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B-CU’s Jackson: ‘I’m removing the shackles’

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During address at alumni convention, interim president talks about campus improvements, community relations

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

Dr. Edison Jackson says when he was contacted to come serve as Bethune-Cookman University’s interim president, he was not looking for another job.

“This is a new season. I am a

vessel of the Lord. I didn’t come seeking another presidency. God had another plan. I got the call to come,” said Jackson who had recently retired as president of Medgar Evers College in New York City.

Jackson was presenting the “State of the University Address” at the 44th Annual BethuneCookman University National Alumni Convention in Daytona Beach on June 21 at the Daytona Beach Resort and Spa. In a frank speech in front of 200 alumni, he called the current structure at B-CU a “recipe for hell” and plans to stop what he calls a disjointedness that exists.

His goal is to improve the environment on the campus so staff “can be all that they have been called to be.

“Deans are fabulous, but they have been shackled. I’m removing the shackles,” he said.

Jackson also noted there are people working for the university who have retired mentally but are still on the job.

“Execute your paperwork for full retirement,’’ he urged, adding that the students are what is most important at the university.

“This is serious business. No time to be playing games. It’s about transforming lives,” JackPlease see JACKSON, Page 2

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Dr. Edison Jackson, interim president of Bethune-Cookman University, is shown presenting his “State of the University’’ address during the National Alumni Convention on June 21.

A joyful noise: Area choirs invited to join music workshop, concert

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

The Howard Thurman Home is one of the stops on the Unified Ministries’ Black Heritage Trail walk this weekend.

A call for churches, community to come together Unified Ministries organizing tour of Black historical sites in Daytona Beach

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

“Daytona Beach is a familyoriented community. Everyone knows someone that knows someone that knows you.”

That is what Claudine Khouri, who moved from Miami, believes about the area she has adopted as her new home.

Khouri says the city has the perfect ingredients to form an organization to bring the community even closer together.

A number of area churches have organized to help bring the Daytona Beach community together.

The organization calls itself Unified Ministries.

Churches that are part of the organization include A Touch of His Hem Ministry, Abraham Daughter’s House of Refugee Food and Pantry Ministry, Living Water Cathedral Church of the Living God, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Mt. Bethel Baptist Institutional Church, Mt. Zion AME Church, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church.

Avenue to support other churches Khouri, who is a member of

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Claudine Khouri, Lynn Carew, Toni Charles, Benjamin Broxton and the Rev. Inez Stafford, founders of Unified Ministries, are shown at a meeting to discuss the Black Heritage Trail tour.

Morning Star Missionary Baptist and one of the founding members of the group, says members of other churches coming together “is a way of saying we are a community.”

The Rev. Inez Stafford, an associate member of Mt. Bethel AME Church, also a founding member of Unified Ministries, hopes the group will be an avenue to inform churches of activities they are having so they are better supported – not only by church members.

“We need to come together more and participate in other church’s activities,” Stafford said.

Seeking positive connections Usually churches and people in the Black community come together involving something negative that has happened, Khouri noted.

For example, she cited churches organizing after the shooting death of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford

by George Zimmerman.

“We should also rally the community to something positive,” said Khouri.

Unified Ministries has been organized since March 2011.

Khouri said United Ministries has yet to have a fundraiser and is supported by members of the organization who believe in their goal.

“We are asking God to lead us in the right direction,” Khouri remarked.

The Tubman-King Community Church’s Sounds of Faith Choir is inviting choirs from area churches to participate in a music workshop and concert from July 11 to 14.

“This will enable us to combine our musical skills, gifts and talents to give praise, honor and glory to the God that we love and serve daily,” said Wilburn Williams, Tubman King’s minister of music.

Williams said he is looking to bring together a mass choir of at least 100 voices representing churches across the county for what is being called an “anointed celebration.”

“We would be blessed and honored to have you be a part of this celebration. We need your voice, your talent and love for God to make this vision a reality,” Williams said in an appeal to area choirs.

Concert takes place July 14 at 5 p.m.

On Saturday, June 30, the group is inviting residents to join them on a walking tour of historical sites in the heart of the Black community.

The theme of the workshop is “Sing Unto the Lord – “A New Song.’’ He said the theme was inspired from Psalm 98, chapter 1, verses 4-6.

The music workshop is scheduled to begin Wednesday, July 11, and run through Friday, July 13, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Tubman King Community Church, 1090 George Engram, Daytona Beach. Refreshments will be served.

Workshop participants are expected to participate in a concert on Saturday, July 14, starting at 5 p.m.

A DVD will be produced and made available for sale, which will contain scenes from the music workshop and the concert. The cost of the music workshop and concert is $20.

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Walking tour takes place Saturday

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Media, entertainment executive named president, CEO of NNPA

BY GEORGE E. CURRY NNPA NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Highly respected media and entertainment executive William G. Tompkins, Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200 Blackowned publications.

NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, publisher of the Arizona Informant, said Tompkins was selected from an impressive field of candidates screened

by Carrrington & Carrington, a Chicago-based executive search firm.

“Bill is an accomplished, nationalBill ly-known executive Tompkins who will be responsible for executing the vision of the NNPA Board of Directors,” Campbell said.

“Because the board chair is elected every two years, having a president and CEO in place will provide the organization with smoother operations and greater continuity.”

Worked at Kodak, Washington Post Campbell described Tompkins as “a true visionary who will make an immediate impact on the organization.”

Tompkins worked at the Washington Post for 19 years in a variety of top-level positions, including vice president of marketing, director of national advertising and manager of corporate and financial advertising sales.

He left the newspaper to join Kodak as chief marketing officer of its entertainment imaging business unit. Tompkins was also vice pres-

from Page 1 son continued.

During the conference, Jackson was presented a key to the city by Daytona Beach Mayor Glenn Ritchey.

“Community, you are welcomed (on the campus). B-CU belongs to you.

There are no gaps between town and gown. How can we sit in Daytona Beach separate and apart from the community,” Jackson questioned.

‘Putting God back on the campus’ Jackson said he is excited about being at the university and “there is a new wind blowing on the B-CU campus.”

He further called himself “a child of the King” and stressed that he lives his faith and will be “putting God back on the campus.”

“I cannot say I believe in God and not have folks that are not doing the same.

This institution was founded on faith,” Jackson said.

Jackson opened his address with “O magnify the Lord with me and let us

Eager to help members excel Tompkins is eager to draw on his wealth of experience on behalf of NNPA. “Having had corporate roles during the majority of my career, I now have the opportunity to work with people who represent the heart and soul of what our country is all about, that being entrepreneurs who are making a difference,” he said.

And he will make a huge difference for NNPA, a group of publishers who own and operate their own newspapers.

“I will be able to create a firm and more solid internal foundation for the association to ensure that we consistently provide higher quality and more useful services to our members,” Tompkins explained. “I will also be responsible for ensuring the long-term financial viability of the NNPA and for providing bigger revenue streams for our members.”

Lead spokesperson and advocate According to a job description NNPA provided to candidates for the position, “The President and CEO exercises overall authority and responsibility for the direction of the organization’s personnel, programs and services and drives the

exalt His name together,” which he received a hardy number of amens.

New board chairman Jackson was introduced to more than 200 alumni by Dr. Larry Handfield, chairman of B-CU’s board of directors. Handfield helped to choose Jackson, who became B-CU’s interim president on May 13.

Handfield told those who work for B-CU at the luncheon: “If you don’t have the right attitude, you need to find another place of employment.”

“In less than a month, he has transformed the university and is making his blueprint,” said Handfield, who will be officially stepping down as chairman of the board on June 30 but will remain as a trustee for another three-year term.

The Rev. John Harrington takes over as chairman on July 1 for a three-year term.

Handfield said Jackson has a track record of coming in and turning things around.

“He is the right person, at the right moment at the right time,” Handfield stated.

More Black male students wanted Jackson also told the

execution of the strategy through its daily activities.”

The job description also said the president and CEO “is the lead spokesperson and advocate for the organization with the community and a diverse set of partners and stakeholders.”

Tompkins received a Bachelor of Arts in economics magna cum laude from Tufts University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.

He is a former chairman of the National Kidney Foundation and has served on the board of the National Advertising Council.

Black papers still in big demand Although many major U.S. daily newspapers are experiencing financial problems as a result of dwindling circulation, community-based publications appear to be much more viable.

So much so that a company owned

by Warren Buffett, the second-richest person in the United States behind Bill Gates, recently purchased 63 daily and weekly newspapers from Media General, Inc. for $142 million.

“In spite of the transformational changes in the newspaper industry, Black media publications continue to play a critical role in our country, both in terms of their impact on society at large and especially in the role they play in local communities,” Tompkins said.

“My background is in media and entertainment so the opportunity to participate in the reinvigoration and transformation of this hidden jewel of newspaper assets will be both exciting and impactful.”

alumni it is time “we stop talking and start doing.”

“We are going to do what we say. We are restructuring much of what we do at this university,” Jackson said.

Jackson said he also wants to see more Black men on campus.

“We are going to do great things, increase Black male enrollment. The brothers got issues. We got to find some way to help them,” he said.

Jackson also had advice for young women thinking about attending B-CU. “Ladies, some behavior needs to stay on the block.

Have to protect integrity of the degree,’’ he said to laughter.

“If you are not ready to grow with us, you need to stay at home. We are not going to lower our standards. We need to be honest with our people,” Jackson added.

More certificate programs, degrees Instead of remediation, his aim is to pull up those students who are deficient.

“We are about the business of healing hurt people,” he said. “We are talking about producing winners.”

Jackson also said it is

time B-CU becomes a “true university”.

A university not only teaches students, but Jackson said there also needs to be research and community service taking place.

“Can’t act like we are a college anymore,” he declared.

Jackson says his goal is to add certificate programs and more degrees.

“We are going to become a powerhouse. We have got to become more than we have been,” he continued.

The interim president admitted he will be facing challenges.

“But I’m already fortified. God is going to see us through. Some of us have forgotten the bridge that brought us over. Something is happening in the atmosphere of B-CU. I didn’t make it happen.

God is making it happen,” he related.

Jackson said after the first semester listening and learning more about the school, he plans to teach at least one class the second semester.

He concluded his address with a message to alumni, which brought more laughter: “What I want you to do. I want you 7.0 in.checks.” to write some

CORRECTION

Daytona Beach Leisure Services Director Percy Williamson is shown above with his wife, Carmen, at the Juneteenth Banquet held at the Midtown Cultural and Education Center in Daytona Beach on June 12. In last week’s issue, the Daytona Times published a photo of Williamson and his sister, Ruth Wilson, who was incorrectly identified as his wife, Carmen.

TOGETHER from Page 1 The tour will begin at 9 a.m. at Bethune-Cookman University and will include the home of Mary McLeod Bethune, Campbell’s Hotel, the John H. Dickerson Center, the Daytona Times office, Howard Thurman House and Mt. Bethel AME Church.

Khouri said there will be cars available to take those who are unable to walk to the different historical sites.

Retired educator Eartha Watson will be giving a presentation at Mt. Bethel, where the tour will end and refreshments will be served.

The aim of this activity on Saturday is to educate residents who may not know information about historical sites in Daytona Beach that were built and founded by Blacks, Khouri explained.

“A lot of people don’t know about the legacies in Daytona Beach.

They only know about

Mary McLeod Bethune,” Khouri said.

Khouri said Unified Ministries hopes to have at least two and probably no more than five activities, which will bring the community and all members of churches together.

Stafford said churches can be unified as communities of faith and share with each other what’s going on in their churches.

“We can come together to show that there are some positive things. We don’t only have to come together when something bad happens,” Stafford added.

Last year, Unified Ministries sponsored a luncheon for senior citizens and a teen summit.

For more information about the Black Heritage Trail walk and Unified Ministries, contact Khouri at 386-265-7644 or Stafford at 386-2955915.

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show out,” concluded Williams.

For more information about the concert and workshop, contact Bertie Brown, Tubman-King’s administrative assistant, at 386-258-5683 or Wilburn Williams at 386-898-9084.

from Page 1 “We look forward to sharing this musical worship experience knowing that God will show up and

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In addition, he was chief marketing officer of NextGen Media Group, the firm that is launching the social media news site ReportN. He also was president of William Tompkins Associates, a consulting firm specializing in providing advice on strategic planning and operations.

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Community Calendar To list your event FREE, e-mail us at news@daytonatimes.com. No phone calls or faxes, please. Events are listed on a space-available basis, and in the sole discretion of the Daytona Times staff. For guaranteed placement, contact Lynnette Garcia, lgarcia@flcourier.org, phone 954-882-2946, for ad rates.

Compiled by the Daytona Times Tutoring help available Partnering with St. James Academy, Elect Ladies Mentoring is offering tutoring services, school supplies, study spaces and encouragement for students 17 and up seeking a high school diploma. More information: 386-258-7199 or Electladiesmin@aol.com.

Painting classes for seniors Artist Helene Kereluk will be sharing her talent with painting classes for seniors at The Cloisters of DeLand at 2 p.m. on July 2 at 400 E. Howry Ave. The classes

are free and open to seniors ages 62 and over. Paper, paints, pencils and brushes are supplied by The Cloisters at no charge to students.

More information: 386822-6900 or e-mail info@ thecloisters.com.

Student portfolios on display The Daytona State College Southeast Museum of Photography announces the inaugural UCF Thesis exhibition featuring portfolios of recent work by graduating seniors in the University of Central Florida Photography program. Free admission.

Daytona Beach Campus,

Hosseini Center, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. More information: 386506-4475.

Avoid financial pitfalls of care giving The Caregiving Crossroads series will present the “How to avoid financial pitfalls care giving can bring” workshop July 12 at 5:30 p.m., at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. More information: 386-986-1931.

National dance finals under way The national finals for Showbiz Talent Search will be held through June 30 at the Ocean Center. More information: www.showbiztalent.com.

Dance workshop starts July 27 The Angels of Praise Creative Arts will host a seven-week

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program of “Christian Basics of Expression Dance” along with other workshops. The summer session will run through July 27. More information: 386-898-3366 or e-mail i.watson@yahoo.com.

Gospel music meeting July 7 The Volusia/Flagler Chapter of Gospel Music Workshop of America will meet July 7 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. The meetings are held the first and third Saturday of each month at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 633 Roy St. Easter Seals open house The Easter Seals invites the public to a tour of the center and an afternoon of water fun for kids at the Daytona Beach Child Development Center, 1219 Dunn Ave.. The open house is July 23 from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. More information: 386-944-7816.

FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS Flagler Beach: The city of Flagler Beach’s Fabulous Fourth Festival will begin at 10 a.m. Monday with an annual parade along State Road A1A. Watermelon and hot dog eating contests along with a “cornhole” competition will follow at Veterans Park. Other events include a “Battle of the Bands.

Fireworks will be between 9:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. A full schedule of events can be found at flaglerchamber.org. More information: 386-437-0106.

Port Orange: A classic car show, tribute band, kids zone and more will be at the Kenneth W. Parker Amphitheater, 2001 City Center Circle, starting at 5:30 p.m. Attendees will honor the country with the singing of the “The StarSpangled Banner” around 9 p.m. and a fireworks display will follow the last note of the anthem. Parking will be available at the Allen Green Center, Port Orange Library, Lakeside Community Center (handicapped only), Silver Sands Middle School, Palmer College, and the YMCA. More information: 386-506-5851.

Ormond Beach: Entertainment will stretch from City Hall Plaza across the Granada Bridge to Fortunato Park and south across Granada Boulevard into Rockefeller Gardens.

The City Hall Plaza will feature rhythm and blues, classic rock, southern rock and country music from 6 p.m. -9:15 p.m.

Food, vending and a kids zone. Fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. More information: 676-3241 or visit the city’s website at www. ormondbeach.org.

Daytona Beach: Fireworks will begin on the beachside at 9:45 p.m.

Deltona: The Eighth Annual Fireworks Extravaganza will be held at the Dewey O. Boster Sports Complex, 1200 Saxon Blvd., beginning at 9:15 p.m. Children’s activities will include games and bounce houses. The steel drum band Caribbean Crew will perform from 6p.m. -9 p.m. Extra parking and a free handicapped friendly shuttle bus service will be available at City Hall, 2345 Providence Blvd. The shuttle will run from 5:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. and from 9:45 to 10:15 p.m. More information: 386-8788500.

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Certain military veterans have a new option for enrollment at Daytona State College using a specialized grant beginning July 1. The Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, offered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is designed for unemployed veterans between 35 and 60 years old who are not eligible for any other VA educational benefit program (e.g.: the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Montgomery GI Bill, Vocational Rehabilitation, and Employment Assistance).

To get started and apply for the tuition assistance, veterans should visit the VA eBenefits website. More information, including a list of eligible programs, can be found at http:// benefits.va.gov/vow/education.htm or by calling the benefits department, at 800-827-1000. Once students are approved by the VA, they need to meet with a Daytona State Veterans Benefits representative by calling 386-506-3000.

Participants may receive up to 12 months of assistance equal to the monthly full-time payment rate under the Montgomery GI Bill-Active Duty program.

The money will be paid directly to the students to pay their tuition and fees.

The program is limited to 45,000 students who apply from July 1 through Sept.

30, 2012 and to 54,000 students who apply from Oct. 1, 2012 through March 31, 2014.

The program is only for VA-approved associate of science degrees and certificate programs. Veterans can’t have a dishonorable discharge, cannot be in receipt of VA compensation due to unemployability and can’t be enrolled in a federal or state job-training program For more information on Daytona State’s approved certificates and degrees for the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, contact LeeAnn Davis via e-mil at davisl@daytonastate.edu.

Grant management workshop scheduled for August Volusia Council of Governments and Grant Writing USA will present a two-day grant management workshop in Daytona Beach on Aug. 6-7. This training is for grant recipient organizations across all disciplines.

Attend this class and you’ll learn how to administer government grants and stay in compliance with applicable rules and regulations.

Multi-enrollment discounts and discounts for Grant Writing USA re-

turning alumni are available. Tuition payment is not required at the time of enrollment.

Tuition is $595 and includes Grant Writing USA’s 400-page grant management workbook and reference guide. Seating is limited; online reservations are necessary.

For more information, contact Mary Swiderski, executive director of the Volusia Council of Governments, at 386-226-0422 ext.

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Taking care of those who take care of us Ai-Jen Poo leads the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Who are these folks?

They are the private household workers (maids) who propped up inept women in the movie “The Help.” They are the home health aides who take care of our elders when they are ill or disabled, bringing meals, bathing them, and accompanying them to medical appointments.

They are the nannies that care for children when parents are working. In some ways, they are a backbone of our economy, and yet they often have neither voice nor money.

Focus on class I am struck by the situation of domestic workers when I listen to Ai-Jen present at the National Council for Research on Women’s annual conference. While some of us focus mostly on race, she is more likely to focus on class and the many ways that public policy is made from an extremely privileged perspective. The women who stitch together a living by working two and three domestic jobs certainly don’t have the time to put their situation in context with public policy. And those who make public policy have only limited exposure to those who have to live it.

Ai-Jen and the National Domestic Workers Alliance bridge that gap. The organization started in 2007, and now has representation in more than twenty states.

In New York, NDWA was instrumental in the passage of the Do-

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mestic Workers Bill of Rights that went into effect in November 2010. It requires that people who work in other people’s homes for forty hours a week or more (except for relatives and casual employees like babysitters) must be paid the minimum wage, must receive overtime pay, vacation time, worker’s compensation and disability benefits.

Listening to Ai-Jen Poo was like a blast from the past for me. My early academic work focused on private household workers. Although the Minimum Wage Act was passed during the Depression, private household workers and farm workers were excluded from the legislation until 1974.

Even then, the law had so many loopholes that few adhered to it.

Not much has changed

tion that is similar to the New York bill is being considered, but the California State Senate is dragging its heels. Indeed, some have so distorted the bill that they describe it as “the babysitter law,” even though those who do not work full time are specifically excluded from the legislation. Those who oppose the bill talk about their free market rights, but have blinders on when it comes to the rights of others.

Unfortunately, while women are the majority of private household workers, it is also women who are the majority of those who hire, and often exploit, them. It is amazing how stuck the feminist movement has become around issues of women on the bottom.

Twenty years ago there were passionate debates about the many ways that the women’s movement could be mutually supportive along class lines. Now, though a passionate woman is fighting for domestic workers, those who have greater voice, more power, and the ability to make a difference do not often join her.

While domestic workers today are less likely to be African-American than Latino, we in the African-American community need to remember that the workplace has long been oppressive to those at the bottom. In speaking up for domestic workers, we speak up for our mothers and grandmothers, but also for ourselves, no matter what our economic status.

Ai-Jen’s presentation reminded me how little has changed for private household workers. There are employers who deduct from low wages if there is breakage in their homes. There are others that may deduct for meals. Without intervention, the majority of 2.5 million workers take care of our most precious assets – our children and our parents – without being paid Julianne Malveaux is a D.C.fairly.

In California, a piece of legisla- based economist and author.

Not everyone has fair chance at success In a “One Big Tent America,” everyone deserves a fair chance to succeed. We shouldn’t trade in the legacy of the “New Deal” and “Fair Deal” for a Raw Deal. It follows from the Declaration of Independence that declared that “all men are created equal,” expanded over time to include all men and women. It follows from the Pledge of Allegiance that promises “liberty and justice for all,” not for a few or for most.

For some, it’s the 1 percent and “SuperPAC Deal.” For others, it’s the “Middle Class Deal.” In America, the land of opportunity, every American deserves the “Fair Chance to Succeed Deal.”

Notice the limits Success is not promised. Some succeed; some fail. Only a fair chance is promised. It does not promise equality. People have different gifts, different capacities, different amounts of luck and pluck.

But we are a long way from reaching this goal. If you are born in Appalachia or in South Chicago, a fair chance at success isn’t the norm. Children are likely to suffer from inadequate nutrition.

Preschool will not be available, schools will be underfunded, un-

American dream – the belief that if you work hard, you can provide Rev. a home for your family, an education for your children and a secure Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. retirement for yourself at the end of your working life. Now we learn TRICE EDNEY WIRE that the U.S. falls behind other industrialized countries in upper derstaffed and overcrowded. Af- mobility – and that your parents’ terschool programs will be unaf- economic status is more likely to fordable. determine where you end up.

A college education or advanced training is becoming more Jobs first important and less affordable.

A job for everyone willing to The extraordinary can make it by juggling classes and jobs and tak- work must be our first prioriing on debt. But it is hard to argue ty. Affordable health care cannot that everyone has a fair shot at the be a privilege. We can cut back middle class when many must on things that are less essential. take on tens of thousands of dol- We needn’t squander trillions lars in debt – an average of more on wars of choice. We can crack than $25,000 – to get the educa- down on offshore tax havens. We can cut the subsidies to powertion they need.

Healthcare also is essential for ful corporate interests. Those who a fair chance to succeed. But our have done well in America can be broken system rations healthcare asked to do well by America.

When it comes to a grand barby the ability to pay. Those with the money can get the best health- gain needed to reduce our deficare in the world. Those without cits, let’s start by ensuring that evgo without. Healthcare reform eryone has a fair chance to sucwas designed to ensure that al- ceed. most all Americans have health The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is insurance. But rollbacks of Medicaid and Medicare, and efforts to president and CEO of the Rainrepeal healthcare reform put that bow/PUSH Coalition. Click on this story at www.flcourier.com at risk.

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Pass the Voter Empowerment Act Thanks to rising citizen outrage and efforts like the National Urban League’s “Occupy the Vote” campaign, the voter suppression movement is facing mounting resistance.

As we reported several weeks ago, voter suppression laws in Florida designed to purge voter rolls and make it more difficult to register voters, have now been challenged by the Justice Department.

A new bill There is also a new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that takes direct aim at some of the most egregious voter suppression tactics being employed or considered in dozens of states throughout the nation. These tactics include elimination of Election Day and same-day registration, reductions in early voting periods and absentee voting opportunities, and new restrictions on voter registration drives.

These measures could prevent millions of eligible voters from exercising their constitutional right to vote and they disproportionately affect our service members, people with disabilities, minorities, young people, seniors and low income Americans.

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couraging more, not less voting by the American people. In the 2008 presidential election, about three million Americans were turned away from the polls due to voter registration problems. And an estimated 51 million Americans eligible to vote are not registered.

Still, there are those who are determined to keep even more people from voting. This is a travesty, it’s un-American, and it dishonors the sacrifice of generations of voting rights foot soldiers who fought and died to guarantee every citizen the right to vote.

Protects process Sponsored by Representatives John Lewis, John Conyers, Steny Hoyer, James Clyburn, and Robert Brady, the Voter Empowerment Act (H.R. 5799), would fight back by ensuring equal access to the ballot box, protecting the integrity of voting systems and mandating accountability for fair elections.

Among its provisions, the bill calls for modernizing the voter registration system, including al-

lowing for on-line registration; requires universities that receive federal funds to encourage students to register; sets standards for voting machines; simplifies the registration process for overseas military service men and women; authorizes same-day registration; empowers a Election Assistance Commission to ensure high standards and fair elections; and removes barriers for people with disabilities.

The Voter Empowerment Act is the most serious attempt to date

by Congress to protect voters from the recent onslaught of restrictive voting measures that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to register or vote. John Lewis, a veteran of the civil rights movement who was beaten during the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, added, “The ability to vote should be easy, accessible and simple…

We should be moving toward a more inclusive democracy, not one that locks people out.”

We agree. Occupy the Vote. Pass the Voter Empowerment Act now.

Marc Morial is president and CEO of the National Urban League. Click on this story at www.flcourier.com to write your own response.

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Silence wasn’t golden at ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ march This month’s march against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s infamous Stopand-Frisk policies, which have humiliated millions of Black and Brown New Yorkers over the past decade and spread like a racist virus to cities across the country, was “silent” by design.

NAACP executive director Ben Jealous, one of the principal organizers, maintains that the soundless procession was intended to convey the “solemnness” and “seriousness” of the occasion, in the spirit of the 1917 NAACP silent march against White mob violence.

The real truth The deliberately subdued tone of the protest provided a politically safe environment for the politicians in attendance to register varying degrees of reservations about stop-and-frisk in a kind of non-threatening quiet zone, where they could avoid permanently burning bridges with Mayor Bloomberg and his billions. This was doubtless an important consideration for march co-organizer Rev. Al Sharpton, who is on Bloomberg’s payroll and acts as President Obama’s Black pit bull.

The 1917 NAACP “Silent March” also needs to be put in historical perspective. There were profound political reasons that Black folks were both silent and dressed in their finest clothes on Fifth Avenue 95 years ago.

Ben Jealous and others say that silence was the order of the day to express mourning for the many victims of racist violence, including the hundreds killed and thousands driven from their homes by White mobs in East St. Louis, Illinois, earlier that year.

Certainly, there was much mourning in Black America, but the dress code and silence of the 10,000 Black marchers was meant to convey a more fundamental political message: that Black people were industrious, clean, church-going, patriotic, well-mannered, and respectful of White people’s sensitivities.

That is, ordinary Americans who did not deserve to be lynched

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on the street and burned out of their homes, as had occurred in Springfield, Ill. in 1908 and Atlanta in 1906.

In 1915, only two years before the silent New York march, President Woodrow Wilson screened the viciously racist film “Birth Of A Nation” at the White House, and declared it “terribly true.”

By 1917, much of Black America was desperate to prove to White people that they were not like the animalistic caricatures portrayed in racist propaganda.

So they marched in their Sunday best, to the sound of muffled drums. They abstained from shouts and sloganeering so as not to appear dangerous in the eyes of Whites. They put what they thought were their best, most dignified faces forward, and muzzled and muffled that which might offend the White powers-that-be.

Neatly dressed The political imperative to bring “credit to The Race” by one’s dress and demeanor, even in protest, persisted deep into the Sixties. Blacks dressed to the ‘nines’ to line up to register to vote in Baltimore in 1943. They wore suits and ties to integrate lunch counters in 1960, and got beaten half to death on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in clothes fit to be buried in.

Only with the rise of the Black Power movement did Black folks dress for a fight and shout and curse the racist dogs out – like we always wanted to do. And one silent Sunday is not going to roll us back.

Glen Ford is executive editor of BlackAgendaReport.com.

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Tims to sign books at magazine launch party Pastor Riva Tims – exwife of the late megachurch pastor, Zachery Tims – understands firsthand the depth of pain experienced by those suffering through the process of betrayal, separation and divorce. Add to that the difficulty of suffering in the public eye, then add to that the trauma of sudden, debilitating grief, and you have the sum of a mountain of despair that seems insurmountable.

But Pastor Tims says she survived and came through fully healed, fully whole and full of hope because she “learned from a friend how to forgive him.”

Tims has written a book, “When It All Falls Apart: Find Healing, Joy, and Victory Through The Pain,” as a ministry to help others through tumultuous times.

She has teamed up with veteran magazine publisher the Rev. Charlene E. Cothran to get her message out. Tims will speak and sign books at a launch event, celebrating VICTORY, a Christian lifestyles magazine that Charlene Cothran Ministries

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By Jeroline D. Mccarthy | Daytona Times launched last spring.

VICTORY party takes place Sunday VICTORY’s mission is to minister to the needs of the churched and the unchurched, using biblical principles to address practical lifestyle challenges.

“Each article releases lifechanging nuggets that are of great value to everyday life,” Rev. Cothran said.

“Pastor Tims’ story teaches that someone just like you was hurting deeply, but Tims made it through victoriously, applying proven biblical instructions. Don’t give up. The pain is temporary. It will ease. You will be whole again. You will have joy again,” Cothran declares.

The Anointed Release Party and Launch Ceremo-

ny for VICTORY Magazine will take place Sunday, July 1, 4 - 7 p.m. at the AfricanAmerican Cultural Society, 4422 U. S. 1 North, Palm Coast. The public is invited to attend.

A silent auction will benefit The Pace Center for Girls. Delectable desserts and live entertainment by notable recording artists will complete the celebration.

This is a free event with guest registration at the door. Seating is limited.

Call 386-283-5348 for more information.

Subscriptions to VICTORY are free by signing up online at www.VictoryMagazine.net.

VBS starts July 9 at First Church First Church is com-

mitted to helping youth and has launched a Vacation Bible School, adopting a subtitle of “Character Beam Up!” Vacation Bible School will open July 9-20, Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The age groups are 5-8; 9-12, and 13-17. Bible study, arts and crafts, sports and liturgical dance are the components of the program.

First Church, the pastorate of the Rev. Gillard S. Glover, at 91 Old Kings Road North in Palm Coast, can be reached for registration at 386-446-5759 As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Happy Birthday to You! Birthday wishes to: Eddie Thomas, June 28; Mattie DeVore, June 29; Bob Banks, June 30; James “Goody” Goodridge, July 1; and Vinnie Carr, July 4.

Bobby Bowden Legendary college football coach Bobby Bowden will serve as the grand marshal for the 54th annual Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. Tickets, featuring an hourlong concert by band Train, are available online at www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com.

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Pastor Riva Tims started her own church, Majestic Life Ministries in Orlando, in 2009.

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The state-funded program can cover the cost of window and door coverings, gableend tie-downs and upgraded garage doors. The maximum award per household is $10,000.

Funding can be used for owner-occupied homes in Volusia County except in the city limits of Daytona Beach, Deltona and Ponce Inlet. The funds are provided as a five-year, zero-interest, deferred loan secured by a mortgage.

If the homeowner lives in the home for five years and complies with program restrictions, the loan will be forgiven. Income restrictions apply.

For applications and additional information, visit www.volusia.org/community_assistance/housing2,htm or call Affordable Housing Coordinator Lori Brown at 386-736-5955, ext. 12969.

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Take control of health one step at a time Walking considered one of best ways to lose weight, get healthy

BY CASSANDRA SPRATLING DETROIT FREE PRESS (MCT)

DETROIT – Loretta Moore looked at herself in the mirror one morning and didn’t like what she saw.

“I was ridiculously overweight,” Moore said. “I couldn’t get into most of my clothes anymore.”

Standing 5-feet-4, Moore weighed 252 pounds.

That image was all it took for Moore, 56, of Detroit to start walking regularly.

It took a funeral for Jodi Davis.

At the funeral of a relative, she watched as the woman’s son cried at his mother’s casket. The woman who had died was in her early 40s.

“I thought that could be me” in the casket, said Davis, 45, of Coloma in western Michigan. Davis, too, was extremely obese. She is 5-feet-6 and weighed 300 pounds.

Although they live in different parts of the state, Moore and Davis took similar steps to get their weight and health under control.

They began walking regularly and eliminated a lot of sugary and high-fat foods from their diets.

Lots of benefits Moore shed 69 pounds in the past two years and is working toward losing more. And she no longer takes medications to control her once-high blood pressure.

After dropping 162 pounds over 16 months,

Davis has maintained her weight for about 10 years.

She became a healthy living advocate for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and is featured on the cover of the recently released “The Joy Fit Club: Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration” (Wiley, $27.99) by Joy Bauer, a nutrition expert on NBC’s “Today” show.

Moore and Davis are proof that getting fit starts by taking it one step at a time.

Health and fitness experts say that walking is one of the best ways to improve your health — and that when the weather is warm, it’s a great time to get started.

“There are clear physical, emotional and social benefits of walking,” said Victor Katch, an avid walker and University of Michigan movement science professor.

Wards off diseases Walking reduces depression and wards off or slows the progression of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, Katch said. And one of the best things about walking as a major form of exercise is that almost everyone can do it.

“Walking is easy to do.

It engages most of the major muscles of the body. It’s good for balance and internal functioning,” he said.

And, unlike some exercises, you don’t have to go anywhere special to do it, said Katch, who walks daily — sometimes twice or

RESOURCES For walking trails: www.traillink.com To find other walkers in your area: http:// walkers.meetup.com To find walks, both competitive and noncompetitive, and charity events: www. active.com. three times on a really good day. “I’m a mover,” he said.

“I’d like to say I’m a mover and a shaker, but really, I’m just a mover.”

Try group, partner Katch and other walking advocates say two of the best ways to stick to a regimen is to have a partner or group, to walk in places that inspire and encourage you and to set a goal — such as walking a 5K or a half marathon.

The scenery, improved health and group support are among the attractions for the Detroit River Walkers – a group of almost 1,000 people 60 and older who walk Tuesday and Thursday mornings on the Detroit RiverWalk in a program sponsored by Detroit Receiving Hospital.

“My strength and endurance have improved,” said Edythe Hayden Friley, 65, who has been walking with the River Walkers for five years. “And it’s good for me emotionally. You hear so much bad stuff about the city. But here, there’s such peace, tranquility and beauty along the water. It just makes you feel good.”

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Loretta Moore walks along the Detroit Riverfront at William G. Miliken State Park and Harbor on June 11. Moore lost 62 pounds over a two-year period by walking and changing her eating habits.

Increased energy The Detroit RiverWalk is one of Moore’s favorite places to go for a stroll, too.

She walks along the riverfront at least three times a week. Occasionally, they veer off along the nearby Dequindre Cut Greenway.

“We started out just doing a few miles, but sometimes we get in about 7

miles,” says Moore, a clinical care manager for a mental health facility in Wixom.

“I can wear all my clothes again,” she says. “I love the new me.”

Davis walks every day for at least 1½ miles along Lake Michigan near her home.

Both women suggest

walking at a brisk pace; as they lost weight, they were able to walk faster.

And Davis discovered other benefits besides weight loss.

“I have much more energy,” she said. “My thoughts are clearer and I sleep better. Whenever I’m feeling stressed, I get outside and stomp it off.”

Diagnosis helps boost bone marrow donations EURWEB.COM

As Robin Roberts waits for a bone marrow transplant this fall, news of the morning show anchor’s illness is helping others who need treatment, reports the Associated Press.

The national bone marrow donation registry Be The Match reported Tuesday that the rate of new registrants has more than doubled since the “Good

Morning America” anchor announced on June 11 that she has MDS, a blood and bone marrow disease.

Roberts helped supervise a bone marrow registry drive at ABC News headquarters in Manhattan.

Roberts, who will receive a bone marrow transplant from her sister, said her mother told her to “turn a mess into a message.”

“When I received this latest disappointment I

did not know what the message would be,” she said, “and now I do.”

Jeffrey Chell, CEO of Be The Match, said some 15,000 people had registered since Roberts announced her diagnosis.

That’s 11,200 more than the registry would normally receive in that period. Of those new people, some 60 to 70 will be judged a good match and have some of their marrow used in a transplant.

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Daytona International Speedway Vice President Andrew Gurtis and NASCAR driver Jeffrey Earnhardt are shown with the award presented by the Students Working Against Tobacco.

Students Working Against Tobacco commend Speedway for smoke-free grandstands SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES

“Good Morning America” hosts, from left, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, Lara Spencer and ABC News President Ben Sherwood are shown at a bone marrow registry drive at ABC News headquarters in New York on June 26.

Teens from across Northeast Florida came together on June 19 to recognize Daytona International Speedway for making the speedway’s grandstands smoke-free. The teens from 21 surrounding counties are part of Students Working against Tobacco (SWAT). They also challenged other sporting and entertainment venues in the state to follow the example set by the Speedway and protect more Floridians and visitors from secondhand smoke.

The SWAT members, along with NASCAR driver Jeffrey Earnhardt, the Volusia County Health Department, and representatives from Daytona International Speedway held a press conference outside of the Gate 8 Grandstand Entrance of the speedway on

June 19 at 2 p.m.

SWAT is a statewide youth organization working to mobilize, educate and equip Florida’s youth to revolt against and deglamorize Big Tobacco. It is a united movement of empowered youth working towards a tobacco free future.

“I’m proud that leading race organizations like Daytona are protecting our fans from tobacco smoke and are showing young fans that smoking is no longer acceptable,” said NASCAR driver and Tobacco Free Florida spokesperson Jeffrey Earnhardt. “Families see drivers and venues like Daytona as legendary and this sends a healthy message to race fans.”

First smoke-free race event for July 6 The grandstands will officially be smoke-free starting with the Subway Jala-

peño 250 Powered By Coca-Cola on Friday night, July 6.

“Smoke-free policies that are being voluntarily adopted by businesses and organizations across the state are helping to save lives,” said Dr. Bonnie Sorensen, director of the Volusia County Health Department. “We should never underestimate the dangers of secondhand smoke. Breathing secondhand smoke, even in small amounts or when outside, can be harmful to your health.”

Tobacco Free Florida is a statewide cessation and prevention campaign funded by Florida’s tobacco settlement fund. The program is managed by the Florida Department of Health, specifically the Bureau of Tobacco Prevention Program.

For more information, visit www.tobaccofreeflorida.com.

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