new college’s profile and make it into a local, national and international center of excellence in the field of ethnic studies.” Malveaux brings a wealth of knowledge and skills honed during decades in academia and as a columnist, author and activist. She has taught at several colleges and universities, including Meharry Medical CREDIT: JESSICA KOSCIELNIAK FOR CAL STATE LA College, Michigan State, Dr. Julianne Malveaux UC Davis, UC Berkeley and San Francisco State. From Malveaux will take the college, but also for the city 2007 to 2012, Malveaux helm of this unique college, and the nation.” served as president of Ben- which focuses on an inter- The College of Ethnic nett College, which is a his- disciplinary analysis of the Studies is home to the torically Black liberal arts histories, cultures and social Department of Asian and college for women. experiences of people of Asian American Studies, the For many years, color, as debates over racial Department of Chicana(o) Malveaux wrote a nationally injustices and pedagogy and Latina(o) Studies and syndicated column that make headlines. the Department of Pan- explored economics, policy “Learning about people African Studies. The col- and race. She also served as of color, learning about mar- lege’s inaugural year coin- a television and radio com- ginalized people, learning cided with a global pandem- mentator and was a con- the whole of American his- ic that shone a light on racial tributing columnist for the tory is as important as learn- disparities; the murder of publication that is now ing quantum physics or Eng- George Floyd, which known as Diverse: Issues in lish literature,” said pushed the nation’s history Higher Education, and is a Malveaux, who is president of racial injustices to the contributing writer for emerita of Bennett College forefront; police shootings Essence magazine. in North Carolina. of Black people; violence Malveaux is president of As a feminist and labor against members of the PUSH Excel, the independ- economist, Malveaux has Asian American and Pacific ent education policy and focused on issues such as Islander community; and the scholarship arm of the Rain- women in the workforce, the humanitarian crisis at the bow PUSH Coalition. impact of racial wealth U.S.-Mexico border. She holds a Ph.D. in inequities on economic pro- The college aims to economics from the Massa- ductivity and the implica- develop leaders “who will chusetts Institute of Tech- tions of government policies engage in rigorous, self- nology and master’s and on workers’ health on the reflexive study that moti- bachelor’s degrees in eco- job. vates critical engagement, nomics from Boston Col- Cal State LA President self-determination and lege. She holds four hon- William A. Covino said decolonial understandings orary degrees. Malveaux’s long and of the world.” Malveaux will begin as accomplished record in aca- “Like my ethnic studies dean on July 1, 2021. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-10

Congress overwhelmingly passes bill to commemorate the end of slavery in the U.S.

Martha Yates Jones, left, with her sister, Pinkie Yates, for a Juneteenth parade in Musicians gather for a Juneteenth celebration in Texas in 1900. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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{continued from Pg. A-1} The delay in telling the were not huge battles taking cipation Day, Freedom Day fields.org cites “the Poor contests,” as recorded on slaves that they were free place nor was there a sig- and other names. Activities People’s March planned battlefields.org. overwhelmingly passed was not uncommon at the nificant presence of Union ranged from prayer services by Martin Luther King Jr. Golden West College as- legislation to establish time because, according to troops. Therefore, the gov- to picnics to parades and [and carried out by Ralph sembled a list of “Fun Facts Juneteenth as a federal history.com, “the Emanci- ernment operated as it al- pageants. As people moved Abernathy] was purposely About Juneteenth” on its holiday. It is the first new pation Proclamation didn’t ways had – as a slave state. from Texas to other states, scheduled to coincide with website at goldenwestcol- federal holiday since 1983 instantly free any enslaved But that situation came Juneteenth celebrations [June 19]. March partici- lege.edu. The fun facts in- when Congress established people. The proclamation to an end once Union Gen- were instituted across the pants took the celebrations clude: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. only applied to places un- eral Gordon Granger read nation. back to their home states - It is the oldest known Juneteenth is perhaps der Confederate control and General Orders No. 3 on Juneteenth commemo- and soon the holiday was holiday that commemorates the oldest African Ameri- not to slave-holding border June 19, 1865: “The people rations gradually declined reborn.” the end of slavery in the US. can holiday in the coun- states or rebel areas already of Texas are informed that, in the early through the Currently, 48 states and - Juneteenth is the title try. According to docu- under Union control. How- in accordance with a proc- mid-20th century, a cir- the District of Columbia of a book by Ralph Elli- ments and oral histories, ever, as Northern troops lamation from the Execu- cumstance that historians designate Juneteenth as son, an African American 250,000 Blacks in Texas advanced into the Confed- tive of the United States, attribute to the increase either a state or ceremo- author. were still enslaved when erate South, many enslaved all slaves are free.” History. of Jim Crow laws (thus nial holiday. “Traditions - Strawberry soda pop Union troops marched into people fled behind Union com reports that “celebra- dampening the enthusiasm include public readings of was once a popular drink Galveston Bay on June lines.” tions broke out among new- to celebrate freedom) and the Emancipation Procla- associated with celebrating 19, 1865, and read the ex- Even though Texas was ly freed Black people, and Blacks searching for work mation, singing traditional the day. ecutive decree that granted part of the Confederacy, Juneteenth was born.” migrating from rural areas songs, and reading of works - The Juneteenth Flag freedom to the slaves. The the state was not impacted Starting in 1866, Afri- to urban locations, which by noted African Ameri- of Freedom is half red and day was eventually called by the decree and life con- can American communities provided fewer opportuni- can writers. Celebrations half blue with a star in the Juneteenth, which some tinued as if the proclama- in Texas hosted a variety of ties to take time off for fes- can also take the form of middle. speculate is a combination tion didn’t exist. Also, the annual celebrations for Ju- tivities. rodeos, street fairs, cook- of June and 19th, by the Civil War was likely not at neteenth, which was initial- The modern civil rights outs, family reunions, park newly freed people. the top-of-the-mind among ly called Jubilee Day and era brought renewed inter- parties, historical reenact- White Texans since there later referred to as Eman- est in Juneteenth. Battle- ments, and Miss Juneteenth

{continued from Pg. A-1} nocent. Leon to be innocent, found Six years after their ex- them to have been demon- a 1983 rape and murder of onerations, a $75 million strably and excruciatingly an 11-year-old girl. At 16, judgement has now been wronged, and has done what Brown became the young- awarded to the two broth- the law can do to make it est individual to be on death ers. The May 14 ruling by right at this late date,” North row in North Carolina’s his- a jury mandated that the two Carolina attorney Elliot tory. Both McCollum and should be awarded $1 mil- Abrams said after the trial Brown claimed for years lion each for every year in ended. their confessions at the time prison and an additional $13 The settlement ends the of the crime were coerced. million in punitive damages. decades-long wait for jus- In 2014, the North In 2018, the state of tice to be fully served for Carolina Innocence In- North Carolina only paid the two,” Abrams added. “A quiry Commission found $750,000 to Henry McCol- jury has finally given Henry that DNA testing verified lum to compensate him for and Leon the ability to close a match to the next-door the 30 years that he, an in- this horrific chapter of their neighbor of the murder vic- nocent man, spent on death lives. They look forward to In 2014, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission found that DNA testing tim — the convictions of row. The jury compensated a brighter future surrounded verified a match to the next-door neighbor of the murder victim — the convictions of McCollum and Brown were them further. by friends, family, and loved McCollum and Brown were on the road to being overturned. In September 2014, a on the road to being over- “The first jury to hear all ones.” judge ruled McCollum and Brown were, in fact, innocent. COURTESY PHOTO turned. In September 2014, of the evidence — including Wrongful convictions in a judge ruled McCollum the wrongly suppressed evi- the U.S. justice system are cence Project has had 235 founding in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Scheck. and Brown were, in fact, in- dence — found Henry and not new. The national Inno- exonerations since their

{continued from Pg. A-1} chy ... from day one on the Plaintiff Newte never lacking in this fire department job,’’ the suit states. Man- was the subject of criticism is respect and fairness in deal- agement has wrongfully while assigned to a federal ings with minority employees, accused him many times task force, but he faced especially African-Americans,’’ of not doing his job and a different environment the document stated. every aspect of his work within the LAFD, the suit The LAFD ``has a very is questioned or criticized, states. hostile attitude toward and dis- making it hard for him to ``The criticisms and dain of its Black workforce and move through the ranks, attacks on his credibility, regularly engages in adverse the suit states. his integrity, his job perfor- employment actions against ``At every turn, he mance and his entire being them, including sham inves- feels he is being denied in this career have been by tigations, false allegations of training and promotional those Caucasian supervi- workplace misconduct and opportunities,’’ the suit sors and managers at the failure to promote and investi- states. City of Los Angeles and gate complaints of workplace Plaintiff Smith alleges its fire department who are mistreatment and discrimina- he and other Black LAFD racist and intolerant big- tion and to consistently apply men and women are ots,’’ the suit states. workplace policies and rules,’’ given written criticisms Morris applied for a according to the suit, which A lawsuit alleges the LAFD has a White-male exclusive group, where Black em- for trivial, minor or falsi- senior arson investigator further alleges the department ployees are “abused, denigrated, ignored and disrespected.” COURTESY PHOTO fied accusations that their position last October, the is governed by an traditionally White counterparts do not suit states. Three White White-male exclusive group, the workplace,’’ the suit al- harassment, intimidation bring about an end to such receive. candidates were given where Black employees are leges. ``Those minorities and retaliation and has racist hostility and racial ``His job performance preferential treatment by ``abused, denigrated, ignored who don’t play their game been the subject of many abuse.’’ is always questioned, he is the command staff for the and disrespected.’’ are abused and mistreated court actions that have Wilkerson has been held to different standards, job and the selection pro- According to the lawsuit, in the workplace and their exposed such bad behav- exposed to a ``repeated he is criticized in his de- cess was postponed until the LAFD’s decision mak- work lives are made miser- ior. Nevertheless, the cul- pattern and practice of cisions, and he is falsely those persons became eli- ers tend to be White men who able.’’ ture of hatred and racism racism and bigotry that accused of misconduct or gible, according to the suit. ``hold very racist and bigoted The suit further al- continues unabated and permeates this agency other violations of unspec- attitudes, and do not believe in leges the LAFD ``has a there have been no sincere through the highest levels ified workplace policies,’’ diversity, equity or inclusion in checkered history of racial reforms implemented to in the supervisory hierar- the suit alleges. THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LASENTINEL.NET A-11 Black America Needs a ‘New Normal’: Equitable Credit Access to Build Wealth BY CHARLENE CROWELL and Budget. In the interim, responsible loans. it reporting system continued during normal times.” MDIs have average assets of NNPA Newswire Contributor Treasury Secretary Janet “Because of these lend- and revealed the need for “Black-owned business- $245 million and $2.7 bil- Yellen, as reported by the ing practices,” testified Bai- reform around what con- es, overall, also tend to start lion, respectively,” said Over the past year, the New York Times, announced ley, “Black and Latino fami- sumer information is report- out with far less capital, James II, “compared to an COVID-19 pandemic has plans to invest $9 billion into lies lost over $1 trillion dol- ed and how it is reported dur- whether from investments average of $3.1 billion for all imposed dual crises. Over Community Development lars in wealth during the cri- ing a pandemic.…Con- or bank loans, than White- US banks.” 542,000 Americans lives Financial Institutions and sis. Moreover, Black home- sumers would benefit from a owned businesses do,” con- “Even before the onset were lost and continue to Minority Depository Institu- ownership has been the moratorium on the negative tinued James II. “And only of the COVID-19 pandem- increase. At the same time, tions as they look to step up slowest to recover from the reporting of unpaid debt dur- 1 percent of Black business ic, US household debt was the rippling effects of a lending. owners get a bank loan in on the rise, reaching over massive economic down- Concurrently, the U.S. their first year of business, $14 trillion,” testified Ash- turn has caused the nation House of Representatives’ compared with 7 percent of ley Harrington, CRL’s fed- to lose 9.5 million jobs - Financial Services Commit- White business owners. The eral advocacy director. more losses than even those tee has convened multiple COVID-19 crisis has com- “While much of this debt of the Great Recession, hearings that featured expert pounded this issue: 42 per- stems from mortgages, a finds the University of New witness testimony echoing cent of minority-owned growing amount stems Hampshire’s Carsey School the calls of Mr. Adeyemo. small businesses responding from non-mortgage con- of Public Policy. On March 10 the full to McKinsey’s US Small sumer debt, including stu- Although many officials committee held a hearing Business Pulse Survey dent loans, credit cards, have called for a ‘return to entitled, Justice for All: reported that obtaining installment loans, and auto normal’, millions of small Achieving Racial Equity PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO / NNPA credit was becoming loans. As people continue businesses and communities Through Fair Access to While federal lawmakers seek to understand how best to increasingly difficult, com- to lose jobs and have hours need something new instead. Housing and Financial bring the nation out of health and financial crises, many pared with 29 percent of all cut, and as deferred rental advocates are calling for a new paradigm: intentional In Black America especially, Services. respondents.” payments and other debts inclusion of all who have been shut out, knocked down the ‘old normal’ never deliv- Rep. Maxine Waters, a and underserved. But credit terms and a come due, we can expect to ered equitable access to California Congresswoman pronounced shortage of see an uptick in delinquen- wealth-building opportuni- and committee chair’s Great Recession. In fact, ing the pandemic. Scams and accessible credit, according cies and defaults on these ties as those that well-served opening remarks set the there would be 770,000 more fraud also surged.” to James II, are equally lend- non-mortgage debts.” served much of White Amer- tone of the forum. Black homeowners if the Speaking on behalf of ing conditions that must Harrington offered a key ica. Instead, a lengthy history “Today we are here to homeownership rate recov- minority lenders and small become more inclusive. recommendation to federal of public policies designed to discuss steps that this Com- ered to its pre-crisis level in businesses, Robert James II, “Limited access to credit lawmakers that could begin create and sustain a burgeon- mittee can take to create jus- 2000… The racial wealth president of Carver Develop- is a compounding factor that to allow consumers to have ing middle class systemically tice and achieve racial equity gap contributes to the fact ment CDE and chair of the hurts the underlying health of more control over their own excluded Blacks and other through access to fair hous- that in the 46 largest housing National Bankers Associa- minority-owned small busi- financial management. people of color. ing and financial services.... markets in the country, a tion, emphasized the impor- nesses,” said James II. “Allowing every adult to Now, while federal law- And no matter where you median income Black house- tance of minority-owned “Research has found that save and hold onto at least makers seek to understand are—and who you are--in hold could only afford 25 small businesses, the lack of Black small-business owners $1000 per week in wages, how best to bring the nation America or around the percent of homes on the mar- convenient access to main- were significantly more like- and $12,000 per bank out of health and financial world, institutional racism ket last year in comparison to stream banking as well as the ly to be asked to provide account,” urged Harrington, crises, many advocates are based on skin color creates the 57 percent that a median dwindling number of minor- more information about their “will help families avoid calling for a new paradigm: barriers that impact social income White household ity depository institutions as personal financials—includ- eviction and afford essential intentional inclusion of all and economic outcomes,” could afford. It will require issues demanding attention ing personal financial state- costs like medicine and food. who have been shut out, noted Ms. Waters. focused and bold action to and correction. ments and personal W-2 While family savings cannot knocked down and under- Testifying on behalf of reverse these inequities.” “Minority-owned small forms—when applying for replace the social safety net, served. Recent testimony the Center for Responsible The following day, a sub- businesses are the lifeblood small-business loans than it is critical that families be before Capitol Hill commit- Lending, Nikitra Bailey, committee of House Finan- of their communities,” testi- White small-business owners able to provide for them- tees focused on different executive vice president cial Services convened yet fied James II. “The pre-pan- were, even when controlling selves at a minimum, basic issues but led to the same recounted the legacy of fed- another hearing. Entitled, demic 1.1 million minority- for credit score and business level. These protections are conclusion: the time for eral housing policies whose “Slipping through the owned small businesses characteristics.” more urgent than ever: change is now. sum created today’s finan- Cracks: Policy Options to employed more than 8.7 mil- At the same time, as recent research has estab- For example, comments cial inequities. Help America’s Consumers lion workers and annually noted by James II, from 2009 lished that 8 million more during a February confirma- A 1933 federal housing during the Pandemic” the generated more than $1 tril- to the second quarter of families have fallen into tion hearing for Adewale program, the Home Owners session spanned access to lion in economic output. 2018, nationally, the number poverty since May 2020.” Adeyemo, nominated by Loan Corporation (HOLC), affordable credit or small Women own nearly 300,000 of Minority Depository Insti- Charlene Crowell is a President Biden to become supported redlining through business capital, debt collec- of them, employing 2.4 mil- tutions (MDIs) dropped from senior fellow with the Center deputy treasury secretary, the its underwriting guidelines. tion, and stained credit all lion workers. Despite their 215 to 155. MDIs are also for Responsible Lending. She nominee said, “Until we con- As a result, Black and other became inevitable and fur- significance, these business- much smaller in assets than can be reached at Char- tain the pandemic, economic communities of color, were ther complicated the finan- es face underlying challenges the average non-MDI bank. lene.crowell@responsible- policy must remain focused denied access to mainstream cial disadvantages faced by that make them vulnerable “Black and Hispanic lending.org. on providing relief to those financing. During the first 35 communities of color. harmed by the public health years of this program, only “Without a safety net or a crisis, especially those dis- 2% of FHA insured mort- cushion to fall back on, peo- proportionately impacted: gage loans went to Black and ple of color are far less able low-income communities other homebuyers of color. to weather financial calami- and communities of color. Similarly, the 1944 GI ties,” testified Carla Sanchez The pandemic has exacerbat- Bill, continued the same sys- Adams, managing attorney ed inequality, strained fami- temic discrimination. In Mis- with Texas Rio Grande Legal lies, and exposed disparities sissippi, for example, the Aid, Inc. “With fewer assets in opportunity throughout 3,329 VA -approved mort- to draw on, people of color our country that existed long gages included two Black find are more prone to pover- before COVID-19. Without servicemembers. ty traps.” additional relief, this hard- Fast forward to more “Debt collection activi- ship will become even more recent times, by the early ties increased in 2020,” con- acute and will inflict long- 2000s, half of all mort- tinued Sanchez Adams, “as lasting pain on countless gages made to Black and did profits for debt collectors. Americans.” Latino families during the Auto repossessions were Adeyemo is the agency’s run-up to the foreclosure prevalent, and consumers point-person to implement crisis were unsustainable were left at the mercy of their the executive order requiring subprime loans -- despite lenders. Consumers would all federal offices to submit these consumers having benefit if all debt activity diversity and inclusion plans credit records that qualified ceased during the pandemic. to the Office of Management for cheaper, safer and more The problems with our cred- Black Business Registrations Increase During COVID Pandemic

BY LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE COVID pandemic is likely vival than it is about wealth NNPA Newswire to damage entrepreneur- creation. There’s lots of Correspondent ship and put many small people who have lost their businesses in a financial jobs and lost their business- Several states have hole or out of business es. People are starting to shown that the number of entirely, there are signs that realize that side hustles are registered businesses has many have turned to creat- businesses,” Perry said. “more than doubled” ing businesses after losing Additionally, Google Trends data reported an “uptick in searches related to Black-owned businesses” in June of last year during the start of the pandemic. According to Google Trends data, searches for "How to find Black-owned businesses in your area" saw a 300% spike and searches for "Black-owned restaurants near me" tripled. PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTO / NNPA Google Trends data reported an “uptick in searches relat- An app that is a guide to ed to Black-owned businesses” in June of last year during Black-owned restaurants, the start of the pandemic. called EatOkra, witnessed a 4,450% increase in down- according to analysis by the employment elsewhere. loads of new users in May New York Times. Andre Perry, a Brook- 2020. Many believe that In the month after the ings Institution fellow, told activism after the murder of CARES Act was passed by the Times that some of the George Floyd coupled with Congress in March 2020, surge in Black business the COVID19 pandemic business registrations registrations could be a sig- spurred manny to think increased by 60 percent. nal of personal economic about economic activism Though the economic trouble. and Black-owned business- downturn caused by the “This is more about sur- es. A-12 LASENTINEL.NET NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 www.lasentinel.net B-1 “THANK GOD, THAT I HAD ECZEMA GROWING UP,” SAYS the CEO of UI GLOBAL BRANDS — PSYCHE TERRY

BY LAPACAZO SANDOVAL one, everywhere. stores. You are so boss. ship with WATERisLIFE. Contributing Writer LAS: Vontoba is the When did the clean water LAS: So. How does whole boo! Black love, for- partnership start? that work, exactly? “Thank God, that I had ever! When did Urban PT: Thank you. The PT: Great question. eczema growing up,” Hydration come to life? clean water partnership With each purchase of an shared Psyche Terry the PT: (laughing) We founder and CEO of UI founded [Urban Hydration] Global Brands. “If I didn’t first as a small online store have this issue, I would not in 2010. have created this formula.” LAS: It’s important to This is how Urban start but did you have help Hydration was born, out of with an investor? a real need and it’s an PT: Yes, we did. In African American, female- 2015, Torii Hunter (celebri- owned beauty brand driven ty baseball player) and his by a commitment to com- wife Katrina Hunter munity and giving back. became investors and part- Yes. Giving back. Psy- ners in Urban Hydration. che is known for her strong LAS: Brilliant. Nice. COURTESY PHOTO entrepreneurial spirit, savvy They knew a smart invest- Urban Hydration business acumen, and her passion, again, for giving Urban Hydration product, back along with her hus- one gallon of water is band, whom she calls “the donated to a community whole, boo” — Vontoba. without the ease of access And what is Urban to clean drinking water. Hydration, exactly? This LAS: What? With each product is for dry skin and purchase. A gallon. Of hair and was founded water. Is donated to a com-

(2010) as an online store. COURTESY PHOTO munity without easy access Today, Urban Hydration Psyche Terry the founder and CEO of UI Global Brands to clean drinking water. products are sold in more Right? Did I hear you cor- than 10,000 retail stores Nevada Las Vegas Lee ed using clean, transparent rectly? across the nation, including Business School, a BA ingredients. Taking a PT: Correct. And in CVS, Bed Bath & Beyond, from Western Michigan home-grown approach, my 2018, 2019 because of the Ulta, Target, H-E-B, and University, and is a 2016 husband Vontoba, who is outpouring of consumer more. alumnus of Goldman the whole boo, and I set out support, we [Urban Hydra- This is what commit- Sachs’ 10,000 Small Busi- to build a brand that used tion] contributed to the ment to excellence can get ness program. In addition effective and recognizable construction of two clean you, and because this team to being a businesswoman ingredients to create prod- drinking water wells in is driven by their commu- and philanthropist, Psyche ucts people could under- COURTESY PHOTO Kenya, to commit to fund- nity dedicated to giving is a wife, mother, and fit- stand and love. Starting Mr. and Mrs. Terry the brains behind UI Global Brands ing their own Urban back, and saving the planet ness lover. She has been within our community, we Hydration Giving Well. through clean beauty. honored as “Woman Of introduced the collection to ment. And today Urban started in 2016. LAS: Again. I say, In 2016, Urban Hydra- The Year,” “Economic our friends, family, and Hydration products are LAS: And the goal, is? thank the God of your own tion committed to provid- Empowerer of the Year,” children. As the demand sold in more than 10,000 PT: The goal is to pro- understanding for your ing clean drinking water “Outstanding Young Alum- grew, Vontoba and I were retail stores across the vide clean drinking water eczema. for communities in need ni of the Year,” and “Phil- inspired to make this a nation including CVS, Bed for communities in need https://www.urbanhy- through a keystone partner- anthropist of the Year,” as brand accessible to every- Bath & Beyond, and H-E-B through a keystone partner- dration.com ship with WATERisLIFE. well as being named one of With each purchase of an the “Top 25 Moguls” and Urban Hydration product, “Influencers to Know” in one gallon of water is 2019. donated to a community Here is what Psyche without the ease of access Terry CEO of UI Global to clean drinking water. Brands creator of Urban In 2018 — 2019 Hydration had to say about through the outpouring of giving back with clean consumer support, Urban beauty products. Hydration contributed to LOS ANGELES SEN- the construction of two TINEL: What inspired you clean drinking water wells to start your own beauty in Kenya, to commit to business? Were you always funding their own Urban interested in skin & hair Hydration Giving Well. care? Before founding Urban PSYCHE TERRY: Hydration, Psyche worked Well, I had eczema grow- within the intimate apparel ing up so I understood what market where she was it means to have dry skin. instrumental in creating LAS: So basically, more size and style inclu- thank God for your under- sivity within the aisles of standing for eczema Macy's, Walmart, and because Urban Hydration JCPenney. would not have been born. Innovative, she de- Urban. Hydration. I love signed the first-ever G-cup the name of your products. bra for Walmart and led the PT: Thank you. You are insertion of different right. Urban Hydration, we shades of brown bras for developed it and was women of color. Under- inspired out of a need for a standing, and believing that better experience when it women of all sizes comes to products for dry deserved to have a little skin. lace, Psyche also pioneered LAS: Because — you the very first fashion plus know! size lingerie brand for PT: (laughing) Because JCPenney and Macy’s. She I know, as someone who also boasts a 12-year tenure always experienced dry as an executive for skin and dry hair, I was Whirlpool Corporation. making multiple doctor’s An advocate for educa- office trips and testing out tion and the youth, Psyche various products in search continuously funds a of a solution. While using a $50,000 college scholar- drugstore product for ship program for students eczema-prone skin, I real- majoring in business at her ized the clinical packaging alma mater, Western and unfamiliar ingredients Michigan University, and I couldn’t even pronounce sits on the board of direc- did not promote the feel- tors for both the Boys and good experience I knew I Girls Clubs of Collin deserved. That’s when I County and Western Michi- realized there was a gap in gan University. the market for products Psyche holds an MBA specifically targeting dry from the University of skin and dry hair formulat- B-2 LASENTINEL.NET THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 THE CENTER BY LENDISTRY LAUNCHES SMALL BUSINESS RESILIENCY PROGRAM FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY

SENTINEL NEWS SERVICE of color, creating a small the time they spend access- gibility and program The IISB coalition is led regional and national econ- business ecosystem that ing support through the pro- requirements. by Lendistry, The Center by omy, and ensuring they The Center by Lendistry works for everyone,” said gram. To receive a grant, The program is part of Lendistry, Concerned Capi- have access to financing announced the launch of the Constance Anderson, presi- the Los Angeles County Ini- tal, Next Street, and Com- and financial assistance has Los Angeles County Small dent of The Center by tiative for Inclusive Small munity Allies, and includes been a priority throughout Business Resiliency Pro- Lendistry. Business (IISB), a collec- support and participation our 130-year history. Help- gram. This initiative is a The Program offers tive of economic develop- from over 40 local organi- ing create this program is collaborative business small businesses the follow- ment organizations, capital zations across the county. one more way we can bring advising and education pro- ing: and service providers, and Funding for complementary about positive change while gram designed to help ● On-demand webinars local business owners who small business recovery helping businesses thrive,” minority-owned small busi- serve as a guided prerequi- are working to address the grants has been provided by said Mark J. Grescovich, nesses in Los Angeles site curriculum for one-on- historical barriers that have Banner Bank. Banner Bank president and County based in low- to one advising, which helps limited access to entrepre- “As leaders of the com- chief executive officer. “In moderate-income census business owners to begin neurial opportunities for munity we have learned addition to this program tracts areas. thinking critically about business owners of color. over the last year that none focused on LA County, “Despite being a major how their businesses have IISB was formed following of us can succeed alone,” Lendistry is assisting us in hub for diverse small busi- been impacted by the the release of the December said Sarah Bowles, vice getting similar assistance to ness growth and entrepre- COVID-19 pandemic, and 2020 report, Los Angeles president of Global Philan- other small businesses in neurship, the legacy of insti- how they may need to pivot. County Small Business thropy with JPMorgan need throughout the Cali- FILE PHOTO ● One-on-one technical Ecosystem Assessment by Chase. “Many small busi- fornia markets we serve.” tutionalized racism and dis- Constance Anderson, presi- crimination still plagues the assistance (TA), helps busi- dent of The Center by Lendistry, The Center by nesses in Los Angeles still Participating business Los Angeles County small nesses address their unique Lendistry Lendistry, Next Street and require technical assistance support organizations business economy. The Los needs, including acquiring Community Allies, and with to navigate this next stage of include: The Center by Angeles County Small new capital and customers, businesses must first com- financial support from the recovery. So as we Lendistry, Asian Pacific Business Resiliency Pro- understanding financial, plete the on-demand cours- JPMorgan Chase & Co. The emerge from this economic Islander Small Business gram brings together a change and risk manage- es and complete one-on-one report highlighted a shock- uncertainty, it is critical for Program, CDC Small Busi- coalition of business sup- ment, adjusting business business advising services. ing discovery that local us to provide resources that ness Finance, Inclusive port organizations that will models, and operating Small business owners small business owners face support minority small busi- Action for the City, Los leverage each other’s col- under new safety regula- located in Los Angeles a historic capital gap of $60 ness owners who continue Angeles Regional Small lective strengths to reach tions. County who are interested billion annually, which has to be disproportionately Business Development underserved businesses and ● Complementary re- in receiving support can been exacerbated by the impacted by the pandemic.” Center Network, and Ver- level the playing field for covery funds to compensate visit their website to find pandemic and the resulting “Small businesses are mont Slauson Economic businesses owned by people small business owners for more information about eli- financial crisis. the backbone of the local, Development Corporation. Children Can Receive Free Lunches At Select Los Angeles Parks Through Aug. 9 CITY NEWS SERVICE ice Program aims to ensure include options like fresh deli “We are incredibly ment of Recreation and is available per child, and that children in Los Angeles sandwiches, salads, fresh thankful for the Summer Parks. “We encourage chil- food will be provided on a Starting June 16, and have access to nutritious fruit, vegetables and milk. Food Service Program, dren and teens to take advan- first-come, first-served basis. through Aug. 9, children up lunches when school is not in The program is funded which provides reliable and tage of this opportunity.” A list of participating to 18-years-old can receive a session. The menu, which by the U.S. Department of nutritious meals throughout Meals will be provided parks is available at https:// free lunch at select Los meets USDA nutrition stan- Agriculture and is adminis- the summer months,” said to-go, and parents are bit.ly/3vgX4BV, or by visit- Angeles city parks. dards and the city's Good tered by the California Mike Shull, general manager allowed to pick-up meals for ing laparks.org/food program The Summer Food Serv- Food Purchasing Policy, will Department of Education. of the Los Angeles Depart- their children. Only one meal or calling 818-346-2700. LAPD Introduces Adult Diversion Program to Reduce Recidivism CITY NEWS SERVICE place individuals arrested ceration Office, established misdemeanors and non-vio- The program is intended to will be the first to implement for certain crimes in sup- the ATI Pre-File Diversion lent felonies” to community reduce recidivism and the program, and the LAPD The Los Angeles Police port programs in lieu of Program on Monday, accord- support programs instead of enhance public safety, the MetropolitanDetentionCenter Department announced the other legal consequences. ing to a police statement. facing harsher penalties, LAPD said in a statement. andthe LAPD Van Nuys Sta- launch of an adult diver- The LAPD in cooperation The program will direct such as criminal charges, The LAPD 77th Street tion jail also are soon expect- sion program that will with theAlternatives to Incar- people arrested for “select prosecution and jail time. Community Police Station jail ed to use the program. 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As part of his cam- paign to spread peace and unity in South L.A., Pas- tor Shep Crawford invited former and current rival gang members to break bread together and the result was more successful than ever imagined. More than 120 people gathered on June 14, for the United We Stand Up Peace Mediation Lunch. In addition to the individuals affiliated with rival gangs, the participants included local clergy, peace activ- RICHARD NICHOLS RICHARD NICHOLS From left are Minister Abdul (Tony) Muhammad, Pastor Shep Crawford and L.A.Councilmember Curren Price, Jr,. at the United We Stand Up Peace ists and public figuresMediation Lunch held on June 14, on 76th St. and Central Ave. in South L.A. At right, representatives of the Bloods and Crips address the audience. dedicated to improving battle-weary neigh- uptick in shootings and kill- were acknowledged for self as an “OG” or original borhoods in South L.A. ings,” Crawford explained. contributing to a reduced gangster, the young man Another purpose of the “United We Stand Up crime rate in South L.A. said his life could have event, which was held at members believe that there Also, the band, Rare Breed, been over, however, he the Youth Justice Coalition is a need for forgiveness and ECM’s drama troupe changed his attitude and Building on 76th St. and and healing in our com- performed and Jeweled “turning a positive into a Central Ave., was to stem munities. This event will Creations catered the event. negative.” Today, he works the rise in shootings and be the start of a weekly In addition, members in a trusted position at that murders by promoting un- dialog that will help these of the group, Mothers of same facility and even derstanding and unity, said members to unify and Slain Sons, delivered a poi- “holds the actual keys to Crawford, the co-pastor of make necessary changes.” gnant request to “end the the building.” Experience Christian Min- Among the program senseless killings of our Declaring that he wants istries (ECM) with his wife, speakers were L.A. Coun- children” and representa- to “humanize gang mem- Dr. Shalondra Crawford. cilmember Curren Price tives of various sects of the bers in the eyes of the “I serve as president of Jr., Minister Abdul Malik Bloods and Crips organiza- community,” Crawford RICHARD NICHOLS United We Stand Up, an Muhammad (also known tions gave remarks as well. noted that he has worked Members of the Mothers of Slain Sons pray for peace. alliance of members from as Minister Tony Muham- One former gang mem- with Bloods and Crips for rival neighborhoods on the mad) and broadcaster ber recounted how he re- years and assisted “their ported shootings or fatali- get the church, the Black eastside of Los Angeles, Dominique DiPrima, who ceived a life sentence at the efforts to end at least three ties between those groups. church particularly, into the striving for peace in our all stressed their commit- age of 12 while being held major wars in South Cen- “We now have Bloods, neighborhoods that their community. During COV- ment to the peace move- in a juvenile correctional tral L.A.” In recent years, Crips, Muslims and Chris- buildings sit in. I believe ID-19 we have seen a major ment. Price and Crawford facility. Referring to him- there have been no re- tians working together to that if we, as pastors, can refocus the effort of what is unite with the community known as ‘gang families’ to in supporting the peace ef- be advocates of peace for forts of these OG’s, then By PaStor JameS K. mcKnight Jesus did a long distance tations that are designed to their communities, ending we can affect our imme- Church of Christian Fellowship healing. Hallelujah! ruin our children’s lives, the wars that were started diate areas, which can The story then tells us we can’t afford to be “too mainly because of system- change this city, and even- Scripture: John 4: 46-54 that father believed on Je- busy” for our loved ones. atic oppression against peo- tually the entire culture.” sus and so did the rest of How many of you had a ple of color,” he insisted. Brothers and sisters, the family. What a great dad like my dad who did Inviting others to unite Experience Christian Father’s Day is here. What story! Notice how the fa- room inspections look- with the peace move- Ministries (ECM) is lo- a blessing it is to have a day ther is described. Most ing for evidence that I had ment, he said, “There are cated at 326 E. 47th Place where fathers are honored, translations call him a no- lost my way? How many a group of peacemakers in Los Angeles. To learn respected and celebrated! bleman or a royal official. of you had a dad who in every ‘hood. There are more, visit TheECM.org. Let’s pause and give COURTESY PHOTO He certainly is a man picked up the phone and also churches on many thanks for dads, step dads, Pastor James K. McKnight of influence, likely a high- listened to your conversa- corners in those same Reid Johnson con- foster dads, godfathers and ranking Roman govern- tions when you were so ‘hoods. My mission is to tributed to this article. all manner of folks who to Capernaum and heal his ment official. He is- acaught work up with your “boo” have been fathering. very sick son. ingman. Yes, he is. He is that you couldn’t do your Not only is a good time A conversation ensues, the kind of father I want to homework? How many of to honor dads, it is a good which might have caused honor today. Fathers, thank you had a dad who wanted time to encourage some the father to conclude that you for the work you do to to meet your friends, a dad fellas who are being fineJesus was not going to do provide for your child or who cared enough about fathers and help some of us what the powerful man children. Fathers, thank you to restrict you from like me who could benefit wanted Jesus to do. Jesus you for modeling a strong hanging with folks who from a timely reminder. I then tells the father to go work ethic. Fathers, thank were destined for trouble? have found a story in the on home because the boy you for working, in some I want to take time out to Gospel of John that fea- lives. So the man took Je- cases, more than one job to honor and thank dads who tures a fine father. Let’ssus at his word and started provide for those you love. know what’s up and do look at it together and see on his journey home. Notice something else something about it when if we can learn and grow. While he was a ways in the story. This father, something is amiss. COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY PHOTO John 4: 46-54 tells the off, his servants met him though busy with his work, Notice further that this Bishop Frank Stewart Elder Marc Scarborough story of a fine father whose with some great news. The knows what is going on father models persistence. story and actions can be son was well. The father, in the life of his son. He He asks Jesus for a bless- a blessing to us today. Je- likely elated with the good is out of town, away from ing for his son and then sus comes to Cana and a news, got himself together home, yet he knows that he asks further until Jesus father who has a son who and asked when his son got his child is very ill. moves on his behalf. Let is sick in a neighboring well. After learning that Let me say thank you me thank fathers like this area called Capernaum ap- the boy got healed around to fathers like this one, fine father who show us proaches him. The father the time that Jesus has pro- who make it your business what it means to be persis- Sentinel newS Service ception starts at 5:15 p.m. informs Jesus of the situ- nounced the healing, the to keep up with what is go- tent. Thank you, dads. You The program will begin at ation and asks that Jesus father put “two and two to- ing on in your child’s life. know that for your kids, if The members of Zoe 7 p.m. would go about 17 miles gether” and concluded that Yes… with all of the temp- at first you don’t succeed, Christian Fellowship of On Sunday, June 27, try, and try again. Los Angeles will celebrate at 9:30 a.m., Scarborough Last, but certainly not and honor Bishop Frank will deliver his inaugural least, notice that this father L. Stewart in recognition message as Zoe’s senior trusted God when it wasn’t of his 60 years in ministry pastor. A brunch reception easy and then saw to it and 37 years as the pastor will take place immediate- that his family started to of Zoe of L.A. ly after service. trust God. Oh, I love that. Also during the event, Reservations are re- Thank you to all of the fine Elder Marc Scarborough quired to attend the June fathers who are walking will be installed as senior 25 dinner reception and the by faith, praying for and pastor. June 27 brunch. with your family members, The celebration and The reservation dead- sharing your testimonies installation will be held line is June 18. To RSVP, and making sure that your on Friday, June 25, at Zoe call (323) 931-1477, ext. family members know the Christian Fellowship of 109 or visit zcfla.org and Lord. L.A., 2521 South West click the June 25th and You fine fathers - de View Street in Los Ange- 27th reservation button on serve all the love that is les. The edifice is locatedthe home page. coming your way! Let’s three blocks east of La For more information carry on shaping and bet- Brea Ave. and north of Ad- about the celebration and tering the lives of those ams Blvd. installation, call Joyce who need what we have to The doors will open at Howard at (323) 931-1477, offer. Happy Father’s Day! 5 p.m. and the dinner re- ext. 104. C-1 LASENTINEL.NET OPINION THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 •DR. MAULANA KARENGA•

The celebration of June- it. Thus, it is our moral and which the enslavers tried to sue and practice freedom to wage the dual liberation teenth nationally took a new intellectual obligation to keep from them. Certainly, and other human goods in struggle to be ourselves and turn in its bid to become a bear witness to truth and set as the South continued to varied ways. free ourselves. And it will nationally recognized Black the scales of justice in their lose the Civil War and en- As I have often said, if we speak to the African and holiday last year in the proper place in such a criti- slavers began to run to Tex- are to rightfully remember human quest for freedom, context of the intensified cal context of struggle, i.e., as as the last holdout, taking and celebrate Juneteenth the sustained savagery of struggle against police vio- the battleground of history. 150,000 enslaved Africans as a day of freedom, we the Holocaust of enslave- lence and systemic racism. In a word, we must define, with them to hold onto their must understand it and tell ment (Maangamizi), the Indeed, ever since the de- interpret and celebrate in human “property,” Black the narrative in ways that undeserved and diaboli- cisive moment of struggle dignity-affirming, expan- people understood this and honor and praise our peo- cally imposed suffering of in Ferguson, which was the sive and rightful ways the discussed it. Indeed, one ple, not dishonor or dimin- our people and their heroic spark that reignited a forest meaning and message of of the last major battles of ish their agency, human- and historic struggles which fire of resurgent resistance, Juneteenth for us ourselves. the Civil War was fought ity and history of righteous have contributed to redraw- the country has been com- To do this, we must begin in Texas on May 13, 1865, and relentless struggle. Nor ing the map of human his- pelled to confront its racist by giving a more accurate, DR. MAULANA KARENGA and battles had been fought should we find ourselves tory. Here I think, not only character and to make at broad and depthful interpre- earlier in Galveston itself. focusing on Whites mak- of the world changing Hai- least symbolic gestures of tation to the origins of the cal portrait of Black people Thus, as both a port town ing an announcement of a tian Revolution, but also of contrition, confession and holiday. This means mov- as those who don’t know and battlefield, Galveston freedom not really granted liberation struggles in this cosmetic and other behav- ing beyond the popular and anything, even about them- provided a source of on- or achieved. We need not country, South America and ioral changes of various official systemic version of selves, but only what White going news about the war deny the Granger Order No. throughout the world wher- kinds. Among the things it, as a celebration growing people tell them. It thus and politics of a crumbling 3 or the Lincoln Proclama- ever Africans dared to think done were to recognize Ju- out of receiving late news refocuses our sacred narra- South and coming freedom. tion which offered a legal and will freedom, and strug- neteenth as a holiday many on June 19, 1865, from a tive from commemoration Surely, Black people talked ground for our freedom gled to achieve it and leave Black people celebrate and Union general that the en- of our oppression and re- and exchanged ideas about preceding the 13th Amend- it as a legacy worthy of the to begin to declare and of- slaved Africans of Texas, sistance to one of receiving freedom and seized oppor- ment. But we must also name and history African. fer support for it as pen- especially in Galveston, had late news. Moreover, such a tunities to free themselves, note that it was not a full And I am again reminded of ance, good PR and an eas- been freed earlier by Presi- tweet-minded version hides in spite of efforts of the en- freedom, that it was not en- the long, difficult, demand- ily acceptable alternative to dent Lincoln’s Emancipa- a whole history of sav- slavers to isolate, hide and forced, that violence against ing and unfinished fight for sharing wealth, power and tion Proclamation, January age oppression, awesome move them to areas where us increased, and that we, freedom, the awesome sac- status. 1, 1865. This centers the suffering and heroic resis- they could continue to en- ourselves, had to continue rifices demanded and made, But clearly, this embrace claim that Africans knew tance. Furthermore, such slave them. So, it is not the struggle to liberate our- and the rough road to radi- does not come without nothing about what was go- an inadequate depiction and that Black people did not selves. cal social change leading to problems in terms of its being on in the country, i.e., interpretation offers a lim- know that they were to be Finally, if we are to rightful- a new history and hope for ing used as a substitute for the Civil War, the South’s ited and oppressor-focused free; it was that the White ly celebrate Juneteenth, we Africans and humanity as a serious social change, the losing or Lincoln’s Procla- conception of freedom, one enslavers continued to en- must not see it as a substitute whole. adulterating effect a sys- mation. gained from the oppressor slave them, not only after for a larger commemoration temic embrace has on the It also does not note that as savior and an announce- Lincoln’s Proclamation, but of our enslavement and our Dr. Maulana Karenga, holiday itself, and how the Gen. Gordon, who brought ment as an actuality rather also after Gen. Gordon’s liberation struggle to end Professor and Chair of system thru its embrace the news, advised the en- than an unfinished still-to- announcement. it. Such a holiday, Siku ya Africana Studies, Califor- gains power over the holi- slaved Africans “to remain be-fought-for human right So, again, it is not the news Maangamizi or Maafa (The nia State University-Long day’s essential message quietly at their present and human good. or the announcement of Day of Commemoration Beach; Executive Direc- and meaning. And thus, as homes and work for wages” No one serious, honest freedom or the troops who of the Great Destruction), tor, African American Cul- I noted in a prior article in and that they would not and free from conceptual were supposed to enforce is still to be conceived and tural Center (Us); Creator these pages, (Los Angeles be accepted at the military imprisonment in racist ste- the law that brought us constructed. And it will of Kwanzaa; and author Sentinel, 6/18/20), one of posts and “will not be sup- reotypes can believe Black freedom. It was/is our own not be only about events of Kwanzaa: A Celebra- the greatest challenges is ported in idleness either people did not know about efforts, then and now, that in a single city or state, but tion of Family, Community to stay focused on freedom there or elsewhere.” It is a the Civil War, the South have shaped our daily and about the whole of our his- and Culture and Essays and the righteous and re- curious “freedom” which losing the war or Lincoln’s constant quest and struggle tory of enslavement and on Struggle: Position and lentless struggle of our peo- prefigures the so-called limited Emancipation Proc- for freedom. It is we, our- resistance. It will extend Analysis, www.AfricanA- ple that brought and brings Black Codes and their va- lamation. Historical evi- selves, who have carved from our first resistance in mericanCulturalCenter-LA. it into being. grancy and imprisonment dence shows Black people out of the hard and resis- Africa and on the ships to org; www.OfficialKwan- It is common currency for laws for non-working Black knew about national and tant rock of a racist reality, when we landed on these zaaWebsite.org; www. the system to describe it people. international events, includ- places and spaces to stand shores, refused to forget or MaulanaKarenga.org. in academic, internet and Clearly, such an interpre- ing the Haitian Revolution in, build our lives and pur- be defeated, and continued popular sources as a “day tation brings with it a host of parties, picnics and of interrelated ethical, in- •SCOT MACDONALD• prayers” and with only per- tellectual and social prob- functory, reshaped and non- lems. First, it denies both offending references to the agency and awareness of Holocaust of enslavement the enslaved Africans. Also, itself and our resistance to it plays into the pathologi-

the Los AngeLes sentineL Even though Donald J. arms around her and then nie Cochran. Bohana and barred for lying, dishonesty Bohana has served more flipped her out of the pool,” his daughter Donna opened and fraud. He filed a civil than 20 years of a 15-years- Bohana said. the first sit-down restaurant wrongful death suit against to-life sentence for the mur- At about 3:30 a.m. Bo- in Watts since the 1965 ri- Bohana and pressured the der of Delores “Dee Dee” hana called 911. Paramedics ots; a Denny’s. DA to charge Bohana with DANNY J. BAKEWELL, SR. Jackson, ex-wife of Tito arrived and found Dee Dee Jacksons Want a Mur- murder. Oxman claimed Executive Publisher / CEO Jackson, the case against Jackson dead. der Charge Bohana had a history of him is tainted by political A November 7, 1994 au- The Jackson fam- domestic violence, was in JENNIFER J. THOMAS pressure and rife with ir- topsy found that Dee Dee’s ily did not believe Dee Dee financial trouble and, when Publisher regularities and reasonable blood alcohol level (.23) drowned by accident and Dee Dee refused to help KENNETH R. THOMAS doubt. was three times the legal pressured the DA to charge him financially, became Publisher / CEO (1983-1997) The Accident limit for driving. Bohana Bohana with murder. Tito enraged and murdered her. RUTH WASHINGTON “It was very, very hot, was also drunk that night. Jackson said, “Drown? The police found no evi- Business Manager / Publisher (1948-1990) unusually hot in L.A. at After investigating the inci- What was she doing in the dence Bohana had any his- COL. LEON WASHINGTON JR. the time,” Bohana later dent, the police and district water? You know, ‘cause tory of domestic violence, Founder / Publisher (1933-1974) told ABC News’s 20/20 attorney concluded it was Dee Dee and I, neither of us any financial difficulties or PAMELA A. BAKEWELL about the night of August an accidental drowning. swam.” had ever asked Dee Dee for Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer 26, 1994, which he spent At the time of Dee Dee’s Bohana said he had been money. DANNY J. BAKEWELL, JR. with Dee Dee, whom he death, Don Bohana was a teaching Dee Dee to swim The lack of evidence Executive Editor / Chief of Staff had been dating for eight 59-year-old divorcee. He and she kept several swim- did not deter the Jacksons BRENDA MARSH-MITCHELL weeks. “We’d go out, sit by had no criminal record. He suits at his house. He said, or Oxman. They continued Executive Assistant to the Publisher Member of the Board of the pool, have a couple of was honorably discharged “I’ll go to my grave saying to pressure the DA’s office Directors (2004-2014) drinks….It’s very roman- from the Army and had that she could swim be- to change the finding in the BRANDON I. BROOKS, Managing Editor tic.” been a teacher and then ad- cause Delores could swim.” case. After several other Entertainment Editor/Sports Editor/Advertising After they spent time ministrator of hospitals, life Dee Dee’s son, Taj, told prosecutors passed on the ANGELA HOWARD, Production Designer in the hot tub, Bohana said insurance companies and police that his mother told case, in 1996, Lori-Ann Family Editor / Circulation / Distribution Dee Dee swam back and banks. He was friends with him “she was trying to learn Jones, a new prosecutor in CORA JACKSON-FOSSETT, Religion Editor forth in the pool. Then he politicians and celebrities, to swim and Mr. Bohana the LA District Attorney’s Production Designer / Staff Writer noticed that she appeared to including Edmund Ger- was teaching her.” office, sent experts to re- BRIAN CARTER, Staff Writer be in trouble in the 15-foot ald “Pat” Brown, Yvonne Even so, the Jackson investigate the 1994 ac- Copy Editor deep end of the pool. Brathwaite Burke, Kenneth family hired attorney Brian {See WARREN C-2} ALAN BRAXTON, Sports Writer “I jumped in, put my and Janice Hahn, and John- Oxman, who was later dis- Copy Editor E. MESIYAH MCGINNIS, Photographer / Videographer Copy Editor CLIFFORD RUSSELL, Advertising ALLEN MORET, Classified

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{continued from Pg. A-1} vaccinated. There is no Also Present at the more critical time to do it.” celebration of the reopen- creating 38 percent of the na- Masks are still be rec- ing were other commu- tion’s jobs over all. ommended for unvaccinat- nity leaders such as L.A. Through the waves of ed Angelenos, especially in County Supervisor Hilda the pandemic, California re- public places such as hospi- Solis and California sena- mained one of the states that tals, long-term care facili- tor Robert Hertzberg. had the lowest case rates in ties, shelters for people ex- Supervisor Solis stat- the nation. Currently, in the periencing homelessness, ed on twitter on Tuesday, urgency for vaccinations, and indoor K-12 learning “California is officially California administered environments. fully re-open! It is because over 40 million shots. With Moving into another of all Californians that we the current stability of cases shift in operating business- have arrived at this point.” and vaccination distribution, es, starting on Tuesday res- Congresswoman Kar- Newsom announced the lift taurants, bars, and other re- en Bass also reflected on of the state restrictions on tails will have the option to this monumental moment, June 15, 2021. dismiss the social distanc- she stated, ““I’m excited Governor Newsom stating restrictions that were that we’re reopening and ed, we celebrate the incred- placed upon them back in returning to a new sense ible strength and resilience March. of normal but I am also in- of Californians – from our Business ownership credibly concerned about heroic health care workers to within the Black com- disproportionate rates of essential workers across the In this May 17, 2021, file photo, some visitors wear face masks outdoors while taking munity has seen extreme vaccinations in Los Ange- board to everyday Califor- pictures of the Hollywood sign at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. California, the prosperity and immense les – especially South Los nians from all walks of life first state in America to put in place a coronavirus lockdown, is now turning a page on the struggle from different Angeles. The pandemic – who have supported each pandemic. Most of California’s coronavirus restrictions will disappear Tuesday, June 15, Black-owned establish- is not over – there is still other through hardship and 2021. AP PHOTO/DAMIAN DOVARGANES, FILE ments during the global work to be done to en- heartache over the past year, pandemic. The reopening sure our folks are getting making sacrifices to save from Orange County were In reference to cdph. to the data found on co- of the state could possibly access to this life-saving countless lives and enable us the winners of the drawing. ca.gov, there has been an vidtracking.com/race. be the difference between vaccine.” to turn the page on this pan- Exploring the numbers approximate total of 3 mil- demic,” behind receiving vaccina- lion cases found in Cali- Newsom continued, “As tions, there has been a week- fornia, as of June 9,2021. we look ahead to better days, to-week increase of shots Addressing the affect CO- we will continue to look out distributed since the launch VID-19 had on the Black for one another, redoubling of Vax for the Win. Accord- community within Cali- our support to those hit hard- ing to the source mentioned fornia, there has been over est by the pandemic and mak- prior, there has been over a 100,000 positive coro- ing unprecedented invest- 22 percent increase in vac- navirus cases with 3,000 ments to address California’s cinations. positive reports resulting most persistent challenges, Every turn of the viral in death, accounting for 6.4 so that the entire state comes pandemic exposed a deeper percent of the state’s popu- roaring back together.” shade of injustice within the lation. The announcement was Black community. From the Digging deeper into made at Universal City Walk, variation in opinion on vac- the research, and acknowl- subsequently the winners of cination to the financial gap, edging death rate per capita the Vax for the Win received and digital divide, there has nationwide, Black people their $50,000 checks. Los been a racial stigma attached have died at higher rate; Angeles natives Helen Cor- to the concerns that followed at 1.4 times the amount of dova, Aurelia, and Reyna the spread of COVID-19. White people, referring California Governor Gavin Newsom, left, looks on as Access Hollywood personality Scott Evans draws a ball with a winning number during the Vax for the Win lottery contest at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif., Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Starting Tues- day, there were no more state rules on social distancing, and no more limits on capacity at restaurants, bars, supermarkets, gyms, stadiums or anywhere else. AP PHOTO/RINGO H.W. CHIU

Councilmember Mark closing their doors for good Newsom closed with Ridley-Thomas reflected or expanding the business a hope as the beacon of on the colossal milestone pass their expectations. light on this new frontier, June 15 brings to Califor- Governor Newsom cre- he said, ““Today’s about nia, stating, “As we embark ated a moment of celebra- reaching out the seren- on this significant mile- tion, accompanying him on dipity of life — meeting stone in the reopening of the stage as me made the strangers, having the op- our State, we must remem- announcement were char- portunity to experience all ber that although we have acters from popular kid’s the wonders of the world made major strides against films Trolls, Despicable that are here at Universal COVID-19, the battle is not Me, and Transformers, Studios,” Newsom con- yet over. While we may feel bringing in the resurgence tinued, “Today’s a day to California Governor Gavin Newsom, center, celebrates with other guests after the Vax fully liberated when we un- of physical contact. There celebrate the incredible for the Win lottery contest during a news conference at Universal Studios in Universal mask, we cannot lose sight was theme of “getting on journey we’ve been on City, Calif., Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Starting Tuesday, there were no more state rules on that the best weapon in our with the show,” in essence over the course of the last social distancing, and no more limits on capacity at restaurants, bars, supermarkets, arsenal is to get vaccinated. of the energy vibrating in 15 months.” gyms, stadiums or anywhere else. AP PHOTO/RINGO H.W. CHIU So if you haven’t yet, get this post-pandemic era. OP/ED

{continued from Pg C-1} drinking a lot and one of sentenced him to 15 years- perience in criminal cases, tains his innocence and site, donaldjbohana.com, them drowned,” Baden lat- to-life. More than 20 years who had worked part-time will not to admit to doing is dedicated to his release. er told 20/20. “There’s no later, Bohana is still furious for the LA County coro- a crime. The Jackie Lacey- Even so, the newest District cidental drowning of evidence of homicide.” at Braun and said, “He just ner’s office for just 29 days. led DA office’s Conviction Attorney, George Gascon, Dee Dee Jackson. The ex- In October 1997, during screwed me all the way.” Kay said, “He just dabbled Review Unit, headed by appears to still support such perts doubted Bohana’s ac- a polygraph test, Bohana In a move that raised in autopsies.” Robert Grace, first said the a questionable case and re- count. Jones said, “When said Dee Dee drowned by serious questions about Donna discovered DA would not oppose Bo- fuses to even review the we got all of those addition- accident and scored a 99.99 Braun’s defense, after the that when Posey filed for hana’s release and then did case through his Conviction al reports, we took it back NDI (no deception indicat- Bohana trial the Jackson bankruptcy, he commit- so at Bohana’s most recent Integrity Unit. Don Bohana to the L.A. county coroner, ed) score. family retained Braun as ted perjury by filing false March 28, 2019 hearing. is still languishing in prison and he changed his opin- The Trial an attorney. The state bar is schedules. The day before Until his murder convic- at the Men’s Colony West ion.” In June 1998, Bohana’s now investigating Braun’s Posey testified in the Bo- tion, Bohana had no crimi- facility in San Luis Obispo. In September 1996, two three-week trial began. conduct during the trial and hana case, Posey’s bank- nal record. His past only in- At 82 and having suffered years after Dee Dee’s death, Braun did not call a single his later retention by the ruptcy discharge was filed. cluded honorable service in a recent stroke and battle Dr. David Posey changed expert witness. Braun later Jackson family. His home mysteriously had the Army and success in all against COVID-19, Donna his opinion about how she told 20/20 that Dr. Baden A Daughter’s Crusade been saved. Further raising aspects of his life both pro- Bohana may not have much died from “undetermined” would have been “a weak After the verdict, Donna doubts about his objectivity, fessional and personal. He time left to secure her fa- to “homicide-assisted witness,” which seems in- Bohana discovered that after the criminal trial, the was an educator and suc- ther’s release. drowning. In March 1997, credible, given Dr. Baden’s even as prosecutors were Jackson family hired Posey cessful businessman, hold- the DA charged Bohana decades of experience as a relying on Dr. Posey to as a paid expert in their civil ing key positions at local K. Scot Macdonald is the with second-degree murder. New York medical exam- help convict her father, an- wrongful death suit against hospitals and appointments author of Deadly Dance: Bohana hired high-profile iner. Dr. Baden was also other LA prosecutor called Bohana. The DA’s office to various city boards and The Chippendales Murders, attorney Harland Braun and the chief forensic patholo- him a “fraud.” A widely re- also paid Posey for his tes- commissions. Saucy Jack: Alias Jack the renowned pathologist Dr. gist chosen by Congress to spected veteran prosecutor, timony in the Bohana case, Harland Braun is now Ripper and five novels. He Michael Baden as a foren- investigate the assassina- Stephen Kay investigated which demonstrated that he under investigation by was educated at the Uni- sic expert. tion of John F. Kennedy, Posey’s background before was not on the coroner’s of- the California State Bar, versity of British Colum- “It was clear to me that Martin Luther King and the testifying as a private con- fice staff. 20/20 profiled Bohana on bia, University of Nevada, this was a typical, inno- death of Medgar Evers. The sultant in another murder Since 2007, Bohana has September 17, 2017, cast- Reno, and the University of cent, accidental drowning jury convicted Bohana of trial. Posey was a hospital been denied parole four ing substantial doubt on Southern California. in which two people were second-degree murder and pathologist with limited ex- times, because he main- his conviction, and a web- NEWS A-7 THURSDAY,C-3 JANUARY 9, 2014 NEWS/CLASSIFIED LOS ANGELESTHURSDAY, SENTINEL JUNE 17, 2021

that means, hot weather, freed. The troops’ arrival celebrating the good news fun times, travel, and came a full two and a half with prayers, praise, sing- beautiful flowers. My hus- years after the signing of ing, and dancing with eyes band’s pet name for me is the Emancipation Procla- full of tears of joy. Today, Rose and the rose is June’s mation. Juneteenth is the 47 states now recognize birth flower. The rose in- oldest known celebration Juneteenth as a state holi- WINDOW dicates love or desire. So, honoring the end of slavery day, while efforts to make as you can see June is one in the United States and is it a national holiday have of my favorite months. considered the longest- so far stalled in Congress. I also like June because running African American June 20, is Father’s both Father’s Day and Ju- holiday. Though born and Day, the day we celebrate neteenth are celebrated raised in California, the the 70 million fathers in during this exciting month. paternal side of my fam- the United States. The rea- Juneteenth is commemo- ily hails from East Texas. son this day plays a pivotal rated on the 19th of June My Texas roots make me role in my life is because and this year Father’s Day imagine the joy that my of the tumultuous relation- will be celebrated on Sun- ancestors must have felt to ship I had with my father day, June 20. hear that one of the most had a chance to be restored Juneteenth marks the hideous crime in the histo- before his death. Without I realize every month June is the sixth month of the well-being of women, day when federal troops ry of mankind was finally going into detail my fa- has something special to the year, and it is said that which may be why so many arrived in Galveston, Tex- over. If I close my eyes and ther was not always there offer. For me, the month of it is most likely named for people get married in June. as in 1865 to take control allow my sanctified imagi- for me when I needed him June holds a unique place the Roman goddess Juno, June is also the first month of the state and ensure nation to work, I can see in both my head and heart. patroness of marriage and of the summer season and that all enslaved people be and hear the former slaves {See wendy C-5}

and trust God Almighty Jewish people, member of seek and to save that which ‘ for guidance. Nicodemus the Sanhedrin or National is lost.” Nicodemus made paid a secret visit to Jesus Council and according to the pivotal decision to be- Christ and asked, “How Rabbinical tradition makes lieve and accept Jesus. He defended Jesus when Jesus was in trouble with the re- ligious leaders. He, along with Joseph of Arimathea worked together to get Je- sus body to get him down from the cross and to his WWW.ASKDRJEANETTEPARKER.COM tomb for burial. Yes. There are innumerable Christians who are like the virgins who went to sleep while waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. They can a man be born when him one of the three richest missed His coming when he is old? Can he enter men in Jerusalem. He had they had to go to the mar- Traveling this life’s to be that every decision decision we make will be again the second time into been listening to the Messi- ketplace for oil. While they road, there are many diffi- we make is the right deci- the right and perfect one. his mother’s womb, and ah’s sermons and witness- were gone, they missed cult decisions to make and sion and the one to turn Sometimes we don’t know be born?” Such was the ing miracles. He wanted their opportunity to meet to be made. our life completely around if the decision will be the dilemma of Nicodemus, a more information and was the bridegroom and the Every decision is im- for the better and the best. best decision. But, we Pharisee, (they held to spe- looking for answers. We portant. We would like it It’s not likely that every need to consult with God cial practices), ruler of the know Jesus’ purpose is “to {See parker C-5}

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at the hearing to show cause Clerk, except, as provided matter pursuant to Section AVENUE 46, LOS ANGELES, why the petition should not be in Subdivision (b) of Section 17913 of the Business and CA 90065 County of LOS ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLIC REVIEW AND PUBLIC HEARING granted. If no written objection 17920, where it expires Professions code that the ANGELES is timely filed, the court may 40 days after any change registrant knows to be false Registered owner(s): The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has developed and will be publishing its Draft grant the petition without a in the facts set forth in the is guilty of a misdemeanor TIMOTHY K. MCNEAL, Agency Plan for Fiscal Year 2022 (Draft Agency Plan) in compliance with the Housing Reform Act of 1998. hearing. statement pursuant to Section punishable by a fine not to 454 W AVENUE 46, LOS The Draft Agency Plan will be available for public review and comment beginning June 25, 2021 through Notice of Hearing: 17913 other than a change exceed one thousand dollars ANGELES, CA 90065 August 12, 2021. The Draft Agency Plan can be reviewed at HACLA’s website at http://www.hacla.org/ Date: 06/25/2021, Time: 8:30 in the residence address of ($1,000)). DONNA MICHELLE About-Us/Public-Documents/Agency-Plans, the Resident Council and HACLA management offices at the large family developments, and at: AM, Dept.: B a registered owner. A new S/ LORENZO OLIVERA, ANDERSON, 14622 The address of the court is Fictitious Business Name Owner VENTURA BLVD #333, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles – Central Office 825 Maple Avenue, Torrance, Statement must be filed This statement was filed SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91403 2600 Wilshire Blvd CA 90503 before the expiration. Effective with the County Clerk of This business is conducted by Los Angeles, CA 90057 A copy of this Order to Show January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Los Angeles County on a General Partnership Cause shall be published at Business Name Statement 06/08/2021. The registrant(s) started doing TELECONFERENCE INFORMATION: least once each week for four must be accompanied by the NOTICE-In accordance with business on 04/2021. successive weeks prior to Affidavit of Identity form. Subdivision (a) of Section I declare that all information The Public Hearing will be held via teleconference. Please use the following information to join the meet- the date set for hearing on The filing of this statement 17920, a Fictitious Name in this statement is true and ing. the petition in the following does not of itself authorize Statement generally expires correct. (A registrant who newspaper of general the use in this state of a at the end of five years from declares as true any material Join using the ZOOM App: Meeting ID: 867-6401-8540 circulation, printed in this Fictitious Business Name the date on which it was filed matter pursuant to Section Or county: Los Angeles Sentinel in violation of the rights of in the office of the County 17913 of the Business and Date: May 7, 2021 another under Federal, State, Clerk, except, as provided Professions code that the Join using the following dial-in information. Gary Y. 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A new This statement was filed Cambodian 1 (669) 900-6833 977-1374-6745 Case No. 21STCP00842 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Korean 1 (571) 317-3122 429-992-437 Fictitious Business Name with the County Clerk of Superior Court of California, NAME STATEMENT Statement must be filed Los Angeles County on Russian 1 (312) 757-3121 149-897-573 County of Los Angeles File No. 2021127020 before the expiration. Effective 05/19/2021. Vietnamese 1 (669) 900-6833 820-2947-4385 Petition of: Dana Moon The following person(s) is January 1, 2014, the Fictitious NOTICE-In accordance with Dorsett for Change of Name (are) doing business as: *Please note special Teleconference Public Comment Instructions Business Name Statement Subdivision (a) of Section TO ALL INTERESTED TEACUP JEWELRY CO., must be accompanied by the 17920, a Fictitious Name MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT A PERSONS: 1120 SOUTH HOOVER Affidavit of Identity form. Statement generally expires WRITTEN COMMENT TO THE BOARD SECRETARY FOR EACH ITEM THEY WISH TO ADDRESS. THE Petitioner Dana Moon Dorsett STREET APT 2, Los Angeles, The filing of this statement at the end of five years from DEADLINE FOR WRITTEN COMMENTS IS MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2021 AT 12:00PM. ALL WRITTEN filed a petition with this court CA 90006 County of LOS does not of itself authorize the date on which it was filed COMMENTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL TO [email protected]. PLEASE for a decree changing names ANGELES the use in this state of a in the office of the County MAKE SURE EMAIL INCLUDES NAME, SUBJECT AND ADDRESS/ORGANIZATION FOR WHOM YOU as follows: Registered owner(s): Fictitious Business Name Clerk, except, as provided REPRESENT. WE ALSO ASK THAT ALL COMMENTS BE LIMITED TO 500 WORDS OR LESS. THE Dana Moon Dorsett to Dana TEACUP CREAMERY LLC, in violation of the rights of in Subdivision (b) of Section SECRETARY WILL PROVIDE ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THE BOARD FOR REVIEW PRIOR TO THE Moon 1120 SOUTH HOOVER another under Federal, State, 17920, where it expires AUGUST 12, 2021 HEARING. THE SECRETARY WILL ALSO READ EACH PUBLIC COMMENT INTO THE The Court orders that all STREET APT 2, LOS RECORD AT THE TIME THE ITEM IS CONSIDERED. or common law (See Section 40 days after any change persons interested in this ANGELES, CA 90006; State 14411 et seq., Business and in the facts set forth in the matter appear before this of Incorporation: CA Professions Code). statement pursuant to Section THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT IS TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE BOARD AND court at the hearing indicated This business is conducted by THE BOARD IS INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, STAKEHOLDERS Original Filing 17913 other than a change below to show cause, if any, a limited liability company 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 in the residence address of AND INTERESTED PARTIES. HOWEVER, SPEAKERS ARE ASKED TO EXERCISE COURTESY AND why the petition for change of The registrant(s) started doing CONSIDER THE RIGHTS OF OTHER SPEAKERS BY ADHERING TO THE SPECIAL TELECONFERENCE CNS-3482896# a registered owner. A new LOS ANGELES SENTINEL PUBLIC COMMENT INSTRUCTIONS AND IF POSSIBLE REFRAIN FROM UNNECESSARY REPETITION name should not be granted. business on N/A. Fictitious Business Name IN THEIR COMMENTS. Any person objecting to the I declare that all information Statement must be filed name changes described in this statement is true and FICTITIOUS BUSINESS before the expiration. Effective Although, HACLA does not expect any call-in information changes, if there are any updates to the call-in above must file a written correct. (A registrant who NAME STATEMENT January 1, 2014, the Fictitious instructions, they will be posted at www.hacla.org. objection that includes the declares as true any material File No. 2021126264 Business Name Statement reasons for the objection at matter pursuant to Section The following person(s) is must be accompanied by the Please note that comments received after the Public Hearing will not be considered or made part of least two court days before 17913 of the Business and (are) doing business as: Affidavit of Identity form. the Agency Plan for Fiscal Year 2022. Please address any written communications to the Community the matter is scheduled to Professions code that the 1. DAILY AGENDA $TACKIN Engagement Department at the address listed above. The filing of this statement be heard and must appear registrant knows to be false HUNDREDS CLOTHING, 2. does not of itself authorize CNSB#3480119 at the hearing to show cause is guilty of a misdemeanor DA$H, 2145 W. 80TH ST., the use in this state of a why the petition should not be punishable by a fine not to LOS ANGELES, CA 90047 Fictitious Business Name granted. If no written objection exceed one thousand dollars County of LOS ANGELES Any person objecting to the 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 in violation of the rights of CNS-3476196# is timely filed, the court may ($1,000)). Registered owner(s): another under Federal, State, name changes described grant the petition without a TEACUP CREAMERY LLC JONATHAN PERRY, 2145 W. CIVIL above must file a written LOS ANGELES SENTINEL or common law (See Section hearing. S/ JESSICA PARKER, 80TH ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 14411 et seq., Business and objection that includes the Notice of Hearing: Member 90047 reasons for the objection at ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Professions Code). FOR CHANGE OF NAME Date: 07/19/2021, Time: 11:00 This statement was filed This business is conducted by Original Filing least two court days before AM, Dept.: 26 with the County Clerk of an Individual the matter is scheduled to Case No. 21STCP01430 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1/21 The address of the court is Los Angeles County on The registrant(s) started doing CNS-3480184# ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE be heard and must appear Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles 111 North Hill Street, Los 06/07/2021. business on 05/2021. LOS ANGELES SENTINEL FOR CHANGE OF NAME at the hearing to show cause Angeles, CA 90012 NOTICE-In accordance with I declare that all information Case No. 21LBCP00161 why the petition should not be Petition of: Jesenia Josefin Zelaya for Change of Name A copy of this Order to Show Subdivision (a) of Section in this statement is true and FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Superior Court of California, granted. If no written objection Cause shall be published at 17920, a Fictitious Name correct. (A registrant who NAME STATEMENT County of Los Angeles is timely filed, the court may TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: least once each week for four Statement generally expires declares as true any material File No. 2021109513 Petition of: Cesar Abello Sta. grant the petition without a successive weeks prior to at the end of five years from matter pursuant to Section The following person(s) is Maria and Liliana Sta Maria hearing. Petitioner Jesenia Josefin Zelaya filed a petition with this the date set for hearing on the date on which it was filed 17913 of the Business and (are) doing business as: for Change of Name Notice of Hearing: the petition in the following in the office of the County Professions code that the 1. LA PLUSH BOUTIQUE, TO ALL INTERESTED Date: 07/20/2021, Time: 8:30 court for a decree changing names as follows: newspaper of general Clerk, except, as provided registrant knows to be false 2. LA PLUSH COSMETICS, PERSONS: AM, Dept.: 26 circulation, printed in this in Subdivision (b) of Section is guilty of a misdemeanor 3. LA PLUSH, 4. LA PLUSH Petitioner Cesar Abello Sta. The address of the court is Jesenia Josefin Zelaya to Jesenia Josefin Carbajal county: Los Angeles Sentinel 17920, where it expires punishable by a fine not to HOME, 7606 CRENSHAW Maria and Liliana Sta Maria 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, Date: 03/16/2021 40 days after any change exceed one thousand dollars BLVD., LOS ANGELES, filed a petition with this court CA 90802 The Court orders that all persons interested in this Elaine Lu in the facts set forth in the ($1,000)). CA 90043 County of LOS for a decree changing names A copy of this Order to Show Judge of the Superior Court statement pursuant to Section S/ JONATHAN PERRY, ANGELES as follows: Cause shall be published at matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 17913 other than a change Owner Mailing Address: 4155 Sergio Cesar Sta.Maria to least once each week for four CNS-3473534# in the residence address of This statement was filed 1/2 DALTON AVE, LOS Sergio Cesar Santa Maria successive weeks prior to below to show cause, if any, LOS ANGELES SENTINEL why the petition for change of a registered owner. A new with the County Clerk of ANGELES, CA 90062 The Court orders that all the date set for hearing on Fictitious Business Name Los Angeles County on Registered owner(s): persons interested in this the petition in the following name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the Statement must be filed 06/04/2021. JENNIFER J MOORE matter appear before this newspaper of general before the expiration. Effective NOTICE-In accordance with WILLIAMS, 4155 1/2 DALTON court at the hearing indicated circulation, printed in this name changes described above must file a written FICTITIOUS January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Subdivision (a) of Section AVE, LOS ANGELES, CA below to show cause, if any, county: Los Angeles Sentinel Business Name Statement 17920, a Fictitious Name 90062 why the petition for change of Date: June 8, 2021 objection that includes the reasons for the objection at BUSINESS must be accompanied by the Statement generally expires This business is conducted by name should not be granted. MICHAEL P. VICENCIA Affidavit of Identity form. at the end of five years from an Individual Any person objecting to the Judge of the Superior Court least two court days before NAMES the matter is scheduled to The filing of this statement the date on which it was filed The registrant(s) started doing name changes described 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 does not of itself authorize in the office of the County business on N/A. above must file a written CNS-3480782# be heard and must appear LOS ANGELES SENTINEL at the hearing to show cause the use in this state of a Clerk, except, as provided I declare that all information objection that includes the Fictitious Business Name in Subdivision (b) of Section in this statement is true and reasons for the objection at why the petition should not be FICTITIOUS BUSINESS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE granted. If no written objection in violation of the rights of 17920, where it expires correct. (A registrant who least two court days before NAME STATEMENT another under Federal, State, 40 days after any change declares as true any material the matter is scheduled to FOR CHANGE OF NAME is timely filed, the court may File No. 2021126347 Case No. 21STCP01714 grant the petition without a or common law (See Section in the facts set forth in the matter pursuant to Section be heard and must appear The following person(s) is 14411 et seq., Business and statement pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and at the hearing to show cause Superior Court of California, hearing. (are) doing business as: County of Los Angeles Notice of Hearing: Professions Code). 17913 other than a change Professions code that the why the petition should not be MIA FARRIS COUTURE, Original Filing in the residence address of registrant knows to be false granted. If no written objection Petition of: Jerry Lee Martin III Date: June 21, 2021, Time: 2145 W. 80TH ST., LOS for Change of Name 10:00 A.M. , Dept.: 74, Room: 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 a registered owner. A new is guilty of a misdemeanor is timely filed, the court may ANGELES, CA 90047 County CNS-3482909# Fictitious Business Name punishable by a fine not to grant the petition without a TO ALL INTERESTED 735 of LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES SENTINEL PERSONS: The address of the court is Statement must be filed exceed one thousand dollars hearing. Registered owner(s): before the expiration. Effective ($1,000)). Notice of Hearing: Petitioner Jerry Lee Martin III 111 N. Hill St, Los Angeles, MIA FARRIS, 2145 W 80TH FICTITIOUS BUSINESS filed a petition with this court CA 90012 January 1, 2014, the Fictitious S/ JENNIFER J MOORE Date: 07/21/2021, Time: 8:30 ST, LOS ANGELES, CA NAME STATEMENT Business Name Statement WILLIAMS, Owner AM, Dept.: 26 for a decree changing names A copy of this Order to Show 90047 File No. 2021126570 as follows: Cause shall be published at must be accompanied by the This statement was filed The address of the court is This business is conducted by The following person(s) is Affidavit of Identity form. with the County Clerk of 275 Magnolia, Long Beach, Jerry Lee Martin III to Jerry least once each week for four an Individual (are) doing business as: Lee Martin Jr successive weeks prior to The filing of this statement Los Angeles County on CA 90802 The registrant(s) started doing R & D FACILITATION, does not of itself authorize 05/12/2021. A copy of this Order to Show The Court orders that all the date set for hearing on business on 05/2021. 2190 W. 29TH PLACE, Los persons interested in this the petition in the following the use in this state of a NOTICE-In accordance with Cause shall be published at I declare that all information Angeles, CA 90018 County of Fictitious Business Name Subdivision (a) of Section least once each week for four matter appear before this newspaper of general in this statement is true and LOS ANGELES court at the hearing indicated circulation, printed in this in violation of the rights of 17920, a Fictitious Name successive weeks prior to correct. (A registrant who Mailing Address: 2190 W. another under Federal, State, Statement generally expires the date set for hearing on below to show cause, if any, county: Los Angeles Sentinel declares as true any material 29TH PLACE, Los Angeles, why the petition for change of Date: May 5, 2021 or common law (See Section at the end of five years from the petition in the following matter pursuant to Section CA 90018 14411 et seq., Business and the date on which it was filed newspaper of general name should not be granted. Michelle Williams Court 17913 of the Business and Registered owner(s): Any person objecting to the Judge of the Superior Court Professions Code). in the office of the County circulation, printed in this Professions code that the DEANNA CHERRY Filing with Changes Clerk, except, as provided county: Los Angeles Sentinel name changes described 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 registrant knows to be false CONSULTING, INC., 2190 above must file a written CNS-3475738# 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 in Subdivision (b) of Section Date: June 9, 2021 is guilty of a misdemeanor W. 29TH PLACE, LOS CNS-3482887# objection that includes the LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 17920, where it expires MICHAEL P. VICENCIA punishable by a fine not to ANGELES, CA 90018; State LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 40 days after any change Judge of the Superior Court reasons for the objection at exceed one thousand dollars of Incorporation: CA least two court days before ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE in the facts set forth in the 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 FOR CHANGE OF NAME ($1,000)). This business is conducted by FICTITIOUS BUSINESS statement pursuant to Section CNS-3483080# the matter is scheduled to S/ MIA FARRIS, Owner a Corporation NAME STATEMENT LOS ANGELES SENTINEL be heard and must appear Case No. 21TRCP00153 17913 other than a change Superior Court of California, This statement was filed The registrant(s) started doing File No. 2021 127948 in the residence address of at the hearing to show cause with the County Clerk of business on 04/2021. The following person(s) is why the petition should not be County of Los Angeles a registered owner. A new Petition of: Consuelo Moreno Los Angeles County on I declare that all information (are) doing business as: Fictitious Business Name ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE granted. If no written objection 06/04/2021. in this statement is true and GENESIS SANTA MONICA, FOR CHANGE OF NAME is timely filed, the court may for Change of Name Statement must be filed TO ALL INTERESTED NOTICE-In accordance with correct. (A registrant who 1100 SANTA MONICA before the expiration. Effective Case No. 21STCP01782 grant the petition without a Subdivision (a) of Section declares as true any material BOULEVARD, Santa Superior Court of California, hearing. PERSONS: January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Petitioner filed a petition 17920, a Fictitious Name matter pursuant to Section Monica, CA 90401, County of Business Name Statement County of Los Angeles Notice of Hearing: Statement generally expires 17913 of the Business and Los Angeles; Petition of: Mekeirla Natasha Date: July 19, 2021, Time: with this court for a decree must be accompanied by the changing names as follows: at the end of five years from Professions code that the Articles of Incorporation or Affidavit of Identity form. Bryant for Change of Name 11:00 A.M., Dept.: 26, Room: the date on which it was filed registrant knows to be false Organization Number: AI TO ALL INTERESTED 316 Consuelo Moreno to Connie The filing of this statement Moreno in the office of the County is guilty of a misdemeanor #ON: 202113411200 does not of itself authorize PERSONS: The address of the court is Clerk, except, as provided punishable by a fine not to Registered owner(s): Petitioner filed a petition 111 North Hill Street, Room The Court orders that all the use in this state of a persons interested in this in Subdivision (b) of Section exceed one thousand dollars GENSM, LLC, 1100 SANTA Fictitious Business Name with this court for a decree 118, Los Angeles, CA 90012 17920, where it expires ($1,000)). MONICA BOULEVARD, changing names as follows: A copy of this Order to Show matter appear before this in violation of the rights of court at the hearing indicated 40 days after any change DEANNA CHERRY SANTA MONICA, CA 90401; another under Federal, State, Mekeirla Natasha Bryant to Cause shall be published at in the facts set forth in the CONSULTING, INC. DE Natasha Mekeirla Bryant least once each week for four below to show cause, if any, or common law (See Section why the petition for change of statement pursuant to Section S/ DEANNA CHERRY, This business is conducted 14411 et seq., Business and The Court orders that all successive weeks prior to 17913 other than a change President by: a Limited Liability persons interested in this the date set for hearing on name should not be granted. Professions Code). Any person objecting to the in the residence address of This statement was filed Company Original Filing matter appear before this the petition in the following a registered owner. A new with the County Clerk of The registrant commenced to court at the hearing indicated newspaper of general name changes described 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1/21 above must file a written Fictitious Business Name Los Angeles County on transact business under the CNS-3480179# below to show cause, if any, circulation, printed in this Statement must be filed 06/07/2021. fictitious business name or LOS ANGELES SENTINEL why the petition for change of county: Los Angeles Sentinel objection that includes the reasons for the objection at before the expiration. Effective NOTICE-In accordance with names listed above on N/A name should not be granted. Date: May 27, 2021 January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Subdivision (a) of Section I declare that all information FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Any person objecting to the Elaine Lu least two court days before the matter is scheduled to Business Name Statement 17920, a Fictitious Name in this statement is true and NAME STATEMENT name changes described Judge of the Superior Court Statement generally expires correct. (A registrant who File No. 2021124363 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24/21 be heard and must appear must be accompanied by the above must file a written Affidavit of Identity form. at the end of five years from declares as true any material The following person(s) is objection that includes the CNS-3477687# at the hearing to show cause LOS ANGELES SENTINEL why the petition should not be The filing of this statement the date on which it was filed matter pursuant to Section (are) doing business as: reasons for the objection at does not of itself authorize in the office of the County 17913 of the Business and LITTLE THINKERS FAMILY least two court days before granted. If no written objection ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE is timely filed, the court may the use in this state of a Clerk, except, as provided Professions code that the DAY CARE, 709 SOUTH the matter is scheduled to Fictitious Business Name in Subdivision (b) of Section registrant knows to be false CLYMAR AVE, Compton, be heard and must appear FOR CHANGE OF NAME grant the petition without a Case No. 21VECP00183 hearing. in violation of the rights of 17920, where it expires is guilty of a misdemeanor CA 90220 County of LOS at the hearing to show cause another under Federal, State, 40 days after any change punishable by a fine not to ANGELES why the petition should not be Superior Court of California, Notice of Hearing: County of Los Angeles Date: 07/09/2021, Time: 8:30 or common law (See Section in the facts set forth in the exceed one thousand dollars Registered owner(s): granted. If no written objection 14411 et seq., Business and statement pursuant to Section ($1,000)). KENISHA EDWARDS, 709 is timely filed, the court may Petition of: Natalie Elizabeth AM, Dept.: B Trujillo-Fox for Change of The address of the court is Professions Code). 17913 other than a change S/ MICHAEL D. SULLIVAN, SOUTH CLYMAR AVE, grant the petition without a Filing with Changes in the residence address of Manager COMPTON, CA 90220; State hearing. Name 825 Maple Avenue, Torrance, TO ALL INTERESTED CA 90603 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 a registered owner. A new GENSM, LLC of Incorporation: CA Notice of Hearing: CNS-3483076# Fictitious Business Name This statement was filed This business is conducted by Date: July 19, 2021, Time: PERSONS: A copy of this Order to Show LOS ANGELES SENTINEL Petitioner Natalie Elizabeth Cause shall be published at Statement must be filed with the County Clerk of Los an Individual 10:00 AM, Dept.: 74, Room: before the expiration. Effective Angeles on June 8, 2021 The registrant(s) started doing 735 Trujillo-Fox filed a petition least once each week for four FICTITIOUS BUSINESS with this court for a decree successive weeks prior to January 1, 2014, the Fictitious NOTICE-In accordance with business on N/A. The address of the court is NAME STATEMENT Business Name Statement Subdivision (a) of Section I declare that all information 111 North Hill Street, Los changing names as follows: the date set for hearing on File No. 2021127327 Natalie Elizabeth Trujillo-Fox the petition in the following must be accompanied by the 17920, a Fictitious Name in this statement is true and Angeles, CA 90012 The following person(s) is Affidavit of Identity form. Statement generally expires correct. (A registrant who A copy of this Order to Show to Natalie Elizabeth Fox newspaper of general (are) doing business as: The Court orders that all circulation, printed in this The filing of this statement at the end of five years from declares as true any material Cause shall be published at 1. ALLWINE NO BEER does not of itself authorize the date on which it was filed matter pursuant to Section least once each week for four persons interested in this county: Los Angeles Sentinel PRODUCTIONS, 2. ANB matter appear before this Date: May 19, 2021 the use in this state of a in the office of the County 17913 of the Business and successive weeks prior to PRODUCTIONS, 943 N Fictitious Business Name Clerk, except, as provided Professions code that the the date set for hearing on court at the hearing indicated Gary Y. Tanaka ORANGE GROVE AVE #6, below to show cause, if any, Judge of the Superior Court in violation of the rights of in Subdivision (b) of Section registrant knows to be false the petition in the following West Hollywood, CA 90046 another under Federal, State, 17920, where it expires is guilty of a misdemeanor newspaper of general why the petition for change of 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 County of LOS ANGELES name should not be granted. CNS-3475732# or common law (See Section 40 days after any change punishable by a fine not to circulation, printed in this LOS ANGELES SENTINEL Registered owner(s): 14411 et seq., Business and in the facts set forth in the exceed one thousand dollars county: Los Angeles Sentinel Any person objecting to the ALISON ALLWINE, 943 N name changes described Professions Code). statement pursuant to Section ($1,000)). Date: June 2, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ORANGE GROVE AVE #6, Original Filing 17913 other than a change S/ KENISHA EDWARDS, MICHELLE WILLIAMS above must file a written WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA objection that includes the FOR CHANGE OF NAME 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 in the residence address of Owner COURT Case No. 21TRCP00133 90046 CNS-3482900# a registered owner. A new This statement was filed Judge of the Superior Court reasons for the objection at This business is conducted by LOS ANGELES SENTINEL least two court days before Superior Court of California, Fictitious Business Name with the County Clerk of 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 County of Los Angeles an Individual CNS-3482905# the matter is scheduled to Statement must be filed Los Angeles County on Petition of: Leonard Borum for The registrant(s) started doing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS before the expiration. Effective 06/03/2021. LOS ANGELES SENTINEL be heard and must appear business on N/A. NAME STATEMENT at the hearing to show cause Change of Name January 1, 2014, the Fictitious NOTICE-In accordance with TO ALL INTERESTED I declare that all information File No. 2021128071 Business Name Statement Subdivision (a) of Section ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE why the petition should not be in this statement is true and The following person(s) is FOR CHANGE OF NAME granted. If no written objection PERSONS: must be accompanied by the 17920, a Fictitious Name Petitioner Leonard Borum correct. (A registrant who (are) doing business as: Affidavit of Identity form. Statement generally expires Case No. 21LBCP00159 is timely filed, the court may declares as true any material YAGUL, 526 WILSHIRE Superior Court of California, grant the petition without a filed a petition with this court The filing of this statement at the end of five years from for a decree changing names matter pursuant to Section BLVD., SANTA MONICA, does not of itself authorize the date on which it was filed County of Los Angeles hearing. 17913 of the Business and CA 90401 County of LOS Petition of: James Edward Notice of Hearing: as follows: the use in this state of a in the office of the County Leonard Borum to Leonard Professions code that the ANGELES Fictitious Business Name Clerk, except, as provided Reed Jr for Change of Name Date: 06/18/2021, Time: 8:30 registrant knows to be false Mailing Address: 968 E. 66TH TO ALL INTERESTED am, Dept.: A, Room: 510 Harmon Sr. in violation of the rights of in Subdivision (b) of Section The Court orders that all is guilty of a misdemeanor ST., INGLEWOOD, CA 90302 another under Federal, State, 17920, where it expires PERSONS: The address of the court is punishable by a fine not to Registered owner(s): Petitioner James Edward 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van persons interested in this or common law (See Section 40 days after any change matter appear before this exceed one thousand dollars LORENZO OLIVERA, 968 E. 14411 et seq., Business and in the facts set forth in the Reed Jr filed a petition Nuys, CA 91401 ($1,000)). 66TH ST., INGLEWOOD, CA with this court for a decree A copy of this Order to Show court at the hearing indicated Professions Code). statement pursuant to Section below to show cause, if any, S/ ALISON ALLWINE, Owner 90302 Original 17913 other than a change changing names as follows: Cause shall be published at This statement was filed ADELA OLIVERA, 968 E. James Edward Reed Jr least once each week for four why the petition for change of 6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 in the residence address of name should not be granted. with the County Clerk of 66TH ST., INGLEWOOD, CA CNS-3481000# a registered owner. A new to PrinceJames Edward successive weeks prior to Los Angeles County on 90302 LOS ANGELES SENTINEL ReedWilliams the date set for hearing on Any person objecting to the Fictitious Business Name name changes described 06/07/2021. This business is conducted by Statement must be filed The Court orders that all the petition in the following NOTICE-In accordance with a Married Couple FICTITIOUS BUSINESS persons interested in this newspaper of general above must file a written before the expiration. Effective objection that includes the Subdivision (a) of Section The registrant(s) started doing NAME STATEMENT January 1, 2014, the Fictitious matter appear before this circulation, printed in this 17920, a Fictitious Name business on N/A. File No. 2021114246 court at the hearing indicated county: Los Angeles Sentinel reasons for the objection at Business Name Statement least two court days before Statement generally expires I declare that all information The following person(s) is must be accompanied by the below to show cause, if any, Date: 04/13/2021 at the end of five years from in this statement is true and (are) doing business as: why the petition for change of Huey P. Cotton the matter is scheduled to Affidavit of Identity form. be heard and must appear the date on which it was filed correct. (A registrant who 1. EDISON AVENUE, The filing of this statement name should not be granted. Judge of the Superior Court in the office of the County declares as true any material 2. EDISON AVE, 454 W C-5A-6 LOS LASENTINEL.NET ANGELES SENTINEL NEWSNEWS THURSDAY,JANUARY THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 9, 20212014 Two Days to Remember and Never Forget

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does not of itself authorize 17920, a Fictitious Name a Corporation 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 in the office of the County business on N/A. through will be conducted the use in this state of a Statement generally expires The registrant(s) started doing CNS-3476152# Clerk, except, as provided I declare that all information after the conference. The Fictitious Business Name at the end of five years from business on 04/2021. LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in Subdivision (b) of Section in this statement is true and estimated maximum contract in violation of the rights of the date on which it was filed I declare that all information 17920, where it expires correct. (A registrant who amount of this service is another under Federal, State, in the office of the County in this statement is true and FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 40 days after any change declares as true any material $500,000 annually. The or common law (See Section Clerk, except, as provided correct. (A registrant who NAME STATEMENT in the facts set forth in the matter pursuant to Section Request for Proposals (RFP) 14411 et seq., Business and in Subdivision (b) of Section declares as true any material File No. 2021102215 statement pursuant to Section 17913 of the Business and with contract specifications, Professions Code). 17920, where it expires matter pursuant to Section The following person(s) is 17913 other than a change Professions code that the forms, and instructions for Original Filing 40 days after any change 17913 of the Business and (are) doing business as: in the residence address of registrant knows to be false preparing and submitting 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1/21 in the facts set forth in the Professions code that the 1. VALERIE WIGGAN, a registered owner. A new is guilty of a misdemeanor proposals may be accessed CNS-3480174# statement pursuant to Section registrant knows to be false 2. JOSETTE WIGGAN, Fictitious Business Name punishable by a fine not to at http://pw.lacounty.gov/brcd/ LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 17913 other than a change is guilty of a misdemeanor 3. JOSEPH WIGGAN, 4. Statement must be filed exceed one thousand dollars servicecontracts/ . in the residence address of punishable by a fine not to HILARY WIGGAN, 5. KT before the expiration. Effective ($1,000)). 6/17/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS a registered owner. A new exceed one thousand dollars INC., 6. KT_INC., 7. MIA January 1, 2014, the Fictitious VINFAST DEALER SAN CNS-3479847# NAME STATEMENT Fictitious Business Name ($1,000)). WARNER, 8. RAY WIGGAN Business Name Statement FRANCISCO #1, LLC LOS ANGELES SENTINEL File No. 2021121054 Statement must be filed RAYMOND D SMITH INC SR., 9. RAY WIGGAN JR., 10. must be accompanied by the S/ JEREMY B. SNYDER, The following person(s) is before the expiration. Effective S/ RAYMOND D SMITH, SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA, Affidavit of Identity form. Manager REQUEST FOR (are) doing business as: January 1, 2014, the Fictitious President 11. CRYSTAL CLEAR, 309 The filing of this statement This statement was filed PROPOSALS Notice is 1. STEVIEDREAMA Business Name Statement This statement was filed E. HILLCREST BLVD #260, does not of itself authorize with the County Clerk of given that proposals for FASHION TRENDS, 2. must be accompanied by the with the County Clerk of INGLEWOOD, CA 90301 the use in this state of a Los Angeles County on Design-Build Services for the SHONUFF ATHLETIC Affidavit of Identity form. Los Angeles County on County of LOS ANGELES Fictitious Business Name 05/04/2021. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center WEAR, 3. HUNGER BRAND The filing of this statement 05/11/2021. Registered owner(s): in violation of the rights of NOTICE-In accordance with Mental Health Outpatient CLOTHING, 622 W SPRUCE does not of itself authorize NOTICE-In accordance with I-DEAL INC., 309 E. another under Federal, State, Subdivision (a) of Section Clinic (BRC0000277), will be AVE, Inglewood, CA 90301 the use in this state of a Subdivision (a) of Section HILLCREST BLVD #260, or common law (See Section 17920, a Fictitious Name received by the County of County of LOS ANGELES Fictitious Business Name 17920, a Fictitious Name INGLEWOOD, CA 90301; 14411 et seq., Business and Statement generally expires L.A. Dept. of Public Works, Registered owner(s): in violation of the rights of Statement generally expires State of Incorporation: CA Professions Code). at the end of five years from on July 19, 2021 by 4:00 p.m. STEVEN DION MONROE another under Federal, State, at the end of five years from This business is conducted by Original Filing the date on which it was filed A mandatory pre-submittal SR., 622 W SPRUCE AVE, or common law (See Section the date on which it was filed a Corporation 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 in the office of the County virtual conference will be held INGLEWOOD, CA 90301 14411 et seq., Business and in the office of the County The registrant(s) started doing CNS-3475835# Clerk, except, as provided on June 21, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. This business is conducted by Professions Code). Clerk, except, as provided business on 07/2020. LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in Subdivision (b) of Section To access RFP documents, an Individual Original Filing in Subdivision (b) of Section I declare that all information 17920, where it expires visit the link at http://dpw. The registrant(s) started doing 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24/21 17920, where it expires in this statement is true and FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 40 days after any change lacounty.gov/general/ business on N/A. CNS-3477650# 40 days after any change correct. (A registrant who NAME STATEMENT in the facts set forth in the contracts/opportunities/ or I declare that all information LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in the facts set forth in the declares as true any material File No. 2021101196 statement pursuant to Section will be emailed to you upon in this statement is true and statement pursuant to Section matter pursuant to Section The following person(s) is 17913 other than a change request by calling (626) 458- correct. (A registrant who FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 17913 of the Business and (are) doing business as: 5114. 17913 other than a change in the residence address of 6/17/21 declares as true any material NAME STATEMENT in the residence address of Professions code that the LAVENDER ROSE a registered owner. A new matter pursuant to Section File No. 2021100232 registrant knows to be false RECORDS, 3500 S CNS-3478616# a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 17913 of the Business and The following person(s) is Fictitious Business Name is guilty of a misdemeanor MUIRFIELD ROAD, Los Statement must be filed Professions code that the (are) doing business as: punishable by a fine not to Angeles, CA 90016 County of Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective REQUEST FOR registrant knows to be false YELKNIRB ZEPHYR, 9903 before the expiration. Effective exceed one thousand dollars LOS ANGELES January 1, 2014, the Fictitious is guilty of a misdemeanor SANTA MONICA BLVD. #887, ($1,000)). Mailing Address: 3500 PROPOSALS Notice is given January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement that proposals for the contract punishable by a fine not to BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212 Business Name Statement I-DEAL INC. MUIRFIELD ROAD, Los must be accompanied by the exceed one thousand dollars County of LOS ANGELES S/ GAIL WIGGAN, CFO Angeles, CA 90016 for On-Call Sweeping Services must be accompanied by the Affidavit of Identity form. - Flood Control Maintenance ($1,000)). Mailing Address: 9903 Affidavit of Identity form. This statement was filed Registered owner(s): The filing of this statement S/ STEVEN DION MONROE SANTA MONICA BLVD. #887, with the County Clerk of SANDRA EDMONDS, 3500 Activities (BRC0000235) The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize will be received until 5:30 SR., Owner BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212 does not of itself authorize Los Angeles County on S MUIRFIELD ROAD, LOS the use in this state of a This statement was filed Registered owner(s): 05/03/2021. ANGELES, CA 90016 pm, Tuesday, July 6, 2021. the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name Proposals must be submitted with the County Clerk of BARRY DUANE BRINKLEY, Fictitious Business Name NOTICE-In accordance with This business is conducted by in violation of the rights of Los Angeles County on 9903 SANTA MONICA BLVD. Subdivision (a) of Section an Individual via BidExpress at www. in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, bidexpress.com , a secure 05/28/2021. #887, BEVERLY HILLS, CA another under Federal, State, 17920, a Fictitious Name The registrant(s) started doing or common law (See Section NOTICE-In accordance with 90212 Statement generally expires business on 04/2021. online bidding service or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and website. The total annual Subdivision (a) of Section This business is conducted by 14411 et seq., Business and at the end of five years from I declare that all information Professions Code). 17920, a Fictitious Name an Individual the date on which it was filed in this statement is true and contract amount of this Professions Code). Original Filing service is estimated to be Statement generally expires The registrant(s) started doing Original Filing in the office of the County correct. (A registrant who 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 at the end of five years from business on 01/2021. Clerk, except, as provided declares as true any material $1,150,000. The Request for 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 CNS-3474172# Proposals (RFP) with contract the date on which it was filed I declare that all information CNS-3476156# in Subdivision (b) of Section matter pursuant to Section LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in the office of the County in this statement is true and LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 17920, where it expires 17913 of the Business and specifications, forms, and Clerk, except, as provided correct. (A registrant who 40 days after any change Professions code that the instructions for preparing in Subdivision (b) of Section declares as true any material FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the facts set forth in the registrant knows to be false and submitting Request for 17920, where it expires matter pursuant to Section NAME STATEMENT statement pursuant to Section is guilty of a misdemeanor Proposals may be accessed 40 days after any change 17913 of the Business and File No. 2021110151 17913 other than a change punishable by a fine not to GOVERNMENT at http://pw.lacounty.gov/brcd/ in the facts set forth in the The following person(s) is servicecontracts/ . Professions code that the in the residence address of exceed one thousand dollars 6/17/21 statement pursuant to Section registrant knows to be false (are) doing business as: a registered owner. A new ($1,000)). CNS-3477261# 17913 other than a change is guilty of a misdemeanor BLESSEDHANDS YB, Fictitious Business Name S/ SANDRA EDMONDS, LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in the residence address of punishable by a fine not to 3963 DALTON AVE, LOS Statement must be filed Owner LOS ANGELES COUNTY a registered owner. A new exceed one thousand dollars ANGELES, CA 90062 County before the expiration. Effective This statement was filed METROPOLITAN Fictitious Business Name ($1,000)). of LOS ANGELES January 1, 2014, the Fictitious with the County Clerk of TRANSPORTATION Statement must be filed S/ BARRY DUANE Registered owner(s): Business Name Statement Los Angeles County on AUTHORITY (LACMTA) before the expiration. Effective BRINKLEY, Owner JOHNATHAN must be accompanied by the 04/30/2021. INVITATION FOR BID LEGAL January 1, 2014, the Fictitious This statement was filed YOUNGBLOOD, 3963 Affidavit of Identity form. NOTICE-In accordance with NOTICES Business Name Statement with the County Clerk of DALTON AVE, LOS The filing of this statement Subdivision (a) of Section must be accompanied by the Los Angeles County on ANGELES, CA 90062 does not of itself authorize 17920, a Fictitious Name LACMTA will receive Bids/ Affidavit of Identity form. 04/29/2021. This business is conducted by the use in this state of a Statement generally expires Proposals for MA76538 - The filing of this statement NOTICE-In accordance with an Individual Fictitious Business Name at the end of five years from STANDARD DRIVER SEATS does not of itself authorize Subdivision (a) of Section The registrant(s) started doing in violation of the rights of the date on which it was filed ASSEMBLY at the 9th Floor SUMMONS the use in this state of a 17920, a Fictitious Name business on 01/2016. another under Federal, State, in the office of the County Receptionist Desk, Vendor/ (Partition) Fictitious Business Name Statement generally expires I declare that all information or common law (See Section Clerk, except, as provided Contract Management Non Jury in violation of the rights of at the end of five years from in this statement is true and 14411 et seq., Business and in Subdivision (b) of Section Department, One Gateway 2021-CP-42-01201 another under Federal, State, the date on which it was filed correct. (A registrant who Professions Code). 17920, where it expires Plaza, Los Angeles, CA STATE OF SOUTH or common law (See Section in the office of the County declares as true any material Original Filing 40 days after any change 90012. CAROLINA 14411 et seq., Business and Clerk, except, as provided matter pursuant to Section 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 in the facts set forth in the IN THE COURT OF Professions Code). in Subdivision (b) of Section 17913 of the Business and CNS-3476144# statement pursuant to Section COMMON PLEAS Original Filing 17920, where it expires Professions code that the LOS ANGELES SENTINEL 17913 other than a change A Pre-Bid conference will COUNTY OF 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1/21 40 days after any change registrant knows to be false in the residence address of not be held. All Bids must be SPARTANBURG CNS-3479480# in the facts set forth in the is guilty of a misdemeanor FICTITIOUS BUSINESS a registered owner. A new submitted to LACMTA, and be Tamara Brown-Driver, LOS ANGELES SENTINEL statement pursuant to Section punishable by a fine not to NAME STATEMENT Fictitious Business Name filed at the reception desk, 9th individually and as Power 17913 other than a change exceed one thousand dollars File No. 2021107327 Statement must be filed floor, V/CM Department, on or of Attorney for: Zenobia FICTITIOUS BUSINESS in the residence address of ($1,000)). The following person(s) is before the expiration. Effective before 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time Jackson-Samuel, Denise NAME STATEMENT a registered owner. A new S/ JOHNATHAN (are) doing business as: January 1, 2014, the Fictitious on July 29, 2021, at which Brown-Haggins and Walter B. File No. 2021112756 Fictitious Business Name YOUNGBLOOD, Owner TEAR IT OFF INC., 10401 Business Name Statement time bids will be opened and Brown, Jr. The following person(s) is Statement must be filed This statement was filed VENICE BLVD SUITE # 807, must be accompanied by the publicly read. Bids received vs. (are) doing business as: before the expiration. Effective with the County Clerk of LOS ANGELES, CA 90034 Affidavit of Identity form. after the above date and time Gregory Brown SWAGOUT STORE, January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Los Angeles County on County of LOS ANGELES The filing of this statement may be rejected and returned TO THE DEFENDANT 13337 SOUTH ST. #217, Business Name Statement 05/13/2021. Articles of Incorporation or does not of itself authorize unopened. Each Bid must be ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE CERRITOS, CA 90703 must be accompanied by the NOTICE-In accordance with Organization Number: XXX the use in this state of a sealed and marked Bid No. HEREBY SUMMONED County of LOS ANGELES Affidavit of Identity form. Subdivision (a) of Section Registered owner(s): Fictitious Business Name MA76538. and required to answer the Articles of Incorporation or The filing of this statement 17920, a Fictitious Name TEAR IT OFF INC., 10401 in violation of the rights of Complaint in this action, a copy Organization Number: LLC/AI does not of itself authorize Statement generally expires VENICE BLVD SUITE # 807, another under Federal, State, of which is herewith served No 4708959 the use in this state of a at the end of five years from LOS ANGELES, CA 90034; or common law (See Section For a copy of the Proposal/ upon you, and to serve a copy Registered owner(s): Fictitious Business Name the date on which it was filed XXX 14411 et seq., Business and Bid specification visit our of your Answer to the said SWAGOUT STORE, in violation of the rights of in the office of the County This business is conducted by Professions Code). Solicitation Page on our Complaint on the Plaintiff(s) 13337 SOUTH ST. #217, another under Federal, State, Clerk, except, as provided a Corporation Original Filing Vendor Portal at https:// or his/her/their attorney, Paul CERRITOS, CA 90703; State or common law (See Section in Subdivision (b) of Section The registrant(s) started doing 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 business.metro.net or for A. McKee, III, at his office, of Incorporation: CA 14411 et seq., Business and 17920, where it expires business on 07/2020. CNS-3475830# further information email P.O. Box 2196, 409 Magnolia This business is conducted by Professions Code). 40 days after any change I declare that all information LOS ANGELES SENTINEL Tanya Allen at allentm@ Street, Spartanburg, South a Corporation Original Filing in the facts set forth in the in this statement is true and metro.net. Carolina 29304, within thirty The registrant(s) started doing 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 statement pursuant to Section correct. (A registrant who FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 6/17/21 (30) days after the service business on 03/2021. CNS-3476190# declares as true any material NAME STATEMENT CNS-3480518# hereof, exclusive of the day 17913 other than a change LOS ANGELES SENTINEL I declare that all information LOS ANGELES SENTINEL in the residence address of matter pursuant to Section File No. 2021103158 of such service, and if you in this statement is true and 17913 of the Business and The following person(s) is fail to answer the Complaint a registered owner. A new REQUEST FOR correct. (A registrant who FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Fictitious Business Name Professions code that the (are) doing business as: within the time aforesaid, the declares as true any material NAME STATEMENT registrant knows to be false VINFAST, 395 SANTA PROPOSALS Notice is given Plaintiff(s) in this action will Statement must be filed that proposals for the contract matter pursuant to Section File No. 2021107676 before the expiration. Effective is guilty of a misdemeanor MONICA PLACE SPACE apply to the Court for the relief 17913 of the Business and The following person(s) is punishable by a fine not to #171, Santa Monica, CA for On-Call Maintenance demanded in the Complaint. January 1, 2014, the Fictitious and Inspection Services for Professions code that the (are) doing business as: Business Name Statement exceed one thousand dollars 90401 County of LOS s/Paul A. McKee, III registrant knows to be false MAMA SUSIE’S HOUSE, 201 ($1,000)). ANGELES SanGabriel Dam Hydroelectric PAUL A. MCKEE, III must be accompanied by the Project (BRC0000229) will is guilty of a misdemeanor W 78TH ST, Los Angeles, Affidavit of Identity form. TEAR IT OFF INC. Mailing Address: 18191 VAN Attorney for Plaintiff punishable by a fine not to CA 90003 County of LOS S/ EUNICE MILLER, CEO KARMAN AVENUE, Irvine, CA be received via BidExpress P. O. Box 2196 The filing of this statement until 5:30 pm, Tuesday, exceed one thousand dollars ANGELES does not of itself authorize This statement was filed 92612 409 Magnolia Street ($1,000)). Mailing Address: P.O. BOX with the County Clerk of Registered owner(s): July 13, 2021. A mandatory Spartanburg, S.C. 29304 the use in this state of a Proposers’ Conference and SWAGOUT STORE 62921, Los Angeles, CA Fictitious Business Name Los Angeles County on VINFAST DEALER SAN (864) 573-5149. S/ LAFELL GALATAS, CEO 90062 05/10/2021. FRANCISCO #1, LLC, 790 Walkthrough will be held on Dated: May 12, 2021 in violation of the rights of Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17/21 This statement was filed Registered owner(s): another under Federal, State, NOTICE-In accordance with N. SAN MATEO DRIVE, SAN with the County Clerk of RAYMOND D SMITH INC, Subdivision (a) of Section MATEO, CA 94401; State of 2:00 p.m., at Public Works CNS-3476204# or common law (See Section San Gabriel Dam, 9700 North LOS ANGELES SENTINEL Los Angeles County on 201 W 78TH ST, LOS 14411 et seq., Business and 17920, a Fictitious Name Incorporation: DE 05/17/2021. ANGELES, CA 90003; State Statement generally expires This business is conducted by SanGabriel Canyon Road, Professions Code). Azusa, California 91702, NOTICE-In accordance with of Incorporation: CA Renewal Filing at the end of five years from a limited liability company Subdivision (a) of Section This business is conducted by the date on which it was filed The registrant(s) started doing Control House. The walk- THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 NEWS LA SENTINEL.NET C-6 A-6 LOS ANGELES SENTINEL NEWS THURSDAY,JANUARY 9, 2014 Celebration of Life

she would not go out into City of LA Award- Human second chance. cactus – that we’ve known the world, as he said, unin- Relations Commission; Welcoming him into as the “Sonny cactus” with formed. He loved traveling National advocate Certifi- eternity are his father & 10 buds. It is important to to new places and returning cate - Alcoholism Council mother – Rice and Vernell share that it only blooms to old landmarks. Memo- of Greater Los Angeles; Walker, sister – Volandia at night, every 3 – 5 years. rable was a vacation to Ber- National Council of Negro Adu-Neal, and son, Vincent With these buds ready to muda, his honeymoon spot, Women – Black Family Re- Walker. He bade “so long” bloom, we rejoiced, and with some of their adult union organizer; LA Mara- to a host who, while con- receive this wonder as a children, where new bonds thon certificate for support; tinuing their journey, will spiritual sign that all is well were formed, and a special California Science Center cherish his memory and with its namesake “Sonny”. trip with three grandchil- award for outstanding ser- remember his wise counsel: There is no doubt in our dren, who were high school vice; Notre Dame Football His wife of 43 years, lives, that God is in charge graduates of the class of Association Key Advocate; Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker; which gives us peace of 2000, to South Africa, Bo- #1 Dad trophy - Buford seven children in a won- mind that passes all un- tswana, Swaziland, Zim- Walker Clan. derfully blended fam- derstanding. We thank babwe and Zambia to help ‘Sonny’ was proud of ily - Brenda Kaye Walker God for the time we had Winston, Reginald Rice with Buford Rice “Sonny” Walker (Sylvia), Buford Walker on earth and look Rice “Chuck” Walker, Jr. forward to eternity.

Buford Rice “Sonny” Walker COURTESY PHOTO (Louise Rosario Torrices), Raymond Cornell Walker FINAL ARRANGE- Buford Rice “Sonny” of California - Exposition (Karen), Stephanie Denise MENTS Walker entered this life – Park (1989 – 2002) and Williams, Kamela Hey- Homegoing Services: May 12, 1939, Mother’s co-founder of Curator Kids ward-Rotimi (Bankole), Monday, June 21, 2021 Day weekend, and entered at the California Science and Jesse Brown, III; 24 11:00 am PDT St. Paul’s eternal life on JUNE 5, Center that served children grandchildren – Rodger Catholic Church 1920 2021. He tarried on this from the Watts community. Duran Winston, Jimmesha South Bronson Avenue earthly journey for 82 years He also worked as Direc- Winston Lenhoff (Scott), Los Angeles, CA 90018 and 25 days. Born in Chi- tor of Project BUILD, an Sylvia Winston Nichols 323-730-9490 – church cago, IL (Southside); raised empowerment program for (Chester), David Reginald office Friar Alexei Smith, in Kansas City, MO; and residents of Watts, was self- Walker (Jaquetta), Dwayne Celebrant Rev. John Cag- living the 60 years in Los employed as founding VP Eric Walker (____), Mo- er, III, Cooperating Cler- Angeles, CA., over that pe- of DART, a drug and alco- nique Walker, Christian gy Services will be live riod, Buford Rice “Sonny” hol rehabilitation program; Walker, Jordan Walker, streamed via Facebook Walker embraced God’s was a Counselor/Chief Jaiden Walker, Brandon A. Cremation: The Al- mission for his life, wasted Therapist - CompCare Williams, Kolawole Philip pha Society (no inquiries no time, tapped into every Corp.- View Park location; Heyward-Rotimi, Karina please) opportunity to leave this Deputy Director of Admin- Sonny and Jackie COURTESY PHOTO Jacquelyn Heyward-Roti- The family appreciates world better than when he istrative Services for The mi, Kemi ____ Heyward- all expressions of love and emerged at birth. The first Wagon Program at Central them see the world through his role in founding the Rotimi, Obadyah A. condolence and request of 4 children born to Rice City Community Mental the lens of their African Sons of Watts after the 1965 Brown, Jonah B. Canfield, plants for Sonny’s garden Walker and Vernell Craw- Health Center; was a Coun- heritage. Grandpa also went LA/Watts Riots and his Wayne Walker, Nick Walk- or donations for King Sol- ford Walker and a lifelong selor - Sugar Ray Youth on a Fact Finding journey membership in the Black er, Nora’s son, Zoe son, omon’s Village (WEDC’s Catholic, he was confirmed Foundation; and Coun- to check on three grands Panthers. Creating solu- JJ, Rachel Walker, D’Mitri community in development in 1947 at Corpus Christi selor/Supervising teacher whose father’s home was Catholic Church, and dur- at Headstart in Nickerson Ife, Nigeria and who would ing his youth, served as an Gardens. spend 5 years there in order altar boy. “Sonny” kept any au- to provide them with a bi- Buford attended Cor- dience spell bound with cultural experience. When pus Christi Elementary in stories of his ‘street light’ he showed at family gath- Chicago before the fam- basketball games in the al- erings, or in response to ily moved to Kansas City, leys of the Southside of any invitation, that event Missouri where he gradu- Chicago, advocating for became “special” because ated from Bishop Hogan Black athletes on Kansas he never minced words and High School. A dedicated City courts, cultural and ra- knew how to say “no” leav- and talented athlete, he was cial isolation in Iowa bergs, ing no room for negotiation awarded full scholarship to being drafted to the Kansas or debate. St. Ambrose College - Dav- City Bulls (precursor to the Recognized for his no- enport, Iowa. Other creden- Chicago Bulls) and Har- nonsense advocacy, Speak- tials include certification lem Globe Trotter bus road er Willie Brown appointed Buford Walker Clan COURTESY PHOTO for Drug and Alcohol Ad- trips. “Beavo,” as he was Mr. Walker to serve on the diction Counselor - Acton known in KC, was voted California State Legislature tions rather than dwelling Walker, Julian Walker, 12 for homeless/houseless Rehabilitation Center - Ac- into All Stars in Catholic Advisory Board on Alco- on problems was key as great-grands; brothers - residents in the 9th Council ton, CA; and California schools, and first team for hol Related Problems 1982 he worked to make South Grover Pullium Walker District – city of Los Ange- Peace Officer Service & All City Catholic League – 1993. Other Honors and Central Los Angeles equal and Daniel Arthur Walker; les) Expressions of Condo- Training certification. All Stars. Yes, basketball Awards - Community Ser- to other communities in LA aunts, cousins, nieces/neph- lences can be sent to: Mrs. “Sonny” retired as Di- was both his vocation & vice Proclamation - City County. Nothing was more ews and global extended Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker rector of Government Re- avocation, which made him of Santa Monica for assist- important than inspiring family. Adopted family 1621 Wellington Road lations – So Calif. Water an avid reader of the sports ing to find adoptive homes young people, especially members are Robert “Bob” Los Angeles, California Replenishment District page. Later he read the for youngsters in the foster Black youth to strive in Campbell, Robin Nicholas, 90019 (2003 – 2004). His career daily newspapers to stay care system; Bi-Centennial spite of lower expectations and Richard Glen Hines. 323-734-7856 – home included service as Chief up on current news to also Salute Proclamation for by society, and being a role Just a few days ago, we [email protected] Operations Officer - State share with his wife so that meritorious services in the model to those seeking a observed our front porch Anne Elaine DeNard

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By AmAndA Scurlock pect of running; that is also cused on winning the race. shine light on the history of Sports Writer where he started competing In practice, Mykale would Dorsey. in the 800m. He stuck with run longer distances to “Dorsey was predomi- Markus and Mykale the event after realizing he build his wind and endur- nantly Japanese when my Mundy are helping the was good at it. ance. parents went to Dorsey in Dorsey Dons track and field His favorite part of run- The Dons participated the 50’s” he said. “Dorsey team excel during the 2021 ning the 800m is running in three invitationals and is still in the Japanese com- season. Both brothers are the final lap. four duel meets. During munity … they were the members of the 4x400 relay “The 800, I really have dual meets this season, the majority of the people in team. to learn how to just pace Mundys had to race with the community when my Through the years, the myself and how to keep a no competitors. The expe- parents went to Dorsey.” Dons had much success in good pace,” Markus said. rience was initially chal- Both Mundy brothers the 4x400 event. In 2004, “Then speed on the second lenging for Markus, but he noted how the teachers and Dorsey set the L.A. City lap of the 800.” found a way to use it for his coaches at Dorsey showed Section record in the event Mykale specializes advantage. concern for the academic with a 3:11.45 time. In the in sprints, competing in “Running by myself, it wellbeing of the students. past 11 years, the Dons the 200m, 400m and the was really nobody to push Mykale’s favorite class is boys’ track and field team 4x100m relay. This season me,” Markus said. “I told chemistry while Markus earned seven City Section is his first year competing myself in my head that if has a 3.67 GPA. Mykale titles. as Mykale is a sophomore. I’m not running against recently found benefits to “We get to continue the Throughout the season, he nobody, I’m just gonna run at-home learning. legacy and keep getting bet- struggled with his nerves against the clock.” “At first, I hated being at ter and better at it,” Markus prior to his meet events. This season, the Dons home, but then we got back said. “My first meet, I ran wore uniforms that said into sports and stuff, it’s Markus got his start the 400m and the 200m,” “Dorsey” in Japanese char- actually been way easier,” with track and field by Mykale said. “I was very acters. Dorsey Track and Mykale said. “I can go to competing for the Los An- nervous; it was scary at Field coach Ken Matthews practice and come home geles Jets the summer be- first.” chose the design for their and do homework.” fore his ninth-grade year. When the gun goes off, uniforms not only to ad- Being with the Jets helped however, his nerves melt vocate for the “Stop Asian him develop the mental as- away and he becomes fo- Markus and Mykale Mundy COURTESY PHOTO Hate” movement, but to

By AmAndA Scurlock Sports writer program by collecting want to be part of a team.” $10,000 in donations from The athletic program View Park high school people he knew who owned has rose to prominence recently became the Nation- boats and sails. since the schools’ incep- al Winner of the Aspen Insti- “We would bus [stu- tion. Rugby players Kimo- tute’s Reimagining School dents] to Marina Del Ray rri Boozer and Jeremiah Sports in America Initiative, and they all learned how Johnson became members earning a $20,000 grant to sail,”Hughes said. “Now of the LA Alliance Student meant to help them pursue we have a sailing program Empowerment Program their athletic endeavors. that is every year.” last year. The Aspen Institute aspires View Park coach Lisa “They’re getting such a to make physical activities Finegan applied for a grant great experience with the and sports available to all through the organization Alliance,” Hughes said. students. Stoked that teaches high “There’s a lot of mentorship Stuart Krohn, the direc- school students how to surf, and classes they go to on- tor of the ICEF Student snowboard and skateboard. line to learn about careers Leadership Academy, found Hughes noted how he had in sport and mental health.” out about the Aspen Insti- received positive feedback The View Park Rugby tute and applied on behalf about the program from program has traveled to of the high school. View students. four different continents. Park offers five intramural View Park Rugby during a trip to England (COURTESY PHOTO) “Some of the kids have The boys basketball team programs and 10 interscho- signed up for that and not won five City Section lastic teams as well as an things, according to Hughes. three middle schools and ing lessons through a part- the kids that traditionally championships and one CIF after school action sports Transportation is the big- three elementary schools. nership with UCLA, the sign up for football or bas- State Title and the softball program that teaches youth gest expense for View Park Hughes established intra- college students would ketball or track,” he said. team won three City Sec- skateboarding and surfing. as teams have to be taken mural tournaments for the teach the high school stu- “It’s been really great to tion Titles. “We do offer the normal round trip to practice sites middle school students for dents how to sail. Krohn be able to offer something sports, but we try to give and home games as well as a myriad of sports, includ- established the sailing different for other kids that more students more oppor- away games. ing flag football, flag rugby,

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tunities to belong to some- “When we find out we volleyball, basketball, and thing,” said athletic direc- have more money and part lacrosse. tor David Hughes. “Give of the grant is written for “It’s a school tourna- the kids a reason to come transport, I’m like “that’s ment, there’s no prizes, to school and have a new amazing,”” he said. “Now there’s no trophies, we just group of friends.” we can offer more to the stu- get together,” he said. “All The money will help dents, like more coaches.” of the PE classes are aligned View Park revive their base- View Park High School with a tournament at the end ball team, lessen travel fees, is under the Inner City Edu- of the season of that four- and provide more coaches cation Foundation (ICEF); week or six-week season.” to students among other the foundation also has View Park provides sail- THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 www.lasentinel.net D-2 Marla Gibbs Celebrates Her 90th Birthday with Friends and Family

SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL ney Frank K. Wheaton, and the latter series, played the on the ABC drama series Marla’s children; Angela, lead role of Mary Jenkins, “Station 19.” Gibbs also Marla Gibbs (born Mar- Amil, Dorian, and Jordan and sang the theme song. has had starring roles in garet Theresa Bradley; Gibbs. A host of politicians Gibbs has won seven two television pilots: “Old June 14, 1931) is an presented proclamations NAACP Image Awards. In Soul” alongside Ellen actress, singer, comedian, and kind words to Marla, later years, Gibbs played Burstyn and Rita Moreno writer and television pro- present were Mayor James supporting roles in films for NBC in 2014, and ducer, whose career spans Butts, Councilmember “The Meteor Man” (1993), ABC's “Jalen Vs. Every- five decades. Marla cele- Curren Price, Jr, Senator “Lost & Found” (1999), body” in 2017. In film, she brated her birthday at Peter Sydney Kamlager, along “The Visit” (2000), “The co-starred in “Lemon and Georges’ Conference with representatives for Brothers” (2001), “Madea's Please Stand By.” Room Restaurant & Bar in Congresswoman Karen Witness Protection” Gibbs owned a jazz Playa Vista and the party Bass, Mayor Eric Garcetti, (2012), “Grantham & club in South Central L.A. was sponsored by family LA Supervisor Janice Rose” (2015), and called Marla's Memory friend and businessman Hahn, and Councilmember “Lemon” (2017) and the Lane Jazz and Supper Club Henry Woods, founder of Marqueece Harris-Daw- TV show “Station 19” from 1981 to 1999. As a HNW International Corpo- son. (2018). singer, she released a num- ration, an international Guest mixed and min- In 2015, Gibbs made ber of albums. Consulting/Connector gled and dined on a lavish two appearances in the In 2019, Gibbs reprised Firm, along with Lemuel display of passed hors Shonda Rhimes' drama her role as Florence on Daniels, Peter George, and d’oeuvres of cauliflower others. wings, brussels sprouts, “Thank you and this is my An all-star cast of lamb meat balls, along with 30th birthday celebration!” Marla’s friends and chil- a buffet dinner which About Marla Gibbs dren that attended the birth- included; seafood pasta, Gibbs is known for her day celebration included; penne Norma, flatbread, role as George Jefferson's Beverly Todd, Judy Pace, crispy chicken paillard, and maid, Florence Johnston, in Earnest Harden, Jr., Kath- a green salad. Followed by the CBS sitcom, “The Jef- leen Bradley, Sheila Fra- a music video and serving fersons” (1975–1985), for

PHOTO CREDIT: IAN FOXX MEDIA GROUP (Top L-R): Mayor James Butts, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Sheila Frazier, Kathleen Bradley, Judy Pace, Councilmember Curren Price, Jr., and Earnest Harden. (Bottom L-R): Jackee Harry, Marla Gibbs, and former State Senator Diane Watson.

Comedy Series. series, “Scandal.” She later “Live in Front of a Studio She also starred in the guest starred on “Hot in Audience: Norman Lear's zier, former State Senator of a delicious birthday which she received five show's spin-off “Checking Cleveland,” “American All in the Family and The Diane Watson, Jackee cake, as everyone sang nominations for Primetime In” (1981) and the NBC Horror Story: Hotel” and Jeffersons,” less than a Harry, Vanessa Bell Cal- happy birthday to Marla. Emmy Award for Outstand- sitcom, “227” (1985– “This Is Us.” In 2018, she month before her 88th loway, Tico Wells, Attor- Marla simply said, ing Supporting Actress in a 1990); Gibbs co-produced was cast in a recurring role birthday. Grammy Award Winner Stephanie Mills Releases New Music Decrying Racial Injustice, Police Violence

BY STACY M. BROWN interview. YouTube.com/c/BlackPres- Grammy, American Music, historically and presently “Let’s Do the Right NNPA Newswire Senior The NNPA is the trade sUSATV, and Twitter and NAACP Image awards. combined to transformative Thing” will be available on National Correspondent association that represents @BlackPressUSA. “My new music is a justice work,” her team all streaming platforms the hundreds of African Mills’ team said the new reflection of the sadness noted. beginning on June 19. Music lovers, prepare American-owned newspa- music brings fans back to and heartache I’ve been yourself for one of the most pers and media companies her traditional soulful feeling over the pandemic anticipated comebacks in that comprise the Black sound infused with an and George Floyd and the history. Press of America. empowering message that systemic racism that challenges the listener “to plagues our people,” Mills take an introspective look at asserted. Stephanie Mills is releasing new oneself to create love and “‘Let’s Do the Right music, including the song peace.” Thing’ is my personal plea “Let’s Do the Right Thing,” A native of Brooklyn, for all people to rise up and an anthem not unlike Marvin Gaye’s New York, Mills has come together,” she said. “What’s Going On?” proven to be a treasure The single is reminis- 50 years ago. embedded in music’s fab- cent of Gaye’s “What’s ric. Going On,” where the late Her illustrious career Motown great crooned dis- spans a half-century. enchantment over the state The singer, whose of America and its involve- voice knows no peers, ment in the Vietnam War. began her professional Mills’ new song also career at the age of 11 with decries the state of Ameri-

COURTESY AMP HARRIS a Broadway run of “Mag- ca, most notably the police gie Flynn,” followed by the killings of African Ameri- The legendary Grammy Parts of the icon’s spe- leading role of Dorothy in cans like George Floyd, Award winner Stephanie cial interview, including the the Tony Award-Winning Tamir Rice, Breonna Tay- Mills has announced her debut of Mills’ new single, play “The Wiz.” lor and many other Black new single, “Let’s Do the can be seen on Friday, June After conquering the people. Right Thing,” an anthem 18, at 7:30 a.m. EST on the Great White Way, Mills Along with releasing not unlike Marvin Gaye’s NNPA’s live morning news recorded some of the most her new single, Mills will “What’s Going On?” of 50 program, “Let It Be memorable songs in music debut the accompanying years ago. Known.” history, including “Never music video and perform Her long-awaited new Later that day, the Knew Love Like This,” her Billboard hit “Home” music drops appropriately NNPA will air the full inter- “Putting a Rush on Me,” from The Wiz during the on Saturday, June 19 – view at 5 p.m. EST on its “Power of Love,” and Juneteenth Celebration in Juneteenth. “Fiyah!” broadcast. “Home.” New York with the historic “It’s all me. I am not Both livestreams air Along with her singing Riverside Church and Mid- doing this through a [tradi- over several of the Black and actor career, Mills is a dle Collegiate Church. tional] record label,” Mills Press of America’s social lifelong social justice and “The evening will told the National Newspa- media channels, including civil rights activist and phi- embody Juneteenth’s spirit per Publishers Association Facebook.com/BlackPres- lanthropist. of freedom, celebration two (NNPA) in an exclusive sUSA/Videos, She has earned multiple Black-led faith institutions D-3 LASENTINEL.NET ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021 LAUSD Joining with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine on New High School in South L.A. CITY NEWS SERVICE “This new partnership “Much like the work of lum will focus on multidis- in the world. Its graduates develop educational pro- with Jimmy, Dr. Dre and the Academy, this effort ciplinary, hands-on learn- are on the rosters of lead- grams that are adaptive to L.A. Unified Superin- the USC Iovine and Young will help develop the next ing, with a strong emphasis ing companies such as the ways in which technol- tendent Austin Beutner, Apple, Google, Facebook, ogy is influencing our cul- along with music producer DreamWorks and Sony, as ture, and responsive to the and entrepreneur Jimmy well as launching success- individual needs and cre- Iovine and artist-producer- ful startups that have gar- ative passions of our stu- entrepreneur, Andre “Dr. nered over $120 million in dents,” Dean Erica Muhl Dre” Young, announced a seed funding to date, the said. joint effort to launch a new district said. “From grade school high school in South Los “We want to give the through college, our stu- Angeles. next generation of students dents are not just part of A release from the access to a proven, revolu- the dramatic changes LAUSD said the school's tionary learning experience we’re experiencing in how curriculum will build on that will not only prepare we live and work, they’re USC Iovine and Young them for the jobs of today, driving those changes Academy’s groundbreak- but equip them to reimag- through an innate under- ing approach – which com- ine and shape the jobs, standing that the world bines design, business and technologies and creative today; their world, no technology with hands-on, enterprises of the future,” longer fits neatly into the real-world learning to help Iovine said. “We’ve traditional disciplinary develop young leaders, already succeeded in high- silos we’ve built for innovators, and entrepre- er ed, now we're bringing it them.” neurs. to high school.” Added Board Member The school will be Beutner's office said Dr. George J. McKenna known as Regional High students will be exposed to III: “Generations of stu- School #1 until the official new career paths and dents will benefit from the AP PHOTO naming process is complet- opportunities, as well as extraordinary career Recording artist Andre "Dr Dre" Young (left) and record producer Jimmy Iovine cut the ed; it will be co-located on ribbon at the official opening and dedication of Iovine and Young Hall at the University increased access to top col- opportunities this dynamic the Audubon Middle of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct 2, 2019. lege programs through a partnership will offer Los School campus and serve first-class college prepara- Angeles Unified students. up to 124 students when it Academy will help open the generation of entrepre- on real-world projects with tory curriculum and These innovative academic opens in Fall 2022, the doors of opportunity for neurs and innovators.” top companies and non- enhanced learning pro- programs are exactly what LAUSD said. students, in particular, According to the profits. grams that focus on critical our students need to stay School capacity will Black and Latino children announcement, the new The level of talent at thinking and analysis. motivated and inspired to expand over time to from communities which high school will mirror the the Academy continues to “The USC Iovine and continue their educational accommodate 250 stu- have been historically Academy's unique educa- attract attention from the Young Academy was journeys to college and dents. underserved,” Beutner said. tional model. Its curricu- most innovative companies founded on a mission to beyond.”