NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
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BREAKING
NEWS —>
NEW—>WE
STAND ON HIS SHOULDERS: EDDIE SCOTT'S FORMAL OBITUARY
Eddie
Scott, 1928-2017
Updated
with new photos
SEATTLE,
WA (5-22-2017, updated 6-16 and 6-20-2017) —
Former Branch President and Nevada civil rights legend Eddie
B. Scott is dead,
a
victim of cancer at 88. Rev. William C. Webb will come out
of retirement to conduct Mr. Scott's memorial service at 11:00
a.m. on Friday, June 30, at Reno's Second Baptist Church,
1265 Montello Street. Arrive early. Watch this site for more
information as it develops.
Eddie
ventured out on the front lines when such temerity could (and
often did) get people killed. May the great man rest in peace
knowing that he did his work so admirably well.
NEW—>The
best journalist in Nevada composes a masterpiece remembrance
of the man we knew — and didn't know
NEW—>
WE
STAND ON HIS SHOULDERS: EDDIE SCOTT'S FORMAL OBITUARY
ON
THIS DAY
On
20 June 1967, heavyweight champion and Muslim minister
Muhammad Ali was convicted of violating the federal
draft law (he was stripped of his title and blacklisted for
three and a half years); in 1910, the Nevada governor’s
office reported a flood of telegrams and other communications
asking Governor Denver Dickerson to stop the Johnson/Jeffries
prizefight in Reno, but Dickerson (traveling back to Nevada
from Oregon) gave no indication that he planned to interfere
with the fight. [Courtesy
of Journalist Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac]
On
19 June 2004, a marker was dedicated in Virginia City
commemorating African Americans on the Comstock near the site
of the Boston Saloon, an African American owned business
of the 1860s that was the subject of a 1999 dig by archeologist
Kelly Dixon. [Courtesy
of Journalist Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac]
Condemned
at Birth
The
diabetes establishment inhibits research on a very promising
diabetes CURE
"Tell us how it will
make ever make us money."
Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 6-13-2017 Sparks Tribune / Updated 6-14
and 6-20-2017
Events
June 17: Annual Juneteenth
Celebration 12n-5:00 p.m., Wingfield Park, downtown Reno —
Volunteers needed.
Thanks
to all who attended our June 1 Hail to the Chief Fundraiser
@ Bertha Miranda's Cantina on the occasion of Branch President
Patricia Gallimore's 21st Birthday. You missed a good party
if you were not there.
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1932-2017
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In
Memoriam
Georgetta
Angela Lynem Seals
Visitation: 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Walton's/Ross
Burke & Knobel, 2155 Kietzke Lane, Reno
Memorial Service: 11:00 a.m. Thursday, May 4, 2017
First United
Methodist Church, 209 West First Street, Reno
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Washoe
County law enforcement agencies host fourth symposium on community
and policing
RENO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB APRIL 28, 2017
In
Memoriam
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1925-2017
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RENO,
Nev. (Friday, 31 March 2017) — At 5:32 a.m. PDT,
longtime Reno-Sparks NAACP activist Alberta
Rederford passed away at Renown Regional
Medical Center in Reno.
From
Barbwire by Barbano, Sparks Tribune, 4-4-2017:
ADIOS,
ALBERTA. Longtime Reno-Sparks NAACP activist Alberta
Rederford passed away at Renown Med last Friday.
Private visitation begins at 9:30 a.m. with services
at 10:30 this Wednesday, April 5, at Immaculate
Conception Church, 2900 N. McCarran, Sparks. The
story of a life well-lived and heartfelt remembrances
will be posted at RenoSparksNAACP.org/ May graceful,
beautiful Alberta rest in power and peace.
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Days
of Future Past
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On
April 4, 1968, the civil rights leader Martin
Luther King, Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis,
Tenn. (NY Times)
On
March 31, 1927, César
Chávez was born near Yuma, Arizona.
On
March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights
demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., began their march from Selma to Montgomery,
Alabama.
(NY Times)
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BRANCH
MEETING LOCATION
Meetings
are held on the second Thursday of each month.
Northern Nevada Hopes / Third
Floor Community Room
580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503
Executive Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
Next
meeting: 11 May 2017
General membership
meeting March 9, 2017
Guest
Speakers
Darcy
Davis, PhD, Psychologist and Quality Assurance Manager for
Behavorial Services, Nor. Nevada Correctional Center
Brooke
Keast, Public Information Officer, Nevada Department of Corrections
Rene Brooksher, RidgeHouse.com
TOPIC:
"Capitalizing on the Natural Helping Community"
2017 meeting agendas
Happenings:
Special events and occasions
Women
Working With Color Forum
Focusing
on historic careers and visions for the future. All
are welcome.
Speakers: Bernice
Martin-Mathews, entrepreneur, former nurse,
retired educator, former state senator (D-Reno), former
City of Reno councilmember
Patricia Y. Gallimore, President, NAACP Reno-Sparks
Branch No. 1112
Cory Hernandez, Associate, The Ramirez Group;
Jenny Martinez, City of Reno Civil Service
Commission
2:30-4:00 p.m. Thursday, 2 March 2017
University of Nevada-Reno Wells Fargo Center, 200
S. Virginia Suite 100, Reno
Duncan
Community Library Committee
BULLETIN: Due to ongoing and incoming stormy weather, Chairman
Darryl Feemster called off the Jan. 10 meeting.
We
will let you know about re-scheduling. Be cool but stay warm.
FYI:
At the Dec. 1 meeting, Chairman Feemster emphasized the need
to build turnout for the Dec. 7 Washoe County Library Board
of Trustees meeting where expansion of the library's public
hours was on the agenda. The library board approved expanded
public hours beginning in January.
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE 2016 A VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR.
Duncan
Community Library, 1650 Carville Drive, Reno NV 89512
Mary
P. Johnson, 1931-2017
ON
THIS DAY
On Feb.
11, 1960, sixty members of the NAACP appeared
at the doors of the whites-only Hawthorne, Nev., casino, the
El Capitan, and were refused entry. [Courtesy
of Journalist Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac]
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in
protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd
been refused service. (NY Times)
BREAKING
NEWS —>
Equal
Rights Betrayal
Sen.
Joe Neal recalls the history-making fight for the Equal Rights
Amendment
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-28-2017 Sparks Tribune
/ Updated 3-1-2017
Recall
of embattled Storey County, Nev., sheriff moves forward
U-News / 2-23-2017
Kate
Smith & Lady Gaga
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-14-2017 Sparks Tribune
The
Gorsuch Nonesuch: Poison Annie's Revenge
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 2-7-2017 Sparks Tribune
On
Nov. 23, 2014, after revelations by The Barbwire/Sparks Tribune,
the Reno News & Review and the Reno-Sparks NAACP, Assemblymember
Ira-Hansen, R-Sparks, resigned
as speaker-designate of the Nevada State
Assembly.
Reno
Police Dept. schedules new applicant info sessions
5:30-7:00
p.m. January 24, February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21, April
4, 2017
On
Nov. 23, 2014, after revelations by The Barbwire/Sparks Tribune, the
Reno News & Review and the Reno-Sparks NAACP, Assemblymember Ira-Hansen,
R-Sparks, resigned as speaker-designate
of the Nevada State Assembly.
In
Memoriam: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 5-29-1917/11-22-1963
On
Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated
three other candidates for the U.S. presidency. (New York
Times)
11-4-2016:
On this date in 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th
president of the United States, as the country chose him as
its first black chief executive. (New York Times)
Dennis
Myers' Daily Almanac: On Aug. 18, 1963, James Meredith became
the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
"America fought the Civil
War to end forced, unpaid labor and this country still
suffers from the bitter after-effects." — Mike
Pilcher, President, Northern Nevada Central Labor Council/AFL-CIO
"We
discovered fossil fuels which allowed us to replace slavery
with fossil fuels. That's what China and India and other
countries want to do now. But if they do it the way we
did, we're all going down together." — Environmentalist
Bill McKibben, former head of NASA's Goddard Institute
of Space Studies, Rolling
Stone
Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
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can say there's no such thing as slavery, we're all citizens.
But if we're all citizens, then we have a task to do to make
sure that that, too, is not a joke. If some citizens live
in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is
still going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably, it
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—
Dr. Barbara Fields featured on Ken Burns' The
Civil War
miniseries, PBS 1990
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Watch
this site for updates
72nd Annual Reno-Sparks NAACP Freedom Fund
Awards Banquet
Later in 2017
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[10-1-2016]
Dear Friends: A PayPal software upgrade disabled our contribution portal
for awhile but it's now back in working order. When making payment,
if you think it necessary, please use the "send instructions to
the seller" prompt to let us know exactly what your donation covers.
Should you encounter any problems, please notify
us right away. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward
to seeing you on Oct. 8. Thanks so much for your continued support.
Join
Us in Fighting the Good Fight
Membership
Annual
Dues: $30 for individuals
Please make checks payable to
NAACP
Reno-Sparks Branch No.
1112
P.O. Box 7757
Reno, NV 89510
Membership
Forms, choose format: .jpg
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Please
click here or call 775-322-2992
for additional
membership and sponsorship information.
Youth membership and corporate sponsorships
are also available.
Legislation,
Civil Rights and the Law
Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil
Most
law enforcement officials at NAACP Tri-State Conference oppose gun
show purchase background checks
Barbwire by Barbano / Expanded from the 9-20-2016 Sparks Tribune
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NAACP
endorses closing gun show background check loophole
Reno, Nev. (8
Sept. 2016) — At its regularly scheduled monthly meeting,
the Reno-Sparks NAACP unanimously endorsed passage of statewide
Question One on the November ballot. The measure
would require background checks on all firearm purchases
made at the state's many gun shows.
The Branch allowed fair presentation of both sides of the
issue. At its overflowing Police and
Guns Forum on July 14, Washoe County Sheriff Chuck
Allen presented the pro-gun/anti-background check point
of view. Most of those voting on Sept. 8 were present in
July.
The members were informed that the national NAACP platform
on criminal justice calls for universal background checks
(1, 2), and that the Nevada balloting addresses only a portion
of gun sales.
Question One is not be confused with Washoe County's Question
WC-1 which would raise sales taxes for school construction
and maintenance. WC-1 would apply solely to Reno-Sparks-Washoe
K-12 schools, where the background checks question applies
statewide.
1. Summer 2016 NAACP Action Alert
"Continued Ravages of Gun Violence"
2. NAACP National Legislative Priorities
for the 114th Congress (2015-16) at page 8.
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Walk
a mile in Colin Kaepernick's cleats
"In
this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."
— Toni Morrison
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 8-30-2016 Sparks Tribune / Updated
8-31-2016
NEW
PLACE, SAME HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE AND GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
Second
Thursday of each month
Northern Nevada Hopes / Third
Floor Community Room
580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503
Executive Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
Thursday
11 August 2016 Agendas
POLICE
& GUNS FORUM FOLLOWUPS
Sam
Shad's Statewide Nevada Newsmakers Show
Thursday 8-4-2016 KRNV TV-4 Reno/KENV TV-10 Elko 12
noon PDT
Host: Paul
Enos, Executive Director, Nevada Trucking Assn.
Guests: Patricia Gallimore, President, Reno-Sparks NAACP;
Krys Ro, Reno Black Lives Matter
Click
here for statewide TV and radio re-run times and dates + view
online
Reno-Sparks
NAACP fails to go for it at forum
Reno
News & Review Editorial / 7-21-2016
Avoiding
tough debate is no way to deal with police killings
By Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review
7-21-2016
Reno
Black Lives Matter March
By Brad Bynum / Reno News & Review 7-21-2016
"Patriotism
is the last refuge of a scoundrel." — Dr.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Sheriff
Chucky: More guns to shoot cops, alleluia!
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 7-19-2016 Sparks Tribune
Reno
Police Dept. schedules new applicant info sessions
5:30-7:00
p.m. January 24, February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21, April 4,
2017
POLICE
& GUNS FORUM 7-14-16
UPDATE:
The July 14 NAACP forum was attended by a record SRO crowd
of between 150 and 200. (It merited a generous half-inch of
space in the next day's Reno paper.) Not to worry. Watch Tuesday's
Sparks Tribune for a serious dose of reality. I
brought copies of the
7-12 Trib column "Better late than never" to
the event. I didn't have nearly enough. — AB
MEETING
AGENDA
1.
Suspension of regular order of business for a community
forum concerning unsettling recent events in America. Community
members will have an
opportunity to address local law enforcement, elected officials
and community leaders. Suggestions, solutions and comments
welcome.
2.
PLEASE NOTE: The location of our monthly meetings has permanently
changed to Northern Nevada HOPES, 580 W. 5 th Street, Reno,
NV 89503.
Dear
Members and Friends:
We will suspend the regular order of business during our usual
first Thursday meeting to host a community forum to allow
local people to offer solutions to events that have happened
over the past week. Depending on attendance, we'll allow people
a minute or two to voice concerns.
WHERE: Our new permanent branch meeting place, Northern Nevada
HOPES, 580 W. 5th Street, 3rd floor, Reno NV 89503
WHEN: 7:00 p.m. PDT, Thursday July 14, 2016
Watch this site and Thursday's Reno Gazette-Journal
and spread the word.
Thank you.
Patricia
Y. Gallimore, President
NAACP Reno-Sparks
Branch No. 1112
(775) 846-2952
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Opposition
to cutting phone service to the poor and elderly
Public Utilities Commission of Nevada Docket No. 16-03021
As it has been
trying in other states, AT&T wants to remove itself as
telephone provider of last resort, reasoning that wireless
Internet will serve everyone. Not so. Many rural residents,
lower income people and senior citizens have no cel-phone
or wireless web service. Cable TV-based phone service goes
down when cable goes down and thus crashes 911. This proposal
will make the low-income LIFELINE RATE a thing of the past.
Enabling legislation was lobbied under the radar in the 2013
Nevada Legislative Session. I move that the Branch oppose
removing AT&T as provider of last resort and support repeal
of Assembly Bill 486 of the 2013 Legislative Session.
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Passed unanimously at the general membership of the Reno-Sparks
NAACP on May 12, 2016.
Nevada
utilities continually consume consumers
Barbwire
by Barbano / Expanded from the 5-31-2016 Sparks Tribune
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Reno-Sparks
NAACP and others win voting rights settlement vs. State of Nevada
Reno-Sparks
NAACP President Patricia Gallimore: “Whether through bureaucratic
inertia or intentional activity, we continually fight voter suppression
in Nevada. This victory to expand and protect voter enfranchisement
regardless of income is thus very welcome news. I would like to thank
former Reno-Sparks Branch president Lonnie Feemster for all his hard
work in making this settlement possible.” [READ
MORE ABOUT IT]
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2016-17
Officers
Patricia
Gallimore, President
Andrew Barbano,
First Vice-President/Webmaster
Donald Gallimore, Sr., Second
Vice-President
Patricia Lynch Barrett, Secretary
Donald Gallimore, Jr., Treasurer
Lucille Adin, Asst. Treasurer
Executive
Committee
Lucille Adin, Darryl Feemster,
Dolores Feemster,
Lonnie Feemster, Kelli Gallimore, Stephanie McCurry,
CJ Miller, Jane Moon, Elder William Moon,
Bertha Mullins, Rev. William C. Webb, Victor Wowo
Membership
Annual
Dues: $30 for individuals
Please make checks payable to:
NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch.
Please
send to the above address.
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Monthly
meetings
Second
Thursday of each month
Northern
Nevada Hopes
Third Floor Community Room
580 W. 5th Street * Reno, NV 89503
Executive Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
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