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Midtown volunteer called hero after shooting

PEOPLE SPEAK

Daytona residents concerned about safety at city properties due to employee cuts in Leisure Services Department

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Gun violence reared its ugly head again in Daytona Beach on Jan. 31 with its

sights potentially aimed at up to 200 children, including a group of cheerleaders in the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center and its parking lot.

Luckily for the cheerleaders and supporters of the Daytona Beach Leisure Services basketball team, cheerleading coach Fallon Davis was able to talk a gunman out of continuing to fire shots. Davis’ action made her a hero in the sights of many, including the Daytona Beach City Commission, which recog-

Midtown Redevelopment Area Board Chair Hemis Ivey speaks at a recent Daytona Beach City Commission meeting and acknowledges the heroism of volunteer coach Fallon Davis (far right). Davis was asked to attend the meeting with the cheerleaders she supervises along with Coach Britney Parks, standing next to Davis.

nized her efforts at a meeting last week.

According to two police reports, two young Black male teens got into an argument inside the Midtown center and took their fight outside to the parking lot.

The brother of one of the teens appeared on the scene and produced a gun and fired six shots in the air, according to witnesses. Davis intervened at this time to stop the shooting.

The two brothers left.

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HISTORY in Daytona Beach

Librarian Larry Hyde helped to introduce local Whites to Black authors, history

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Imagine a time when there were no books by Black authors in Volusia County’s public school libraries and limited or no information on the contribution of Blacks in any of the references books.

Larry Hyde can remember.

Hyde, 91, who retired from Campbell Middle School in 1993 after 44 years with the school system as a librarian, began her career at South Street Elementary.

In Editor’s 1952, it was note: During one of the Black schools atHistory tended onMonth, the ly by Black Daytona students Times shares before intethe stories of gration. some area She had residents started at who have South Street made great part time strides as a secrelocally and tary. When nationally. she first worked at the school, it did not have a library but only a reading room that had books.

In an interview with the Daytona Times this week, Hyde said that since she only worked at the school part time, she would get off at noon and volunteer in the reading room to set up the library.

From South Street to South Daytona After two years of volunteering, at the request of the school’s principal at the time – Turie T. Small – the county would promote Hyde from part-time secretary to the school’s first librar-

New Smyrna celebrates its own Black heritage

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

No city or town locally celebrates Black History Month like New Smyrna Beach.

The annual New Smyrna Beach Black Heritage Festival took place last weekend with plenty of activities, live music, presentations, food, fun and entertainment.

The heart of the three-day festival was at Pettis Park located at the corner of Mary Avenue and Duss Street.

From mission to museum

Larry Hyde

it about Blacks – which would change after she was allowed to bring books, posters with famous Blacks in them and other material from South Street Elementary. The school is now known as Turie T. Small Elementary.

Next to the park stands the Heritage House and the Heritage Museum located on Duss Street.

Both buildings contain numerous relics and artifacts depicting the town’s Black history. They both were open for free tours and were featured during the festival.

The Heritage Museum is an old Catholic mission that was built in 1899 as the Sacred Heart/St. Rita building. It was originally for Whites and located on Faulkner Street. But in 1956, it was moved to Duss Street and used as a Black mission.

The Heritage house is an actual house lived in by Blacks; the house is estimated to have been built around 1920.

“Our festival has been going for 22 years. We have the museum and heritage house. We have plenty to do here for everybody.

We wanted to make it a fun-filled and family-oriented event,” said Jimmy Harold, director of the New Smyrna Beach Black Heritage Festival and Museum.

“We really don’t have a theme.

We wanted to provide entertainment and provide a good time for

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Mrs. Larry Hyde is in the center of the picture taken at BethuneCookman College in the early 1950s. To her right is husband, Paul, who was the school’s business manager. Also in the photo is the former Bethune-Cookman President Richard V. Moore and his wife B.J. (far left). Left of Mrs. Hyde is the Rev. Rogers P. Fair, former pastor of Stewart Memorial Methodist Church and spiritual advisor at the college until he retired in 1994.

ian, which meant the school finally had a room classified as a library.

As head librarian, Hyde was responsible for ordering books for the library, which she stocked with information about Blacks and books written by them. The books were purchased from a national cata-

log with money provided to her from Volusia County Schools.

In 1970, when Volusia County schools integrated, Hyde was transferred to the all-White South Daytona Elementary to assist the school’s White librarian.

She would quickly learn the school’s library had nothing in

Shaq’s mom attends renaming ceremony of B-CU wellness center

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Bethune-Cookman University renamed its wellness center last week, expanding its focus and partnerships in the community.

The Odessa Chambliss Wellness Center is now known as the Odessa Chambliss Center for Health Equity, center director Di-

ana Lee told the Daytona Times this week.

The renaming ceremony took place Feb. 7 at the center, which is located at 113 Lockhart St., off International Speedway Boulevard by the School of Nursing.

Lee said the concept for the center is a result of the vision of B-CU Interim President Edison Jackson.

“Jackson believes that an es-

sential part of the B-CU experience is that students participate in health equity service learning to develop civic insight and the ability to effectively respond to social, environmental and economic challenges,” said Lee.

Center named after Shaq’s grandmother Alma Dixon, associate provost

of health equity, said the renaming “demonstrates the commitment to leverage university resources with the ultimate goal to seek opportunities for our fellow citizens to attain their full health potential.”

“It is envisioned that the center will continue to partner with agencies to address inequality in the incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality or survival rates

of chronic illnesses in the citizens of the 32114 zip code,” Dixon said.

The center is named after the mother of Bethune-Cookman graduate Lucille O’Neal, the mom of retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal. Mrs. O’Neal graduated magna cum laude with a major in business administration in May 2003.

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City approves additional $330,000 to complete Yvonne Scarlett-Golden Center

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Construction of the Yvonne Scarlett-Golden Cultural and Educational Center is complete with the exception of landscaping and furnishings for the building.

Daytona Beach commissioners voted unanimously last week to increase the budget allotted for the center by $330,000 from money provided by the Daytona Beach Racing & Recreational Facilities District Grant Funds that will be received over the next two years.

City staff is hopeful the facility will open in March.

The commission authorized City Manager Jim Chisholm to advance $200,000 from the city’s Capital Projects fund to go with $100,000 already received from the DBRF grant funds. Still left from remaining project funds is $30,000.

Trying to avoid ‘unnecessary delay’ Initially, back in December

2011, the commission authorized $2,689,000 for the construction of the center but that amount did not include landscaping or funds to purchase furniture, finishes, equipment and other amenities.

The $30,000 remaining in project funds was approved by the commission to go toward landscaping improvements.

Chisholm said with the city’s commissioners vote to transfer funds, they hope the center will be opening sometime in March.

The funds advanced from the capital projects fund will be paid back from racing and recreational grant proceeds that will be received over the next two years.

In a memo sent to Chisholm, the funds approved by the commission was needed “to expedite the completion of the facility in order to prevent contract delay claims, price increases, and an unnecessary delay in the opening of the facility consistent with the commission’s desire to open the facility as soon as possible.”

COURTESY OF CITY OF DAYTONA BEACH

The Yvonne Scarlett-Golden Cultural and Educational Center is scheduled to open next month.

A long time coming The $300,000 will help finish the gym, which needs flooring, bleachers, basketball backboards, a remote-control scoreboard and volleyball nets in addition to other furniture for the center.

Leisure Services Director Percy Williamson has been working to make the Yvonne Scarlett-Golden Center become a reality since

shortly after the former mayor died in December 2006.

The center, located on Vine Street, on the eastern edge of Derbyshire Park, has four wings dedicated to the arts, education, culture and sports. The four wings wrap around a square-shaped, open-air courtyard and amphitheater. The main entrance will be flanked by two sculpture gardens.

Residents will have a place to play basketball, hold community dinners, get help with homework, take a yoga class and learn about photography.

There are studios for photography, computer animation and painting; spaces for art and dance classes; a library and a permanent historic exhibit featuring memorabilia celebrating the city’s first Black mayor.

history. We are truly local. We don’t want to be international,” Harold noted.

Added Williams, “This is a great thing and I hope that it grows. It is small, but we want everyone locally to come out and enjoy this event.’’

Teaching the youth Festival organizers also worked hard to reach out to the younger generation.

“I’ve been here for seven years. I think it’s now more geared towards the youth, which is needed. They need to learn our history and past on traditions of keeping it going. It is important to have it geared towards youth. I think our culture has a lost history, which isn’t made important.

I think it’s my job to past it on to the ANDREAS BUTLER/DAYTONA TIMES youngsters,” commented Morris.

Williams noted, “Festivals like The Heritage House is an actual house lived in by Blacks; the house this let our youth know what hapis estimated to have been built around 1920. pened in the past and what our future brings us. They need to know Williams also was there with the history to know where we came Sons of Allen Boy Scouts of Amer- from.’’ ica, which sold cookies and other Harold responded, “We have a lot snacks during the event. from Page 1 more youngster here than adults.

“The experience is amazing and We want to teach them and that is the crowd is more diverse. I think why we provided so many activities people as well as educate them on it is coming along well, especially Black history, including our own lo- with the participation of the com- for them.’’

Some of the children stated how cal Black history.’’ munity,” stated local artist and art they had a good time and were edteacher Shyriaka Morris. ucated on Black history during the ‘All about our heritage’ Morris also is on the New Smyrna festival.

The New Smyrna festival is Beach Black Heritage Festival ComSeven-year old Miracle Williams unique because it highlights the mittee and serves as its youth coor- of New Smyrna Beach reflected small town’s own rich Black heri- dinator. She also painted faces and about the good time he had and a community mural during the fes- how he was educated during the tage.

“It’s all about our heritage. We tival. festival. have to remember our heritage. I “The festival was fun. I got my grew up in the ’60s and I’ve seen Not trying to be too big face painted. There was plenty of both segregation and integration. I Harold called the New Smyrna food and games. I also went to the saw Dr. King fight his battles. I grew Black Heritage Festival a truly local museum and learned about Black up during segregation. You see a event. history and how people once lived,” mixed crowd here so we have inte“We are hometown and empha- he said. “I think that Black history grated,” commented New Smyrna size local history. This event truly is important and everyone should resident Arthur Williams. focuses on local history and Florida learn about it.”

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hYDE from Page 1 Interested in Blacks accomplishments Hyde said she was surprised how interested the White students were in the information she brought to the library about Black authors and their contributions to American History. ”They knew nothing at all about Blacks. I introduced Black history to them. The kids were so interested in seeing and knowing the accomplishments of Blacks.

The textbooks didn’t have anything about Blacks’ accomplishments,” Hyde explained.

After a few years at South Daytona Elementary, Hyde transferred to Campbell Jr. High to become that school’s head librarian.

Before integration, Campbell was the all-Black high school located at what is now the John H. Dickerson Center on Campbell Street. The street now is Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

When Hyde arrived at Campbell in the 1970s, it was a seventh and eighth grade center located on Keech Street.

Today Campbell is a middle school that is housed in a new facility after the

old structure was demolished. The school remains on Keech Street but has moved further down the thoroughfare to the corner of Keech and South Street.

Other Black librarians Hyde is one of the few Blacks who have been head librarians at Volusia County public schools.

Had it not been for them, many of the schools would not have any information about Blacks or books written by them.

Other Blacks who have made a difference as Volusia County Public School librarians included Carrie Daniels, Emma Burke, Mary Fears, Evangeline Cooper, Loretta Wright and Eartha Watson.

Hyde said when they worked for the system they ordered books that included “Negro history.”

Now that all of them have retired or passed away, Hyde said she is worried that there is not enough Black published material in the current media centers.

Hyde did praise current Black media specialist Debra Bell Woody, who while working at Turie T. Small Elementary School, was named Volusia County Schools’ Teacher of the Year for 2007.

Worked, socialized with Dr. Bethune Hyde came to Daytona Beach with her husband, Paul, who was business manager for BethuneCookman College under founder Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. He died in 1985.

Her first job before joining the Volusia County School system was as a secretary at Bethune-Cookman College in 1950 when she moved to the area with her husband.

Hyde remembers going to the Bethune home on many occasions for dinner.

“I knew her very well.

She (Bethune) is from South Carolina, about 30 miles from my hometown.

She always invited employees to her home,” Hyde recalled.

“She (Bethune) was a very personable person, friendly person, had high standards for herself and students,” she continued.

Campus meetings drew many Whites Hyde said while working at the school she remembers the community meetings Bethune held at White Hall.

“Students had to march in. The public would come.

Speakers like Mrs. (Eleanor) Roosevelt would come. It was a service,”

Hyde recollected.

Hyde said the community meetings, which started at 3 p.m. every Sunday, would be filled with White people, especially northerners who were down for the winter months who wanted to hear Bethune speak.

“Mrs. Bethune was a national figure. Black people that lived here knew Mrs. Bethune,” said Hyde about why local Blacks didn’t attend the meetings every Sunday.

Earned degree in North Carolina Hyde majored in social studies and graduated in 1942 from North Carolina College for Negros, which is now known as North Carolina Central University.

“I was the first one in my family to go to college. Parents emphasized the importance of education,” said Hyde, whose three sisters earned Ph.Ds. She also had a brother.

Hyde’s father was a blacksmith with his own business. “It was a horseracing town,” noted Hyde.

Before going to college, Hyde said she attended a private boarding school owned by the Methodist church with Black and White faculty.

“Anybody that could pay the tuition could attend. In my graduation class, there

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Lucille O’Neal (right) is shown at the wellness center renaming ceremony with her brother Roy and daughter Lateefah.

CENTER from Page 1 Shaq attended the renaming ceremony.

Support from the O’Neal family was instrumental in the launch of the wellness center and the upgrading of the School of Nursing facilities.

Family fund helps nursing students Mrs. O’Neal said her mother worked in the nursing profession for 16 years in the state of New Jersey.

“After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1993, Odessa continued to work for as long as she was physically able. It was early 1995 when Odessa’s health began to decline and she was

unable to work,” said Mrs. O’Neal on her website.

“Our mother passed away peacefully on April 2, 1996 after fighting a serious battle with the deadly disease we call cancer,” continued Mrs. O’Neal.

In honour of her mother, Lucille O’Neal said she and her siblings set up a fund to provide grant supplementation for individuals pursuing a career in nursing and to assist those students who require incidentals such as medical supplies, laptop computers and necessities that are not accessible through basic tuitions.

Additionally, this fund will provide monetary scholarships for education and cancer research at institutions and facilities that identify an urgent need for assistance.

were 15 people,” Hyde continued.

Though the school only had Black students, Hyde said she didn’t feel segregated because the school offered everything.

has organized Girl Scout Troops and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and The Links.

Registered voters; active in community

In an interview with the Times, the retired librarian also cleared up a question inquiring minds want to know: How did she get the name Larry?

“Before I was born my parents wanted a boy and they picked the name Larry and stuck with it. They didn’t have sonograms at the time so they didn’t know what my sex was going to be. Even though I came out a girl, they stuck with the name,” she explained.

Her middle name is Ruth though, her mother’s first name. While growing up, she was called “Little Ruth,’’ No one else on her mother or father’s side has the name Larry, she noted.

“Before I went away to college, my mom was going to change my birth certificate to make Ruth my first name. But by the time I got to college and was established, everybody called me Larry. She never changed my birth certificate. I never questioned it,” said Hyde, who says to this day she still gets mail addressed “Mr. Larry Hyde.’’

As a little girl, Hyde said she was always interested in reading and books. This is one of the reasons she wanted to become a librarian. Another reason was that one of her sisters was a librarian.

Her first job was teaching social studies at Booker T. Washington High School in North Carolina.

Being a social studies major, Hyde said she also knew the importance of voting.

“In order to get my voter registration card, I had to prove I could read a portion of the Constitution,” said Hyde, who was born in 1921 and registered to vote when she was 21.

Since then, Hyde has worked to register people to vote and also volunteered to take people to the polls.

Hyde has been a member of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church for more than 50 years and has served in many key roles.

In addition to being a member of several professional organizations, Hyde

From ‘Little Ruth’ to Mrs. Larry

FEBRUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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First Church celebrates ‘Moving from Vision to Victor’ Warm, colorful moments filled the 20th anniversary of the First Church of Palm Coast, with the theme “Moving from Vision to Victory.” Best wishes appropriated the Rev. Gillard S. Glover’s 20th anniversary as founding pastor.

“RNR” made the accommodations recently held in Ormond Beach at the Halifax Plantation Golf Club.

“RNR” are the initials of church stewards Rose Luckett Williams, Naomi Hargrave, and Ruthie Saunders, their fund-raising tactics applaudable.

It was eye-catching for a journal, designed by Karen Griffith, the pastor’s assistant. The presentation reflected the church’s help in meeting the needs of the community and its continual growth.

Current, past members honored The members who had gone on to glory and others living were honored as well as many souls having been touched and the hurting helped through the ministry of First Church. It celebrated God’s power and presence at First Church.

The program was entered into by the Rev. Woodrow Leeks and members Ernestine Logan, Dr. Irving Robinson, Sybil DodsonLucas, Horace Eubanks and young Ryan McKenzie Montgomery.

BRIEFS Job training opportunities available for seniors The Experience Works Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is accepting applications.

Program applicants must be age 55 or older, unemployed, live in Volusia County, and have incomes of $13,964 per year or less for a family of one ($18,913 for family of two).

“In this difficult economy, many older Floridians are finding it necessary to find work,” says Jo Rinehart, Experience Works interim Florida state director.

“Unfortunately, finding a job can be especially difficult for older workers who have not looked for employment for some time or for those who been unsuccessful in their job hunt.

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By Jeroline D. Mccarthy | Daytona Times Music vividly cut through generations, orchestrated

by Minister of Music Leonard Hunt, Sr. It presented the sensational Providence - Nathaniel Shropshire III; Francesca Scott, Drickus Horne, and Marria Adams.

They sang “In Bright Mansions Above,” “Total Praise,” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

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by Peoples Sissy Peoples was equally enjoyable. The international songstress is an actress and comedian, born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and now living in Orlando.

She has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad. She’s an instructor for “Stir Up the Gifts” vocal class and has been cast in Christian plays like the off-Broadway play, “Gospel Is...!” written and produced by Vy Higginsen of “Mama I Want To Sing.”

Peoples began as a lead singer with gospel choirs and has enjoyed a 10-year junket with Natalie Cole &

Our program is a steppingstone for people desperate for work. We can provide immediate assistance and wages.”

Sponsored by Experience Works and the State of Florida, Department of Elder Affairs, SCSEP is available at no cost to people who meet eligibility criteria.

The program provides paid community service assignments at local public and non-profit organizations, training, referral to needed services and job search assistance. With updated skills, participants use their community service training as a springboard to permanent jobs with local employers.

For more information call toll-free 888-859-1051 or visit www.experienceworks. org.

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Company. She’s performed with an impressive roster Jeffrey Osborne, Johnny Mathis, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, Peabo Bryson, Patti La Belle and others.

It was a joy having her again for the special occasion and singing “The Lord’s Prayer” and “A Natural Woman,” backed by Providence. Peoples had everyone spellbound like she did last October in church singing “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” and “Precious Jesus.”

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The occasion was a joy for Drickus Horne, Robert Brown, drummer Carlos Felder, Leonard III Hunt and Marria Adams.

Happy Birthday to You! Birthday wishes to: Birthday wishes to Candace Price, Feb. 14; Lilieth Vaz, William “BJ” Jones, Feb. 18; Mamie Cauley, Feb. 19; the Rev. Gillard S. Glover, Feb. 20.

Happy anniversary to James and Ruby Sims, Feb. 20.

panded its online permit, development and contractor information services.

Registered contractors can apply online for licenses, demolition permits and certain types of residential permits at www.ConnectLivePermits.org as well as schedule inspections, make payments, and check the status of applications online.

Connect Live Permits, launched in September 2012, also allows residents to submit complaints about potential code violations and research permits, developments, complaints and contractor licenses from their computers 24/7.

Free movies at Deltona Amphitheater The Deltona Regional Library will present three films over three Saturdays in the open-air setting of the Deltona Amphitheater, 2150 Eustace Ave., starting at 7 p.m. on Feb. 23, March 2 and 9.

Moviegoers may bring snacks, beverages, folding chairs and seat cushions.

The concession stand will be open during the movies. The films are new DVD releases and intended for teen and adult audiences.

Because of the agreement that allows the library to show the movies for free, the titles can’t be published, but library staff can release them over the phone. Call the library at 386-789-7207 or visit www.volusia.org.

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Compiled by the Daytona Times Heart health talk on Feb. 21 Dr. Humayun Jamidar, a cardiologist, will be speaking about heart health Feb. 21 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Carlton Shores Health & Rehab Center, 1350 S. Nova Road. Light refreshments

will be provided. More information: 386-425-1212.

B-CU chorale to perform The Bethune-Cookman University Concert Chorale will perform a medley of songs at

2 p.m. March 2 at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island. The free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Reservations are not required. More information, call 386-257-6036, ext. 16264.

Long-term care session set Attorneys Michael Pyle and Trisha Dellinger will present a program and answer questions regarding financial planning for long-term care from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island. Reservations are not required. More information: 386-257-6036, ext. 16264.

Stetson’s Black History events to include lecture by Connecticut Supreme Court justice SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES

As part of Stetson University’s celebration of Black History Month, the Honorable Lubbie Harper Jr., a Supreme Court justice in Connecticut, will speak at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the DeLand campus.

The keynote address is titled, “Social Justice – An Ongoing Search/A Never Ending Challenge.” The public is invited, free of charge. The event will be held in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., DeLand.

Harper is a member of the bars of the State of Connecticut, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

He is currently the chairman of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Criminal Justice System as well as Connecticut’s Representative to the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts.

Other Black History Month events In addition to Harper’s lecture on Feb. 20, the following is Stetson University’s schedule of events, all open to the public, to commemorate Black History Month.

Feb. 19 The Color ME Brown Project: “Conversations with Unmuted Voices’’ is sponsored by the Cross-

Connecticut Supreme Court Justice, the Honorable Lubbie Harper Jr., will be the keynote speaker for Stetson University’s commemoration of Black History Month on Feb. 20.

Cultural Center, Safe Zone and Stetson University’s Gender Studies Program.

It will be held in the Rinker Auditorium Room 108, Lynn Business Center, 345 N. Woodland Blvd. The program begins at 10 a.m.

Directed by young college LGBTQIA activist Nicole Townsend, “Conversations with Unmuted Voices’’ is a documentary primarily focusing on the Black and Latino communities and explores the complexities that each person experiences as they navigate their communities. The purpose is to expose issues around race, class, gender and sexuality that are muted in order to break down racism, homophobia and discrimination.

Black Pride: Negotiating triple minority is sponsored by the CrossCultural Center, Safe Zone and Kaleidoscope, Stetson Room, CUB, 131 E. Minne-

sota Ave. Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.

It is a “fishbowl” look into the ways Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and Questioning individuals address the complexities of race, gender, gender expression, and social pressures as they shift identities to “survive,” “pass” and “succeed.”

Candid conversations followed by Q&A from the audience. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb. 21 Book Feast: Arrested Justice: Black women, violence, and America’s prison nation, by Beth Richie.

4:30-6 p.m.

It is sponsored by the Multicultural Student Council, Africana Studies and the Cross-Cultural Center, Cross-Cultural Center, 611 N. Bert Fish Drive, DeLand.

Arrested Justice brings issues of sexuality, class, age, and criminalization into focus right alongside of questions of public policy and gender violence, resulting in a compelling critique, a passionate re-framing of stories, and a call to action for change. The Book feast will be led by Dr. Pepper Bates. Free refreshments will be provided. For more information about where to pick up a free copy of the book, contact ygonell@ stetson.edu.

For more information on Stetson University’s schedule for Black History Month, contact Yolany Gonell, assistant director, Intercultural Initiatives, at Stetson University’s Cross Cultural Center, at ygonell@stetson. edu, or call 386-822-7402.

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Can today’s Black leaders measure up to Medgar Evers?

When Myrlie Evers-Williams gave the invocation at President Obama’s January inauguration, she was in part recognizing the vision and courage of her late great husband, Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated by a gun 50 years ago. Medgar was a huge inspiration for me.

As a 22 year old, first year law student at Yale, I traveled to Mississippi during my first spring break in 1961 to reconnect with my friends from SNCC — the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

After the sit-in movement and SNCC’s founding at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ella Baker pulled those of us who had sat down at lunch counters together from across the South, I decided on the spur of the moment to apply to law school after volunteering for the Atlanta National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and seeing how many poor Black people could not get or afford legal counsel. Few, if any, White lawyers took civil rights cases at that time.

Follow the need I had been thinking about going to graduate school to study 19th-century Russian Literature and entering the Foreign Service but was jolted by such great need and injustice all around me at home. So remembering my daddy’s reminder that God ran a full employment economy and if you followed the need, you’d never lack for a worthwhile purpose in life, I applied to law school — with no understanding of what it entailed.

Many of my SNCC friends had gone into the poorest and most dangerous states of the South to organize poor Black citizens to vote and demand a better life.

I needed to reconnect with my courageous friends that spring to be reminded of why I was in law school studying corporations and

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property law. So off I went to Mississippi.

Medgar Evers, the local head of the NAACP, was the first welcoming face I saw when I arrived. He picked me up at the Jackson airport, took me home to meet and have dinner with Myrlie and their children, and then drove me up to the Mississippi Delta where the SNCC headquarters in Greenwood was located, about 90 miles away. Our first news upon arrival was about a shooting which had terrorized the Medgar Black community Evers that day.

The next morning, I joined Bob Moses and James Forman and other local SNCC workers and a scraggly group of poor Black citizens who fearfully but courageously decided to go to the courthouse to try to register to vote and to show that gun violence was not going to deter them.

We were met by a hostile White mob and burly White police officers with German Shepherds in tow — the first time police dogs were brought out to attack civil rights workers in the 60s.

SNCC leaders arrested I was at the end of the line, having promised my mother and my Mississippi-born Yale Law professor that I would not be arrested.

I marvel to this day at Bob Moses’ courage in not moving when a police dog lunged at his thigh and ripped his pants. The crowd of Black would-be registrants scattered and all the SNCC leaders were arrested, throwing me car keys as they were taken off to jail right down the street, followed

by the menacing mob and police with dogs, to be tried immediately.

I had the phone number of John Doar, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Justice Department, in my jeans and I called him in a panic from a telephone booth, trying to describe the lawless scene and realizing that all three of the Black lawyers in the state who would take civil rights cases were 90 miles away in Jackson.

In a steely calm voice, he admonished me to just state the facts and to control my emotions. I knew then in every pore of my being how it felt to be a poor, helpless, isolated, terrified Black person in that lawless state.

I ran from the phone booth to the courthouse and tried to go up the steps to help my SNCC friends but was blocked from entering the front door.

I went around to a side alley to try to get into the back door and was again blocked by police.

But I knew in those few horrible minutes that I would survive law school and come back to Mississippi to practice law and seek justice for the voiceless and voteless.

I had found my calling.

Laying groundwork Medgar was a Mississippi native, a graduate of Alcorn State University in Mississippi, and a World War II veteran who had fought for his country at the battle of Normandy but was turned away at gunpoint when he tried to vote back home. After he was turned down for admission at the segregated University of Mississippi’s law school, he helped lay the groundwork for James Meredith to become the first AfricanAmerican admitted to that university.

As the NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi, he was instrumental in coordinating civil rights activity in the state. He led by example, undeterred in the face of open White hostility.

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In the early morning hours of June 12, 1963, he was shot and killed in his driveway after returning home from an NAACP meeting.

Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of the murder 31 years later thanks to Myrlie’s dogged persistence.

I returned to live in Mississippi in 1964, a year after Medgar Evers’s death, as a staff attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, helping to continue the work Medgar and others had begun and to provide legal help for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project workers organized by SNCC and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of civil rights groups, who had traveled to that closed society to shed light on it and support local Black citizens who were seeking to exercise their right to vote.

Evers would be proud Throughout the years, I never forgot Medgar’s personal kindness and support of a young first year law student and public example of courage and determination in the face of enormous danger and fear. So I warmly welcomed the opportunity to join Myrlie Evers-Williams at the 2013 Heritage Convocation at their alma mater Alcorn State University last week. How very different Mississippi and the nation might look to Medgar today. There is so

much he would be proud of, but still so much left to do.

He would be relieved to know Black Mississippians no longer live in constant fear of the Ku Klux Klan and the kind of White supremacist terrorism that took his life.

But he would be alarmed by the proliferation of gun violence that still keeps residents of many Black communities locked in their homes after dark in a new kind of American terror.

Many crucial socializing institutions—family, church, neighborhood, community — have frayed.

There are strong leaders still in Mississippi and elsewhere who are struggling to fight for equal education and justice for all children but they must multiply dramatically in numbers, strength, effectiveness, and voice.

There is no excuse in 2013 for people of any color to fear joining the struggle for equality and justice and to be afraid to speak up for what’s right and just and hold our political leaders accountable.

Medgar Evers remains a beacon for all of us who are still inspired by his example and vision.

We must not let all he lived and died for recede on our watch.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund. For more information, go to www.childrensdefense.org. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Connect with CARES to save our children Six years after I first heard them, the statistics still haunt me: 86 percent of Black children in the fourth grade read and do math below their grade level. Black girls between the ages of 15 and 24 represent the greatest number of new HIV infections. Homicide is the leading cause of death for our boys.

The village is on fire! And our love is the saving, healing water that legions of our children are literally dying for. When we listen we hear their cries rising above the flames. Their voices carry the incendiary pain and humiliation of intergenerational poverty that turns dreams to ashes: days of missed meals, uncertain safety and poorly resourced schools that plenish the pipeline to prison.

Least of these SUSAN L. TAYLOR NNPA SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR

While there are no people on earth more kind, caring and creative than us Black folks, a certain world-weariness has crept into our days. As a group, we able African-Americans have half-stepped around our moral responsibility to care for “the least of these.”

We say that God is love. But love is a verb. It requires us to do something, to actively care for ourselves and serve one another from the overflow.

Our children cannot continue to die outside the temple doors while we “praise His holy name” within. We are all here on assignment. We honor God when caring for our vulnerable young. Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

We can learn to work together better; choose healthier, life-sustaining behaviors; fill our hearts with love and gratitude and do this work that is ours to do. We can reclaim and secure the young lives we abandoned and rebuild the village. And we can do it well by mentoring.

us isn’t carrying some hurt or depression or self-sabotaging habit we yet need to break?

We are a remarkable species, living at an extraordinary time in history, a marvel of creation, human and divine. Love is the divine aspect of our being. It is restorative and healing and elevates everything it touches. That’s the promise. Love, God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah—call it what you will. Originating Spirit gave birth to all existence. It’s the energy that governs and balances all in creation, every Defending childhood cell in every living thing. It is the Attorney General Eric Holder unchanging, unfailing, eternal ascharged a national task force with pect of our being. investigating how exposure to violence impacts children. I attend- Love is answer ed his Dec. 14 meeting at which Spiritual awareness inspires the the culminating findings in the love, walk-on-water faith, courage Defending Childhood report were and creativity needed to heal evdelivered.

The violence that children erything within us and around Mentoring works miracles of this nation are subjected to us, including the damage done to Mentoring – a low-cost, highin their homes and communi- our people over the seas and cen- returns solution – works miracles. turies.

With love and caring we ties and glamorized in the meIn the tradition of our ancestors, dia is relentless and chilling. Ex- can create the beautiful future we whether we are rich or poor, forwant. pert after expert cautioned that Among my baby-boomer peers mally educated or not, and though exposure to violence traumatizare real-world exemplars of the none of our lives is perfect, we can es children and that, unresolved, provide a protective shield for the those traumas easily lead to deep good that is possible when a gen- children. eration cares and acts out of love: depression and dysfunctional beDone well and consistently, We build schools and cultural in- mentoring changes even the most haviors.

These socially disruptive be- stitutions, develop businesses, challenged young lives. But when haviors — our young people’s write great books, compose great the call goes out for mentors, White cries for help — lead the nightly music and create dances that el- women and men are the first renews from coast to coast, rous- evate the spirit. spondents. Black women and men ing shame and anxiety. We hold The generation that inspired too often are not in the mix, while our collective breath and pray, me––that inspired the creation of the wait lists at youth-serving or“Lord, don’t let the crazed one be Essence and the building of oth- ganizations continue to swell with one of us.’’ But the question that is er Black institutions––stopped Black children, the vast majority of never asked and answered is why a war, moved young people out them our beautiful boys, waiting. are these young people acting of gangs and into breakfast proThe National CARES Mentoring out? What I have come to know in grams that often gave school chil- Movement, founded as Essence my personal and professional life dren the only nutritious meal they CARES in the wake of Hurricane is this: Understanding the cause had each day.

Katrina, is committed to changing of our pain and taking action to address it are crucial to our healing.Overcoming adversity With understanding and acOpinions expressed on this editorial page are those of the writers, and do not tion, we heal, grow and thrive in necessarily reflect the editorial stance of the newspaper or the publisher. profound ways. Held up proudly, nurtured and supported, we have THE CREDO OF THE BLACK PRESS in past generations succeeded despite the often-dire economic The Black Press believes that Americans can best lead the world away from racism and national antagonism when it accords to every person, regardless of race, color or creed, full circumstances, troubled families human and legal rights. Hating no person, fearing no person. The Black Press strives to help and traumas that many of us enevery person in the firm belief...that all are hurt as long as anyone is held back. dured coming of age. Who among

this in the now time! Before we began our work, there was no national infrastructure in place to engage desperately needed Black men and women volunteers.

Operating in nearly 60 U.S. cities under the leadership of devoted volunteer community leaders, CARES is determined to ensure that all Black children needing guidance and role models are surrounded by a circle of caring, supportive adults who are committed to volunteering just one hour a week of their time as mentors.

This year, in more than a dozen cities, we are piloting programs with our partners that undergird our children academically, emotionally and socially.

To date, CARES has recruited more than 125,000 mentors for upwards of 135,000 children.

Caring adults needed But it’s not enough. So I’m asking that you stand in the gap and volunteer an hour a week to help guide our young who need more caring adults in their lives. Our children losing ground need your congregation, your block association, your friends and family, they

need our fraternities and sororities to take action.

We need all hands on deck, and the best way to get others to step up is to get engaged ourselves and express the joy we feel and the healing that occurs when doing God’s work.

You can email me at taylor@ caresmentoring.org or visit our website, www.caresmentoring. org, to get connected with a local CARES Affiliate. You can also start a mentor-recruitment movement in your area.

Linking arms and aims, we can ensure the village that now burns will be reborn, phoenix-like, from the ashes, and that our children will soar, dreams first, into a new day.

Susan L. Taylor is the founder and CEO of National CARES Mentoring Movement. For 27 years she served as the chief editor of Essence magazine. Learn more about the programs of National CARES at www.caresmentoring.org. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

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How to celebrate Valentine’s Day frugally

Crazy in love?

Rihanna tells why she’s back with Brown

FEBRUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 20, 2013 DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2006

BY NICOLE PAITSEL DAILY PRESS (MCT)

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Sweethearts won’t up the ante this year by way of Valentine’s Day gifts, according to a report by the National Retail Federation.

The average person will spend about $130 on gifts for the holiday this year, only a slight increase over 2012’s spending numbers, a federation survey said.

More than half of gift givers will buy candy, a third will give flowers, and only 20 percent will buy jewelry.

But savvy shoppers can make it through the holiday without getting close to the retail federation’s hopeful prediction.

Here are some ideas for romance on the cheap.

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Holiday deals Be wary of percentage-off discounts from online floral dealers.

Websites like FTD.com and ProFlowers.com lure shoppers with discounted prices that are exponentially increased with shipping and other fees. A dozen roses — with no vase — on ftd. com was promoted to be on sale for $44.99 in the days leading up to Valentine’s Day. By the time the checkout process was complete, the roses cost $64.99.

Pollard’s Florist, a Newport News, Va.-based floral business, offered a dozen roses with a vase for $60.44, which included tax and a $7 delivery charge.

But a dozen red roses will never be your best bet for Valentine’s Day, frugally speaking. If flowers are a must-have, go with a spring variety. A bouquet that includes pink and white roses, among other flowers, costs $44.69 through Pollard’s after delivery and tax.

An arrangement of 10 red tulips is priced at $42.60 after tax and delivery at Mary’s Florist shop in Newport News, Va. Small bouquets, without a vase, are often in large supply at local

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Sweethearts won’t up the ante this year by way of Valentine’s Day gifts, according to a report by the National Retail Federation. The average person will spend about $130 on gifts for the holiday this year, only a slight increase over 2012’s spending numbers, a federation survey said. grocery stores during February and can cost as little as $20.

Sweet tooth For the sweet tooth side of things, Krispy Kreme offers customers Valentine coupons for a dozen donuts with the purchase of a dozen donuts. The coupons come in individual denominations, one free donut per coupon, making this a good gift to share with classmates, teachers or coworkers.

Do it yourself Of course, the old cliché “It’s the thought that counts” really means something on Valentine’s Day. Ange Hatfield, of Windsor, Va., says she and her husband have never spent a lot of money on

holiday gifts.

“On Valentine’s Day we leave little love notes hidden around the house, and I make a ‘sweetheart’ bag of goodies in his work lunch bag,” she says. “I have even sent cards to his workplace to arrive on Valentine’s Day (be sure to mark them personal and confidential).”

Krista Talley makes her own Valentine’s Day coupon book — a truly frugal idea.

“This idea could be used in a romantic sense or in a fun way for the kids,” she says. “For example, I made one for my boyfriend that had coupons good for a massage or dinner of his choice (made at home, of course). Then for the kids you could do manicure or pedicure or park day.”

Inexpensive gifts There are a few fun gifts floating around that won’t bend the budget.

Keeping with the “feed your tummy, feed your love” theme, the website gleegum.com offers a Make Your Own Chocolate kit, which includes fair trade and organic cocoa butter, organic cocoa powder, confectioner’s sugar, starter crystals, a thermometer and paper candy liners to make your own box of chocolates. The kit costs $13.95.

Keep the night intimate with a personalized pillowcase, priced at $23.95 through bighugllc.com.

Varieties include “Good Morning Beautiful” with the recipient’s name, “You are my sunshine” and “You are loved,” among other sayings.

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Singer Rihanna, 24, graces the cover of the March 2013 issue of Rolling Stone magazine and inside she tells why she reunited with boyfriend Chris Brown.

The couple’s public reconciliation comes after about four years since Brown assaulted Rihanna.

“He made a mistake, and he’s paid his dues,” she said.

“He’s paid so much. And I know that’s not a place he would ever want to go back to.

And sometimes people need support and encouragement, instead of ridicule and criticism and bashing.”

She continues, “I wasn’t going to let anybody’s opinion get in the way of it. Even if it’s a mistake, it’s my mistake.

After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I’d rather just live my truth and take the backlash.

He doesn’t have the luxury of f-ing up again. That’s just not an option.”

“We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don’t want to lose that,” she added.

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Chris Brown and Rihanna are photographed on Christmas Day 2012 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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Girls basketball playoffs recap: Atlantic, Lopez and DeLand advance COMPILED BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Ronni Williams scored 23 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked two shots to lead Atlantic past Cocoa 59-39 in the Regional quarterfinals on Feb. 7.

Destiny Woodard added 21 points for the Sharks.

Father Lopez handled Gainesville Oak Hill 65-22 to open the playoffs. Ashley Folsom had 23 points, eight rebound and nine assists for Lopez. Simon Brown added 12 points, nine rebounds and seven steals while Shannon Crenshaw had 10 points for the Green Wave.

Cintrell Johnson had 10 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots to help DeLand beat Jacksonville Mandarin 54-42 in the first round of the Class 8A playoffs. Sherae Cherenfant also had 16 points for the Bulldogs.

Regional semifinal games (second round) took place on Feb. 12, which was after the Daytona Times’ deadline. DeLand played at Lake Mary, Atlantic hosted Orlando Lake Highland Prep and Father Lopez hosted Gainesville P.K. Yonge.

New Smyrna, Seabreeze, Trinity eliminated Gabby Kostenbader scored 12 points for New Smyrna Beach in a 56-32 loss to Orlando Evans in the first round of the Class 7A playoffs.

Seabreeze was handily defeated by Palm Bay Heritage 67-42 to open the Class 6A playoffs. Ashanti Bailey led Seabreeze with 10 points.

Ocala St. John Lutheran upset Deltona Trinity Christian Academy 71-55 in the Class 2A first round.

Megan Hagy had 19 points and Salena Lewis 13 for Trinity.

Boys tourney recap: Smyrna, Lopez, DeLand win Malik Maitland had 27 points and 12 steals to lead Father Lopez to a 75-51 win over Oviedo Master’s Academy for the district 4-3A

VOLUSIA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS REVIEW championship. Mason San Souci added 16 points and Cameron Breehl 14 for the Green Wave. Lopez handled Lake Mary Prep 71-56 in the semifinal.

A.J. Ford had 23 points, Maitland 13 and Breehl 11 for the Wave. Master’s Academy topped Warner Christian 59-47 in the semifinals. Mark Maddox scored 20 points for Warner.

DeLand upset Oviedo Hagarty 59-54 to win the district 2-8A title. Monolito Hamilton had 20 points and Jason Burnell 13 for the Bulldogs. DeLand topped Lake Mary 56-40 in the semifinals behind Hamilton’s 24 points and Burnell’s 12 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks. Burnell tallied 35 points with 10 rebounds to lead DeLand past Longwood Lyman 60-51 to open the tournament.

Hagarty beat Spruce Creek 48-41 in the semifinal, ending its season.

Keyshawn Johnson led the Hawks with 11 points.

Creek opened the tournament with a 46-40 win over Sanford Seminole. Malcolm Fletcher had 10 points with nine rebounds, Alex Mestre 11 points and Kyle Clark 10 boards for Creek.

New Smyrna won the district 3-7A championship with a 62-49 win over Melbourne Viera. Roger Carlin had 18 points and Marcus Johnson 11 for NSB.

Deltona, Calvary make postseason Calvary Christian Academy fell to Winter Park Geneva 67-52 in the district 3-2A title game. Marquise Miller had 19 points and Christian O’Riley 12 for the Lions. Calvary beat Halifax 49-45 in the semi-final to make the playoffs.

In that game, Deyon Tucker had 19 points and Zach Camporese 17 for Calvary.

James Cuberthson tallied 19 points and Travis Walker 19 points with 11 rebounds for Halifax. Others scores: Geneva 69, Trinity 60.

Orlando Edgewater beat Deltona 68-53 to win the district 8-6A title. Deltona

upset Mainland 55-54 in the semifinal to earn a playoff spot. Dexter Gooding had 12 points while both Craig Wilmore and Jamal Hughes scored 11 for Mainland.

Other Scores: Edgewater-64, Seabreeze-25; Seabreeze-51, Pine Ridge-49.

Atlantic fell to Orlando Jones High 64-27in the semi-finals of the district 5-4A tournament. Anderson Vellejo led the Sharks with 12 points.

Regional quarterfinal games (first round playoffs) games take place on Feb. 14. DeLand hosts Jacksonville Mandarin, New Smyrna hosts Oviedo, Deltona travels to Palm Bay Heritage, Father Lopez hosts Gainesville P.K. Yonge and Calvary plays at Leesburg First Academy.

Weightlifting: Koren wins title; Creek second Spruce Creek’s Shelby Koren won the 129-pound individual state title. Koren also won the 110 pound division the previous year.

In team competition, the Hawks finished second (23 points) falling short by one point behind Navarre (24 points).

Spruce Creek has won eight of the past 10 team state titles in the sport.

Prep Sports Seven Basketball Girls: 1. *Father Lopez (23-5), 2. *Atlantic (20-6), 3. *DeLand (26-3), 4. Flagler Palm Coast (18-7), 5. *Trinity (20-8), 6. *Seabreeze (13-13), tie 7.*New Smyrna (8-17), Warner (8-9).

Boys: 1. *Father Lopez (25-2), 2. *DeLand (20-7), 3. *New Smyrna (21-4), 4. *Calvary (18-8), 5. *Deltona (13-13), 6. Mainland (1511), 7. Halifax (12-11). *-denotes playoff team

Baseball rankings 1. Spruce Creek (2-0), 2.

Trinity (0-2), 3. New Smyrna (0-0), 4. DeLand (0-0), 5.

Seabreeze (0-0), 6. Flagler Palm Coast (0-1), 7. Deltona (0-0). Others: Father Lopez (0-1), Mainland (0-0), Warner (0-0), Pine Ridge (0-0).

Scores, records and rankings are as of Feb. 12 at noon.

FEBRUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 20, 2013

HERO from Page 1 Hundreds of kids on site at night Police later went to their home and arrested one brother on aggravated assault, battery with intent to kill.

One of the witnesses on the scene of the shooting who wished not to be identified and volunteers at the center are upset that volunteers have had to put their lives in danger because the city does not have enough staff at the center.

During basketball season, there are hundreds of children at the Midtown Center at night, the Daytona Times has learned.

Davis and cheerleading coach Britney Parks are volunteers at the Midtown center, which has only one full-time staffer, Hillary Rowley.

Heroic action applauded Davis, Parks and some of the cheerleaders who were at the Midtown center the night of the shooting were at the city commission meeting on Feb. 6 as Midtown Redevelopment Area Board Chairman Hemis Ivey acknowledged Davis’ heroic action and pleaded with commissioners to do more when it comes to the safety of the children participating in programs at the Midtown Center and at other city-owned properties.

“An incident that happened at Midtown Cultural Center (has) our kids are at risk when safety is not being provided over at the Midtown Center. We had a shooting,” said Ivey, who has a daughter participating in the city’s cheerleading program.

“If I had to give out an award today, I would give it out to Coach Fallon for stepping in and asking the shooter not to shoot them.

That took courage,” Ivey said during the city commission meeting as the audience applauded Fallon.

“We ask the community to come together and step in. We had a shooting at Derbyshire Park and now at Midtown. We need cameras at our community centers,” Ivey continued.

“Fallon was able to identify the men and young

men. Had she not been brave enough, we would still have those young men on the street. It is very important we protect our young kids. This is our future.’’

The Daytona Times also has learned that there are two surveillance cameras at the Midtown center as well as two at the John H. Dickerson Center.

Positions eliminated City commissioners voted last March to eliminate four positions in the Leisure Services Department, including two office specialist positions and recreation leaders.

The loss of these staffers has led to the department eliminating the track and field, boxing and adult flag football programs.

The elimination of these staff positions also means fewer city employees to help maintain order at the Midtown center as well at the John H. Dickerson Center and the soonto-open Yvonne ScarlettGolden Cultural and Educational Center.

In an article published in the Daytona Times last March, Leisure Service Director Percy Williamson said that because of the vote by the commission to eliminate the four positions in his department, he has had to reorganize the department and shift his staff around.

Today, it is still unclear what effect the eliminated positions will have on the opening of the Yvonne Scarlett-Golden center, which is currently not budgeted for staff.

More dependent on volunteers The Daytona Times also has learned the positions of Fred Morrell and Wilma Hawkins, who retired last year with the Leisure Services Department, will not be replaced. That also goes for the job of Hillary Rowley, who works at the Midtown Center and will be retiring later this year.

Because of budget decisions made by City Manager Jim Chisholm and approved by the commission, the community centers are more dependent on volunteers.

Safety at the Midtown center and Yvonne Scarlett-Golden center, which is opening next month,

concerns Commissioner Patrick Henry who had to deal with a shooting that took place in his zone at Derbyshire Park last September.

“I was sitting at a meeting with Chief (Mike Chitwood) the night the shooting happened (at the Midtown Center). Safety is one of my main concerns.

When we had the issue at Derbyshire, Chief just went in and parked the (mobile) command unit there for a few weeks every day,” Henry said.

Commissioner tries to get answers The commissioner said he left the meeting with Chitwood and went straight to the Midtown center.

He approached two officers on the scene and identified himself.

“I only asked two questions: ‘Did anybody get shot?’ Their answer was there was an altercation and a firearm was involved,” related Henry.

Henry said he then asked the officers if they had a shooter in custody to which they replied that there was an “ongoing investigation.’’

He added, “I go inside. I get the whole story. I know who the shooters are and I know what happened.

I’m thinking I might know more than police know by just going in the building.”

According to a police report, 17-year-old Darius Rivera was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm after firing six rounds in the air in the parking lot of the Midtown Educational and Cultural Center. Rivera pointed a handgun at Eric Pasley, 18, who was involved in a fight with Rivera’s brother, the report added.

“Nobody is a bigger proponent of the police department than me. My concern was did anybody get shot. That disturbed me when they wouldn’t answer my questions,’’ Henry related.

Zone 6 Commissioner Paula Reed, on the other hand, commended Chitwood and his department on their immediate action.

“Coach Fallon is my first cousin. One of the smaller cheerleaders is her daughter. This hits double not only with my family but my community, my zone,” added Reed.

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Wildcats ready for baseball

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Bethune-Cookman University has the top baseball team among historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).

B-CU also has been on the national stage. Last season, the Wildcats were 3427 overall and 18-5 in the MEAC while winning their seventh straight MEAC title and making their seventh straight NCAA Regional appearance.

The Wildcats have won 12 of the last 13 and 16 of the last 18 MEAC titles and have been to the NCAA Tournament 14 times in the last 16 years.

Next level This year’s squad is ready to take the next step under second-year coach Jason Beverlin.

“It all starts between the ears. We have the talent of SEC and PAC-12 schools but until we believe in ourselves we won’t win those games. In baseball, anybody can beat anybody. A team can’t just be physical and beat you like in other sports. In this game, the skill element is larger than other sports,” explained Beverlin.

Leading the Wildcats offense will be senior outfielder, David Lee (.306 BA, three homeruns, 47 RBIs, 13 SBs) while local product and Spruce Creek high alum in Junior Pitcher, Scott Garner (4-4, 6.00 ERA) is poised to lead them on the mound.

“I’m looking forward to leading the club offensively. I did it last year. That is

B-CU ROUNDUP why I came here. We just have to go out there and play,” responded Lee. Garner responded, “I just know the area here and have my family around, which brings fans to support us. If I can keep the ball down and use my sinking fast ball, I can return to form and help lead the club.”

Junior designated hitter/ firstbaseman and pitcher, Anthony Stokes (.261 BA, 10 HRs, 35 RBIs) along with senior outfielder Brandon Turner (.292 BA, 23 RBIs, 23 SBs) and junior outfielder Josh Johnson (.291 BA, one homerun, 26 RBIs, 27 SBs) return.

“We have good team speed and will be aggressive on the bases. We have more power this year but pitching and defense will still anchor our club,” added Beverlin.

Strong starting pitching B-CU will have a strong starting pitching staff with Senior Ali Simpson (2-1, 4.30 ERA) returning from injury and Deltona high alum Montana Durapau (47, 3.86 ERA). They lost senior Gabriel Hernandez (6-3, 2.92 ERA) to injury.

Senior, Jordan Dailey (4-6, 3.30 ERA, 11 saves) returns as their closer. Both Simpson and Garner are former MEAC freshmen pitchers of the year and Simpson is a former freshman AllAmerican.

“Our starting pitching is strong despite our lack of depth. Our concern will be finding the fourth starter and reliever spots right now. We are going to have

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B-CU baseball players are shown exercising during a recent practice. to monitor our starters pitch count and keep them healthy. The new guys will have a chance to step up,” said Beverlin.

“We are looking forward to the season starting. We are looking forward to long outings. We just have to keep the ball down and work to our strengths,” added Garner.

A deeper team The Wildcats have a few newcomers who can help the team out defensively and offensively in junior college transfers and infielders Eric Sams and Josh McCarthy along with freshman catchers Clay Middleton and Chris Biocic.

Sophomore infielder P.J. Boicic returns from injury to help the infield and sophomore Jake Welch returns to help depth in the outfield.

“We have far more depth

than last season. During both the fall and the spring the team competition has been great. It has brought the best out of all our players,” said Beverlin.

“We are all the on the same team. We are comfortable with whoever goes out there and play. We just have to go play, execute and get it done,” added Lee. B-CU opens the season with a three-game series at PAC-12 power Arizona State from Feb. 15-17.

Men’s basketball: ’Cats fall short on road The road wasn’t kind to the Wildcats men basketball program this past week.

B-CU (9-16, 4-6) suffered defeats to North Carolina Central University (NCCU) 81-75 and North Carolina A&T 65-55.

Adrien Coleman had a career-high 31 points with 10 rebounds and two blocks for the Wildcats against NCCU. Kevin Dukes added 12 points and Malik Jackson 10 for B-CU. Coleman and Javoris Bryant each had 12 points to lead the Wildcats against North Carolina A&T.

Women’s basketball: B-CU splits road games The Ladies opened their road trip with a loss to North Carolina A&T 56-31 but rebounded by thumping North Carolina Central 51-34.

Bethune-Cookman (1111, 6-4) remained in the thick of the MEAC race.

Shakyia Coyler led B-CU with 12 points against North Carolina A&T while Terrenisha Hollis had 18 and Coyler 16 against NCCU.

Both programs return home for the final homestand of the season. They face critical conference matchups against Howard on Feb.18, South Carolina State on Feb. 23 and Savannah State on Feb. 25.

Bowling: B-CU still ranked The women’s bowling team remained ranked in the latest National Ten Pen Coaches Association poll, which was released on Feb. 8.

The Lady Wildcats retained their No. 19 ranking. The Wildcats hold a 40-41 mark but have competed in tournaments that featured many ranked opponents.

The Ladies return to action Feb. 15-17 when they travel to the Morgan State University Invitational in Perry Hall, Md.

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EPA head in a long line of Black environmentalists Black and green issues

BY FREDDIE ALLEN NNPA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

When Lisa Jackson leaves her post as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency later this month, she will be remembered for taking on oil industry groups and Republican lawmakers, and pushing to give AfricanAmericans a greater voice on environmental issues.

“Early on we set out to expand the conversation on environmentalism and environmental justice,” said Jackson who was born in Philadelphia and raised in New Orleans. “As the first African-American to lead the agency, it seemed that it was time, once and for all, to disprove the myth that the face of an environmentalist is a White face.”

Jackson said that the American myth is that an environmentalist grows up in the great outdoors, relishing horseback riding in the morning or hiking through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. like President Theodore Roosevelt.

“I didn’t come to the environment from that side,” said Jackson. “I came to environment through the absence of that. I do not sleep outside. I do not camp. I don’t wear Birkenstocks. I will eat a granola bar from time to time,” she said joking with members of the Black press during a recent media roundtable at the EPA headquarters.

From Bishop to Carver Despite the whitewashed American myth about who really cares about the planet, Blacks have always been actively involved in environmental issues.

Stephen Bishop, a slave from Kentucky skilled in geology, explored under-

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Lisa Jackson is shown on Dec. 15, 2008 after being named head of the EPA by then President-elect Barack Obama. ground streams, discovered “eyeless and colorless river animals” and led tours at the Mammoth Cave in 1838, which is now the site of a national park.

Solomon G. Brown, built exhibit cases, cleaned furniture and studied natural history from 1852 to 1906 at the Smithsonian Institution. Brown, the first African-American employee at the world-renowned museum, also lectured about natural history in the Washington metro region.

As he worked in agriculture and botany, scientist George Washington Carver viewed nature through a religious lens and worked with Black farmers to grow sustainable crops and to conserve natural resources.

More activists In 1985, Norris McDonald founded the African American Environmentalist Association focused on protecting the environment, utilizing natural re-

sources economically and bringing more Blacks into the environmental movement.

More recently Jerome Ringo an environmental activist with a background in the petroleum industry chaired the National Wildlife Federation from 2005 to the 2007, becoming the first Black to head one of the most important conservation groups in the U.S. According to a study by Paul Mohai, an associate professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, despite conventional wisdom, Blacks are more likely than Whites to weigh the environmental costs of everyday actions.

Dispelling myths The study, titled “Dispelling Old Myths: African American Concern for the Environment,” found that 37 percent of Blacks buy pesticide-free foods compared to 29 percent of Whites.

Blacks also eat less meat than Whites (15 percent of Blacks vs. 8 percent of Whites) and drive less (16 percent versus 10 percent). The study found that Whites recycled at higher rates than Blacks (64 percent to 44 percent).

Although Blacks joined environmental groups at similar rates as Whites, they were less likely to join mainstream groups like the Sierra Club or the World Wildlife Fund.

“People that fished to put the fish on the plate, didn’t join clubs! They fished to eat,” said Jerome Ringo in a 2005 interview with Mother Jones. “So, therefore, the organized movement was mainly made of those sportsman and did not include people who couldn’t afford to join clubs and who were off feeding their families.”

As Blacks and poor people were off feeding their families environmental groups grew in popularity sorely lacking in diversity.

A 2007 study by the Center for Diversity and the Environment found: “Thirty-three percent of mainstream environmental organizations and 22 percent of government agencies had no people of color on staff.”

The study went further suggesting that people of color “feel unwelcome and uncomfortable in institutions because of the homogeneous culture both within organizations and the movement,” adding that, “organizations that want to diversify often do not know what to do, where to start, and eventually either do nothing or venture down a path destined for failure.”

Minorities don’t always connect their creative money-saving acts to saving the planet or conservation, making it harder for them to connect to the mainstream environmental movements.

That’s because green issues are not always tree hugger issues, said EPA Administrator Jackson.

Home-retrofitting She shared the story of one of her staffers who had a grandmother that lived in the northeast. As soon as the early winter winds started to blow, the grandmother would get up on a ladder and tack plastic sheeting to the windows.

“That was energy efficiency, that’s home retro-fitting. She didn’t call it that. She was keeping the cold air out and keeping her utility bill down,” Jackson said. “We need to embrace that as something that we can do and society should be helping lowerincome people do.”

According to a report by the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan re-

search and policy group, embracing environmental movements could mean the difference between life and death for many Blacks living in the U.S. “For many people of color, this air pollution is an unavoidable feature of daily life because they are more likely to live and work in the nation’s most polluted cities,” stated the Center for American Progress report.

Health concerns The report found: “A startling 68 percent of African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant, compared to only 56 percent of the White population.”

Not only do carbon emissions contribute to global warming, the pollutants also exacerbate symptoms related to asthma.

Action plan During her tenure at the EPA, Jackson fought to bring environmental justice issues to the forefront, developing Plan EJ 2014 to address how pollution affects communities of color.

The plan includes guidelines for assigning new permits for power plants to regulation enforcement and outreach programs.

“At the end of the day, environmental issues are health issues and if you have health disparities, because of the environment that becomes a moral issue and that’s a story that needs to be told,” said Jackson. “These communities are suffering.”

In 2012, Jackson helped develop an action plan to decrease racial and ethnic disparities associated with asthma and to increase asthma management through education.

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