San Jose State University President Mary Papazian announced this week the county coroner and district attorney will reexamine the suspicious death of student Gregory Johnson Jr., according to an email obtained by this news organization. “SJSU recognizes that for many members of our community, the circumstances surrounding Gregory’s death are emblematic of longstanding systemic racism...
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San Jose’s only Black administrator is breaking barriers in a male-dominated world
As a child, San Jose’s Planning Director Rosalynn Hughey was fascinated by her father’s work. He was a contractor, who built single-family homes from the ground up. She watched in envy as her brothers tagged along to help him create. This was the ’70s and Hughey was a girl — girls, at least in her...
San Jose’s Black leaders reflect on Martin Luther King, Kamala Harris
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is like no other. The traditional parades, luncheons and celebrations have been replaced by tiny squares on a Zoom call. America is coming off a year of civil unrest and reckoning with systemic racism after the police killing of George Floyd. And many are still reeling from four years...
Faith in COVID-19 vaccine facing uphill battle in Black community
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, something about the crisis felt familiar to André Chapman. Chapman, the CEO and founder of the San Jose nonprofit Unity Care, saw widespread misunderstanding of the disease, similar to that of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1980s. While AIDS fell out of mainstream news, it continued to wreak...
South Bay’s Black-owned businesses turn to networking to survive pandemic
Small businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Black businesses have been hit even harder. According to a report by the New York Fed in April, nearly half of all small Black-owned businesses had closed or were likely to close due to the pandemic. Walter Wilson, co-founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley...
Milan Balinton puts service, mentoring at the center of his leadership
When COVID-19 — and the panic of the pandemic — hit the South Bay, Milan Balinton was at the local Walmart buying grocery carts full of food and supplies nearly every day, but none of it was for him. The supplies were for the people he serves as the executive director at the African American...
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