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OPINION | RAOUF HALABY: The rocky road from Selma to Jerusalem
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RAOUF HALABY SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
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Israel’s new prime minister Naftali Bennett holds a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 13.
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Despite its shortcomings as an historical portrayal of the rabid racism that plagued the 60s American South, CBS s June 20 broadcast of Ava DuVernay s Academy Award-winning film Selma presented a fair depiction of Dr. Martin L. King s role in African Americans struggle to earn the right to vote as sanctioned by the Constitution of the United States.
The movie s sanitized scenes of violence perpetrated by white police and politicians (including full-of-hate rural white citizens) are merely the tip of the iceberg of the panorama of bigotry, racism, lynchings, violence, and brutality perpetrated on American citizens whose ancestors were forcibly bought and brought in chains, holding pens, and cages to help make A
Longtime San Joaquin County lawmaker Cathleen Galgiani has been appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the California Gambling Control Commission, the governor’s office has announced.
Galgiani, 57, of Sacramento, served as a California state senator from 2012 until being termed out in 2020 and as a state assemblywoman from 2006 to 2012.
At the time a fifth-generation Stocktonian, she also served as chief of staff and consultant to the University of California, Merced for Assemblywoman Barbara Matthews from 2000-2006 and as deputy director for special projects for first lady Sharon Davis, wife of Gov. Gray Davis, in 1999.
Galgiani won passage in 2012 of a law that gives state prison officials authority to facilitate a search with an inmate, like the one used to transport serial killer Wesley Shermantine to Linden in an ongoing search for the remains of murder victims he and boyhood friend Loren Herzog discarded over a 15-year killing spree. Galgiani also was a field representative fo
Longtime San Joaquin County prosecutor and Judge F. Clark Sueyres handled many of the region’s highest-profile cases during his time practicing law, but it’s his legacy outside the courtroom that may leave the deepest mark on the community.
“He is Judge Sueyres, in many, many ways, but at the end of the day it was his role as Clark – a champion of this community – that’s the thing that’s sticking with me more than anything,” his son, Colin Sueyres said Saturday. “The legacy he left was greater than what he did as a job … what defined him was the fact that he gave back.”
But Michaela’s body has never been found. Authorities reveal a major breakthrough in Michaela Garecht s case during a news conference at Hayward City Hall.
“In the last year, I had to come to a place accepting that Michaela was probably no longer alive,” Michaela’s mother, Sharon Murch, wrote in a statement. “But somehow, that acceptance was far more wrapped up in the idea of Michaela sitting on a fluffy pink cloud walking streets of gold, dancing on grassy hills, soaring among the stars. What I did not envision was my daughter as a dead child.
“It was only when I heard this news that this vision of reality appeared and I honestly have not figured out what to do with it.”
But Michaela’s body has never been found. Authorities reveal a major breakthrough in Michaela Garecht s case during a news conference at Hayward City Hall.
“In the last year, I had to come to a place accepting that Michaela was probably no longer alive,” Michaela’s mother, Sharon Murch, wrote in a statement. “But somehow, that acceptance was far more wrapped up in the idea of Michaela sitting on a fluffy pink cloud walking streets of gold, dancing on grassy hills, soaring among the stars. What I did not envision was my daughter as a dead child.
“It was only when I heard this news that this vision of reality appeared and I honestly have not figured out what to do with it.”