NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
Founded 1944
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Reno-Sparks
NAACP executive committee and general membership meetings
Second
Thursday of each month
Northern Nevada Hopes
Third Floor Community
Room
580 W. 5th Street @ Ralston * Reno, NV 89503
Executive
Committee 6:30 p.m.
General Membership 7:00 p.m.
Next meeting: December 13, 2018
Updated
12-13-2018 GMT
Happy
High Holly
Days
to
all
Merry Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Festivus/Chanukah
Hope
you and
yours enjoyed
enthralling Thanksgibleting.
HAPPY NEW YEAR / Feliz
Año Nuevo
Frohe
Weihnachten und beste Wuensche fuer 2019
Rosanell
Eaton, fierce voting rights advocate, dies at 97
Witness
to History Fought for the Right to Vote in The South Until
the Day She Died
By Robert D. McFadden /
The New York Times / Front Page / 12-10-2018
A
Christmas fantasy for freedom-loving racists
Barbwire by Andrea
Luigi Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 12-5-2018
Sparks Tribune
BREAKING
NEWS —> Impending events
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NOTE:
Parking is NOT FREE. The parking structure has
pay stations on each level. Attendees will need
to purchase 2-hour parking at a pay station
and leave that ticket on the dashboard before
entering the library across the plaza. You may
call
Ms. Baysinger
with other questions. (209) 280-5238
Mackenzie Baysinger
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Lonnie
L. Feemster, Nevada State Director
NAACP National Voter Fund
(775) 722-0042
BIG VOTES BEAT
BIG MONEY
NAACP and African American Clergy
Council coordinate get-out-the-vote effort
More drivers and phone callers
needed
RENO,
NV (11-5-2018) — Northern Nevada African-American
organizations are recruiting extra help for election
day.
"Voters of color represent over 39 percent of
Nevada voters this year and it is critical for us
to make sure our friends and family members cast their
ballots," stated Lonnie Feemster, Nevada
State Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.
The Reno-Sparks NAACP, the African American Clergy
Council of Northern Nevada and the voter fund have
pooled resources to facilitate election day participation
by Northern Nevada communities of color.
Volunteers from member churches will contact registered
voters by phone and coordinate transportation to the
polls. They will ensure that voters arrive at their
local polling precincts carrying personal identification
with an updated address.
"Big votes beat big money so it's all hands on
deck. We need all the volunteers we can get,"
Feemster said.
Anyone who would like to become involved may contact
Feemster at (775) 722-0042 or e-mail <lonnielfeemster@netscape.net>.
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Required
Reading
The
Lady in the Red Dress
The award-winning Barbwire
classic Nevada Day column written in 1983
The compleat history of the Silver State
in 500 words
SPARKS
TRIBUNE 10-31-2018
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[EDITOR'S
NOTE: The following story, including the photo, was
carried by KOLO TV-8 (ABC) on Oct. 30 and Oct. 31.]
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Patricia
Gallimore, President
NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
RenoSparksNAACP.org
(775) 846-2952
Andrew
Barbano, First Vice-President
(775) 882-TALK [882-8255]
Reno-Sparks
NAACP decries increasing hatred
New examples of racial and ethnic bigotry disclosed,
vigil attendance advocated
RENO,
NV (10-30-2018) — The Reno-Sparks NAACP encourages
all Nevadans to show up at various anti-hate demonstrations
around Nevada in the wake of burgeoning instances
of hatred in Northern Nevada and across the nation.
"Racists and racism remain reality in 21st Century
Nevada," stated Reno-Sparks NAACP President Patricia
Gallimore.
The past several weeks have seen campaign signs defaced,
hate flyers at Reno's Temple Emanu-El and anonymous
Internet trolls smearing longtime NAACP members as
neo-Nazis.
"I was disgusted and appalled to see the shameful
defaced image of Verita Black Prothro's campaign sign
and further appalled to learn of more," Gallimore
stated.
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"The
first campaign sign had Ms. Prothro's face as well
as her name blacked out. Another sign was found defaced
on Double R Blvd. in south Reno last Saturday,"
Gallimore stated.
"On top of all this came the mail bombs, the
murders of two black people at a Kentucky grocery
store and then the Pittsburgh massacre. We encourage
the community to show up at anti-hate vigils around
Nevada," added NAACP First Vice-President Andrew
Barbano.
"Africa
was and remains the cradle of civilization, so we
are all Africans or Black or Jewish or Latino,"
Gallimore said.
"Racism and bigotry thrive on creating false
divisions between human beings. Let’s be very
clear that such attitudes and behaviors will not be
tolerated in Nevada," she added.
Gallimore encouraged citizens to attend vigils for
the dead in Pittsburgh throughout Nevada. Temple Emanu-El
at Lakeside and Manzanita in southwest Reno starts
at 5:30 p.m. today. The North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation's
event begins at 6:15 p.m. today at 7000 Latone Ave.
in Tahoe Vista.
In Las Vegas, a community vigil is scheduled for 6:30
pm on Thursday, Nov. 1 at Temple Beth Sholom, 10700
Havenwood Lane, 89135.
The
Reno-Sparks NAACP was founded in 1945.
In
memoriam
>At
1:18 PM -0400 10/29/18, Congregation P'nai Tikvah
wrote:
We honor the 11 who lost their lives including husband
and wife Bernice and Sylvan Simon (84 and 86 years-old);
two brothers, Cecil and David Rosenthal (59 and 54
years-old); Rose Mallinger, 97; Joyce Fienberg, 75;
Richard Gottfried, 65; Jerry Rabinowitz, 66; Daniel
Stein, 71; Melvin Wax, 88 and Irving Younger, 69.
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Pretty
pictures in pink and other colors
Reno
Gazette-Journal / RGJ.com Sunday 10-7-2018
Reno
Gazette-Journal ace photographer (and an old friend) Tom
Smedes was assigned to the Reno-Sparks NAACP 73rd Annual Freedom
Fund Awards Banquet and immortalized the event, including
Aretha's pink Cadillac. I told the editor a week ago that
if he didn't include the Cadillac, we'd have picket lines
in front of the paper the next morning. Fortunately, all's
well that ends well. If you can identify people in the photos
(I could only come up with about half ), please name names.
Thanks to everyone who made FF73 a big success: Money, memberships
and meaningful messages in words, music and song. (No, I don't
know how we top the pink Cadillac and Margret's Funk Band
Aretha tribute. All suggestions welcome.) Thank you and wait
till next year! — Andrew
Barbano, First Vice-President & Event Chair
Reno Sparks NAACP looking for a pink Cadillac
to honor Aretha
KTVN TV-2 / KTVN.com 9-27-2018
Guess
what? The
infamous fake news media actually work on occasion.
A KTVN TV-2 viewer saw the story, called somebody
and we got a date with a beautiful doll. It's
uncool to tell a lady's age, but her birth certificate
says she was born in Motown in 1965. (No,
Motown is nowhere near Kenya.) We will do Aretha
proud.
So
make a reservation to ride
the freeway one more time.
Special
thanks to Marty Maher, owner of ABC
Lock & Glass in Sparks, Nev., for allowing
us the pleasure of the pink lady's company.
Wait
— there's more. Country music superstar
(and proud Nevadan) Lacy J. Dalton will
grace us with her presence.
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9:14
p.m. PDT 9-26-2018 / 04:14 GMT 9-27-2018 —
MY WILDEST DREAM: Tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. PDT,
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walks into the U.S.
Senate crucifixion star chamber flanked by her
new legal team — lawyers Anita Hill and
Barack Obama. (Can we also get Gerry Spence
out of retirement?) Alas, love's labours
lost.
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Freedom
Fund Banquet 2018 — Legends of the Fall
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Top
Row (left to right): Medgar Evers, Elder William
Moon*, Rosa Parks on the bus
Middle Row: Bertha Woodard* and Eddie Scott*
in 1961, Julian Bond, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King., Jr., Darryl K. Feemster
Front Row: Rev. Onie Cooper*, Dolores Monica
Mendocino Feemster*, Eddie Scott* 2015, Helen
Tyler (White) Stewart
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Indicates former Reno-Sparks
Branch presidents
[Montage
design by Evelyn
Crumbaker]
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NAACP NEEDS A PINK CADILLAC FOR ARETHA TRIBUTE
The
organization needs a pink Cadillac of any vintage
to pay proper respect to the memory of Aretha Franklin.
If one can be located, it will be displayed at the
entry to the event. Hot August Nights progenitor Jim
Webster has agreed to assist in the car search. Margret's
Funk Band will perform a spirited tribute to the
queen of soul.
BACK
TO THE FUTURE
73rd ANNUAL NAACP FREEDOM FUND DINNER
SEPT. 29
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Patricia
Gallimore, President, NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch
No. 1112 (775-322-2992)
Andrew
Barbano, First VP & Event Chair (775) 882-TALK
[882-8255]
RENO,
NV — One young mother took a risk to become the
first white member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. More
than five decades later, two African-American teens
risked their lives by speaking out for civil rights.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, the Reno-Sparks NAACP celebrates
those connections in word and song at its 73rd Annual
Freedom Fund Banquet.
The event takes place in the Grand Ballroom/Reno Ballroom
of Grand Sierra-Reno. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner
at 6:30.
Advance reservations are $75 for NAACP members. Non-members
are $105 which includes a one-year membership. Event-day
walk-ins are $10 extra at the door. Youth (12 and
under), students (with i.d.) and seniors are $50.00
in advance, $55.00 at the door. Vegetarian or special
needs entrées are available by advance request.
Checks may be sent payable to Reno-Sparks NAACP, P.O.
Box 7757, Reno, NV 89510. Reservations
may also be made via RenoSparksNAACP.org/
Table
sponsorships and souvenir program ad rates may
also be accessed via the website.
Major sponsors include Wells
Fargo Bank and The
Chantal Coalition, a newly-forming non-profit
dedicated to educating young people, their parents
and teachers about the warning signs of eating disorders.
The inaugural Dolores Feemster Lifetime Achievement
Award will be presented posthumously to Helen
Tyler White Stewart (1921-2013) a Nevada civil
rights pioneer. With her husband, John White, Sr.,
they became the first non-African-American members
of the Reno-Sparks NAACP back in the apartheid days
of Mississippi West Nevada.
The Whites helped the Reno-Sparks NAACP expose overt
housing discrimination by being shown houses which
a previously inquiring black couple had been told
were not on the market. Many older Reno homes still
bear unenforceable restrictions on their title deeds
noting that the property may never be sold to negroes.
With a who's-whom of local legends, Helen Stewart
worked for passage and attended Gov. Grant Sawyer's
signing of the Nevada Civil Rights Act of 1965. (Photo
at RenoSparksNAACP.org/)
Helen Stewart took a young Dolores Feemster
(1929-2018) under her wing and suggested she join
the Branch. They became best friends forever. Dolores
Monica Mendocino Feemster, the daughter of
an Italian-American father and African-American mother,
went on to become the matriarch of the NAACP and an
icon of Nevada community activism. She eventually
became president of the Branch. One of her sons, Lonnie
L. Feemster, Jr., later served four non-consecutive
terms as president.
Helen Stewart's family will accept the award on her
behalf. They will share the stage with Dolores and
Helen's direct descendants, two teenage girls from
Yerington High School and their family.
Taylissa Marriott
and Jayla Tolliver, their mother Nancy
Marriott and father Charles Tolliver (Ironworkers
Local 118/AFL-CIO), will receive the Eddie Scott/Bertha
Woodard Human Rights Advocacy Award. That honor
is named for two legendary Reno-Sparks NAACP presidents
who were also present at the signing of the 1965 Nevada
Civil Rights Act.
Taylissa and Jayla and their family were subjected
to wholesale discrimination and death threats (smoking
gun photos at NevadaLabor.com/). An attempt was
made on their lives for the crime of being black in
the Nevada outback.
They recently won a major federal civil rights case
against the Yerington Police Dept. and the
Lyon County School District and have vowed
to graduate from that school. Lonnie Feemster recruited
civil rights attorneys Terri Keyser-Cooper
and Kerry Doyle to represent the family. Yerington
remains a throwback to 1955 but has an opportunity
to evolve into the 21st Century. Hope springs eternal.
Attorney
General Adam Laxalt has not responded to a complaint
filed by Lonnie Feemster against the Yerington Police
Dept. for illegally shredding police reports regarding
the family's complaints of threats and intimidation.
Hope springs eternal.
The event was featured in the Sept. 23 edition of
the longrunning "Old Tales of Nevada"
television program. (CW Network/Northern Nevada 7:00
a.m. Sunday Sept. 23, 2018. Spectrum Channel 12 or
695 HD, Direct TV channel 9, over the air on KOLO
Channel 8.3. Streaming
at YouTube.com)
KOLO
TV-8 news anchor Tabnie Dozier will serve
as emcee. An ensemble choir from area Churches
of God in Christ will perform "Oh, Happy
Day," a favorite of Helen Stewart. The gospel
arrangement of the 18th Century hymn reached number
four on the singles chart for the Edwin Hawkins
Singers in 1969.
Margret's
Funk Band will perform a rousing tribute to
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.
All pink Cadillacs
will receive preferred parking. (Anyone who'd like
to bring one to the event, contact
us. NOW.)
The
work goes on. The dream will never die.
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FROM
JOURNALIST DENNIS
MYERS' DAILY ALMANAC
IN MEMORY
Addie Mae Collins
Denise McNair
Carol Robertson
Cynthia Wesley
ON
SEPT. 15, 1963, the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was
bombed by Ku Klux Klan members, killing four girls
attending a Sunday service at which the sermon was
titled "The love that forgives"; ON
SEPT.
15,
1979, using a hot air balloon
that took months to devise, two east German families
escaped over the Berlin wall; ON
SEPT. 15,
2007, Sally Field received
an Emmy for her portrayal of family matriarch "Nora
Walker" in the television series Brothers and
Sisters and the Fox Network censored part of her acceptance
speech: "But at the heart of Nora Walker, she
is a mother. So surely this belongs to all the mothers
of the world. May they be seen. May their work be
valued and raised, and especially the mothers who
stand with an open heart and wait-wait for their children
to come home from danger, from harm's way, and from
war. ... And let's face it, if mothers ruled the world,
there would be no goddam wars in the first place."
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FROM
A FATHER AND A BROTHER
Osama
bin Laden's strategic logic was to embroil the
United States in a never-ending conflict to ultimately
bankrupt the country.
"All that we have to do is send two mujahadeen
to the furthest point east to raise a piece of
cloth on which is written 'Al Qaeda,' " he
said in 2004, "in order to make generals
race there to cause America to suffer human, economic
and political losses without their achieving for
it anything of note."
Why are we continuing to do what Bin Laden wanted
all along? I refuse to take Bin Laden's orders.
I will not stay quiet. End
the war.
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Joe Quinn, veteran of two tours in Afghanistan
who lost a brother in the World Trade Center.
His son is now deployed in the never-ending
war. (New York Times op-ed, 9-11-2018) |
"Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it." —
George Santayana
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NATURAL
WOMAN: QUEEN OF SOUL ARETHA FRANKLIN DIES AT 76
DETROIT (8-16-2018) — Aretha Franklin,
the undisputed Queen of Soul who stood as a cultural
icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advanced
pancreatic cancer. Several years ago, Rolling Stone
named her the greatest rock singer of all time, ahead
of Ray Charles and Elvis Presley. Music rises as tears
fall around the world. May
she continue to make a joyful noise unto the Lord into
eternity.
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ALMANAC:
On August 16, 1977, Elvis died.
On August 16, 2018, Aretha died.
On August 15, 1958, a groundbreaking interracial marriage:
Maria Elena Santiago and singer Buddy Holly were married in
Lubbock, Texas. (Dennis
Myers)
On August 14, 2014, the Reno-Sparks Branch marched to the
federal building in downtown Reno protesting the death of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
On August 14, 2018, the Ferguson Fire flames ironically in
California's Yosemite National Park, fouling the air in Nevada.
As Michael Brown's death still does the nation.
Hope for the world: Missouri
voters last week voted down a union-busting law. (AB)
Yerington
racism case settled
Dolores
Feemster 1929-2018
2018
events and news bulletins
Historical
Black Colleges & Universities Tour 2018
Back
to the Future
TV show and Freedom Fund Awards Dinner follow Fight of the
Century commemoration
The
more things change, the more they remain the same
Half
a century apart and but still together: Mothers and daughters
will be honored at Sept. 29 Freedom Fund Banquet
Barbwire by Andrew
Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 9-19-2018
Sparks Tribune
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The
plaque is base metal composite and contains no brass,
bronze or copper. Plaque text written by Andrew Barbano
The plaque was manufactured by Mathews Bronze courtesy
of Sierra Memorial and RPI Printing and Mailing.
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The
Fight of the Century, 108 years hence and always with
us as one of history's seminal civil rights events
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The
Johnson training camp monument on Mayberry Drive.
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The
Fight of the Century took place in Reno on
July 4, 1910. "Great White Hope" and undefeated
former champion James Jeffries was soundly
thrashed by Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight
champion. It was arguably the catalyst of the modern
civil rights movement. The NAACP had been founded
the previous year. The bout took place in a wooden
stadium built for the occasion at E.
4th and Toano, today the site of a state historical
marker. Johnson trained at a resort on Mayberry
Drive. Tim Elam, the current property owner,
built a monument at the corner of Mayberry at Sherwood.
(See
right. —>)
After a
nationwide search and more than two years of work,
on Friday, August 17, 2018, at Moana Springs, the
final link of the Fight of the Century triangle was
completed in honor of boxing historian George
"Battling" Nelson. His daughter,
Zabette Nelson Buzzone, gave a moving testament
to her father. It will be featured on the upcoming
"Old Tales of Nevada" TV special. (See
below.)
City Councilmembers
Paul McKenzie and Naomi Duerr represented
the City of Reno. Former President Rudy Viola
spoke on behalf of United Auto Workers Local 2162/AFL-CIO.
President Patricia Gallimore represented the
Reno-Sparks NAACP as Vice-President Andrew
Barbano emceed. Past-President RIchard Jay
spoke on behalf of
the Great Basin Youth Soccer League. Former
Nevada State Treasurer Patty Cafferata attended
as did retired Washoe County Sheriff's Captain Heidi
Howe.
Jeffries'
training site on West Moana and Baker Lanes in southwest
Reno is now the location of Richard Jay Field.
The 4;30 p.m. dedication preceded the first University
of Nevada-Reno women's soccer game of the season
at 5:30. Admission was free with donation of a can
of food for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
Before Sept. 29: Video of
the dedication and other material is featured on the
September 23 edition of the long-running "Old
Tales of Nevada" television program complete
with historical Fight of the Century footage. The
program discusses books about the fight by local authors,
including "Johnson-Jeffries—Dateline Reno"
by former Reno Gazette-Journal reporters Ray
Hagar and Guy Clifton. Reno-Sparks NAACP
First Vice-President Andrew Barbano joins hosts
Hugh Roy Marshall and John O'Brien.
Clifton appears in a boxing segment.
WHERE
TO WATCH: CW Network/Northern Nevada 7:00 a.m. Sunday
Sept. 23, 2018 —> Spectrum Channel 12 or 695
HD, Direct TV Channel 9, over
the air on KOLO Channel 8.3. Streaming
here anytime.
SATURDAY, Sept. 29: Reno-Sparks NAACP 73rd
Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner at the Grand Sierra-Reno
Tahoe Ballroom.
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Reno-Sparks
NAACP 73rd Annual Freedom Fund Awards Banquet
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Grand Sierra Resort-Reno, Tahoe Ballroom
Doors open at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30 p.m.
MAJOR
SPONSORSHIPS
Platinum $8,500 — Three reserved tables
for 10, centerfold double-truck ad (already reserved)
in event souvenir program, banners at event, recognition
from the podium, inclusion in press releases, other
media and at RenoSparksNAACP.org/; display and promotional
material distribution as needed.
Gold $5,000 — Two reserved tables for
10, inside cover full-page ad in event souvenir program,
recognition from the podium, banner at event, inclusion
in various media as time and space allow, display
and promotional material distribution as needed
Silver $2,500 — Reserved table for 10,
full-page interior ad in event souvenir program, display
and promotional material distribution as needed, inclusion
in various media as time and space allow, recognition
from the podium
Bronze $1,450 — Reserved table for 10
and half-page program ad
Reserved table for 10 — $1,000.00
Small
non-profit community organizations: Table of
10 $850.00 [Available to authorized IRS 501 (c) (3)
non-profit organizations consisting of fewer
than 100 employees and clients, cumulatively.
For example, a professional association with 75 member
firms would not qualify if the total employment of
all 75 member firms exceeds 100. Conversely, a church
with 85 parishioners would qualify for the reduced
rate. A community service organization with 85 employees
but serving 2,000 patients/clients would not.] Please
contact us with any questions.
SOUVENIR
PROGRAM
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Back
cover $2,500.00 (Already reserved)
Front page interior (page 1) $850.00
Inside front cover $775.00
Back page interior $725.00
Inside back cover $675.00
Full-page interior $625.00
Half-page interior $475.00
Quarter-page interior $375.00
Business card (eighth-page) $275.00
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Half: 8 inches X 5 & 1/8 inches
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INDIVIDUAL
ADMISSION
Non-members $105.00 per person in advance, $115.00
at the door (includes one-year regular membership)
Reno-Sparks NAACP Members $75.00 per person in advance,
$85.00 at the door.
Youth, student (with i.d.) and seniors $50.00 in advance,
$55.00 at the door.
Vegetarian or special needs entrées available
by advance request.
Please make checks payable to Reno-Sparks NAACP, P.O.
Box 7757, Reno, NV 89510.
To reserve your participation,
please contact
Andrew Barbano (775) 747-0544 <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>
CJ Miller (775) 721-1671 <cmiller107@outlook.com>
Patricia or Don Gallimore Sr. (775) 322-2992
<gallifam@sbcglobal.net>
Contributions or gifts to this event are generally
not tax deductible as charitable contributions for
income tax purposes. Expensing of commercial/professional
advertising may be different. Please consult your
tax professional.
[CWA
9413/AFL-CIO]
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[EDITOR'S
NOTE:
Unless otherwise noted, historical items appear courtesy of
longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac [PDA]. Items
highlighted in blue are of interest
to civil rights and worker rights in particular and to seekers
of justice in general. Red means war.
Occasionally but not surprisingly,
magenta will mean both.
Copyright © 2007-2018 Dennis Myers.]
March
31: A birthday for giants — Jack
Johnson and César Chávez
March
31 — On this date in 1870, Thomas Peterson Mundy of Perth
Amboy became the first African
American to vote under the 15th amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
which had been ratified the previous day (he also
served as a school principal and was later elected to the
Middlesex County Commission);
in 1878, boxer (and future
world heavyweight champion) Jack Johnson was born in
Galveston; in 1911, after three years of prosecutions
by the (Theodore) Roosevelt and Taft administrations
of newspapers that reported on tawdry government conduct in
the construction of the Panama Canal, the cases—which
were thrown out by the courts—formally came to an end
when a U.S. attorney in New York requested permission to enter
a filing called a nolle prosse dropping all criminal libel
charges; in 1927, César Chávez was born
near Yuma, Arizona; in 1949, attorney Madison Graves filed
charges against Las Vegas police officers after a teenager
was beaten in the city jail and then given no medical attention
to head injuries for four hours; in 1961, what was
reported to be Reno’s first sit-in was staged by African
Americans at the Overland Hotel’s café while elsewhere
in the downtown a picket line was thrown up at the Nevada
Bank of Commerce; in 2008 (and 2018), César
Chávez Day will be celebrated with a large
gathering at the Circus Circus Hotel in Reno. [Courtesy
of longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac, Copyright
© 2007-2018 Dennis Myers.]
ACROSS-THE-BOARD
VICTORY: Yerington racism case settled
How
to befriend a racist: Because that’s one way to change someone’s
mind
By Wade Gainer / Reno News & Review 2-15-2018
MLK
WEEKEND FOR THE RECORD BOOKS IN MISSISSIPPI WEST
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Taylissa
Marriott, left, and Jayla Tolliver at Yerington High
School, Lyon County, Nevada
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MLK
SUNDAY IN CHURCH JANUARY 14, 2018 — (Left
to right) Jayla Tolliver, Taylissa Marriott, their
mother, Nancy, and Uncle Reggie Brantley
(Sparks Ironworkers Local 118/AFL-CIO, ret.), attorney
Terri Keyser-Cooper and four-time former Reno-Sparks
NAACP President Lonnie L. Feemster. |
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Look
for SRO this Sunday, January 14, at the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship in south Reno, 780 Del Monte Lane, 89511. The
annual
interfaith service starts at 3:00 p.m. and no matter who's
on the program, the stars will be Jayla Tolliver and
Taylissa Marriott. The sisters, both 14, have become
national figures with a little help from the Reno-Sparks
NAACP, the Barbwire
(beginning Oct. 18) and the Reno Gazette-Journal (beginning
Nov. 19).
The African-American youngsters have been living a modern
version of the 1955 deep south right here in the fabled Mississippi
West.
The Yerington High School students have been subjected to
bullying, overt racism and continuing death threats all for
the crime of being born with skin the color of café
au lait. (That means coffee with milk.)
Despite complaints by the NAACP to Nevada Attorney General
Adam Laxalt, Yerington's top cop has not been held
accountable for illegally shredding police reports. Chief
Bull Connor's defense is that hate speech is a First
Amendment right kinda like hollering "fire!" in
a crowded theater or threatening to kill somebody, which is
the legal definition of assault. Which is how the girls continue
to be threatened. [UPDATE: The two
girls were almost run down by a truck in a Yerington restaurant
parking lot.]
At Nevadalabor.com, you will find original
Snapchat photos of a teenager with guns and a knife...The
father of the Snapchat boy is a former Yerington police officer
and now a local athletic coach. Yerington High suspended the
kid who posted the photo. That student's father is an active
Lyon County Deputy Sheriff. The girls' dad has been
threatened with trespassing charges if he shows up at the
Yerington HS campus.
Lyon County parents have recently been defending their ill-educated
offspring. It gets worse.
"Yerington Mayor George Dini dismissed
them as the act of teenagers who meant no harm and were
ignorantly unaware of what they were doing," rgj.com
reported on Nov. 18.
“This is a case of some kids acting badly," Dini
told Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Siobhan McAndrew.
Regrettably, that statement has yet to see ink in the Reno
paper.
World
class civil rights attorney Terri Keyser-Cooper filed
federal civil rights litigation last Thursday (no hometown
judges and juries allowed).
She also asked the court for a preliminary injunction to protect
the family which remains terrorized.
The court filings will be linked to this
column at NevadaLabor.com, regrettably compelling reading.
MORE MLK. The 20th Onie
Cooper Memorial MLK Highway Caravan forms Monday, Jan.
15, at 9:30 a.m. at the LDS church, 2955 Rock Blvd.
at McCarran, Sparks.
On Monday evening, most PBS stations will air the Oscar-nominated
"I
Am Not Your Negro," a film which "envisions
the book James Baldwin never finished, a revolutionary
and personal account of the lives and successive assassinations
of three of his close friends." Legendary author Baldwin
(1924-1987) wrote "The Fire Next Time" and "Nobody
Knows My Name." KNPB TV-5 in northern Nevada will
air the program at 9:00 p.m. PST on Monday, Sept. 15, with
reruns as follows: Tuesday 1/16 2:00 a.m. Wednesday 1/17 4:00
a.m. Friday 1/19 12 midnight. Sunday 1/21 12 midnight and
3:00 a.m. (All times Pacific Standard.)
Check
local listings and go tell it on the mountain.
Excerpts
from Barbwire by Andrew Barbáno
/ Sparks Tribune and affiliated
publications 1-10-2018, 1-17-2018 et seq.
Yerington
Racism Archives
BREAKING
NEWS —>
9:14
p.m. PDT 9-26-2018 / 04:14 GMT 9-27-2018 —
MY WILDEST DREAM: Tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. PDT,
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walks into the U.S.
Senate crucifixion star chamber flanked by her
new legal team — lawyers Anita Hill and
Barack Obama. (Can we also get Gerry Spence
out of retirement?) Alas, love's labours
lost.
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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
can still be lost." |
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Dr. Barbara Fields featured on Ken Burns' The
Civil War
miniseries, PBS 1990
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