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Happy Thanksgiving Nov. 27 - Dec. 3, 2014

From Ferguson to Atlanta: What Happens After Grand Jury Verdict?

“We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions ... Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction. Let’s not just make noise, let’s make a difference.”

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By Terry Shropshire Congressman John Lewis, the legendary representative here in Atlanta, knows perhaps better than anyone in this nation’s history how outlaw actions by those in power can incite violent uprisings by those whom they oppress. As the veritable professor emeritus of the modern Civil Rights movement and former leader of the iconic Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lewis’ willingness to put his life on the line more than half a century ago at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama will be immortalized on the big screen in the highly-anticipated movie SELMA in January 2015.

While ‘Ferguson to Atlanta’ is doesn’t remotely resemble the ‘Selma to Montgomery’ march that almost took Lewis’ life, he nevertheless draws from that infinite spring well of wisdom and insight. And, like currency, he transfers that experience over to the current national quagmire after a St. Louis Grand Jury decided not to indict Ferguson Police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting unarmed teen Michael Brown on Aug. 9.

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Lewis, who famously defied his parents’ admonishment to avoid “getting into trouble” and joined Martin Luther King and others to fight for equity and justice in America, is in favor of individuals taking to the streets. But Lewis also knows there is a way to do it and he urges Atlantans and demonstrators in others cities to adhere to his plea: “If you’re going to protest, protest in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion,” said Lewis, who suggested demonstrators also do so “in the way of peace, in the way of love, and non-violence. You want to bring about the beloved community. That’s the way we must do it.”

Later, Lewis sent this message of reason surging

through cyberspace via his social media platform: “I know this hard. I know this is difficult. Do not succumb to the temptations of violence. There is a more powerful way.#FergusonDecision” The mayor of Atlanta echoed Lewis’ sentiments and caution Atlanta residents, particularly the young and energetic, to not succumb to combustible rage and disenchantment that overtook many of the rioters and looters in Ferguson.

“While many are saddened and angered by the grand jury’s decision, I urge everyone taking part in demonstrations to do so in a peaceful manner,” implored Kasim Reed. “I support the efforts of local leaders to promote non-violent expression by self-policing and elevating the voices of community members,” said Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. “Equally important, I believe we should respect the wishes of Michael Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., that all protests be conducted in a way that honors his son’s memory, rather than distract from it. It is also essential that all local, state, and federal law enforcement officials show proper restraint and respect every citizen’s constitutional right to assemble. Atlanta’s history demonstrates that we can come together and protest in a non-violent and peaceful fashion.

“Going forward,” Reed continues, looking into what could possibly happen after everything dies down in Ferguson, “I encourage the United States Department of Justice to conduct a complete review of how Michael Brown’s killing has been handled thus far. Both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation have opened civil rights investigations, and I look forward to the release of their findings.”

As students and possibly faculty members at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University engage in rallies, civil disobedience and other activities, you would think some of them would mine the vast vault that is Lewis, on the best ways to achieve positive results since he practically wrote the book on the peaceful protests.

You would have hoped that more Ferguson folks would have listened to Atlanta activists, such as the Rev. Markel Hutchins, and refrained from the lawlessness and criminality that turned parts of Ferguson into a maelstrom of madness.

“Michael Brown deserves better than looting,” announced Rev. Markel Hutchins, a civil rights activist in Atlanta. “Michael Brown deserves better than vio-

lence. It was violence that killed him. Not only does Michael Brown deserve better, but we as a community deserve better.”

Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) expressed shock at the Saint Louis Grand Jury’s decision, while simultaneously imploring local Atlanta demonstrators to not replicate the deplorable behavior by a few dozen hooligans who looted, rioted and burned down businesses in their own communities.

“Protests should be expected, but I urge protesters to remain peaceful. Death, personal injury or property destruction will not right the injustice, nor will it bring Michael Brown back to life. So let’s be smart, and let’s handle this through the strategy of non-violence,” Johnson urged, while cautioning the police to exercise restraint as well. “I also urge law enforcement to exercise restraint and to not meet peaceful protesters with a militarized show of force like ... we saw in August.

Such a display will only inflame protesters and provoke a violent response.”

Rep. Terri Sewell may have crystallized the dark mood swirling among urban sophisticates, many of whom are having a hard time wrapping their minds around the fact that police violence against black men brings back the living nightmares they had to endure during the apex of Jim Crowism in the South (and de facto segregation in the North).

“This tragedy has awakened our nation to the reality that we must work to create communities that value the lives of men of color,” she said glumly.

Congressman Lewis’ colleague and civil rights veteran, John Conyers, the esteemed congressional leader from Detroit, may have eloquently articulated the best remedy for Mondays disturbing grand jury response when he said this: “It is my sincere hope that in the coming days, we can all focus on the fact that the issues contributing to the Michael Brown shooting are more complex than the criminal indictment of a single police officer can begin to address. Just as we did during the Civil Rights Movement, I urge those who are upset by the decision to peacefully voice your opposition and exercise non-violent protests to pursue equal justice,” Conyers said.

“I hope that the troubling circumstances in Ferguson will serve to galvanize our national resolve to address the much larger history of adversarial relationships between the police and communities of color. Despite the fact that the majority of law enforcement officers perform their duties professionally and without bias – and we value their service highly – the issues of race and reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct are so closely linked in law enforcement practices that profiling bias has an impact on virtually every area of criminal justice policy. In cases like Michael Brown, this specter of racial profiling runs the substantial risk of rendering young minority men suspect as potential perpetrators to be met with the deadliest of force.”

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Atlanta Streetcar Crashes Twice The Atlanta streetcar has not fully launched operations yet, but there have already been two crashes during the testing phase.

Streetcar spokesperson Sharon Gavin said that a car hit the streetcar Sunday near Centennial Olympic Park. She said the driver tried to pass the streetcar while it was turning during a test run. “(It’s) safest to wait behind it because it’s 80 feet long. 96,000 pounds against regular vehicles – it’s not a good move,” Gavin said.

No one was hurt in the crash. This was the second crash involving the streetcar in less than a week. Last week, a driver was cited for hitting the streetcar on Ellis Street, WSB-TV reported.

General Motors to Add 400 Jobs in Atlanta Area

Detroit-based automaker General Motors is expanding its IT operations in the Atlanta metropolitan region, which means the creation of up to 400 additional jobs.

This comes just a year after the world’s largest auto manufacturer constructed a 1,000-employee technology development center in Roswell, a northern suburb of Atlanta. According to sources the center has already reached capacity at the 228,000 square foot center and is on a reconnaissance mission to locate another similar center in North Fulton.

Atlanta business and political leaders have been actively marketing itself as a formidable, emerging IT hub in the United States.

The current GM technology center employs software developers, project managers, database experts and business analysts.

A GM spokeswoman confirmed Atlanta expansion plans, but declined to elaborate on the number of jobs being added.

The Atlanta IT center is one of four such centers GM has opened around the country as it brings the majority of its IT operations in-house and in the United States.

The other GM IT centers, the ABC reports are in Warren, Mich., Chandler, Ariz. and Austin, Texas. The other centers are also expanding.

Marathoners Run From Atlanta to Ferguson for Mike Brown

By Qwest 7 Michael Brown’s memory proved to be a prime motivating factor as two men traveled 550 miles by foot from Atlanta to the slain teen’s memorial in Ferguson, Mo. It took almost three weeks for 28-year-old Londrelle Hall and 29-year-old Ray Mills to make the trek. The men, who were escorted by locals to the memorial when they arrived, averaged 35 miles per day on their journey as they voiced how important it was to reach their destination.

“When I got [there], I broke down and cried because I was in his shoes and felt the same pain that he would feel, and that the community felt,” Hall told Think Progress. “I know there’s a lot of tension, and I can just feel the energy here, and my soul cried out.”

Hall’s motivation for making the trip stemmed from raising awareness as well as dealing with the problems of world. The devoted runner uses running to cope with his own “personal problems.”

For Mills, the sight of Brown’s memorial and the history behind it provided more than enough fuel to complete the trip.

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“While we’re doing it, there’s no way to [anticipate] how you would feel until you’re actually here,” Mills said. “When I arrived, it was breathtaking. This young man was killed here coming from a store.”

Ultimately, Mills and Hall hoped to raise $1 million through a GoFundMe.com campaign they started to donate to Brown’s family, as well as raise awareness of 22-year old John Crawford III, who was killed by police in a Walmart and Charles Smith, a 29-yearold Georgia man who was killed by police after he was handcuffed. The two men have raised $2,362 to date.

Despite not reaching their fundraising goal, Mill and Hall remain determined to make a difference with discussion involving the creation of an afterschool program for minority youth, in addition to hopes of making regular trips to Ferguson in the coming weeks to aid the community.

“We want to come back after Thanksgiving routinely, as time goes on,” Mills said. “After the media’s packed up and gone, the community [will] still have issues. We don’t want to forget that.”

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Residents Launch the Boulevard Food Co-Op Just in time for Thanksgiving, low-income families from District 2’s Boulevard corridor have launched their own food co-operative.

The launch of the food co-op on November 20 was one of Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall’s top goals for the 2014 edition of his Year of Boulevard initiative.

The Boulevard Food Co-Op is the result of a year of careful planning and monthly community-based work sessions in partnership with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Truly Living Well Urban Agriculture.

The 15 founding families of the co-op come from the Bedford Pines community and the Atlanta Housing Authority’s Cosb y Spear highrise.

On the first and third Thurs d ay of each month, the families will gather

at Fort Street Memorial United Methodist Church to distribute food from the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Truly Living Well’s urban farm. For a nominal fee, each family receives 40 pounds of food from the food bank as well as fresh produce from Truly Living Well. In 2015, the co-op will expand to other local families.

“The launch of the Boulevard Food CoOp is a phenomenal achievement,” said Hall.

“Hunger and food insecurity are huge barriers for many families in District 2’s Boulevard corridor. It is our hope that the co-op will help us bring more food – and healthier food options – to these families.”

To learn more about the history of the Boulevard Food Co-Op, visit District2Atlanta on Facebook.

Atlanta Businessman Richard Rose, New President of Local NAACP Richard Rose, an Atlanta businessman and longtime civil rights activist, is the newly elected president of the Atlanta Branch of the NAACP. Rose, a certified public accountant and former member of the NAACP’s Executive Board, was elected Tuesday, Nov. 18, and assumes office Jan. 1, 2015.

Rose, 66, replaces the Rev. R. L. White, who has served as president of the local branch since 1997. “I am Richard Rose extremely honored and excited to head the Atlanta branch of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious civil rights organization,” said Rose, a Life Member of the organization. “I plan to build on Rev. White’s legacy of service while instituting a number of advancements that will strengthen the organization and move us forward.”

Rose, a 1970 graduate of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University, said one of his goals is to increase the number of African Americans registered to vote and to find ways to get more black people to the polls.

“When I look at the turnout in the most recent election, it’s clear to me that the NAACP, in conjunction with other organizations, must ramp up its efforts to get people, particularly young black men and women, to vote,” Rose said. “It’s vital to our local community, to the state and to the nation.”

Rose, who remained in Atlanta after graduating from college, served on the Atlanta NAACP Executive Board in 2007 and 2008

and was elected treasurer in 2008 to a two-year term.

He said his involvement with the organization began when he was still in high school in Memphis, Tenn.

“We would go down to the NAACP office just about every Saturday for over a year when I was in high school as part the NAACP Youth Council. We picketed the city’s two major department stores, staged sit-ins at restaurants near Memphis State and closed down city high schools in various efforts.” he said.

“The department stores wouldn’t hire black clerks, wouldn’t allow black people to eat at the lunch counter and they wouldn’t allow us to use the toilets. The only black employees they had were the folks cleaning the toilets that we couldn’t use.”

His association with the NAACP in those early years shaped his commitment to human rights and his chosen profession, he said.

“My mother’s college classmate was a man named Jesse Turner,” he said. “He was president of the Memphis NAACP and the only Black certified public accountant in the state of Tennessee.”

Rose became a CPA in 1973 and opened his firm, Richard Rose CPA, two years later.

Rose has also been involved in electoral politics. He ran the successful 1984 campaign for the City Council for and worked on other political campaigns.

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Morehouse School of Medicine Supports National Health IT Tour

(l-R) Dr. Dominic Mack, co-director of the National Center for Primary Care at MSM, and executive medical director and principal investigator of the Georgia Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (GA-HITREC) moderates panel discussion with Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Azalea Health, David LaBorde, M.D; Co-Founder of SwiftPayMD and Kathy Harris, Sr. VP of Corporate Development at Sharecare. Photo Courtesy of ByteGraph Inc. The Technology Association of Georgia , the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Georgia Department of Economic Development made a stop at Morehouse School of Medicine recently as part of a national Health IT Media tour held in conjunction with the 5th annual Health IT Leadership Summit in Atlanta last week.

The media tour showcased Georgia’s leadership and innovation in the Health IT Industry to journalists from across the country. The Morehouse School of Medicine tour stop highlighted the state’s diversity of innovation, leadership and talent in Health IT. The stop featured a presentation from Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, the first woman to lead the medical school as president and dean; as well as a panel discussion that included Baha Zeidan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Azalea Health, David LaBorde, M.D; Co-Founder of SwiftPayMD and Kathy Harris, Sr. VP of Corporate Development at Sharecare.

In keeping with the theme of the tour stop, the panel focused on diversity in Health IT as exemplified by the industry in Georgia and was moderated by Dr. Dominic Mack, co-director of the National Center for Primary Care at MSM, and as the executive medical director and principal investigator of the Georgia Health Information Technology Extension Center (GA-HITEC).

During the discussion Sharecare’s Harris announced that the company is acquiring New Jersey-based Quality Health and that it will be relocating its corporate headquarters to a building near Buckhead Atlanta, a recently opened mixeduse development. The company also announced that it will be adding 150 new jobs to its workforce. Sharecare is a health and wellness startup founded by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of “The Dr. Oz Show. The Sharecare announcement was one of several made by Health IT companies and organizations during the national media tour.

In addition to the panel discussion and Sharecare announcement, Morehouse School of Medicine was also the site of the tour’s showcase of women and minority Health IT innovators including:

• Sharecare • SwiftPay MD • Syntrix Consulting Group • Vitamin C Georgia is recognized as the nation’s health IT capital and is comprised of more than 200 companies, employs more than 30,000 and is home to eight of the nation’s top health IT companies with cumulative revenues close to $5 billion annually -- the highest cumulative revenues of any state in the U.S.

• Azalea Health • Covello • Docs Near You • Flow MedTech • Georgia Health Information Network • iOximeter • MMJ Labs/Buzzy

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LIVING WELL Five Ways Your Smartphone Can Help Ebola Requires You Get Through the Holidays Hands-on Work,

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(StatePoint) Millions of Americans find themselves focused on planning the perfect party, juggling a packed social schedule and shopping for the best holiday deals.

Nearly seven in 10 smartphone users are “always looking to improve their productivity,” according to the results of a global study on productivity, conducted by BlackBerry.

Don’t make the mistake of underestimating your smartphone -- it can and should be more than just a way to text or email. It can be your secret weapon to sanity this holiday season.

To help, the experts at BlackBerry are sharing five savvy tips for using your smartphone to drive productivity during this busy season.

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Dr. Frank E. Glover One of the world’s leading experts on the global Ebola crisis will be in Gainesville on Monday, Dec. 1, to speak at the Gainesville Rotary Club and for an appearance on 89.1 WBCX-FM that will broadcast Dec. 2, 5 and 7.

Dr. Frank E. Glover, who has both medical education and training as a physician as well as a doctorate in public and international health, recently testified before Congress and appeared on all major television news programs commenting about the ravages of the disease.

Glover will also appear with other experts in a more detailed discussion of the Ebola crisis and other public health issues on Brenau University’s radio station, 89.1 WBCX-FM. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine-educated Glover, who is a urologist with a thriving Southwest Georgia practice, has spent much time in Liberia working with other doctors and medical teams.

“Since many of our members are health care professionals, and since health care is one of the growth industries in Northeast Georgia, Dr. Glover’s perspective and comments are valuable as the world evaluates global hospital readiness and other issues regarding the outbreak,” said Lee Hemmer, the president of Gainesville Rotary. “Unlike many of the talking heads and pundits we encounter on radio and television these days, here is a man who walks the walk, and we’re honored to have him in our city.”

In August Dr. Glover testified in Washington before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Although he stated that Ebola was not yet a “significant danger” to the United States, that could change quickly unless the nation prepares better for future outbreaks of Ebola and other diseases. That means making preparations in U.S. hospitals for patients who may bring the disease into the country with them and responding more aggressively to crises like the one that exploded in West Africa this year.

“Many patients are dying with Ebola in their communities, in part, because there are simply no open health facilities. This creates problems, because whole families are getting infected and dying. Given the episodic nature of Ebola, we must begin investing in healthcare systems, strengthening as we prepare to deal with future outbreaks.”

Glover comes to Gainesville at the invitation of longtime friend, Dr. Al Panu, senior vice president for university affairs at the University of North Georgia.

The Rotary program, which starts at noon at First Baptist Church in Gainesville, is open to the public. If you’re not sponsored as a guest of the member of the club, however, there is a $15 charge for lunch and the program

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Ensure you’re getting the best deals on holiday shopping.

Activate the geolocation feature on your smartphone. Many brick-and-mortar retailers will be pushing special holiday discounts and offers to consumers shopping nearby or who have “checked in.” Additionally, apps such as Flipp allow you to browse the flyers and weekly ads of your favorite stores, highlight the best deals and clip items straight to your shopping list so you never miss out on a holiday sale.

The holidays can also mean a hectic travel season -- use travel apps to search hotels, find flights deals and track your itineraries.

the past few years. For example, the new BlackBerry Passport has a 13-megapixel camera and is capable of taking the same high-quality photos as a traditional point and shoot camera. With just the click of a button, and the help of photo editing tools like Photo Studio, you can take beautiful photos of the holiday party and share instantly with family and friends across social networks.

Protect Yourself Thieves are working overtime during the holidays.

When it comes to your smartphone, make sure all security features are enabled. This includes password protection, as well as activating app permissions, particularly on your banking apps.

For BlackBerry users, apps such as BlackBerry Protect will safeguard users in the case of a lost or stolen phone by allowing users to remotely lock, locate or wipe their smartphone, ensuring sensitive information remains out of reach from potential thieves.

With the right tech tools and strategies, you can get your to-dos done in record time this holiday season.

Set Reminders Creating reminders is a seamless way to stay on top of day-to-day tasks that seem to double during the holidays.

With apps such as SlickTasks you can boost productivity instantly and focus on what needs to get done by creating and sorting tasks. You can then build-in reminders for each and easily keep track of what needs to get done.

Bring Along Your Personal Assistant Most smartphones are equipped with voice recognition technology, allowing you to jot down notes, search the Web, add calendar updates, place calls and send messages, without typing. These “assistants” can prove highly useful during the holiday season.

Driving from store to store looking for the perfect gift?

BlackBerry Assistant can be activated via Bluetooth and can detect when you’re in the car and therefore unable to type. The assistant will take action based on your voice commands, helping you multi-task on-the-go.

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LIVING WELL Choosing the Right Toys This Holiday Can Help Kids Meet Developmental Milestones

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(StatePoint) This holiday season, keep in mind the notion that what your children play with can have a large impact on their interests and brain development. So when it comes to a walk down the toy aisle, parents are becoming more discerning, leading smart toymakers to design toys with a learning component that’s equally as important as the fun.

VTech, a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children, works with a team of child development experts to assess toys and provide feedback before reaching store shelves.

The members of VTech’s Expert Panel are offering some helpful holiday shopping hints to parents looking to foster their child’s love of learning: • Add it up: “Mathematical foundations provide the building blocks for future mathematical success, both in school and beyond,” says Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell, mathematics educator.

“Toys that emphasize numbers, counting and beginning concepts with whole number operations will develop, support and encourage these crucial concepts and skills.”

The Count & Chomp Dino, for example, introduces children to numbers, colors, shapes and foods.

• Age-appropriate: “Children’s brains are developing at a remarkable speed,” says Dr. Lise Eliot, an early childhood development expert. “Their toys should keep up with that growth.”

Keep kids challenged with educational toys that are age-appropriate, so they are never bored or frustrated. Consider child-sized, kid-friendly tablets, such as the InnoTab MAX, that are packed with educational, stage-based learning content.

• Full STEAM ahead: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (collectively known as STEM) have gained more visibility in schools, along with the addition of arts to form STEAM. However, says Dr. Carla C. Johnson, science and STEM expert, “It is still crucial to cultivate skills in these subjects and implement them in everyday learning. Educational toys can help kids develop self-confidence in the use and application of these important disciplines.”

• Build vocabulary: “Children absorb new information like sponges. Take advantage of their blossoming interests with interactive toys that highlight letters of the alphabet, the sounds letters make and vocabulary,” says Dr. Deborah Sharp Libby, early childhood language and reading expert.

“Above all, don’t forget the importance of reading to and with your children often!”

• Choose wisely: “Don’t get carried away with the bells and whistles. You and your kids will quickly look past those. Instead, look for toys that actively engage your kids through technology, by deeply integrating games and learning,” says Dr. Eric Klopfer, platform learning expert.

Remember, each child grows at his or her own pace, and there are few hard and fast deadlines when it comes to a child’s milestones. For a detailed guideline, sorted by age group and area of development, along with other free parenting resources, visit www.vtechkids.com/milestones.

With toys as tools for learning, you can help children as they reach their educational and developmental milestones.

10 Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating

By Greta Macaire, R.D. The holiday season is a time to celebrate with family and friends. Unfortunately, for many it also becomes a time for over-eating and weight gain. According to the National Institutes of Health, holiday eating can result in an extra pound or two every year. Over a lifetime, holiday weight gain can really add up. The holidays don’t have to mean weight gain. Focus on a healthy balance of food, activity, and fun. By implementing a few simple tips you can stay healthy through the holiday season.

1. Be realistic. Don’t try to lose pounds during the holidays, instead try to maintain your current weight.

2. Plan time for exercise. Exercise helps relieve holiday stress and prevent weight gain.

A moderate and daily increase in exercise can help partially offset increased holiday eating.

Try 10- or 15-minute brisk walks twice a day.

3. Don’t skip meals. Before leaving for a party, eat a light snack like raw vegetables or a piece of fruit to curb your appetite. You will be less tempted to over-indulge.

4. Survey party buffets before filling your plate. Choose your favorite foods and skip your least favorite. Include vegetables and fruits to keep your plate balanced.

5. Eat until you are satisfied, not stuffed. Savor your favorite holiday treats while eating small portions. Sit down, get comfortable, and enjoy.

6. Be careful with beverages. Alcohol can lessen inhibitions and induce overeating; non-alcoholic beverages can be full of calo-

ries and sugar.

7. If you overeat at one meal go light on the next. It takes 500 calories per day (or 3,500 calories per week) above your normal/maintenance consumption to gain one pound. It is impossible to gain weight from one piece of pie!

8. Take the focus off food. Turn candy and cookie making time into non-edible projects like making wreaths, dough art decorations or a gingerbread house. Plan group activities with family and friends that aren’t all about food. Try serving a holiday meal to the com-

munity, playing games or going on a walking tour of decorated homes.

9. Bring your own healthy dish to a holiday gathering.

10. Practice Healthy Holiday Cooking. Preparing favorite dishes lower in fat and calories will help promote healthy holiday eating.

Incorporate some of these simple-cooking tips in traditional holiday recipes to make them healthier.

• Gravy — Refrigerate the gravy to harden fat. Skim the fat off. This will save a whop-

ping 56 gm of fat per cup.

• Dressing — Use a little less bread and add more onions, garlic, celery, and vegetables.

Add fruits such as cranberries or apples.

Moisten or flavor with low fat low sodium chicken or vegetable broth and applesauce.

• Turkey – Enjoy delicious, roasted turkey breast without the skin and save 11 grams of saturated fat per 3 oz serving.

• Green Bean Casserole — Cook fresh green beans with chucks of potatoes instead of cream soup. Top with almonds instead of fried onion rings.

• Mashed Potato — Use skim milk, chicken broth, garlic or garlic powder, and Parmesan cheese instead of whole milk and butter.

• Quick Holiday Nog — Four bananas, 1-1/2 cups skim milk or soymilk, 1-1/2 cups plain nonfat yogurt, 1/4 teaspoon rum extract, and ground nutmeg. Blend all ingredients except nutmeg. Puree until smooth. Top with nutmeg.

• Desserts — Make a crustless pumpkin pie.

Substitute two egg whites for each whole egg in baked recipes. Replace heavy cream with evaporated skim milk in cheesecakes and cream pies. Top cakes with fresh fruit, fruit sauce, or a sprinkle of powdered sugar instead of fattening frosting.

Enjoy the holidays, plan a time for activity, incorporate healthy recipes into your holiday meals, and don’t restrict yourself from enjoying your favorite holiday foods. In the long run, your mind and body will thank you.

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COMMUNITY Mayor Kasim Reed to Host 31st City Councilmember Keisha Annual UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball Lance Bottoms Celebrates Adoption Month

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Nov. 27 - Dec. 3, 2014

From left to right: Derek Bottoms, “Postcards from Cookie” author Caroline Clark and Atlanta City Councilmember Keisha Lance Bottoms

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, joined by United Negro College Fund President & CEO Dr. Michael L. Lomax will host the 31st annual Mayor’s Masked Ball, one of metropolitan Atlanta’s signature fund raising galas and premier social events of the holiday season. The event was established 31 years ago by former Mayor Andrew Young and Billye Aaron, and is hosted annually by the sitting mayor.

The Mayor’s Masked Ball is largely supported by local corporate and civic entities.

A much anticipated holiday event that raises unrestricted dollars to shore up UNCF’s

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support for local students, the Ball attracts a diverse mix of attendees from across the metropolitan area, including local celebrities, dignitaries, civic and elected officials.

The 2014 Mayor’s Masked Ball Chairs are Erica Qualls-Battey, general manager, Marriott Marquis; Thomas W.Dortch, Jr., president TWD Inc., and Ed Baker, publisher, Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Tickets may be purchased on line at www. uncf.org or call 404 302-8623.

Atlanta City Councilmember Keisha Lance Bottoms was joined by nearly 200 city employees and residents in observance of National Adoption Month during an adoption/foster care lunch and learn on Thursday, Nov. 20 at Atlanta City Hall.

Thursday’s guest speaker was Caroline Clarke, author of the book “Postcards from Cookie.” Clarke shared her journey of being placed for adoption and later finding out she is the biological granddaughter of Nat King Cole and the niece of Natalie Cole.

“I am overjoyed by the turnout for Thursday’s event,” said Councilmember Bottoms, the mother of four adopted children and a longtime advocate for adoption and foster care. “It truly has been an honor to share the joy of helping families create permanent homes for children. There was a cross section of people here, including many with their personal stories of their own adoptions and those looking to become foster and adoptive parents. Many others were here who have read Caroline Clarke’s phenomenal book, and wanted to show their support for her in the city.”

“I sincerely hope that each person in attendance will go out and share the information that they received, and encourage others to consider foster care and adoption,” Bottom said. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Atlanta Department of Human Resources and Families First, one of the leading non-profit family service agency in Georgia.

“It was a great event and turnout. I am grateful to the city and Families First for inviting me,” Clarke said. “Adoption is an important subject and it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. It is also wonderful to see that in the City of Atlanta, there is so much support for the institution of adoption”.

Clarke was born in 1964, an era when adoptions were shameful, secret and sealed.

As an adult, she developed a small list of health concerns and worried about their potential impact on her young family. As a re-

sult, she sought out her medical history. Limited information provided by the agency that had handled her adoption, led her to quickly realize that the family that had given her up, was that of the iconic legend and pianist Nat King Cole.

She also met her biological mother Carole “Cookie” Cole during her quest. The two reunited in 2002.

Before pinning her story “Postcards from Cookie,” Clarke held several key positions, including executive editor and editorial director, at Black Enterprise, a multi-media company. She also hosted the syndicated television show “Black Enterprise Business Report” and launched Black Enterprise Books, a series of ten business and investing books co-published with John Wiley & Sons. Prior to joining Black Enterprise, Clarke was a staff writer at The American Lawyer and several other newspapers.

Clarke currently lives in New York and is a passionate advocate for adoption.

For more information on adoption and foster care, contact Families First at (404) 853-2800.

Atlanta City Councilmember Keisha Lance Bottoms and husband Derek Bottoms are joined by their four adopted children

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Nov. 27 - Dec. 3, 2014

Spelman College Supports Benefactor Bill Cosby

By Terry Shropshire One entertainment publication went on record and said Spelman College still supports comedic legend Bill Cosby, while another more respected news outlet stated that the Atlanta-based all-female school is unsure if the support and partnership with Cosby will continue.

Entertainment blog, TMZ, said the historically black college in Atlanta that the Cosby’s have supported over the years with art, patronage and cash — is still standing behind the creator of “The Cosby Show.”

An official from Spelman College, which received a $20 million gift from Cosby and his wife Camille, told sources that they have not had a single conversation to

change anything regarding Cosby’s relationship with the college. The all-women HBCU is standing firmly with the comedian and benefactor in the wake of the torrent of sexual assault allegations.

Spelman dedicated a 69,000 square foot facility to the Cosbys, the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center.

The school, which also established the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship Program, notes the Cosby gift was made more than 25 years ago and the relationship is cemented.

Cosby famously gave the commencement address at Spelman in 2006.

Stevie Wonder’s Captivates Crowd at Philips Arena

NFL Hall-of-Famer Claude Humphrey Honored by Atlanta City Council

By Joyce Jones, ADW Contributor

By Joyce Jones Motown musical maven Stevie Wonder has not toured for some time now. And some critics would erroneously say his musical creativity has been on the decline since his incredible run of classic albums and consecutive Grammy wins in the 1970s. But with an entire world of fans who love him and see him as an iconic musical messenger sent to earth to spread love and hope, it comes as no surprise that the 25 time Grammy-Award winner is still selling out shows at the country’s largest venues on his 11-city tour. The Songs in the Key of Life Tour is proving to be one of the prodigious visionary’s latest marvels — along with creating 49 Top-40 singles and 32 No. 1 singles.

Audience members at Philips arena in Atlanta went crazy when Wonder walked on stage with fellow artist, Grammy-nominated singer Indie Arie. During the performance, Wonder toyed with his adoring fans early on, taunting them with “Musicians just wanna jam..,” and then belting out crowd favorites from the double-album that kept us wondering (pun intended) what hit he would sing next.

A special appearance by master guitarist Earl Klugh contributed to the already un-

forgettable performance. Klugh, an Atlanta resident for more than a decade, teaches master classes at Georgia Tech and conducts workshops at K-12 partner schools. Famed filmmaker Spike Lee found that he couldn’t contain himself any longer and joined Stevie on-stage, delighting audience members with wild dance moves.

The evening took an emotional turn when Wonder sobbed as he sang “Joy Inside My Pain,” and poignantly commented on the blessings of being blind. “It is a blessing because I don’t see skin color and other trivial things that get in our way,” he exclaimed.

Wonder engaged frequently with the audience, and took the opportunity to make a statement about social issues in America.

“Do you feel that we have a gun problem in America? … Haven’t you had enough of the violence,” he probed.

“Yes,” shouted the crowd, relishing the moment to stand together in harmony with the iconic voice so to be heard in the post Sandy Hook, but current Ferguson, Mo. climate. We eagerly stood with Woner who delivered a less than gentle, but always melodic reminder, that of all his messages — the most important would always be, love.

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Pro Football Hall-of-Famer and former Atlanta Falcon great Claude B. Humphrey was honored by Atlanta City Council recently before his family and former teammates. It has been a long time coming.

Humphrey has mastered the art of being patient over the years. On Aug. 2, more than 30 years after retiring from football, and following four denied entries as a hall of Fame finalist or senior candidate, the former Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles defensive end was officially inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Elected in his 28th year of eligibility, Humphrey was a devastating pass rusher when he played for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. He led his team in sacks nine times during a 13-year career, and that was before sacks became an official NFL statistic. In over 171 career games, Humphrey was credited with 122 career sacks, including 94.5 with the Falcons, a franchise record. After Humphrey’s HOF election, former Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil quoted, “Deacon Jones named the sack and Claude Humphrey outlawed it. He was that kind of player.”

The Atlanta Falcons selected Humphrey out of Tennessee State with the third overall pick in the 1968 AFL/NFL Draft. The 6-4, 252-pound Humphrey was an impact player who immediately justified his first-round status, earning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.

Despite playing 10 seasons for a Falcons team that struggled to win, Humphrey was an eight-time All-NFL or All-Pro selection.

His play also was instrumental in leading the Eagles to their first Super Bowl. In Jan. 1981, Gainesville resident Chuck Clausen was coaching in the Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator remembers signing Claude Humphrey in 1979 when the Falcons traded him to the Eagles for two fourth-round draft picks. In Philadelphia, Humphrey continued to dominate the field, and in 1980 recorded a team-high 14.5 sacks.

Humphries was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio in the summer of 2014.

“I was the coach,” said Clausen, “but Claude taught me.” Known for his ability to stop a quarterback, Humphrey’s crushing plays helped lead the Eagles to a Super Bowl appearance as the NFC champions. “It’s an honor for Betsy and I to join this most deserved celebration.”

Several Falcon retirees attending the ceremony, including former Atlanta Falcon offensive lineman Dave Scott, who played 101 games during his 7-year career with the Atlanta Falcons (1976-1982). Scott, married to wife Clarice since 1976 and currently a resident of Atlanta with their three children, recounted some of his encounters with Humphrey.

“I was hit by Claude in 1976, my rookie season. I don’t know what he hit me with … all I remember is going down. You have to remember that they had chop blocking at the time (a common strategy in football effective in getting a defensive player on the ground, opening a hole for the offensive to run a successful play, chop blocking was deemed illegal),” Scott recalls. “He was a fierce contender and I learned a lot from him.”

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A Legacy of Liberalism

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were “phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking.” One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as “a legacy of slavery.”

New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof asserts that there is “overwhelming evidence that centuries of racial subjugation still shape inequity in the 21st century” and he mentions “the lingering effects of slavery.” But before we become overwhelmed, that evidence should be checked out.

The evidence offered by Mr. Kristof in the November 16th issue of the New York Times seems considerably short of overwhelming, to put it charitably. He cites a study showing that “counties in America that had a higher proportion of slaves in 1860 are still more unequal today.” Has he never heard statisticians’ repeated warnings that correlation is not causation?

The South long remained a region that blacks fled by the millions -- for very good reasons. But, in more recent years, the net migration of blacks has been from the North to the South. No doubt they have good reasons for that as well.

But there is no reason to believe that blacks today are unaware of the history of slavery or of the Jim Crow era in the South. Indeed, there are black “leaders” who seem to talk about nothing else. Yet blacks who are moving back to the South seem more concerned with the present and the future than with the past.

Kristof ’s other “overwhelming” evidence of the current effects of past slavery is that blacks do not have as much income as whites. But Puerto Ricans do not have as much income as Japanese Americans. Mexican Americans do not have as much income as Cuban Americans. All sorts of people do not have as much income as all sorts of other people, not only in the United States, but in countries around the world. And most of these people were never enslaved.

If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state.

In other words, we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.

Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and “war on poverty” programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began.

Over the next 20 years, the poverty rate among blacks fell another 18 percentage points, compared to the 40-point drop in the previous 20 years. This was the continuation of a previous economic trend, at a slower rate of progress, not the economic grand deliverance proclaimed by liberals and self-serving black “leaders.”

Ending the Jim Crow laws was a landmark achievement. But, despite the great proliferation of black political and other “leaders” that resulted from the laws and policies of the 1960s, nothing comparable happened economically. And there were serious retrogressions socially.

Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent.

The murder rate among blacks in 1960 was one-half of what it became 20 years later, after a legacy of liberals’ law enforcement policies.

Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning.

That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions.

And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a “legacy of slavery” there.

If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about. Liberals should heed the title of Jason Riley’s insightful new book, “Please Stop Helping Us.”

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Blacks Still Devastated by HIV/AIDS As we prepare to commemorate World AIDS Day on Monday, Dec. 1, this is a good time to look at how the epidemic continues to devastate our community.

A fact sheet by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation noted, “Black Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV/ AIDS since the epidemic’s beginning, and that disparity has deepened over time. Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S.” Fact sheets by CDC and Kaiser also show: •Today, there are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S., including more than 506,000 who are Black.

•Although Black Americans represent only 12 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for 44 percent of new HIV infections and an estimated 44 percent of people living with HIV in 2010.

• The rate of new HIV infections per 100,000 among Black adults/adolescents (68.9) was nearly eight times that of Whites (8.7) and more than twice that of Latinos (27.5) in 2010.

• The rate for Black men (103.6) was the highest of any group, more than twice that of Latino men (45.5), the second highest group.

Black women (38.1) had the third highest rate overall, and the highest among women.

• In 2010, African American gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men represented an estimated 72 percent (10,600) of new infections among all African American men and 36 percent of an estimated 29,800 new HIV infections among all gay and bisexual men. More new HIV infections (4,800) occurred among young African American gay and bisexual men (aged 13-24) than any other subgroup of gay and bisexual men.

•In 2010, African American women accounted for 6,100 (29 percent) of the estimated new HIV infections among all adult and adolescent African Americans. This number represents a decrease of 21 percent since 2008.

Most new HIV infections among African American women (87 percent; 5,300) are attributed to heterosexual contact. The estimated rate of new HIV infections for African American women (38.1/100,000 population) was 20 times that of White women and almost five times that of Hispanic/Latino women.

Not surprisingly, most of the Black HIV/AIDs cases are in the South, where the majority of African Americans live.

The Kaiser fact sheet observed, “Regionally, the South accounts for the majority of Blacks newly diagnosed with HIV (61% in 2011) and Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis at the end of 2010 (55%).

“HIV diagnoses among Blacks are clustered in a handful of states, with 10 states accounting for the majority (68%) of Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis at the end of 2010.

New York and Florida top the list. While the District of Columbia had fewer Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis in 2010 (10,995), it had the highest rate of Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis at the end of 2010 (4,260.3 per 100,000); a rate more than 3 times the national rate for Blacks (1,242.4).

“Ten large metropolitan areas accounted for over half (59%) of Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis at the end of 2009. The New York and Miami metropolitan areas had the greatest numbers of Blacks living with an HIV diagnosis.”

Like most females, Black women are more likely to have been infected through heterosexual transmission than their White counterparts, who are more likely to have been infected through drug use than Black women.

Though males are more likely to have been infected through sex with other men, heterosexual transmission and injection of drugs account for a greater share of new infections among Black men than White men.

Although 75 percent of Blacks in the 18-64 age group report having been tested for HIV the – the highest of any group – within the last 12 months, 17 percent of Blacks living with HIV do not know they are infected. That’s crucial because the sooner an HIV-positive person enters treatment, the better chance he or she has of living a long, relatively normal life.

Overall, HIV is not at the high levels it was in the 1980s, but we are a long way from eradicating this scourge.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) 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 and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.

• Of HIV diagnoses among 13 to 19 year olds, almost 70 percent are to Black teens, even though they constitute approximately 16 percent of the adolescent population in the U.S.

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• HIV was the fifth leading cause of death for Black men and the seventh for Black women, ages 25-44, in 2010, which is higher than any other racial or ethnic group.

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