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IN THE SUN: MARIJUANA EDIBLES: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?

LAS VEGAS SUN

SPORTS Golden Knights center Karlsson saved up his unique move 1C ▶


HEALTH A look at the culprits causing springtime allergy misery 1D

‘NO MORE DACA DEAL’


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MUSTREADS Trump tweets criticism of Mexico, threatens end of NAFTA


By Darlene Superville tended that they’re coming to take ico are participating in talks over
The Associated Press advantage of protections granted the North American Free Trade
certain immigrants. Agreement, and Trump argues
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Presi- “NO MORE DACA DEAL!” NAFTA is bad for the U.S.
dent Donald Trump on Sunday Trump tweeted one hour after he “Mexico has got to help us at the
declared “NO MORE” to a deal began the day by wishing his fol- border,” Trump, holding his wife’s
to help “Dreamer” immigrants lowers a “HAPPY EASTER!” hand, told reporters before the
Las Vegas Review-Journal and threatened to pull out of a He said Mexico must “stop the couple attended Easter services at
free trade agreement with Mexico big drug and people flows, or I will an Episcopal church near his Palm Donald
■ A traveling exhibit brings Trump
John C. Fremont and his unless it does more to stop people stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED
famous cannon back to Las from crossing into the U.S. He con- WALL!” The U.S., Canada and Mex- See TRUMP 2A
Vegas. 1B
■ Gubernatorial candidate
Chris Giunchigliani wows SPECIAL
Dems in New York. 1B SECTION
■ It’s election season, and
campaign signs can’t legally INSIDE
block our views of the road. 1B
SIX MONTHS LATER: PLANNING A MEMORIAL
AA
■ Higher education officials LAS VEGAS SHOOTING Monday
April 2, 2018
reviewjournal.com

hear stories of success on tour


of prison education program.
1B
■ President Donald Trump
lacks a fully staffed army
of diplomats and national
security figures. 4A
■ The Trump administration’s
anti-immigration push is
focusing on skilled workers.
4A Sierra Evans places flowers March 14 on stones honoring victims of the Columbine school shooting at the Columbine Memorial near Littleton, Colo. “We have a beautiful
memorial for an awful event,” Evans said. “Coming here provides me with a lot of comfort.”

■ The #MeToo movement ‘Turning a tragedy


looms over jury selection in
the Bill Cosby trial. 6A into a triumph’
Communities took different paths building memorials to shooting victims

■ Crews are drilling at the Stories by Rachel Crosby • Photos by Benjamin Hager • Las Vegas Review-Journal

360° Interactive video views


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AURORA, Colo.

Grand Canyon to test the idea


T has been almost six years. Long, dark years. Find our 360-degree video views of the memorial sites
But here at this dirt lot about a mile from the Century ▶ www.reviewjournal.com/memorials360
Aurora 16 theater, where 12 people and one unborn baby
were ripped from existence the summer of 2012, the sun is on
HOPE AND HEALING grieving in this Colorado

of shifting the area where


the horizon. community to fill their lungs
Come July, this plot of land — which is strategically sur- ▶ reviewjournal.com/lvshooting
with air without a fight. To
rounded by a grassy berm so the nearby theater is not visible pause, reflect and exhale.
— will become the Aurora mass shooting memorial. There is Because peace seems possible here. Finally.

water is drawn. 6A
still much work to be done: Flowers have yet to be planted, ***
paper-crane sculptures have yet to be installed. It has been just six months since a sniper on the Strip killed
But the plan is in place. 58 concertgoers and wounded hundreds more on the final
Everything is running according to schedule. night of the Route 91 Harvest festival.
And already, at this spot, it is once again possible for the ▶ SEE MEMORIALS 2AA

■ The California Highway


Patrol said preliminary
evidence shows the cliff crash
Columbine, San Bernardino, Orlando, Virginia Tech, Charleston, San Ysidro, Aurora,
Colorado California Florida Blacksburg South Carolina California Colorado

Andrea Cornejo Las Vegas Review-Journal @dreacornejo


Carefully curated quotes County government Two years after tragedy Students’ spontaneous Pastor hopes memorial More than three With a memorial
from survivors and is taking the lead in at the Pulse nightclub, response after massacre to the “Emanuel 9” decades later, a satellite nearing completion,
others make the tragedy planning a memorial the question now is held the key to a will capture the city’s college campus stands excitement is beginning

that killed a family may have


impossible to forget. for its slain employees. what to do with it. permanent memorial. love and forgiveness. at site of mass shooting. to stifle the grief.
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Tracey Duden is embraced by her husband, John, while a song that he wrote with his band, Pickleback
been intentional. 6A Shine, plays during the Route 91 candlelight vigil near Mandalay Bay on Sunday.
■ Notre Dame beat

Half a year, still Vegas Strong


Mississippi State 61-58 to
win its first national women’s
basketball title since 2001. 1C
■ See NFL writer Gilbert
Manzano’s first NFL mock
draft. 4C
■ Pope Francis called for
HOPE AND HEALING
Oct. 1 anniversary vigil attendee: We won’t let evil win
peace in his Easter Sunday
message. 8A ▶ reviewjournal.com/lvshooting By Blake Apgar Family members, friends were injured.
■ A defunct Chinese space lab Las Vegas Review-Journal
and other supporters held “This is where we became
mostly burned up on re-entry. Video the roses at a vigil attended a family,” survivor and
8A Survivors of the Oct. 1 shooting Fifty-eight red roses, one by more than 200 people at co-organizer Stacie Armen-
■ In Syria, fighters began came together Sunday near for each person killed in the the south end of the Strip to trout said. Some came from
leaving Ghouta’s last rebel- the south end of the Strip Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip, commemorate six months as far away as Alaska to
held town. 8A ▶ reviewjournal.com/ were raised toward the sky since their loved ones were
■ A chemical in coffee route91_vigil Sunday evening. killed and hundreds more See ANNIVERSARY 2A
raises some concerns about
carcinogens in California. 5A

Mostly Groups old and new animate fight for dream


sunny
85 56 More on MLK black dentist, or face the
Tuesday: The history and design of the local Martin Luther King statue. prospect of a televised march
on the Strip.
Wednesday: How people here reacted to his assassination at the time.
On March 26, 1960, city
MLK LEGACY
Almanac 9A Politics 4A Thursday: A candlelight vigil commemorates his life and death. 50 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH
Comics 5D Puzzles 6D and county officials, includ-
Health 1D Sports 1C By Natalie Bruzda ing the mayor and the police
Nation 6A Television 4D Las Vegas Review-Journal chief, the editor of a local at UNLV Libraries. “They
newspaper and major lead- went out that evening. They

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Nevada 1B Weather 9A
Opinion 5B World 8A N early 1960, Dr. James ers in the black community, sent couples out throughout
McMillan penned a letter gathered around a table at the city, and they tested that
to then-Las Vegas Mayor the Moulin Rouge and came they could gamble and go to
©2018 Oran Gragson demanding to a verbal agreement. shows wherever they want-
LAS VEGAS that the city integrate. “They decide, yes, the city ed.”
REVIEW-JOURNAL City officials and hotel is going to be integrated this That day marked a major
Volume 114, Number 2 Bizuayehu Tesfaye Review-Journal owners had two weeks to evening and that you will victory for the Las Vegas
Claytee White, director of the accept change as laid out be able to go out and test branch of the NAACP and
Oral History Research Center at by McMillan, the president this integration decree,” said the broader civil rights
UNLV Libraries, is interviewed of the local chapter of the Claytee White, director of the
on March 20. NAACP and the city’s first Oral History Research Center See MLK 7A

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▶ MLK said. “They come to a lot of assump-


tions and a lot of criticisms of what
Continued from Page 1A you do and try to devalue or deni-
grate the work that we do, as if it’s
movement, but it wasn’t the first, not legitimate or it’s unnecessary,
and it wouldn’t be the last time that and try to turn us into a nuisance.
African-Americans had to stand up And so we have to constantly reaf-
and say that their lives mattered just firm our own humanity and vision
as much as whites’. that we’re trying to accomplish.”
Fifty years after the assassina- Daniels said UNLV’s chapter,
tion of civil rights leader Dr. Martin which is part of a nationwide grass-
Luther King Jr., positive strides have roots movement in response to
been made for African-Americans police brutality, is broader than that
in Las Vegas, but the leaders of two issue alone.
local organizations say inequality in “They automatically think anti-po-
income, education and employment lice organization,” Daniels said. “And
persist. it’s so much more than that because
Even coming to the verbal agree- police violence is only a symptom of
ment took a couple of weeks of be- a much larger issue.”
hind-the-scenes negotiation, White
said, with hotel owners deciding that File photo ‘Making space’
they would go along with it. Dr. James McMillan, center, president of NAACP Las Vegas, meets with Las Vegas Daniels in particular is interested
“We know what happened around officials and black leaders in a historic meeting that ended segregation on the Strip. in issues surrounding poverty and
The meeting took place at the Moulin Rouge coffee shop in 1960.
that table at the Moulin Rouge that food insecurity.
morning really wasn’t what brought “Those are things that affect black
integration to Las Vegas,” White said. Did you know? and brown communities at dis-
“Las Vegas lives off of visitors, so Five African-Americans formed the local proportionate rates. Those are the
you know they cannot have people chapter of the National Association for the things we plan on addressing,” she
marching in the streets with dogs Advancement of Colored People in 1926. said, adding that the group wants
and all of that, because they were They were: to address immigration and mass
afraid that that would be on televi- ■ Mary Nettles incarceration.
sion.” ■ Clarence Ray Their most immediate goal is to
They faced opposition that first ■ Arthur McCants continue to “make a space” for their
■ Bill Jones
night when a few hotels in down- ■ Zimmie Turner
voices to be heard.
town Las Vegas were resistant to the “Making space is kind of like
new reality, White said. And in the Patrick Connolly Las Vegas Review-Journal speaking up when we feel that
years immediately following inte- Black Lives Matter UNLV President something is not OK, when we feel
gration, newspaper stories revealed Micajah Daniels talks about activism said. “We’re still fighting against racial that people are being imposed on
how some hotels failed to honor the and civil rights in an interview at the discrimination in this city quite a bit.” or that we’re being marginalized,”
reservations of some African-Amer- Houssels House on campus. McCoy said the educational Daniels said.
icans. achievement gap, beginning in While Black Lives Matter UNLV
“It got better as we got farther Video elementary school, also persists, as formed almost 100 years after the
away from 1960,” White said. “It UNLV’s Black Lives Matter chapter does police brutality. local chapter of the NAACP and
wasn’t as if it happened overnight. campaigns against violence, police actions “We’re still fighting the same bat- 50 years after King’s assassination,
People had to get accustomed to and other issues tles,” she said. Daniels and her peers believe the
it, and they had to work to make it ▶ reviewjournal.com/mlk_civilrights She’s buoyed, however, by the work they’re doing is more import-
work.” young black men and women at ant than ever.
UNLV who have taken up the fight in “When we think about Dr. Martin
Fighting the same battles deprived of Hoover Dam construc- a different way. Luther King Jr., a lot of people ro-
While the civil rights movement tion jobs. People complained to the manticize the speech that he gave at
and the work of Dr. Martin Luther NAACP, a community group formed ‘Encouraged’ the Lincoln Memorial, and we think
King Jr. thrust issues such as integra- to lobby for jobs, and African-Amer- In January 2017, Micajah Daniels, about it very nostalgically and in the
tion into the national spotlight, the ican newspapers around the country Camisha Fagan and Ashley Hamil- past,” Daniels said.
Las Vegas branch of the NAACP had reported the story. ton formed Black Lives Matter UNLV. “When he said that he had a
been working to advance the lives of “Even after all of this agitation … “We are fighting the same issues, dream, it was that his children and
black people since 1926. still, over the entire period, where but we have a different method of his peers and his mentors would be
“The year prior to that, the Ku Klux 20,000 men worked on the dam, fighting the issue,” McCoy said. “I given the same opportunity to have
Klan had marched down Fremont only 44 were African-American,” like the mobility they have. I like a quality of life, to have access to an
Street in full regalia, so the city fa- White said. their boisterousness. I am encour- education and to be seen as human,”
thers said that that would never hap- Roxann McCoy, current presi- aged by them.” she said. “These are the same things
pen again here in Las Vegas,” White dent of the NAACP in Las Vegas, Daniels, the president of the orga- we dream about now.”
said. “It did not, but I guess the com- said a “huge disparity” remains in nization, said the group has about 20
munity was a little on edge, so they employment between blacks and active members and has reached up Contact Natalie Bruzda at
started a branch of the NAACP.” nonblacks. to 150 people at the events it’s held. nbruzda@reviewjournal.com or 702-
The group’s first major effort “In my perspective, we are still “People get thrown off when you 477-3897. Follow @NatalieBruzda
came in 1930, when black men were fighting for the same rights,” McCoy say ‘Black Lives Matter,’” Daniels on Twitter.

Commitment to King’s
work remains strong
Inspired activists ‘keep climbed a pole to snatch down the
Confederate flag at the South Caroli-
moving, in his name’ na statehouse in 2015. “In that way, I
absolutely feel that what we’re doing
is continuing in the legacy of Martin
By Errin Haines Whack Luther King.”
The Associated Press Even so, the problems persist. A poll
by the Associated Press-NORC Center
ATLANTA — Tyrone Brooks was 22 for Public Affairs Research found only
years old and 400 miles away, seek- 1 in 10 African-Americans think the
ing clues to an unsolved lynching as United States has achieved all or most
old as he was, when he got the news of the goals of the civil rights move-
that Martin Luther King Jr. was dead. ment. Among whites, only 35 percent
Stunned, Brooks dropped everything believe those goals have been at least
and drove to Memphis, crying all the mostly achieved.
way. “A lot of people across the country
The next day, King’s closest confi- see injustice or inequality as unfor-
dant, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, tunate, almost like a car accident,
told Brooks: “Tighten your belts and instead of unjust and something they
dry your tears. If you love Martin Lu- have to do something about,” said
ther King as you say you do, help me Rashad Robinson, 39, who uses King’s
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