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The Department Is Accused of Falsely Identifying Thousands of Blacks and Latino Men and Women As Gang Members Comedian Tiffany Haddish Joins Councilmember Herb Wesson in Donating Computers to Stu- Breakout comic Jason Weems dents in Foster Care talks new comedy special ‘UN- (See page A-2) KNOWN’ (See page B-4) VOL. LXXXVI NO. 32, $1.00 +CA. Sales Tax “For Over Eighty Years, The Voice of Our Community Speaking for Itself.” THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 VOL. LXXVV, NO. 49 • $1.00 + CA. Sales Tax “For Over Eighty Years The Voice of Our Community Speaking for Itself THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 - 18, 2013 McClain-Hill looks to weave a level of accountability for racial equity into the fabric of LADWP. nia’s practicing attorneys. She explained her jour- ney; how her strong roots to family and social equity are working as pillars of strategy for the course of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power. Los Angeles City May- or Eric Garcetti appointed McClain-Hill for the role and she was elected presi- dent on July 28, 2020. Ac- cording to the LADWP press release, the mayor stated, “from the Police Commission to the DWP, COURTESY PHOTO Cynthia McClain-Hill has Tia Boatman Patterson executive director of the been unafraid to tackle California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) our toughest challenges, giving her time, energy, BY TANU HENRY across the state. resolve, and experience to California Black Media Over the years, Boat- the cause of a fairer, safer, man Patterson, 53, says, more equitable Los Ange- Last week, Gov. Newsom she has learned how to les.” reappointed Tia Boatman work across government He continued, “as we Patterson, executive director -- federal, state and lo- COURTESY PHOTO endure and emerge from of the California Housing cal -- to get things done. President of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners the COVID-19 crisis, I Finance Agency (CalHFA), Building partnerships, Cynthia McClain-Hill have no doubt that Cyn- a role she has served in since establishing trust, col- thia will continue the bold 2014. Her nomination is laborating with policy- BETTI HALSELL Cynthia McClain-Hill em- Black agenda by studying and thoughtful leadership now pending the State Sen- makers, and opening Contributing Writer bodied the spirit of servitude to be a lawyer. Watching of Mel Levine as LADWP ate’s approval. cross-departmental work and applied it to every step her parents hard at work board president, and help California first set up and communication President of the Los of her life. Graduating high created a catapult of ambi- us push forward on the CalHFA in 1975 to help low- channels that, she says, Angeles Board of Water school at the age of 16, she tion, McClain-Hill climbed path to healthier commu- er-to moderate-income Cali- and Power Commissioners decided to contribute to the into the top 5% of Califor- {See McCLAIN HILL A-8} fornia residents find homes {See PATTERSON A-10} BY KHARI JONES, JR. Contributing Writer Call follows allegations of violent sheriff’s gang known as “The Parents, students and Executioners.” teachers protested at the Los Angeles Chamber of BY JASMYNE A. CANNICK Commerce in part of a Contributing Writer national action to demand equity for students. Pro- On Tuesday, Compton testors are demanding the Mayor Aja Brown called police are defunded, that on state Attorney General police are out of schools, Xavier Becerra and the and making sure students KHARI JONES, JR PHOTO U.S. Justice Department to don’t return to schools until Student leader, Kahlila Williams addresses her LAUSDinvestigate whether depu- health experts confirm that racial inequality concerns to the public. ties from the Los Angeles JASMYNE A. CANNICK PHOTO it’s safe. County Sheriff’s Depart- Mayor Aja Brown and City Attorney Damon Brown Police are criminaliz- population, but they’ve been Williams infers that ment Compton station stand with members of the Compton community after a ing students, says Director 25% and 30% of all contacts, LAUSD refuses to invest in have engaged in miscon- news conference on Tue., Aug. 4. of Operations and Cam- citations, and arrests by L.A. Black student success and duct, excessive force, dis- paign at L.A. Students De- school police. We know that instead is investing in pri- criminatory policing and the Martin Luther King Jr. of sheriff’s deputies who serve Joseph Williams. “In Black student achievement oritizing the criminalization improper stops, searches monument, Mayor Brown’s call themselves “The LAUSD, Black students has been one of the lowest or arrests. announcement followed al- Executioners” and con- {See LAUSD A-10} are only 8% of the student rates on all of LAUSD.” Standing in front of legations of a violent gang {See COMPTON A-10} The Department is accused of falsely identifying thousands of Blacks and Latino men and women as gang members. transpired to the minority BY KHARI JONES, JR. members in a systemic man- community, Dove infers. Contributing Writer ner. “This lawsuit is huge. There are over 20 of- It is one of the biggest The Justice X Law ficers under investigation lawsuits that we believe Group has filed a Class- and Ac 57 charges. According we ever landed in the tion Complaint in federal to the Justice X Law Group, city of Los Angeles and court against the LAPD for this is just a small number of it speaks to the heart of falsely identifying thou- officers and there are many the corruption that has sands of Black and Latinx more to come. destroyed and devastated men and women as gang The dehumanization and so many Black men and dismantling of lives oc- women. So many Latino curred for many years and men and women. It’s even decades, Dove indi- more widespread than cates. He states that Blacks people think,” says Civil and Latinos are placed in Rights Attorney Austin categories that make them R. Dove. less than others. It is part of KHARI JONES, JR PHOTO a systemic injustice that is Justice X Law Group Co-Founder Stephen King stand with Attorney Christian Contreras. {See JUSTICE A-10} www.lasentinel.net A-2 LASENTINEL.NET NEWS THURSDAY,AUGUST 6, 2020 Comedian Tiffany Haddish Joins Councilmember Herb Wesson in Donating Computers to Students in Foster Care SENTINEL NEWS SERVICE today is a supervisor in the Palmdale Department of On Wednesday, Jul. 30, Children and Family Serv- actress and comedian, ices. Tiffany Haddish joined Los The computers given COURTESY PHOTO Angeles Councilmember away were a donation from L.A. City Councilmember Herb Wesson and actress and Herb Wesson and Sentinel Wesson’s OurCycleLA comedian, Tiffany Haddish load laptop computers into a columnist and political project which is a digital Department of Children and Family Services van for social strategist, Jasmyne Cannick inclusion program de- workers to deliver to foster youth. in handing out over 700 signed to bridge the digital laptops to students in the divide in low-income L.A. County foster system. households in Los Angeles Both Haddish, 40 and and other marginalized Cannick, 42, spent time communities. during their youth in the foster care system in Los L.A. City Councilmember Herb Wesson and actress Angeles in the 90s. Can- and comedian Tiffany Had- nick was joined by her COURTESY PHOTO dish load laptop computers social worker from when (L-R) L.A. City Councilmember Herb Wesson, Good Plus into a Department of Chil- COURTESY PHOTO she was in the foster care Foundation Director Dr. Alan-Michael Graves, actress and dren and Family Services Jasmyne Cannick with her former social worker, Gina system between 1990 and comedian, Tiffany Haddish, and (seated) political strate- van for social workers to Prophet who today is supervisor in the Palmdale Depart- 1996 Gina Prophet, who gist and advisor Jasmyne Cannick. deliver to foster youth. ment of Children and Family Services office. Census Crunch Time: Activists Say Every Black Californian Must Be Counted Before New September Deadline BY ANGELA BIRDSONG district representing 300,000 Census rate provide little Everything Around Me) to L.A. County,” she said. “In California Black Media people for the first time in its indication of how well or address voter suppression in addition, the students’ text 160-year history. Part of the poorly predominantly or California. The decision to campaign reached 35,000 African American stake- problem, according to the heavily populated Black participate in the 2010 and contacts with a response rate holders are ramping up their U.S. Census Bureau’s inter- communities are responding 2020 censuses to increase close to 90 percent.” outreach to undercounted active 2020 Census to the 2020 Census. It rec- Black counts was an obvi- Student interns like census tracts where Black response map, approximate- ommends closer analysis to ous next step, she continued. Deshawn Moore worked Californians live after the ly 25 % of California’s cur- ensure targeted outreach The group’s outreach from home and used their U.S. Census Bureau rent population (9,879,459) lifts participation in low- tactic, tagged the 200 Grand own phones due to Black announced this week that it live in hard-to-count neigh- response-rate Black com- Campaign, trained 15 stu- Women for Wellness’ will stop the national count borhoods and are at risk of munities. dent interns to phone bank COVID-19 protocols to at the end of September. The being missed in the 2020 “If we are not counted, for five-and-a-half weeks. keep everyone safe. “I state too is intensifying its Census. The threat of losing a then we amplify our prob- last-ditch initiatives to Carmen Taylor Jones, seat in congress is heard lems as opposed to solving achieve an accurate count of 2020 Census Director at the often, but it has never hap- our problems,” said Janette all Californians as enumera- Los Angeles-based Black pened in California, since Robinson Flint, executive tion goes into its final Women for Wellness advo- population losses are typi- director of Black Women for stretches.
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