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Baton Rouge ‘Local Services Agreement’ Changes Fail to Pass Metro Council

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Despite Affordable Care Act Millions ‘Crime Against Nature’ Could Go Without Health Insurance Resolution Fails

Council member John Delgado, along with Ryan Heck, were asking their colleagues on the Metro Council to support a resolution that would have eliminated unconstitutional sections of Louisiana’s “crimes against nature” law.

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BATON ROUGE, La.— Changes to Baton Rouge’s “local services agreement,” which lays out how money is split between the parish and the city, failed to pass the Metro Council for the second time Wednesday.

The changes have become controversial due to the agreement’s connection to the proposed incorporation of St. George.

Council members needed to get seven votes to pass the changes, and voted 5-5 on the issue. Two council members, Trae Welch and Chauna Banks Daniel, were absent.

William Daniel, Mayor Kip Holden’s chief administrative officer who has been advocating for the change, repeated his stance that the changes that are being proposed have nothing to do with the St. George issue. But he said the council’s failure to pass it reflects the “divisive” nature of the incorporation effort.

“We’re shutting down city-parish government,” he said.

The local services agreement has been in place since 1991 and shifts tens of millions of tax revenue dollars each year from the parish’s side of the budget to be spent on the city’s side. St. George proponents have used the agreement as a rallying cry, saying their tax dollars are being moved and spent elsewhere.

The city-parish administration was asking the council to change the agreement, to add in bonded debt from the Green Light Plan roads program.

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The Baton Rouge Metro Council voted 7-3 Wednesday against a resolution that would have shown support for striking unconstitutional sections of a law that was used to arrest gay men in local parks.

“Crimes against nature” or sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court a decade ago, but have remained on Louisiana’s books. It came to light last summer that the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office was still using the law to arrest men in local parks who agreed to meet undercover male officers for sex.

The sex was going to take place at a private location, not the public parks, and the sheriff’s office was accused of unfairly targeting the men for being gay.

Now, state Rep. Pat Smith, DBaton Rouge, is proposing a bill for the 2014 legislative session that would repeal the unconstitutional and unenforceable parts of that law.

Baton Rouge council members John Delgado and Ryan Heck offered a resolution at Wednesday’s meeting to show the council’s support for the bill.

“The law is unconstitutional, it cannot be legally enforced,” Delgado said. “The only purpose that this law serves on our books today is to remind people that there is still hate in some places. Let’s send a message tonight that Baton Rouge is not one of those places.”

The council, however, voted down the resolution. The two sponsors and council member C. Denise Marcelle were the only votes in support. Council members Ronnie Edwards, Scott Wilson, Chandler Loupe, Donna Collins-Lewis, Buddy Amoroso, Joel Boe and Tara Wicker voted against the resolution. Trae Welch and Chauna Banks-Daniel were absent from the meeting.

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Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Guity After Courtroom ‘Belly Flop’ NEW ORLEANS -- Ray Nagin came into the mayor’s office in New Orleans as an avowed scourge of corruption and led the city through the worst disaster of its modern history.

He left a federal courthouse a convict Wednesday, after a jury found him guilty of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and other favors from businessmen looking for a break from his administration. Of the 21 counts against him, he was convicted of 20.

“He got a lot of media attention as being a reformer, a nonpolitician, first run for office -- a businessman who was going to come in and get it right,” said Pat

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Fanning, a veteran New Orleans lawyer and no fan of the former two-term mayor.

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city in 2005, the onetime cable television executive would reassure people queasy about sending taxpayer money to a state with an epic history of corruption by telling them, “Google me. You’re not going to find any of that in my record,” Fanning said, quoting Nagin. “Well, Google him now.”

Nagin, who left office in 2010, had little to say as he left the courthouse Wednesday afternoon, telling reporters only, “I maintain my innocence.” A small knot of supporters yelled, “Keep your head up” and “He’s just a patsy,”

Then-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is pictured on October 15, 2009 at the University of New Orleans

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His lead attorney, Robert Jenkins, told reporters his client would appeal the verdict.

“We did the best we could do,” Jenkins said.

Prosecutors argued the 57-year-old Nagin was at the center of a kickback scheme in which he received checks, cash, wire transfers, personal services and free travel from businessmen seeking contracts and favorable treatment from the city. He faces up to 20 years in prison, but Fanning said a 14- to 17-year term was more likely.

A January 2013 indictment See NAGIN, on page 2

RELIGION As a young man, I was an aggressive atheist. In fact, when I read the writings of Richard Dawkins, I get all nostalgic. You see, I used to be like that as well!...See Page 6

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BAN ON TOBACCO ORDINANCE The city of Zachary is considering Sadie Roberts Joseph, the Museums Curator and founder proudly sat and told me all about the humble beginnings of this quaint but vibrant little piece of history here in the South parts of our lovely capital city....See Page 3

a ban on the use of tobacco in certain locations. The city council voted to introduce an ordinance that will prohibit the use of tobacco outside of buildings and at other city owned properties...See Page 2

GOSPEL CHOIR BREAKS RECORD

History was made at the legendary Newark Symphony Hall breaking the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for Largest Gospel Choir. The McDonald’s Gospel Super Choir was made up of 1171 singers of all ages...See Page 5

ACA DEADLINE NEARING FAST Americans have until March 31 to

sign up for health insurance via healthcare.gov, the federal website launched under the Affordable Care Act where low and moderate income individuals and their families..See Page 7

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Despite Affordable Care Act Millions Could Go Without Health Insurance

by Starla Muhammad

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Though 2014 marks the 50th anniversaries of both the War on Poverty and Civil Rights Act, glaring racial disparities continue permeating the fabric of American society. Stark differences between Blacks and Whites in education, employment, poverty, housing and net worth, are tied to health disparities and access to health insurance coverage, according to this year’s State of the Dream Report.

The report is released annually

by United for a Fair Economy to coincide with the King Holiday and examines areas of racial inequality.

“Racial segregation in concentrated poverty effectively creates a toxic soup of health problems and challenges in communities of color,” said Brian Miller, executive director of United for a Fair Economy in a conference call with reporters.

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This year’s report, titled, “State of the Dream 2014: Healthcare For Whom? Enduring Racial Disparities” zeroes in on the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld key portions of the ACA, dubbed “Obamacare” in 2012. But the high court’s ruling also gave each state the authority to opt out of the Medicaid expansion program. The report warns this means millions will still not have health insurance.

Twenty-five states, the majority headed by Republican governors have said or indicated they will reject the expanding Medicaid, said the State of the Dream report.

The federal government pays for additional health coverage offered under the Medicaid program but many GOP leaders who fought Obamacare also refuse to accept any funding linked to the program.

“This new 25-state coverage gap will leave millions of Americans without health insurance while exacerbating racial disparities in health and healthcare,” the State of the Dream 2014 report warned.

If states opt out, the report said: Nearly 5 million people who would have otherwise been covered—disproportionately people of color—will go without health insurance.

Blacks though 13 percent of the population would represent 27 percent of those who would not have insurance.

With the exception of Arkansas, every state in the South, where the majority of Blacks live, is rejecting Medicaid expansion, said Mr. Miller.

According to the U.S. Census, in 2010, 55 percent of the Black population lived in the South, and 105 Southern counties had a Black population of 50 percent or higher.

Blacks and Latinos are pushed into low income, high poverty communities where health problems, lack of access to both health facilities and full service grocery stores are common, said Mr. Miller.

Those groups are also less likely to secure jobs that provide employer provided healthcare, he added.

Medicaid is the federal and state program that provides health coverage to 50-60 million pregnant women, families, children, people with disabilities and the elderly.

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To qualify for Medicaid coverage, a family can have an income that is up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, which was about $29,700 for a family of four in 2011. The federal poverty level is revised yearly. The federal poverty level in 2013 was $23,550 for a family of four.

The Supreme Court ruled the federal government could not force states to expand Medicaid by withholding federal money they would otherwise receive for programs that already exist under Medicaid.

A single payer healthcare system where government instead of private insurers pays healthcare costs would be ideal but until then the ACA and pushing for Medicaid expansion is a step toward closing disparities in health insurance, said analysts that agreed with the United For a Fair Economy report.

United for a Fair Economy hopes this year’s findings, when examined, will result in a better understanding of the ACA and the importance of Medicaid expansion.

“People in states that have opted out are going to say, ‘Oh God, I don’t have health care coverage, this Obamacare program’s a fail-

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detailed more than $200,000 in bribes to the mayor, and his family members allegedly received a vacation in Hawaii; first-class airfare to Jamaica; private jet travel and a limousine for New York City; and cellular phone service. In exchange, businesses that coughed up for Nagin and his family won more than $5 million in city contracts, according to the January 2013 indictment.

During the two-week trial, prosecutors brought to the stand a string of businessmen who had already pleaded guilty to bribing Nagin. His defense did little to challenge their stories, Fanning said.

“It was too painful actually to watch. They just swamped him,” he said. And when Nagin took the stand in his own defense, “He did a belly flop,” often answering questions on cross-examination by saying he couldn’t recall who paid for a trip or perk.

“He just looked terrible,” Fanning said.

The earliest of the charges date from before Katrina, which struck when Nagin had been in office for about three years. The hurricane flooded more than three-fourths of low-lying New Orleans and left more than 1,800 dead across the region -- most of them in Louisiana.

Supporters credited Nagin’s sometimes-profane demands for aid from Washington with helping reveal the botched federal response to the storm -- a fiasco that embarrassed the George W. Bush administration and led to billions of federal dollars being poured into Gulf Coast reconstruction efforts.

But Nagin also had his detractors: Fanning called his per-

ure.’ Instead of blaming it on the fact that their state policy makers chose not to expand Medicaid they may unfortunately in some cases blame the original legislation and view it as a failure of that. Which it is not,” said Mr. Miller.

Dedrick Muhammad, senior director of the NAACP Economic Department, was one of several policy experts that reviewed and contributed feedback on this year’s State of the Dream report. Despite it being the second term of the country’s first Black president, racial inequities are still very much a reality, he said. Some of the findings show racial disenfranchisement is being further cemented into society, Mr. Muhammad added.

“This really goes to the heart of what Dr. King says; of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.

We agree and that’s why we wrote this report,” said Mr. Miller.

A copy of this year’s 11th annual State of the Dream report can be downloaded athttp://www. faireconomy.org/dream formance during the storm “a meltdown,” a congressional committee criticized him for delaying evacuation orders, and his frantic description of post-storm New Orleans as a violent wasteland with up to 10,000 dead turned out to be greatly exaggerated.

As he sought re-election in 2006, with much of the city’s African-American population displaced by storm damage, Nagin was blasted for insisting that New Orleans would remain a “chocolate” city.

Nagin won a second term despite the controversies, but left office with his approval ratings in the cellar and told CNN his career in public office was over.

“I have given my pound of flesh,” he said.

Nagin sought to have the charges dismissed in October after another federal judge blasted what he called the “grotesque” misconduct of prosecutors in the post-Katrina shootings of unarmed civilians by police at the Danziger Bridge.

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Senator Karen Carter Peterson Urges, Engage in the Democratic Process

Hi, I’m state Senator Karen Carter Peterson, chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

This month as we celebrate Black History Month, we remember the history of African Americans who fought for access to the ballot box and greater equality in our society. Many people don’t know that Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was home to the first bus boycott of the civil rights movement in 1953.

Reverend T.J. Jemison and other activists organized an eight-day boycott that inspired Dr. King to take similar action in Montgomery, Alabama, two years later.

Last year I had the opportunity to attend the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with my father, who was one of the first African-American elected officials in the city of New Orleans. It was a special day, and I felt I was truly in the presence of history as we watched Congressman John Lewis, members of the King family and President Obama

speak to thousands at the Lincoln Memorial.

While we have come so far, there is still more to be done.

Indeed, the struggle continues.

We must reclaim the spirit of empowerment that drove the civil rights movement. We must fight back against any attempt to restrict voting rights. But even more than that, we must work to expand access to the ballot box, encourage voter registration and empower all of our citizens.

The generations that have come before are counting on us to do our part and preserve our democracy for the next generation. America is stronger when all of us engage in the democratic process and exercise our right to vote. You can take action today by reaching out to your state Democratic Party and joining their efforts to register and educate new voters. Your voice is your vote, and your vote matters.

Thank you and God bless America.

Zachary Considers Ban on Tobacco Ordinance ZACHARY, LA — The city of Zachary is considering a ban on the use of tobacco in certain locations. The city council voted to introduce an ordinance that will prohibit the use of tobacco outside of buildings and at other city owned properties.

This includes the museums and parks.

The proposal was made in response to complaints about second hand smoke at the Zachary Food Pantry and the Zachary Youth Park. Mayor David Amrhein proposed the ban; he said it would be beneficial to the city.

“It’s my belief that you would allow smoking next to your building; it’s like when you smoke it inside. The people don’t

want to smoke have to walk in and out through it. This is a way to clean that up and try to get it away from our buildings,” said Amrhein.

Zachary High School baseball coach Jacob Fisher pays close attention when it comes to his players batting mechanics, but even more to their health. He thinks the proposal is a good one.

“I see a lot of effects from younger kids trying it more at a younger age. Kids look up to a lot of their coaches, because they are role models to them and they start using it at a younger age,” said Fisher.

Zachary’s Mayor said the city is still working on the wording for the proposed ordinance, and looks to vote on it soon.

Mardi Gras 2014 falls on Tuesday, March 4

The most popular time to visit New Orleans is the extended weekend before Mardi Gras (Friday, February 28 through Tuesday, March 4). Come then and you’ll be sure to catch the most popular parades like Endymion, Bacchus, Zulu, Rex and all of the festive celebrations throughout the whole city.

Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tues-

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day”, is the last day of the Carnival season as it always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Most visitors will plan to arrive no later than Saturday, March 1, 2014 in order to enjoy an extended weekend of festivities.

Visitors, please note: Parades will begin on February 15th.

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The council did not discuss the bill, aside from Delgado’s remarks, but listened to extensive and emotional testimony from residents on both sides of the issue.

Those who spoke in support of the resolution, which included many representatives of groups that advocate in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, said the arrests that came to light last year were an embarrassment for Baton Rouge.

Morris Welch, a board member for Forum for Equality Louisiana, said the only reason to keep the law on the books is to “heap admonishment and promote discrimination against a group of contributing and law-abiding citizens.”

He urged council members to support the resolution, saying it was the right thing to do legally and morally and would show Baton Rouge as a “welcoming place for educated and creative workers, as well as all people.”

Champagne Starr, a transgender woman who said she was arrested under the crimes against nature law in 1998, told the council that the law outlaws many sexual practices straight couples engage in.

“More than half of the people in this room would be in East Baton Rouge Parish prison” if the law were used as it is written, she said. But it’s only used to target gay people.

“People having sex in a park, by all means take them to

jail -- there’s children there,” she said. “But consensual adults who are doing this within the walls of their own homes, they shouldn’t have to be fearful in their relationships.”Four people spoke against the resolution. The Louisiana Family Forum, which advocates for the “traditional family,”sent out a message on Tuesday regarding the vote, saying the bill would repeal “one of Louisiana’s last remaining legal prohibitions of public homosexual activity” and have “public health and cultural ramifications.” However, Smith’s bill would not change any laws regarding public sex, regardless of whether it’s straight or gay -- public sex would still be illegal under obscenity laws.

Regardless, opponents said striking the unconstitutional parts of the law could have dire consequences. They passed along information to council members about the rate of AIDS in the gay community, and resident Bill Smith compared gay sex to legalizing all drug use and other crimes.

“I think we ought to legalize human trafficking and sex trafficking of teenagers,” he said.

Retired Judge Darrell White said the Supreme Court frequently reverses its decisions.

“Cultures are won and lost, ladies and gentlemen, over just the type of decision, councilman Heck, that you have before you here today,” he said.

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BLACK HISTORY MOMENT

“The Odell S. Williams Now & Then African American Museum” A moment in Baton Rouge Black History with

SADIE ROBERTS - JOSEPH We all need a little Black history every now and then…

By M.L Kelly And that is exactly the purpose the Odell S. Williams African American Museum is dishing up each and every day. Sadie Roberts Joseph, the Museums Curator and founder proudly sat and told me all about the humble beginnings of this quaint but vibrant little piece of history here in the South parts of our lovely capital city. When I described the museum as a well-kept secret to her during a portion of our interview; she quickly corrected me stating, “We’re not a secret at all; In fact people around the globe know that we are here and have traveled thousands of miles to see us.” Ms. Roberts gave me a global map of tourist who have visited the museum from places like Swaziland, Australia, and Europe. So the museum has had its fair share of exposure. However what Ms. Roberts wanted to be known was that she only wished that locals would take as much pride and enthusiasm in the museum as others have.

The historical walking trail, the art and culture; It’s a piece of history sitting right here for all of Baton Rouge to embrace, and we welcome everyone to do so Ms. Roberts said.

The Museum began in the early 2000 as a derivative from the St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church. Ms. Roberts said that the initial idea was simply to inform the members, children and community of our Rich African American History, which is what the Museums name sake Odell S. Williams did each year as an EBR public school teacher of 40 years.

Ms. Williams wanted to make sure that everyone was educated on the contributions that black people have made to not only our society at large, but to our city, our state, our country and ultimately our world. Ms. Williams, who just recently expired at the ripe age of 90 in 2013, passed the torch of this mission down to Ms. Roberts and mentored her on how to make sure that the legacy and the history of Black Americans was not forgotten. Now the once exhibit has become a full- fledged museum. Ms. Williams would be proud of the legacy she has left.

Ms. Roberts told me that the initial museum efforts began in the fellowship of the St. Luke Church, and were then moved to the present location of 538 South Blvd, which is adjacent to the church in 2009. The modified shot gun house that host the museum is a historical monument in itself being a 1921 structure Additionally the Museum has several branches including the trolley stop, which originated according to Ms. Roberts as a means to demonstrate the 1953 Bus Boycott that happened right here in Baton Rouge under the

BATON ROUGE, La. – Southern University and A&M College will present a statewide conference, “A Successful Partnership: Parent and Teacher Collaboration,” focusing on providing parents, educators, and community leaders methods to increase student achievement.

The conference, set for February 14, will promote training, best practices, and educational opportunities to build the strengths of parents. Teachers and caregivers will be supporting positive, healthy learning and the development of children.

The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Conference Center, 4728 Constitution Ave. Breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and lunch. Pre-registration is

$65 and the on-site fee is $85, the continuing educations units are $30, student pre-registration is $30 and student registration is $40.

Mail check or money order payment by Feb. 7 to the SU Foundation/International Studies and Outreach, Southern University and A&M College, P.O. BOX 9772 Baton Rouge, LA 70813.

For more information, contact the Office of Continuing Education at (225) 771-2613 or fax (225) 771-2654.

Organizations that will be presenting at the conference, include: SU’s Division of Continuing Education, the Department of Educational Theory, Policy and Practice, and The National Association of African-American Studies and Affiliates.

$40M Fund Proposed to Help Colleges Train Workers Sadie Roberts - Joseph leadership of Dr. T. J. Jemison and several others, which included Mr. Reed, and Horace Thomas. Ms. Roberts gave me a brief further education on this piece of history. She said that during this time blacks were coming together and helping each other realizing that if they didn’t help themselves that no one else would. Ms. Roberts informed me that activist like Mr. Reed, and Mr. Thomas were wonderful examples of this. It is reported that Reed of the Baton Rouge Post once forced entry into a local High School to host a meeting, and that Mr. Thomas then one of the first black business men in the city, owner of a local gas station, provided petro for the cars that were transporting those who participated in the boycott.

She also informed me that many people in that time took their own savings and purchased vehicles in order to assist in the transportation process.

This regal African American woman was poised and proud as she shared her stories and highlighted the necessity of empowering others through education and culture. Ms. Robert- Joseph reminded me; that until African Americans to embrace themselves and know who they are. Once this happens it then becomes easier to help others understand the truth of the great poet Maya Angelou “We are more alike than different”. When African Americans understand their history and are aware of the shoulders they stand upon it will evoke a since of pride for the next generation. The museum does not lack character, culture or pride.

In every nook and cranny there is room to room, wall to wall history; statues and books and murals; music and African artifacts.

Then if you go outside you can

even jump aboard the trolley or the now the real city bus, which was acquired August of 2013 that is actually a true depiction of the buses that prohibited black riders from the same privileges as their white counterparts in the 1950’s. Finally, there is also a tour along the historical walking trail beneath the bridge that is jammed packed with all kinds of information about black Americans that perhaps you may not know…I didn’t.

I didn’t know lots of things, however since having my encounter with Ms. Roberts; I know more now than I did then. This interview proved that conversations can educate, motivate and enlighten all those who engage in them. In fact, I was privy to be a part of a very stimulating conversation on this occasion.

Mr. Kelvin Well a disabled veteran, who at one point joined our discussion, was very informative and instrumental in enhancing our interview. When I asked Ms. Roberts what was next for the museum; what would you like to see happen here? Her response was enthusiastically, “Exactly what we are doing right now!”

Sharing our stories, listening to each other, disseminating information…Ms. Roberts went on to say that she would also like to have a mobile museum that could travel to schools and neighborhoods through-out the city that would hopefully elicit the same types of responses from a diversity of people all over the.

Black History is not just for black people, it’s for all people.

I asked Ms. Roberts how she felt about Black history being assigned the shortest month in the year. Her reply was ingratiating.

She looked at me, smiled and said very graciously; “Christmas comes but once a year, yet are

2014 Black Enterprise Woman of Power: Ursula Burns A look at one of Black Enterprise’s Women of Power

By Sheiresa Ngo

Ursula Burns is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox. Under her direction, the business process and document management company’s sales are nearly $23 billion. Burns began her Xerox career in 1980 as an intern. After several moves, the executive was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, where she was charged with overseeing manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Burns assisted with restructuring Xerox through a major turnaround, taking a key role in leading its global research as well as product development, marketing and delivery. After becoming chief executive officer in July 2009, Burns, took point on the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services, the largest acquisition in Xerox history.

Stay tuned for more profiles in Black Enterprise’s Women of Power issue.

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we any less excited about celebrating the Lord we love one day are we? Look at how blessed we were; we have twenty eight days to celebrate and on some occasions twenty nine. We must reframe our thinking and change our responses. We have to get excited about all we can learn and share in this time instead of worrying about the number of days. It’s our celebration and what it becomes is determined only by how we choose to see it, and how we choose to respond.”

Enough said.

I asked Ms. Joseph the staff of 100 all wrapped up into the nice, sweet, beautiful little package of 1; how do you survive?

You do so much with seemingly so little, and here response was, the Lord provides. The museum primarily operates by the grace of God from a church endowment, volunteers and the hard work, determination and dedication of one great historian Ms. Sadie Roberts Joseph.

The Odell S. Williams Now & Then African American Museum is iconic in our city and if you have not had the pleasure of making its acquaintance yet; well I admonish you to grab the kids, and the grandparent or some neighbors, your church group or just some people from the job and head on over to the museum.

Then while you are there sign up to volunteer, leave a liberal donation, organize a fund- raiser, help to find a grant to continue this one woman show and expand it to another level just like Ms. Williams did when she turned her vision over to Sadie RobertsJoseph. Now she is turning over to you. It begins with one Don’t let the time slip away the rest of this month; value it, cherish it, learn, grow, share and most of all celebrate Black.

LAFAYETTE, La. — College leaders say a proposed fund to reward colleges and universities that produce graduates who fill high-demand jobs could help attract faculty to train the needed workers in the Acadiana area.

South Louisiana Community College Chancellor Natalie Harder told the Acadiana Press Club on Monday getting experts to leave their fields where they can earn more money in the workplace than they can teaching their profession is an obstacle to meeting workforce demands.

The proposed $40 million fund would be used by colleges and universities in programs that supply workers in high-growth fields such as engineering, finance and accounting, computer science, data analysis, industrial production and construction crafts.

The $40 million fund has been dubbed the Workforce and Innovation for a Stronger Economy plan.

The plan received the support of Gov. Bobby Jindal last

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month when he announced it as part of a $142 million funding increase proposed for higher education next year. If approved by lawmakers, it would be the first increase for colleges and universities in the past six years, though $88 million of the boosted funding is from increased student tuition costs.

As part of the WISE plan proposal, colleges and universities would compete for a share of the $40 million based on their numbers of graduates in highdemand fields and their research.

The colleges and universities must match up to 20 percent of their WISE plan funding with private donations.

The WISE plan provides targeted funding to take care of growing workforce shortages that exist statewide, University of Louisiana system President Sandra Woodley said.

“This gives us the first stepping stone to have an organized, strategized (way) of closing the gap,” Woodley said.

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The judge tossed out the convictions of five cashiered cops after ruling that members of the U.S. attorney’s office tainted their 2011 trial by anonymously posting “egregious and inflammatory” comments at online news sites.

Nagin argued that he was the

target of the same underground effort, citing “a continuum of pejorative statements and demeaning racial epithets” aimed at him. The U.S. attorney’s office said none of the prosecutors involved in the Danziger Bridge case played a role in the Nagin investigation.

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COMMENTARY Thursday, February 13, 2014 • The Weekly Press • Page 4

Balancing Liberty and Security Is A Never-Ending Challenge

By Lee H. Hamilton Every few days, we learn yet one more way in which government’s expanded surveillance powers intrude upon our privacy and civil liberties.

Last week, it was the revelation that spy agencies in the U.S. and Britain have been snagging personal data from the users of mobile phone apps. Before that came news that the NSA was tracking our social connections and delving into our contact lists. It appears the agency can do anything it wants when it comes to collecting information on pretty much anyone it wants.

We can take pride in this technological virtuosity, but it has propelled an expansion of government power unlike anything I’ve seen since I joined Congress 50 years ago. So we face the crucial question of what to do about them. How can we prevent abuse of the capabilities the NSA has been given?

The White House argues that there are elaborate “checks and balances” within the executive branch to prevent abuses. That’s commendable but insufficient. There is a lack of evidence that Congress and the courts provided pushback on any of the intelligence community’s initiatives to expand its power — they have been reliable and relatively uncritical allies of the intelligence

community.

I do not see how we get the balance between liberty and security right unless the courts and the full Congress — not just certain committee members — get all the information they need and step up to their constitutional responsibilities to check and balance executive power.

At a minimum, then, Congress and the courts should do the job our system counts on them to do, and commit to rigorous and sustained oversight and, in the case of Congress, legislative action to refine the laws governing federal surveillance.

Government should not be entitled secretly to get information on anyone whenever it wants without more transparency, more information, more debate, more oversight, and additional constraints.

Sorting through these questions will be arduous and is the work of many years. Yet the public policy issues they raise are of enormous magnitude. Getting the balance right between liberty and security is a daunting job, and now is the time for the Congress and the courts to exert leadership.

Lee Hamilton is Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.

Dr. King ‘Turning in his Grave’ over Family Greed

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The children of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sue each other – as well as loyal family friends – so often that you need a program to keep up with the court action.

Bernice and Martin Luther King, III sued Dexter because he failed to open the books of their father’s estate. Dexter, hoping to sign a $1.4 million book contract, sued Bernice, who administers their mother’s estate, for not sharing their parents’ love letters.

Now, for some inexplicable reason, Martin III has teamed up with Dexter to sue Bernice to compel her to turn over their father’s Bible – the one President Obama used at his second swearing-in – and his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal because they have an interested buyer. But Bernice refuses to surrender the items, saying some things are sacred and should not be for sale.

The person who was perhaps least surprised by the latest family shenanigans is Harry E. Johnson, Sr., president of what was once called the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.

In a series of tape-recorded interviews with me, beginning April 21, 2011, Johnson, who raised more than $100 million to erect the Memorial, recounted his disappointing experience with the King family.

His first disappointment came when the family-controlled entity responsible for preserving Dr. King’s image charged the foundation a licensing fee of $2.8 million.

But even that wasn’t enough and the King family refused to extend the licensing agreement. Consequently the name of the foundation was changed last year to The Memorial Foundation.

“When we originally had an agreement with them, it was a licensing agreement to use the name and images of Dr. King [in fundraising material],” Johnson stated.

“They said the licensing agreement has expired. Fine. I’m saying, ‘Give me another licensing agreement.’

They’re saying, ‘No we don’t want you to use the name.’ It really boils down to this: They want me out of the way because they are saying they need to raise $170 million for the King Center and I’m in the way.

Philanthropy in this country is a $320 billion a year industry. How am I in the way to raise whatever they need to raise?”

Johnson questions whether Dr. King is a private figure anymore.

“They keep throwing out the fact that Dr. King was a private

citizen – that’s why his image is protected. And I told Roland [Martin] to ask Jeffrey Toobin, the lawyer on CNN: ‘At what point does one stop becoming a private citizen?

Is that when we named a holiday after him? Or is it when we put a memorial on the Mall of him next to the other icons of this country?’

(Martin confirmed that Johnson made that request of him, but he never asked Toobin to reply.)

“This is the killer part: If he’s a private person, then the King estate and family can say, ‘If you take a picture of the Memorial and you sell it as a postcard, you owe them a licensing fee. I don’t know if a member of the Congressional Black Caucus would be willing to pick that up as an issue, but I am certain a White Republican would say, ‘Get the hell out of here.’”

Warming to his subject, Johnson said, “Who makes a profit off the Lincoln Memorial? Who makes a profit off the Jefferson Memorial?…The King family – or any entrepreneur – should not benefit from saying I want to sell some postcards of the Memorial that’s on federal property.

“My whole point is that’s crazy. Why are y’all jacking with me, knowing I know all this information? All I wanted to do was raise money to build a memorial for your daddy… Let them go out there and take some pictures of Dexter’s house in Malibu, with him living in a large mansion. Y’all trying to raise $170 million for the King Center.”

He noted the King estate had engaged Sotheby’s, the auction house, in 2006 to sell Dr. King’s personal papers.

“They were putting the papers on the auction block,” Johnson recounted. “Shirley Franklin [the former mayor of Atlanta] said, ‘We can’t have that’ and paid the King estate $32 million. Now, the King estate is coming back and saying, ‘Oh, we need $170 million for the King Center. I can even understand that. But what did you do with the $32 million? Is this going to be every time y’all need some money, you’re going to put your hands out to hold someone hostage? They are already charging people for the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.”

In a statement, Bernice King said, “While I love my brothers dearly, this latest decision by them is extremely troubling. Not only am I appalled and utterly ashamed, I am frankly disappointed that they would even entertain the thought of selling these precious items.”

Making Future Black History Now

By Ron Busby, Sr. NNPA Columnist

As America continues to celebrate the countless achievements of African Americans during Black History Month, it makes sense to remind each other that the things we do every day will be the historical recollections for future generations.

There is no question of the value of recounting the daring exploits, the against-all-odds battles won, or of revisiting the horrors and brutalities that marked our journey through this country’s history. I just don’t believe that enough of us approach our daily commitments with an eye on how our actions – or inactions – will impact the lives of Black Americans in the future.

I could fill this space with the names of prodigious Black inventors, from Jan Matzeliger to Norbert Rilleaux, Garrett Morgan to Dr. Mark Dean.

We all know the contributions of Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm and their Freedom’s Journal, the Sengstackes, the Murphys, the Vanns, the Scotts, the John H. Johnsons and the Earl G. Graves and their heroic struggles to make sure our stories were told – accurately. We know of Madame C.J. Walker, A.G. Gaston, Alonzo Herndon, Oprah, Bob Johnson, Herman Russell and the empire builders of the business world.

But today I want to give a Black History shout out to

the millions of nameless, faceless business women and men who rose before dawn and got home long after everyone was asleep. The barbers, hairdressers, shopkeepers, brick masons, carpenters, café owners, mechanics, painters, printers, shoe shine fellows and repairmen. The tailors, grocers, ice, coal and wood deliverymen….

All the folks whose toils paved the way for us, paid the tuition to Howard, Morehouse, Johnson C. Smith, Fisk, Xavier, Dillard, FAMU and all the “A&M’s” across the south!

After nearly 50 years of successfully aspiring to “good jobs,” we are witnessing a boom in the numbers of Black Americans returning to our roots as entrepreneurs and business owners, and this boom couldn’t have come at a better time. When it’s clear that government solutions to income inequality fail to factor in or include us; when Black un- and underemployment threaten the nutritional health and educational opportunities for our children; when globalization of markets consigns our participation to the role of consumers, that’s when it should become clear the key role that Black business plays in our communities.

The U.S Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) is acutely aware of the battle that African Americans face in the marketplace today.

When online purchases of clothing eclipses the purchases made inside actual stores, the oppor-

tunities for Black retailers practically disappears. Despite the obvious love affair Black folks have with hats, suits, shoes and boots, it is Nordstrom, Macy’s, Neiman’s and local designer boutiques that get their share of our income inequality, not Black-owned clothes sellers.

We struggle to find a Black-owned grocery chain, even though African Americans spend a disproportionate share of their disposable income on food.

Black-owned restaurants are an increasingly endangered species, even as national chains pad their bottom lines with the lion’s share of our discretionary spending on food, including sushi.

Black automobile dealers fare a little better, though the 80s and 90s wreaked havoc on the number of franchised dealerships owned by African Americans.

Without question, we continue to provide the comfortable profit cushion, particularly for luxury brand automobiles. (Remember, every dollar earned without advertising/marketing effort to earn that dollar is FREE MONEY!) Telecom companies, high-end electronics, “luxury” liquors, condo sellers and jewelers all positively salivate when their coffers fill up with Black dollars.

Among the goals of the USBC, entrepreneur development is the loftiest and most elusive. But we believe if we are successful at reigniting our passion for business ownership, we will have the best opportunity to solve the challenges faced by

Black America. The record of our ability to build colleges, insurance companies and hospitals proves that when necessary, we can achieve monumental “wins” through collective entrepreneurial activity. And — in today’s terminology – joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions provide the context for our next collective steps in business growth.

So, we at the USBC and our affiliates across the country encourage you to be more mindful, and more intentional as you pursue your dreams. Understand that 20, 50, 100 years from now someone will read the record of your contribution to life as they know it, and the fact that you made a lot of money won’t be enough to get your name in the record book. Business ownership opens doors of opportunity, not just for you and your family, but the families of your employees, associates, customers/ clients, vendors and suppliers.

That improved quality of life affords access to opportunities for education, earning, travel and the new worlds they discover will create future generations of inventors and history makers. Black History is made and celebrated every day… make sure that your everyday actions pave the way.

Ron Busby, Sr. is president and CEO of U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. For more information about the U.S. Black Chambers, go to www.usblackchamber.org/

A Knockout Punch for George Zimmerman

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

Had he not massacred Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman would be an average White man holding down a mediocre job, living under the radar, and aspiring for a law enforcement job. He and his wife would probably be divorcing (as they are now) on account of his brutality (she cites his beatings in her divorce proceedings). Nobody, but nobody, would know his name or give a hoot about him.

Zimmerman massacred Trayvon Martin, though, and that’s his claim to fame. He shot down a Black teen armed only with Skittles and iced tea. He said he did it because he felt “threatened.” The police told him not to act after he called them. He also had time to walk, or even run, away. Stand your ground laws gave him an excuse to massacre Trayvon Martin.

And so he did.

This ought to be the end of the story. But George Zimmerman could not give up the limelight so easily. His “legal defense fund” raised more than six figures and

got his wife charged with perjury after she claimed the family had no assets. Tens of thousands of that money were used to get Zimmerman “established” post trial.

Who are these people who not only support Zimmerman, but are also willing to pay to make their support clear? Don’t they understand that in supporting Zimmerman they also support the massacre of a young Black man? Does it matter to them that millions are galled and appalled by their financial support of Zimmerman? Or are they “standing their ground”?

Zimmerman’s next venture was to take up painting. Though his artwork most resembles a child’s etch-a-sketch rendition, the first paining he put on eBay sold for more than $100,000. The Associated Press has sued him for using their images to create a painting of Angela Corey, the Florida state attorney who decided to try him in the massacre of Trayvon Martin. Always flippant and out of order, Zimmerman said he will sue AP, putting his threat on Twitter. Does he not understand that the $100,000 he made on his

painting is no threat to the Associated Press?

Now, Celebrity Boxing owner Damon Feidman, was considering a three-round, Payper-View fight between Zimmerman and rapper DMX (sorry, I had not heard about him until the fight came up. George Zimmerman just wants headlines. What is the DMX agenda? Doesn’t he understand that if he looks even close to losing the fight, he might have a stand your ground massacre in his hands? Furthermore, doesn’t he understand, don’t we all, that this is all about monetizing a massacre, allowing Zimmerman to gain because his notoriety is directly connected to the killing of Trayvon Martin.

From my understanding, people who participate in Payper-View programs earn a lump sum and a percentage of the monies spent to watch the “event.”

Thousands of people say they are interested in seeing this fight. If they are at all interested in sending a murderer a signal, they ought to miss the opportunity to watch this drama. Every dollar spent on this pay-per-view debacle, is a dollar

transferred to the man who not only killed Trayvon Martin but also has no shame about profiting from that massacre. Fortunately, the match was cancelled over the weekend.

In our haven of capitalism anybody has a right to attempt to monetize anything. But markets depend on supply and demand.

Zimmerman can supply all the nonsense he wants to in an open market. His massacre can only be monetized when consumers demand it. The same people who stood by Trayvon Martin need now stand their ground against George Zimmerman and actively jettison his plan to monetize his murder of an innocent and unarmed black teen.

Memo to DMX and the other 15,000 people who said they wanted to fight George Zimmerman. When this murderer understands that the market will not embrace him, he will have to go back under the radar and get a job like everyone else. He’ll learn that his traffic tickets and his wife beating are not national news.

He will learn that he cannot reap rewards from massacring a child.

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BUSINESS

Models Announced For Oneofakind Baton Rouge Fashion Week BATON ROUGE, LA — Oneofakind Baton Rouge Fashion Week (OBRFW) announces the models that were selected for the 2014 fashion festivities.

Hundreds of models auditioned, but only 54 were chosen to participate in OBRFW. They are from all over Louisiana, including greater Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans areas, and Arkansas.

“I was amazed by the turnout and all the talent Baton Rouge has to offer,” says Leslie Presnall, Southern Flair fashion blogger.

“People tend to think only bigger places like New York and Los Angeles are relevant in the fashion industry, but the model search and Baton Rouge Fashion Week are proof of Louisiana’s growing fashion scene.”

The judges for OBRFW Model Search included Chelsea Brasted, an entertainment reporter for NOLA. com; Elle Marie, a fashion writer for the Rouge Collection Magazine; Brittany Harris, founder of The B. Harris Agency; Bethany Imhoff, the managing editor of inRegister magazine; Leslie Presnall, a fashion blogger for Southern Flair; Victor Schmitt of Victor’s International; and LeJeanne Folse Harris of LSB Cosmetics.

The judges scored models on their runway walks, ability to follow instructions, and overall

(Pictured are OBRFW models Daija Trask, of Prairieville, LA and Jace Hanermann of Saint Francisville, LA. Photos courtesy of Oneofakind Baton Rouge Fashion Week/Steve Hammond Photography.) presence. Models that were selected for OBRFW will have the chance to compete to be “Model of the Year.” This award results in a modeling contract, cash prize, and promotional page on BatonRougeFashionWeek.com for one year.

The winner will be announced after OBRFW 2014.

The models chosen will walk in the OBRFW Big Night on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at Capitol Park Museum. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. The event is not only a fashion show, but also a charity

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What – if anything – do you need to change? Which organizations are you competing against? How could you be more effective? Ask donors and funders. Ask those who support you and those who have never provided funding.

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“My team and I are delighted with the tremendous number of models who came out for our model search,” says Brandon D. Campbell, OBRFW’s founder & executive producer. “We are eager to work with the talented models who were selected. OBRFW Big Night is an experience for everyone in the Baton Rouge community to come out to enjoy and support a great cause.”

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RELIGION

Thinking About the Trinity explore the landscape of faith.

It was an exciting and rewarding process. I found that I was able to make sense of a lot of basic Christian ideas quite quickly. But the doctrine of the Trinity still seemed nonsensical. That’s my reason for wanting to explain why this doctrine is so important and how we can make sense of it.

Let’s begin by asking what theology tries to do. One of the best answers is that it aims to weave together the threads of Scripture. It’s about trying to tell the full story so that we do justice to the wonder and glory of God. The Christian faith is like a lens that helps us bring things into focus, or a light that

lights up the landscape of life so that we can see it more clearly.

C. S. Lewis made this point brilliantly when he said, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

So how do we do justice to God? God is so great that our little minds just can’t fit Him in! When we’re confronted with something too big for us to fully understand, our natural instinct is to scale it down. There’s nothing wrong with that—unless, of course, we think that our reduced version of reality is the way things really are. In the end, our minds just aren’t big enough to cope with

God. He simply overwhelms our mental capacities.

Sometimes, in our attempt to master something complicated, we make it simple. Yet you can’t make something complicated simple. What you’re really doing is leaving out the complicated bits, or forcing something complex into a little box, and throwing away the bits that don’t fit.

Simplification is always about reduction. And sometimes it’s about distortion as well.

That’s true in our thinking about God. You can’t fit God into a neat little slogan. It’s like trying to capture smoke in your hands or the fragrance of a summer meadow in a jar. God just can’t

be mastered. He is supremely resistant to our attempts to reduce reality to our level. When Paul declares that the peace of God “surpasses all comprehension” (Phil. 4:7), he is not suggesting it is irrational. Rather, he is pointing out the inability of the human mind to cope with such things.

Back in the fifth century, Augustine of Hippo—one of Christianity’s early theologians— wrote about this problem. Taking a break from writing his major work On the Trinity, he went for a stroll along a beautiful beach nearby. As he walked, he came across a young boy behaving rather strangely. Time after time, the child went to the edge of the

shoreline, filled a shell with seawater, and then emptied it into a hole he had dug in the sand.

Augustine watched for some time, mystified. Eventually, he decided to ask what was going on. Pointing to the Mediterranean Sea, the boy said, “I am going to empty the ocean into this hole in the sand.” According to the legend, Augustine smiled and said, “You can’t do that—you’ll never fit the ocean into that tiny hole you’ve dug.” The boy replied: “And you’re wasting your time writing a book about God. You’ll never fit God into a book.”

It’s a good point! The doc-

THE CHURCH LADY REPORT

really a part of the church that was not praying?) Yep! Hee, hee and some of ya’ll still ain’t praying.

Well, next they’d say, “I’ll pray for you and you pray for me that my last days are my best days and heaven will be my home.”

Anybody remember that?

Lord ham mercy, I must be getting old. Chile I remember when I first got baptized and I had to do this. I was scared to death. I didn’t know what to say mainly because I just didn’t want to say what everybody else was saying. I wanted to give my own testimony. I did then and I still do. I remember how I use to think…why is everybody saying the same thing? Is everybody’s life the same or is this just a script that all Christians are supposed to memorize to say on the second Sunday?

I guess I still feel that way ya’ll. Is my life and my walk with the Lord mine, or is it supposed to be just like everybody else’s?

Well I would have to say that each one of us got our own story to tell. Mine may not be yours and yours may not be mine. Sometimes they may sound a little bit alike, but they are still different.

Chile can’t nobody tell what the Lord has done for you like you, and I know can’t nobody tell my story like me; So please ya’ll let’s get back to doing that and stop wanting to be like and sound like everybody else.

The beauty of our maker is that he made us all different for a purpose. He intended it that way because he likes variety. If God would have wanted us all to be the same, don’t you think he coulda done that? Sure he

could have babies, but he didn’t because he wanted us to have options. He made some fat, and some skinny…well some of us he made skinny, but we helped him out a little bit with the fat part…hee, hee! But you know what I mean. He made some of us short and some tall, and others smart and then some a little bit smarter. Nah, I’m not saying that God made nobody dumb because he looked at all of his creations when he finished and he said “that’s good!” Now ya’ll know good and well that God would never call dumb good! At least I don’t think so. Anyway, he made some white and some black, but he made it all good.

I guess what I am trying to say everybody is love who you are and embrace who you are and stop trying to act like other folk.

Now even the people in the church are trying to act like the people in the world. The reality is that the people in the world are the people in the church, but that is not the way God wants it. We have to raise the standard. Now does that mean that we are without sin?

Shoot no! Chile rocks would be flying all over the place, but what it does mean is we should just live well. Do your best babies and try to be an example for somebody else. Live your best life like Past Joel would say. Write your own story. Tell your testimony because you’re the one who had to pass the test, and I hope you passed it even if it has taken ten times; so why not tell the truth honey. Just tell the truth and help get some folk get free starting with you!

by Alister McGrath

As a young man, I was an aggressive atheist.

In fact, when I read the writings of Richard Dawkins, I get all nostalgic. You see, I used to be like that as well! I regarded religious people as deluded, believing all sorts of ridiculous nonsense. If I had been asked to single out what I regarded as the most absurd aspect of Christian belief, I would have pointed to the doctrine of the Trinity. How can God be three and one at the same time? It was irrational gibberish.

After discovering Christianity while I was a student at Oxford University, I began to

Hello my darlings. I am so glad to be able to be with you all again. Do ya’ll remember when churches use to have speaking meeting? Ah, come on don’t be trying to get all dignified on me now. You know, they also called it determination or testifying Sunday. Ya’ll remember how everybody use to get up and say First giving my obedience to God the head of my life; to the pastor, officers and members and all my beloved saint’s…Brothers and sisters I rose up this morning to stand before you to tell you my determination; now church my determination is to try and live to best of my ability, saved sanctified and full of the holy ghost, well

if you were Baptist you probably didn’t say that part. You said something like I have no other desire but to stay saved and treat my neighbor right. I ask the praying part of the church to pray for me (Did that mean that there was

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healt Enrollments Steady as ACA Deadline Nears 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.

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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 hildRen from page 4 your blood to your brain to carry on the daily processes of thinking, probering all children. the citizens of the nation must lem solving and remembering.” the CDF Action Council, build- demand that our leaders free our “By the year 2030, the number of ing on the best practices in states children from the false ideological African Americans age 65 or older is and lessons learned about children and political tugs of war among expected to more than double to 6.9 falling through the bureaucratic those who put excess profits ahead million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, of children’s lives.

American heart Association spokesstrongly urged Congress to enact how well did Congress protect person. “Although Alzheimer’s is the All healthy Children Act, children in 2007? Not well enough: not part of normal aging, age is the S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced 276 Members of Congress had greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s by representative Bobby Scott good CDF Action Council Condisease. So it is important that AfRuben Dein Lathe Rosa, left, and helpsSenator attendees gressional to sign up for health coverage during Care Act enrollment (D-VA) house Scorecard scores of 80 an Affordable rican Americans take steps fair nowheld to at the University of Texas-Pan American inBernie Edinburg, Texas.

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Dr. Charles Drew Charles Drew’s early interests were in education, particularly in medicine, but he was also an outstanding athlete. As a youngster he was an award winning swimmer and starred Dunbar High School in football, baseball, basketball and track and field, winning the James E. Walker Memorial medal as his school’s best all around athlete. After graduation from Dunbar in 1922, he went on to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts where he captained the track team and starred as a halfback on the school’s football team, winning the Thomas W. Ashley Memorial trophy in his junior year as the team most valuable player and being named to the All-American team. Drew had a rich assortment of graduation announcements and convocations since his education was extensive through his life. Upon graduation from Amherst in 1926 he was awarded the Howard Hill Mossman trophy as the man who contributed the most to Amherst athletics during his four years in school.

After graduation from Amherst, Drew took on a position as a biology teacher at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland and also served as the school’s Athletic Director.

During his two years at Morgan State, he helped to turn the school’s basketball and football programs into collegiate champions.

In 1928, Charles decided to pursue his interest in medicine and enrolled at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was received as a member of the Medical Honorary Society and graduated in 1933 with Master of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine degrees, finishing second in his class of 127 students. He stayed in Montreal for a while as an intern at Montreal General Hospital and at the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1935, he returned to the United States and began working as an instructor of pathology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was also a resident at Freedmen’s Hospital (the teaching hospital for Howard University) and was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship.

Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital. During this time he became involved in research on blood and blood transfusions.

Years back, while a student at McGill, he had saved a man by giving him a blood transfusion and had studied under Dr. John Beattie, an instructor of anatomy who was intensely interested in blood transfusions. Now at Columbia, he wrote a dissertation on “Banked Blood” in which he described a technique he developed for the long-term preservation of blood plasma. Prior to his discovery, blood could not be stored for more than two days because of the rapid breakdown of red blood cells. Drew had discovered that by separating the plasma (the liquid part of blood) from the whole blood (in which the red blood cells exist) and then refrigerating them separately, they could be

combined up to a week later for a blood transfusion. He also discovered that while everyone has a certain type of blood (A, B, AB, or O) and thus are prevented from receiving a full blood transfusion from someone with different blood, everyone has the same type of plasma.

Thus, in certain cases where a whole blood transfusion is not necessary, it was sufficient to give a plasma transfusion which could be administered to anyone, regardless of their blood type. He convinced Columbia University to establish a blood bank and soon was asked to go to England to help set up that country’s first blood bank. Drew became the first Black to receive a Doctor of Medical Science degree from Columbia and was now gaining a reputation worldwide.

On September 29, 1939, Charles married Lenore Robbins, with whom he would have four children. At the same time, however, World War II was breaking out in Europe. Drew was named the Supervisor of the Blood Transfusion Association for New York City and oversaw its efforts towards providing plasma to the British Blood Bank. He was later named a project director for the American Red Cross but soon resigned his post after the United States War Department issued a directive that blood taken from White donors should be segregated from that of Black donors.

In 1942, Drew returned to Howard University to head its Department of Surgery, as well as the Chief of Surgery at Freedmen’s Hospital. Later he was named Chief of Staff and Medical Director for the Hospital. In 1948 he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for his work on blood plasma. He was also presented with the E. S. Jones Award for Research in Medical Science and became the first Black to be appointed an examiner by the American Board of Surgery. In 1945 he was presented honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from Virginia State College as well as Amherst College where he attended as an undergraduate student. In 1946 he was elected Fellow of the International College of Surgeons and in 1949 appointed Surgical Consultant for the United States Army’s European Theater of Operations.

Charles Drew died on April 1, 1950 when the automobile he was driving went out of control and turned over. Drew suffered extensive massive injuries but contrary to popular legend was not denied a blood transfusion by an all-White hospital - he indeed received a transfusion but was beyond the help of the experienced physicians attending to him. His family later wrote letters to those physicians thanking them for the care they provided. Over the years, Drew has been considered one of the most honored and respected figures in the medical field and his development of the blood plasma bank has given a second chance of live to millions.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the first American to win gold for the long jump and the first woman to earn more than 7,000 points in the seven-event heptathlon.

She’s ultimately won three golds, a silver and two bronze, making her the most decorated female athlete in Olympic track and field history. She’s gone on to advocate for children.

Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee was born on March 3, 1962, in East St. Louis, Illinois. As a teen, she won the National Junior Pentathlon championships four years in a row, and received widespread honors in high school in various sports, including track, basketball and volleyball. Joyner-Kersee thrived as a basketball and track-and-field star, however, and during her junior year, she set the Illinois high-school long jump record for women, with a 6.68-meter jump.

Joyner-Kersee attended the University of Califonia, Los Angeles on a full scholarship, and continued to gain fame on both the court and field. However, in 1981, at the age of 19, she began to focus on training for the Olympics, specifically for the heptathlon—an Olympic track-and-field event comprised of seven separate events, including the 200-meter run, 800-meter run and 100-meter hurdles. She graduated from UCLA in 1985.

Regarded as one of the greatest female athletes in history, Joyner-Kersee won a silver medal in the heptathlon at the 1984 Summer Olympics, as well as gold and bronze medals in the long jump in 1988 and 1992, respectively. She is currently the heptathlon world

Alumnus Charles Tillman Named NFL Man of the Year

Jackie Joyner-Kersee record-holder, scoring 7,291 points—she’s set a record in the heptathlon four times—at the Summer Olympics in 1988, and taking home a gold medal.

Joyner-Kersee is also a former long jump word record holder; she tied world long-jump record in 1987, with a 7.45-meter jump (her record was broken in 1988 by Galina Chistyakova, who jumped 7.52 meters).

Joyner-Kersee is currently the American record-holder in the long jump.

Joyner-Kersee’s last Olympic run came in 1996, when she took home a bronze medal in the long jump at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She did not compete in the heptathlon that year due to a pulled hamstring.

A sufferer of exercise-induced asthma, Joyner-Kersee officially retired from track and field in 2001 at age 38. Following her retirement, she founded the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center Foundation, which is aimed at encouraging youth in her underprivileged hometown to play sports.

Chicago Bears cornerback and Ragin’ Cajuns football alumnus Charles Tillman has been named the 2013 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. The award was presented to him Saturday during the NFL Honors awards show at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The prestigious award, which is named after the late Bears Hall of Fame running back, is the only league honor that recognizes a player’s community service as well as his playing excellence.

Nicknamed “Peanut”, Tillman was a four-time letterman in football for Louisiana from 1999-2002. In 2002, he received All-American recognition; was named an All-Independent selection in 2000; and was a two-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection.

He ended his career as a Ragin’ Cajun with 284 tackles, 12 interceptions, seven fumble recoveries and three blocked punts.

Tillman paused to wipe away tears after accepting the award from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

“As a Chicago Bear, this honor of course has great meaning to me, and it’s pretty sweet bringing Walter back home,” Tillman said.

“Please know how humbled and honored I am to be receiving this award.”

Tillman is the fifth Bears player to win the award, joining Payton (1977), Dave Duerson (1987), Mike Singletary (1990) and Jim Flanigan (2000).

Walter Payton’s children, Jarrett and Brittney, will honor Tillman Sunday on the field at MetLife Stadium before the start of Super Bowl XLVIII. “I’m grateful to be the recipient of such a prestigious award,” Tillman said. “Walter Payton’s legacy continues to be a beacon of service and giving, and I’m just

Charles Tillman

trying to do my small part. I don’t think any of the finalists do what they do to get recognition, but we do it because we are passionate about helping others.”

Since being selected by the Bears in the second round of the 2003 draft, Tillman has become one of the best defensive players in franchise history. A two-time Pro Bowl cornerback, he owns Bears career records with nine defensive touchdowns, eight interception return TDs and 675 interception return yards. His 36 interceptions are the most by a cornerback in franchise history and third most overall behind safeties Gary Fencik (38) and Richie Petitbon (37).

Since entering the NFL, Tillman is the league’s only player with at least 30 interceptions and 30 forced fumbles. During that span he is second in forced fumbles, tied

for fifth in interceptions, fifth in interception return yards and tied for second in interception return TDs. Off the field, Tillman’s contributions are equally impressive.

Since he created the Cornerstone Foundation in 2005, his efforts have impacted over one million Chicago-area children and raised more than $1 million.

The foundation began by providing children with educational opportunities and resources to excel in the classroom. But after Tillman’s three-month-old daughter, Tiana, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and received a lifesaving heart transplant in 2008, the Cornerstone Foundation changed its mission to improving the lives of critically and chronically ill children.

The Cornerstone Foun-

dation’s programs include “Charles’Locker,” “Field of Dreams,” “Holiday Celebration,” “Mother’s Champagne Brunch” and “The Tiana Fund.”

Charles’ Locker provides pediatric hospital patients with access to iPads, laptops, gaming systems and other kinds of entertainment to help pass the time during their hospital stays and annually reaches more than 370,000 children.

The Tiana Fund has distributed more than $1 million to over 300 families who have been identified by local organizations as at-risk or in-need. The support is provided to families and individuals to strengthen their ability to care for themselves, enhance their stability and security, and improve their quality of life.

Tillman and his wife, Jackie, also contribute their time and resources to local, national and international organizations outside of the Cornerstone Foundation. The Tillmans have helped build a school in Cambodia, sponsored children through the Urban Promise program in Camden, New Jersey, and have purchased and donated over 700 tickets to Bears home games since 2008 through the Bears Home Team Hand-Off program.

Tillman is also an avid supporter of the military and has participated in a USO tour to Iraq, volunteered with the USO of Illinois on Thanksgiving to serve meals to local troops, and provided soldiers with tickets to games at Soldier Field during the 2013 season.

By winning the award, Tillman will receive a $25,000 donation in addition to the $1,000 he was given for being named the Bears’ nominee. The veteran cornerback was one of three finalists in 2011 and has been the Bears’ nominee five of the last seven years.