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The head of Sioux City’s NAACP reflects on the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd.
“We have seen change that people are talking about, but I don’t know we can put our teeth into it, because things are still happening.”
That is Ike Rayford who is talking about incidents involving injustice against Black men across the country.
He say accountability is important and is happening in the case surrounding Officer Dereck Chauvin convicted in the murder of George Floyd and the upcoming litigation involving the other officers in the case.
Rayford says he is satisfied with tranparancy shown by local law enforcement. The Sioux City Police Department started using body cameras late last year.
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Latino advocacy group made up of volunteers to launch in June
A new advocacy group for Iowa Latinos will launch next month.
The Iowa Latino Alliance and will be made up entirely of volunteers seeking to improve the lives of the state’s Latinos. This formal, statewide entity has not existed before.
Caleb Knutson, chair of the Commission of Latino Affairs, says this new alliance is different from the commission, since it is not run through a government department and members do not need to be approved by the governor.
“It boils down to representation, again,” Knutson says, “and I think that that’s the drum that I will continue to beat day in and day out is representation.” Knutson says since the commission is at a “stalemate” to add new members, the alliance will likely be able to move forward more quickly in its endeavors.
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La Línea de Ayuda helps Spanish-speakers across the state. Nayely Hurtado, the program coordinator, said many calls are about rental assistance and COVID-19 vaccine access.
The Des Moines-based organization in charge of distributing funds through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) in Polk County has ceased taking phone applications, but one source of online applications continues to stream in.
La Línea de Ayuda, the Spanish helpline, partnered with IMPACT Community Action Partnership to help people apply for the funds. La Línea was permitted to use the online portal, which is not yet open to the general public.
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