Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
Willie Mims, of Pittsburg, poses in front of the Pittsburg Unified School District Administration Building in Pittsburg, Calif.,on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. Mims was the unofficial sixth board member of every council and school board around, known for going to meetings and raising issues and concerns, and for holding elected officials’ feet to the fire. He lost his battle to cancer on May 22, 2024.
In 2013, he began working with Antioch schools on the African-American Male Achievement Initiative, seeking to end disparities in achievement between Black students and their peers. Marcus Mims said his father’s passion was to help people, and he thought he could do so through politics “by trying to put the right people in the right places.”
Though education was his passion, Mims also took on city councils, the county Board of Supervisors and others – wherever he thought he could make a difference. In 2020, the then-75-year-old Mims participated in all six of the Black Lives Matter marches in Pittsburg, including walking the five miles from Antioch City Hall to Pittsburg City Hall, refusing to accept a ride despite the heat, Scales-Preston said.
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