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California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Black Voice News Special Collections & University Archives 3-20-2014 Vol.41 n.34 March 20th 2014 CSUSB Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/blackvoice Recommended Citation CSUSB, "Vol.41 n.34 March 20th 2014" (2014). Black Voice News. 75. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/blackvoice/75 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections & University Archives at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Black Voice News by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Inland Southern California’s News Weekly Women’s History Month Rialto Mayor Robertson Leads Discussion on Health Issues theievoice.com MARCH 20, 2014 1 | March 20, 2014 Volume| VOICE 41 | Issue 34 theievoice.com free VOICEPATRONS &PARTNERS Please join our growing list of concerned citizens who help us continue to provide a vital service...keeping our community engaged, educated & informed. Join our growing list.... 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Contact the VOICE: 951.682.6070 or email [email protected] 2 VOICE | MARCH 20, 2014 | theievoice.com inthisissue publisher’snote Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD feature Photo by benoitmalphettes.com Women’s History Month Rialto Mayor Robertson Leads Discussion on Health Issues What Would Ida B. Tweet? cover uring the month that we celebrate Women’s History and the week Rialto Mayor Deborah Robertson D devoted to the Black Press, I thought it only appropriate to devote some Portrait by time to Ms. Ida B. Wells, the historic journalist, editor, publisher, educator, Benoit & Kathy Malphettes suffragette, orator, and activist for social justice. Wells, born a slave in 1862, became an orphan at the age of 16 when her parents and one sibling died in inthenews a yellow fever epidemic. The oldest of six remaining children, she dropped out of college to become a teacher and raise her five siblings. 4 Inland Lawmakers Put Covered California In 1884, 71 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Sign-up Efforts into Overdrive, Ms. Wells refused to give up her seat in the ladies car of the Chesapeake, Ohio Mayor Warren Keynote Speaker at the 2014 Black Youth Leadership Project, & Southern Railroad. In fact she fought vigorously to remain in the car, biting 9th Annual Salute to Veterans the conductor as he forcibly removed her. Outraged by her treatment she Parade Returns to Riverside filed a lawsuit against the railroad and won in the lower courts in Tennessee but lost in the State Supreme Court. She was devastated by the ruling and pointofview after writing and publishing a story about her experience, turned to activism 8 SB Police Dept. – The More Things iepeople and writing for justice. Change the More They Stay the Same, She became part owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech & Doctors on the “Front Lines” Riverside Resident 23 Leon Carrigan, Jr Headlight, a weekly newspaper. After three of her close friends were lynched, See The Devastating Results she published an editorial “Eight Men Lynched” that made the newspaper of Tobacco Advertising offices the target of an angry mob. The group destroyed the offices and left a death threat for Ms. Wells. After the incident she wrote an editorial urging We Have Relocated: VOICE NEWS 4144 Tenth Street Downtown Riverside Blacks to move: “There is, therefore, only one thing left to do; save our money and leave a PAULETTE BROWN-HINDS, PhD town which will neither protect our lives and property, nor give us a fair trial Publisher in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons.” LEE RAGIN, JR. CHRIS ALLEN COREY ARVIN Executive Editor & CT Graffix Design Media Consultant She moved first to New York and then settled in Chicago. General Manager Creative Director Digital Director From her homebase in Chicago she led an international crusade against SUSAN MORRIS NATASHA FERGUSON ANDRE LOFTIS lynching, publishing news articles, pamphlets, and books on the subject. In Office Manager Marketing Director Designer/Illustrator 1893 she toured England and Scotland raising awareness of the practice she CONTRIBUTORS considered a human rights violation condoned by the government. Carlos Puma, Gary Montgomery, Dr. Ernest Levister, Michael Elderman, Lonnie As a print journalist and public speaker, Ida B. Wells used the media as Graffell, Dr. Joseph Bailey, Jordan Brown, Richard O. Jones, Benoit Malphettes, Kathy Malphettes, Laura Klure, Vanessa Brown, Juanita Barnes a tool for social justice and radical change. I can only imagine her strategy and truly global reach if she had the technology we have today. I’m sure she CONTACT US To submit an article, become a subscriber, advertiser, sponsor, or partner please would utilize social media to raise awareness for her cause and galvanize contact the general manager at 951.682.6070 or email [email protected]. her supporters. If she could convince 6,000 people to leave Memphis by publishing an editorial imploring citizens to flee, then I imagine she would use established 1972 Published every Thursday and distributed throughout the Inland Empire hashtags for social change #fightlynching #redrecord #nostrangefruit and Brown Publishing Company Adjudicated, a legal newspaper of general circulation on July 8, 1974 Post Office Box 1581 Case # 108890 by the Superior Court of Riverside County her 140 character tweets would be fiery calls to action. Riverside, California 92502 (951) 682-6070 Stories published do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publishers To learn more about Ms Wells visit: www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635 HARDY & CHERYL BROWN Member of: National Newspaper Publishers Association, New America Media, To subscribe to my recently launched weekly blog Rants & Raves visit mygoldenstate. Publishers Emeritus California Black Media and California Newspaper Publishers Association tumblr.com or follow me on twitter @mygoldenstate. theievoice.com | MARCH 20, 2014 | VOICE 3 inthenews Inland Empire Lawmakers put Covered California Sign-Up Efforts into Overdrive Riverside Qualified low-income Californians will be California enrollment, but numbers released encouraged to sign up for Medi-Cal, which earlier this month show the state exchange has ith the clock ticking, state and federal expanded this year to cover childless adults seen a 49 percent gain in enrollment – to 58,999 lawmakers from the greater Riverside between the ages of 19 and 64. Unlike Covered individuals – since Dec. 31. Covered California area will host sign-up events in W California, there is no deadline to enroll in the says it has improved its advertising and outreach Covered California to spur participation in the Medi-Cal program. to Latino communities in response to earlier state’s insurance marketplace before enrollment “The goal of all these expanded programs is criticism that it had not done enough to make closes on March 31. to improve the health of our communities and inroads into that population. Congressman Mark Takano, Assembly curtail the negative lifelong impacts of chronic Assembly Member Jose Medina said he was Member Jose Medina and the office of Senator diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and pleased the Inland region’s enrollment is growing Richard Roth, with physicians from Riverside heart disease,” said Dr. Geoffrey Leung, family but wants to make sure as many people as County Health System and representatives of medicine director for the 10 Riverside County possible are informed about the new access they Covered California, will hold a press conference Health System clinics that serve tens of thousands have to healthcare and affordable coverage. on Friday March 21 at 11:30 a.m. at the Riverside of people across the 7,300-square mile county. “We are at the forefront of healthcare reform,” Neighborhood Health Center 7140 Indiana Ave., “We want as many people as possible to get Medina said. “Riverside County has one of the Riverside 92504 connected to a health care provider,” said Leung, highest populations of uninsured individuals in Efforts to expand enrollment will continue on who will appear at the Friday news conference. California. It is important that our community has Saturday, March 29 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. “We want to help people be healthier and enjoy a access to affordable quality healthcare and is at the Don Schroeder Rubidoux Family Care better quality of life.” provided opportunities to enroll.” Center, 5256 Mission Blvd., Riverside 92509. The Inland region had been lagging in Covered continued on page 7 4 VOICE | MARCH 20, 2014 | theievoice.com inthenews Mayor Warren Keynote Speaker At the 2014 Black Youth Leadership Project Fontana ontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren recently of California. “I have been blessed in my life by spoke in Sacramento at the Black Youth powerful mentors, from legislators, faith based F Leadership Project (BYLP). The Mayor leaders, teachers, and community leaders. It is was selected to speak to 9th-12th grade students my hope to be a mentor to the next generation from across California.