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Antioch Mayor Legally Changes Name
6 Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe announced this week he has legally changed his name to Lamar A. Hernandez-Thorpe. He stated on his website that “Contra Costa Superior Court grants Mayor Thorpe’s petition to change his name to ” Lamar A. Hernandez-Thorpe.” The name change was foreshadowed last year when Thorpe made the announcement during a […]
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Antioch Mayor Issues Apology to Chinese Americans for Discrimination Dating Back to the 40s – NBC Bay Area
The city of Antioch Friday made a public apology to a Navy veteran for discrimination he faced in the city back in the 1940s. “I’m sorry that you had to experience that in my city,” said Mayor Lamar Thorpe. “But today we want to rectify that.” It’s an apology 82 years in the making to […]
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