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Issue 187
1/1/2012
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Reading's new mayor Spencer Sworn in: I can't do it by myself‌..Bctv.org By Madelyn Pennino
Reading's new mayor, Vaughn Spencer, will do his best to improve the city, he told the crowd packed into Trinity Lutheran Church for his inauguration Monday, Jan. 2. He'll try to find more revenue and make it easier to access services at City Hall. But, he said, there's only so much he can do without the help of city residents themselves. Without their assistance, Reading will continue to suffer, said Spencer, Reading's first African American mayor. "Citizens can't continue not to be responsible for the condition of our city," he said. Former U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who delivered the keynote address, said Spencer will succeed because he connects with others. "He understands the city's natural resource — and that's the people," Sestak said. "He understands character." During his inaugural address, Spencer said he will establish strong relationships with City Hall department heads and City Council to put the city on a path to better fiscal management. Reading will make the necessary changes to thrive once again, even in light of a structural budget deficit, scrutiny over the city's Act 47 status, and a negative public image, he said. "We have a job to do," Spencer said. "I have a job to do, but I need your help." Much of the 2½-hour ceremony centered on changes needed to quash poverty and bring in business and jobs. First and foremost, Spencer said, the city needs a facelift. Spencer said he doesn't want to hear about how dirty the streets are or how people open their car doors and dump trash on the roads. It's the grown-ups that set an example for youth, he said. "Adults of the city need to become role models for children," Spencer said. Besides, he said, no one wants to start a new business in an unappealing area. The aesthetics will change if residents reach out to one another, he said. "When you start talking to you neighbors, you start talking about what's wrong," Spencer said. City auditor David Cituk and City Council members Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz, Dennis Sterner and Jeffrey Waltman, all incumbents, were also sworn into office for another term. After the ceremony, city resident David Edwards said he is hopeful Spencer will turn the city around, especially because the new mayor believes so strongly in the value of education. "He's worried about the students," Edwards said. "He understands that if kids don't do well, the city won't." Che Murray, 17, a student at Berks Catholic High School, said he believes Spencer will improve the city by strengthening programs for youths. "I think he will make the city a lot better than what it is," Che said. Sharon Holtz, of Shillington, likes that Spencer has remained committed to one set of priorities, including improving infrastructure and making the city a more safe and attractive place to live. "He has the same vision as during his campaign," Holtz said. Che's mother, Donna Murray, said she is hopeful but not unrealistic about the challenges the city faces. "I think there is going to be a big change but it's not going to happen fast," Murray said. "But I think he's heard what all the people are saying."
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How To Maintain Your Hair During Exercise From Hello Beautiful: Fashionistas take pride in their looks, from head to toe. Women are realizing that the sacrifice of their bodies to have hype hair is not cute, or that starving themselves to keep a flat tummy is not good either. Here are five ways you can spend time at the gym and step out with your hair still in place and looking great! Look Pretty In Your Ponytail Ponytails can be sexy, flirty, simple, and chic. If your locks are long, you cannot really go wrong with this style. Take a flat brush, spray a high shine, holding spritz on it, and brush your hair into a ponytail. International creative consultant for John Frieda, Harry Josh, suggests that the ponytails should be at eye level and to pull out some strands of hair in the front to hang naturally, "A wispy, piecy look is sexy," says Josh. It also holds well while you're aerobicizing or working with weights. By Yannique Benitez
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The construal of the model black woman garners the ability to encompass an immeasurable range of unparalleled love. With a repertoire like that, some would believe that the black woman is a force to be reckoned with. And they'd be correct. Yet, even with the innate ability to rule a country like Queen Amina and the effortless poise to "run the world" ĂĄ la BeyoncĂŠ, there remains two subject matters that have perplexed and frustrated the black woman for years: From Cluchmag.com
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The Drug War: Jim Crow in the Age of Obama The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama. The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs. The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why: it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama. Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics - and the stories -- of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts. "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status." It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar? Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate. White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment. Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems story - it's a policing and power story that reminds us that racism's not a figment -- and it just might contain a hint or two, too, about what a highunemployment America could come to look like -- for all of us.
By Laura Flanders and Michelle Alexander
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