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Change Your Clocks This Weekend And VOTE On November 6th!

Local Experts React Poll Shows Negative Racial Attitudes

Obama Wins By A Landslide In Kids' Online Election It's a landslide for President Barack Obama -- at least among people too young to vote.

Nickelodeon's Linda Ellerbee said Monday, Oct. 29, that the president captured 65 percent of the vote to beat Republican Mitt Romney in the network's “Kids Pick the President” vote.

More than 520,000 people cast online ballots through the children's network's Web site over

one week earlier this month.

Since it began in 1988, the kids have presaged the adults' vote all but once, when more youngsters voted for John Kerry over George W. Bush in 2004.

Obama answered questions submitted by Nickelodeon viewers for a special earlier this month. Romney didn't participate.

Civil Rights Timeline Mural Dedicated At Wells Fargo’s West End Branch Features images of civil rights icons, scenes from civil rights struggle Iconic photos of civil rights leaders, combined with images from the Civil Rights Movement’s front lines -- such as the first group of AfricanAmerican Atlanta police officers -- make up Wells Fargo’s Civil Rights Timeline mural dedicated recently.

Sixty feet long and stretching half the circumference of the lobby of the Wells Fargo West End Lee Street bank branch, the mural starts with a 1928 photo of the office of the Atlanta Daily World and ends with a mid-90s reenactment of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march.

In between are photos of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, 1940s activist Ella Baker and others.

Scenes depicted include a lunch counter sit-in, a meeting of Freedom Riders who helped desegregate interstate buses and a protest of Atlanta department stores.

“Every day we strive to be the best local bank – with all you can get from a great national bank,” said Wells Fargo Area President Chad Gregory.

“Something that makes us truly local is our Community Mural Program. We’ve installed over 50 murals here in Atlanta and this one, here at West End Lee is our very first timeline mural.

“Atlanta was the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement – and this part of town was in the middle of that. Just look around and you’ll see a sweeping depiction of key people in the middle of key events during this world-changing era. Our customers will be reminded of this history every time they visit.”

Among those attending was Brooke Jackson Edmond, daughter of Maynard Jackson, “This is a wonderful gift to the city of Atlanta. I love the sweep of it and the photos are so apropos of the people shown and what they represented.”

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Associated Press A new Associated Press (AP) poll finding that racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first Black president comes as no surprise to Atlanta experts.

“The rhetoric of the Republican right wing has been pandering to these feelings and has made them acceptable and encouraged,” says Dr. Michael Harris, associate professor of African-American studies at Emory University.

Dr. Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College and author of “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” agrees that the poll findings might be expected. “The combination of social change, economic distress, and growing populations of color is experienced by some Whites as threatening. In that context, it is not surprising to see a rise in negative attitudes toward the ‘other’ -in this case, Blacks and Latinos,” she says.

The AP poll found that racial prejudice has

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increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked respondents about racist attitudes, or through an experimental test that measured implicit views toward race without asking questions about that topic directly.

In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-Black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-Black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-Black attitudes fell.

“As much as we'd hope the impact of race would decline over time ... it appears the impact of anti-Black sentiment on voting is about the same as it was four years ago,” says Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who worked with AP to develop the survey.

Most Americans expressed anti-Hispanic sentiments, too.

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GA Wants Judge to Ax KKK Litter Program Lawsuit

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press A judge should dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Ku Klux Klan group that was turned down for participation in a highway cleanup program, the state of Georgia said this week.

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation sued last month on behalf of the International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County, saying the state violated the group's right to free speech. The state on Monday, Oct. 29, filed its response and supporting brief in Fulton County Superior Court.

The lawsuit, which names the state and various state agencies and officials, asks the court to force the state to issue an Adopt-a-Highway permit to the KKK; issue a permanent injunction preventing the state from denying the KKK such a permit; and declare that the state wrongfully denied the group's application and violated due process.

The response argues that claims against state agencies and officials are generally barred in state courts by sovereign immunity. Even if that were not the case, the suit should be dismissed because the KKK didn't file the lawsuit in time,

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NEWS

November 1 - 7, 2012

Fulton County Communicators Win Bronze Flame Award The Fulton County Office of Communications has earned two 2012 Bronze Flame Awards from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Atlanta Chapter.

More than 115 entries were judged for competition in this year’s IABC/Atlanta Golden Flame Awards. The Fulton County Office of Communications received the Bronze Flame Award in two categories: “Communications Skills” for their publication the Fulton County 2011 Annual Report and for “Communication Creative” for the graphic design of their Passion for Performance Posters.

IABC/Atlanta is a local chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. The chapter represents approximately 300 professional communicators in the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Members include public relations and communication professionals from Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, communication agencies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, as well as freelance writers and consultants. All have a commitment to continue professional development and a desire to network with other communicators.

News Brief Pictured from left are Acar Nazli, graphic designer; Jolene Freeman, public affairs manager; Ericka Davis, communications director; Bob Giordano, public information officer; Felecia Church, senior public information officer; and Terria Smith, events coordinator.

End Childhood Obesity Looking For Ideas The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with the private sector and honorary chair First Lady Michelle Obama to end the childhood obesity crisis within a generation, is inviting anyone with a great idea for how to end childhood obesity to enter the End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge. The winning idea will receive $10,000 to kick-start their idea, and expert advice to turn that idea into a reality.

The End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge will solicit ideas from people across the country, score them, and then let America vote online to decide the three finalists. The finalists will win a trip to Washington, D.C., where they’ll present their idea at the PHA’s Building a Healthier Future Summit, March 6-8, 2013. Applicants are required to create a video that details their idea in 2 minutes and 30 seconds or less, explaining why their solution is the best.

The deadline for applications is noon (Eastern time) on Friday, Nov. 16.

For more information on the End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge and the 2013 Healthier Future Summit, visit the End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge Web site: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Partnership-for-aHealthier-America/284607191574193?sk=app_286423371468352.

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Civil Rights Timeline Mural Dedicated page 1 Jackson. Also there was Bunnie Jackson Ransom, the mayor’s former wife, and several other Jackson relatives.

Representing Andrew Young was his daughter, Andrea Young. “This documents the spirit and character of the people represented here – like Brooke’s dad and my dad – and it keeps the spirit alive of a community dedicated to so much, including economic vitality for all.”

Deputy Chief Ernest Finley of the Atlanta Police Department commented on the photo of the first group of Black police officers. “I think about the first eight Black officers and all they went through,” he said, “and how they made it possible for me to be here today.”

The mural is among 1,800 in Wells Fargo bank stores across the nation. Each is unique to Candy Moore with Wells Fargo, right, shows off the Civil Rights the area in which the bank store is located, and Timeline mural to Andrea Young, Andrew Young’s daughter, left, was developed with the aid of local archives and and Brooke Jackson Edmond, Maynard Jackson’s daughter, dur- historians. ing the dedication of the artwork at the West End bank branch on Among those providing images for the new Lee Street in Atlanta. mural were the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, the Three generations of the Jackson family were there – including Mayor Jackson’s sister, Carol Miller, his daugh- Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, and ter-in-law Kelley Jackson, and his granddaughter Isabella The Atlanta Inquirer.

Georgia Wants Judge to Ax KKK Litter Program Lawsuit page 1 lacks standing to request an injunction and didn't take advantage of other existing legal avenues for appeal, the state argues.

The state argues that the KKK should have challenged the denial of the application within 30 days based on a 1981 Georgia Supreme Court opinion. The state also argues that an injunction is meant to prevent a future action, which means the KKK can't pursue an injunction to reverse a past action -- in this case the denial of the application.

Finally, the KKK could have appealed the state Department of Transportation's denial of the application to the Office of State Administrative Hearings under the Administrative Procedure Act. That remedy must be pursued before a lawsuit is filed, the state argues.

The Klan group applied in May to the state's “Adopt-A-Highway” program, seeking to clean up

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part of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains.

The state program enlists civic groups, companies and other volunteers to pick up trash. The groups are recognized with signs along the roads they adopt.

Transportation Department officials denied the group's application in June after meeting with lawyers from the state Attorney General's Office and consulting with Gov. Nathan Deal. The agency said at the time that the program is aimed at “civic-minded organizations in good standing.”

“Promoting an organization with a history of inciting civil disturbance and social unrest would present a grave concern to the department. Issuing this permit would have the potential to negatively impact the quality of life, commerce and economic development of Union County and all of Georgia,” transportation officials said in a state-

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ment in June.

The statement asserted that motorists who drive past signs promoting the KKK or who see members picking up trash could be distracted -- creating a safety issue -- and that the section of highway the group wanted to adopt is ineligible because of its 55 mph speed limit.

Similar groups in other states have won legal battles after initially being turned down for highway cleanup programs.

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 rejected Missouri's attempt to turn down a controversial group's application, saying membership in the program cannot be denied because of a group's political beliefs. In Kentucky, transportation officials who feared an unsuccessful legal battle accepted a white-separatist group's contract to participate in the state's highway cleanup program.

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NEWS

November 1 - 7, 2012

Rabouin Is World’s New Digital Editor Daily World Staff Dion Rabouin is the new digital editor for the Atlanta Daily World. In this role he will be responsible for managing daily news uploads to the World’s new Web site as well as writing and editing news stories.

“We are pleased to have this smart, energetic young man join the World team,” said Charlotte Roy, Atlanta Daily World managing editor. “He’s a crackerjack writer with a real ‘nose for news’.”

Prior to taking the post, Rabouin worked as a freelance writer and editor in Atlanta and Los Angeles, where he wrote for publications that ranged from Beverly Hills Times Magazine to AllBusiness.com. His articles have been published in The Hollywood Reporter, LA Daily News, The Atlanta Voice, Huffington Post's Black Voices and many others. As a freelance writer he covered topics ranging from business and finance to entertainment and breaking news,

as well as college football.

“It's almost impossible to articulate how excited I am to be a part of The Atlanta Daily World,” said Rabouin. “The history and importance of this newspaper is second-to-none and we are headed for bigger things than even the most wide-eyed optimist can imagine.”

In addition to his work with various online and print publications, Rabouin has been featured on Los Angeles radio stations 90.7 KPFK and Southern California Public Radio's 89.3 KPCC, as well as on Atlanta’s WAEC 860 and WIGO 1570. He also worked as a contributor for multiple television programs including RT News and “Today in LA.” Rabouin also has amassed experience online, having worked as a social media specialist and community manager for start-up Web sites and blogs. He has used his knowledge of search engine optimization, keywords and social media to help grow Web sites and increase the online

exposure and presence of multiple companies and individuals.

Rabouin is a member of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists as well as the National Association of Black Journalists, and previously served as secretary to the Black Journalists Association of Southern California.

He is originally from Denver and is a graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y.

Special to the Daily World The Buckhead Cascade City Chapter of the Links Inc. will host a public forum and luncheon to address human trafficking and educate attendees about this problem in Atlanta.

The event will be Saturday, Nov. 10, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Piedmont Driving Club, located at 1215 Piedmont Ave., NE. Moderated by former Mayor of Atlanta and Link member, Shirley Franklin, the forum will explore the tragedy of

modern-day slavery, which afflicts more than 20 million people around the world.

While human trafficking has been identified as the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world, Atlanta has been identified as a major transportation hub for trafficking young women and one of 14 U.S. cities with the highest levels of sex trafficking of children.

With the recent announcement made by President Obama of several new initiatives aimed at ending trafficking nationwide, the forum will engage the community in a dialogue around eradicating sex trafficking of children in Atlanta

and address much-needed efforts to help the survivors.

Forum panelists include: • Lisa Williams, founder/director, Living Water for Girls • Deborah Richardson, executive vice president of the National Center for Human & Civil Rights • Nekia Hackworth, asst. U.S. attorney, Northern District of Georgia, Criminal Division • Nina R. Hickson, former Fulton County Juvenile Court judge Tickets are available for $60 by calling 404-218-8351 (limited seating).

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Local Experts React To Poll page 1 In an AP survey done in 2011, 52 percent of non-Hispanic Whites expressed anti-Hispanic attitudes. That figure rose to 57 percent in the implicit test. The survey on Hispanics had no past data for comparison.

The AP surveys were conducted with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago.

“We have this false idea that there is uniformity in progress and that things change in one big step. That is not the way history has worked,” says Jelani Cobb, professor of history and director of the Institute for African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut. “When we've seen progress, we've also seen backlash.”

President Obama has tread cautiously on the subject of race, but many African Americans have talked openly about perceived antagonism toward them since Obama took office. As evidence, they point to events involving police brutality or cite bumper stickers, cartoons and protest posters that mock the president as a lion or a monkey, or lynch him in effigy.

“Part of it is growing polarization within American society,” says Fredrick Harris, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. “The last Democrat in the White House said we had to have a national discussion about race. There's been total silence around issues of race with this

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president. But, as you see, whether there is silence, or an elevation of the discussion of race, you still have polarization. It will take more generations, I suspect, before we eliminate these deep feelings.”

Overall, the survey found that by virtue of racial prejudice, Obama could lose 5 percentage points off his share of the popular vote in his Nov. 6 contest against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But Obama also stands to benefit from a 3 percentage point gain due to pro-Black sentiment, researchers said. Overall, that means an estimated net loss of 2 percentage points due to anti-Black attitudes.

The poll finds that racial prejudice is not limited to one group of partisans. Although Republicans were more likely than Democrats to express racial prejudice in the questions measuring explicit racism (79 percent among Republicans compared with 32 percent among Democrats), the implicit test found little difference between the two parties. That test showed a majority of both Democrats and Republicans held anti-Black feelings (55 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans), as did about half of political independents (49 percent).

Obama faced a similar situation in 2008, the survey then found.

The AP developed the surveys to measure sensitive racial views in several ways and repeated those studies several times between 2008 and 2012.

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BUSINESS

November 1 - 7, 2012

Atlanta Black MBA Chapter To Award $25,000 In Scholarships Special to the Daily World Preparing students for a future in business is the cornerstone of the National Black MBA Association Atlanta Chapter (NBMBAA).

Outstanding students will be recognized and awarded more than $25,000 in scholarships for exceptional achievements at the NBMBAA 28th Anniversary Scholarship Luncheon, Friday, Nov. 9.

Distinguished film producer Will Packer, who is president and co-founder of Rainforest Films, will deliver the keynote address.

The event is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta at 11:30 a.m.

“Impact Education … One Student at a Time” is the theme for the program, during which the scholarships will be awarded to high school, MBA and Ph.D. students. Since 1982, the NBMBAA's Scholarship Program has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships.

“The NBMBAA, Atlanta Chapter thrives on preparing our young people for careers in business. Education is an important piece of the process and we are truly excited that we are able to assist in their journey to success,” said Charmaine Ward, president of the chapter. “We are delighted to have Will Packer share his knowledge of the film industry in a time when movie making is be-

coming a major economic factor in our state. He has excelled academically and as a producer of some of the most successful films in the industry.”

A magna cum laude 1996 graduate of Florida A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, Will Packer is a native of St. Petersburg, Fla. He and fellow FAMU Rattler Rob Hardy began filmmaking as students and participated in an internship with veteran film producer Warrington Hudlin. As co-founder with Hardy and chairman of Rainforest Films, a film production and distribution company based in Atlanta, Will produces and oversees the company’s studio financed and self-financed films and distribution projects. His film credits as producer include the blockbuster “Think Like A Man” (2012), “Takers,” (2010), “Obsessed,” (2009), “This Christmas” (2007), “Stomp The Yard,” ( 2007) and “The Gospel,” “Trois” and “Motives.”

Sponsors for the NBMBAA Scholarship Luncheon include: AT&T, Bank of America, Chick-fil-A, Fifth Third Bank, Georgia Power, Georgia-Pacific, Google, McKesson, Mesirow Financial, Nationwide, and United Healthcare.

For tickets go to the Web site http://atlbmba2012scholarshipluncheon.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit the Web site www.atlmba.org, 404 572-8001 or communications@atlbmba.org.

BlackFreelance.com Connects Black Professionals To Black-Owned Companies Special to the Daily World In response to the growing number of Americans who now earn at least a portion of their income as independent contractors, BlackFreelance.com has launched a new online platform that connects African-American professionals with the companies that need their services.

It is estimated that nearly one in 10 members of the U.S. workforce is now an independent contractor or freelancer. As an outgrowth of the recent economic shift, employers have changed how they hire workers and workers have changed how they view employment. Aaron Thompson, veteran information technology consultant and freelance professional, has worked both sides of the negotiation and witnessed a need that had yet to be met – connecting local Black business owners to quality providers at reasonable prices. It was in that space that Thompson created BlackFreelance.com to operate.

BlackFreelance.com is an online job board where employers post projects that are then matched to qualified providers using skill set, availability and location as criteria. Employers can list descriptive positions or one-time projects at no charge and have profiles of qualified providers sent directly to their email. The service specifically highlights local Black professionals who may not otherwise be sought out to fill positions.

The site’s project database includes offsite virtual positions, such as those

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done by Web designers, as well as onsite projects for the local handyman or babysitter. Despite its Web location, BlackFreelance.com is something of an anti-outsource tool, connecting local businesses with workers who may actually be right in the neighborhood.

Unlike other virtual talent platforms, BlackFreelance.com minimizes the need for candidates to spend hours combing the site’s database for jobs, or for employers to spend too much time sifting through bids from unqualified providers. Instead, service provides are matched to services needed. When services are required, BlackFreelance.com uses their selection criteria to identify the candidate profiles that most closely fit the needs of the employer. Selected profiles are forwarded directly to the employer for hiring consideration. Only after meeting project qualifications are selected candidates afforded the opportunity to submit proposals for contracts.

Freelancers interested in being listed as a BlackFreelance.com service provider, should go to the following Web site to set up their free profiles: http://www.blackfreelance.com.

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TECHNOLOGY

Black Girls CODE Takes Over Spelman College November 1 - 7, 2012

Special to the Daily World Black Girls CODE (BGC), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, recently conducted a computer programming workshop for young girls who are 7-17 years old at Spelman College.

As a part of BGC's Summer of CODE campaign, which launched in 10 cities nationwide, the one-day workshop taught the 9-plus registered girls the basics of HTML, CSS and basic frontend Web development, along with incorporating Web and music.

The students were split into groups based on their age Students learn to code and build Web sites with the help of Black Girls CODE. and experience. Beginning Pictured here is Princess Sampson. students were placed into color-coded groups (yellow, green, blue), while the interthe girls created Web sites based around the presidential mediate returning students were placed in a part II class election. At the end of the day, each class voted on their fa(orange group). The girls were tasked with building a Web vorite Web site. Students selected a representative from site in one day that was based on their interests. Some of amongst their peers to present their Web site creations to an audience of parents at the close of the day.

While the girls were hard at work in class, the parents Kimberly Bryant, and platform to share their work and make an were treated to a complimenfounder and creator of impact on the world around them. tary technology career panel, Black Girls CODE is Other techno-savvy women who received “Imagine the Impact: Guiding among a select group a 2012 Women Interactive Digital Vanguard your Child into a Career in of women to receive a Award include: Dr. Ayoka Chenzira, interacTechnology,” that urged them Digital Vanguard tive filmmaker, educator, founding director of to motivate and encourage Award from Women's Spelman College Digital Moving Image their daughters’ creative interInteractive, a group Salon; Angela Benton, founder of New Me ests. They were given tips and that supports women and girls in developing Accelerator/Black Web 2.0; Issa Rae, creator free resources such as the skills to become technology visionaries of The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Codecademy.com and and leaders.

Girl; Corvida Raven, founder of KhanAcademy.org, which are The Digital Vanguard is awarded to SheGeeks.net, co-founder of Everything Twit- Web sites that offer free eduwomen of color who do exceptional work ter, The Social Geeks Roundtable Podcast, cational videos in technology with the use of technology as a creative tool and In A Third Place. and much more.

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Black Girls CODE volunteer technical assistants and instructors teach students CSS and Web development. Pictured are Yolanda M. Davis, instructor; and Janay Walker, student.

Professionals who participated in the panel included Felecia Hatcher, CEO of Fever Pops; Ramanathan Singaram, office principal of ThoughtWorks; Felicia Jones, president of Atlanta Black Data Processing Professionals; Iretta Kearse, professor of computer science at Spelman College; Christina M. Gardner-McCune, Ph.D., enrollment, and community college of computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Bryant, founder and executive director of Black Girls CODE; and Yvette Caslin, senior vice president of strategy and development at Steed Media, who moderated the conversation.

Bryant says the workshop isn’t the last of BGC-Atlanta.

“This is the second of many similar workshops planned by Black Girls CODE for the Atlanta metro area. Plans are to build a local chapter that will host ongoing workshops on subjects, such as mobile app development, robotics and gaming for girls in the coming months.”

For more information about Black Girls CODE, visit www.blackgirlscode.com.

Technology Group Calls For Speakers At Sweet Auburn Conference and has grown to support worldSpecial to the Daily World Speakers are being sought for a conference that hopes changing ideas with multiple inito “stimulate dialogue and spark deep conversations and tiatives. The annual TED connections on technology, education, and design.”

Conference invites the world’s Called TEDxSweetAuburn, the conference is an offleading thinkers and doers to shoot of TED, a 25-year-old nonprofit organization started speak for 18 minutes. Their talks in California devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” are then made available, free, at Atlanta’s TED Conference is being planned for early TED.com. TED speakers have 2013 at the King Center on Auburn Avenue. Interested included Bill Gates, Al Gore, speakers are invited to request a speaker proposal packet Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, STEPHEN N. LACKEY via Speak@TEDxSweetAuburn.com. Packets will be Sir Richard Branson, Nandan available until Friday, Nov. 16 and speakers will be announced at Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and the launch of TEDxSweetAuburn.com Monday, Nov. 29. former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

“TEDxSweetAuburn will connect the leading thinkers, entertain“After participating in a TED event, I immediately formulated a ers, educators, innovators and artists from metro Atlanta to share plan to bring this truly inspirational and life-altering event directly ideas that will shape our future event themed ‘Freshwater Legainto my community,” said Lackey. “I want to tap Atlanta’s well of cies’,” said conference organizer Stephen N. Lackey. “The event creativity and bring us together for a day of sharing and networking explores the ways in which adults filter life and culture to future so that attendees leave TEDxSweetAuburn thinking, saying and generations and asks a pivotal question: ‘Are we leaving our childoing the things necessary to leave our children and future generadren with fresh resources, fresh ideas, and fresh innovations?’” tions with a fresh social ecosystem.”

TED started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago Listed as one of Black Entertainment Television’s 2012 “Re-

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publicans toWatch,” Lackey is an Atlanta businessman, fundraiser, philanthropist and social entrepreneur.

Rise Of The Mass Affluents page 15 As that demographic has expanded and diversified, Mass Affluents are increasingly found in the suburbs and exurbs, which are small, prosperous areas beyond suburbs, of the nations’ big cities all over the country. However, data shows that Mass Affluents are more than twice as likely to live near the San Francisco area, followed by: Washington, D.C, Hartford and New Haven, Conn., Boston, New York, Honolulu, Baltimore, Monterey-Salinas, Calif., San Diego and Santa Barbara.

Consistent with Nielsen’s report on African-American consumers, the top five Designated Market Areas (DMA) for African-Americans with $100K-plus household income are Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Atlanta, Norfolk, Va. and New York...

Let’s congratulate our sisters and brothers who have achieved such financial success. If that happens to be you, my messageis: Be sure you’re using your power for good.

Cheryl Pearson-McNeil is senior vice president of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Nielsen. For more information and studies go to www.nielsenwire.com

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FEATURES Make Up Bag Remix Tour Comes To Atlantic Station Special to the Daily World Consumers are invited to book appointments for 30-minute one-on-one make up bag evaluations in the Central Park of Atlantic Station, located on 18th Street, N.W., on Friday, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10 from noon to 8 p.m.

Inside the “Make Up School,” a professional artist will go through guests’ makeup bags and provide an interactive, hands-on lesson explaining how to apply their products.

They will also show them how to supplement what they already own to create their most flattering looks.

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Each client will walk away with a new make up bag, a custom face chart detailing how to use the products they brought, and a list of any additional products recommended by the artist to round out their look. A professional photographer will also be on-site to capture each client’s “after” look, which will be uploaded to an album on the Make Up Forever USA Facebook page.

For those on-the-go with limited time, Make Up Forever will have make up stations dedicated to walk up “Focus Lessons” highlighting four of the most requested techniques: the Essential Smoky Eye, Bright Eyed Lift, Flawless Complexion and Perfect Lasting Lip. Their make up professionals will be on-hand to help women master our most requested looks, and provide them with a lesson flash card to take home so they can easily re-create the looks on their own.

To book an appointment to secure a Make Up Bag Remix go to the Web site www.facebook.com/MAKEUPFOREVERUSA.

Author Offers Hair Intervention Tips Special to the Daily World Between blow-drying, teasing, flatironing, highlighting and lowlighting— there are many ways to change the hair that Mother Nature provided, but there may be a price to pay for rebelling.

Most women, however, don’t think twice about the hair habits they’ve had for years and years, says longtime hair-care advocate and health scientist Audrey DavisSivasothy.

“Lackluster, frazzled, overworked hair—that’s the price we pay for handling our hair like a pair of jeans. Hair is a fragile fiber that needs to be handled more like a silk blouse,” says Davis-Sivasothy, author of Hair Care Rehab (www.haircarerehab.com). “Oftentimes, the style we feel the most comfortable AUDREY DAVIS-SIVASOTHY with reinforces our bad habits. It’s a problem with all the earmarks of an addiction.”

Substances of choice include: • Toxic chemicals (perms, relaxers and colors) • Hair OCD (excessive combing, brushing and heat use) • Environmental lifestyle (too much exposure to sun, surf, bad air and water) • Nutritional/dietary (fad diets, smoking, low water consumption) As with a drug addiction, once you’ve kicked your habit, you’ll liberate your bad hair, unlocking new dimensions of hair potential, says Davis-Sivasothy, who has also

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authored the popular The Science of Black Hair (www.blackhairscience.com).

She offers a five-step rehab for damaged hair: 1. Chelating your hair: Products containing oils, conditioners, serums and pomades (or minerals), which make you feel better in the short term, can build up and actually prevent your hair’s ability to hydrate. That’s why the first step in detoxing hair is the use of chelating shampoo, which is typically clear and lifts stubborn buildup from products and hard water. While many chelating shampoos are sulfate-based, there are more sulfate-free products entering the market to accommodate sensitive scalps and hair.

Clarifying shampoos are a good substitute when chelating shampoos cannot be found.

Moisturizing shampoo should be used for general use after detoxing is complete.

2. Deep conditioning your hair: After chelating, deep condition for 10 to 15 minutes.

This should be done every seven to 10 days using moisturizing conditioners such as instant and cream-rinse, deep conditioners, protein treatments or leave-in conditioners. To go the extra mile, consider an apple cider vinegar rinse to close the cuticle and enhance your hair’s shine.

3. Moisturizing your hair: This step adds a layer of leave-on protection. You can use either leave-in conditioner or a dedicated moisturizing product, or both. For thick, dry or curly hair, this step hydrates and adds “slip.” For fine or oily hair, these products should detangle strands while encouraging volume.

4. Sealing your hair: This is the last major step in your hair intervention. Sealing with an oil or butter product locks in moisture and solidifies the gains of rehab. It smoothes out the cuticle and keeps hair moisturized for a longer period. Always use sealant on slightly dampened or misted hair, or pair the product with a water-based moisturizer to maximize the benefits. If you have naturally oily hair, you can skip this step.

5. Styling your hair protectively: Imagine wearing a favorite sweater every day; washing, drying and ironing it several times a week – it would look pretty worn out after a few years! This is exactly what happens to hair that is bleached, colored, blown dry with artificial heat, ironed, weaved and on and on. There are several measures you can take to preserve the health of your hair, including wearing it up more often, cleansing it cautiously, detangling strands with a large-tooth comb, protectively using blowdryer heat, reducing chemical use and not coloring your hair more than three shades lighter or darker than your natural color. In general, be gentle. Do not pull to hard or rapidly when styling it, too; be slow and steady.

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Historic 2012 Atlanta Music Festival Concert To Feature Tenor Timothy Miller Special to the Daily World Emory University, Atlanta’s First Congregational Church, and the non-profit religious music organization Meridian Herald will present the 2012 Atlanta Music Festival Concert: “Songs of Aspiration, Hope and Progress.” The event will be Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. in the sanctuary of First Congregational Church, 105 Courtland Street, NE. The historic concert tradition began in 1910 by First Church in an effort to unite Atlantans with what was then known as the “Atlanta Colored Music Festival.” The festival was revived 10 years ago by First Church’s pastor Dwight Andrews.

“The festival is a magnificent story of racial progress that came out of a dark moment more than a century ago,” says Andrews, who is also a music professor at Emory University. At that time Blacks had been refused admittance to events during Atlanta's Opera Week.

“Members of the congregation didn’t stop with being rejected and turned the situation into an invitation for all to hear African-American music. The concert was one of those bright spots at a dark time when Atlanta was still faced with division, hatred and violence in the wake of the race riots,” he said.

This year’s concert will feature performances by spinto tenor Timothy B. Miller, the First Church Chancel Choir directed by Norma Raybon, and the Meridian Chorale and soloists. Andrews is artistic director and Steven Darsey is music director.

The concert will include works by composer T. J. Anderson. Famous for his orchestration of the Scott Joplin opera, “Treemonisha,” Anderson has written notable works in most classical forms, including opera, symphony, and ballet. A former composer in residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, he has recently moved to Atlanta and will be present at the concert.

Timothy B. Miller is well known to Atlanta audiences for his performances in opera, oratorio, and churches. On the voice faculty of Morehouse College, he is also a featured soloist for the Atlanta

Braves home games.

“The Atlanta Music Festival is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect an important musical expression with its original meaning and context,” says Andrews. Admission is free. An offering will be taken to benefit the Atlanta Music Festival.

For more information, see www.meridianherald.org.

Praise Briefs Radcliffe Presbyterian Church Hosts Gold Buying Event Radcliffe Presbyterian Church is partnering with Alpharetta-based precious metals purchaser Golden Girls LLC to raise funds for its Mission and Outreach Programs.A Gold Buying Event (silver and platinum, too) will take place Saturday, Nov. 10 from 1p.m. to 4 p.m. on the church property at 286 Hamilton E. Holmes Drive, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30318.

All are welcome to bring unwanted gold, silver and platinum jewelry, flatware, stemware, baby items, dental metals, etc. Licensed professionals will be available to assess the items for purchase.

Individual sellers keep 100 percent of the assessed price. Golden Girls will make a charitable donation to Radcliffe Presbyterian Church based on the total volume purchased at the event. Contact Jenay Dunlap Myers at jenaydunlapmyers@golddoesgood.com or 404-643-1483 for more information regarding the fundraiser.

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Dwight Andrews, Indra Thomas, Todd Skrabanek, Norma Raybon, Steven Darsey and David Morrow receive applause at the 2011 Atlanta Music Festival.

Celebrating Excellence Among African-American Women In Metro Atlanta CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

In character, in manner, and in style, the Atlanta Daily World will celebrate 50 phenomenal women who have demonstrated exceptional courage, unwavering conviction, and extraordinary grace during our Women of Excellence program.

The Atlanta Daily World Women of Excellence Awards will celebrate local African-American women who inspire others through their vision and leadership, exceptional achievements, and participation in community service.

Women of Excellence honorees are women who exemplify extraordinary stature, poise, and grace. These women do it all while maintaining the delicate balance of filling the roles of helpmate, mother, teacher, and professional.

The women who are chosen for this award are champions of our economic empowerment, the backbone of our religious and educational organizations, and driving forces in politics and community service.

Nomination Deadline: Friday November 9, 2012 @ 5:00 p.m.

Nominee Form

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___ Proven success within her profession/industry. ___ Positive role model whose contributions encourage others. ___ Active in community service or organizational involvement.

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Describe the specific accomplishments that demonstrate the nominee’s excellence.

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All submissions should be mailed to: Women Of Excellence Awards c/o Misha L. Helvey, 3485 N. Dessert Drive, Ste, 2109-A, Atlanta, GA 30344 Mhelvey@realtimesmedia.com

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2012 BronzeLens Film Festival Women Superstars Announced at Luncheon Special to the Daily World Some the nation’s most successful women of color in the film and television will be honored for their accomplishments behind and in front of the lens at the BronzeLens Film Festival (BronzeLens) Women Superstars Luncheon.

The luncheon will take place Friday, Nov. 9 from noon until 2 p.m. at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Atrium Ballroom, located at 265 Peachtree Center Avenue.

The honorary chair of the event is Valerie Jackson and it is co-chaired by Alice Cannon, Monica Pearson and Cecilia Torrence. “The BronzeLens Luncheon is now nationally recognized as a must-attend industry event. We are proud to have achieved such status in the three years since its inception and are grateful to our sponsors, The Coca-Cola Company and Macy’s, for supporting our vision,” said Sheryl Gripper, founding executive director of the festival.

BronzeLens 2012 Women Superstars honorees include: Tony-nominated, Emmy, Golden Globe and Obie-winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson (Legendary Superstar) is best known for her role as NYPD Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on the drama series “Law & Order” and HBO's miniseries “Lackawanna Blues,” which was her first leading role in almost 20 years on screen. In film she has appeared as Dr. Robinson in the Spike Lee Joint “She's Gotta Have It,” as Elsa in the critically-acclaimed psycho-thriller “Jacob's Ladder” with Tim Robbins, and in Craig Brewer's follow-up to “Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan,” co-starring Christina

Ricci and Samuel L. Jackson.

Filmmaker Stephanie Allain (Legendary Behind the Lens Superstar) is founder of Homegrown Films. She is widely known for being instrumental in the making of John Singleton’s “Boyz N The Hood,” which garnered Singleton two Academy Award nominations and set the bar for contemporary urban dramas. She also worked with John Singleton S. EPATHA to co-produce Craig MERKERSON Brewer's “Hustle & Flow,” which won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2005, an Academy Award for Best Original Song and earned a Best Actor nomination for Terrence Howard.

First time filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper (Emerging Behind the Lens Superstar) is founder of Coffee Bluff Pictures and writer/producer/director of the award-winning film “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution.” “Versailles ’73” won the coveted CNN Outstanding Documentary Award as an official selection of the 2012 Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival.

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is an independent script consultant whose clientele includes several awardwinning writers. She is the author of The Script Selling Game: A Hollywood Insider's Look At Getting Your Script Sold and Produced, which is in its fourth printing. She also was a co-executive producer on the popular cable series “Beyond The Break.”

Actress Emayatzy Corinealdi (Emerging SuperSTEPHANIE star) landed her first princiALLAIN pal role for the TV movie “The Nanny Express.” She has appeared in television series such as “Cold Case, the Young and the Restless,” “Katrina” and “Romantically Challenged,” as well as several acclaimed short films including the DGA Student Filmmaker Awardwinning “Akira's Hip Hop Shop” (2007). Corinealdi won the 14th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Star Project, an international acting competition for emerging multicultural artists. In 2012, she made her feature film debut as the lead in “Middle of Nowhere.”

For information about the BronzeLens Film Festival, visit www.bronzelensfilmfestival.com.

Key And Peele Find Laughs In Racial Quandaries

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer As a comedy team, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are very funny.

As guys who both lay claim to biracial status (Black fathers, White mothers), they share a state of informed in-betweenness that gives their comedy extra punch and extraordinary insight.

Race fuels much of “Key & Peele,” their sketch-and-standup half-hour series airing Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central. Straddling the great divide between White and Black, they deliver a special brand of laughs, along with the occasional epiphany.

“There's been a lot of racial comedy over the years,” says Peele. “But being biracial, mixed individuals, we realized there's been nothing from our perspective.”

Even so, their mission isn't social reform.

“We're not trying to lead anybody toward any specific conclusion,” says Peele, “except that, ultimately, race is an absurd thing.”

“It always boomerangs back to culture,” Key adds.

They are happy to show how.

The comedy of Key and Peele is clever, keenly observed and fearless. But never mean.

Consider their sketch set in the antebellum South. They play slaves who, placed on the auction block, grow increasingly indignant that no one is bidding on them, while all the other slaves are snapped up.

Then there's the sketch set in Germany in 1942, as a Nazi colonel looking for escaped Negroes finds Key and Peele hiding out -- in white-face. With their nervous denials and foolish-looking disguise, they manage to convince their pursuer that they're not one of “them.”

Peele displays TV's best impersonation of Barack Obama in several sketches where the unflappable president is joined by Luther, his “anger translator” who channels, unfiltered, what Obama is really thinking.

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For instance, after Obama calmly tells viewers that “Gov. Romney and I have different ideas on how to best help the American people,” Luther (played by Key) screeches his unbridled version of the message: “I killed Osama bin Laden! And you strapped your dog to the top of your car!”

In person, Key and Peele are both affable, reflective chaps who genuinely seem to get a kick out of each other. Key, the tall, hyper and bald partner, is 41 and grew up in Detroit. Peele, husky and more laid-back, is 33 and hails from New York.

They met a decade ago in Chicago, where Key was performing in a Second City improv troupe and Peele, then in the Amsterdam-based Boom Chicago comedy group, was visiting as part of a cast swap between Boom and Second City.

Needless to say, they found they had much in common.

“I wonder,” Peele muses, “how much both Keegan and I were pulled toward a performing career -- where we're shifting person-

alities and doing different characters -- because we grew up walking a sort of racial tightrope.”

“We've been doing some strange form of sketch comedy since we were very, very little,” Key declares. “We just didn't know we were doing it.”

Now they do it in a happy alliance.

Bounce TV Debuts New Series 'Off The Chain' With Rodney Perry Special to the Daily World Bounce TV has premiered its newest original series, “Off The Chain,” with two episodes back-to-back. The new halfhour stand-up comedy series features performances by some of the country's most talented African-American comics.

Rodney Perry hosts “Off The Chain.” Perry was the cohost of “The Mo'Nique Show” on BET as well as a host of TV One's “Who's Got Jokes.” He has been the opening act for such top comedians as George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey and Mo'Nique. Perry also starred in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family.”

“Off The Chain” will feature comedians such as SNL alum Dean Edwards; the Wayans brothers’ niece, Chaunte Wayans ; former host at the Apollo, Rudy Rush; and Dexter Tucker,

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Chris Tucker's younger brother.

Bounce TV targets African Americans primarily between the ages of 25 and 54 with a programming mix of theatrical motion pictures, live sports, documentaries, specials, inspirational faith-based programs, off-net series, original series and more.

Launched just over one year ago, Bounce TV is already available in 80 percent of African-American households and 65 million homes nationally. Bounce TV airs 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the digital signals of local television stations. Martin Luther King III and Ambassador Andrew Young are among the founding group and board of directors of Bounce TV. Bounce TV is majority African Americanowned. Toyota USA is the signature sponsor of the network.

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ENTERTAINMENT

‘Heaven Bound’ Returns For 82nd Performance At Big Bethel Church Special to the Daily World Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church presents its 82nd annual performance of “Heaven Bound,” Nov. 9 – 10 at 7 p.m. on both nights.

The Friday night performance is the traditional version and the Saturday night performance is the contemporary version. This legendary African-American folk drama tells the story of pilgrims on their way to heaven.

Comprised of cast members from the congregation, “Heaven Bound” continues its time-honored legacy of the oral tradition through hymns, spirituals, and dramatic storytelling. The play portrays suspenseful conflict between the pilgrims and Satan. Who will make it

through the “pearly gates?” Surprises abound!

Written and produced by two choir members, Nellie Lindley Davis and Lula Byrd Jones, Heaven Bound first debuted on Feb. 17, 1930, at Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It was hailed soon after as "the first great American folk drama" by Theatre Guild magazine and The New York Times as “Atlanta’s most enduring tradition.”

For tickets call 404-827-9707 or go to the Web site www.bigbethelame.org. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for children and students with ID.

French Photographer Offers Portrait Of The South In Exhibit Special to the Daily World French photographer Pierre Gonnord will present “Portraying the South,” a solo exhibition of photographs that capture a glimpse into the soul of the American Deep South at the SCAD Atlanta Gallery at 1600 Peachtree St. through Nov. 16.

The artist will be giving a talk on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner, Pierre Gonnord was invited to conduct a three-month residency in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Gonnord’s exploration of this region led him to homeless shelters, churches, poor and wealthy neighborhoods, important stomping grounds of the Civil Rights Movement, and on into the more rural communities and habitations little

known and hardly remembered. Through the faces and landscapes encountered, “Portraying the South” offers timeless, unclassifiable, explosive and riveting portrayal of the American Southeast.

Born in France, selftaught photographer Pierre Gonnord lives and works in Madrid, Spain. His work focuses primarily on the portraitures of marginalized individuals, including Gypsies, punks and immigrants from Eastern Europe. He has presented several solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions around Europe, and his

Special to the Daily World As Ballethnic Dance Company celebrates 22 years in the Atlanta arts community, it returns for its 20th annual presentation of the highly-acclaimed “Urban Nutcracker.”

Ballethnic is a classically-trained, culturally-diverse ballet company that merges traditional ballet with the artistic influences of other ethnic cultures, especially African American. The dance company always stages “Urban Nutcracker” -a twist on the traditional “Nutcracker Ballet” -- the weekend before Thanksgiving. It will run Nov. 15–18, at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts.

“Urban Nutcracker” is an imaginative and colorful adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s ballet

by Waverly T. Lucas II, Ballethnic’s cofounder and co-artistic director. Set on Atlanta’s historic Auburn Avenue in the 1940s, the ballet showcases Atlanta’s African-American community. While the production keeps its classicallybased tradition, Lucas’ choreography continues Ballethnic’s signature style of blending classical ballet with jazz, modern, African and other genres of ethnic dance.

Lucas and his wife, Nena Gilreath, co-artistic director, introduced this distinctive dance form to Atlanta in 1990, when they created the Ballethnic Dance Company.

“After leaving New York’s Dance Theatre of Harlem, we decided to take our combined artistic experiences to Atlanta and establish a company,” Gilreath said. “We knew that Atlanta’s rich cultural history, its many academic institutions and its thriving business community would provide fertile ground for developing a distinctive performing arts organization.”

Ballethnic’s Urban Nutcracker offers a fastpaced and upbeat Nutcracker performance that engages audiences of all ages, races and cultures. The production features the traditional Tchaikovsky score along with adapted music by L. Gerard Reid. A multicultural cast of professional artists and young dancers perform the ballet; preapprentice students from the Ballethnic Youth Ensemble and talented elders from the H. J. C. Bowden Senior Center in East Point dance in the production.

The storyline is similar to the original Nutcracker; however the characters differ.

In the first act, Sarah (traditional, Clara) receives a nutcracker doll for a holiday gift from her mysterious uncle, Professor Isaac; she later dreams that the nutcracker becomes a handsome prince. Act 1 concludes after a beautiful dance by the Snow King and Queen, against a scenic

works are present in the collections of University Salamanca, Spain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris and many others. In 2011, Gonnord's work was included in the exhibition, Real Venice as a part of the 54th Venice Biennale.

“Exhibition and Public Lecture by Pierre Gonnord: Portraying the South” is presented within the framework of France-Atlanta 2012: a series of events centered on innovation in the scientific, business, cultural and humanitarian domains which aim at breathing new life in the cooperation between France and the Southern U.S. Co-presented by the Consulate General of France in Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology, FranceAtlanta 2012 is presented under the high auspices of the Ambassador of France to the U.S.A., the governor of Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta. This particular event is presented in partnership with SCAD and in conjunction with ACP. To learn more about the program s of “France-Atlanta 2012,” visit www.france-atlanta.org.

Ballethnic Presents Its Colorful ‘Urban Nutcracker’

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snowy backdrop. In Act 2, Sarah’s dreams take her on a journey to the “land of Sweet Auburn Avenue.” There, she and her young prince Leroy are greeted with delightful gifts and striking performers: a bubbly six-pack of Coca-Cola dancers on pointe, leaping Black Russians and Spice Drop Tumblers.

The queen of Auburn Avenue is Brown Sugar (traditional, Sugar Plum Fairy). She and the cavalier Chocolatier present Sarah and Leroy with an enchanting grand pas de deux (dance with two), followed by a colorful finale with all the dancers.

To purchase VIP tickets and all other tickets, contact the Ferst Center Box Office at 404-894-9601. For more information, go to www.ballethnic.org.

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Bystanders Less Likely To Give CPR In ‘High-Risk’ Neighborhoods

Special to the Daily World Residents living in high-income White and high-income integrated neighborhoods were more likely to receive bystander CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) during an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest than arrest victims in low-income Black neighborhoods, according the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Arrest victims in low-income White, low-income integrated and high-income Black neighborhoods were also less likely to receive bystander CPR. In an effort to look at future CPR training processes and public health planning, researchers from Emory University, the University of Colorado and several other institutions wanted to better understand the effects of different neighborhoods on the probability of receiving bystander CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. More than 300,000 out-ofhospital cardiac arrests occur in the U.S. each year, with outcomes varying depending on geographic location of the patient, according to the researchers.

Using surveillance data that was prospectively submit-

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ted from 29 U.S. sites to the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), the researchers looked at data from Oct. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2009, accessing the relationship between income and racial/ethnic composition of a neighborhood and bystander CPR administered. Out of 14,225 usable cardiac arrests registered in CARES, bystander CPR was provided to 4,068 patients.

“We have learned that the neighborhood where we live connects us to the chances of receiving bystander CPR, or not, during a cardiac arrest,” says Bryan McNally, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health and co-author of this study.

“Arrest victims who received bystander CPR were more likely to be male and White. Black and Latino patients were less likely to receive CPR. The association was most apparent in low-income Black neighborhoods where the odds of receiving bystander CPR was 50 percent lower than that of a high-income non-Black neighborhood.”

Neighborhoods were defined as high- versus low-income based on a median household income threshold of $40,000 and as White or Black if more than 80 percent of the census tract was predominately of one race. Neighborhoods without a predominant racial/ethnic composition were defined as integrated.

The researchers say because of their findings, there needs to be a commitment to globally increase CPR training efforts for all people. Historically, CPR training required multiple hours of training, was considered intimidating and was offered in conventional settings, such as workplaces and schools. Today, CPR training is faster, simpler, less intimidating and easier to remember.

“Rather than widely blanketing the entire U.S. with CPR training, a targeted, tailored approach in these ‘highrisk’ neighborhoods may be a more efficient method, given limited resources,” says McNally.

The CARES program was developed by Emory’s Department of Emergency Medicine faculty, and has been funded by the CDC for the past eight years.

In-Home Rapid Oral HIV Test Now Available Special to the Daily World OraSure Technologies, Inc. has announced the availability of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test at retailers nationwide and online, making it the first rapid infectious disease test ever to be made available directly to consumers for in-home use.

"For the first time ever, individuals now have access to an in-home rapid oral HIV test – the same test healthcare professionals have used and trusted for years – that will empower them to learn their HIV status in the comfort and privacy of their own home," said Douglas A. Michels, president and chief executive officer of OraSure Technologies. "This is a tremendous breakthrough in our fight against HIV and AIDS." The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test detects antibodies to both HIV-1 and HIV-2 with an oral swab, providing a confidential in-home testing option with results in as little as 20 minutes. The in-home test is an over-the-counter version of DEBRA FRASER-HOWZE OraQuick ADVANCE, an oral

swab rapid test with more than 25 million units sold in the professional market, including doctors, hospitals, clinics and other trained professionals.

“To ensure optimal support for individuals using the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, OraSure is making available specialized resources including live support and comprehensive referral services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year, through a toll-free support center and comprehensive consumer website,” said Debra Fraser-Howze, vice president of Government Affairs for OraSure.

The OraQuick Support Center is staffed with bilingual (English/Spanish) representatives who are available by telephone at 866436-6527 to answer questions about HIV/AIDS and using and interpreting the test. They also provide referrals to follow-up and care, and they can also take orders for the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. Additionally, the product Web site provides access to resources and referral to follow-up counseling, confirmatory testing and medical care.

Visit OraQuick.com for more information.

Georgia ‘Home Instead’ Offers Free Alzheimer’s Care Training Sessions Special to the Daily World Georgia Home Instead Senior Care franchise offices will host free, in-person Alzheimer’s training sessions during November, in conjunction with Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month.

The recently launched Alzheimer's CARE: Changing Aging Through Research and Education program is a first-of-its-kind training program that addresses current and future needs by offering family members a fresh approach to Alzheimer’s care. The approach encourages mental engagement to help relatives re-

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main safely at home and in familiar surroundings as long as possible, and family members learn to immerse themselves in the mindsets of their loved ones to help manage difficult behaviors associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

For a schedule of the training programs in Georgia or to take free online training courses, visit www.helpforalzheimersfamilies.com.

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source for coping with challenges presented by the disease while maintaining their loved one’s dignity and helping them live more fulfilling lives.

“As the Baby Boomer population continues to age, it is essential for current and future caregivers to be educated and prepared on how to manage behaviors associated with Alzheimer’s disease,” said Jeff Huber, president and chief operating officer of Home Instead Inc. “We hope that by reaching such a wide audience, more family caregivers will be equipped with the proper knowledge and tools to face the everyday challenges of the disease.”

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SPORTS

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Hawks Foundation Unveils Renovation Of Basketball Courts Special to the Daily World A donation of $50,000 by the Atlanta Hawks Foundation to renovate four basketball courts in the Old Fourth Ward’s Central Park was put to good use. The four spruced-up courts were shown off to more than 250 people, the City of Atlanta, the Old Fourth Ward community and Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall in support of his Year of Boulevard initiative.

In attendance to celebrate the dedication were Atlanta Hawks players Al Horford, Lou Williams, Jeff Teague, Devin Harris, Ivan Johnson and John Jenkins; Duriya Farooqui, chief operating officer, City of Atlanta; Kwanza Hall, Atlanta District 2 City Councilmember; Bob Williams, president, Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena; and Danny Ferry, president of Basketball Operations and general manager, Atlanta Hawks.

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Hawks Guard Devin Harris poses with participants during the Hawks’ Court Dedication at Central Park in the Old Fourth Ward.

“The Atlanta Hawks, the Old Fourth Ward and the Year of Boulevard are examples of why we are proud to celebrate Atlanta,” said Bob Williams. “Our hope is that together, we have done something that will create a positive change for our city and this neighborhood.”

The restored basketball courts at Central Park will serve more than 500 kids under the age of 18 through summer basketball leagues and after-school programming as well as host the Atlanta Hawks Kia Summer Hoops Tour, a free, one-day clinic that teaches the fundamentals of basketball to youths in the metro Atlanta community. The $50,000 donation from the Atlanta Hawks Foundation is the first investment in the A group gathers during the Hawks’ Court Dedication unveiling at Central Park, neighborhood park in more including Lou Williams (back row from left), John Jenkins, Jeff Teague, Al Horthan a decade and the ford and Ivan Johnson largest single donation to the Year of Boulevard initiapublic year-round. tive to date.

“On behalf of everyone who cares about the Boule“Atlanta is fortunate to have a basketball team with vard corridor, I want to thank the Atlanta Hawks for beplayers that not only give their all on the court but give lieving in us,” stated Kwanza Hall, Atlanta District 2 back to the community,” said Mayor Kasim Reed. “With City Councilmember. “You have set the bar high for our this donation to renovate the Central Park basketball kids and our families in the heart of the city.” courts, the Atlanta Hawks Foundation demonstrates a For more information on The Atlanta Hawks and all genuine dedication to our children and their future.” of the team’s community outreach, visit Each of the basketball courts received new paving, www.hawks.com. For more information on the Year of painting, backboards and rims with the Atlanta Hawks Boulevard, visit www.yoboulevard.com and District2Atlogo reflected at center court. The courts are open to the lanta on Facebook.

Revamped Hawks Led

By Two Local Players

By AMAL YAMUSAH Special to the Daily World The Atlanta Hawks are hardly recognizable from a year ago.

After hiring Danny Ferry as the new general manager, the Hawks traded veteran All-Star guard Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams to the Brooklyn Nets and Utah Jazz, respectively, completing an off season filled with trades, releases and new additions.

The Hawks began making modifications to its front office earlier this year, and those alterations worked their way through almost every department within the franchise. The theme of this year’s team seems to be “change,” as the Hawks’ 2012 regular season opened Nov. 2.

With the progression of veteran forward Josh Smith and the acquisition of one of the league’s best bench players, Lou Williams, the Hawks hope the new changes are good ones. If the action during the two preseason games is any indication, Atlanta fans have reason for optimism. The Hawks were led in

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their final two preseason games by the two Atlantaarea natives – Smith and Williams – despite a 10488 loss to the Detroit Pistons in the preseason finale.

The pair combined for 49 points and contributed greatly to the assist and rebound columns in the final two preliminary contests.

Much of Atlanta’s success depends on the play of Smith and Williams. Smith, the Hawks longest tenured player, enjoyed his best season last year, finishing with career-high averages of 18.8 points per game and 9.6 rebounds per game.

Smith added confidence to a Hawks team still looking for a new identity to go along with its new lineup. He believes the Hawks are up for the task.

“We still don’t know what the regular starting line up will be, but we feel comfortable,” the 6-9 forward said. “We just have to stick together.”

Aside from these two local players, one thing is certain – it will take a total team effort and chemistry for the Hawks to be a contender in the Eastern Conference.

Deitra P. Johnson contributed to this article.

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NNPA SPOTLIGHT

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

BY GEORGE E. CURRY

BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX

The End Of Republicans’ ‘Whites Only’ Strategy

Budget Woes Await Winner Of Presidential Election

This will probably be the last presidential election in which Republicans can afford to ignore issues of paramount importance to Blacks and Latinos and expect to have a remote chance of winning the White House. Obama v. Romney is the political equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education. A separate and unequal approach to national politics is in its final days.

The U.S. is becoming increasingly diverse. The numbers tell the story. People of color, about one-third of the population, are expected to become a majority of the population in 2042 and 54 percent of the population by 2050, according to the Census Bureau. Latinos are expected to make up the largest share of that growth, tripling from one in six residents to one in three.

Meanwhile, Blacks and Asians are expected to grow at a rate of 60 percent by 2050. The Black share of the U.S. population will increase from 14 percent to 15 percent and Asians are projected to grow from 5 percent to 9 percent. By contrast, the non-Hispanic White segment will fall from 66 percent of the population to 46 percent.

As the country grows increasingly diverse, the Republican Party has made a narrow appeal to Whites and is viewed as hostile to the interests of Blacks and Latinos. For example, on the most recent NAACP Legislative Report Card covering the 112th Congress, every Republican in the United States Senate and House of Representatives earned an “F.” By contrast, 159 Democrats in the house earned A’s and only four received F’s. In the Senate, no Democrat earned an F and 47 got A’s.

At a time when the GOP could have expanded its appeal among voters, it has chased out White moderates in the mold of former Connecticut Sen. Lowell Weicker and former New York City Mayor John Lindsay and is now captive of the ultra-conservative Tea Party wing of the Party.

That is also true for race-sensitive Black Republicans. Former Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur Fletcher, former Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and former Secretary of Treasury William Coleman were Black Republicans who never turned their back on African Americans or the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Black moderates such as Colin Powell are shunned. Today’s GOP embraces the likes of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a Black conservative who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in opposition to the University of Texas’s modest affirmative action program now under review by the Supreme Court.

Given the GOP’s sharp turn to the far right – it is so extreme that former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said even Ronald Reagan would not be welcome in the Republican Party today – it is not surprising that Mitt Romney’s strongest support is among White men. According to a recent ABC News poll, Romney has a 65-32 percent lead over Obama among White men. That gap is twice as large as John McCain’s 57-41 percent margin over Obama among White men in the 2008 exit poll.

Obama outpolled McCain among White women by 13 points. He is leading Romney among that group by 15 percent, according to the ABC News poll. Still, that’s enough to give Romney 59 percent of the White vote. Meanwhile, a Washington Post poll showed Obama getting 80 percent of the non-White vote. Romney has made no inroads among African-American voters, who are solidly for Obama, and is expected to receive a lesser share of the Latino vote than John McCain.

Both Obama and Bill Clinton were elected with a minority of the White vote. In addition to denouncing Obama’s handling of the economy, Romney has gone after Obama on food stamps.

Romney said, “Forty-seven million now on food stamps. When he came to office there were 32 million. He’s added 15 million people.” Obama countered by saying the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, saw its greatest expansion under George W. Bush. Given the state of the economy, Obama said it is only natural that more people would need to rely on food stamps.

Of course, talk about food stamps is a subtle and supposedly respectable way to make an appeal based on race. We’ll see on Tuesday whether it works in this election. Whether it works or not, Republicans will have to find a different song in 2016.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA) and editorial director of Heart & Soul magazine. He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

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No matter who wins the Nov. 6 election, he will have a mess on his hands. The Budget Control Act of 2011 will cut $109 billion from the federal budget in 2013 unless Congress is able to figure out how to either reduce the deficit or cut another deal. The cuts will range from 7 to 9 percent, and they’ll hit everything – Pell Grants, housing, employment services, and defense.

Already, some government contractors are cutting back in anticipation of what is called sequestration and some politicians are saying that our national defense will be “hallowed” by the process.

While Mitt Romney talks about getting more ships for the Navy, the fact is that all of us will have to do with less if Congress cannot see its way out of this mess.

The deficit reduction sequester – a result of the failure to enact legislation that reduces the budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years – is scheduled to begin in January. It will affect all non-exempt federal programs, with equal savings coming from defense spending and from nondefense spending, according to the House Budget Committee.

Congress pushed itself into sequestration in 2011 when our nation’s credit rating slipped because our leaders failed to pass a budget. In a showdown with President Obama, Congress stepped all the way out on the cliff that we are now poised to fall off. Rather than making reasoned decisions about cuts, the notion of something automatic was supposed to scare everyone into sanity. The last year, however, has reminded us that few who make public policy are sane.

Most economists are clear that cutting spending during a recession or its weak recovery makes no sense. Deficit notwithstanding, taking money out of the economy is a prescription for disaster. We have only just climbed out of a recession, but recovery is not assured. We face the possibility of a double dip recession by withdrawing money from the economy.

One of the biggest challenges in avoiding the sequester is the fact that the Congress that will convene to attempt to make a deal in a lame-duck Congress. Some will lose their jobs as of January, but they still have the opportunity to pass laws between November and January. They have nothing to lose by continuing their obduracy, and they have few incentives to compromise, something they haven’t done before.

Republicans don’t want to raise taxes, especially on the wealthy, which is one way to avoid the sequestration trap. Democrats don’t want to cut vital social programs. That simplifies matters just a bit, but the bottom line is we get more money either by increasing taxes or cutting programs. We can’t increase taxes on the already beleaguered middle class, and the poor don’t have a penny to spare. That leaves the wealthy, but they are the sacred cows of the Republican Party. Cutting social programs hurts those who have already been hurt. Congress has a dilemma.

One of the things we know about sequestration is that it will cost jobs, both in the federal government and in companies that contract with the federal government. Our extremely weak recovery, which leaves us with an official unemployment rate slightly less than 8 percent, cannot sustain more job losses. Our Congress, with a median wealth of $750,000, excluding the value of their homes, cannot fathom the lives of ordinary human beings.

These are people who get up in the morning, pour cereal in a bowl, take a fast crack at the newspaper before hopping a subway or bus on the way to work, put in their hours, often more than eight, and then take the subway or bus back home. Many make a pit stop at a day care center or school, and then rush home to put food on the table. With median wealth of about $20,000, including home ownership, their lives are a far cry from those of their elected representatives. The gap, perhaps, explains why the American Jobs Act has not yet been passed after languishing in Congress for nearly a year.

Sequestration has come up only tangentially in the presidential debates. Yet it is one of the most important immediate issues that our nation faces. Across the board cuts hit more heavily at the bottom than at the top, and those who are already suffering will find themselves suffering more. It would have been great to have one of the debates focused specifically on this issue of sequestration. The way this sequestration is implemented is likely to depend on the outcome of the election. Yet both candidates have been mostly silent on this matter.

What happens after Nov. 6? Whether President Obama or Willard Romney wins, hard choices will have to be made.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is president emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C.

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GUEST COMMENTARY

MY PART OF THE WORLD

BY CHERYL PEARSON-MCNEIL

BY M. ALEXIS SCOTT

The Rise Of The Mass Affluents I found information in Nielsen’s newest report, Affluence in America: A Financial View of the Mass Affluent, so interesting that I thought you might, too. Mass Affluents are defined as households with Income Producing Assets (IPAs) of $250,000 to $1 million (not including real estate), reporting actual average annual income of $105,000. Mass Affluents are 11.1 percent of the population or 13 million households. And we, as Blacks, are represented in these numbers.

According to Nielsen’s in-depth report, African-American Consumers: Still Vital, Still Growing -- developed through our collaboration with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), 10 percent of African-American households earn $100,000 or more.

Mass Affluents are not celebrities or jet-setters from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, that early ‘90s forerunner to many of today’s over-the-top reality shows based on the most obscene excesses money can buy. According to the Affluence report, Mass Affluents work for the money – heading every day to white collar jobs in management, business or finance; or own their own business(es).

Mass Affluent households are broken down into distinct segments, based loosely on differences in age, income and family makeup by Nielsen P$YCLE, a household segmentation system. I’ll bet we’ll see ourselves or someone we know. * First, there are the Globetrotters. These are empty-nesters older than 65, who have or had six-figure incomes, have paid their dues, are comfortable financially and are spending their free time traveling. * Business Class is defined as 50-something childless or empty-nest couples who are kind of “chichi-la-la,” as Oprah used to say. You know, the country club lifestyle with an extravagant spending style, scoring high for business and pleasure travel and high-end catalog shopping. * Power Couples are described as well-educated, mostly 45 to 54-year-olds with six-figure incomes, no children, designer homes, diversified investment portfolios and love shopping at stores like Nordstrom and Lord & Taylor. * Civic Spirits are over 65-year-old retired couples who are anything but retired. These are the activists in our communities – the people who write the letters to the editor and their political representatives. They are also the more cautious investors, ranking high for buying long-term care insurance and residential insurance for their condos. And, the kids are gone. * The Family Fortunes are described as college-educated 45 to 64-year-old suburbanites with more children than any other segment, high incomes, expensive homes, multiple investments and an energetic lifestyle who enjoy “pricey” sports like skiing and tennis. *Capital Accumulators are 45- to 64-year-old empty nest suburbanites who pay a great amount of attention to their real estate investments, IRAs and 401(k) retirement accounts. These smart cookies have parlayed upper middle-class income into serious income-producing assets and tend to lead very active lifestyles. * Lastly, we have the Savvy Savers. These are well-invested retirees who have raised their children and enjoy low-key lifestyles – like watching sports like golf on TV and are active in their social clubs.

Even though they have invested cautiously and carefully with sizable nest eggs, Savvy Savers take full advantage of senior discounts, coupons and value-oriented travel options.

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Re-Elect President Barack Obama OK, if you haven’t already voted, now is the time to focus and make sure you make it to the polls by Tuesday, Nov. 6.

There is a lot at stake. President Barack Obama is seeking a second term against challenger Massachusetts Governor and businessman Mitt Romney. It is a clear-choice election.

As my mother said, “We just can’t elect Mitt Romney president.”

President Barack Obama made history four years ago with his election as the first Black president of the United States. As soon as he took office, he has been swimming upstream: against the greatest recession in modern times; against recalcitrant GOP opposition; against a 24/7 cable media animal that wanted to keep the contest going to keep their record high ratings and finally against the chattering classes that were waiting for him to be the president of Black people only.

I’m sure you’ve all seen the many lists of Obama’s accomplishments, achieved in spite of his critics and committed opposition in the Congress. His biggest was health care reform, an effort that’s been underway for 50 years by both Democrats and Republicans. For me, health care reform was also my biggest disappointment. I was hoping for a “Medicare for All” plan, a public health plan along the lines of public education. Still there are many good things in the current law as it is: children covered to age 26, coverage for pre-existing conditions and no lifetime limit on dollar amount of coverage.

And finally, we need to support the president’s re-election because it’s good for Atlanta. I had a chance to sit with Mayor Kasim Reed and some other journalists this week, and he continued to champion the president’s re-election bid and predicted his win.

“Atlanta will continue to have cooperation,” Reed said, pointing out the benefits of his relationship with President Obama. He pointed to the federal dollars that have poured into the region during the last three years, including $47 million for the downtown street car project, money that made it possible to hire new police officers and funds for widening the Savannah Port which will mean more jobs for the state and metro region.

Despite the closeness of the race as shown in the polls, Reed said the odds are in Obama’s favor. He likened the election to a prizefight.

“If the goal is 270 (electoral votes),” Reed said Wednesday. “One sits at 246, and one is at 206. Who’d you like to be? I want to be the one at 246… In a 12-round competition, we’re at seven rounds (already) won with five rounds to go. At the end of the fight, we win.”

Reed left the briefing on his way to Jacksonville, Fla., to campaign some more. On election night, he said he’ll start out in D.C. and end up in Chicago to celebrate.

So my peeps in Atlanta, based on the last three years, we have a lot to gain from re-electing President Obama. And on the other hand, we have much to lose if Romney is elected. If Romney wins the race, it will be a great blow to the millions of people who have donated and worked for Obama in contrast to the relatively few monied-interests who have supported the Romney campaign.

It’s time to make history again. If you haven’t done so already, vote for President Obama again, and make him the first Black president of the United States ever to be re-elected.

M. Alexis Scott is publisher of Atlanta Daily World.

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Xernona Clayton (left), TV pioneer, joins Anne Cox Chambers following their induction into the 2012 Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame on Oct. 10 at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel.

John Portman (left), architect and developer, joins Ambassador Andrew Young as a presenter during the Press Club event that also inducted George Goodwin, Conrad Fink and Ralph McGill.

Fredricka Whitfield, CNN news anchor, is joined by her husband photojournalist John Glenn at the Press Club event. Whitfield served as emcee for the event.

Hank Klibanoff, Pulitzer Prize-winner and Emory University journalism professor, stands with Cynthia Tucker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and University of Georgia journalism professor, at the Press Club event.

Joseph E. Lowery, civil rights icon, holds hands with his wife Evelyn Gipson Lowery at his 91st birthday celebration on Oct. 6 on the campus of Morehouse College.

Jane Goodall, anthropologist and social justice leader, stands with students from the Ron Clark Academy during a fundraising event in Atlanta on Oct. 7.

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