NAACP Reno-Sparks Branch No. 1112
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NAACP 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.
Meeting agendas
Next meeting: September 13, 2018
Updated
8-16-2018 GMT
BREAKING
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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 rest in peace.
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ALMANAC:
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
Back
to the Future
TV show and Freedom Fund Awards Dinner follow Fight of the Century
commemoration
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The
plaque is base metal composite and contains no brass,
bronze or copper. Plaque text written by Andrew Barbano
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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
After a
nationwide search and more than two years of work,
this Friday, August 17, at Moana Springs, we will
dedicate the final link of the Fight of the Century
triangle. If you can be present, George
"Battling" Nelson's immediate family
and his extended union family will be most honored.
Here's an update compiled from my recent reports to
the Northern Nevada Central Labor Council and Reno-Sparks
NAACP.
From Barbwire by Barbano, Sparks Tribune
8-8-18
1910 REDUX. That year not only spawned the
Tribune but also the Fight of the Century. "Great
White Hope" and undefeated former champion James
Jeffries was soundly thrashed by Jack Johnson, the
first black heavyweight champion. The fight took place
in a wooden stadium built for the occasion at E. 4th
and Toano, 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.
FRIDAY, AUG. 17, 4:30 p.m. We complete the
triangle. The Reno-Sparks NAACP, United Auto Workers
Local 2162/AFL-CIO, the Northern Nevada Central Labor
Council/AFL-CIO and the Great Basin Youth Soccer League
will dedicate a plaque at Jeffries' training site,
now the soccer fields on West Moana Lane. It will
precede the first UNR women's soccer game of the season
at 5:30 (no high-back chairs, please). Admission is
FREE with a can of food for the Food Bank of Northern
Nevada. Food trucks and other fun stuff will be
on hand.
Before Sept. 29: Video of the dedication and
other material will be featured on an edition of the
long-running "Old Tales of Nevada" television
program for which we will obtain additional Fight
of the Century footage. The program will feature "Johnson-Jeffries—Dateline
Reno" authors and former Reno Gazette-Journal
reporters Ray Hagar and Guy Clifton
and Reno-Sparks NAACP First Vice-President Andrew
Barbano. Watch RenoSparksNAACP.org and NevadaLabor.com
for broadcast times. Watch RenoSparksNAACP.org and
NevadaLabor.com/
SATURDAY, Sept. 29, 7:00 p.m.: Reno-Sparks
NAACP 73rd Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner at the
Grand Sierra-Reno Crystal Ballroom. At the event,
copies of the program will be given to those signing
up for NAACP membership.
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Reno-Sparks
NAACP 73rd Annual Freedom Fund Awards Banquet
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Grand Sierra Resort-Reno, Crystal 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 sold)
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
Non-profit community organizations with fewer
than 100 members: Table of 10 $850.00
SOUVENIR
PROGRAM
Back cover $2,500.00 (Already sold)
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
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
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 senior tickets $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@yahoo.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.
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 —>
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
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—
Dr. Barbara Fields featured on Ken Burns' The
Civil War
miniseries, PBS 1990
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2017-18
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
(dec.), Dolores Feemster (dec.),
Lonnie Feemster, Kelli Gallimore, Stephanie McCurry,
CJ Miller, Jane Moon, Elder William Moon (dec.),
Bertha Mullins, Christin Smith,
Rev. William C. Webb, Victor Wowo
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Executive Committee 6:30 p.m.
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