b'COMMUNITY1.Tasha Cobbs Leonard -6.Maverick X Kirk Franklin - Hymns Kingdom Book One2.Brent Jones - Nothing Else7.Trip Lee - The EndMatters 8.Tye Tribbett - All Things 3.Marvin Sapp - Substance New4.Angie Primm - I Feel Like9.Toby Mac - Life AfterHistoric Black Northern Singing Death5.Chris Tomlin - Always 10. Jon Reddick - God Turn It Around California neighborhood has been destroyed in a Mill FireBy BlackMansStreet.today therefromLouisianatobecomemill workers.Morethan6,000Blackworkers movedtoWeed,settlinginLincoln T heBlackneighborhoodofWeed,Heights.Weedwasalsosegregated California, at one time grew like amuch like the places Blacks left behind weed,untilitwasrecentlydestroyedin the South. For rent signs in the area by fire.said the owners only rented to White ThefireisbelievedtohavestartedAmericans.neartheRoseburgForestProductsBut In 1956, change was in the air lumbermillnearLincolnHeights,when International Paper began selling where many in the Black communitythe houses to Black residents.lived. Two people were killed.Thefireforcedmorethan5,000However,DannyPiggee,wholived evacuations. More than 100 buildingsthere for 37 years, said Weed was a were burned or damaged.miracle for Black people to work. He earned $5 on his first day.Thelumberyardwasheldsever- Weed became a booming labor town alowners,includingWeedLumberin the 1920s when Long Bell Lumber Companywhichwaspurchasedbypaid Black workers their train fare of Long-Bell Lumber Company. In 1956,$89toleaveLouisianaandmoveto InternationalPaperCompanypur- Weed. chased Long-Bell Lumber.Weed became one the nations larg- Blackmillworkersearnedatleast esthistoricBlackneighborhoodsin$3.60 per hour and lived in company-Californiabypayingpeopletomoveowned housing.NateHenderson,whowasfrom Louisiana,washiredbyLong-Bell LumberCompanytorecruitworkers from the South, wrote James Langford, the first Black teacher in Weed.MostoftheBlackswhocameto Weed became oneWeedweredisplacedworkersfrom Long-BellsoperationsinDeRidder the nations largestand Longville, Louisiana. money,they Afterthemenearned historic Blackwereabletosendmoneysotheir friends and relatives could join them, neighborhoodsLangford wrote. ofWeedwas Theracialmakeup in California by73.27percentWhite,9.27percent Black,4.57percentAsian,0.47per-centPacificIslander.Hispanicor paying peopleLatino of any race made up 12.76 per-cent of Weeds populationto move thereWeedhassufferedthreemajor fires since 2014, a period of extreme from Louisiana todrought that has prompted the biggest and most destructive fires in California become history. windsmakeWeedand Thestrong mill workers. the surrounding area a perilous place forwildfires,whippingsmallflames into a frenzy. Weed is near Mt. Shasta, California, thesecond-largestvolcanointhe Cascade Ridge.4 OCTOBER 2022 BOCNEWS.com'