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Obama Urges Putin to Make Choice Over Ukraine

From left, Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium, Polish first lady Anna Komorowska, U.S. President Barack Obama and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski attend a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, June 4, to mark the 25th anniversary of Poland’s return to democracy. Poland is the first stop on Obama’s three-country European trip.

If the United States sees “responsible behavior” from Russia, Obama said, “I think it is possible for us to try to rebuild some of the trust that has been shattered.” But he warned that it will take “quite some time.”

McKinley High Principal Armond Brown Leaving School, No Replacement Named Yet

Armond Brown Baton Rouge—The East Baton Rouge Parish School System announced Tuesday that McKinley High School Principal Armond Brown is leaving the school and has been named principal on special assignment over the district’s athletics and physical education programs.

The district said it would announce a replacement at McKinley at a later date. Brown had been principal of McKinley since 2001,

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WARSAW -- President Barack Obama wants Vladimir Putin to take steps to rebuild the trust shattered by Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

Obama’s comment came as he visited Poland on Tuesday, the first stop on his three-country European trip which is intended, in part, to reassure allies in Eastern Europe unnerved by Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

Putin “has a choice to make” on Ukraine, Obama said during a news conference in Warsaw,

calling on the Russian President to continue to pull back troops from the border with Ukraine, persuade pro-Russian separatists to stand down and back Ukraine’s recent presidential election.

If the United States sees “responsible behavior” from Russia, Obama said, “I think it is possible for us to try to rebuild some of the trust that has been shattered.” But he warned that it will take “quite some time.”

Kiev and the West have said the separatists in Ukraine are co-

ordinated and supplied by Russia, a claim that Moscow denies.

Obama’s visit comes a day after a deadly attack on a regional headquarters building in Donetsk that has been taken over by separatists calling themselves the People’s Republic of Luhansk. Five women and three men, all of them civilians, were killed in the attack, which Kiev has blamed on separatists.

A munitions expert who accompanied a CNN crew to the See UKRAINE, on page 2

Preparations are Underway for Funeral Service for Maya Angelou WINSTON-SALEM -Oprah Winfrey slipped onto the Wake Forest campus virtually unnoticed Monday morning.

The talk show host, actress and network founder looked at Wait Chapel and discussed arrangements for a memorial for her long time friend and mentor Maya Angelou.

While Oprah’s visit went unnoticed by students, Angelou was well-known and revered.

“I was really shocked, actually it wasn’t something I was expecting,” said rising senior Airyn Willis.

Angelou taught her for decades, and the school offered to host the family’s private memorial service.

“We wanted to make Wait Chapel available and to participate and be involved, if that’s what the family wanted,” said university spokesman Kevin Cox. A public service was held last Thursday at Angelou’s church, Mount Zion Baptist Church, in Winston-Salem.

The private service will offer some logistical challenges.

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Maya Angelou, the iconic poet, author, playwright, professor, and tireless civil rights advocate, died last Wednesday in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou was 86 years old.

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BROOKS, CARNEY ELECTED TO SAINTS HALL OF FAME

First Circuit Court of Appeal Judge John Michael Guidry is the new President of the Louisiana Judicial College Board of Directors The Louisiana Judicial College is charged with providing quality continuing legal education for Louisiana’s judges. Continuing legal education courses focus on new law, ethics and cutting-edge issues. As lawyers, judges are required to attend a minimum of 12.5 hours of continued legal education every year– including one hour must be on legal ethics and one hour on professional responsibility.

Judges must obtain at least five of their continued legal education hours from a Louisiana Judicial College Seminar. `Judge Guidry received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in 1983 and his law degree from the Southern University Law Center in 1987. Guidry had a private law practice from 19871997. During that time, he also served as an Assistant Parish Attorney from 1988-1991, as a State Representative for District 67 from 1992-1993, and as a State Senator for District 14 from 1993-1997. Guidry has served as an instructor for the Southern University Law Center

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since 1988 and Southern University since 1993. In 1997, Guidry was elected to the First Circuit Court of Appeal where he currently serves.

Guidry is a member of numerous professional organizations including: the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the American Judges Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association and the Judicial Council of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Judge Orders Angola to Implement Immediately

BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal judge has approved the state’s plan to cool down death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued the order Friday. Jackson also ordered the immediate implementation of the plan, which includes installing air conditioning at the Angola prison.

Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde said in a statement that the agency will ask a federal appeals court to put Jackson’s order on hold while it is appealed.

“Given the significant issues involved in this litigation which have far-reaching effects on many correctional institutions in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, the department intends to seek a thorough review of the trial court’s decision with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Laborde said.

Jackson toured the Angola prison last summer and ruled in December that heat indexes re-

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corded on death row amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Jackson mandated that heat indexes - or how hot it actually feels - not exceed 88 degrees on death row.

The state is appealing that Dec. 19 ruling.

In February, the state proposed lowering the summer heat inside death row by adding air conditioning, providing chests filled with ice and allowing inmates once-daily cold showers.

The death-row tiers are only heated and ventilated.

Also Friday, Jackson appointed Lafayette civil lawyer Paul J. Hebert as special master to oversee the plan’s implementation and monitor conditions on death row. Jackson said the state must record temperature, humidity and heat index data from each death-row tier every two hours from June 1 through Oct. 31 and report the data to Hebert weekly.

Hebert will report his findings to Jackson every 30 days, beginning July 1.

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CASTING CALL FOR ‘PITCH PERFECT 2’ The Baton Rouge Film Commission has announced a casting call for extras for the movie Pitch Perfect 2..See Page 3 Tim Duncan got his wish: The San Antonio Spurs are headed back to the NBA Finals for a rematch with LeBron James and the Miami Heat..See Page 8

JINDAL URGED TO VETO BILL

The revised letter was sent to Jindal Tuesday by professors from law schools ranging from Boston University to the University of Oregon, led by Loyola University environmental law professor Robert Verchick..See Page 5

TAKE PRECAUTIONS WHEN SWIMMING Before jumping in for a refreshing

swim, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reminds everyone to be safe and cautious.

A fun and exciting day on the water can quickly turn tragic..See Page 7

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Social media video shows an aircraft overhead after the attacks, trees are splintered as if they were hit from above and craters in a nearby square leading to the

building appear to have been the result of heavy cannon fire from the air.

Obama, speaking alongside Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, said he had always had a “business-like relationship” with Putin and that he had conveyed

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He said Washington wanted good relations, but added that sanctions imposed over Russia’s Crimea excursion would be maintained and that more have been drawn up in case of further destabilization in the east.

Obama added that he was “sure” he would cross paths with Putin while both are in France at the end of the week for events to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Obama said he was looking forward to meeting with Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday, adding that his election last month “gives us some momentum to build on as we move forward.”

He also stressed the need for Ukraine to pursue economic as well as political reform, including taking steps to reduce its reliance on natural gas from Russia.

At the same news conference, Obama announced that he is asking Congress for a fund of up to $1 billion to allow for a “European Reassurance Initiative” to bolster the security of NATO allies.

This would help the United States undertake increased training exercises, explore the pre-positioning of military equipment, and build the capacity of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to partner with the United States and NATO. More U.S. Air Force and Army personnel will be rotated through allied countries in central and eastern Europe, Obama said.

He urged all NATO nations to live up to their commitment to the alliance when member states are threatened, and commended Poland for its contribution.

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MEN’S and FATHERS’ DAY CELEBRATIONS will be JUNE BEGINS held at Buena Vista FREEDOM SUMBaptist Church located MER - 50 YEARS at 10633 Highway 18 of Civil Rights in St. James on Sunday, June 15. Guest FREEDOM minister will be PasSUMMER is being Marge tor Timothy Campbell held all over the naof Greater Mt. Pilgrim tion with myriads Lawrence in Donaldsonville. The of activities, some of which began in January. Rev. Dr. Joseph Coleman is the Many colleges and universities host pastor. You are welcome held lectures, speeches, videos, to attend.

SPEAKING OF DONenactments, visiting professors and theatrical remembrances ALDSONVILLE, the annual of the voting rights, freedom JUNETEENTH FREEDOM marches, and other civil rights FEST is set for June 8 , demonstrations. Celebrate as we which is this weekend. It is their 18th annual and promlet freedom ring.

LEST WE FORGET our ises to outdo the last 17 servicemen were honored in with choirs, speakers, vendors style in area locations and by all and activities for adults and age groups of our community. children. The fest will be It was especially gratifying to held in the Louisiana Square see local boys and girls carry Park on Railroad Avenue and flags and honor the veterans, will begin at 11 am and last for they must keep the legacy until sundown.

VA C AT I O N B I B L E going and the history known.

Thanks to all for this worth- SCHOOL is now in session all over the community. Parwhile cause.

CALLNG SOUTHERN ents and their children (inALUMNI. It is time for you to cluding youth) are invited cast your vote for your national to attend. This weeklong or officers. All who are running sometimes two weeks will for office are on the university help everyone to grow closer website and there you will have to God as they learn of Him. a chance to review their short It is truly worthwhile.

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Angelou from page 1 lou counted President Clinton among her friends, and she was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House

by President Obama.

The university has some experience in dealing with those level of visitors, hosting presidential debates in both 1988 and 2000.

It’ll be a busy week on campus.

“Mostly it’s just assisting the family and accomplishing what they want with this event,’’ said Cox. The campus is no stranger to increased security, and there’s already one issue that’s arisen related to what’s happening here this weekend.

Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, known for it’s opposition to gay rights, says it’s

planning to protest Angelou’s funeral because of her support.

“We’re aware of what’s been said about a particular protest group, we’ll be prepared for it,’’ said Cox. The group 2 Million Bikers to DC plans a ride to protect the funeral procession.

Students are pleased the service is being held here.

“It’s good,’’ said Willis.

“This is her home.”

The service will also be streamed live on the Internet.

“What we’d like to do is make it possible for anyone who’s been touched by Dr. Angelou and her works, to see the service, hear the service,’’ said Cox. Time Warner Cable News is also going to carry the service live. It’s at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday.

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Louisiana Officials Announce Website to Match Employers, Job-Seekers BATON ROUGE, LA Louisiana officials say a new website to help match employers with job-seekers will open this summer.

Gov. Bobby Jindal said the Louisiana Job Connection will open to the public on Aug. 18.

Starting June 16, employers will be able to post openings.

Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret, in a news release Tuesday, said employers will only see profiles of job seekers who have the skills they want. He added recruiters also will be able to broaden or narrow their searches.

Moret said employers who have posted jobs on other websites will be able to copy those postings to the new site.

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With Love and Sympathy to the family of Trenecia Williams, my former student.

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ExxonMobil Awards $66,810 to Southern University

Film commission Announces Casting Call for ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Extras

BATON ROUGE, LA - The Baton Rouge Film Commission has announced a casting call for extras for the movie Pitch Perfect 2.

Officials said background players ages 18 and up are needed for many days. The scenes will be shot in Baton Rouge on Monday, June 16 through Friday, June 20.

The shoots will be outdoors at night and some will be overnight.

Officials added those who sign up must be okay with working long hours on their feet.

If you are interested, send an email to pp2casting@gmail.com with the subject: WORLDS. The body should include: • Name

The ExxonMobil check presentation included from left, ExxonMobil’s Wilbert Ferdinand, SU College of Engineering representative Janifer Peters, SUBR Chancellor Dr. James L. Llorens, Shabaka Gibson, and Claudette Bradford, both with ExxonMobil, and Phil Smith, with the SU Foundation. Photo by John Oubre, SU Office of Media Relations and Publications

BATON ROUGE, LA – Representatives of ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge plant presented Southern University with a $66,810 check as a contribution from employees and the company to the Baton Rouge campus.

ExxonMobil representative Shabaka Gibson said the funding is part of the corporation’s ongoing and long-term commitment to education, especially in engineering, at Southern.

SUBR Chancellor Dr. James L. Llorens praised ExxonMobil for its willingness to be a

financially committed partner to Southern University.

“These funds will be beneficial to both Southern University and ExxonMobil,” said Llorens.

“Of course our students will benefit in the classroom. But, the funding will also help us keep our students in the pipeline to fulfill the employment needs of ExxonMobil.”

ExxonMobil’s contributions over the years have been extremely beneficial to the university’s engineering program, Llorens said, adding that the financial contributions from SU

grads, which work at ExxonMobil, continue to keep the engineering program at SU among the best in the state. ExxonMobil matches employee contributions three-to-one.

The check was presented to the university in a ceremony Friday on the Baton Rouge campus.

Two SU grads, which work for ExxonMobil, were part of the presentation. Claudette Bradford, a Loss Prevention System Core Team leader and Wilbert Ferdinand, a refinery Safety Engineer. Both work at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge complex.

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Brown’s new role is one of two staffing changes announced Tuesday: The district said Baton

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Rep. Richmond Introduces Bill to Reform Solitary Confinement WASHINGTON DC -- Rep. Richmond (LA-02) introduced a bill which would have an impact on the treatment of the United States’ prison population. This legislation would usher in significant reforms to the penal system resulting in a more humane approach to imprisonment and a more rational and fiscally conservative approach to incarceration.

The Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2014” would start a national conversation with all pertinent stakeholders about how to best develop and implement national standards for the use of solitary confinement to ensure that it is used infrequently and only under extreme circumstances.

“Our approach to solitary confinement in this country needs immediate reform. The practices imposed on prisoners, including the seriously mentally ill and juveniles, at all levels of our penal system raise significant 8th amendment concerns and it is time we have this conversation about what kind of country we are,” said Rep. Richmond. “Do we feel comfortable putting a man or woman in a dark hole for decades on end with no additional due process?

Is this practice consistent with our values? I don’t think so. I know we are better than that.”

The Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2014

would: • Introduce a more humane and constitutionally sound practice of segregated detention in the Nation’s prisons, while accelerating the development of best practices and making solitary confinement reform a top priority in each prison system at the Federal and State levels • Establish a commission named the National Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Commission to work with all pertinent stakeholders to study the practice of solitary confinement and recommend best practices for reform to Congress and the Administration • Require the Department of Justice to issue regulations on best practices in this area that would bind facilities in the Federal prison system and incent changes in behavior in state and local prison systems • Bring about significant changes to the way mentally ill prisoners and juvenile offenders are designated for segregated incarceration Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture support the Solitary Confinement Study and Reform Act of 2014.

Maya Angelou: A Freedom Fighter with a Pen

By Benjamin F. Chavis NNPA Columnist Millions of people throughout the world continue to pause, to remember, to celebrate and to recommit to the living spirit and legacy of Maya Angelou. She was one of the most transformative global leaders and visionaries of our time.

Maya Angelou was a penetrating literary revolutionary and freedomfighting poet that used her pen to advance the worldwide struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

Angela Davis introduced me to Maya Angelou in 1972 in New York City. For the past 42 years, I have witnessed how Sister Maya effectively used her gifts and talents to lift the aspirations and voice of people in Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, and across America. During the 1960s, she was a member and strong supporter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Angelou was a fearless woman who stood up to challenge and opposed racism, economic injustice, poverty, and all violations of human rights, not only on behalf of Black Americans, but also on behalf of all of humanity. Today, an entire emerging global generation of poets and writers were inspired by the example set by Maya Angleou’s pen and international activism.

Maya Angelou was also a strong voice and contributing writer for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA).

I remember that Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, the publisher of the Sun Reporter in San Francisco and leader of the NNPA along with Tom Jervay, Sr of the Wilmington Journal and Louis Austin of the Carolina Times all defended Maya Angelou’s open support of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC).

The truth is some Black Americans in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were too afraid of showing public support for the ANC because of the ANC’s strong support from the Soviet Union against apartheid in South Africa. Lest we are too quick to forget that in fact President Ronald Reagan and many in the Republican Party supported

“constructive engagement” with the apartheid racially oppressive regime in South Africa. Yet, Maya Angelou never compromised her integrity or commitment to freedom and equality for fear of losing financial gain or popularity.

When many people avoided saying something positive or supportive about Cuban President Fidel Castro and his “Communist” military support of African liberation movements in Africa, once again Maya Angelou did not flinch nor mince words. She forthrightly stated, “Of course, Castro never had called himself White, so he was O.K. from the git.

Anyhow, America hated Russians, as Black people said, ‘Wasn’t no Communist country that put my grandpappa in slavery. Wasn’t no Communist lynched my papa or raped my mamma.” Angelou was a conscious advocate, like W.E.B. DuBois, of Pan Africanism and anti-imperialism.

When news spread about the passing of Maya Angelou at the age of 86 in North Carolina, heartfelt condolences were expressed my people everywhere. One of the leading newspapers in the Caribberan, The Gleaner, headlined “Jamaica Feels the Sting of Maya Angelou’s Passing.” Sheriata Grizzle wrote in the Gleaner: “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again, and bring the dawn. Those were the words of Maya Angelou as she responded to the news that her dear friend and South African president Nelson Mandela, passed last year. The potent words have now resurfaced as news of Angelou’s passing spread throughout the world. Her global influence is undeniable… there has been an outpouring of tributes for a poet who wrote her way into the hearts of many.”

We all must now take up the pen of Maya Angelou and continue her spirit for the cause of liberation, equality and empowerment for all people everywhere. May God grant her eternal freedom, rest and peace.

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is President of Education Online Services Corporation and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and can be reached at: http://drbenjaminfchavisjr.wix. com/drbfc

Right Wing Media Pretends Racism Doesn’t Exist

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It, Don’t Ever Talk About It: Right-Wing Media’s Solution to Racial Discrimination.”

The report recounts the media storm touched off by “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ excellent cover story in the Atlantic magazine. Media Matters said, “…The Atlantic has given right-wing media a fresh opportunity to argue that the best way to address racially discriminatory laws or policies – such as housing segregation – is to never speak of them, let alone litigate them under civil rights law.”

Media Matters observed, “In Coates’ essay, which ultimately calls for a congressional study on the long-term effects of the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, he explores the country’s history of racism and oppression, from slavery to the Jim Crow laws to the present.

Although right-wing media have been known to erroneously claim that racism is no longer a problem, the systemic effect of state and federal laws that favored whites and oppressed people of color is still felt today.”

For example, “…agencies like the Fair Housing Administration often refused to insure mortgages in neighborhoods that they deemed unsuitable, perpetuating

systematic housing segregation that in turn fueled other disparate racial impacts that continue today, such as separate and unequal schools. Despite the fact that redlining was outlawed in 1968 with the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the housing market is still hostile to black buyers and renters, even in neighborhoods that have taken steps to improve residential housing segregation.”

But you would not know any of this if you only consumed conservative propaganda.

According to Media Matters, “Naomi Schaefer Riley, who once called for the elimination of black studies from college campuses, wrote in a recent New York Post column that we’ve talked enough about race. According to Schaefer Riley, Americans are ‘done with a national dialogue on race’ and Coates’ essay ‘offers nothing new.’ She also complained that Coates’ advocacy for HR 40 [John Conyers bill to study reparations] was evidence that ‘our country’s media elites are still stuck on a liberal baby boomer racial narrative,’ and concluded that the way forward now is not discussion, but ‘colorblindness.’”

And she was not alone.

“Right-wing outlets like The Wall Street Journal, NRO, and radio host Rush Limbaugh have come out against governmental efforts to remedy past harms using litigation to enforce fair housing laws and promote residential integration programs.

When the Department of Justice

went after banks who had racially discriminated against people of color, the WSJ called the lawsuit an attempt to ‘shake down banks for not lending enough to minorities,’ and complained the agency was attempting to impose an unconstitutional ‘quota’ system on lenders. The WSJ also claimed that the lawsuit, and other initiatives on the part of the DOJ, had done nothing more than “’saddle a lot of minorities with foreclosed homes, huge debt burdens, and bad credit scores.’”

And Rush Limbaugh rushed to add his two cents.

“For his part, Limbaugh has argued that the Housing and Urban Development Department’s mandate to ‘affirmatively further’ fair housing was nothing more than ‘social engineering’ and a plot on the part of the government to ‘force’ people to move to integrated neighborhoods.”

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court also plays a key role.

“Even worse, the Supreme Court has contributed to modern racial divisions by rolling back affirmative action policies, gutting key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and making it nearly impossible for public schools to implement proactive integration initiatives that would help diversify heavily segregated schools.

Such decisions have allowed states to impose restrictive voter identification laws, have whitewashed college campuses, and nearly driven a stake through

the heart of Brown v. Board of Education, the case that outlawed state-mandated segregation in public schools. Unsurprisingly, right-wing media also determined that the recent 60th anniversary of Brown, one of the most significant civil rights victories in history, was no time to discuss racial inequalities.”

The article continued, “If Chief Justice John Roberts had his way, we’d all follow rightwing media’s lead and stop talking about race. As Roberts famously stated, ‘the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.’ In her dissent opposing the majority’s decision to uphold Michigan’s ban on affirmative action, however, Justice Sonia Sotomayor countered, ‘the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.’”

George E. Curry, former editorin-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.

My House is not Your Home

By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Since the economic crash of 2008, I think everyone has had to make adjustments – except the federal government – including cutting back on discretionary spending, fewer weekends at the beach, eating out less, etc. What I like about Americans is that when times get hard, we have a tendency to reach out to help those around us who are less fortunate. We will share a loaf of bread with a neighbor. We will give a bag of groceries to a needy member of our church.

We will pay the fees for our child’s friend to attend summer camp.

Those we have some connection to will always be on the receiving end of our largess when we have the wherewithal and after we have fulfilled the obligations we have to our families. This is the America I love and cherish.

But this love is becoming somewhat diminished in light of recent numbers on the level of homelessness among children in the U.S. There are two groups in the U.S. that we should never allow to suffer – children and senior citizens.

Children are pure, innocent and totally dependent on us adults. Senior citizens have paid their dues to society and paved the way for

us to enjoy the privileges we have.

But those aren’t the only two groups we should be concerned about. A record 1.16 million students in the United States were homeless last year, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education. These were students from K-12 for the school year 2011-12, the latest numbers are available. This was a 10 percent increase from the previous school year. According to the federal government, there were 55.5 million students enrolled in school during this period, meaning about 2 percent of all students were homeless.

The states with the largest increases of homeless students were: California, New York, Texas, and Florida. What is interesting about those states is they are the same states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally.

The Obama administration has actually encouraged a flood of illegal children to trek across Central America through Mexico into the U.S. because they have made it perfectly clear that they will not enforce our immigration laws. This public declaration has put our own kids at dire risk.

According to Reuters, “An estimated 60,000 such children will pour into the United States this

year, according to the [Obama] administration, up from about 6,000 in 2011. Now, Washington is trying to figure out how to pay for their food, housing and transportation once they are taken into custody.

The flow is expected to grow.

The number of unaccompanied, undocumented immigrants who are under 18 will likely double in 2015 to nearly 130,000 and cost U.S. taxpayers $2 billion, up from $868 million this year, according to administration estimates.”

So, if these are the numbers the Obama administration is using, they are probably conservative.

We are already more than $17 trillion in debt and you want to take money (that could be used for citizens) away from our homeless children to take care of those noncitizens who are in the country illegally? Really? I am totally with humanitarian aid, but not at the expense of my own U.S.-born children.

The problem has gotten so bad that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has set up an emergency shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas that can hold 1,000 illegals. That’s right, we are housing illegals on military bases; but our own children are living on the street or in a homeless shelter. We Americans

are the most generous, kind, giving people on the face of the earth; but enough is enough. Let’s take care of our own first.

America doesn’t have an immigration problem. We have an enforcement problem. There is nothing wrong with the laws on the books; we need to simply enforce them. The interesting thing that my open borders and pro-amnesty friends will never discuss publically is this: America accepts more legal immigrants into the U.S. annually than the total of all the other nations of the world combined.

So, I will not allow those who disagree with me to dismiss me as xenophobic, heartless, without compassion, etc. Show me a parent who will take away from his family to give to a total stranger and I will show you an unfit parent.

Because you are in my house does not make it your home.

Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a Washington, D.C.based public relations/government affairs firm. He can be reached through his Website, www.raynardjackson.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at raynard1223.

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Jindal Urged to Veto Bill to Kill Lawsuit Against Oil, Gas Companies Damage claims filed by a variety of local and state agencies against BP stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill could be negated by a bill approved by the legislature that is designed to kill a suit filed by the east bank levee authority against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies, according to a revised letter from 22 law professors and a retired New Orleans judge asking Gov. Bobby Jindal to veto the bill.

The revised letter was sent to Jindal Tuesday by professors from law schools ranging from Boston University to the University of Oregon, led by Loyola University environmental law professor Robert Verchick. It also was signed by retired Orleans District Court Judge Calvin Johnson. The original version of the letter was signed

by Verchick and three other law professors.

The letter warns that Senate Bill 469, sponsored by Sens.

Robert Adley, R-Benton, and Bret Allain, R-Franklin, conflicts with the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that allow any state subdivision to file claims and lawsuits against energy companies for damages caused by oil spills.

And a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also confirmed Tuesday that the agency also must review the provisions of Senate Bill 469 if it is signed into law to determine if it conflicts with the federal Coastal Zone Management Act. The bill would restrict state enforcement of the state’s coastal zone program to the state Department of Natural Resources, a parish, a parish district attorney or the state attorney general, while present law allow any governmental agency to file claims for violation of the coastal zone program.

“This change in legislation at the state level will likely need to come to NOAA for consideration as a change to the Louisiana Coastal Program under the CZMA,” said NOAA spokesman Ben Sherman.

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The governor has until June 22 to veto the measure. If he takes no action, the bill would become law without his signature.

In their letter to Jindal, the law professors said that what’s at issue is language in the bill that says that other than the Department of Natural Resources, a parish government, parish district attorney or the state attorney general, “no state or local governmental entity

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ASK THE CHURCH LADY Hey babies, Again, ya’ll keep on asking and by now you ought to know that if you ask me I’m going to tell you the truth; my version of it anyway, hee, hee.

Dear Church lady, I am appalled by the lack of integrity in the church these days. It seems that nobody has a word. Now you might expect this from the world, but when church people take on the same characteristics and treat you the same or worse than people in the world. I mean they lie, and the last time I checked just not telling the truth still added up to a lie! They have no compassion and no consider-

ation for how their actions will affect others. They are selfish and greedy just like the world; only concerned about themselves and how they can get ahead. Didn’t Jesus say that we should put others before ourselves? Anyway, I am just so disappointed in what I have been witnessing; the sad part about it is that it’s not just the lay people either; it’s the pastors and the teachers, and the Bishops and the apostles too. How should I deal with this?

Signed a deceived saint Dear Saint, See CHURCH LADY, on page 7

RELIGION

Singles: When It Comes To Relationships, The Heavenly Father Knows Best

By Donald Lee In 1st Corinthians 2:14 (Amplified), the Apostle Paul offers great insight from our heavenly Father, But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming bet-

ter acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.

Another passage of scripture (2nd Corinthians 6:14, KJV) tells us: Be ye not yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?

Christian singles, be diligent in the time you spend with your heavenly Father. The depths of His love for you are so great that your natural mind can’t begin to comprehend them, save for revelation

by His Holy Spirit (1st Corinthians 2:9, 10). So, when the Father tells you He knows the type of mate who

best suits you, trust Him. It is so important for singles who desire spouses to practice living lives of consecration — holy, set apart for true devotion to God. Your time with God make you less likely to be deceived by a devil approaching you in the form of a good-looking, charming person.

First John 4:1 says: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God …

Put another way, spending quality time with the Father enhances your spirit man’s ability to discern (or accurately judge) whether the person who is showing an interest in you is someone committed to God.

You see, when God tells you He knows the end from the beginning, He already knows (you can infer) before Sheila marries Mike how their story ends. The Lord knows — even when Mike is declaring his undying love for Sheila — that he’d (eventually) be saying to her: “It’s over. I’ll be more than fair, but I want a divorce.

“Hey. You can have the rental property. I’ll have Paco put bars on it for you. So, don’t thank me or nothing. It’s a rough neighborhood. You can have your car and … I’ll figure everything else out.”

This dialogue — taken from filmmaker Tyler Perry’s hit movie “Why Did I Get Married?” — is a powerful depiction of what ultimately happens in many marriages.

It’s a crushing, albeit accurate, portrayal of what happens (or what can happen) when children of Light, the Christ, connect with children of Belial, the devil.

If God doesn’t approve of the person you desire, remember: Father knows best.

Donald Lee, founder of Kingdom Living Christian Center in Dallas, is co-author of “Married to Commitment,” a powerful book on commitment that ministers to married couples, singles and divorcees. To order your copy, call Xulon Press at (866) 909-2665 or purchase it online at http://www.xulonpress. com. E-mail Pastor Lee at pastordonjlee@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter at @donaldj_lee.

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The summer vacation season is upon us. That means fun in the sun and staying cool in the inviting waters of Louisiana’s beaches, rivers,(NAPSM)-A lakes and pools. jumpsurveyBefore commissioned ing in for a refreshing swim, the by two leading health organizations Louisiana Department of of Health found that although two out three and Hospitals reminds to African Americans (61 everyone percent) exbe safe and cautious.

A fun and expressed concern about developing citing day on and the water can heart disease two out of quickly five (40 turn tragic, and people can become percent) expressed concern about sick if theyAlzheimer’s, don’t knowonly the about risks developing and take one in 20 precautions. are aware that heart health “Wetoknow people will be is linked brain health. venturing into our state’s waterthe Alzheimer’s Association is ways more and more in the coming joining forces with the American heart Association to educate months, so we advise themAfrican to be Americans that by managing their careful and exercise health precaucardiovascular risk, of they may also tions,” Department Health and strengthenSecretary their cognitive health.

Hospitals Kathy Kliebert “What’s good fordoyour heart to is said.

“We certainly not mean good for your brain,” saysenjoying Jennifer discourage people from Manly,activities, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Associawater but we want them tion spokesperson. “every healthy to understand the potential risks heartbeat pumps about one-fifth of involved.” yourThe bloodDepartment to your brain toissues carry ona the daily processes of thinking, prob“Swim at your Own Risk” advilem solving and remembering.” sory each year to coincide with 2030, the number of the“By endthe of year the school year and the African Americans age 65 or older is beginning of summer. expected to more than double to 6.9 The germs, bacteria and million,” said emil Matarese, M.D., parasites in the State’s natural American heart Association spokeswaterways, such asAlzheimer’s rivers, lakes, person. “Although is marshes and the Gulf ofage Mexico not part of normal aging, is the can makerisk youfactor sick for andAlzheimer’s sometimes greatest may be fatal. microorgandisease.

So it isSome important that Afisms naturally, and now others rican occur Americans take steps to come from human and animal decrease their risk of heart disease, waste. materials can could enter which These research has shown water from sewage also decrease the risk overflows, of cognitive polluted decline.”storm water runoff, sewage treatment plant malfunctions, urban and rural runoff after rainfall, boating wastes, malfunctioning individual sewage treatment systems and agricultural runoff.

“Most people can swim and enjoy the water without any (NAPSi)-here’s an alert worth problems or concerns,” said State paying attention to: According to Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry. the American Diabetes Association “But, contaminates their2 (ADA), learning yourcan riskfind for type way into all waterways, so there diabetes could save your life. is always slight leveldisease of riskthat for Diabetesa is a serious infections.”

Dr. Guidry also says strikes nearly 21 million children it’s a good the andnot adults in theidea U.S.toitingest is named water or swim if you have cuts or the “silent killer” because one-third open wounds. of those with the disease--more than 6 If not chlorinated, treated or million--do not know they have it. maintained, in ground and treated For many, diagnosis may come pools also at risk harboring seven are to 10 years afterofthe onset of microorganisms.

Owners should type 2 diabetes. early diagnosis is monitor pools to ensure critical fortheir successful treatment and proper chlorine and chemical can delay or prevent some oflevthe complications such as heart diseases, blindness, kidney disease, stroke and amputation. that’s one reason the ADA holds the American Diabetes Alert® Day, a one-day wake-up call to inform the B y Larkin Weber Jr.the seriousAmerican public about

What’s Good For Your Heart Is Good For Your Brain Did You Know?

• Compared to the general public, African Americans have a higher risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular dementia.

• More than 40 percent of African Americans have high blood pressure (hBP) and are at risk for stroke, which can lead to greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s or other vascular cognitive dementias.

• every year, more than 100,000 African Americans have a stroke.

• having high cholesterol increases the risk for stroke and may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s.

Manage Your Risks • Watch the numbers. remember that desirable blood pressure is less than 120/80 mmhg. Keep your body weight in the recommended range and make sure that the total cholesAssessment and200mg/dL. Coastal Health terol is less than (BEACH) Act of 2000.

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People who ingest waterborne bacteria or contaminants able english and Spanish by callcan inbecome ill with diarrhea, ing ADA atstomach 1-800-DiABeteS sorethethroat, cramps or (1-800-342-2383) or online www. vomiting. Children, theatelderly diabetes.org/alert. and people who have weakened thoughsystems the Alertare is aatone-day immune greater call to action, awareness about type risk of becoming sick. Swimmers 2can diabetes is important anytime of the consume bacteria or contamiyear, risk teststheir are nantssoinfree theDiabetes water through available online and by calling ADA mouths, noses and ears, as well all year long. as through open cuts and wounds.

A free Diabetes risk test is availPeople should take extra precauable all year long to determine the risk tions against type swallowing for developing 2 diabetes.water or when submerging their heads underwater, as this increases the risk of ingesting bacteria.

els. Residents who use portable entirely when supervising children. blow up pools and Slip ‘N Slides • Teach children to never run, are reminded to dump the water push or jump on others around each day and refill them with fresh water. water before using it again.

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Among the primary risk factors portant children and people injury on have that day, people are encour2 diabetes being overwho seizure disorders or for type • Beach Waterare Testing aged to take the Diabetes risk test, weight, sedentary, over the age of other medical conditions that could either with paper and pencil or online.

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Weekly Press • Thursday, June 5, 2014

SPORTS

As Spurs Return To NBA Finals, Tim Duncan Confesses: We Wanted The Heat

SU’s Director of Bands, Lawrence Jackson, Decides to Retire

Lawrence Jackson, the director of the world-renowned Southern University

San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan (21) shoots against Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka in overtime of Game 6 of the Western Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series in Oklahoma City, Saturday, May 31, 2014. San Antonio won 112-107 and advanced to the NBA Finals.

By Marc J. Spears OKLAHOMA CITY – Tim Duncan got his wish: The San Antonio Spurs are headed back to the NBA Finals for a rematch with LeBron James and the Miami Heat.

Duncan has won four NBA championships with the Spurs. His lone Finals loss came to James and the Heat last year after the Spurs

were seconds away from winning Game 6 to close out the series.

The Spurs have said all season they moved on from the heartwrenching loss. But after eliminating the Oklahoma City Thunder with a tense 112-107 overtime victory in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, Duncan admitted the Spurs have some unfinished business to take care of against the

Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals.

“We’re happy that it’s the Heat,” Duncan said. “We’ll be ready for them. We’ve got some experience, obviously, from last year against them. And we’ll go back and look at some film.

“And we’ve got that bad taste in our mouths still. Hopefully, we’ll be ready to take it this time.”

Duncan and the Spurs have

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won four NBA titles in 1999, 2003, ‘05 and ‘07. San Antonio seemed poised to add a fifth title when it took a 94-89 lead with 28 seconds remaining in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals. Many Heat fans had already departed American Airlines Arena and NBA officials began pulling a yellow tape around the floor for the championship trophy presentation. Ray Allen’s 3-pointer changed everything, helping force overtime, where the Heat won and then took a 95-88 victory in the decisive Game 7.

“It’s something that probably won’t leave anybody’s mind,” Green said. “A couple plays here and there could’ve changed the outcome of us having a ring and being champions instead of thinking about it every day.”

Said Duncan: “We were ready last year and we just couldn’t get over the hump.”

The Spurs played like a team seeking redemption through much of this season. They had the NBA’s best record at 62-20 to take the top seed in the tough Western Conference. Unlike last year, the Spurs will have home-court advantage in the Finals under the new 2-2-11-1 format.

The Spurs’ trio of stars – Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili – have long been battle-tested. But for many of their younger players, including Danny Green, forward Kawhi Leonard, guards Patty Mills and Cory Joseph, and center Tiago Splitter, last year was their first trip to the Finals. Veteran forward Boris Diaw, who scored 26 points in the Game 6 victory, said he’s better prepared for the Finals after playing in it last season. The Spurs also have added another shooter in guard Marco Belinelli.NBA Western Conference Trophy Pre “Last year was many guys’ first time to the Finals,” Green said.

“We’re lucky enough to go back. “…There is still a lot of work to be done, and we won’t be satisfied until we accomplish our goal.

And that’s to be the last team standing.”

Duncan and Ginobili took time for a long celebratory embrace after the Spurs clinched Saturday’s victory. Missing was Parker, who didn’t return for the second half because of soreness in his left ankle.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Parker told him eight minutes before the game that his ankle was bothering him and he was having problems cutting on it. Parker originally sprained his ankle in Game 4 and re-aggravated it in Game 5.

Parker had eight points on 3-of-6 shooting, two rebounds and no assists in 19 minutes before Popovich told him at halftime he was done. Joseph started the second half for Parker and was important in helping the Spurs take the lead in the third quarter.

Parker “showed a lot of guts to do what he did,” Popovich said.

“But at halftime I talked to him. He stiffened up a little bit and I just made the call.”

BATON ROUGE, La. – Lawrence Jackson, the director of the world-renowned Southern University “Human Jukebox” Marching Band, is retiring. The Crowley native has been Director of Bands on the Baton Rouge campus since 2006.

“I’m excited. I’m pumped,” Jackson said Thursday afternoon after announcing his decision to SUBR Chancellor Dr. James L. Llorens.

“I think I’m leaving the band in great shape,” said Jackson, who has been associated on a fulltime basis with the SU band for 18 years and five years part time.

The former Jukebox tuba player said, “I could have directed this band for another eight years.

But there were more reasons to retire than to stay,” he said. “At first it was hard to come to grips that I was going to retire. But I took some leave time to see what it would be like to be retired. I liked it.”

“The best thing is that I’m leaving on my terms. I love everybody, I love Southern University and I have no problems,” he said.

“This is the time I have chosen to retire.”

While his retirement officially takes place July 1, Jackson said he would probably take some leave time before then.

Llorens praised Jackson for his leadership. “Southern University has been blessed to have Mr. Jackson lead the famed human jukebox and continue the great legacy left by former band directors Dr. Isaac Greggs and Dr. Ludwig Freeman.”

“During my tenure as Chancellor I had the comfort in knowing that ‘Jack’ was in charge,” Llorens said. “He is an accomplished musician, arranger and director, but more importantly, he has consistently developed the young men and women under his leadership into productive students and, after graduation, productive citizens.

He has stressed discipline and has been a valuable mentor to hundreds of band members.”

“He has been a true ambassador for the Jaguar Nation,” Llorens said. “I am proud to have been associated with him.

I consider him a lifelong friend, and wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Jackson played in SU’s band from 1971 to 1975. Nicknamed “Crowley” after his hometown in Louisiana, Jackson would win several band awards including, most outstanding, top grade point average and he was a section leader.

After graduation in 1975, he got married and managed several convenience stores before landing a job in 1976 as Director of Bands in Clinton. As band director he managed the Clinton High Marching band, and simultaneously taught music at the high school, middle school and elementary school levels.

“I went to three Clinton schools every day,” he said.

In 1996, then Director of Bands Dr. Isaac Greggs asked Jackson to be an assistant band director. “Dr. Greggs told me at that time that he wanted me to succeed him,” he said.

Jackson said, “I learned so much about leading a marching band under Dr. Greggs. He was a great teacher.”

But, Jackson said his and Greggs’ enjoyment of music extended beyond the marching band.

“We wanted the musicianship of our students to be reflected in the Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble. That’s where our students really excel.”

Greggs, who died in April, retired as band director in 2005 and Jackson succeeded him in 2006.

“It was exciting,” he said.

“But, there was no time to marvel over the position.”

Under his direction, the marching band has continued to maintain the national prominence it had gained under Greggs’ leadership. The band has won several performance competitions, was selected by the U.S. State Department to represent the country abroad and performed at the 2013 Super Bowl in New Orleans.

At the end of the 2013 football season the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) named its top college marching bands and the Human Jukebox finished second behind The Ohio State marching band.

“To be recognized by the NCAA as the second best band, behind The Ohio State band is one of my highest moments. Ohio State has a million dollar budget and we have a bubble gum budget compared to them,” he said laughing.

In the meantime, Jackson said, “I am leaving the band in good hands with (Assistant Director of Bands) Nathan Haymer. I feel that Mr. Haymer will be an outstanding band director. He has his own ideas about how to do things. I expect that he will do things his own way.”

Haymer, he said, “is a younger man who will bring new excitement to the band. It is my hope that fans will anticipate more great shows in the future.”

The University has not announced Jackson’s successor.

Reflecting on the band performances while he has been director, Jackson said the Michael Jackson tribute show at the University of Louisiana Lafayette is among the top. A YouTube video of the show has more that 300,000 views.

He also mentioned the show done at the Louisiana Superdome 2006, when the Saints played their first game at home after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

“And, every time we formed the halftime score at games, the crowd would go crazy.

That is always fun,” he said.

Jackson reiterated that he and wife will have a great time in his retirement, saying he will be playing golf, conducting some band camps and whatever else he wants to do.

“Now, I’m still ready for ‘war time,’” he said, using one of his famous phrases repeated before a major performance or competition with another band.

“When I see the band on the field next football season, I’ll probably say, “It’s ‘war time.’ But I won’t be out there and that’s just fine with me.”