The Southern Truth
Family Hires Douglas/Hicks Law Firm
Los Angeles, CA – The family of a 24-year Black man found hanging from a tree in Palmdale on Jun. 10 has announced they will seek an independent investigation and autopsy to determine the cause of death. Robert Fuller’s family has hired attorney Jamon R. Hicks with Douglas/Hicks Law to oversee an independent investigation into…
Read MoreCalifornia Assembly Passes Bill to Set Up Reparations Task Force
By Tanu Henry | California Black Media On June 12, the California Assembly voted 61-12 to approve AB 3121. The “reparations” bill calls for the creation of a task force to study and propose ideas for how African Americans in California can be compensated for slavery and its “after lives,” as the…
Read MoreAddress Racial Prejudice Immediately To Help Jurors Rise Above It
Editor’s Note: Race matters. Race matters, and especially the Black race, because of the systemic, institutionalized, disenfranchisement of the Black race which has been intentionally brutalized and criminalized simply for being Black in America and its system of racial prejudice which is alive and well in its criminal justice system. As it is the…
Read MoreBlack Activists Confront Affirmative Action Opponents on Zoom Call
Antonio Ray Harvey From California Black Media Last week, African American activists confronted affirmative action opponents on a Zoom town hall a conservative Republican candidate organized. At least one Republican elected official attended the event that the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation (SVCAF) supported. June Yang Cutter is an Asian American Republican running for State Assembly in District 77, which covers parts of northern San Diego and the nearby cities of Poway and Rancho Santa Fe, among others. She is running against incumbent Brian Maienschein (D-San Diego). One major topic…
Read MoreDr. Weber Says “We Are Americans Without the Privilege of Being an American”
Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, gave an emotional speech June 3, at a press conference held at the California State Capitol. On Wednesday, June 10, one of Weber’s bills, ACA 5, co-authored by Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson), will be taken up on the Assembly floor.…
Read More“Black Lives Matter!” at Capitol Mall in Sacramento
Ariel photo of “Black Lives Matter” etched into the California State Capitol mall in Sacramento. It was taken by photographer Robert Maryland at a rally June 6, 2020 held to protest the brutal murder of George Floyd and other unarmed African Americans police officers across the United States have killed.
Read MoreThe Executive Leadership Council Statement on Racial Injustice and Disparities Facing the Black Community
WASHINGTON/PRNewswire/ –– The Executive Leadership Council issues the following statement in response to recent events fatally impacting the Black community. Racism, in any form, is unacceptable to The Executive Leadership Council (ELC). The ELC unequivocally denounces all criminal and racist acts of violence against our people. George Floyd is senselessly murdered by four white Minnesota…
Read MoreIZZY’S COLUMN: RIP George Floyd
Hello Readers! It is a horrible thing that happened to George Floyd this past week and I pray that his family will get through this difficult time. The last time, I remember, something like this happened that created riots throughout the US and primarily in Los Angeles occurred after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.…
Read MoreSlavery and the Origins of the American Police State
By Ben Fountain From the beginning, some Americans have been able to move more freely than others They were called patrollers or, variously, “paterollers,” “paddyrollers,” or “patterolls,” and they were meant to be part of the solution to Colonial America’s biggest problem, labor. Unlike Great Britain, which had a large, basically immobile peasant class that could…
Read More