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BREAKING
NEWS —>
Dolores Feemster Memorial Service Set
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Dolores
Monica Mendocino Feemster
1929-2018
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SPARKS, NEVADA
(25 May 2018) — Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch and
former
president Dolores Feemster passed away
in the 5:00 a.m. hour on Friday, May 25, 2018, at
Northern Nevada Medical
Center in Sparks, Nevada. She was 89. The U.S. civil
rights community and all Nevada mourn. Memorial
service arrangements have been announced.
She was born in a house on Morrill Avenue in Reno
on May 24, 1929. She celebrated her 89th birthday
with her family yesterday. With Elder
Bill Moon and Eddie
Scott, the Reno-Sparks Branch has lost
three former presidents in the past year. We carry
forward in their honor.
Remembrances
and Condolences
Send
your memories and condolences to barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us
Reach out your hand
If your cup is empty
If your cup is full
may it be again
Let it be known
There is a fountain
That was not made
By the hands of men
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— Robert
Hunter & Jerry Garcia
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A
duo of D-Days
visit Nevada this week
Barbwire
by Andrew Barbano / Sparks Tribune 6-6-2018
Women's
Hall of Famer Dolores
Feemster was a rarity: A native Nevadan
By
Dennis Myers / Reno News & Review 5-31-2018
Mother
Dolores: Our village
loses its patron saint
Barbwire
by Andrew Barbano / Sparks Tribune 5-30-2018
Reno
loses civil rights activist, matriarch Dolores
Feemster
By
Anjeanette Damon / rgj.com Sunday 5-27-2018 / Reno
Gazette-Journal — Memorial Day, 5-28-2018
Darryl
K. Feemster, Sr., 1962-2017
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MEDIA
ADVISORY
6-2-2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Andrew Barbano (775) 747-0544 <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>
Gary Feemster (917) 257-3133 <garyfeem1@yahoo.com>
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS
FOR NAACP MATRIARCH DOLORES FEEMSTER ANNOUNCED
Memorial service Saturday, June 9, Reno-Sparks
Convention Center
RENO, NV (6-2-2018) — A memorial service for
Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch and former president Dolores
Feemster will commence at 12 noon on Saturday, June
9, at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, W. Peckham
and S. Virginia Streets.
The remembrance will be conducted in the convention
center's Mt. Rose Ballroom on the west side of the
building. Parking will be free. Attendees may park
on the northwest side of the facility and may enter
via the Peckham Lane entrance on the north side or
the main entrance on the west side facing S. Virginia
Street. Ushers will assist and direct.
Additional parking is available at the convention
center's auxiliary lot on Peckham and Kietzke Lane.
Pedestrians may cross at the light at Peckham and
Coliseum Drive.
A
reception will be held immediately after the service
at the Hug High School cafeteria on Sutro at North
McCarran in Reno. Mrs. Feemster was a longtime counselor
at the school.
Mrs. Feemster will be interred at a private family
ceremony at Reno's Mountain View Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on
Friday, June 8, at Walton's Sierra Chapel, 875 W.
2nd Street in Reno.
Native
Nevadan Dolores Monica Mendocino Feemster died at
Northern Nevada Medical Center on May 25, 2018, a
day after her 89th birthday. Stories of her life and
remembrances
may be accessed at RenoSparksNAACP.org/
A formal obituary will be published in the Reno Gazette-Journal
beginning Wednesday, June 6.
Official
Feemster Family Obituary
Reno
Gazette-Journal 6-6-2018
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Direct
from Reno City Hall
Good
news
May
23, 2018 — The Reno City
Council appointed branch member Alex Goff to the city's
new human rights commission.
Stay tuned.
Direct
from the wildes of Sparks — Better News
5-13-2018
— Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch and former branch
president Dolores Feemster continues making a
miraculous recovery. She is undergoing rehabilitation
at Manor Care in Spanish Springs and recently enjoyed
a surprise party from branch members. Please continue
sending cards and flowers — and lots of love.
Thanks for your prayers and well wishes. Life is good.
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THE
LAST HURRAH WITH MOTHER DOLORES ON MOTHERS'
DAY (5-13-2018) — Reno-Sparks
NAACP matriarch Dolores Feemster at a Mothers'
Day visit from family and friends. Left
to right, front row: Grand-daughter Erica Young
(who gave grandma a sparkling manicure); Dolores'
daughter Cheryl Feemster and the guest of honor
herself. Back row: Branch Second Vice-President
Donald Gallimore, Sr.; Branch President Patricia
Gallimore; Gallimore grand-daughters Kira and
Diora; Executive Committee Member and Branch
Legal Redress Committee Chair Victor Wowo; First
Vice-President and Political Action Committee
Chair Andrew Barbano; Past-President, Education
Chair and son Lonnie L. Feemster, Jr.; future
president Shannon Gallimore. [Photo: Carolyn
Feemster Page, daughter]
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Manor
Care is located at 2350 Wingfield Hills Drive, Sparks
NV 89436
Phone (800) 531-0695 or (775) 335-8275
Keep
them flowers, cards and letters comin' in. Thank
you.
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Impending
Special Events
June 2 Rummage Sale: We need items
and volunteers
June 16: Juneteenth — We need volunteers for
our booth
July 28: Greater New Hope Block party. We again need
volunteers.
Reno-Sparks
NAACP 73rd Annual Freedom Fund Awards Banquet / September
2018 / Stay tuned.
Contact President Patricia
Gallimore at (775) 322-2992
Watch
this site for more details.
Special
Events Archive
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Poor
Denny's Almanac for a sad Sunday
[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.]
On April 15,
1540, Jerome of Bohemia, a Wycliffe follower,
was arrested by the Catholic Council of Constance (under
duress he admitted heresy, then when ordered to repeat the
confession in public he recanted and demanded a hearing, which
was denied); in 1913, the Nevada State Journal
reported that the University of Nevada baseball team,
to avoid breaking a campus rule against playing on Sundays,
played under the name “Nevada Stars” when it had
Sunday games; in 1936, President Roosevelt signed legislation
for a moratorium on debts owed by reclamation farmers and
Native American irrigation projects to the federal government;
in 1945, British and Canadian
forces liberated Bergen Belsen, then turned it into
a displaced persons camp, so Jewish refugees continued living
there as late as 1950, often overriding British authority,
electing their own leaders, achieving independent power, and
planning emigration to Israel over British protests; in
1945, U.S. Army troops arrived at the Buchenwald
death camp to discover the prisoners had liberated it four
days earlier; in 1967, one
hundred seventy five men burned their draft cards at a massive
peace rally in Central Park in New York City; in
1971, Ring Lardner Jr.,
sent to federal prison in 1950 for refusing to cooperate with
the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, received the Academy
Award for best adapted screenplay for his M*A*S*H script—produced
by 20th Century Fox, which had fired him on the day
he appeared before HUAC; in 2001 in
an Easter B.C. comic strip, cartoonist Johnny Hart
portrayed a menorah’s candles burning out and the
menorah breaking apart until only the shape of a burning cross
remained (two years earlier, Hart had said publicly, “Jews
and Muslims who don’t accept Jesus will burn in Hell”).
Edward
R. Murrow at Buchenwald/April 15 1945: There surged around me
an evil-smelling stink. Men and boys reached out to touch me. They
were in rags and the remnants of uniforms. Death already had marked
many of them, but they were smiling with their eyes. I looked out
over the mass of men to the green fields beyond, where well-fed
Germans were ploughing...
[I] asked to see one of the barracks. It happened to be occupied
by Czechoslovaks. When I entered, men crowded around, tried to lift
me to their shoulders. They were too weak. Many of them could not
get out of bed. I was told that this building had once stabled 80
horses. There were 1200 men in it, five to a bunk. The stink was
beyond all description.
They called the doctor. We inspected his records. There were only
names in the little black book—nothing more. Nothing about
who had been where, what he had done or hoped. Behind the names
of those who had died, there was a cross. I counted them. They totaled
242—242 out of 1200, in one month.
As we walked out into the courtyard, a man fell dead. Two others,
they must have been over 60, were crawling toward the latrine. I
saw it, but will not describe it.
In another part of the camp they showed me the children, hundreds
of them. Some were only six years old. One rolled up his sleeves,
showed me his number. It was tattooed on his arm. B-6030, it was.
The others showed me their numbers. They will carry them ‘til
they die. An elderly man standing beside me said, “The children—enemies
of the state!” I could see their ribs through their thin shirts...
We went to the hospital. It was full. The doctor told me that 200
had died the day before. I asked the cause of death. He shrugged
and said, “Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue and there are
many who have no desire to live. It is very difficult.” He
pulled back the blanket from a man’s feet to show me how swollen
they were. The man was dead. Most of the patients could not move.
I asked to see the kitchen. It was clean. The German in charge...showed
me the daily ration. One piece of brown bread about as thick as
your thumb. On top of it a piece of margarine as big as three sticks
of chewing gum. That, and a little stew, was what they received
every 24 hours. He had a chart on the wall. Very complicated it
was. There were little red tabs scattered through it. He said that
was to indicate each 10 men who died. He had to account for the
rations and he added: “We’re very efficient here.”
We proceeded to the small courtyard. The wall adjoined what had
been a stable or garage. We entered. It was floored with concrete.
There were two rows of bodies stacked up like cordwood. They were
thin and very white. Some of the bodies were terribly bruised, though
there seemed to be little flesh to bruise. Some had been shot through
the head, but they bled but little.
I arrived at the conclusion that all that was mortal of more than
500 men and boys lay there in two neat piles. There was a German
trailer, which must have contained another 50, but it wasn’t
possible to count them. The clothing was piled in a heap against
the wall. It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of
starvation. They had not been executed.
But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done
at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there
during the last 12 years. Thursday, I was told that there were more
than 20,000 in the camp. There had been as many as 60,000. Where
are they now?
I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I reported
what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it, I have
no words. If I have offended you by this rather mild account of
Buchenwald, I’m not in the least sorry....
____________________
Mother
of God, what have we done? What have we allowed? And still
do — to this very day 73 years later.
We
Don't Need No Education
Part LXXXVIII—>
Flying
machines in pieces on the ground
Barbwire
by Andres
Luis Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 4-11-2018
Sparks Tribune
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Last
words of Martin Luther King, Jr., to Ben
Branch/April 4, 1968:
"Ben, make sure you play 'Precious Lord, Take
My Hand' in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty."
On April
4, 1507, Martin Luther was ordained a Catholic priest
in Erfurt, Germany; also on this date in 1915, McKinley
Morganfield aka Muddy Waters was born in
Rolling Fork in the Mississippi Delta; in 1934,
a year after churches in Germany were (mostly willingly)
brought under state control, a group of Christian leaders
led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer openly formed a Pastor’s
Emergency League to oppose the Nazis and
the state church, prompting many ministers to resign
from the state church (Bonhoffer was hanged in 1945
at Flossenburg concentration camp); in 1934,
the Reichbishop of the state church issued an order
forbidding ministers from discussing the religious dispute
in their sermons; in 1942, after his publication
The Galilean claimed that the damage to U.S.
forces at Pearl Harbor was greater than the Roosevelt
administration had reported, FDR critic and presidential
candidate William Dudley Pelley was arrested
and charged by the Roosevelt administration with treason
and sedition, later being convicted on 11 counts and
sentenced to 15 years in prison; in 1967, Martin
Luther King, Jr.,
spoke against the Vietnam war at Riverside
Church in New York City;
in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated
at age 39 while campaigning in support of striking trash
collectors.
Robert
Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Whenever any American’s life is taken by another
American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name
of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or
a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence
or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the
fabric of the life which another man has painfully and
clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole
nation is degraded...Too often we honor swagger and bluster
and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are
willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams
of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad
fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others
of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.
Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies,
but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression
brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole
society can remove this sickness from our soul. For there
is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly
destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This
is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction
and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the
poor, that poisons relations between men because their
skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction
of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes
without heat in the winter. This is the breaking of a
man’s spirit by denying him the chance to stand as
a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts
us all. |
[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.]
Poor
Denny's Almanac
[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 — On this date in 1878, boxer
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.
March
30 — On this date in 1963, aeronautical engineer Ed Dwight,
an African-American U.S. Air Force test pilot, was admitted
to U.S. astronaut training, where—after full public relations
mileage was obtained from him—he was harassed and threatened
into quitting two years later (he is now a renowned sculptor).
March
29 —On this date in 1951 in New
York City, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
convicted of espionage by an all-Christian jury;
in 1971, Lt. William Calley was
convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians, the only responsible
official ever brought to justice for the My Lai massacre.
March
28 — On this date in 1939, an
agent for Argentine meat packers who supplied dog food in
the U.S. was quoted by columnist Drew Pearson: “My
two best sales areas are Park Avenue and the deep South. On
Park Avenue, it is the dogs that eat the dog food, but in
the deep South, it is the negroes and the poor whites.”;
in 1944, the two-day murder of all
the Jewish children in Lithuania’s Zezmariai death
camp was completed; in 1953, the Reno Sparks
Indian Colony formed a planning board to prepare for release
of the colony’s residents from wardship and resultant
securing of deeds to their properties; in 1979, an
accident at Three Mile Island set off the nation’s
worst nuclear power plant disaster.
March
27— On this date in 1961, after a morning in which African
Americans from around Nevada poured into the state capital,
a senate committee kept approving a weak civil rights bill
and then revoking its approval, finally allowing a full senate
vote by which the measure lost 9 to 8.
March
23 —On this date in 1918, trial
began of the Woodrow Wilson administration's prosecution
of 101 labor leaders indicted for “espionage” (opposing
U.S. participation in World War One), among them Bill Haywood,
who at age 15 worked in a mine in Nevada’s Humboldt County;
in 1923, Chollar Mine worker Andy Antunovich lost
an arm on the job as rumors circulated of a miners strike
on the Comstock; in 1943, twenty-nine
Jewish children from the La Rose Orphanage in France, and
their adult caretaker, were gassed at Sobibor death
camp; in 1954, French Chief
of Staff General Paul Ely and
U.S. Joint Chiefs chair Admiral Arthur Radford concocted
a plan called Operation Vulture (Opération Vautour)
to use an atom bomb in Vietnam to rescue the besiged French
at Dien Bien Phu (both Vulture and other plans for
U.S. involvement died when the Eisenhower administration
was unable to lure British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
into the scheme); in 1960, after Storey
County District Attorney Robert Moore obtained a nuisance
order from Nevada District Court Judge Richard Hanna
that said Joe Conforte’s Triangle Ranch brothel
was being “unlawfully used for the purpose of maintaining
a house of prostitution” and should be destroyed at Conforte’s
expense, a fire crew from Washoe County burned the brothel
to the ground; in 1964, John Lennon’s In His
Own Write was published; in 1979, former
Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. Orlando Letelier was
assassinated in Washington DC by two Cuban exiles hired by
the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. [EDITOR'S
NOTE:
Letelier's
aide, Mrs.
Ronni Karpen Moffit, a U.S. citizen, also
died in the car bomb attack perpetrated by agents of a Nazi-loving
mass murderer installed by the Nixon-Kissinger administration
via a 1973 coup de'tat which resulted in the death of democratically
elected President Salvadore Allende — and the
death of the second-oldest democracy in the western hemisphere.]
March
22 — On this date in 1864 in the U.S. House, Representative
Henry Winter Davis pointed out that Lincoln’s “emancipation
proclamation” had no legal effect so it was necessary
for congressional action to accomplish abolition of slavery.
March
21 (Barbwire/César
Chávez
XVI
Update) — On this date in 1806, Benito
Juárez was born. ¡Viva
Juárez!
March
20 — On this date in 1896, the
United States attacked Nicaragua, one of at least eight U.S.
wars on that nation (1894, 1896, 1898,1899, 1907, 1910, 1912-33,
1981-90); in 1919, Slats, who would become the
original MGM lion, was born at the Dublin zoo; in 1971,
Army Secretary Stanley Resor announced
reforms to deal with treatment of African Americans, particularly
at U.S. posts in Germany where they received fewer promotions
and harsher punishments than whites, and where they faced
discrimination in off-base housing rentals; in 1994,
Italian journalists Ilaria Lapi and Miran Hrovatin,
who reportedly were digging into
gun running by the Italian military in Somalia, were mysteriously
murdered by a Land Rover full of gunmen in Mogadishu as Italian
troops were leaving Somalia; in 2003, the
U.S. government began its unprovoked war against Iraq;
in 2009, Michelle Obama launched a campaign for healthy
food and exercise by planting a vegetable garden at the White
House, assisted by school children, and in a knee-jerk response
Republicans attacked her and continued their assault for months,
with Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and
Michele Bachmann among those joining in the attack.
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The
César
Chávez Long March 3-17-1966
by Reno artist Erik Holland
The
original watercolor above was displayed for several
years in the Nevada Legislature offices of Sen. (now
Congressman) Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, prime sponsor
of the 2009 César Chávez Day bill. Mr.
Holland is preparing a new painting to be unveiled
at César Chávez
Celebration XVI
on March 31, 2018, at Circus Circus-Reno. The Reno-Sparks
NAACP will participate with a full display and voter
registration, as usual. Click
here for event information.
Copyright
© 2009 Erik Holland. All rights reserved.
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Poor
Denny's Almanac
Remember:
St. Patrick was once a slave who returned to minister
to the land which shackled him
On
St. Patrick's Day: in 1934,
thirty African American students were ejected from the
U.S. House of Representatives dining room when they
sought service as a protest against the firing of a
waiter who tried to serve blacks, with police shoving
the students out of the restaurant, down the hallway,
and outdoors, fists swinging and blows landing; in
1966, farm workers led by César
Chávez began a march
from Delano to Sacramento; in
1970, U.S. postal workers struck.
[Courtesy
of longtime Nevada reporter Dennis
Myers' daily Poor Denny's Almanac © 2018]
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March
16 — On this date in 1910, Reno’s African Methodist
Episcopal Church received a permit to build a church on
220 Bell Street; in 1972, the first building of the
Pruitt–Igoe complex, the infamous effort to remedy low-income
housing in St. Louis, consisting of 33 11-storey apartment
buildings on 57 acres, which was initially seen as a breakthrough
in urban renewal when it opened in 1955, was demolished with
a controlled implosion, and subsequent controlled implosions,
on March 16, April 22, July 15 and many more; in 1984,
Jesse Jackson
won the Mississippi Democratic caucuses, the first instance
in U.S. history of an African American candidate winning a
presidential preference contest.
The
Ides of March — On March 15, 1945, the King Cole
Trio was number one in the first Billboard
magazine albums chart (Nat Cole later
abandoned jazz for MOR ballad singing, but his trio’s
recordings are still widely admired).
March
14 — On this date in 1915, a portrait of Abraham
Lincoln by painter Charles Shean, purchased
by the State of Nevada to hang in the Nevada Assembly hall,
was unveiled.
March
12— On this date in 1955, jazz great Charlie Parker
died in New York.
March
11 — On this date in 1968, a gold record was posthumously
awarded to Otis Redding for "Dock of the Bay."
March
7 (BBC) — On this date in 1965, in a pivotal event of
the modern civil rights movement, police
in Selma, Alabama, used dogs and water cannon against peaceful
civil rights marchers, beating and nearly killing now-Rep.
John Lewis, D-Georgia. The BLOODY
SUNDAY TV images shocked the world.
March
4: On this date in 1887, twenty-three year old William
Randolph Hearst purchased the San Francisco Examiner;
in 1911, a million acres of federally managed land was
transferred to the State of Nevada under the Carey Act
[Editor's
note: Read
what happened to 4 million acres of Nevada land originally
intended to benefit education in perpetuity, also by Dennis
Myers, of course); in 1914, the new $110,000 University
of Nevada library was dedicated; in
1944, four Jewish women found in the Aryan section of Warsaw
were murdered; in 1970, over
the objections of ABC network executives, Johnny
Cash hosted blacklisted folk singer Pete Seeger on
the Johnny Cash Show (Cash called Seeger’s critics
“crackpots” and called Seeger “one of the best
Americans and patriots I’ve ever known”);
in 2002, Matthew A. Commons of
Boulder City died near Gardez, Afghanistan; in 2007, the
Associated Press reported that U.S. troops threatened
the lives of Afghan reporters unless those reporters erased
images of a U.S. attack on civilians: “Delete them or
we’ll delete you.”
March
3: On this date in 1994, Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue
Del Papa issued a legal opinion saying that the county
supremacy movement’s “Plan for Public Land”
(which argues that Nevada holds title to federally managed
lands within the state) does not have a “theory with
any measure of respect in the legitimate legal community”
[Editor's
note: Cliven Bundy and Wesley Snipes, please
call your laywers]; in 2003 at
a food court in Crossgates Mall near Albany, New York, where
he was having lunch with his son, attorney Stephen Downs
was ordered by security guards to remove the “Give peace
a chance” shirt he had purchased at the mall and was
arrested and charged with trespass when he refused (the mall
later backed down and asked that the charge against Downs
be dropped after about a hundred people wearing peace shirts
entered the mall and refused to leave until the complaint
against Downs was withdrawn).
March
2: On this date in 1934 Tom Mix, Wallace
Beery and other movie stars
having lunch at the Brown Derby failed to get their food when
the restaurant’s twenty-seven waiters walked out in a
pay dispute; in 1946, the
National Assembly named Ho Chi Minh president of Vietnam;
in 1955, “Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley was recorded
for the Checker label, introducing the driving, insistent
beat that was so influential that “Bo Diddley beat”
became the term to describe it; in 1960, the Reno Evening
Gazette and Nevada State Journal began moving from
their offices on Center Street to a new building on Stevenson
Street; in 1979, Norma Rae,
a movie about union organizing at a J.P. Stevens textile
plant, was released and its star, Sally Field, eventually
was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globes, New
York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association Awards, and award competitions of the National
Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Cannes Film Festival
— and
won all of them; in 2009, Fox
network personality Megyn Kelly and U.S. Representative
Trent Franks claimed on the air that U.S. Sen. Harry
Reid had language in the federal recession stimulus legislation
that would be used to build a railroad from Disneyland
in southern California to the Moonlite Bunnyranch in
northern Nevada, which was false (and Reid opposes legal prostitution).
[Editor's
note: Did Harvey Weinstein know about this?]
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THE
BEST NEWS — Sunday,
Feb. 18, 2018: Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch
and former branch
president Dolores Feemster continues making a
miraculous recovery. She has returned home from both
hospital and recovery care. She
was delighted to receive a
stack of valentines last week. On Sunday, she
said she is feeling much better and now, so can we.
Please continue sending cards and flowers. And lots
of love. Thanks for your prayers and well wishes.
Life is good.
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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.
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
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Coming
in September 2018
73rd Annual Reno-Sparks NAACP Freedom
Fund Awards Banquet
Watch
this site for updates.
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BREAKING
NEWS —>
THE
BEST NEWS — Sunday,
Feb. 18, 2018: Reno-Sparks NAACP matriarch
and former branch
president Dolores Feemster continues making a
miraculous recovery. She has returned home from both
hospital and recovery care. She
was delighted to receive a
stack of valentines last week. On Sunday, she
said she is feeling much better and now, so can we.
Please continue sending cards and flowers. And lots
of love. Thanks for your prayers and well wishes.
Life is good.
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How
to befriend a racist: Because that’s one way to change someone’s
mind
By Wade Gainer / Reno News & Review 2-15-2018
We
Don't Need No Education
Part LXXXVI—>
Racist terrorism in the Nevada outback
Mississippi
West 2018: Sexy moral depravity abides
Barbwire
by Andrew Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 1-31-2018
Sparks Tribune & affiliated publications
MLK
Weekend & Terrorism in the Nevada outback
Barbwire
by Andrew Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 1-17-2018 Sparks Tribune and affiliated
publications
The
spirits of MLK and Bull Connor live right here
Barbwire
by Andrew Barbáno
/ Expanded from the 1-10-2018
Sparks Tribune / Updated 1-11 and 1-12-2018
"The
good Lord created the world. Mankind built the cities. And
the Devil thunk up the small town."
— Auld
folk wisdom
Latest
Klannish Nevada racism reports
Darryl
K. Feemster, Sr., 1962-2017
"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
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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