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Affirmative Action Struck Down by Nation’s Top Court

Southern Mourns The Passing Of Legendary Band Director Isaac Greggs

Protesters outside Supreme Court.

By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Affirmative action lost a major battle this week. In a 6-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a majority of voters in Michigan to end affirmative action in the state.

The Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action case has given opponents of affirmative action a powerful weapon. This case says majority rules in a land of minorities.

Opponents of affirmative action argued Michigan voters had a right to end it by statewide ballot.

Louisiana Unemployment Insurance Claims Report BATON ROUGE – Initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending April 19, 2014, decreased to 1,951 from the previous week’s total of 2,461. Initial claims were below the comparable week ending April 20, 2013, figure of 2,619.

The four-week moving average of initial claims decreased to 2,125 from the previous week’s average of 2,170. Continued unemployment insurance weeks claimed for the week ending April 19, 2014, decreased to 18,996 from the previous week’s total of 19,131. Continued weeks claimed were below the comparable week ending April 20, 2013, figure of 22,934.

The four-week moving average of continued weeks claimed decreased to 19,264 from the previous week’s average of 19,425.

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The court agreed. Proposal 2 bans the use of any preferences based on race, sex, color, ethnicity and national origin in any employment, contracting and education decisions involving state and local government.

Back in 2006, Proposal 2 was placed on the voting ballot in Michigan. Prop 2 asked voters to decide if race and sex preferences should be prohibited in governmental decisions. Then, 57 percent of voters agreed to end any race and sex preference. They voted by statewide referendum to amend See TOP COURT, on page 2

Dr. Isaac Greggs, pictured center, the legendary former director of bands on the Baton Rouge campus. Greggs, dead at age 85.

Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Sonia Sotomayor

John F. Smith And K.T. Valsaraj Join Foundation For EBRSS Board BATON ROUGE, LA — The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System announced today that John F. Smith and Kalliat T. Valsaraj have joined its Board of Directors. Smith is a consultant with The Godfrey Center for Creative Strategies. Valsaraj is vice chancellor of research and economic development at LSU. =“The Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System is thrilled that K.T. and John agreed to serve with us as we champion innovation in our public schools.

Both men are strong advocates for K-12 public education. K.T. is well versed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields and understands the educational opportunities for collaboration with higher education and John brings a deep understanding of the challenges facing student and parents,” said Kathryn Kissam, Board President.

Smith, a native of Monroe, Louisiana, obtained a B.S. degree in Pre-Med, Zoology with a minor in Chemistry from Southern University and worked many years as a Special Laboratory Technician for ExxonMobil. In addition to

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BATON ROUGE, LA Southern University mourns the death of Dr. Isaac Greggs, the legendary former director of bands on the Baton Rouge campus. Greggs, 85, died in Baton Rouge.

“Dr. Isaac Greggs was a visionary, who created a marching band - the Human Jukebox - that constantly set the standard of greatness for all college marching bands,” said SU’s Baton Rouge Chancellor James L. Llorens.

“He poured his heart and soul into every performance. With Dr. Greggs, perfection was the only outcome he accepted.”

“The true testament of his leadership is reflected not only in the number of his students who have become band direc-

Dr. Isaac Greggs tors and musicians of note around the country, but the multitude See GREGGS, on page 2

Senate Bill that Would Create Smaller School Zones Passes

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his research responsibilities he was active in community relations and involvement programs. Most recently he was the Director of Community Affairs for Hollywood Casino. Smith is a graduate of Leadership Baton Rouge and serves on numerous community and civic boards and committees, including St. James Place Foundation, Spiritas Senior Services, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Dream Teachers, Greater Baton Rouge Literacy Coalition, Board

Chair for HOPE Ministries, the Greater Baton Rouge Youth and Planning Board, First United Methodist Church Council and 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, Inc. In addition to his current administrative role at the Office of Research and Economic Development, Valsaraj holds several prestigious professorship titles, including the Charles and Hilda See BOARD, on page 2

BATON ROUGE, LA -A bill that would change the way large school systems in the state govern schools passed through the Senate floor by a vote of 23 to 12 Wednesday. The bill authored

by Senator Bodi White would create smaller attendance zones in large school systems like East Baton Rouge Parish. The zones would be governed by school principals who would control allocated funds and all decision making by working together with community school councils.

“They’ll have input into the curriculum, what they would like to see at their schools and what kind of programs,” White says.

“They still have to follow state law don’t get me wrong, but they’ll have more input and hopefully we can re-engage the communities in East Baton Rouge Parish to bring more young kids

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back into public schools.”

The bill is supported by power groups like the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the East Baton Rouge District Attorney, but others like the Louisiana Federation of Teachers say the measure ignores the input of educators and doesn’t address the real problem.

“We have community problems right now. It’s linked to poverty. It’s linked to many other things and it’s a band-aid approach to let’s see if we can carve it up to a small place, localize decision making and then everything else that’s affecting the process right now goes away,” said LFT President Steve Monaghan.

The measure is now off to the House of Representatives where it will be heard in the Education Committee.

RELIGION

As a leader in the body of Christ, I don’t take lightly the office I hold, one in which the Lord has enlisted me into His army, to witness of Him, to lead as many souls to Christ..

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DEDICATION OF NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Festivities included a puppet show, The New Orleans Saints don’t intend to pick up the fifth-year option on running back Mark Ingram, according to CBS Sports....See Page 8

tours of the facilities, clowns making balloon swords, and a ribboncutting ceremony to help officially dedicate the new Main Library at Goodwood...See Page 3

EXXON COMPLETES OVERHAUL

Exxon Mobil Corp said on Friday that a two-month overhaul of units at its 502,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and refinery has been completed..See Page 5

LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL For the majority of seniors, normal

retirement age is about 65 years old. Try telling that to Thomas Griffin, Jr., and he’ll probably chuckle to himself, fully aware that he has surpassed that mark by over a decade. ...See Page 7

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U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to Deliver LSU’s Commencement Address an aggressive goal that the Navy and Marine Corps obtain at least 50 percent of their energy from alternative sources by no later than 2020. In pursuit of that goal, the department has achieved several milestones. In 2012, President Obama announced in his State of the Union address that the Department would purchase or facilitate the production of 1GW of renewable energy for use on Navy and Marine Corps installations. The Navy also demonstrated the Great Green Fleet in 2012, a carrier strike group in which every participating U.S. Navy ship and type of aircraft operated on alternative energy sources including nuclear energy and biofuels.

Mabus has made increasing the size of the Naval fleet and protecting the industrial base a top budget priority of the department. During his tenure, the Navy went from building fewer than five ships a year to having more than 40 ships under contract, most of them in fixed-price, multi-year deals that assure value for taxpayers, certainty for industry partners and strength for our nation.

In June 2010, as an additional duty, Obama appointed Mabus to prepare the long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mabus’ report was released in September 2010 and met with broad bi-partisan support with most recommendations passed into law by Congress as the Restore Act. Included in the legislation was a fund to aid in the Gulf Coast’s recovery by distributing 80 percent of any civil penalties awarded as a result of the damage caused by the disaster. To date, civil penalties total more than $1 billion.

Before his appointment, Mabus held a variety of leadership positions. From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served as governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mabus was ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994-1996 and later was chairman and CEO of a manufacturing company.

Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Miss., and received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi; a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University; and a law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. After Johns Hopkins, Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.

For more information on LSU’s commencement exercises, visit www.lsu.edu/commencement or call Ernie Ballard with LSU Media Relations at 225-578-5685 or by e-mail at eballa1@lsu.edu.

Left to right - John Carnahan and Georgia Brown, both former East Baton Rouge Parish Library Board of Control presidents; BREC Superintendent Carolyn McKnight, Logan Leger of the Library Board, State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton, city-parish Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden, Library Board President Tanya Freeman, Library Director Spencer Watts, Pastor Raymond Jetson of Star Hill Church, Kizzy Payton and Stan Bardwell of the Library Board and Library Board Vice President Jason Jacob – as well as other public officials and library stakeholders (not pictured).

Festivities included a puppet show, tours of the facilities, clowns making balloon swords, demonstrations of the Library’s 3D printer, musical bowls and a ribbon-cutting ceremony to help officially dedicate the new Main Library at Goodwood last Saturday, April 12. More than 800 people turned out for the dedication, ribbon cutting, reception and tours of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System’s three-story facility that afternoon at 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

After the ceremony, children enjoyed kids’ entertainers like Harvey Rabbit & Friends in the Children’s Room (second photo). Other attendees toured the 126,000-square-foot new Main Library at Goodwood, which doubled the space (adding ample space for casual seating, collaboration and activities for the public) of the location’s former 65,000-squarefoot library.

The flagship of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System, the new Main Library at Goodwood enjoyed a soft opening in January. The Library is to be completed fully this summer and houses more than 500,000 items, ranging from books and movies to circulating artwork, electronic resources and more.

The new site also contains 140 personal computers, a large meeting room with a 300-person capacity and the latest in technology, a quiet reading room, rooms for meetings and Storytime, study rooms, free WiFi throughout the building, many electronic plug-

ins and power outlets throughout the site, a Technology Lab, a Teen Room, a Children’s Room and much more. Coming soon will be a Career Center, Baton Rouge Room/Archives and Genealogy Collection. In addition, it includes patios and water features, a light and airy design, a landscaped garden patio terrace on the third floor, a large outdoor courtyard shared with BREC (with a large chessboard and giant LED screen and performance stage), a recycled paper waterfall artwork, donated stained glass windows donated and much more. The $41.2-million project came in more than $1 million under budget. The Library’s sustainable and efficient design is expected to earn Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (http://www.usgbc.org/articles/ about-leed).

The public is invited to visit the new Main Library at Goodwood, especially with National Public Library Week occurring this week. It is open seven days a week (except for holidays) – 2-10 p.m.

Sunday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday and 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

For more information, visit www.ebrpl.com or call (225) 231-3712. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. It includes 13 branches (with a South Baton Rouge branch coming soon), two Bookmobiles, more than 1.9 million items in the Library System’s Collection and more than 325,000 cardholders. In 2013, there were 2.2 million visits to the library, 885,764 queries to the Reference Desk, 2.198 million-plus computer searches, more than 2.434 million items checked out and website hits tallying 1.85 million plus.

Opponents described the proposal as a union-busting tactic that could stifle political freedom and make it more difficult to organize.

“This bill does not prevent anyone from joining a union,” Seabaugh said.

Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, said public agencies don’t hire additional workers to collect the union dues, and she said they decide whether to allow the payroll deduction or not.

Seabaugh’s bill would have continued to let police officers and firefighters pay their union dues through their paychecks.

The vote fell along party lines. Republicans supported the measure and Democrats opposed it, along with a lawmaker with no party affiliation. Seabaugh could try again to bring up the proposal.

Law enforcement officers, both active and retired, soon may be able to carry concealed handguns in nearly any place open to the public, as a bill to allow that is nearing final legislative passage.

The proposal (Senate Bill 361) by Sen. Neil Riser, RColumbia, already has passed the Senate. It advances to the House floor for consideration, with backing Wednesday of the House Judiciary Committee without objection.

Under the measure, the current and retired officers would be required to carry photo identification, be sober and not be federally banned from having a firearm to meet the terms.

Active law enforcement would have to be full-time and get permission from the officer’s agency to carry concealed firearms. Retired law officers would have to be in good standing with the agency they retired from, be mentally sound and go through annual training.

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by Regional Labor Market Area and by Parish, UI Weekly Claims Data by Industry for Louisiana, UI Definitions and UI Monthly Claimant Characteristics by Parish. To access these products begin on Louisiana’s employment homepage and select Labor Market Information. Scroll down the LMI page to the LMI Products section and select Unemployment Insurance Claims.

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BATON ROUGE – Ray Mabus, the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy and leader of America’s Navy and Marine Corps, will deliver the keynote address during LSU’s spring commencement exercises on Thursday, May 15, at 7 p.m. The ceremony will take place in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Individual diploma ceremonies for each college will be held at various times and locations on campus on Friday, May 16.

Please visit http://www.lsu.edu/ commencement/ for more information on the times and locations of the diploma ceremonies.

“We are excited to welcome Secretary Mabus to campus to speak at our spring commencement,” said LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander.

“He brings a wealth of leadership knowledge and experience that will be beneficial for our graduating class to hear, and we look forward to his talk and the advice he gives to our students.”

As Secretary of the Navy, Mabus is responsible for conducting the affairs of the Department of the Navy, including recruiting, organizing, equipping, training and mobilizing.

Additionally, he oversees the construction and repair of naval ships, aircraft and facilities, and formulates and implements policies and programs consistent with the national security policies established by the president and the secretary of defense. Mabus is responsible for an annual budget in excess of $170 billion and leadership of almost 900,000 people.

Upon assumption of office and throughout his tenure, Mabus has prioritized improving the quality of life of sailors, marines and their families, decreasing the department’s dependence on fossil fuels, strengthening partnerships and revitalizing the Navy’s shipbuilding program.

Leading the world’s only global Navy, Mabus has traveled more than 800,000 miles to more than 95 countries to maintain and develop relationships with national and international officials and visit with sailors and marines forward deployed or stationed around the world. He has traveled to Afghanistan on 12 separate occasions, in recognition of the sacrifice and service of sailors and marines deployed in combat zones.

To prepare service members and their families for the high tempo operations of today’s Navy and Marine Corps, Mabus announced in 2012 the “21st Century Sailor and Marine” initiative, designed to build and maintain the most resilient and ready force possible.

Mabus also directed the Navy and Marine Corps to change the way they use, produce and acquire energy, and set

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Upstage Theatre Addresses Neighborhood Violence In Zooman And The Sign Baton Rouge, La - UpStage Theatre Company is proud to present Zooman and the Sign, a powerful two-act drama that depicts the aftermath of violence on a family and community. The play is written

by Pulitzer-Prize Winner Charles Fuller, and directed by Dr. Ava Brewster-Turner.

Zooman, a petty criminal, is in the midst of a shoot-out with a rival gang member when he accidentally kills a twelve-year girl.

Rueben Tate, the girl’s father, is distraught over her death, but becomes even more upset when no one in the neighborhood will step forward to identify the murderer, even though there are many witnesses to the crime. Rueben enlists

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the aid of the media and posts a sign on his front porch hoping to embarrass someone into naming the killer. The production features a cast of outstanding local talent including: Eric Prestley, Will Merrill, Keyaira Augustus, Kyesolyn Byrd, Alexander Scott, Crystal Jefferson, James Harrison, Trelvin Byrd, Byron Wade, and David Byrd.

A post-performance ‘TalkBack” will be held following each production featuring a panel consisting of experts in the fields of: mental health, law enforcement, community service, education, and members of families affected by gun violence.

The production will be held May 9th and 10th at 7pm each night at the Louisiana State Police Train-

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HAPPY TEACHER’S APPRECIATION WEEK (A poem for all teachers - active and retired... just for you) Bless me, heavenly Father, forgive my erring ways, Grant me strength to serve Thee, put purpose in my days …

Give me understanding, enough to make me kind So I may judge all people with my heart and not my mind …

And teach me to be patient in everything I do, Content to trust Your Wisdom and to follow after You …

And help me when I falter and hear me when I pray And receive me in Thy Kingdom to dwell with Thee some day.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her 58-page dissent, reminded her colleagues on the court of America’s history of discrimination that gave rise to affirmative action. She tried to persuade the court that allowing the majority to decide the fate of minorities, who rely on affirmative

action for education and employment opportunities, would turn back the clock on racial justice.

The number of African-Americans and Latinos entering colleges and law schools has steadily decreased with each affirmative action loss before the high court.

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Any Means Necessary, along with the ACLU and NAACP, brought a lawsuit against Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to halt the start of Prop 2’s ban on affirmative action in university admissions.

The court ruled that it is proper to use statewide elections when local politicians do not listen to the will of the people. However, statewide elections shift power outside of the people in urban areas to rural and suburban voters. Blacks and other racial groups have larger numbers in Michigan cities like Detroit, Lansing, and Flint. Opponents of Prop 2 argue the law removes input from local admissions committees and intentionally eliminates political access by minorities.

The battle over Michigan’s affirmative action programs is decades old. In an earlier Michigan case, the Supreme Court ruled that race could be one factor in college admissions. That Grutter v. Bollinger case involved Michigan’s law school. The court decided affirmative action was legal if it was one of many factors taken into consideration for admission into the University of Michigan Law School.

However, Prop 2 was initiated to ban affirmative action altogether.

This Schuette case follows a June decision by the Supreme Court brought by a white applicant named Abigail Fisher. Fisher claimed she was not admitted to the University of Texas because of affirmative action. The Supreme Court held off ending affirmative action. Instead, the court sent the case back down to the lower court with instructions to find a way to achieve racial diversity without using the word race.

BATON ROUGE, LA More restrictions would be placed on the state education board’s ability to create new charter schools, under a bill backed by the House in a 55-39 vote Wednesday.

The measure (House Bill 703) by Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, would prohibit the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from starting a new charter school in a public school district graded with an A, B or C in the state’s accountability system that already had denied the charter school application.

Edwards’ proposal heads next to the Senate for consideration.

An effort to add modest regulations to state law governing the nearly $7 million in Tulane University scholarships that lawmakers dole out each year received the backing Wednesday of a Senate committee.

Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, rewrote his bill (Senate Bill 1) after the House killed similar legislation last week.

The program, which dates to the 1880s, lets each state lawmaker give one student annually a Tulane scholarship. Critics say the way lawmakers award scholarships favors political allies, fellow politicians and campaign contributors.

Claitor’s scaled-back proposal would spell out that lawmakers couldn’t give scholarships to elected officials, their immediate family members or family members of other statewide officials. Language prohibiting campaign contributors’ family members from receiving the

scholarships was stripped from the bill.

The measure would require information about the scholarship program to be posted on the legislative website and would suggest that lawmakers try to give scholarships to students in their own districts if possible.

“This to me is an easy codification of what we ought to be doing at this point,” Claitor told the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Tulane posts on its website the names of legislative scholarship recipients, where they live and which legislator nominated them. James MacLaren, Tulane undergraduate dean, said the school plans to start disclosing online whether recipients are related to an elected official.

Senators advanced Claitor’s bill without objection. It heads to the full Senate for debate.

A bid to prohibit most public employees from paying union dues through a deduction on their paychecks stalled Wednesday in the House labor committee.

Committee members deadlocked in an 8-8 vote on the bill (House Bill 451) by Rep. Alan Seabaugh, trapping the measure in committee.

Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, said he doesn’t believe public employees should be involved in collecting money for a private entity that could use those dollars for political purposes. He said public workers instead could get the money directly deducted from their bank accounts.

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Board from page 1 Roddey Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Ike East Professor of Chemical Engineering. He also served as chair of the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering in LSU’s College of Engineering for several years. Valsaraj has a background in biology and chemistry, with an M.S. degree in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Vanderbilt University. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and was recognized as a Distinguished Research Master

at LSU. During his time at the university, Valsaraj has played a large role in improving industrial relations in the Cain Department of Chemical Engineering.

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“What he created with our marching band drew thousands of students to Southern University and left fans of the band in cities from Los Angeles to Houston to New York City,” Llorens said.

“The Southern University family has lost a giant and he will be missed.”

Greggs headed Southern’s marching band for 36 years before retiring in 2005. In 2013, Greggs was inducted into the Louisiana Black History Hall of Fame.

SU’s Director of Bands Lawrence Jackson said, “Dr. Greggs was an icon in the marching band world. He was an impeccable leader and he believed in innovation. Many of the things we do today, we do because Dr. Greggs was the architect.”

Jackson played in Southern’s marching band from 1971 to 1975 under Greggs leadership, was an assistant and associate band director at SU before succeeding Greggs in 2006.

“A lot of the success we have enjoyed is because of the system that he put in place,” Jackson said. “He was my mentor and he taught me a lot about being a band director. I know that he will be missed.”

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“Black Code” Plus “Acting White” Equals Self-Created Racial Disparity

By Raj Jayadev I recently received a poem, “The New Jim Crows,” from an unlikely source: North Carolina Public Defender Danny Spiegel.

Spiegel’s poem is an outpouring of the heartache and frustrations of his occupation, of how he is forced to bear witness to the damages of mass incarceration.

Spiegel passionately tells the story of his clients – teen Melissa, who is tracked from foster care into jail; the schizophrenic who ends up locked in a cell rather than in treatment; and the broken families of the failed war on drugs.

The poem reads lonely and angry. But the irony is that Spiegel’s narrative identifies those who can stop mass incarceration: those facing incarceration, their communities and the attorneys who represent them.

Public-defense offices cannot do the job the community wants them to do because they don’t have the resources. The community then loses faith in defender offices because they aren’t doing the hoped-for job. The results?

Our courtrooms have become plea mills, with a national plea rate above 90 percent, leading to mass incarceration.

Shockingly, more than 1 percent of American adults are behind bars.

One in 31 adults are in some phase of penal supervision – prison, parole or probation. These staggering numbers share one thing in common: They all got there through criminal courts. And, there is at least an 80 percent probability that they were represented by a public defender.

Those numbers, if tapped, could be a game changer. Incarceration decreases dramatically when a public defender partners with his or her client’s community. Families of people entangled in the justice system come together to make strategic decisions about their cases and determine how to better utilize or improve representation of their attorney.

The families become extensions of the legal defense team – scouring police reports, discussing defense strategy, creating mitigation material and maintaining a presence in the courtroom. The often-overworked attorney then

has backup to explore options other than the one the system is counting on the attorney and client to take: the quickest path to a plea deal.

An individual facing charges is emboldened with the knowledge that the attorney is less likely to be coerced into that plea deal. Family and community participation changes the balance of power in the courts and, consequently, the outcome of cases.

Participating in cases and being able to “look under the hood” of the courts shows where community power can be flexed into changing policies. For example, in our county, public defenders weren’t staffing the misdemeanor arraignment courts. As such, individuals were going to their first court date without counsel and negotiating pleas with a judge themselves.

As a community, we assumed that was just the way the system worked. It wasn’t until our community organizing work took us to courts in other counties that we realized how injurious our county’s practices were.

The local civil rights community called on the public defender to staff the misdemeanor arraignment court. Armed with the knowledge that the community was behind her, the public defender went to county purse-holders and received funding to staff attorneys at that court. The result was a systemic change that will save thousands of people from improper conviction.

We need to shift perspective, to stop thinking of public defense as a service and to begin thinking of it as part of a movement to challenge mass incarceration. For many, public defense is viewed as an apparatus of the criminal justice system, not an extension of the movement to reform the system. It’s why we hear terms like “public pretender” commonly used in communities affected by mass incarceration.

Public defender offices don’t speak forcefully enough to demand resources and point out the systemic inequities leading to their high caseloads. But communities can advocate the changes public defenders need to make to do the job their clients deserve, and, in doing so, can take on the court machinery of mass incarceration.

The Urgent Need to Evolve Air Traffic Controller Training

By Charles Keegan At any given moment, there are about 5,000 planes flying in American skies. This country’s 15,000 air traffic controllers have a central role in getting these planes to their destinations safely and on time.

However, the air traffic control industry is facing a serious challenge. While the technologies used in modern air traffic control have advanced rapidly, the accreditation process and on-the-job training techniques have not.

Air traffic control is a complex system of systems, with the air traffic controller always being the key link in the efficient and safe management of air traffic. With the considerable advancement of these technologies, the vast majority of controllers do their jobs without ever seeing the aircraft they’re guiding. Instead, they closely monitor radar displays, which track aircraft movement provided by radar stations on the ground. That radar data is communicated digitally to controller positions hundreds -- or even thousands -- of miles away.

But as the industry moves towards a satellite-based surveillance and navigation system, ground based radar and navigational aids will no longer be the primary data source used for separation and navigation. This new application of technology will enhance safety and increase

the efficiency of the U.S aviation system by providing controllers with more accurate surveillance and more efficient routes of flight.

Under a series of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiatives, air traffic control experts are currently designing more direct routes to reduce delays, reduce emissions, save fuel, and improve safety.

Yet even amid this profound technological transformation, the air traffic controllers of the future are still learning from yesterday’s playbook.

Although today’s controller certification program is rigorous, that doesn’t mean it is sufficient.

In part, it’s resistant to change simply because it has worked so well. Administered by the FAA, this program typically lasts two to three years. The student’s path to certification involves technically complex classroom learning and self-study, sophisticated radar and tower simulation, and live traffic, on-the-job training. That last component comprises approximately 80 percent of a candidate’s training.

With the exception of additional and improved simulators, the methodology employed for training new controllers has barely changed for more than 30 years.

The new generation of air traffic controllers has spent their entire lives in a digital world. They’re familiar with smartphones, tablets, and laptops and thrive on instant See TRAINING, on page 7

Supreme Court Continues to Limit Affirmative Action

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Roberts Supreme Court decided last week that voters in the state of Michigan had the right to ban affirmative action policies in college admissions. Michigan is one of many where mediocre White students challenge the fact that African American students, far more qualified than they, have been admitted to college. This has happened in Texas and California, among other states.

These challenges to affirmative action have roots in the 1976 Bakke case, where the 38-year-old Alan Bakke sued because his application to medical school was rejected and he felt that he was displaced in favor of a minority student. The Supreme Court ordered Bakke admitted to the University of California at Davis, and also ruled that affirmative action was permissible under law.

What bothers me most about these anti affirmative action cases is the implicit White skin privilege that compels them. College admissions are an art, not a science.

Students whose parents contribute generously to a college get an edge. In the name of diversity, a student from California, regardless of race, may get a bit of an edge at Dartmouth or Columbia.

A violist, newspaper editor, or

budding sports star, might also get a break. Meanwhile obdurate and privileged Whites don’t go after these people. Their ire is directed toward African Americans and other people of color.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor got it completely right when she said that race still matters. When the Supreme Court upholds these anti affirmative laws they deny history. Make it plain. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, a scant 60 years ago. Affirmative action policies were developed shortly after that so that the formerly closed doors of academia could be opened. Affirmative action had a short shelf life before it was challenged in 1978, just 14 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The opponents of affirmative action say that the color blindness that the Civil Rights Act mandated prevents remediation from past discrimination. What about contemporary discrimination?

The University of Michigan, in its admissions policies, has evaluated students by a points system. Students get extra points if they have participated in Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. How many high schools in troubled Detroit, have access to these classes. Yet the people of Detroit pay taxes to support a

college that discriminates against them/ When the anti-affirmative action crowd talks about fairness do they take this into consideration?

When University of Michigan admits do not reflect the demographics of Detroit, aren’t the Whites who attempt to dominate the welfare recipients of the state? The attempt for fairness is misplaced when anti-affirmative action proponents want people of color to pay for a university system that gives White people preferential treatment.

In a few weeks we will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. While it took some time for Brown to be implemented, it was a Supreme Court decision that opened doors to equal education for those who have been discriminated against. With the most recent affirmative action case, the Supreme Court has chosen to slam doors in the face of those who have experienced historical discrimination.

This Supreme Court, collectively, has behaved no better than Southern night riders who would stop at nothing too exclude African Americans from participation in education, voting, or owning property. This court is no better than the administrators at the University of Georgia who

The Seed Experiment

By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist

A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment.” That’s when a child plants identical seeds in two pots. She places the first pot inside a dark cupboard and leaves it there, and she puts the second one in a sunny spot and waters it every day. She waits to see what will happen. It’s very easy for even the youngest children to figure out that their seedlings need the basics – sunlight and water – if they are going to survive and thrive.

The same is true for children, and “the basics” during children’s earliest years can have long lasting effects. Arloc Sherman, senior researcher at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and one of the contributors to the new Harvard Education Press book Improving the Odds for America’s Children, put it this way: “I think sometimes we forget to say how important for children’s futures the day-to-day basic assistance of food, clothing, shelter is . . . We’ve had help from the research community recently, striking studies that help make the case that when you just provide the basics, that’s one key cornerstone for children’s future success. So it’s not just that we’re meeting an important need – which would be enough in itself – but we’re also providing for opening future doors of opportunity.”

He pointed to a 2012 study on the long-term effects of what

began as the food stamps program. Researchers went back to the earliest days of the program when it was rolled out county-bycounty to identify children who had access to food stamps in early childhood and whose mothers had access during their pregnancies.

They tracked their progress from the 1960s and 1970s into adulthood, comparing them to similar children who didn’t have access to food stamps. The results showed the power of nutrition: the children who had access to food stamps were less likely to have stunted growth, be obese, or have heart disease as adults – and the positive effects weren’t just health-related. One of the largest differences was that children in families with food stamps were 18 percent more likely to graduate from high school.

This echoes other studies on the positive effects of federal nutrition programs that found needy children who received food assistance before age five were in better health as adults and girls who received food assistance were more likely to complete more schooling, earn more money, and not rely on safety net programs as adults. Putting food on children’s plates helps build healthy minds and bodies today and helps set children up for better futures later. And the benefits don’t end there. Better graduation rates mean better jobs with higher salaries with cascading benefits to the community, the national

economy, and the next generation.

The case for providing the basics for all children in America is hard to refute. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2.2 million children were lifted out of poverty by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, in 2012. Yet right now, we are fast approaching a critical time for hungry children: summer vacation. School-based federal nutrition programs have proved to be a lifeline for needy children.

In fiscal year 2012, more than 21 million children received free or reduced-price lunch through the National School Lunch Program and nearly 11 million children received free and reduced price breakfast. Hunger doesn’t end on the last day of school – yet only 11 percent of the number of children who relied on those lunches during the school year received meals through the Summer Food Service Program.

Even though the program is 100 percent federally-funded and can create desperately needed jobs for cafeteria workers and others during the summer months, many states and communities have created needless bureaucratic hurdles to establishing summer feeding sites resulting in not nearly enough sites to serve all eligible children.

But it’s not too late to find out how you can help – or how children you know can participate.

The Children’s Defense Fund is encouraging CDF Free-

denied Charlayne Hunter Gault and Hamilton Holmes admission, despite their qualifications. This court has legalized educational segregation, and Sonia Soyomayor’s blistering attack on her colleagues reflects the sentiments of millions of people who are tired of this court trampling on their rights and history.

Justice John Roberts is 59 years old. He attended college when long excluded people of color were admitted because of race-conscious policies. What are his resentments toward his classmates who, equally qualified, may have “displaced” some of his friends? Does everyone who has been “displaced” have grounds for a lawsuit? What impact will Roberts have on race matters in the future? While Justice Sotomayor is on the court to check him, and while her opinions will have some weight, she and her colleagues will not be able to outvote the myopic conservative majority.

Roberts led the cabal that slammed the door in the faces of people of color. His justice is a “just us” attempt to reinforce White privilege.

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

dom Schools® partners to use the summer feeding program to provide nutritious meals and snacks for children attending summer CDF Freedom Schools programs. The USDA, which administers the summer feeding program, says there are many ways individuals and organizations can get involved: “You can serve the meals, promote the program, provide transportation, volunteer at summer food sites, or even go out and find sponsors.” he USDA’s “Summer Meals Toolkit” provides information on sponsors, sites, links to state agencies, and much more, or call 1-866-3-HUNGRY or 1-877-8-HAMBRE or use this online map. If there are not enough summer feeding sites in your community, ask why not. Help make sure children in your community are getting the basics and that there are no hungry children in your community this summer.

Many plants blossom and thrive all summer long. Children should be able to do the same.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

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Cox Media, Louisiana Small Business Development Center to Host Digital Marketing Forum, May 7 Panelists Discuss How to Reach and Engage Consumers Beyond TV in a “Multi-Screen” World BATON ROUGE, LA– Award-winning and nationally recognized experts in digital marketing will advise small businesses on how to communicate brands and products from TV to online screens in a forum sponsored by Cox Media and the Louisiana Small Business Development Center (LSBDC).

A Digital Marketing Forum: “How to Reach and Engage Your Multi-Screen Customers” will be hosted in time for national Small Business Week on Wednesday, May 7, from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at the LABI Conference Center in Baton Rouge, located at 3113 Valley Creek Drive.

“It is more important than ever for local businesses to implement advertising campaigns that engage consumers in a meaningful way,” said Munzer Qaddourah, vice president of Cox Media Louisiana and host of the forum. “With 90 percent of all daily media interactions being screen-based, our forum is a great opportunity for marketers and small business owners alike to understand as well as embrace campaigns that connect with consumers not just on TV, but across multiple viewing devices.”

“Small Business Week honors America’s entrepreneurs and is celebrated May 12-16, 2014,” said Rande Kessler, LSBDC state director. “We are excited to have teamed up with Cox Media to host an event that focuses on driving small business success in our state.”

Forum topics include: understanding the multi-screen consumer and what online tactics drive user engagement, implementing “big data” strategies for collecting prospects and tips for repurposing advertising content for online formats.

“Changes in technology make it possible to transform marketing strategies for smalland medium-sized businesses in a way that is effective and affordable,” Qaddourah continued.

“Many of our speakers are small business owners themselves who know first-hand the powerful connection between marketing and business success.”

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Russell once worked as one of the original team members of Yahoo’s first commercial product offering. His career also includes roles as general manager of advertising sales for RealNetworks and vice president of business development for Infospace.

Jeanne Hurlbert, PhD, CEO of MySurveyExpert.com and consultant, is an expert in survey research and social networks. She helps companies meld research and marketing, bringing “big data” strategies to businesses of all sizes. Her clients include The Tony Robbins Companies, $100-million companies like Tatum, and five New York Times bestselling authors.

Previously, Hurlbert served on the faculty of Louisiana State University for more than 25 years, teaching social science students and marketing students how to read people’s minds with surveys.

Stafford Kendall, owner and chief strategist of Covalent Logic, who specializes in advertising, public relations, design and websites. Kendall was chosen as Junior Achievement’s and the Baton Rouge Business Report’s Young Businessperson of the Year in 2012 and has built major global brand social media channels from starting the companies’ pages to generating 1 million likes in 18 months with only organic growth.

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THE CHURCH LADY REPORT ‘Music & Madness’ To Feature Saints, Be Hey Babies, ya’ll doing alright? I sure do hope so because if you’re not life is going to just keep right on moving. I mean don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to be mean or nothing, but I am just telling you what God loves; the truth. There ain’t no sense in you letting yourself get all down in the dumps over things that you don’t have any control of. Now if you can do something about it that’s one thing; you need to get off of your muffins and just do what you need to do. Sitting down sulking or thinking about it won’t change a thing so you just need to be; how do the yuppies say it? Proactive.

However, if indeed it is something that you just can’t control, then babies sometimes you got to do like Teddy Pendergrass use to sing in his love song…Ah come on now we’re past that pretense now aren’t we? Ya’ll know I’m going to keep it real. So I think you had better let it go! Just let it go Chile and watch how much better you feel.

It doesn’t necessarily mean that whatever the problem is solved, but what it does mean is that you have figured out that you can’t solve it; so you need to give it to Jesus. That’s right let it go!

Oh girl use to say Jesus can work it out if you let him, but he can’t do nothing with it if you won’t let go. The God we serve is just not that kind. He wants to know that you believe he is who he says that he is and he can do what he said he would do. Bottom line is he wants you to trust him Chile.

Now I know a bunch of ya’ll got a problem with that one because you don’t trust anybody. Uh huh, I know cause I been there babies.

Shoot sometimes I don’t even trust

Disciplined In The Word

Mark Lowry And The Martins

By Donald Lee

myself lessen on anybody else, but I tell you what I have learned to trust the Lord. I’m still learning because every now and again I have them flash backs you know, but then when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he’s done for me! Ouuwee, Chile I get so excited that I just have to trust him because I start to remember all of the things that he’s already done and I get to thinking about how I thought I wasn’t going to make it and I made it; I’m still here, and then Holy Spirit starts talking to me and he says, “If he did it before, he can do it again so what are you worrying about?” Then I just have to jump up and say, Yes Lord!

You’re right, what am I worrying for? You’ve been so good to me so I’m just gonna put it in your hands. Ya’ll remember that song they use to sing; I put it all in his hands? All though most of us were lying then because you know you didn’t put it all in his hands. The human part always makes you try to hold on to some of it because you get scared and you don’t trust.

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Judy Martin Hess (The Martins), Jonathan Martin (The Martins), Mark Lowry and Joyce Martin Sanders (The Martins) NASHVILLE, TN – It’s been talked about for years and is now finally coming to pass. Gospel music legends Mark Lowry and The Martins are hitting the road together for the first time on the Music and Madness Tour, which will come to the Baton Rouge/Greenwell Springs, LA, area on Saturday, May 10. “It’s a lifelong dream,” says Mark about touring with The Martins.

“It’s going to be an exciting year, just getting to hear them sing every night.”

The history between Mark

and sibling trio Joyce, Jonathan and Judy Martin spans more than two decades and can be traced back to a cassette tape The Martins gave him at a national convention in 1992. Mark and fellow Gaither Vocal Bandmate Michael English were so impressed, they insisted Gloria Gaither listen to an impromptu audition of the group, which they held in the women’s restroom.

Gloria then told husband Bill and the rest is history as the Gaithers helped introduce The Martins to the world.

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Renowned pianist Stan Whitmire will also accompany Mark and The Martins on tour,

As a leader in the body of Christ, I don’t take lightly the office I hold, one in which the Lord has enlisted me into His army, to witness of Him, to lead as many souls to Christ as He sends me to or sends my way, to preach the liberating Gospel to those who are bound and oppressed of the devil, and to empower them once they do accept Christ Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.

The greatest decision I ever made was giving my life to Jesus.

The most rewarding investment I ever made was giving my life to the Lord. And one of the greatest pleasures I could ever experience is seeing others die to their sins and be resurrected in the newness of life with Christ Jesus.

So, it is with this that I share the message “Saints, Be Disciplined in the Word.” In order to truly maximize all that salvation means; it’s going to take a life of discipline, a life in which we have whole-heartedly decided to live for Christ, regardless of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that are ever before us.

We know that no matter how great the problem, no matter how harsh life may feel at times, our heavenly Father has given us authority and power to reign over any threat (see Matthew 16:18,19).

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The Word from page 6 Turn your Bible with me to the book of 2nd Timothy, the second chapter. In this book, the apostle Paul, who is imprisoned for preaching the Gospel, is writing to Timothy, his son in the faith. He’s encouraging Timothy to be strong and encouraged for the task at hand. He’s imparting into Timothy the wisdom that is in him, stirring him up in his spirit with the reminder that he, Timothy, as Paul has, will suffer for the Gospel’s sake. He’s letting him know, too, that the Lord is with him, empowering him to endure as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, and to be effective in his witness.

Paul is telling Timothy to teach faithful men, that they, too, will go and teach others. Paul is telling his spiritual son that he must remember that he will suffer many things, but he is to understand that his labor is not for naught, but that he’s suffering for the elect’s sake, that they might obtain salvation through the preaching of the Word.

What is being shared here is that we must be disciplined to the Cross. In order to do what God has called us to do as His ambassadors here in the Earth, we must live a life of discipline, a life of consecration, set apart for the Master’s use. There is a dying world out there, a world that doesn’t know Christ, a world with many souls on the fast track to hell and in need of a Savior.

So, it, therefore, is of the utmost importance that we, Kingdom ambassadors, study the Word, live the Word, teach the Word, preach the Word. Because in doing that, we’re showing ourselves pleasing to Christ. What’s more is that when we practice discipline, we see victorious results.

A saint’s life of discipline helps him to understand that not everybody will receive the Gospel. But it’s not up to us to pick and choose whom we’ll share the Word with. It is, however, our responsibility to be prepared,

to be ready, for whomever the Lord calls to whomever or us he sends our way. So, when we live a life of discipline, holiness, we’re ready for whatever the Lord has for us.

I find it laughable that people are always murmuring and complaining “they took prayer out of our schools.” Who is “they?” The federal government? Who? Yet, many of these same Christians love to talk about how God “opens doors that no man can shut and shuts doors no man can open.”

If the people who say this really believe the Word, and are disciplined to the Word, and in the Word, then they’d be tuned into the fact that the Word of God cannot be bound. God has strategically placed His servants, His saints, in public schools to pray and to witness to the lost souls within the walls.

The Lord tells us in scripture, through Paul’s writings, that He did not give us the spirit of fear, but of that of love and of power and of a sound mind.

That having been said, when the Lord speaks into your heart and tells you to do something, He’s already taken into account that there will be some folks who won’t like it, namely folks in authority. But we must remember that if He’s spoken it into our hearts to do a thing, He’s equipped us with His Spirit to make it happen, and we have His hedge around us.

If you work in a school district and you see a student bound by the forces of darkness, intercede; pray without ceasing, on that child’s (or those children’s) behalf. Watch the doors the Lord opens for you to be His mouthpiece and hands in those situations. The Word works wherever you are. Be blessed.

Donald Lee pastors Kingdom Living Christian Center in Dallas. Contact him at pastordonjlee@yahoo.com or (225) 773-2248.

Music, Madness from page 6 and according to Lowry, fans can expect a little of everything at Music & Madness: “We’re going to mix it up. The Martins and I will be singing together. I’ll be kicking Jonathan out and singing with just the sisters on a couple songs. Whatever it takes to make

the night a success, we’re going to do!” says Mark.

Make plans now to join Mark Lowry and The Martins for the Music & Madness Tour on Saturday, May 10 at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Greenwell Springs, LA.

Church Lady from page 6 me I’m telling you what I know, not what I heard, you heard me?

I been here a minute and I seen some things and God can and he will if you let him.

Well, I don’t know who I’m talking to today, but I know I’m talking to somebody and you better listen because I’m just the messenger, Glory! Babies God id good all the time, and all the time God is good! He’s good to you, good for you, good with you; he’s just good, good, good! Ouuuuweee, I’m about to make myself happy. The joy of the Lord is your strength so be strong saints. Stay encouraged and stay saved; I’ll see you in church.

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The CDUs do the initial refining of crude oil coming into the refinery and provide feedstock for all other units.

A coking unit increases the amount of refinable material taken from a barrel of crude oil, especially cheaper heavy sour crude oil.

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Training from page 4 access to information from a variety of sources. They know today’s technology. The training for our nation’s air traffic controllers must keep pace with the latest technology and match the skills of a digital, connected workforce. This is especially critical because the FAA plans to hire nearly 12,000 new controllers over the next ten years.

The changes required will not come about without the commitment and stewardship of public officials. It is impera-

tive that the training system adopt up-to-date methods to train the people we’ve entrusted to operate the next generation air traffic control system. To do any less will at best maintain the current inefficiencies of today’s training system and at worst introduce unacceptable risk to overall modernization of the National Airspace. A modernized training system that takes advantage of today’s student profile is one that will be most flexible, timely, and cost effective.

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apart. You must continue to hold on to your faith and stay before the Lord. But, it may be that the time has come when you may need to take some quality time for yourself and spend some of that time with God. Get on your knees before God and tell him of how you are feeling inside. And maybe the words wont come out exactly as you wish but you can have a good weeping, wailing crying falling, out tantrum and give all those problems to him.

While you are praying, you might forget some of the things that vexed you but God knows what you are going through. he can read the pain, which flows through your tears. even though he knows what’s troubling you, he still wants to tell him about it and bring your problems and burdens to him.

therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hands of God, that he may exalt you in due time, “casting all your cares upon him, for he cares for you,”(1st Peter 5:6-7).

After you finished having your tantrum. You may have a stopped up nose and swollen eyes and mucus running down your lip and dried tears on your face, but you’ll feel better after emptying yourself of those things which had been heavy on your heart.

Sometimes we go for weeks or months trying to take matters into our hands and try to solve our own problems. We are not super humans; we can’t handle everything alone. We need God’s help.

We have to let go of those situations and let God handle them. there are some things we can’t humanly do anything about.

ChildRen from page 4 ering all children. the citizens of the nation must the CDF Action Council, build- demand that our leaders free our ing on the best practices in states children from the false ideological and lessons learned about children and political tugs of war among falling through the bureaucratic those who put excess profits ahead cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, of children’s lives. strongly urged Congress to enact how well did Congress protect the All healthy Children Act, children in 2007? Not well enough: S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced 276 Members of Congress had by representative Bobby Scott good CDF Action Council Con(D-VA) in the house and Senator gressional Scorecard scores of 80 Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen- percent or higher, and 198 of those ate. the measure would provide had stellar scores of 100 percent. comprehensive benefits including But 231 members scored 60 percent dental and mental health, simpli- or lower—a failing grade from our fied bureaucracy, and a national school days. eligibility plan for families up to Whether Members of Congress 300 percent of the federal poverty are liberal, conservative or modlevel. We thankJr.the 62 house co- erate; Democrat, republican or Thomas Griffin, sponsors for their support. how- independent, children need all of ever, we regret that neither a single them to vote, lobby, speak for and house norof any other protect Adults need todaily listen — Forrepublican the majority seniors, whichthem. requires attention Senatorretirement joined themage to push for carefully to anemia. what candidates normal is about sickle cell In spite say of the coverage for all children. will dobrought for children 65 years old.

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(NAPSM)-A survey commissioned by two leading health organizations found that although two out of three African Americans (61 percent) expressed concern about developing heart disease and two out of five (40 percent) expressed concern about developing Alzheimer’s, only about one in 20 are aware that heart health is linked to brain health. the Alzheimer’s Association is joining forces with the American heart Association to educate African Americans that by managing their cardiovascular risk, they may also strengthen their cognitive health.

“What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” says Jennifer Manly, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Association spokesperson. “every healthy heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, problem solving and remembering.”

“By the year 2030, the number of African Americans age 65 or older is expected to more than double to 6.9 million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., American heart Association spokesperson. “Although Alzheimer’s is not part of normal aging, age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. So it is important that African Americans take steps now to decrease their risk of heart disease, which research has shown could also decrease the risk of cognitive decline.”

Diabetes Walk To Help Support Summer Camp For Youth With Disabilities

BATON ROUGE, LA – The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Alpha Leos (the youth of the Lions Club) announces the 2nd Annual Diabetes Walk. The purpose of the walk is to help raise funds to support the Louisiana Lions Camp for Handicapped and Diabetic Youth. The walk, which is open to adults and youth, is scheduled for Saturday, May 24, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. until noon, beginning at 6935 Van Gogh Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70806.

Registration on that day is from 7:30 a.m. until the start of the walk.

The cost of participating is only $15 for adults and $10 for youth (17 and under). All paid participants will receive a t-shirt upon registration and free testing for diabetes will be available throughout the duration of the walk.

The organization also welcomes independent contributions.

For more details contact Elouise Stanley at (225) 572-3206 or at elouisestanley@yahoo.com.

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Health Fair will be at the church from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The church is located 1414 Sora Street and the pastor is Rev. Clee Lowe.

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Cador To Unveil Autobiography New Orleans Saints Don’t Intend to Exercise Fifth-Year At Last Thursday Presser Option on Running Back Mark Ingram, Report Says

Coach Roger Cador

Courtesy Southern U. Athletic Media Relations Roger Cador, Southern University head baseball coach, is set to release his autobiography, “Against All Odds” this summer.

The book reflects on Cador’s journey to his successes as a player, coach and person.

A sneak peek of the book cover was revealed at a press conference Thursday, April 24 at noon at the Embassy Suites located at 4914 Constitution Ave. Tressa Smallwood is heading the publishing effort at Life Changing Books and the book is set for release in late summer of 2014.

For all attending the press conference, food and drink was served during the event.

The book chronicles Cador’s childhood, high school, college and professional baseball years with the Atlanta Braves organization, and then on to Southern as an assistant basketball coach to Southern head baseball coach and even through being named on the MLB Diversity Committee.

Cador credits friend, Alice Park who insisted he write this book to help motivate someone else. “She said I needed to write this book because someone out there is going through what you went through and they may need to hear your story to help them,” said Cador.

Through this book, Cador said he hopes people will “learn the value of someone who had

struggled with every facet of life and who was deprived of a basic education at a young age, who got laughed at and endured a lot of other things said about them.

I didn’t quit. I just found ways to keep working and doing my thing and ignoring all of the negative things.”

Cador said in his journey of writing the motivational autobiography he found out that Herschel Walker, the former NFL player, experienced some of the same things as Cador.

One message he makes in the book is “That no matter what you go through you never give up or find fault or blame people. We live in a great country in the world. I was able to elevate myself from all of that horrible past to make good things happen,” said Cador.

Cador is in his 30th season as the head baseball coach of Southern. He took over the program in 1984 and has become one of the most respected coaches in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with the accomplishment of compiling an 857-509-1 record.

During his time at Southern he has reached many accomplishments including: 14 SWAC Championships, eight NCAA Tournament appearances, three NCAA Play-In Tournament appearances, and his Jaguars became the first Historically Black College University to win an NCAA Play-In game with the defeat of Austin Peay University in 1996.

‘Racist’ LA Clippers Owner Banned from NBA and Fined $2.5 Million

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was sternly denounced for racist comments by a spectrum of individuals, ranging from President Barack Obama to NBA superstar LeBron James, NBA Commissioner Alan Silver on Tuesday fined Sterling $2.5 million and banned him from the NBA for life.

At a news conference Tuesday, Silver said he will ask the NBA Board of Governors to force Sterling to sell the Clippers, an action that would require a three-fourths approval. The fine, the maximum allowed under the NBA’s constitution and bylaws, will be donated to anti-discrimination and tolerance organizations jointly selected by the NBA and the NBA Players Association.

“The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. That they came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage,” Silver said at the news conference in New York City. “Sentiments of this kind are contrary to the principles of inclusion and respect that form the foundation of our diverse multi-cultural and multiethnic league.

“Accordingly, effective immediately, I am barring Mr. Sterling for life, from any association with the Clippers organization or the NBA. Mr. Sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices, he may not be present at any Clippers facility, and he may not participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team.”

This was Silver ’s first major crisis since succeeding David Stern as commissioner in February. About 75 percent of the players in the NBA are Black.

New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram (22) fumbles this ball deep in Seahawks territory during the NFC divisional playoff game between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Saturday, January 11, 2014.

The New Orleans Saints don’t intend to pick up the fifth-year option on running back Mark Ingram, according to CBS Sports.

According to the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement, all rookies must sign four-year contracts, while teams have the option to add an additional year for first-round draft picks. The fifth-year option salary is guaranteed for injury only.

The Saints have already picked up defensive end Cam Jordan’s $6.97 million option, which will extend his contract through the 2015 season.

The team has kept quiet about its intentions on Ingram’s option. Last Wednesday, Saints coach Sean Payton said there was no rush to make a decision.

“We’ve got time to do all of that. So there’s nothing we’ve decided permanently with that,” Payton said.

The Saints have until May 3 to exercise Ingram’s option.

That would reportedly come with a price tag of $5.2 million in base salary in 2015.

Ingram, who will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, said last week that he didn’t know what the team planned to do about the option.

“I’m not sure if they will pick up the fifth-year option,” Ingram said. “I’m just working one day at a time and I’m just glad I’m on a team that’s a championship contender.”

Ingram, a 2009 Heisman

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The firestorm that culminated in Silver placing a lifetime ban on Sterling was touched off Saturday after celebrity website TMZ posted nine minutes of an audio tape of a secretly-recorded conversation between Sterling and Vanessa Stiviano, his mistress who describes herself as a descendant of Mexicans and African Americans.

Another website, Deadspin, posted a 15-minute version of the tape on its site.

On the tape, the man identified as Sterling, told his mistress, “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with Black people. Do you have to?…You can sleep with [Black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games…

“I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people…Don’t put him (Magic Johnson) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.”

Magic Johnson was not amused.

as “excellent” or “very good”, compared with 22.0 percent of white youth and 31.0 percent of Latino youth.

We find similar differences when young people evaluate the quality of their health care coverage. Nearly half (47.8 percent) of white youth say they have “excellent” or “very good” health care coverage, compared with only 35.7 percent of Black youth and 38.8 percent of Latino youth. Thus, compared with white youth, young people of color report receiving both lower quality health care and lower quality health care coverage.

The bottom row of table 1 provides a potential explanation for these disparities: young people of color have health insurance at much lower rates than white youth. Only 64.4 percent of Latino youth and 75.3 percent of Black youth report having health insurance coverage, compared with 83.5 percent of white youth. Thus, these differences may plan an important role in affecting young people’s evaluations of the current health care system, as well as their approval of the Affordable Care Act.

trophy winner out of Alabama, was selected with the 28th pick of the 2011 draft after the Saints traded back into the first round to get him. They traded their 2012 first round pick and 2011 second round pick to do so. The Saints also selected Jordan with the 24th pick in the first round.

In three seasons with the Saints, Ingram has carried the ball 356 times for 1,462 yards and 11 touchdowns. He has 24 career receptions for 143 yards

and no touchdowns.

Ingram has had a tumultuous career with the Saints. He averaged only 3.9 yards-per-carry in his first two seasons after dealing with turf toe and a heel injury.

In 2013, he missed five games with a toe injury while reports circulated that he had asked for a trade, which Payton said was “completely false.”

Ingram had a strong end to the season, rushing 13 times for 83 yards against the Carolina Pan-

thers in Week 16 and 18 times for 97 yards and a touchdown in the NFC wild card win against the Philadelphia Eagles.

In the NFC divisional playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks, he carried the ball 10 times for 49 yards, but also had a rare fumble in the second quarter that led to a Seahawks touchdowns.

“I’m just working one day at a time, and I’m just glad I’m on a team that’s a championship contender,” he said last week.

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Danielle leads the Women’s Interest Network that inspires girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Since 80 percent of new jobs in this century will require strong math and science skills, this outreach helps our girls dream big and reach higher standards. ExxonMobil employees like Danielle spend more than 40,000 hours a year volunteering in local classrooms. ENERGY LIVES HERE.

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