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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, where King delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
“They had every reason to lash out in anger...and yet they choose a different path,” Obama said. “In the face of hatred they prayed for their tormentors. In the face of violence they stood up and set in.”
WASHINGTON - America is struggling to fully realize the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his famous “I have a dream” speech 50 years ago, as the goal of economic security for all remains elusive, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. Obama, the first black U.S. president, spoke to thousands of marchers on Washington’s National Mall on Wednesday to commemorate King’s landmark address, which came to symbolize the struggle for equality among blacks and whites in America. Obama said King’s speech inspired millions of Americans to fight for a more just society and rights that people now take for granted. “To dismiss the magnitude
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B ATO N ROUGE, LA — MayorPresident Kip Holden announced We d n e s d a y t h a t B a t o n Mayor Kip R o u g e w i l l Holden host its first New Year’s Eve event in Downtown Baton Rouge at Town Square on North Boulevard. The event is called “Red Stick Revelry” and the event will include dropping a customdesign lighted Red Stick. See event, on page 2
US President Barack Obama (R) delivers remarks in front of a freedom bell during the “Let Freedom Ring” commemoration event August 28, 2013 in Washington, DC. The event was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
of this progress, to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed, that dishonors the courage, the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years,” Obama said.
“But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete,” he said, calling economic justice the “unfinished business” of the civil rights battle.
Rep. John Lewis, Gabrielle Union and Thousands of Americans Help Unveil the 1963 March on Washington Stamp Artwork with a Virtual Stamp Mosaic WASHINGTON, DC -Equality has a stamp of its own today as the U.S. Postal Service introduces the 1963 March on Washington limited-edition Forever stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic milestone. For the first time, the
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Postal Service unveiled the stamp artwork with the help of people across the country. Throughout this month, individuals added their photo to the March on Washington stamp on the U.S. Postal Service’s Stamps Facebook page to help reveal a small piece of
the stamp. During today’s First-Dayof-Issuance ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, DC, actress Gabrielle Union added her Twitter profile photo to the mosaic to See stamp, on page 2
Obama said that the anniversary of King’s address should not obscure the unnamed, unknown activists who agitated to end segregation and who inspired other social justice causes ranging from
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SU’s Peoples Chosen For Prestigious Education Accreditation Team BATON ROUGE – Southern University’s Dr. VerJanis A. Peoples has been selected to be part of the prestigious Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) site visiting teams. Peoples, the interim vice chancellor on the Baton Rouge campus, will be a member of one of several CAEP’s site visiting teams that recommends the final accreditation decisions for more than 100 educator preparation providers each academic year. “This is a good for Southern University that it has someone who is national board certified and qualified to be part of an accreditation visitor team,” said Peoples. “This will also increase the university’s visibility with other institutions across the country.” In selecting Peoples, CAEP President James G Cibulka said in a letter to SU Chancellor Dr. James L. Llorens, “You should be proud that this individual meets the intellectual, academic, and personal
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women’s rights to gay rights. “They had every reason to lash out in anger...and yet they choose a different path,” Obama said. “In the
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demands that are required to be a member of CAEP’s site visitor team.” CAEP’s focus is to advance excellence in educator preparation through evidence-based accreditation that assures quality and supports continuous improvement to strengthen pre-K through 12th grade student learning. Peoples was named interim vice chancellor in December 2012. She had been dean of SU’s College of Education and a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She has a Ph.D from Kansas State University in the area of Curriculum and Instruction. Peoples is a certified Louisiana Board Examiner with the Louisiana Department of Education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. She also serves as a reviewer for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, a profesSee team, on page 2
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Transitioning to College Life More than 20 area employer and community resource providers attended the recent North Baton Rouge Job and Career Fair at @MyBRCC and provided information about available job training programs and services...See Page 5
LSU University College’s Summer Scholars program presented its annual “Celebration of Excellence” closing ceremony and banquet at The Club at LSU Union Square. .... See Page 3
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Nine men and women from around the state have been chosen winners of the 2013 Angel Award presented by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation... See Page 7
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High school students at Louisiana Connections Academy are finding that options once reserved for higher education are available to them this back-to-school season, as online learning meets career technical education (CTE). Connections recently expanded its traditional collegeprep curriculum to include a series of Career Technical Education courses – all delivered online, said Principal Caroline Wood. Students at Louisiana Connections Academy can take courses like Introduction to Law, Accounting, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Medical Terminology, and more. “Career education isn’t a new idea, but increased awareness for CTE coupled with online delivery to all high school students, not just seniors, is really exciting,” said Principal Wood. Louisiana Connections Academy is a K-12 free, virtual charter which has 463 students enrolled in grades 9-12 for the 2013-2014 school year. “Providing career education, even introductory courses, is a great way for students to ‘try-out’ a career that interests them – and because courses like ours are delivered online they provide more flexibility and personalization for students,” said Principal Wood. Louisiana Connections Academy educators believe two factors may be boosting student demand for both e-learning and CTE courses: (1) the desire for 21st Century learning skills and workforce readiness; and (2) the request for scheduling flexibility for older students to pursue internships and/or part-time employment. “My child is able to receive a high quality education while maintaining a flexibility to pursue his musical career thanks to Louisiana Connections Academy,” said Louisiana Connections Academy parent Donna Hubbs, whose son
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Jacob attends the school. “Virtual schooling has been huge for our family and Connections Academy has helped us so much.” Presently 14 million students are enrolled in CTE courses — encompassing every state, with programs in nearly 1,300 public high schools and 1,700 two-yearcolleges, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. To help students hone in on an area of study, the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) has developed 16 different “Career Clusters®” that let students explore a variety of careers, and gain career-specific knowledge. Sample “Clusters” include: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and Law, Public Safety, and Corrections & Security. The U.S. Department of Education found that students enrolled in CTE programs have a high school graduation rate of more than 90 percent, compared to the average national freshman graduation rate of 75 percent. Additionally, 70 percent of students concentrating in CTE areas stayed in post-secondary education or transferred to a four-year degree program. “CTE courses help students address personal goals of achievement and global competitiveness. Students love their ‘real world relevance,’ mixed with core academics,” said Principal Wood. To learn more, visit www. LouisianaConnectionsAcademy. com
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Holden said the Red Stick Revelry event will also feature live music on the new stage in Galvez Plaza, including a performance by the popular band, Phat Hat, and a noon event for children that will offer creative activities and the raising of the Red Stick into place. “This will continue the tradition of our other great festivals and
concerts and we expect it will be a great draw for the local hotels and businesses as we give people throughout the Capital Region a great new destination for New Year’s Eve entertainment,” he added. The Red Stick that will be dropped at Town Square on New Year’s Eve is a 9-foot low-energy
ABOUT LOUISIANA CONNECTIONS ACADEMY (www.LouisianaConnectionsAcademy.com) Louisiana Connections Academy is the state’s leading provider of high-quality, free public virtual charter schooling for grades K through 12. Louisiana Connections Academy offers a superior, personalized education for students, offered by Louisiana certified teachers, with the freedom and flexibility of an online education that meets the state’s standards. As an online charter school, students access their lessons anytime, anywhere as long as they have the technology, tools and support of their family. Accountability for meeting high academic student performance is monitored by the non-profit charter board, Friends of Louisiana Connections Academy, Wade Henderson, President. The charter school is authorized by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to accept students from any parish in the state. 1200 students attended for the 2012-2013 school year. Principal Caroline Wood has expanded the school curriculum to include tutoring, summer school, dual enrollment programs and high quality electives, such as elearning courses at Juilliard. The school is headquartered in Baton Rouge at 8281 Goodwood Blvd., Ste J, (225) 372-8389. Student field trips, graduation ceremonies, parent-to-parent events and school information sessions are regularly scheduled and promoted at the school website. LED light sculpture attached to an 8-foot aluminum over acrylic ring with “Baton Rouge” illuminated from within by LED lighting. The Red Stick will be installed at Town Square in December and removed soon after New Year’s Day to be placed in storage until the following year. The Red Stick will be raised into position at noon on New Year’s Eve and descend from a 30-foot pole mounted on top of the existing beacon beginning at one minute before midnight. Design of the Red Stick light sculpture was by Sarah Powell of Compose Digital Design and it is being manufactured by GibKo, a custom manufacturer of LED signs and light structures.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Let FREEDOM ring. MLK REMEMBERING THE ‘I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH’ Note: On this the 50th anniversary celebration of MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream Speech, let us reflect on the inspirational and poetic words. So very beautiful... if only it can be achieved. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SPOKE THE FOLLOWING IN WASHINGTON AUMarge GUST 28, 1963 at approximately 3:00 pm: Lawrence From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty!! We are free at last. (Just reflecting) Love, Marge
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reveal the final piece of the 1963 March on Washington stamp. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the last surviving speaker at the March, joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund President and CEO Wade Henderson; U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr.; Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman and Union to officially dedicate the stamp and underscore the importance of this historic event.
“It is so appropriate and so fitting for the United States Postal Service to issue this Forever stamp on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington,” said Lewis. “The march was one of the turning points in the on-going struggle for civil rights and social justice in America. In the years to come, when individuals use this stamp, they will be reminded of the distance we have come and See stamp, on page 3
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The Odell S. Williams Now And Then AfricanAmerican History Museum Celebrated the 50th Year Anniversary of the March on Washington By Sadie Roberts-Joseph Baton Rouge, Louisiana – The Odell S. Williams Now and Then African-American History Museum celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. the fifth year Civil Rights March on Washington. East Baton Rouge Parish residents, local dignitaries, elected officials celebrated this years 50th year anniversary of the march on Washington. The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-Amer-
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the progress we have made as a nation. And they will be reminded of the civic duty of every American to stand up for what is right in our democracy.” “It’s an honor to be here in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and dedicate a stamp that commemorates what Dr. King described as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,” said Stroman. “The U.S. Postal Service takes pride in being able to recognize historic events by issuing these limitededition stamps commemorating the ‘Best of America.’” Fifty years ago, on Aug. 28, 1963, nearly a quarter of a million people came together in Washington, DC, to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was then that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a defining
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ican History Museum, 538 South Boulevard commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington with a friendship march, speakers and music. On this day, in 1968, thousands of Americans came together on the National Mall in Washington DC to have their voices heard all across the nation. We came together and spoke in one voice for positive change in our commUnity. Please call the at 225-3434431 for additional information about this and other events/tours.
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moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. The 1963 March on Washington stamp is the last of three stamps issued this year as part of a civil rights series commemorating courage, strength and equality in America. The first Forever stamp marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in January, while the second Forever stamp honored Rosa Parks on the 100th anniversary of her birth in February. Under the art direction of Antonio Alcala of Alexandria, VA, stamp artist Gregory Manchess of New York City, depicts marchers against the background of the Washington Monument. Placards calling for equal rights and jobs for all — two principal themes of the march — are prominently displayed. Using broad strokes and painting with oils on gessoed illustration board, Manchess conveys an impressionistic effect of the historic occasion.
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face of hatred they prayed for their tormentors. In the face of violence they stood up and set in.” “Because they kept marching America changed...Because they marched America became more free and more fair,” he added. The president addressed the crowd from the Lincoln Memorial, the very spot where King made his plea for racial tolerance and equality. It was a day of rememberance, but also politics, with speakers using the occassion to criticize the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn parts of the Voting Rights Act and to note that there are still many instances of intolerance and discrimination, particularly with regards to a criminal justice system that incarcerates a disproportionate number of African Americans. “We’ll suffer the occassional setback but we will win these fights,” Obama said. Yet, the president said that in the face of income inequality, inadequate healthcare and daunting levels of unemployment, the African-American community and Americans in general cannot afford to be complacent. “The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice but it does not bend on its own,” Obama said, echoing a phrase that King himself once popularized. Obama was joined at the event and in these calls to action by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. The rain-dappled event was also attended by Civil Rights icons like Rep. John Lewis (D - Ga.), members of King’s family and talk show host Oprah Winfrey and was marked by bell ringing. In his address, King spoke of an end to discrimination and shared his vision for a new era of racial harmony. He personalized that global message, by saying in the speech’s most quoted line that his dream was that “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Obama himself offered perhaps the most vivid illustration of racial progress and King’s prophetic dream, not through the words he spoke, but by his very presence on the dais as the first African American president of the United States. Though King’s eloquence may be untouched, the president said a similar spirit of tolerance and a shared desire for greater opportunities can be found in this generation. “That same imagination, that same hunger of purpose stirs in this generation,” Obama said. “No one can match King’s brilliance but the same flame that lit the hearts of all who were willing to take that first step for justice, I know that flame remains,” he added. Clinton said that the Civil
Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and social programs like Medicare and Medicaid came to fruition in part because of King’s calls for justice and compassion. “This march and that speech changed America -- they opened minds and changed hearts and they moved millions,” Clinton said, noting that he had listened to the speech and been stirred as a teenager. Clinton noted that the country faced enormous challenges, but said the government and American citizens should not accept partisan gridlock as an excuse for inaction. “It is time to stop complaining and put our shoulders against the stubborn gates holding the American people back,” Clinton said. In his remarks, Carter sought to tie the three Democratic presidents on stage to the martyred Civil Rights leader, saying that he doubted he or Clinton or Obama would have ever been elected to the White House were it not for King’s legacy. “In truth he helped to free all people,” Carter said. He also took the opportunity to slam the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn parts of the Voting Rights act, the higher rates of imprisonment and unemployment among African Americans and gun control laws. Marchers, many wearing Tshirts with King’s face on them, began their walk near the U.S. Capitol. Participants gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, site of King’s
BATON ROUGE – LSU University College’s Summer Scholars program presented its annual “Celebration of Excellence” closing ceremony and banquet at The Club at LSU Union Square. At this event, University College awarded $3,000 through 12 book awards. The closing ceremony and banquet enables students to share highlights from the summer program, as well as to reward the scholars’ on their academic achievements. “Summer Scholars Class of 2013 has been another engaging experience for the 37 participants,” said Paul Ivey, executive director of University College. “This cohort has embraced the concepts of this program, and we expect to see each of them flourish in their academic careers at LSU.” Administered by University College, Summer Scholars is an eight-week summer bridge program that prepares selected highachieving, under-represented minority students to make a successful
transition from high school to the university. This experience offers students the opportunity during the summer semester prior to their college freshman year to become adjusted to the academic, personal and social challenges that they may encounter at LSU. “In Summer Scholars, we have a saying – ‘Once a Scholar, Always a Scholar,’” said Annette Yancy, coordinator of Summer Scholars and counselor with University College’s Center for Advising & Counseling. “Students develop friendships here that can last for the rest of their lives.” “It is gratifying to see former Summer Scholars and invested community leaders committed to our program. The philanthropic concept of ‘paying it forward’ with these generous book awards is a testimony to the impact that the Summer Scholars program makes in our LSU students’ lives,” said Ivey. University College salutes these deserving LSU students
in succeeding in their academic achievements, and expresses our gratitude to parents and friends for their continued support. Awards announced during the banquet include: Benson, Walker, Smith Book Award winners Erika Brown of Violet, La., and Kelleigh Berryhill of Marrero, La.; Campus Federal Credit Union Book Award winners Natalie Dupuy of Zachary, La., and Zaida Salame of Kenner, La.; Antonio Cousin Book Award winner Alex James of Baton Rouge; Dillion-Dotson Book Award winners LaJae Coleman of Baton Rouge; Courtney Ellis of St. Francisville, La., Isis Landry of Sorrento, La., and Bryanna West of Youngsville, La.; Shagari Jackson Book Award winner Paige Vaughn of Fordoche, La.; Saundra Yancy McGuire Book Award winner Ashunti Chase of West Monroe, La.; and Philip Micah Thomas Book
Award winner William Pleason Underwood IV of Zachary, La. Since 1933, LSU University College has served as the portal of entry for students enrolled at LSU. Academic and personal success is the hallmark of a wellrounded student, and University College provides a foundation of support services for students beginning their academic careers at LSU. University College has two enrollment divisions: The Center for Freshman Year and The Center for Advising and Counseling. Additionally, University College offers retention-specific programs: Student Support Services, Ronald E. McNair Research Scholars, and Summer Scholars. These academic support programs focus on particular student populations and are a significant part of the role and mission of University College. For more information on LSU University College, visit www. uc.lsu.edu or follow the conversation at www.facebook.com/LSU. UniversityCollege.
address on August 28, 1963, for speeches from dignitaries and civil rights leaders. They were led by a line of military veterans and people who had been at the 1963 march, their arms linked. People sang “We Shall Overcome” and other civil rights anthems. Fighting restrictive voting rights laws that Democrats say hurt minorities, combating joblessness and reducing gun violence among African Americans are among the issues that civil rights leaders put at the forefront of their efforts in 2013. “This march was supposed to be about jobs, but it’s about a lot more,” said marcher Ash Mobley, 27, of Washington, who said she was there to represent her grandmother, who had been at the 1963 event. A bell rang at 3 p.m. EDT, 50 years to the minute after King ended his clarion call of the civil rights movement with the words “Let freedom ring.” About 50 U.S. communities or organizations have said they will ring bells. The Swiss city of Lutry and Tokyo are also taking part, said Atlanta’s King Center, one of the event’s organizers. Bernice King, his youngest child, urged the crowd to stay true to the ideals enunciated by her father. “If freedom is going to ring in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, in Florida, then we must reach across the table, feed each other and let freedom ring,” she said. Obama addressed the crowd after Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the veteran civil rights activist, urged
the country to remember and build on the progress of the last five decades during a speech at the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington. “Sometimes I hear people saying, ‘Nothing has changed,’ “ Lewis said. “Come and walk in my shoes.” Lewis, who was the youngest speaker at the original 1963 event, grew up in the cotton fields of Alabama and has served in Congress for more than 25 years. He recalled participating in the Freedom Rides “in the same year Barack Obama was born” to end segregation in public transportation. “Fifty years later, we can ride wherever we want to ride, we can stay wherever we want to stay,” he said. Nevertheless, “too many of us still believe our differences divide us,” Lewis said. He urged Americans to fight to end the “scars and stains of racism,” such as stop-andfrisk policing, mass incarceration,
chronic hunger and attacks on voting rights. “We must never, ever give up,” Lewis said. “We must keep the faith and keep our eyes on the prize.” Lewis was preceded by television host and actress Oprah Winfrey, who called on the members of the crowd to celebrate the spirit of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by committing themselves to a life of service. “As we, the people, continue to honor the dream of a man and a movement,” she said, “we can be inspired, and we too can be courageous by continuing to walk in the footsteps in the path that he forged.” The “Let Freedom Ring and Call to Action” ceremony comes as almost half of Americans say much more needs to be done before the color-blind society King envisioned is realized. Wednesday’s event caps a week-long celebration of King’s historic call for racial and economic
justice. They included a march on Saturday that drew thousands of people urging action on jobs, voting rights and gun violence. Former President George W. Bush, who did not attend, said in a statement that the United States has come a long way in civil rights progress but said the “journey to justice” was not complete. “There’s still a need for every American to help hasten the day when Dr. King’s vision is made real in every community - when what truly matters is not the color of a person’s skin, but the content of their character,” Bush said in a statement. King, a black clergyman, was among six organizers of the 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” where he made his address. King’s speech is credited with helping spur passage of sweeping civil rights laws. A white prison escapee assassinated him in 1968.
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“Where Do We Go From Here?“ By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’ But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, many are discussing what Dr. King would say to the nation and world today and tell us to do. But his message to us today is as clear as it was 50 years ago if only we could hear, heed, and follow his warnings about what we need to do to make America America. Just as Biblical Old and New Testament prophets were rejected, scorned, and dishonored in their own land in their times, so was Dr. King by many when he walked and worked among us. Now that he is dead, many Americans remember him warmly but have sanitized and trivialized his message and life. They remember Dr. King the great orator but not Dr. King the disturber of unjust peace. They applaud the Dr. King who opposed violence but not the Dr. King who called for massive nonviolent dem-
onstrations to end war and poverty in our national and world house. They recite the “I Have a Dream” part of his August 1963 speech but ignore its main metaphor of the promissory note still bouncing at America’s bank of justice, waiting to be cashed by millions of poor and minority citizens. And while we love to celebrate his dream and great oratorical skills, we ignore his fears and repeated warnings about America’s misguided priorities and values. He worried that we were missing God’s opportunity to become a great and just nation by sharing our enormous riches with the poor and overcoming what he called the “giant triplets” of racism, materialism, and militarism. In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man Dives who ignored the poor and sick man Lazarus who came every day seeking crumbs from Dives’ table. Dives did nothing. Dives went to hell, Dr. King said, not because he was rich but because he did not realize his wealth was his opportunity to bridge the gulf separating him from his brother and allowed Lazarus to become invisible. He warned this could happen to rich America, “if we don’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life.” At Dr. King’s death in 1968 when he was calling for a Poor People’s Campaign, there were 25.4 million poor Americans, including 11 million poor children, and our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $4.13 trillion. Today, there are 46.2 million poor people, including 16.1 million poor children, almost half living in extreme poverty, and our GDP is three times larger, and shamefully the younger children are the poorer they are. One in three Black and Latino children are poor. National wealth and income inequality are at near record levels while hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, fear, and hopelessness See here, on page 7
Raising Boys to Men by Toure Muhammad
Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) – Hip hop Artist Lupe Fiasco provided straight talk to young, Black men who recently graduated from area high schools gathered to be honored for their achievement. Participants included Black male elementary school students, parents, pastors, guardians, and teachers. “This mass Black Male graduation ceremony represented a beacon of hope and sets a new direction for young Black men in Chicago and in America,” said Black Star Project executive director Phillip Jackson, who organized the event to acknowledge, celebrate, inspire and launch young Black males into positive futures. Lupe, who keynoted the event, offered a “wake up” message: “Congratulations, you have graduated from one of the most terrible, substandard school systems in the entire world. You have just spent the last 12 years receiving one of the worst educations on earth. You are at least 4, 5 steps behind people in other countries that are younger than you.” In Chicago, only 39 percent of Black males graduate from public high schools; only 3 out of 100 young Black men who attend public schools attain a 4-year college degree by age 25; and 52 percent of non-institutionalized Black men are unemployed, and Black men who don’t graduate from high school are more likely to end up in the Illinois prison system. Across the nation Black young men are graduating from high school at alarmingly low rates, and even fewer are ready for a college education, say advocates. They say Black men and the community must step up to not only call for finishing school but for creating a future. Lupe encouraged the young men to not so much focus on graduation and the ceremony, but on the transition to manhood. “That’s more
important than the graduation,” said Lupe who gave every graduate $100 and urged them to avoid drugs and violence. For decades, Mr. Jackson, who created the Million Father March, has been an advocate for Black youth. He encouraged elders to stay connected with and serve the graduates they pledged to mentor. These young men need the benefit of your experiences and networks, said Mr. Jackson. The elders and youth applauded the Black Star Project leader for his constant efforts to promote the best interests of Black children and organize their parents. “It was important for me to be there to honor them,” said Wallace “Gator” Bradley of United in Peace, former street organization enforcer and confidante to Larry Hoover who, from behind prison walls has promoted moving the Gangster Disciple street organization to Growth and Development, a movement for ending violence and pushing education and progress. “Phillip Jackson should be applauded and supported for his efforts,” Mr. Bradley added. Mr. Jackson unapologetically said he works with anyone who can help Black children move forward— and it doesn’t matter what they call themselves. Ronald Holt, who lost his son Blair Holt to gun violence in 2007, saw great value in the late June gathering at Chicago State University. “It puts young African American males out in the forefront, it’s great to see the elders commiserate these young men and pass the baton. The entire African American community, nationwide needs to see this. So many are involved in the culture of gangs, guns and violence and it does not have to be that way,” said Mr. Holt, who is commander of the Chicago Police Department Special Activities Division. “This is a great connection. We need positive male images.” The young men who attended appreciated the recognition. “It See men, on page 5
Marching Orders for the Future
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist
Now that we’ve had two events at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, it is important to remember a few things about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. beyond his “I Have a Dream” speech. The question is always asked: What happens after the marches are over? Demonstrators left Washington, D.C. in 1963 determined to change the American landscape. Consequently, we had passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Those laws were passed not because of a speech in the nation’s capital, but because of the hard work and dedication of people at the local, state and national level to bring about change. While the “I Have a Dream” speech might have been Dr. King’s most popular oration, it was not his most substantive one. In 1963, Dr. King etched a prosaic picture of what America should look like in the future. But a far more important one was his “Mountaintop” speech, delivered in Memphis the night before he was assassinated. In that speech, Dr. King outlined a plan for economic empowerment and told us how to strengthen our institutions to accomplish that goal. He reminded us, “Always anchor our external
direct action with the power of economic withdrawal.” Dr. King explained, “We don’t have to argue with anybody. We don’t have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don’t need any bricks and bottles, we don’t need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, ‘God sent us by here, to say to you that you’re not treating his children right. And we’ve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda—fair treatment, where God’s children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.” He urged us to “strengthen our Black institutions” by patronizing them. Instead of placing so much emphasis on what Dr. King said in 1963, we should look at what he was doing at the time of his death. He wasn’t trying to create a special commission or hold conferences on how to strengthen the middle class. He was organizing a Poor Peoples Campaign, a trek to Washington, D.C. to dramatize the urgent need to help the least among us. After President Lyndon B. Johnson shifted his focus from the War on Poverty to the war in Vietnam, Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Confer-
ence (SCLC) launched an effort in 1968 to seek economic justice for poor Blacks, Whites, Latinos and Native Americans. The idea was to have another March on Washington that would force political leaders to address the issue of poverty. “We ought to come in mule carts, in old trucks, any kind of transportation people can get their hands on,” King said. “People ought to come to Washington, sit down if necessary in the middle of the street and say, ‘We are here; we are poor; we don’t have any money; you have made us this way… and we’ve come to stay until you do something about it.” SCLC continued the Poor People’s March after King’s death, erecting a tent city on the Mall. After six weeks, demonstrators were evicted. Today, the poor are still suffering. Poverty is defined as a family of four being able to live off of $23,021 a year. Today, a record 46.2 million people –15 percent of the U.S. population – are living in poverty. One of the goals of the 1963 March on Washington was a minimum wage that could lift a family of four out of poverty. They demanded that the minimum wage of $1.15 an hour be increased to $2 an hour. As a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) titled, “The Unfinished March: An Overview,” noted, “The inflationadjusted value of the minimum
wage today is about $2.00 less than it was at its peak value in 1968.” Worse than living on belowpoverty wages is to have no job at all. “Even when the national unemployment rate has been low, the African American unemployment rate has been high,” the EPI report stated. “For example, in 2000, when the national unemployment rate was 4.0 percent, and the nonHispanic white unemployment rate was 3.1 percent, the unemployment rate of non-Hispanic blacks was still 7.6 percent. Put another way, even when the economy was booming in 2000, the black unemployment rate was still higher than the national unemployment rate during recessions.” When he was assassinated, Dr. King was helping organize garbage workers in Memphis. He was not dreaming because he was not asleep. We honor him by continuing his work, not by merely continuing to recite his “I Have a Dream” speech.
George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service (NNPA.) He is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. Curry can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter. com/currygeorge and George E. Curry Fan Page on Facebook.
50 Years Later: The President’s Response By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
NNPA Columnist
On August 28, on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration, President Barack Obama spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, joined by former presidents William Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Much of the press speculated on whether the president can reach the “King standard”? Can he deliver an address with the poetry and the vision that made Dr. King’s speech timeless? But, I suggest to you, that is the wrong standard by which to measure the president. Barack Obama isn’t the leader of a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He is the leader of the government. The March on Washington 50 years ago was a call by an oppressed people seeking justice. As the call to the march detailed, we marched to “help resolve an American crisis,” a crisis “born of the twin evils of racism and economic deprivation.” The marchers carried 10 demands to the nation’s capital, calling for comprehensive civil rights legislation, including the end to
segregation and the right to vote, for immediate desegregation of the schools, for a “massive federal program to train and place all unemployment workers – Negro and white – in meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages,” for an increase of the minimum wage, and for federal action against discrimination in employment, housing and federal programs. Dr. King’s speech called on the nation’s elected leaders to act. The president’s task is to respond to this call. That was true 50 years ago. It is equally true today. Last Saturday, tens of thousands gathered once more on the Mall, calling for action. Once more, we gathered to “help resolve an American crisis.” Once more we carried an agenda – jobs, an increase in the minimum wage, defense of the right to vote, an end to discriminatory stop and frisk and stand your ground policies, an end to discriminatory sentencing, comprehensive immigration reform. For President Obama, the question is the response – legislation, executive action, enforcement, and appropriations. The president need not and cannot meet the King standard. He might best be measured against
the Johnson standard. In response to the 1963 March, President Kennedy sought to move civil rights legislation. And when he was struck down, Lyndon Johnson took up the cause, expanded it and made things happen. In 1965, President Johnson delivered a commencement Address at Howard University titled “To Fulfill These Rights.” There he laid out his response. He paid tribute to the protests that provided “the call to action.” He reported on the progress made. Passage of the 1964 civil rights legislation. Soon, passage of the Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing the right to vote. The barriers to freedom, he reported, “are tumbling down.” But President Johnson acknowledged, “freedom is not enough. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are freed to compete with all the others.” So Johnson argued that next and the “more profound stage of the battle for civil rights” is not just “equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result.” Johnson then detailed the structural inequalities still fac-
ing African Americans – unequal unemployment, incomes, rates of poverty, infant mortality, and more. And he laid out the strategy of his war on poverty to address this crisis. He announced his intention to call a White House Conference to address the theme of “To Fulfill These Rights.” Johnson understood how difficult this was. He launched his war on poverty in Appalachia, choosing to “whiten” the face of poverty, to reflect the reality that more poor people were white than black. He drove hard to push legislation and appropriations and executive action. The minimum wage reached levels not seen in comparable dollars since. Infant mortality and poverty declined. Real progress was made. But as Dr. King warned, the war on poverty was lost to the war in Vietnam that robbed resources, attention and political energy. When he was assassinated, Dr. King was planning another march on Washington – a Poor People’s Campaign, to bring the impoverished from across the races and the regions to camp in the nation’s capital and to call on our elected See 50 years on page 5
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was a really good program,” said 19-year-old Jeremy Muhammad who recently graduated from a high school in North Carolina and now lives in Chicago. “Having the elders present showed that they are behind us and willing to support and mentor us. I hope those that attended got something out of it and that the graduates go to college and do something with their lives. I know I am.” The ceremony, which also included a powerful message from civil rights Attorney Thomas N. Todd, and the presence of dozens of influential Black male elders, was more than just a one-day event. Attorney Todd started off his talk with a quote from historian and author Carter G. Woodson’s
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book “Mis-Education of the Negro” before congratulating the graduates and encouraging them to continue their education and to use it as a tool for success. “This is your day 2013 graduates because you didn’t give up, you didn’t give out, and you didn’t give in; you persevered … . This is your commencement, not your conclusion, your beginning, not your end.” It’s time to work towards creating a better world, stressed Attorney Todd. “I don’t care how smart your smartphone is, I don’t care how great your technology is, I don’t care what you have; you still cannot download freedom! You must work to be free! Education has always made the difference for us.”
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leaders once more to act. So the question for President Obama isn’t whether he can match the poetry of Dr. King’s call. It is whether he can match the energy of President Johnson’s response. Will he call revive the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights? Will he announce steps to guard the right to vote now under assault from North Carolina to Texas? Will he call on Congress for appropriations to ensure every child has access to a high quality, public education? Will he move more aggressively to curb discriminatory sentences? Will he drive an increase in the minimum wage,
a strengthening of our laws protecting workers and their right to organize, the move for comprehensive immigration reform? We will listen to what he says. But as president, he will be measured by the hard prose of his actions, not the poetry of his words. We will be looking for what he does, not simply what he says. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can keep up with his work at www.rainbowpush. org.
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Bowie’s Package Liquor Store Celebrates 40th Year of Servicing the Community Bowie’s Package Liquor is owned and operated by Mr. Roy Bowie. For 40 years Roy and his beloved wife Ora C. Bowie are instrumental in providing a neighborhood business in the Scotlandville community. Before he started his own business, Mr. Bowie worked for the City Parish; as well as, Vince’s Liquor just up the street from where his business is located (which at that time was owned by the original owners). This is where he got the idea to be his own boss. He learned from working at Vince’s along with his brother Herman Bowie. It all started by Roy, in 1973 purchasing an old house and moving it unto a lot that he had purchased earlier. Later the house was converted into a store that has been very successful from day one. After several years the business got bigger and more
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Have Confidence in Your Righteousness in Him
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By Donald Lee
Church News Reported By the Church lady… Well Baton Rouge it is another day on this blessed journey and I’m so glad to be alive! Looks like it was a busy week and weekend in the city. I hope that you all made it to church on Sunday. You know that the word does say that you should not forsake yourselves from assembling with other believers. Now I know that church folk can get on your nerves, but you are probably getting on somebody’s nerves too Chile. Anyway, let’s all be nice and operate in the love of Jesus because you know that’s what the Father commands us to do. Well now let’s see what I’ve got to tell yawl this week… Oh, first things first, The Holy Convocation of the National Holy Trinity Fellowship Association started up on Sunday and they tell me that they have been having a Holy Ghost time over there! Bishop Lionel Smith opened up the festivities with an anointed word preached from the book of Exodus 3: 4-5. He kept in tune with the theme for this year’s conference “Standing on Holy Ground”. Bishop Smith is Pastor of New Scott Olly in Alexandria, La. Those Bishops have been preaching with power and the saints of God are being blessed! Bishop Harris Hayes of Good Shepherd Full Gospel B.C. of Baton Rouge is presiding elder. If you have not made it out See church lady, on page 7
Hello, my friends. I am truly excited that the Lord has called me to be a messenger of His Word, another voice crying out in the wilderness to “prepare, ye, the way of the Lord.” I am thoroughly convinced that the greatest pleasure in this galaxy, in addition to crowning Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, is leading others to Him and being used of the Lord to preach the Kingdom to them. Our Lord and Savior is soon to return. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance and with the greatest sense of urgency that we, children of God via the Blood of the Lamb, Christ Jesus, come into a complete understanding of who we are in Him and what our assignment is. We must, as a body of believers, know beyond any shadow of doubt, that we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus. We do not operate in our own righteousness, but in our heavenly Father’s righteousness. And to be righteous is to be in right standing with the Lord. It means we have accepted His way as being “right.” There is no righteousness outside of Him. But in Him, we are witness bearers of the Light of the world. He is the true Light that we, as saints of God, bear witness of. And with that, He has also mandated us to let the Light in us shine so brightly that others are drawn to Him. So, we have a great calling, the greatest assignment that anyone in this universe can have, which brings us to the point the Holy Spirit wants us to get, and then flow with. The Holy Spirit is telling us:
“Have Confidence in Your Righteousness in Him.” It is imperative that you — that we — are confident in who we are in Him and what He’s called us to be and to do here in the earth. Many souls are hanging in the balance. They must hear the message of salvation; they must be taught the ways of the kingdom; they must see a move of God in their lives as He moves in us. And in order for us to be efficient in getting our Savior’s message across to those souls all across the world, we must walk in the righteousness of God, and we must be confident in our “calling” to be ambassadors of His kingdom established here in the earth. In other words, we — the saints of God — must operate in our positions with authority, exercising great power and doing so with great confidence. When we do this, our confidence will win those souls over to the Lord. All of this having been said please turn your Bibles to the book of Hebrews, the 10th chapter and the 35th verse. Here we see Paul, the Apostle, addressing the Hebrews in his epistle, or letter. He is encouraging them to hold on to their confidence. (King James Version) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. (Amplified Bible) Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward. As the Spirit of the Lord stated moments ago, to be a messenger of the Lord is a great calling, a huge assignment, and one that comes with great responsibility. It is one that also comes with great obstacles. Our chief purpose in life,
after getting saved, is leading others to Christ. There are many who don’t want to hear the truth, and not only that, (but) they don’t want you to share the truth with others who seek the truth. Hence, persecution comes; trials and tribulations come; a strong “feeling” or temptation to lose heart or to give up arises. So, we must, as Paul beseeches, hold steadfast to our confidence. We must not cast aside our confidence in our assignment; we must not cast aside our confidence that we are the righteousness of God and that we did hear from God each time we go out and share the message of the cross with others. And when we are steadfast on our faith and holding ever so tightly to our “confidence,” we are most effective, and the bonus of it all is that God has laid up for us a great reward for our diligence in kingdom matters. Additional scriptures to study include: John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: First Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. Donald Lee is founder-pastor of Kingdom Living Christian Center (Dallas). He’s also co-author of “Married to Commitment,” the powerful book on relationships and commitment. Pastor Lee can be reached at (225) 773-2248 or pastordonjlee@yahoo.com.
In Loving Memory Of
Donald Ray “Fat” Johnson September 2, 1954 – December 18, 2011
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ur hearts are broken to have lost you, but we know that you are not really gone, you live in our hearts! Only God knows why you left us, but we will never be the same without you. You touched so many lives and will always be remembered for your music and smile. We will always miss you, but we will always value the days we had together on this earth. Love Forever, Your Mom Thelma, Sister Penny, Brother Alonzo Jr., Nephew Brandon, and Godmother, Maryetta Roberson
Life and Death are in the Power of the Tongue, Choose Life! Do you know that everything that exists came into being with a word? A word that was once a thought until it was spoken. Words are powerful, use them with care. This week you have the awesome ability to speak something into existence. It’s your choice what this will be! You can choose to say the good things that you want, desire, and need or you can call forth things that are quite the contrary. Either way, remember, you will have what you say, so say something! Preferably it
will be something positive; a proactive proclamation instead of a reactive reinforcement of failure and defeat. With this in mind, make sure that you say what you mean, and mean what you say. Your day, week, month, year is depending on it, and your life is too! Keep this thought in mind: You may only be eighteen inches from your blessing and/ or miracle. This is the distance between your heart and your See life, on page 8
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Vision Christian Center, International Seeking New Members for the Hope Christian Center 5013 Windfall Court Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70812 Reverend Henry Martin, Pastor Service Hour: 12:00 noon Wednesday
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1047 Rosenwald Road Baton Rouge, LA 70807 Telephone: (225) 774-8125 • E-Mail - visionchristianc@bellsouth.net Sunday Worship.........................................................................10:00 a.m. Holy Communion2nd Sunday.................................................... 10:00 a.m. Intercessory Prayer Wednesday................................................. 6:00 p.m. Mid-Week ServiceWednesday.................................................... 7:00 p.m.
NEW Hope Baptist Church 5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimille: (225) 925-8022 Toll Free: 888-700-6174 Websites: www.newhopebr.com Rev. Leo Cyrus Sr., Pastor Order Of Services Sunday Worship...................................................... 11:00 A.M. Holy Communion.................................. 3rd Sunday 6:00 P.M. Sunday School..........................................................9:00 A.M. Bible Study................................................Thrusday 7:00 P.M.
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Mayor of Baton dadAfter thatand time with you finished your and mother (Cassie) in Rouge that’s right,God the J.) Getshowed on yourup, knees before tantrum. You may have awere stopped celebrating Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” and tell him of how you are feel- the up service nose and swollen their eyes son and his family. They had that little Holden wasAnd in the housetheover at and ing inside. maybe words mucus running down your lip jumping too.your Sis.face, Mydra New Holden wasn’t wontHope. comeMayor out exactly as you church and dried tears on but it offafter as the M. 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We are super Council on Aging was alsoknows well Stacy Keishawe Dominique Richards what you are going he Sis. humans; can’t handle everyrepresented trying to through. recruit folk, stride keeping canyou readknow the pain, which thingthings alone.inWe needby God’s help. but they’ll neverflows get kept realhave and to sheleteven leftthose her new through your tears. even though go of situpastor Cyrus. Oh, and before I itWe to come sing for Jesus. he knows what’s troubling ations and let God handle them. forget you know Pastor Cyrusyou, is a husband he still to tell him about there Prophetess are some things can’t Eva we Morris Jaguar fanwants and Chile they sent the Chile it and bring and Anderson humanly do about. didanything an interpretation Coach, do youyour hearproblems me I said the burdens to him. coach! That’s right coach Dawson and had everyone mesmerized. Odom was there; just all kinds of People came from far and near, dignitaries honey, and they had really… Bishop Clifford Frazier a good looking young preacher and his lovely wife were in the over there from Ruston, La. Pastor house all the way from the SancBoris Braggs of Mt.from Carmel B.C., hildRen page 4 tuary Family Church of Houston and he wrecked the house! Now Texas! It is certainly good to be you know they say they have the loved because you know the word ering all children. the that citizens of theis nation a prophet not wellmust rebest choir in the city and did they says the CDF Action Council, build- ceived demand that our leadersand freeyou our in his hometown, sing on Sunday for their pastor! ing on the best practices in states know children from the false ideological what Jesus said about that, Pastor Cyrus even sang a lil bit; and lessons learned about children and political tugs of war among he said he still had praise on the but it seems like the Payne’s are falling through the bureaucratic those who put excess profits ahead inside. His lovely wife Deloris going to be okay. Ivory D. Baton cracks of Medicaid and SChiP, of children’s lives. was right there beside him just Rouge and your entire family are strongly urged Congress to enact how well did Congress protect as elegant as ever and she looked happy to have you, your lovely the All healthy Children Act, children in 2007? Not well enough: beautiful. That Pastor Cyrus is wife Celeste, and son Devon back S. 1564/h.r. 1688, introduced 276 Members of Congress had a blessed man! Finally, Pastor home with us. Welcome home! by representative Bobby Scott good CDF Action Council ConCyrus said that his greatest joy is We look forward to great things. (D-VA) in the house and Senator gressional Scorecard scores of 80 If you all are looking for getting up every Sunday morning Bernie Sanders (i-Vt) in the Sen- percent or higher, and 198 of those a place to praise this coming and preaching at New Hope and ate. the measure would provide had stellar scores of 100 percent. on Saturday August Second Baptist benefits Churches. God weekend comprehensive including But 231 members scored 60 percent 31, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.; drop by bless you, we love and applaud dental and mental health, simpli- or lower—a failing grade from our Church on Fire with Pastor S. you Cyrus for great the fiedPastor bureaucracy, andyour a national school days. Smith for their one night revival contribution to this city, keep a eligibility plan for families up to Whether Members of Congress service preached by Pastor Donald preaching theofword! 300 percent the federal poverty are liberal, conservative or modwith therepublican Ambassador Lastly, level. We thankyou the people 62 housejust co- Robinson erate; Democrat, or of Christ Church. Well, I wish don’t get enough church do you? sponsors for their support. how- independent, children need all of would catch on You just had that to goneither over toa single New somebody’s ever,allwe regret them to vote,soul lobby, speak for and fire, catch on fire, catch on fire Jerusalem Faith Fellowship with house republican nor any other protect them. Adults need to listen burn with the Holy Ghost! say … Pastor Donald Senator joinedMontgomery them to pushand for and carefully to what candidates sorry I just had to get that praise with his lovely wife, and celebrate coverage for all children. they will do for children and famiis over onoffice, 3033 some You church folk just out! themore. CDF Action Council strongly lies The and,church once they are in here accountable. in B. R. La. love getting your praisehealth on! There supports long overdue cov- Sherwood we need toStreet hold them was a homecoming, and I did sayas 70805. erage for everyone in America Please thank your Members of Con with Wellscores saints until next homecoming and not going so gress soon as possible—because children of 80 percent or going wrap it up don’t yawl goAs outSChiP and tellcomes nobody cannot wait. up time abovethat’s and let thosetowith scores of now. Don’t forget to lets Iagain said this was dead. Iinknow for man reauthorization early for 60 percent or below know you us are what’s happening at your you church folk.every I have to makeof know 2009, we hope Member dissatisfied with their performance. Email us that before sure that you stories church. Congress will get insistyour on covering And please convey same5:00 mesevery want to straight. Now, homecoming every child andthe pregnant mother p.m. sage to each Monday. presidentialIcandidate. what’s going in celebration for Pastor Dar- tell now by enacting andIvory adequately Weeverybody must demand that our leaders church community. Until ryl and Co-Pastor Celeste funding the provisions of Payne the All your commit to children as a condition was on Sunday healthy Childrennight. Act. Most of next of ourweek, vote. remember God is youSpecious probablyclaims remember D. good all the time and all the that Ivory we could God Wright is good! I’ll see you from his radio broadcast daysbillion with time not find the money—$70 Marian Edelman is Presiin church! 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Desegregawithalk urgency whether is 4tion…the Voting Rights Act…But adioAmerica from page missing once again the great op- what deeply troubles me now is portunity and mandate God has that for all the steps we’ve taken all funny we forget o’reilly’s less-thangiven us toor beremotely a beaconappropriof hope toward integration, I’ve come to ate about the use of a lynching informed regarding a and justice for the least among believe thatcomments we are integrating into reference about Michelle obama,’’ dinner he shared last year with us, beginning with our children, a burning house.” “What would he said. ‘’it’s - i’m Americans? speechless.’’ Sharpton at Sylvia’s in harlem? who are the poorest have expressed us do?” one shocked As Bush pointed out you o’reilly surprise over ThePresident day he was assassinated friend asked. 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Nine men and women from around the state have been chosen winners of the 2013 Angel Award presented by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of survey Louisiana Founda(NAPSM)-A commissioned by two leading organizations tion. The awardhealth is given annually found that although two out of three to outstanding volunteers who give African Americans (61 percent) exof their time and talents for Louipressedchildren. concern about developing siana’s heart disease andhonorees, two out ofwho fivewill (40 This year’s percent) expressed concern about be recognized at a presentation cerdeveloping Alzheimer’s, only about emony by invitation only Friday, one in14, 202013, are aware that heart health Oct. at the Renaissance is linked to brain health. Baton Rouge Hotel, are: the Alzheimer’s Association is • Jacob Nichols of Baton joining forces with the American Rouge. Nichols started Live 2 heart Association to in educate African Serve when he was high school. Americans that byprogram managing The Live 2 Serve hastheir encardiovascular they in may also gaged 40 to 80risk, children active strengthen their cognitive health. play every week since 2011. Jacob “What’s good for your heart is and his volunteers have helped regood for your brain,” says Jennifer pair andPh.D., maintain numerousAssociahomes Manly, Alzheimer’s and engaged 10 or more local voltion spokesperson. “every healthy unteers every week since Live 2 heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of Serve started. your blood to your brain to carry on • John Smith of Rouge. the daily processes ofBaton thinking, probSmith is the vice president for prolem solving and remembering.” grams of Metro “By at the100 yearBlack 2030,Men the number of Baton In that AfricanRouge. Americans age capacity, 65 or olderhe is serves more than than 500 double youth annuexpected to more to 6.9 ally through tutoring, million,” saidafterschool emil Matarese, M.D., ACT prep,heart in-school workshops, American Association spokessmall mentoring and as isa person.group “Although Alzheimer’s sought-after publicaging, speaker, among not part of normal age is the greatest risk factor for Alzheimer’s other programs designed to recdisease.academic So it is important that Afognize achievements of ricanyouth Americans take stepsofnow to area as examples what decrease their risk of heart disease, can be accomplished. which research has of shown could • Beth Clark Denham also decrease the risk of cognitive Springs. Clark helped found decline.”Moms, an organization Mighty dedicated to feeding children both physically and spiritually during
visits to low-income neighbor- Buddy Walk in New Orleans to hoods. She and the Mighty Moms fund research, education and redeveloped the Full Tummy Project, sources that improve the lives of which works with the Livingston individuals with Down Syndrome Parish School System to purchase and other special needs. and deliver food for children who • Carlos Naranjo of Marrero. would otherwise spend their week- Naranjo is a case manager for the ends hungry. New Orleans Children’s Health • Jamie Trindle of Denham Project’s Hispanic Outreach InitiaSprings. Trindle is the executive tive, which he helped design. Since director of Families Helping Fami- 2008, the Initiative has provided lies of Greater Baton Rouge. In more than 6,800 high-quality mediaddition to her duties, Jamie works cal, case management and mental with parents, community leaders, health visits to Spanish-speaking public and private agencies, and the children. In 2012, the program Louisiana Department of Health staff cared for 575 patients through and Hospitals’ Office of Behavioral 1,800 healthcare visits. Naranjo Health to implement a coordinated provides more than 800 case mansystem of care that serves children agement visits each year, linking with severe behavioral health is- children and families to medical sues. specialty care, social and commu• Pam Frey of Lafayette. With nity services. the Hearts for Hope program, Pam · Babs Johnson of New Oruses her voice to speak for the leans. Johnson founded Voices for youngest victims of abuse. She Children, which provides a courtassists with the Walk a Mile in mandated seminar for divorcing her Shoes fundraising walk, helps couples and their children to guide implement new programs and ad- them through the emotional and vocates for victims in the com- psychological needs divorce or munity. Frey also helped initiate a separation can cause. She works court monitoring program, Public with juvenile justice projects, acts Awareness of the Legal System, as a consultant to educators, youth or PALS, where volunteers attend organizations and families, and hearings and collaborate with court serves on the board of the Young staff to recommend improvements. Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. • Paula LaCour of Kenner. program. LaCour is vice president of the Also being recognized is Down Syndrome Association Blue Cross vice president of enof Greater New Orleans and a terprise infrastructure Charles LanResearch shows afor linkthe between heart anddreneau brain health, which means fierce advocate inclusion as the 2013 Blueimpaired Angel. heart function could lead to impaired brain function. and ability of individuals with Landreneau and his wife Kary are special needs. Among her many working with trained professionefforts, LaCour helped start the als at Healing Place Serve and the
Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services to ensure that boys aging out of the foster system will be given a home and the life You skills they need to succeed as Did Know? adults. • Compared to the general public, AAmericans committee ofapast recipiAfrican have higher risk ents considered nominations beof diabetes, high 98 blood pressure and fore selecting this year’s winners, vascular dementia. each of who receiveof a $20,000 • More thanwill 40 percent African grant for his or her orAmericans have highcharitable blood presganization. Since sure (hBP) and are atthe riskprogram’s for stroke, inception, fromfor all which can 150 leadvolunteers to greater risk developing Alzheimer’s other over Louisiana have been or honored, vascular cognitive dementias. including those listed here. They • every year, than come from allmore walks of 100,000 life and African a stroke. range inAmericans age fromhave 17 to 93, but • having high cholesterol they have in common theirincreases selfless the risk on for behalf stroke and may increase efforts of the children in the risk for Alzheimer’s. their communities. “Directly affecting the lives Manage Yourof Risks of hundreds Louisiana children • Watch thethe numbers. remember every year, Angel Award prothat desirable blood less gram is one of the pressure ways theisBlue than 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana weight in thefulfills recommended range Foundation its mission of and make sure that the cholessupporting healthandtotal educationterol is less than 200mg/dL. related causes,” said foundation • healthyDirector lifestyleChristy choices Reeves. include Executive staying “In its mentally 19 years,and thephysically program achas tive, stayingwell socially reducawarded overinvolved, $1 million to ing your intake of fat and cholesterol charities whose purpose is to imand not smoking. prove the welfare of the state’s Visit www.alz.org/heartbrain or children.” call the American Stroke AssociaFor more information about tion, a division of the American heart the Angel Award program, visit Association, at (888) 478-7653 or theAlzheimer’s Blue CrossAssociation website atatwww. the (800) bcbsla.com/angelaward. 272-3900 and you’ll receiveThere, a brovisitors can research information chure with heart and brain health on hundredsand of past Angel Award information a free pedometer, nominees, finalists and overall winwhile supplies last. ners by name, year of nomination or geographical location.
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The 12th Annual Louisiana Men’s Health Conference (NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth paying attention to: According to the American Diabetes Association By Walter Jr. for type 2 (ADA), learningDixon, your risk diabetes could save your life. Baton Rouge, Louisiana – The Diabetes is a serious disease that Pennington Biomedical Research strikes nearly 21 million children Center located 6400 and adults in theatU.S. it isPerkins named Road was the site for 12th the “silent killer” becausethe one-third Annual Louisiana Men’s Health of those with the disease--more than 6 Conference thisknow past they weekend. million--do not have it. There guestmay speakers For many, were diagnosis come such Kelly sevenas: to 10 yearsBoudreaux, after the onsetJr., of MD, Louisiana uroltype 2Urologist, diabetes. early diagnosis is ogy; Bradley Meek, MD, Internal critical for successful treatment and Medicine, Physician can delay OLOL or prevent someGroup; of the complications such as heart diseases, Bryan Hathorn, MD, Cardiology, blindness, kidney disease, stroke and OLOL Physician Group; Sean amputation.MD, Rheumatology, Shannon, that’sPhysician one reasonGroup; the ADA holds OLOL Nikhil the American PhD, Diabetes Alert® BioDay, Dhurandhar, Professor a one-day wake-up call to inform the medical Research Center, and American public about the serious-
ness of diabetes, particularly when it is left undiagnosed and untreated. the day is held on the fourth tuesday Richard of every Kearley, March. MD, Pulmonary Medicine, Physician Group. on that OLOL day, people are encour Screening consisted the aged to take the Diabetes riskoftest, following: Heart Rhythm; Waist either with paper and pencil or online. Circumference; Blood the risk test requires usersPressure; to answer Blood Glucose, Stroke Risk age, Asseven simple questions about sessment, Body Fat Percentage, weight, lifestyle and family history-Body Massrisk Index (BMI), Vision; all potential factors for diabetes. Colorectal Screening Kit, Skin, People scoring 10 points or more are Blood Physical at a highCholesterol, risk for type 2and diabetes and Activity Course. are encouraged to talk with a health This was my first of many care professional. Men’s Health Conference will atAn estimated 54 millionI Americans have pre-diabetes. thoseThere with tend. The turnout was huge. pre-diabetes havetheir bloodearly glucose were men from 20’slevto els higher than normal butmen, not high 80+. There were short tall enough to be diagnosed type men, slim men, fat menwith and men 2 diabetes. of all diversity at the Men’s Health early intervention via lifestyle Conference. The conference prochanges such as weight loss and
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By James Terry III Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Southern University Head Football coach Dawson Odums addressed members of the media for the his 1st Coach’s press conference for the 2013 football season. Southern University’s AD, Dr. William Brossard spoke about the $350,000.00 Southern is getting for playing the University of Houston. Coach Odums answered questions about the first game, the players and the season. Quotes: “If you get knock
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This is what a 17-year-old winning her first Grand Slam on home soil looks like. A stunning, and incredible picture of Victoria Duval, the story of this Tuesday at the U.S. Open. Yahoo Sports In what not only was the upset of the day but also the match of the day, 17-year-old American Victoria Duval beat No. 11 Sam Stosur, a pick of lot of people had advancing deep into this tournament considering her friendly bracket. Duval lost the first set 7-5, but bounced back, taking the
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second and third sets 6-4 to advance to the second round at the U.S. Open. The Duval story is great considering she was playing in the junior event here last year and while the teenager seemed composed on the court as she took out a former champion of this event, she told ESPN after the match, “I’m just so excited!”
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only seem right that the same would be to our favor. As you move through this coming week, I hope you speak faith filled words that will bless and not curse you or anybody else, but please say something! The word for this week is; Yes. You will have the opportunity many times during this week to use this word, so choose carefully where you answer. Say yes only to the right question(s), and watch what happens! Your yes may help you pass the test or bring you to the creator’s best. The greatest opportunities of the rest of your life may begin with one simple reply, yes! Will you say the word? I hope that your answer is Yes, Lord yes; completely yes!
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their personal hard times. He is also instrumental in forming the Heritage Foundation that bringing baseball activity back to Anna T. Jordan BREC Park. He is an active and devoted member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church serving
in several different capacities. To some people he is a mean man, but to others he is God sent! Congrats to Mr. Roy Bowie on his successful journey and may God bless him with continued success and more blessings.
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centage that received a portion of sales receipts fell from 82 percent in 2006 to 69 percent in 2012. • Of districts that allowed soda sales, the amount that received cash awards, equipment donations or other incentives from soda companies fell from 52 percent to 34 percent. • The percentage that required physical education class in elementary schools stayed flat, at about 94 percent. That’s pretty high, so it’s not surprising there wasn’t much change there, Brener said. She noted that the study measured school district policies, which is different than asking what was actually going on at individual schools. Sometimes there’s a difference, but CDC doesn’t have information on how often that happens.
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mouth. Often, we say that we believe one thing, but then we speak something else. Line your lips up with your heart, and say what you believe then believe in your heart that what you say is true. If you feel that you are not there yet, it’s simple, simply keep your mouth shut until your heart tells you what to say. Everything that exists in this life began with a word. God spoke and it came to be. He thought it out first however, and then he allowed the manifestation to part his lips. Once the words found their way into the atmosphere the rest is history! He thought it, spoke it and declared that it was good. We need to follow the lead of the one who made us. I mean if it worked for him it would
A decade or so ago, Serena and Venus Williams ruled tennis together, swapping the No. 1 ranking and meeting in Grand Slam final after Grand Slam final. Serena, the youngest of the pair, still holds a spot at the top of the game. Venus has not been there for quite some time. So there was a turn-back-theclock feel to Day 1 at the 2013 U.S. Open, when both sisters were about as good as can be, dropping a combined four games in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Venus, now ranked 60th, beat 12th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens 6-1, 6-2 Monday afternoon, and then Serena reduced 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone to seeking comfort from a ball boy’s hug during a 6-0, 6-1 runaway under the lights at night. Asked which meant more on this day, her own victory or her sister’s, Serena replied: “They’re equal. I definitely was happy to see Venus win. I really was happy for her. I know she’s been working hard. I know she had a tough opponent. For her to come through was just awesome. Obviously, I want to do well, too.” For years and years, a firstround victory by Venus at a major tournament would hardly merit a mention. She has won seven Grand
Slam titles and was the runner-up another seven times (six against Serena). And yet nowadays, at age 33, two years removed from being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that saps energy, hampered much of this season by a bad lower back, Venus entered this U.S. Open having won a total of three matches over the past five major tournaments. Plus, in Flipkens, she was facing a semifinalist at Wimbledon last month who beat Venus on a hard court this month. Looking very much like the player she used to be, Venus smacked serves at up to 120 mph, returned superbly, and covered the
court well enough to hit a handful of swinging volley winners. “If Venus is there — if she’s fit, if she’s focused — she’s a top-10 player,” Flipkens said. “Everybody who knows a little bit of the game of tennis can see that. Today, she was like a top-10 player.” There were bumpy patches early in the second set, when Venus faced eight break points, but she saved seven. At 2-all, Venus faced her final significant test, a 16-point, 12-minute game with three break chances for Flipkens that were erased this way: 113 mph ace, 115 mph service winner, 116 mph serve that set up an errant forehand. As that shot from Flipkens sailed long,
Venus shouted, “Come on!” Venus won the next point, a 15-stroke exchange, with a volley winner and shook her left fist. On a day that began with a retirement announcement by James Blake — a former top-five player who also is 33 — Venus showed she’s still capable of big shots at big moments. “I stay positive because I know I can play great tennis. Sometimes you just have to go through more than what you want to go through,” the American said after winning the first four games and the last four games against Belgium’s Flipkens. “Sometimes you have to have losses.”