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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Diego Foundation developed the Black Community Investment Fund, which prioritizes and invests in community-led, innovative efforts to bring about more racial equity and generational wealth for Black San Diegans.
Pamela Gray Payton, Vice President and Chief Impact and Partnerships Officer, of The San Diego Foundation, played a significant role in the development of the Black Community Investment Fund and joined KUSI to tell viewers all about the Fund.
Payton noted that leaders at The San Diego Foundation gathered and decided that one of the biggest impacts they could make to help Black San Diegans would be to build generational wealth.
What Cindy Marten’s Rise Tells Us About the State of Education Politics
Cindy Marten embodies a new guiding principle in national education politics: The way to a better public school system does not lie in criticizing its faults, but relentless positivity about its promise.
Illustration by Adriana Heldiz
In October 2013, Cindy Marten had been superintendent for fewer than four months. She stood in Kearny High School’s auditorium and made a case for a shining new world of public education that would sweep away the past era of reforms.
“I think 20 years from now we might look back on this past decade and wonder what happened – wonder how could we have allowed this to happen to our children and nation, when we became mesmerized by a single score as the one and only measure of a quality public education,” she said.
Makeda Cheatom, WorldBeat Cultural Center founder, wants to heal the world with culture © Provided by San Diego Union Tribune Makeda Cheatom
Makeda Cheatom, founder and director of the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park, remembers her childhood and teen years as a difficult time for Black San Diegans and other people of color.
A desire to make things better is what has kept her here all these years she s 78 and moved here when she was 2 months old. She s still dedicating all her time and energy to making the WorldBeat Cultural Center a space for celebration, education and unity for all cultures. It has definitely not been easy, but she says she s seeing the results of her hard work in a changing San Diego, and though many community accolades.
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