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Oakland’s Market Street SDA Church Opens C.O.R.E Center to Serve Community Needs

“The purpose of The C.O.R.E. at Market Street is to address the needs of the family by tailoring academic and practical subject matter by age and demographic,” said Pastor E.F. Brown.

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November 20, 2022

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Front row-Pastor Virgil Childs, Vanessa Russell, Marcel Paterson, Teresa Patterson, Paul Cobb; Second row - Pastor Kai Simone-Hodges, Adriana Preciado, Pastor Edwin Brown, First Lady Paul Brown; Third row - Rachel Sankey; Fourth row - Dr. Marilyn Saulsberry, Jose Henriquez, Pastor Raymond Lankford; Fifth row - Jasmine Woods, Deacon Earl Jacobs

The Market Street Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) in the West Oakland community celebrated the November 12 grand opening of a new, refurbished center at 3415 Market St.in Oakland.

The facility will house services to be known as C.O.R.E., which stands for Community Outreach Resources Education. The center will be helping the unhoused population next door to the church.

“The purpose of The C.O.R.E. at Market Street is to address the needs of the family by tailoring academic and practical subject matter by age and demographic,” said Pastor E.F. Brown. “This approach builds on our strengths and provides outreach and supportive services designed to reach neighborhood children, their parents and senior members of this urban community. This facility is designed to enable the Market Street SDA Church to continue our 99-year legacy.”

Pastor Brown explained that C.O.R.E. at Market Street has four pillars of service.

COMMUNITY– Helping the unhoused population (Homeless)
OUTREACH – Meeting space for community and faith-based partners; group and individual Bible studies; spiritual counseling.
RESOURCES — Social justice support; healthy living partnership hub health screenings (dental, blood pressure, etc.)
EDUCATION—After-school tutorial programs; life skills & stewardship classes; career/vocational training

Ribbon Cutting. Teresa Patterson, Pastor Edwin Brown, Deacon Earl Jacobs.

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

By April Ryan
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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.