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Larry Elder Leads List of Candidates Vying to Replace Newsom In September 14 Recall 

Staff

  Just one week after having qualifying for the California recall ballot, conservative talk radio show and political firebrand, Larry Elder is leading the pack of 41 candidates seeking to replace Governor Gavin Newsom, should voters reject him on September 14.
Activists Have 24 Hours to Stop the Sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall

Kisha Smith

Twenty-four hours. That’s officially all the time Pastor William Smart of the SCLC, Downtown Crenshaw—led by co-founder, Damion Goodman— and a host of other community groups have to stop the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall to the Harridge Development Group in a deal that is set to close on Friday, June 29. If successful, it would be the third time the community has thwarted the sale of what is a beloved cultural landmark.
Edward Buck Convicted for Sex Crimes and the Murder of Two Black Men 

Tina Samepay

Edward Buck sat in disbelief as he was convicted Tuesday afternoon in a Federal Courtroom on all nine counts of his indictment, including operating a drug den, two counts of meth distribution resulting in two deaths, and enticement to travel for prostitution.
Ridley-Thomas Introduces Motion to Mandate Vaccination for City Employees

Staff

  In what has become the latest frontline assault in the battle against the Coronavirus, cities and states across the country are now utilizing vaccine mandates to ensure that people get vaccinated as COVID-19 case rates continue to soar with the onslaught of the Delta variant.
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Cal Top Educator Tony Thurmond Says Schools on Track for Safe Reopening
 
Manny Otiko | California Black Media

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond says school districts across the state are prepared to open safely in the fall even as COVID-19 cases surge in California and around the country. The new spike in COVID-19 positive rates across the state are driven by infections involving the more contagious Delta variant..
Newsom Joins Asm. Jones-Sawyer, Others in Renewed Fight Against Braze Retail Theft

Aldon Thomas Stiles | California Black Media

Gov. Gavin Newsom joined top law enforcement officials, state lawmakers and local officials in Los Angeles County on July 21 for a press conference to discuss rising violence and retail theft in California.
Advocates: Internet Companies Must Partner With Ethnic Media to Close Digital Divide

Tanu Henry | California Black Media

Digital equity advocates – people who have been working for decades now to come up with solutions to narrow the divide between people who are connected to broadband and those who still aren’t – say Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must partner with the ethnic media to reach people in California who remain unconnected and under-connected to broadband service.

Activists Invoke George Floyd Protesting Fatal Police Shooting of NoCal Asian Man

Sandy Close | Ethnic Media Services

YREKA, California — Activists outraged over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Asian man in Yreka -- a small Northern California town with a history of public lynchings -- are invoking the vice and violence the world witnessed in the 2020 police murder of George Floyd to protest the murder.
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