Re: California Black Media - This Week's Top News 9-6-16

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Top news stories affecting California's Black Community  View this email in your browser THIS WEEK'S TOP NEWS | September 6, 2016 CALIFORNIA BLACK NEWS STORIES Changing How We Vote (VOICE) - The state legislature has considered a bill that could change the way Californians vote. SB-450 (Elections: vote by mail voting and mail ballot elections) could eliminate neighborhood polling places. Instead, provided it gains the support of county jurisdictions, California voters would be mailed their ballots—including the millions of voters who currently cast their ballots at traditional and convenient polling places.   Read more Bill limiting forfeiture of property to police without conviction heads to Governor   (LOS ANGELES SENTINEL) - Senator Holly J. Mitchell’s measure to restrict the practice of civil asset forfeiture of private property seized by law enforcement agencies in California has been approved by the state Legislature and now heads to Governor Jerry Brown for final approval. Read more Praise for Colin Kaepernick (INTERNATIONALMEDIATV.COM) - There was praise for San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick at San Francisco's historic Third Baptist Church from the voices of former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown and civil rights attorney John Burris.  Read more  Cities reconsidering rules on marijuana (WAVE NEWSPAPERS) - Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act on the Nov. 8 ballot, has made several cities in Los Angeles County reconsider their current laws regarding medical marijuana.  Read More Injunction Against Vaccine Law Shot Down in Court NEWSPAPERS) - With the new school year in full swing across the Golden State, a lawyer for a group of families seeking an injunction against a new law mandating all K-12 students be vaccinated before heading into the classroom, said his clients children will not be able to attend public or private schools. Read More Marvin Pegues, Jr. wrongly convicted; Victor Gouche admits he lied about Pegues, Jr. shooting him (LA WATTS TIMES) - The family of a man who says he was framed by the Los Angeles Police Department and District Attorney’s Office is fighting vehemently for his release.  Read More NATIONAL BLACK NEWS STORIES Clinton vs Trump—Their Plans for Mental Health Care (VOICE) -  The Clinton campaign has big plans to address America’s concerns related to mental health. The campaign’s recently released plan would elevate mental health to a place of prominence in a Clinton Administration. Read more Will Trump’s Mexico Visit Be Enough? (INGLEWOOD TODAY) - More than a year ago, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump began his campaign, vowing to solve the illegal immigration problem by building a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and making Mexico pay for it. He talked about deporting those who are undocumented and blamed Mexico for the growing crime and unemployment in America.  Administration.  Read more The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on Children (VOICE) - Even the most civilized among us, recognize that that the 2016 election rhetoric is out of control. Direct and even personal verbal and social criticism has become the new norm as presidential candidates have compared each other to terrorists and bigots, promised to beat-out brains, called journalists crazy, endorsed the word "bimbo" and, reportedly, resorted to good old-fashioned name calling.   Read more Judge ends 1970 school desegregation lawsuit in East Texas (LOS ANGELES SENTINEL) -  A federal judge has declared an East Texas school district to be integrated and then dismissed the government’s 1970 desegregation lawsuit. Read more Green Party’s Jill Stein throws support behind Black Lives Matter (OUR WEEKLY) - Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein visited the Black Lives Matter encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday where she agreed with the group’s demand that Mayor Eric Garcetti fire Police Chief Charlie Beck. Read more Removing the Barriers to Black Business Success (BLACK VOICE NEWS) - The most recent data on minority-owned firms in the United States was collected in 2012 (and released at the end of 2015). It showed that the number of minority-owned firms rose from 5.8 million in 2007 to 8 million in 2012. Hispanic-owned firms grew the most rapidly – by 46 percent to 3.3 million.  African American-owned firms grew by 34.5 percent to 2.6 million. Asian-owned firms grew by 23.8 percent to 1.9 million. Read more BLACK AMERICA IN THE NEWS Oakland Prides Itself on Being Diverse — Until It Comes Time to Send Kids to School (KQED) - Oakland prides itself on diversity. Students in the district’s public and charter schools are 44 percent Latino, 26 percent African-American, 13 percent Asian and 9.7 percent white. But only a handful of its public schools fully reflect the district’s diversity.  Read more Taylor: Black Panthers wouldn’t recognize old Oakland stomping grounds (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) - Two doors down from Loughridge, a luminous green house at 1048 Peralta St. was once the headquarters of the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale established the organization, whose members openly carried firearms while patrolling this West Oakland neighborhood, in 1966. Read more Trump flashes humility in first ever Black church visit  (POLITICO) - Campaigning at an African-American church for the first time during the presidential race, Donald Trump called for “a civil rights agenda for our time” and cast himself as the candidate who could best “rebuild Detroit” and struggling Black communities across the nation. Read more Trump backer Mark Burns’s painfully bad attempts to defend his inflated resume (WASHINGTON POST) - Mark Burns's very bad week just got much worse. Days after the top Trump backer and Republican convention speaker was forced to apologize for tweeting a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, CNN did some digging into his apparently inflated bio claims.  Read more   CBM News Outlets    Copyright © 2016 California Black Media, All rights reserved. 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