Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared April 24 as “a day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide.” This proclamation marks the first holiday honoring the victims and survivors of the systemic genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire on the same day in 1915. The genocide targeted Armenians, who were a minority group that were forcefully deported and killed in the early 20th century. | By California Black Media Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared April 24 as “a day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide.” This proclamation marks the first holiday honoring the victims and survivors of the systemic genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire on the same day in 1915. The genocide targeted Armenians,
