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‘Memorializing the march and the movement’

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Local MLK Celebration chairman explains significance of tributes to civil rights icon

BY ASHLEY THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

A commemorative march bringing together people of all backgrounds, races and faiths is scheduled in Daytona Beach on Monday, the official Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

The march, which will begin at 9 a.m. from Allen Chapel Baptist Church, is reflective of the many marches led over the years

by King, says the Rev. John Long, pastor of Tubman-King Community Church and chairman of the

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration for Florida.

“The commemorative march is so that people who were not around during the time when the movement was at its height can get a sense of what people in the movement then went through. A taste of what a march is like. We march down the street, singing freedom songs,” explained Long.

“It is a way of memorializing the march and the movement.

“We are so divided, so sectarian in our issues, but in reality as Martin and many other leaders tried

to show us, there are certain lines where these divisions stop. Economics isn’t just a Black or White issue. Social justice isn’t just Black or White. Racial Rev. John justice is not just Long Black or White.

There are issues that they didn’t have to deal with back then but they did very well with what they were doing,’’ Long remarked.

Keeping the dream alive

Inclusive events The pastor remarked on the importance of alliances with others.

“What we do is reflective of what took place in the ’50s and ’60s, but also calls for those of us here today to emulate the kind of cross-cultural allegiances and alliances that made the movement so powerful,” Long said.

He reflected how several churches in the Volusia county area, including those that are a part of the Black Clergy Alliance are set Please see TRIBUTES, Page 2

Jackson gives kids a lesson on King, education

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A Day of Service project in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held at the Sickle Cell Foundation-Volusia on Jan. 11. Volunteers spruced up the landscaping as well as the parking lot outside of the building.

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umerous events are scheduled locally to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon would have been 85 on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Area observances will include breakfast events, a banquet, marches and worship services.

DAYTONA BEACH The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration for Florida Committee has scheduled its annual banquet for Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the North Tower of the Hilton Daytona Beach Resort. The keynote speaker is Dr. Edison O. Jackson, president of Bet-

hune-Cookman University. More information: 386451-1108.

A picnic will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at Cypress Park, located at the corner of Nova Road and George W. Engram Boulevard.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Allen Chapel AME Church will host a free breakfast in celebration of King on Jan. 20 at 8 a.m. 580 George Engram Blvd.

A March for Justice will be held at 9 a.m. Jan. 20, starting at Allen Chapel AME Church, 580 George W Engram Blvd. It will end at Greater Friendship Baptist Church, 539 George W. Engram Blvd.

Greater Friendship Baptist Church will hold a worship service on Jan. 20 at 10 a.m. Dr. H.B. Charles, pastor of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jackson-

ville, is scheduled as the worship speaker.

For more information on Daytona Beach events, visit www.mlkdaytonabeach.org/contact-us.htm.

ORMOND BEACH The city of Ormond Beach will host an MLK event from 8 to 11 a.m. Jan. 20 at the South Ormond Neighborhood Recreation Center, 176 Division Ave. Breakfast will be served. Dr. Edison O. Jackson, president of B-CU will be the guest speaker on the theme: “Promote Peace Among People, Unity in Communities – What Have You Done Lately?’’

More information: Tina Carlyle, chairperson, 386-527-5918.

DELAND Stetson University will host a series of events and programs throughout the Please see MLK, Page 2

Bethune-Cookman University President Dr. Edison O. Jackson recognized students from Turie T. Small Elementary School last week for making the fall semester honor roll during a luncheon at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center.

Students who made exceptional academic gains and demonstrated good citizenship also were recognized.

About 90 children and 75 parents attended “The President’s Luncheon with The Stars.”

“The question I have is this,” Jackson offered. “Would Dr. King be happy with what he sees taking place? In my sanctified mind, I believe he would not be happy.

“There are greater income discrepancies going on now than ever before. The antipoverty program that President (Lyndon) Johnson created, poverty went down and now it has gone back up. And young people that is why education is so important because that is the only edge we have. So if you want to participate in the good life, try education. It is the fastest elevator to the good life.”

Advice for parents too Jackson also emphasized during the luncheon, “I am trying to encourage you. There is enough mess going on all by itself.”

“When you leave here, be committed. It doesn’t matter where you are going back to, you have a chance. You are still living, you are still breathing, you aren’t in the ground, Please see LESSON, Page 6

New Mt. Zion celebrating 116th year during King weekend

BY ASHLEY THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

The New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church will be celebrating its 116th anniversary on Sunday, Jan. 19, and recognizing their new senior pastor, the Rev. Melvin Dawson.

The church’s rich history includes a relationship with sister church Mt. Bethel Baptist Institutional Church of Daytona Beach.

“Because many of the members of Bethel had to walk across town to attend service, the congregations decided to establish a sister church on what was then Second Avenue, now known as Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd.

Today that church is New. Mt. Zion and we still maintain our close relationship with Mt. Bethel,” Dr. Evelyn Bethune, a member of New Mt. Zion shared with The Daytona Times.

MLK choir to sing The anniversary celebration will be held over the weekend, including a church picnic Saturday at Daisy Stocking Park from noon - 4 p.m.

The church also plans a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during its anniversary celebration.

At 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, there will be a worship service with Dawson delivering the message.

The service is open to the public

with a special invitation to past members and friends of New Mt. Zion.

The Rev. David Allen will preach at the 4 p.m. service on Jan. 19. Allen is a Bethune-Cookman University alum former associate pastor of evangelism at Trinity United Methodist Church in Gainesville. He is the executive chaplain at B-CU. The service will feature the MLK Mass Choir of DeLand under the direction of Stan H. Whit-

ted. The theme is “Standing on the Everlasting Word of God.’’

Church history According to the City of Daytona Beach’s Black Heritage Trail information, Mount Zion Baptist Church was organized in 1898 to meet the needs of the city’s rapidly growing north side AfricanAmerican population.

Church members first met in Please see MT. ZION, Page 2

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JANUARY 16 – JANUARY 22, 2014

Planners pore over plans for new Bethune festival Key players lunched following a rollout of a presentation of the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Cultural Heritage Arts Festival, while enjoying the ambience at Las Palmas, a residence in Palm Coast for retirement living.

The residence on occasion is utilized for marketing pursuits.

The festival, scheduled for April 6-13 in Daytona Beach, will honor the legacy of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. The signature event is “a delightfully exciting, high energy experience” with a theme, “A Diamond in the Rough.”

The participants were “evited” through Carolyn Hawkins

by Dr. Evelyn Bethune, granddaughter of the B-CU founder.

They learned through steppedup efforts that the purpose of this single event is to celebrate the wholeness of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.

“I am determined that people will understand that she was far greater than just founding Bethune-Cookman,’’ quipped Bethune.

Her message came across for Flagler County Realtor Carolyn Hawkins, F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival director Donna M. GrayBanks, North East Florida Jazz Association founder Muriel McCoy, along with model/radio host Cynthia Black, jazz radio host Na’m-Rashid, and administrative executive Ann Scott.

‘5 Blessings’ A libation and African drumming will jumpstart the festival of April 6 at sunset on Mary McLeod Boulevard at the corner of Lincoln, and will travel to Dr. Bethune’s gravesite.

“The 5 Blessings,” the focus of a HBCU President’s Roundtable discussion on April 7 at B-CU will include President Dr. Edison O. Jackson and will take on how Dr. Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women dug wells in the south, providing clean drinking water for Black people, and making it possible for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to have certain advances.

This is one of the pieces for discussion. Most of the events are free, and so Bethune is soliciting sponsorships. To be part of

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the sponsorship, a form can be found at www.bethunefestdaytona.com.

For the most part when talking about African-American history, nine times out of 10, the people they are talking about are males.

“I say this all the time,” said Bethune. “Before there was Martin and Malcolm, there was Mary.”

Without Dr. Bethune’s work for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet, the Tuskegee Airmen’s planes would not have gotten off the ground. Dr. Bethune was part of the founding body of the United Nations, and in integrating the American Red Cross and the Women’s Army Corp.

Her efforts are all part of “The 5 Blessings” that will align the HBCU President’s Roundtable, filled by educators and noted personalities that folks are attuned to, and whose focus is on all aspects of Dr. Bethune.

“We also want them (our children) to see that our ancestors had so much less and did so much more because they made headway with no resources,” asserted Bethune.

Highlight of events A Bridge Builders Gala Awards Dinner at $100 a plate will function on the evening of April 7 at the Daytona Beach Hilton Resort on the beachside.

Lined up for April 8 is a roundtable of leaders for a town hall meeting from diverse faiths across the nation, who will gather at the Performing Arts Center on campus, galvanized to help move our communities forward.

A service at White Hall Chapel will take place in the afternoon.

Highlighting some events and subject to date restructuring, plan to attend a Health & Wellness Conference at the Ocean Center on April 9, which is tied in with the festival by the university in its feature of the U.S. Surgeon

Muriel McCoy, Ann Scott, Dr. Evelyn Bethune, Carolyn Hawkins, Donna M. Gray-Banks and Cynthia Black attended a festival presentation at Las Palmas in Palm Coast.

General. On April 10, catch a Business Leaders Forum and job fair at the School of Business.

On Mary McLeod Boulevard as well as in Daisy Stocking Park, spend three days at Umoja Village beginning April 10 with artists, performers and street vendors, and enjoy the evening with a concert on campus at the Performing Arts Center.

On April 11, another dynamic arises in a Political and Human Rights, Global Thought Discussion, regarding the politics of the African-American community with international leaders on campus, and part of the Civic Engagement & Advocacy piece. Include in the same day’s activities, an Author’s Forum/Book Fair, and take in the Healthy Living Village, entertainment, and music with art, a cultural marketplace, living legacies, children’s activities, and a Black Film festival.

Scout and procure a “Schedule of Events” to pinpoint the specific activities. Top-brand celebrities and athletes have shown interest in taking part in the festival. A videography showing interest by students will become a legacy when shown of the folks that grew up during the span of Dr. Bethune’s life. A journal is in

the making as a keepsake and a means of support.

A street ball competition will extend from April 11 to April 12. Include on April 12, a 5K Walk-Run for Alzheimer’s, along with other activities, plus Jazz Vespers featuring musicians, accomplished choirs, and vocalists, and include the African drumming with a fellowship closing ceremony on April 13, 7 p.m.

Plug in for gala tickets, book fair entry, sponsorship forms, vending, and volunteer information at www.bethunefestdaytona.com. The festival promises fun and hype for learning about Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in a catchall spanning the duration of her life.

First Church’s MLK service is Jan. 19 Find out how God uses change agents like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There’s special music, and the Rev. Gillard S. Glover will preach 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. for the celebration service of Jan. 19.

Persons of diverse ethnicities are invited to celebrate Dr. King’s life and legacy.

Located at 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast, First Church can be reached at 386-446-5759.

Black History art show coming to ScarlettGolden center An opening reception for a Black History Month art show titled “50 years of

tributeS from Page 1 New Mt. Zion Missionary Church in Daytona Beach will celebrate 116 years on Sunday. Above is a photo of the church taken in the early 1930s.

mt. zion from Page 1 an enclosed portion of a sawmill. However, under the leadership of Mount Zion’s first minister, the Rev. Walter Jones, a small structure resembling a house soon was erected. After a

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A prayer breakfast will be held Jan. 20 at 7:15 a.m. at the Stetson University Rinker Field House inside Hollis Center, 602 N. Bert Fish Drive. The keynote speaker at the breakfast will be Pastor Willie C Barnes of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Eatonville.

Following the breakfast, participants will walk from Stetson University to the Chisholm Community Center as part of the annual MLK march. There is a charge for the breakfast.

Participants are encouraged to bring posters and banners to commemorate

fire heavily damaged this structure, a new building was completed in 1910.

Continued growth and prosperity led to the construction of the current building during the 1940s under the leadership of the Rev. George O. Sumner. A distinguishing characteristic of the church edifice is the numerous ornate stained glass windows.

During the late 1960s, the church purchased additional property, and a new parsonage was constructed on Oak Street. The Education Building, which housed the Sunday school and auxiliary activities, was completed in 1989 and dedicated in memory of Sumner.

the march.

“The Butler,’’ the 2013 film directed by Lee Daniels, will be screened Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. in the Lynn Business Center, Rinker Auditorium, 345 N. Woodland Blvd.

The Second Annual Civil Rights Speakers Series will be held Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. in the Stetson Room, on the second floor of the CUB, 131 E. Minnesota Ave. Stetson Chaplain Michael Fronk will host a discussion on The Intersection of Faith and Civil Rights at noon on Jan. 24 in the Allen Hall auditorium.

Questions about the week’s events at Stetson can be directed to Heather Hamilton 386-822-8709.

sit Retirees of Florida will host an MLK ecumenical service at 11 a.m. Jan. 20 at First Baptist Church, 6050 Palm Coast Parkway NW, Palm Coast.

Judge Hubert L. Grimes will be the keynote speaker. This year’s theme is titled, “Unfulfilled Dreams.”

For more information, call 386-986-4847.

PALM COAST The New York City Tran-

Parks free on Monday Admission to all 401 national parks, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Atlanta, and the 13 parks in Florida will be free on Monday. The National Park Service said in a release that admission to the parks will be waived in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

to participate. A service will be held following the march at Greater Friendship Baptist Church, which is open to everyone.

“This is an interfaith worship service. It’s not just Christian. In fact we have the Imam from the Islamic Center of Daytona on the program. With every succeeding year, we try to expand it,” Long shared.

Important for student Rondalyn Dickens, a graduating senior from Spruce Creek High School and one of this year’s scholarship recipients, is looking forward to the march.

“I think the march is important because it represents history. It is an act that shows we can unite as people and show that we are one and we deserve to be treated equally. I think it shows that we have come far, but there is still a ways to go.”

The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration for Florida will award six scholastic scholarships to deserving seniors at the annual scholarship banquet to be held

The Flagler NAACP will have the 2014 “Olympics of the Mind” Kickoff Competition Luncheon on Jan. 25, 3 p.m., at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U. S. 1, Palm Coast.

The fund-raiser, representing the NAACP’s principal youth initiative, will kick off with local youth showcasing the Performing Arts and the Humanities.

For information on a combination ticket price, call the NAACP at 386-446-7822.

The Flagler County NAACP will hold the Jan. 28 meeting at 6 p.m., at the African-American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. 1, Palm Coast.

Everyone is invited to hear the annual reports of the branch for the year 2013.

For further information, contact the NAACP at 386-446-7822.

••• Come socialize, meet new people at “A Card and Board Game Party,” presented by Flagler County Women in the NAACP (WIN).

Play bridge, bid whist, Pokeno, chess, checkers, Coo-Coo, Scrabble, etc.

WIN desires that you join them, and bring a friend for a fun afternoon, replete in a boxed lunch, beverage, and a chance to win door prizes.

The fun begins Feb. 5, 11:30 a.m., at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U. S. 1, Palm Coast. The ticket price is $15.

For tickets, call 386-445-3738, 386-986-4847, 386-437-5082, or 386-446-7822.

••• As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Celebrations Birthday wishes to Thea Smith, Jan. 17; Donald Jones, Jan. 18; Kilus White, Jan. 19; Gloria Wilder, Jan. 20.

Happy anniversary to Eddie and the Rev. Lannie Thomas, Jan. 19.

African American Achievement, From Selma to the White House” will be held Jan. 17.

The reception at the Yvonne ScarlettGolden Cultural and Educational Center will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The free event will include music, refreshments and spoken word. Thirty submissions will be shown at the center, including photography, paintings, and 3-D art.

The center is at 1000 Vine St. For more information, call 386-6715782.

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The MLK committee will award $1,000 each to Dickens, Alexia Johnson and Nathaniel Anthon from Spruce Creek High School, Daeshonna McBride and Timothy Merrick from New Smyrna Beach High School and Sean Hyacinth from Mainland High School.

Enlightening research The academic scholarships required each student to write an essay on the legacy of King as well as Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, with one scholarship being made available to a student who didn’t necessarily have exceptional academic achievements but had dreams of attending college after graduation.

“With the research that I did, I found out more about the reasons on why King did what he did and his methodologies, especially during the time where African-Americans were very

violent in the North. In the South the only way they were going to achieve civil rights was because of nonviolence. With lynchings, Jim Crow Laws and segregation. In order to fight violence, they had to fight with non-violence,” explained Dickens.

“As an African-American, when you are facing difficult times, you have to remain calm and appreciate when you are treated fairly and also recognize when you aren’t treated fairly. “To be at your best ability at all times, stay in character and be supportive of your community,’’ she added.

Commissioner Patrick Henry, who participates in the annual King events, reflected on their significance.

“We stand on the shoulders of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as other local and national civil rights activists,” he remarked. “They have paved the way for others to be in positions that they are in today.’’

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Study focuses on retirement and race Findings show ‘stark’ savings gap in Black and White households

BY JAZELLE HUNT NNPA NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – More than three-fifths of Black workingage households – 62 percent – have no assets in a retirement account, according to a new study by the National Institute of Retirement Security (NIRS).

Working-age households are those with residents 25 to 64 years old. Even those Black households with assets trail similarly situated Whites. Among the 38.3 percent of Black households age 55 to 64 who do own accounts, the average savings is $34,365. That’s a fraction of the $206,400 saved by their White counterparts.

The report, “Race and Retirement Security in the United States,” is a companion to a broader study of the retirement gap using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve. In it, researchers examine workplace retirement coverage, retirement account ownership, and retirement account balances among Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians.

When notified of his selection, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced that he would turn over the Nobel Peace Prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

Honor vindicated King for stand on non-violence Civil rights icon received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

BY ZACHARY LESTER NNPA NEWS SERVICE

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 at age 35, he was the youngest person to ever be presented the prestigious honor.

He was the third Black recipient and the second African-American, following Ralph Bunche, the famed political scientist and diplomat who was honored for his mediation work in Palestine.

Besides the personal honor, though, historians said the award gave credence to his approach of meeting violence with peaceful resistance.

In a story that ran on the front page of the AFRO American Newspaper on Oct. 24, 1964, King called the award “vindication” for his work. The story was written by reporter James D. Williams after he interviewed King in an Atlanta hospital where he had checked in for a physical and rest.

“This has given me new courage to carry on and I am convinced that is more than an honor to me personally, but a great tribute to the colored people,” King told Williams.”

‘Profound recognition’ He was 35 when he received the prize in a ceremony in December 1964 at Oslo University in Norway.

According to a UPI story that ran on the front page AFRO ARCHIVES PHOTO of the AFRO on Dec. 19, 1964, he was selected “for championing the principle of non-violence in the Shown above is a copy of the AFRO American struggle to achieve racial equality.” King was present- Newspaper’s front page on Oct. 24, 1964. ed a diploma, a gold medal and a check for $54,600.

In his acceptance speech, King called the award “profound recognition that non-violence is the an- them for standing up for right, King urged them to swer to the crucial political and moral question of continue to be peaceful. our time – the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and op- Stayed the course pression.”

Even in bloody 1963, when, according to the Civ“The thousands of gallant unarmed men and il Rights Veterans website “white racists murder [10] women (civil rights workers) have taken our whole people and commit at least 35 bombings,” King urged nation back to those great wells of Democracy which Blacks and their supporters to remain committed to were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formu- non-violence. The year’s atrocities included the amlation of the Constitution and the Declaration of In- bush attack on NAACP Mississippi field secretary dependence,” King said in the story that appeared in Medgar Evers in the driveway of his Jackson home in the AFRO. June and the savage bombing of the 16th Street Bap“One day, all of America will be proud of their tist Church in Birmingham in September, where four achievements.” little girls were killed.

As the violence escalated, King stayed the course.

King’s roots His “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” King was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929 to a drew hundreds of thousands in August 1963 who prominent family. His father, Martin Luther King, were motivated by his dream of freedom. His apSr. was pastor of the prestigious Dexter Avenue Bap- pearances at churches were filled to capacity. His tist Church. From an early age, King demonstrated message was always the same – fight hate with love, strong oratorical skills. He attended Morehouse Uni- violence with peace. By the time he was assassinated versity and later earned a doctorate from Crozier in 1968, King’s place in history was solidified as the Theological Seminary in Boston, where he met his American who had fought hardest against oppression using no weapons. future wife, Coretta.

King was a young preacher and father in 1955 when he became the leader of the Montgomery Bus ‘More to be done’ Boycott. The success of the boycott, which ended Though he was proud of the achievement of winwith city leaders desegregating the city’s public bus- ning the Nobel, King told the AFRO in October 1964 es after Blacks refused to ride them for a year, solidi- that it signaled that there was more work to be done. fied for King that peaceful protest was the most effec“The prize makes me want to do a better job,” King tive way to forge change. said.” It leave me with a great sense of humility. It As the Civil Rights Movement progressed, vio- arouses in me the feeling that in spite of this type of lence against Blacks became bloody and frequent in tribute, there is much more to be done.” the South. Blacks who attempted to register to vote – While he is no longer the youngest person to win and those who attempted to help them – were beat- the Nobel Peace Prize, he still remains the youngest en, jailed, threatened with violence and sometimes Black person to achieve the honor. In 1992, Guatekilled. malan civil rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Marchers participating in peaceful protests against who was 33, was awarded the prize. She also became segregation, unequal education and discrimination the first indigenous person to win the award. in jobs watched as police officers used attack dogs and hoses against them. As some Blacks questioned This story is special to the NNPA from the Afrothe sense of allowing racists to constantly victimize American Newspaper.

Savings crisis “I think what the research shows is that the U.S. retirement crisis has really specific racial dimensions, specifically with access and savings,” says Nari Rhee, manager of research at NIRS and the report’s author. “About 44 percent of baby boomers and Generation Xers won’t even have enough saved to meet their basic needs when they retire.”

In the report, Rhee describes the savings gap as “stark,” with Nari the typical reRhee tirement account-owning household of color with a balance of $23,000, which is less than half the $50,500 median balance of White households with retirement accounts.

In addition to the gap in savings, a gap in access to retirement options persists, particularly for private-sector workers.

In its larger retirement study, the NIRS found that private sector retirement access is near its lowest point since 1979. As of 2010, a little more than half of all Black workers have access to employer-sponsored retirement coverage (54.3 percent), and less than half of them actually take advantage of said plans (43 percent).

Reasons for lack There are several causes for the lack access to retirement plans among Black households.

For starters, employers are not legally required to provide benefits or financial literacy courses to their employees.

Rhee points out that in other developed nations, employment-based retiree provisions tend to be effective because of an automatic or mandatory component. Additionally, the types of jobs that offer such benefits are in national decline, while lower-wage jobs with few-

er benefits are proliferating.

Those that do offer retirement benefits are switching from defined benefit (DB) pensions, which are automatic retirement savings, to 401(k), IRA and other opt-in accounts, which depend on what employees decide to save.

Lazetta Rainey Braxton, incoming president of the Association of African American Financial Advisors, sums it up this way: “Access to retirement plans is very tied to industry, level of education, income level…people of color are still catching up to these opportunities.”

The wealth gap The retirement gap is also intrinsically tied to the wealth gap. Both Braxton and Rhee point out that there are societal and historical factors at play.

Although African-Americans are well represented in the public-sector ranks where DB pensions are still the norm, lagging generational wealth curtails this boost.

“A lot of retirement investment success comes from word of mouth, from transfers, from legacies. Our history doesn’t go back as far with retirement investments, as opposed to just saving what we do have,” says Braxton, who is also the CEO and founder of planning and investment firm, Financial Fountains. “But if you put what you have in retirement for the future, does that leave you with enough for the right now?”

Rhee makes similar connections in analyzing her report’s findings.

“The recession did a number on family wealth, especially for communities of color who tend to hold wealth in housing as opposed to stocks, bonds, and other investments,” she explains.

“Plus with the shift in structural changes, loss of manufacturing and other jobs…the past few decades have been challenging for Black families.”

Lack of understanding Interestingly, workers who deliberately seek or currently have employer-sponsored DB pensions are more likely to also have their own retirement accounts as well. It seems that the more information and opportunity provided, the more workers will contemplate and plan for their financial futures.

“A lot of people just don’t have access to this information. They’re not taught in high school…where are the opportunities to get this information in ways that are easy to understand, and affordable?” Braxton says.

Rhee says the report has national policy implications of the report, including strengthening Social Security, supporting small-business employers’ ability to offer retirement benefits, and calling for state-based retirement systems.

Braxton said those approaching retirement should make adjustments now. “[Near-retirees] have to look at their lifestyle. Housing, medical, and debt costs are the biggest expenses,” she recommends. “You have to be realistic about where you are, and come up with a plan that keeps income for as long as possible, and really hash out expenses that can be draining.”

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The new report shows that the typical retirement accountowning household of color with a balance of $23,000, which is less than half the $50,500 median balance of their White counterparts.

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JANUARY 16 – JANUARY 22, 2014

Change comes when change is demanded The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty brought long overdue attention to his commitment. Today, with one in five children in America still raised in poverty, an accounting is vital as part of a renewed commitment.

But largely absent from the debate around the war on poverty is any sense of its context. Johnson’s program was bold and courageous. Medicare and expanded Social Security dramatically reduced poverty among the elderly and the disabled. Food stamps and infant nutrition virtually erased malnutrition among children. Medicaid and hikes in the minimum wage helped lift the floor under the working poor.

Head start, aid to schools in impoverished neighborhoods, and later Pell grants contributed directly to rising high school and college graduation rates.

A response to King’s challenge Most creative was the Office of Economic Opportunity, situated in the White House itself, and focused on engaging “maximum feasible participation” in poor neighborhoods, so that recipients of aid could express their needs and create their own strategies.

Johnson’s program was an institutional response, enlisting the resources and the capacities of the federal government to address poverty and racial division.

But we should remember, as we head to the anniversary of Dr.

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Martin Luther King’s birthday, what Johnson was responding to.

He wasn’t simply reacting to entrenched poverty and racial segregation; those were not new.

Johnson’s program was the government’s response to the call issued by Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. At the March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Dr. King issued his dream. From his cell in Birmingham, he issued his moral challenge. In his 1964 State of the Union and his later address at the University of Michigan, President Johnson issued his response.

This is important in today’s debate. Many comment on how timid our politics are now, how tied into knots, even as poverty is getting worse and the middle class is struggling. The economy is rigged to benefit only the few, while most Americans struggle to stay afloat.

Yet there is little response from Washington.

War on the poor Affordable health care is essential, but reform has been met with unrelenting hostility. The Republican majority in the House has forced cuts in food stamps, dropped children from Head Start, cut aid to poor schools and even

rejected continuing emergency jobless benefits. Rather than a war on poverty, they seem intent on waging a war on the poor.

But focus on the inadequacy of the response ignores the other missing factor: the inadequacy of the call. The poor are only beginning to find their voice, as witnessed in the protests of fast food workers. The movement for justice has only begun to stir, with voters forcing increases in the minimum wage in states and localities.

Those who benefit from the current arrangements will not lead the change. What is needed is for citizens of conscience to join with the oppressed to issue a moral call for change. Build that call to a tide that cannot be turned and then, and only then, will there be a response.

Dr. King led a movement that issued a stirring call for justice. Lyndon Johnson used his remarkable skills to drive an unprecedented response to that call. The prophet and the president were both remarkable leaders. We may not look on their like again. But even so, one thing is still clear: When we build the demand for change, leaders will arise to offer the response.

Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is founder and president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition. You can keep up with his work at www.rainbowpush. org. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes.com.

Reach out to real Black leaders Brother A. Peter Bailey wrote a very enlightening article, titled, “Black Leaders, Past and Present, Speak on the Need for Focusing on Economics.” I called him after reading it, and we discussed something I continue to lament about Black people: Our failure to learn and follow through on the economic lessons of the past, especially those left by our elders.

Additionally, I was a guest on Brother Elliott Booker’s Internet radio show, “Time for an Awakening,” out of Philadelphia, during which he opened his show with a quote from the Bible. It was Hosea 4:6, the one many of us like to use when we are describing why we are languishing. The passage goes on to say that we are destroyed not only because of lack of knowledge but also because we have rejected knowledge.

In my first book, “Economic Empowerment or Economic Enslavement,’’ a section is titled, “We deserve what we accept.” It pointed out the futility in expecting politicians to solve our problems while we have absolutely no economic hammer with which to make them do so. We put very little money into their campaigns, we refuse to leverage our votes as an independent bloc to gain reciprocity, and we continue to be content merely to have a Black person in a particular office.

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That’s straight-up stupidity.

In every corner of this country, there are Black folks who demonstrate through their actions— not words, that they are authentic leaders, interested in and dedicated to our economic uplift.

Authentic leadership In the west and southwest we have Brother Keidi Awadu, an expert in agriculture and communications, and Brother Jackie Mayfield, founder and owner of Compro Tax in Beaumont, Texas. In the south, we have Brother Amefika Geuka, educator and founder of the Joseph Littles Nguzo Saba School in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also we have Brother Chike Akua, Master Teacher, in Atlanta.

Where are the sisters, you ask?

How about Julianne Malveaux, Dr. E. Faye Williams, Rosie Milligan, Michelle Alexander, Marian Wright Edelman, Dr. Iva Carruthers, and Kim Saunders, President/CEO of Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, NC. Obviously this is not an exhaus-

tive list; there are many more, including some politicians as well.

But this makes my point about authentic leadership, that is, if you know any of these brothers and sisters. And the good thing is that they are still alive. They stand ready, willing, and able to lead us in the right direction, without exploiting us, without selling us out, and without compromising the core principle of collective economic empowerment. Let’s not wait until they are gone to start reflecting on their legacies.

Reach out to these and other authentic leaders; invite them to speak at your meetings instead of the same three or four Black folks who come with a drive-by speech and leave town with a fat check.

Stop rejecting knowledge; start embracing it and acting upon it.

Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes.com.

King’s true legacy This month will mark the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the nation and throughout the world community, millions of people will pay tribute and celebrate the birth of one our greatest freedom fighters and most effective leaders. The legacy of Dr. King is more than a federal holiday although we should never forget the protracted but successful struggle that was required to get that holiday recognition signed into law.

As a young, statewide youth organizer from 1963 to 1968 for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in my home state of North Carolina, I witnessed first hand the incredible genius and courage of Dr. King. I also remember his militant band of preachers, community organizers and student leaders who had become impatient with the status quo of systematic racial injustice in the United States. Golden Frinks, the N.C. state field secretary of SCLC recruited and introduced me to Dr. King and SCLC. Working with Dr. King changed my life for the better.

Today, my purpose is simply to apply what I believe is the living legacy of Dr. King to some of the most pressing issues that oppressed people face nationally and internationally. Remember when Dr. King spoke out against the atrocities of the Vietnam War in 1967, there were many in the Af-

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rican American community who could not readily make the connection that saw between the issues of racial and economic oppression in the United States and the issues of war and peace in southeast Asia. One of Dr. King’s famous quotes was, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” It was only after Dr. King’s tragic assassination in 1968 that many shared his opposition to the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr. would not have supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, there should be much louder voices now concerning the post-colonial devastating wars and violence in the Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia, and in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where millions have died. There is just too much public silence about these and other global violent conflicts. Dr. King’s commitment to nonviolence was non-negotiable.

of education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s). King’s legacy demands more financial support for all HBCUs. We must also meet the challenge of curbing drop-out rates and the failures of the secondary school systems of education with respect to our communities.

Martin Luther King’s concept of “the Beloved Community” involved economic equality and development as a means of eliminating poverty. We should be encouraging the rise and training of a new young generation of entrepreneurs. If we want more jobs, then we have to have more businesses and employers who emerge from the communities that live in and serve.

Yes, the National Holiday for Dr. King is about remembrance and celebration. But it should also be about living the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. everywhere people are crying out for a better life through freedom, justice and equality and economic empowerment.

Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is president of Education Online Services Corporation and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and can be reached at drbenjaminfchavisjr.wix.com/drbfc. Write Curb drop-out rates your own response at www.dayDr. King knew the importance tonatiems.com.

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Fighting poverty on two fronts Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived, he empowered federal workers to develop and implement programs that created jobs, health care, housing and legal assistance. Some of the funds were given to states, and some were given to cities. In any case, President Johnson was committed to closing income gaps, and up to a point, he was successful.

He had to overcome two sets of obstacles. One was Republican resistance (Sounds familiar?); the other was competing needs, especially, in 1968, of the war in Vietnam. Johnson poignantly explained his choices. He said he had to give up “the woman he loved – the Great Society – to get involved in that b—- of a war.”

President Obama, too, is interested issues of poverty and inequality. To be sure, these are not issues he focused on during his first term as president. Indeed, I’ve described his actions as late and great. He has spent this past month in speeches and gatherings addressing poverty and ways to eliminate it. Like Johnson, he is likely to face a hostile Congress and budged constraints to get these programs.

Give a little, get a little Tea Party Republicans, with waning power, are still insisting that any new program must be offset by cuts in existing programs. Their cuts in food stamps, for example, can be eliminated if the president and Democrats are willing to give something else.

The president’s new poverty program must be matched, they say, by other cuts. These folks have effectively tied President Obama’s hands behind his back.

Only Congress can loosen the restrictions of these ropes.

I often wonder whether Republicans represent any poor people, because their attacks on things such as food stamps hurt the people that keep voting for them. You’d never know they represent any poor people by the votes they take, their resistance to higher wages, and the ways the block programs designed to help the needy.

There is a movement afoot, though, to increase the minimum wage. At the federal level

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there are proposals to raise the wage by as much as $10 an hour.

Some cities and states have already raised the wage that exceeds $10. This is the long-term result of the Occupy Movement that, whole failing to articulate specific goals, raised consciousness about the 1 percent.

Now, people are considering tax breaks on the wealthy and insisting hat Congress look at ways that the poor are disadvantaged compared to the rich.

Conflicting viewpoints Some Republicans operate with an amazing arrogance, using the Bible to make their points against public assistance and food stamps. At least two have cherry picked the Bible, using that Thessalonians verse that says, “If you do not work, you cannot eat.” The Bible also talks about feeding the hungry, but these seem to be parts of the Bible that have escaped their notice.

Bible or not, the economic recovery is moving more slowly that anyone would like. The stock market has had tremendous gains, but the unemployment rate has dropped slowly for the overall population, and even slower for African-Americans.

The status of African-Americans is hardly mentioned as economic analysts gloat about poverty, and some members of Congress have been downright derisive toward those who are jobless. These are the same people who voted down the president’s American Jobs Act I 2011.

President Obama is moving in the right direction by paying attention to poverty. Let’s hope Congress allows him to move from conversation to implementation.

Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. She is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, N.C. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes.com.

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A toddler who was cursed at and encouraged to curse in a video posted online has been placed in protective custody, Omaha police announced last week.

In a news release, police said that four children, including the toddler from the video that was posted by the police union, were removed from the home.

The union has faced criticism for posting the video on its website.

Union officials say they wanted to stimulate discussion about problems in the community and show what officers encounter. But critics said there were better ways to do that without subjecting a child to ridicule.

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Somali-born actor Barkhad Abdi attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures’ “Captain Phillips,” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, on Sept. 30, 2013.

Debut in ‘Captain Phillips’ opens doors for Somali-born actor MINNEAPOLIS — Three months ago it might have seemed that Barkhad Abdi’s life could not become any more incredible. Two years earlier he was picked from an open casting call in Minneapolis to co-star with Tom Hanks in the piracy drama “Captain Phillips.”

He traveled to London and Malta for the filming, an astonishing experience, to be sure. But since the film’s October release, Abdi’s fame has spread in breathtaking fashion.

“Honestly, I’m in a state of shock,” he said earlier this month of his unexpected acclaim. “I’ve been blessed, it’s a really great feeling, but wow.”

The 28-year-old Somali-born actor has been riding a Hollywood whirlwind. He’s walked the photo gauntlet at gala openings and been a featured speaker at entertainment industry gatherings. He has been featured on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter, interviewed on “The Today Show,” the Conan O’Brien and Arsenio Hall shows, and profiled on “CBS Sunday Morning.”

Pile that on top of accolades from virtually every film writer on planet Earth and you’d have to say he’s off to a good start.

hijacker, Muse, earned prestigious best-supporting-actor nominations from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. He also has received a nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Oh, and by the way, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reached out to him at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards, congratulated him on his riveting performance and urged him to keep acting.

“They said I did a good job, and I’m a big fan of his. It’s a lot of stuff I can’t believe,” Abdi said. “I’m walking red carpets. Big celebrities recognize me.

I never thought it would happen. It is just really unbelievable.”

The avalanche of awards nominations coming his way has kept Abdi, who still lives in Minneapolis, on a merry-go-round of promotional activities. In September he devoted two days to practice interview sessions with former journalists. But Abdi said his best advice came from Hanks, who advised him to “just be yourself and answer the questions correctly.”

“I just go to whatever TV show or interview I’m supposed to do and wait,” he said. “Honestly, I have no idea what’s going on.” Meanwhile, he’s “here in Minnesota, enjoying the snow.”

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It got better. The first-timer’s work as the frightening yet sympathetic

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he’s “not doing anything but waiting here.”

“We had a good time catching up this holiday season. Some who’re shocked, I calm them down and say I’m shocked myself. A lot of people expect me to change, and they’re surprised when I call them. But everyone around me is happy about the situation and supportive, but shocked the same as I am.”

“Captain Phillips,” which puts Somalia’s pirate attacks in context, has won high marks from local Somali viewers and Abdi’s friends as far away as Kenya, he said. “Everyone is loving it.” The big objection is “when the guys die at the end.”

Abdi said he expects to relocate to Los Angeles next month. He remains connected with Hanks, who has congratulated him on his multiple nominations and told him to keep going.

Abdi already has an agent and offers of possible roles. He’s eager to show that he can act all sorts of roles, but has committed to nothing so far.

“What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it’s the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There’s a lot of characters I can play. There’s nothing that I’ve decided on yet. I’m waiting for the awards season to be finished.

Then I’ll go for it.”

The video shows an African-American boy wearing only a diaper as he’s harangued with racial slurs and obscenities from at least three adults.

The child responds to the off-camera adults with profanities of his own and at one point raises his middle finger.

The Omaha Police Department says it reviewed the video with prosecutors and authorities determined no criminal activities had taken place.

However, police say they worked with Child Protective Services regarding concerns for the toddler’s well-being and the investigation did find safety concerns in the home that led to the removal of the four children.

The union has said it found the video on a known local gang member’s Facebook page. The video has been viewed several thousand times and remains available at the union’s website.

The union said it had an obligation to share the video so the public will learn about “the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children

find themselves helplessly trapped in.”

“The whole point of this is to give an unfiltered view of what police officers deal with every day,” said Sgt. John Wells, president of the Omaha Police Officers Association.

Was posting necessary?

Wells said he hopes the discussion will focus on ways to help the boy in the video and address problems in the community. At one point in the video, the adults reference a gang in northeast Omaha, which is where more than half of the city’s roughly 40 homicides a year typically happen.

But Willie Hamilton, executive director of Black Men United in Omaha, said the police union didn’t have to post the video to promote discussion about helping families overcome poverty.

“It’s almost like the kid was abused twice: once by the people in the video and once by the police officers association,” said Hamilton, whose group promotes mentoring and works to strengthen families.

Hamilton said if the police union had been concerned about this child, officers should have reached out to churches and community groups to help.

“If their overall goal was to educate people about the problems, this was an inept way to do it,” he said.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer issued a statement Tuesday to clarify that the department wasn’t involved in posting the video and doesn’t have control over what the union posts.

“I strongly disagree with any postings that may cause a divide in our community or an obstacle to police community relations,” Schmaderer said.

Black Men United in Omaha has questioned why the police union released the video of the toddler, above.

Traditional radio still popular as streaming grows, study says Pandora beats rivals

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Streaming music apps may be hot these days, but it will be a long time before they top the old-fashioned radio dial.

Traditional AM / FM radio is still the most popular way for people to listen to music, news and talk, even as digital music offers more control and becomes easier to use on the go, according to a study by media agency MediaVest and Clear Channel Media & Entertainment, the nation’s biggest radio company.

According to the study, in which 2,000 people in the U.S. were surveyed from April to June, just over half said they listen to regular AM / FM radio at least once a day, more than any

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“Express Yourself” with Ashley Thomas and Larry Steele airs on WPUL AM 1590 in Daytona Beach on Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. and Sundays from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. other platform.

“New outlets are not coming at a cost to traditional forms of consumption,” said Radha Subramanyam, Clear Channel’s

executive vice president of insights, research and analytics. “Now you have more opportunities to consume content and the overall pie has grown.”

Still, it’s clear that recent technology has made its mark.

About 24 percent said they watch music videos online every day through services such as YouTube.

Streaming AM / FM radio through computers and mobile apps is a factor, at 13 percent and 11 percent, respectively. Customized streaming music, including Pandora, Spotify and Rdio, got around 22 percent, while 14 percent of people use satellite radio.

Clear Channel and MediaVest said those services have increased listening overall.

“It’s not about cannibalization; it’s about growth,” said David Shiffman, executive vice president of re-

search at MediaVest.

In the growing digital music industry, Pandora Media Inc. easily beats its rivals, according to the study. More than a third of those surveyed (37 percent) said they used Pandora regularly, compared with 11 percent for Spotify and 10 percent for IHeartRadio. The study also noted that users of Pandora and Spotify were more satisfied with those services than those who access IHeartRadio and other outlets.

Multiple platforms used Most people listen to more than one platform a day. In fact, 63 percent of teens said they spread their consumption over multi-

ple platforms, more than any other age group.

The study also tried to illustrate how different age groups use audio. Younger listeners see their music choices as a form of selfexpression and “social currency,” whereas adults are more inclined to see audio as an escape or to focus at work.

The place where traditional and satellite radio really dominate is in the car. That’s why services like Pandora and IHeartRadio are trying to get into more automobile models, and Pandora said it was starting to play commercials on its in-car version in order to capitalize on this big market.

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Amen Iseghohi founded his first gym in 2009 with a unique approach to fitness – using body weight exercises centered around tires, or as Amen puts it, getting Primal.

Keys to keeping at it in 2014: Fitness gurus share tips

BY MARY MACVEAN LOS ANGELS TIMES/MCT

How are those new 2014 workouts going? Need a little inspiration boost? We talked to four prominent trainers and fitness personalities in hopes of finding keys to helping you work out — successfully — for years to come.

Sharing inspiration All you need is some trash and some inspiration, says Amen Iseghohi.

As a kid, he worked on

his grandmother’s farm, played sports and ran. He grew up to be an executive.

But then, one day, “I saw a kid considered overweight, and I thought it was a pity,” he says. “He looked like he lacked self-esteem, the way he walked.”

And thus an idea was born: Iseghoni would bring what he learned from his grandmother to the gym.

As a boy, he was taught by her to use what you have.

And so, improbably, recycled tires are the basis of Amenzone Fitness, Iseghohi’s growing chain of studios. “My friends and fam-

Second-half run secures Lady Wildcats’ victory over North Carolina SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

The Bethune-Cookman University Lady Wildcats snapped a five-game losing streak and remained perfect against the North Carolina Central on Monday night at Richard V. Moore Gymnasium, using a multifaceted attack to down the Lady Eagles, 67-52.

The opening minutes of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) matchup was a far cry from the final result as Bethune-Cookman (4-13, 1-3 MEAC) fell behind 11-0 to North Carolina Central (69, 1-1 MEAC), before redshirt freshman Kailyn Williams dropped in the Lady Wildcats’ first bucket with 15:22 remaining in the period.

With the offense on track, the Lady Wildcats worked to trim the deficit, but NCCU maintained breathing room. However, with just over four minutes remaining, redshirt senior

point guard Shakeyia Colyer paced the Lady Wildcats in rattling off a 12-6 run, fueled by smothering fullcourt pressure.

B-CU twice narrowed the deficit to one point, heading to the locker room trailing 31-28.

Weathered the storm At the break, Colyer held 14 of the team’s 28 points.

“We knew they were going to come out with a lot of energy,” Head Coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis said. “They just came off a tremendous win for their program beating FAMU. We didn’t match that at first. We closed it in at halftime and when we came out I thought the tide turned for us.”

After weathering the storm, the Lady Wildcats maintained the offensive momentum into the second period and kept the pressure on defensively, outscoring NCCU 22-7 through the first 10 min-

ily thought I had completely lost my mind,” he says.

The first studio in the L.A. area opened last year in Manhattan Beach, Calif.

There aren’t any mirrors or elaborate machines. But there are plenty of tires and inspiration, including messages on the exposed brick walls and a saying at the end of class. It’s a highintensity workout that uses the tires as weights and steps and obstacles. (There are also classes for children.)

Q: What two or three words best describe your approach to fitness?

A: Empowering, movement.

Q: If you could have just one piece of equipment, what would it be?

A: Tires.

Q: Whom do you admire in the fitness world?

A: Billy Blanks (a fitness professional and martial artist), who opened the doors.

Q: What’s the biggest mistake newcomers to fitness make, and how could they avoid it?

A: They need to remember why they started when it gets challenging. There are going to be hard times.

Americans are over-exercising and underactive, Harley Pasternak says. And we’re getting mixed signals about fitness and health.

“The more that science tells us that shorter, simple workouts and lower intensity daily activity are the best way for us to get healthy and stay healthy, the more we are bombarded by fitness programs and diets that delineate the exact opposite,” he says.

“It’s hard enough to go from being sedentary to being active, but asking people to hoist a barbell over their heads, hoist boat anchors and hip-hop dance till they throw up is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing.”

What we need to do is be active all day, Pasternak explains. It’s the “boring” advice we’ve been given for years: Park a couple of blocks away from the destination. Skip the escalator.

Take walks.

Pasternak says he does 15 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weights each day, and he walks as much as possible to stay in shape.

His latest book, “The Body Reset Diet,” includes a 15day “anticleanse” with a daily regimen of three meals, two snacks, 10,000 steps or five miles, and brief amounts of resistance work.

But he warns: “Ten thousand steps is not enough to make up for a bad diet.

The 10 healthiest countries all take more steps than we do. And they don’t know what a ThighMaster is.”

Q: Words that describe your approach to fitness?

A: Science, efficiency.

Q: One piece of equipment?

A: My Fitbit (a wearable fitness tracker — Pasternak endorses it).

Q: Whom do you admire in the fitness world?

A: Mike Mentzer, an intellectual bodybuilder from the 1970s and ‘80s. And Ira Jacobs, my graduate supervisor.

Q: Biggest mistake for newcomers?

A: Too much too fast too soon. And the lack of a plan. You need a strategy that is safe and effective.

Q: Interesting innovations?

A: Move all day.

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Freshman Kailyn Williams logged her first career double double of 14 points/10 rebounds, along with six blocks. utes of the half.

Though the Lady Eagles pushed back and lowered the B-CU advantage to only seven with 6:23 to go, the Lady Wildcats scored on five consecutive possessions to rebuild the lead to 16 points with 1:59 on the clock.

The Lady Wildcats finished strong, with Kailyn Williams grabbing her 10th rebound with 10 seconds left to notch her first career double double with a career-high 14 points, securing the 67-52 victory. Williams put up big numbers in a third category, collecting six blocks for the third time this season.

“We knew that if we were aggressive against them that we would be successful,” Blair-Lewis noted. “We held them in the 50s, that’s our goal. That’s where we’re able to be successful, and when we do that, we generally win.”

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MEAC contests next Leading six B-CU players scoring at least five in the contest, Colyer put up 22 points on 67 percent shooting, in addition to tallying a season-high seven assists with three steals. Over the past three games, the Sanford native has been on an offensive tear, scoring 62 points.

With the win, BethuneCookman moved to 9-0 alltime against North Carolina Central.

Next up is a pair of MEAC road contests in the region, traveling to Georgia for a Jan. 18 matchup with Savannah State, followed by a Jan. 20 meeting with South Carolina State in Orangeburg, S.C.

This report was compiled by a story from BCUathletics.com.

Kenneth Fisher and Breonca Reid of B-CU’s men’s and women’s track and field team have been named as Chick-fil-A Student-Athletes of the Week for Jan. 13-19. Both student-athletes competed in the South Carolina Indoor Open in Columbia, S.C. Freshman jumper Fisher made an impression in his first collegiate meet at the South Carolina Indoor Open #1 on Satur-

Parade of racing vehicles scheduled Feb. 15 in Ponce Inlet SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

During the 2014 Speedweeks race fans can marvel at some of the legends of racing during a beachside historic race car parade at 1 p.m. Feb. 15 in Ponce Inlet.

Through a cooperative sponsorship between Volusia County Government, the Town of Ponce Inlet and Racing’s North Turn restaurant, the vintage race cars will once

Change expectations Jason Wimberly often asks his students to close their eyes for a time during class.

“There’s far too much time spent looking in the mirror and critiquing ourselves,” he says at the Mansion gym in West Hollywood, one of the places where he trains clients.

“People have to start with accepting themselves and not plunge in to lose-30pounds-in-30-day programs that leave them feeling like failures if they don’t lose it all.”

People frequently work against themselves in their fitness fervor. Taking two classes back to back, for instance, can lead to burning muscle tissue rather than fat, says Wimberly, who adds that too many people fail to include stretching in their workouts.

“You have to work hard, but you have to recover.”

Wimberly, who plans to manufacture a line of circular resistance bands this year, says he prefers workouts that lead to strength and flexibility without too much competition — and “no phones, no texts, no kids. It’s like mini-therapy.”

He also suggests being mindful of posture when walking or sitting in the car or at a desk. One look at him, and it’s easy to see why.

Q: Words that describe your approach to fitness?

A: Poised, precise, empowering.

Q: One piece of equipment?

A: The bands (he is having manufactured).

Q: Whom do you admire?

A: My father, who was at the gym at 5 and then in the office from 9 to 5. He’s never sick, doesn’t smoke and looks amazing. As a kid, I remember being so excited to go to the gym with him.

Q: Biggest mistake for newcomers?

A: Improper form. We could have careers just correcting form.

Q: Interesting innovations?

A: The science of highintensity, short-duration workouts such as Tabata, based on a four-minute Japanese program for Olympians. day, winning the long jump event with a mark of 7.25m (23-09.50 ft.). He also competed in the 55m dash, collecting a time of 7.05 seconds.

Reid started her sophomore season on a high note, performing well in both sprints and jumps at the South Carolina Indoor Open #1. The Jacksonville native advanced to the finals of the 55m dash, logging a sixth place finish and personal record of 7.17 in the event. She also turned in one of BCU’s highest scoring performances in the meet, earning sixth in the long jump with a leap of 5.39m (17-08.25 ft.).

This report was compiled by a story from BCUathletics.com. again run down Atlantic Avenue, making the south turn onto the world’s most famous beach, ending at the famed north turn.

These are the sites of the original north and south turns of the early 4.1-mile beach and road course where the Grand National Race ran from 1948 until 1958, when they were relocated to the new Super Speedway, today known as Daytona International Speedway.

Following the parade, Racing’s North Turn restaurant will host autograph sessions and interviews of drivers, including NASCAR Hall of Fame historian Buzz McKim.

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