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NATION: A challenging but hopeful future for the Black Press SEE PAGE 5

East Central Florida’s Black Voice

AN EVENING OF MAZZMUSE SEE PAGE 3

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Limit on beach driving sparks outrage Daytona commission votes against resolution to keep vehicles off stretch of shore

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Taking cars off the beach didn’t get very far during Wednesday night’s Daytona Beach Commission meeting.

After much back and forth, the commission voted 4-3 against a resolution, then voted yes on another resolution presented by Commissioner Pam Woods.

“This in my mind is danger-

ous,” Commissioner Robert Gilliland stated. The first proposal on beach driving covered about a two-mile stretch of the beach.

By the end of the over four-hour long meeting, there was a resolution that focused on the entire Daytona Beach coastline.

The initial resolution, which was voted against, would have given developers with property between Silver Beach Avenue and University Boulevard the option to request vehicle-free

beaches in exchange for providing off-beach parking.

‘Up to the county’ The second resolution was to protect the beach access over the entire stretch of beach.

“Tonight you’ll hear from many people about the pros and cons, but I’m here to talk about the need for compromise,” said Ormond Beach resident and business owner Philip Maroney, one of only a handful of people who spoke in favor of the resolution. “At the local level, we can still find out ways to compro-

mise. We can each give a little for the greater good.”

Executives for the Westin Daytona Beach Resort as well as the Hard Rock Hotel & Cafe are both seeking to end beach driving in front of their buildings.

What was most notable about the standing room-only meeting was that the city commission actually has no say-so over beach access. The city’s jurisdiction ends right before the sand begins and the county controls the land from the sand to the water, leaving the county with the final say on what happens to the beach.

“This is not a decision to be

WHERE TO FIND EASTER EGGS THIS SUNDAY All over the Greater Daytona Beach area, plans are hatching for Easter fun. Here’s a partial list of events between April 3 and 5.

Easter egg hunts An egg hunt will be held in New Smyrna Beach at the Old Fort Park, 210 Sams Ave. at noon. It’s for ages 2-12. There will also be food and activities.

More information: 386-4242175.

A 10,000-egg Easter hunt will be held in Edgewater on April 4 at 6 p.m. at Hawk’s Park, 1108 S. Ridgewood Ave. in Edgewater. Family fun festivities from 3 p.m. - 8 p.m. including a movie in the park.

There will be an egg hunt at the Port Orange City Center at 10 a.m.

A community Easter egg hunt and cookout will be held on April 4, in Port Orange at Christ Church, 2421 Tomoka Farms Road, at 11 a.m. More information: www.christchurchportorange.com.

Daytona Lagoon will have a free egg hunt in the family fun center, 601 Earl St. on April 5 at 11 a.m.

A yard sale and egg hunt will be held at Crossroads, 1805 N. US Highway 1 in Ormond Beach. The event takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the egg hunt taking place in age groups. For kids up to age 3, it starts at 9 a.m. For those 4 to 6, it begins at 10 a.m. Ages 7 to 10 can start hunting for eggs at 11 a.m.

Church services This information was submitted to the Times by the following churches.

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Children attending Palm Sunday service on March 26 participate in an Easter egg hunt on the lawn of Hope Fellowship Church.

Hope Fellowship Church will host Easter/Resurrection Sunday service at the NewsJournal Center, 221 N. Beach St. at 10 a.m. on April 5. More information: www.facebook. com/HFCDB. Tubman-King Church will present Seven Sermons at Seven on Friday, April 3.

The church is located at 1090 George W Engram Blvd.

Dr. L. Ronald Durham will give his final sermon in his role as pastor at Greater Friend-

ship Baptist Church on April 5 at 10:45 a.m. The church is located at 539 George W. Engram Blvd.

Easter beach run This Easter-themed beach run will be held on April 4.

It was established in 1967 by Daytona Beach’s Leisure Services. Participants and supporters will meet outside Bubba Gump Shrimp, Co. for the bunny hop, the best-dressed

Easter contest, a visit from the Easter bunny and activities for children.

The race kicks off at the Historic Daytona Beach Bandshell at noon with a four-mile race for all ages followed by a twomile race and fun health walk at 1:15 p.m., kids races begin at 2 p.m. A paid registration is required.

More information: www. easterbeachrundaytona.com.

made by the City of Daytona Beach,” Mayor Derrick Henry reminded the assembled. It is up to the county.”

‘We are being used’ Commisioner Pam Woods showed disgust that the city was even asked to pass a resolution on the referendum. “I think we are being used,” she commented.

She then passed around a resolution that she drafted to give “first and foremost public access to the beach, off street parking and to protect and preserve longPlease see BEACH, Page 2

Brown, Links tour B-CU with youth from Jacksonville

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

Bethune-Cookman University welcomed Congresswoman Corrine Brown, members of The Links, Inc., and 12 girls from Butler Middle School of Jacksonville to the university on Monday.

Brown and members of her social organization, The Links (Jacksonville chapter) brought the girls to B-CU in an effort to stimulate more interest in higher education and HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).

Brown also met with B-CU administrators to talk about the state of HBCUs, educational funding and ways that Congress can help. The girls took a guided tour of the campus and foundation house.

“I work very closely with the president (Dr. Edison O. Jackson),” Brown told the Daytona Times. “I have had him in Washington several times testifying with Congress and with the Secretary of Education. He really understands the role of historically Black colleges and he is one of my allies. Links, an organization I’m involved with has been working with these young ladies, getting them ready for college and to be all that they can be.”

The U.S. Representative’s Fifth Congressional District covers parts of Duval, Clay, Putnam, Alachua, Volusia, Marion, Lake, Seminole, and Orange counties,

More tours on tap Brown said the group will tour other universities as well.

Bethune-Cookman University was the first school on the tour, Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, slated as the second.

“We have worked with these Please see B-CU, Page 2

B-CU center to provide free sickle cell screenings in April, May

BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com

The Bethune-Cookman University’s Odessa Chambliss Center for Health Equity is sponsoring free sickle cell screenings for the community in April and May. Dr. Diana Lee, director of the center, says a grant received from Volusia County Government will pay for the tests, which will be ad-

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ministered at no cost by nurses from Halifax Health Medical Center.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the condition occurs in about one in 12 African-Americans.

What it is Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of sickle cell disease (SCD), a serious disorder in which

the body makes sickleshaped red blood cells that resemble a crescent.

Normal red blood cells are disc-shaped and move easily through blood vessels delivering oxygen and other nutrients throughout the body.

However, sickle cells are stiff and sticky and tend to block blood flow in the blood vessels of the limbs and organs. Blocked blood flow can cause pain and Please see SICKLE CELL, Page 2

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Dr. Diana Lee talks to members from the Orlando-based Livingston Street Church of God at the Odessa Chambliss Center for Health Equity on March 27.

The center will be home to sickle cell screenings through May.

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Daytona Beach library to honor James Huger The Friends of the Library will celebrate the life and accomplishments of Dr. James Huger Sr. at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at the Daytona Beach Regional Library, 105 E. Magnolia Ave., Daytona Beach.

Huger, a civil rights trailblazer and pillar of the African-American community, took part in the library’s “Harvesting History” oral history project, initiated in 2014 to capture the Dr. James rich cultural stories of resiHuger dents who grew up in Daytona Beach during the civil rights era.

Members of the Friends group will play the video of Huger’s oral history, then host a reception honoring him.

Impressive career Huger, who turned 100 on Jan. 4, earned his high school diploma and associate de-

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gree from Bethune-Cookman University when Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was still at the helm.

He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia State University and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

As a member of the Montford Point Marines in the 1940s, Huger was named a sergeant major, the highest rank a noncommissioned officer could earn. He and other members of the all-Black group received the Gold Congressional Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama in 2011.

In addition to serving on many local boards, Huger was the first African-American to serve as a member and chairperson of the Volusia County Council, and he held a seat on the Daytona Beach City Commission for many years. President Jimmy Carter asked him to coordinate his presidential campaign in Florida.

Huger remains committed to his community and to young African-Americans.

He has become a local legend devoting countless hours to supporting community service organizations in Volusia County and across the United States.

There is no charge for this event, but

reservations are required. To reserve a seat, contact Deborah Shafer at dshafer@ volusia.org or 386-257-6036, ext. 16264.

This event is part of the library’s Connecting with the Community series, a twoyear program funded in part by a partnership grant from the Florida Humanities Council. In 2014, programs focused on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This year’s programs address contemporary issues and continuing traditions. Connecting with the Community programs are co-funded by the Friends of the Daytona Beach Library.

Grimes to speak at ACLU dinner A retired judge who broke racial barriers during his career headlines the annual American Civil Liberties (ACLU) dinner meeting at 6 p.m. Friday, April 17. Judge Hubert Grimes, an expert in family law, will speak on “Our Children, Our Future: A Former Judge’s View From Beyond the Bench.”

In addition, F.A.I.T.H (Fighting Against

B-CU

Congresswoman Corrine Brown, stops

by BethuneCookman Universiy with students from Butler Middle School in Jacksonville.

Dr. Makola Abdullah, Provost stands with the group.

from Page 1 young ladies of Butler Middle School for over seven years to provide academic enrichment in the afternoons,” added Brenda Simmons Hutchins, a 1971 graduate of BethuneCookman. “This is the first of a series where we are exposing these young ladies to historically Black colleges.”

“This is a point in their lives where the world is their oyster. So the most exposure we can give them

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEISHA PICKETT

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organ damage. It can also raise the risk for infection.

Bridging the gap “In Daytona Beach, we used to have a sickle cell anemia association that was very active and well-run for many years,” Lee shared.

“The women that ran the organization were ready to retire and the organization closed. At that point, Dr. Dianna Wathington, Dr. Raphael Isokpehi and myself, submitted an application for a grant that the county had to promote awareness and administer testing for sickle cell disease.”

Lee says the group received the grant in January.

“It came through and we started meeting to see how we were going to target the community,” she continued. “Dr. Wathington spoke to Halifax Hospital and we started testing in February.”

PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL HEART, LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE

Figure A shows normal red blood cells flowing freely in a blood vessel. The inset image shows a cross-section of a normal red blood cell with normal hemoglobin. Figure B shows abnormal, sickled red blood cells blocking blood flow in a blood vessel.

The inset image shows a cross-section of a sickle cell with abnormal (sickle) hemoglobin forming abnormal strands.

Trait vs. disease Sickle cell anemia varies from person to person.

Some people who have the disease have chronic (longterm) pain or fatigue (tiredness). However, with proper care and treatment, many people who have the

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term access to the beach.”

“This is what I’m comfortable sending to the county council,” Woods said.

‘Let Volusia Vote’ Henry and the commission faced condemnation from some of the 40 or so persons who spoke during public participation about being elected by the people, citing that the officials could be replaced after serving one term.

Many of those who spoke during the public participation period asked for the question of beach driving to be put on a ballot and let the voters of Volusia County decide.

The “Let Volusia Vote” action committee was out in large numbers. The group has been gathering signatures from all over Volusia County to get beach driving on the ballot.

Injustice Towards Humanity), an interfaith congregation-based community organization that focuses on ending injustice in Volusia County, will be awarded the Bob Stevenson Award at the dinner in recognition of its dedication to help the Judge Hubert homeless community and Grimes its work in area of juvenile justice.

Grimes, a graduate of Kentucky State University, the University of Georgia Law School and International Seminary, in 1988 became the first African-American county judge in Volusia County. In 1999, he became the first Black circuit judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

He retired in 2014 after 25 years on the bench.

Grimes distilled information from more than the 100,000 cases he presided over into a book titled “How to Keep Your Child from Going to Jail.’’

The annual meeting and dinner is open to the public. It will be held at The Grant Bly House, 842 East Florida Ave., DeLand.

For additional information, contact Jeanne Tanke at 386-492-3898.

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Daytona Beach resident Greg Gimbert asks those seated in the audience at Wednesday’s commission meeting to raise their hands if they support driving on the beach, telling the commission “that’s 95 percent of the room.”

The committee’s chairman Greg Gimbert said Wednesday that enough petition signatures had been collected in Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Ormond Beach and Holly Hill to be put on the ballot. He urged, “Give us the dang vote! Please!”

“They have spoken,” he continued. “It’s not you think they want to vote, but

they have qualified. Regardless of how you feel, whatever you proclivities may be, represent those people who have not said they want to vote but have proven it.”

Ready to vote The applause from the room was so loud after Gimbert spoke the room

disease can have improved quality of life and reasonable health much of the time.

Because of improved treatments and care, people who have sickle cell anemia are now living much longer.

Dr. Matilda Johnson and Nadine Heusaer, both with the Odessa, also spoke to the Daytona Times.

Heusaer, along with psychology students from BCU, were trained on sickle cell disorders and how to deliver information to those who learn they have the trait or the disease.

“We really talked about ways to tell people how to plan for the next step,” Heusaer related. “It is a lot to tell someone that they have sickle cell trait; we are here to tell them what it all means.”

Lee explained, “At that point is when myself or Dr. Wathington steps in. If you have just the trait, you don’t have the anemia, but it means you have a marker in your DNA that makes it more likely that you will have a child with sickle cell anemia.

“Also people with trait may have some symptoms as well. Maybe when it is was asked to settle down.

On the letvolusiavote. com website, Gimbert adds, “Our beach driving lets us have access to the whole beach instead of just a couple parking lots. It allows locals and visitors to both have enough space for everyone to have their own space.

“You can’t get that anywhere else and we have it right in our own back yard. Let’s protect it before they trade away our unique beach access for a parking lot where your beach day is just a towel on the sand.”

‘You’ll never get it back’ “My decisions are always based on what is right,” Commissioner Patrick Henry said. “This commission has proven itself; we have this city headed in the right direction. We as a commission have no jurisdiction over the beach. No matter what we say tonight the county can do what it wants.”

Commissioner Henry added that the city should be mindful of how give and take works.

“Once you take it (beach

SCREENINGS Here are the dates for the sickle cell screening at the Odessa Chambliss Center for Health Equity, 113 Lockhart St. • April 9, 8:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.

• April 17, 8:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m.

• May 14, 8:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.

• May 22. 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m.

really hot or they haven’t drank enough fluids.

There are some guidelines that they should follow from eating healthier, getting enough fluids, to being aware of how they feel physically.”

Future generations “It can be prevented,” Johnson said. “If you don’t reproduce with someone who has the trait then you will not pass it on from generation to generation, but people don’t know.

“So their whole lives they (people with the trait) have to be watched, and when they are looking to get married, if you have two people who come together parking) away, I’m well aware that it’s much harder to get it back, you’ll never get it back,” he said. “We started with 47 miles of beach, now we’re down to 13. Before it’s all said and done, it’s all gone.

“Where did they start racing? The beach. Before NASCAR, what did people know us as? “The World’s Most Famous Beach. This is not my decision to make, it’s not our decision to make, this is a decision for the county council,” he continued.

More comments “I’m here as a protagonist not an antagonist,” said community activist Norma Bland, a Daytona Beach resident of 66 years. “ I remember the time when I wasn’t able to even walk on the beach.”

Bland was referencing the years of segregation where Blacks were not allowed on Daytona Beach but had to drive a dozen miles south to Bethune Beach to enjoy the shore.

“It’s water,” Bland continued. “Created by God.

to as many institutions, as many majors, as many ideas that we can put in their hands at this point is what we are trying to do.

We know that as they grow older they will be narrowing their choices, but at this point we are at the first level of awareness,” Hutchins added.

“The girls are called GEMS (Girls Empowered and Making Strides),” Hutchins added.

The Jacksonville Links has encouraged the GEMS to embrace healthy living habits, money management, visual arts and literary reinforcement. who have the trait, you are very likely to have an anemic child. We are trying to catch it so that if you know that you have the trait, when you get the reproductive age you can make decisions.”

Lee added, “Knowledge is power. Empowering patients to know if they have the trait so when they start dating they can ask the other person ‘Hey, I hate to ask you, but do you have the trait?’ So then they can make the decision (to discontinue the relationship) in the beginning when there aren’t as many feelings involved.”

Sickle cell anemia is most common in people whose families come from Africa, South or Central America (especially Panama), the Caribbean islands, Mediterranean countries (such as Turkey, Greece, and Italy), India, and Saudi Arabia.

In the United States, it’s estimated that sickle cell anemia affects 70,000 to 100,000 people, mainly African Americans.

Testing at the Odessa Chambliss Center for Health Equity will be held twice in April and twice in May. The center is located at 113 Lockhart St., one block south of International Speedway Boulevard.

Contact Dr. Diana Lee at leed@cookman.edu or 386481-2838 for more details.

Who has the right to take it away? Before big business there were big families.

You can build everything you think you can build on that beach. Let’s build on International (Speedway Boulevard) or Orange Avenue. We need an even playing field.”

Daytona Beach resident Marjorie Johnson echoed those same sentiments, “This is our beach, not your beach,” Johnson began. “I remember back in the day when Blacks were not even allowed on that beach.

They came to work then they went home. If they were caught over there they would be arrested.”

Commissioner Ruth Trager voted against the initial resolution as well as what Woods drafted.

“Yes it is our beach.

We’ve already given away far too much of our beach.

If taking cars off the beach meant success, we would have it at the boardwalk.

We don’t. I believe that nobody but the people should be able to vote on giving away the beach,’’ she added.

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Pre-Mothers Day event to include fashion, food

games, tennis and golf for friends and family ages 12 years and older.

“This will be our first time out, and if we are successful, we will have the fun day again,” said George Jacobs, who’s steering the group to play golf.

Trustee Jimmie Johnson Jr. is chair of the Men’s Fellowship Ministry. Bro. Johnson is pointing the group to play tennis.

That’s April 18 to play golf, beginning at the 8 a.m. tee-off time, at a cost of $28, which includes lunch. To play the board games like chess or hone in on tennis, it will cost nothing! The games will begin 10 a.m.

The Men’s Fellowship Ministry develops Christian character in men and provides opportunities to apply skills and talents to the service of the Lord, and to be used as a witness to encourage others.

The Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, the pastoral ministry of the Rev. Edwin Coffie, can be reached at 386-447-5719.

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

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Yacht Club fundraiser to help victims of domestic, sexual violence The Palm Coast Yacht Club is having a great collection at its annual fashion show, donning men and women with impeccable styles from Macy’s Department Store in the Daytona Beach Volusia Mall.

It begins at 11:30 a.m. April 15. Doors open 10:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Yacht Club, One Yacht Club Drive.

The co-host for the panache will be County Commissioner Nate McLaughlin, chair of the county’s Tourist Development Council.

Elected in 2010 to District 4, .McLaughlin is heavily involved in promoting economic development and supporting local small businesses.

Sarah Ulis is Nate the co-chair of the McLaughlin Shipmates, the committee hosting the affair.

The collection is complete with takes on Ralph Lauren, Polo, Calvin Klein and other designers.

Macy’s discount coupons will be available to guests. Shipmates and deckhands will be modeling along the runway.

Enjoy chicken parmesan, salad, buttered rolls, strawberry

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short cake, hot or cold tea, and coffee plus an open bar, door prizes and chances to draw raffles and 50/50.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Flagler County Family Life Center.

“We are honored by this partnership with the Flagler County Family Life Center as an opportunity for the club to reach out beyond our walls into the community, and Macy’s help is the icing on the cake,’’ said Ulis.

Free services The Flagler County Family Life Center, a private, not-for-profit social-service organization, provides no-cost services to individuals and families experiencing domestic or sexual violence.

“We are very grateful to the Palm Coast Yacht Club for extending its hand of friendship and offering support to our services,” said Executive Director Trish Giaccone.

The Palm Coast Yacht Club

offers a 180-foot fixed dock, 25-foot floating dock, and a wide variety of social activities for boaters and non-boaters alike.

The club provides opportunities for day trips, extended flotilla journeys, dinners, dock parties, and picnics. The club was established in 1979 and offers each month the possibility for new members to join.

Tickets will not be sold at the door. The ticket cost is $25. To purchase tickets, contact Ulis at 386-283-5166.

Prom-dress giveaway takes place April 11 “Prom Boutique,” a promdress giveaway for that special evening will be sponsored by the African-American Mentoring Program (A.A.M.P) for Girls.

It will take place April 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, third floor, Bunnell.

The A.A.M.P. has the girls “covered” to select gently used or new formal wear. The program launched discount prices for the alteration cost of a seamstress, if necessary, as well as services at discount for hair, nails and makeup. Personalized attention will be given by expert staff and young ladies, it’s suggested to have your high heels ready for trying on the dresses!

To show your interest in attending the prom-dress giveaway, call Stephanie Dennis at 386-263-2535.

The A.A.M.P. for Girls provides the benefit of information, experience for personal development, as well as scholastic success.

The runway will be a step closer to haute trends in 2015 and will feature SynSha Fashions MoTique, fashions by Patchington, and a mix of live entertainment

by Cesar Romero.

SynSha Fashions MoTique has designs to satisfy every woman’s fashion crave, which can transition from professional work attire to a snazzy cocktail dress! Patchington has the latest influence on the best of what’s beautifully wearable.

It’s a Pre-Mother’s Day Luncheon and Fashion Show, silent auction, vendor boutique, special gifts for mothers, fabulous door prizes, and more!

Oh yes, it’s sponsored by the Palm Coast-Flagler County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. That’s May 3, 3 - 6 p.m., at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd. Palm Coast. Shopping at the vendor boutique begins at 2 p.m.

The $40 ticket price will benefit college scholarships and educational development programs in the service area. To purchase tickets or request further details, contact Sheryl Lewis, Barbara Holley or Donna Easterling at palmcoastfc@yahoo.com.

Mt. Calvary men hosting ‘Day of Fun and Games’ The Mt. Calvary Men’s Fellowship Ministry is a gateway to “A Day of Fun and Games” at Tomoka Oaks Golf and Country Club, 20 Tomoka Oaks Boulevard, Ormond Beach. It’s a fellowship of

Celebrations Birthday wishes to John McVay, April 4; Delcena Samuels, April 7; Darthula McQueen, Eugene Price, April 8.

Happy anniversary to Robert and Lynne Williams, April 7.

sible local option sales tax for transportation. Beth Rawlings, a governmental consultant who has run several local option sales tax campaigns, will be the guest speaker.

For more information, call Cindy Finney at 386-740-5160.

NARFE to meet April 20 The National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), Ormond Beach Branch 2247, will host its next luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. Monday, April 20.

Kristine Crane of the Ormond Library will be the guest speaker and will tell the attendees “What you Can Find in a Library.

The meeting will be in the private dining room at the D.B. Pickles Deli and Bakery. 400 South Nova Road, Ormond Beach.

Members, guests and all present and former federal employees are invited to join for lunch and fellowship.

Learn how to make your plants thrive

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An evening of MazzMuse The African American Museum of the Arts in DeLand hosted a MazzMuse concert at the Athens Theater the evening of March 28 featuring Mazz Swift, right. Swift has engaged audiences all over the world with her violin/vox/freestyle composition that uses a weaving of song, melody and improvisation that she has named “MazzMuse.” She and percussionist Richie Barshay played to a crowd of about 150 people at the DeLand museum.

Palm Coast city manager to speak at Lunch n’ Lecture Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon will update the public on the new City Hall, Holland Park renovations, road projects, what the city is seeing in private development and more at the next Parks & Recreation Lunch n’ Lecture, to be held Wednesday, April 15.

The Lunch n’ Lecture will be 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The Lunch n’ Lecture is free, but preregistration is required by 11 a.m.

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Landon’s talk is titled “Making Our Future Together” and will focus on Palm Coast’s bright future in terms of the economy, growth, projects and progress.

The “Making Our Future Together” campaign – highlighted at www.palmcoastgov.com/future – celebrates the city’s 15th birthday and invites residents to be ambassadors for Palm Coast.

Landon has been Palm Coast’s city manager for eight years. He holds the credentialed manager designation from the International City/County Management Association. In 2013, he received

the Florida City/County Management Association’s Award for career excellence.

Sign up at www.palmcoastgov. com/register. For more information, call 386-986-2323.

Attorney to discuss scams against seniors Senior citizens can be easy prey for rip-off artists, who invent new scams, shams and flimflams every year.

Learn how to avoid being their next victim during a free presentation at 3 p.m. Monday, April 20, at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave. Elder law attorney Michael Pyle will explain how to protect yourself from the theft of your money and identity, share tips about how to handle telephone and door-to-door scams, and explain the challenges of protecting yourself as you become more vulnerable with advancing age.

This free Money Smart Week program is sponsored by the Friends of the Daytona Beach Library.

Registration is not required. For more information, call Adult Program Librarian Catherine Relda at 386-257-6036, ext. 16235.

Volunteers needed for St. Johns River Cleanup Volunteers are needed for the 19th annual St. Johns River Cleanup, which will take place from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 18.

Boaters, scouts, civic organizations, environmental groups, businesses and individual volunteers are encouraged to join in the effort to remove trash and debris from the St. Johns River.

Participants should bring water and wear sunglasses, a hat, sunscreen, work gloves and comfortable clothing. They may also bring rakes, shovels, trash grabbers, and canoes or boats.

Volunteers can choose from eight starting points: • Ninemile Point Park at the west end of Ninemile Point Road, Pierson • Butler Street Boat Ramp at the east end of Butler Street in Astor (Lake County) • DeLeon Springs State Park, 601 Burts Park Road, DeLeon Springs • Ed Stone Park, 2990 W. State Road 44, DeLand • French Avenue boat launch/ Starks Landing, where French Avenue meets the St. Johns River, Orange City

• Lake Monroe Park, 975 S. U.S. 17-92, DeBary • Lemon Bluff boat ramp, 907 Lemon Bluff Road, Osteen • C.S. Lee Park, 4600 E. State Road 46, Geneva (Seminole County) The annual cleanup, coordinated by Volusia County’s Environmental Management Division, draws attention to the river’s environmental importance and helps to keep the waterway safe and clean for animals and people who enjoy swimming and water sports.

For more information and a registration form, visitwww.volusia.org/cleanup or call Dale Peterson at 386-736-5927, ext. 12729.

Preregistered participants will receive a T-shirt, reusable shopping bag and aluminum sport bottle.

Round Table subcommittee to meet April 7 The transportation subcommittee of the Round Table of Volusia County Elected Officials will meet at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in the first-floor training room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand.

Members will discuss a pos-

Joe Sewards will offer tips on planting and establishing landscape plants from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 18, at the Volusia County Agricultural Center, 3100 W. New York Ave., DeLand.

Sewards, an urban and residential horticulturist with the University of Florida/Volusia County Extension, will discuss proper planting, watering, fertilizing and mulching of newly planted landscape plants. He also will offer hands-on participation activities.

The $5 program fee can be paid at the door. Light refreshments and handouts will be provided.

Reservations are requested and may be made by calling the University of Florida/Volusia County Extension at 386-8225778.

Visit the county’s horticulture Facebook page at https://www. facebook.com/UniversityOfFloridaIfasVolusiaCountyExtension.

Library event to address food choices Family nutrition educator Rebecca Taylor will present a workshop that focuses on making healthy food choices at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, April 15, at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave. Taylor will explain how to cut back on sodium and sugar while increasing food flavor with healthy spices and herbs. She’ll also discuss heart-healthy choices and balancing calories, share recipes, and conduct a food demonstration with samples.

The workshop is part of the “Eat Healthy, Be Active” series offered by the University of Florida/Volusia County Extension.

Reservations are not required for this free program.

For more information, call Adult Program Librarian Catherine Relda at 386-257-6036, ext.

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Free speech hypocrisy This winter the media’s been ablaze with stories about racist, homophobic and sexist slurs being hurled this way and that by college students and other adults.

Revealingly, those that have captured the most attention all involve Black Americans as the targets of the racist speech or action: the members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of one prominent White fraternity singing a racist ditty that referenced lynching a Black man; the sexist slur hurled against adolescent baseball star Mo’Ne Davis by a college baseball athlete, and the attempt by the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Texas to force that state to produce a license plate with their symbol, the Confederate battle flag, on it.

This latest effort by Confederate sympathizers to obscure the racist rebellion’s ineradicable stain of “treason in the defense of slavery,” as one analyst wrote, has reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on the case last week.

Tolerate the offense The controversies have provoked a growing volume of commentary and opinion columns. Most of those I’ve seen have declared that, while offensive speech and ideas are despicable, they must be tolerated in the name of freedom of expression so that society can benefit in the short- and long-term from the free flow of ideas.

I’m a free-speech advocate myself. But in recent years, whenever these free-speech controversies have burst into the open, I’ve

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increasingly noticed some important things missing from the general run of commentary and opinion columns. For one thing, I don’t see them grappling with the question of “why” those who spout the slurs do so.

For example, shouldn’t we be examining why a group of White college students, most of whom come from middle-class and upper-middle-class families, would gleefully traffick in expressions of racism?

Where’s the outcry?

And why a White college baseball player would feel the need to use a slur of sexual degeneracy against Mo’Ne Davis, the 14-yearold Black American girl whose athletic prowess and off-the-field poise has won her well-deserved national attention?

Why should any public entity sanction the lies Confederate sympathizers continue to spout?

The Confederacy’s own documents – among them, the Confederate Constitution of 1861, and the individual ordinances of secession of each of the Confederate states – make clear its driving force was the maintenance and expansion of its slave empire.

If states that have these revenuegenerating vanity-plate programs must open them to Confederate sympathizers, must they also ac-

cept the requests of drivers who want plates bearing the flags of other systems of extraordinary evil – such as the Nazi flag, or the flag of ISIS — too?

Part of what’s bothering me is that when these controversies explode, I don’t see the fierce condemnation of the values of the wrongdoers – and their parents, neighborhoods and entire racial group that’s standard procedure whenever some Black youth has done something wrong. Instead, I see many free speech advocates rush right past any consideration of the pain the offensive words cause to loftily order the individual and the group targets of the hate speech to “ignore it” or “be better than” the bigots.

In doing so, they deliberately ignore the reality that the old saying “sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt you” has always been only partially true. Black American history is replete with many tragic episodes of racist slurs used to provoke and sustain racist violence.

And now, the virulent online expressions of hatred against women whom misogynists feel are too assertive underscore the fact that sometimes offensive speech isn’t just “expression.” Sometimes it’s used as a weapon to intimidate its target into silence.

Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His new collection of columns, Race Forward: Facing America’s Racial Divide in 2014, is available at www.amazon.com. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Mr. Wade and the ‘first family of the housing projects’ Approximately three weeks ago, I suffered a mild heart attack.

Shortly afterwards, Mr. Robert T. Wade, a longtime family friend in Tuscaloosa, Ala., died at the age of 94. Against the advice of close friends and even some relatives, I attended his funeral last Saturday.

To appreciate why I was determined to attend Mr. Wade’s funeral, you have to understand what Mr. Wade meant to me and thousands of Black kids who grew up in the housing projects during the 1950s and 1960s. Most Black communities have a Mr. Wade, a universally respected adult who adopts every child in the community as his own.

‘Be like them’ As I said in my tribute to him at the funeral, we considered the Wades the “First Family of the Housing Projects.” Of course, Mr. Wade was the president and his wife, Mrs. Ella Wade, was the First Lady. To those of us who lived in McKenzie Court, my all-Black housing project, they were our Kennedys. They were royalty and we wanted to be like them.

Of the seven Wade children, two of them were males – Archie and Harold. Archie was the oldest and seven years my senior. Harold was five years older than me, about the same age as my young-

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est uncle, Jesse Harris. The three were the brothers I never had.

Hal and Archie were standout athletes and even played professional baseball. But they were scholars first. Mrs. Wade and the girls – Ethel Jean, Glenda, Janice, Phyllis and Karen – in addition to being beautiful, were classy and always exuded class.

Invitation to 73-B And if you happened to be at 73-B McKenzie Court around dinner time, which many of us skillfully managed to do, somehow Mrs. Wade had cooked enough food to accommodate young people like me who wanted to get as close to royalty as possible.

Mr. Wade was the first Black businessman that I knew. He established Wade Printing Co. in 1953 and most of my life it was on what was then 32nd Avenue, now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

It was on our route from McKenzie Court to Druid High School.

So, every school day, we walked past his shop going to and from school; many times he would be

standing outside, which was an open invitation for us to stop by and talk.

For those of us who did not grow up with our biological father, Mr. Wade cast an even larger shadow. He became daddy, teacher, counselor and role model, all rolled into one. I can’t think of a time I did not know Mr. Wade.

Nor can I think of a time when he was so busy that he didn’t immediately stop what he was doing to talk to me and any other kid who sought his advice. Mr. Wade didn’t just offer us words, he provided the example of how to live a moral, blemish-free, admirable life.

Mr. Wade has left us physically, but a part of him remains buried deep in our hearts. He was our shining example. And just like we didn’t want to disappoint him in life, we won’t disappoint him in death, either.

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine, is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service andBlackPressUSA. (NNPA) com. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes.com.

Young, gifted, Black and abused In the course of one week we witnessed the burden of being young, gifted and Black.

First, the Little League baseball Phenom Mo’ne Davis was insulted by a White college baseball player who called the abundantly talented young girl a ‘slut’ in a Tweet in response to news that Disney was planning to make a movie about her incredible rise to fame. The player, Joey Casselberry, quickly retracted the tweet in the face of a wave of criticism in cyberspace but was promptly dismissed by the Bloomsburg University team.

Then there were the toxic tweets from Jenna and Jacque Huggins, the daughters of West Virginia head basketball coach Bob Huggins, calling Maryland basketball player Dez Wells a rapist. The West Virginia team defeated Maryland in an early round of the NCAA championship tournament. The Terrapins star guard had been kicked off the Xavier University team in 2012 after being accused of sexual assault.

A grand jury decided charges against Wells were not warranted and he later settled a lawsuit he

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brought against Xavier.

Separate and unequal

Lurking just beyond the obvious tie is the quality of their Blackness – they are all gifted and confident in their identities. It seems in 21st century America to be young, gifted and Black is now a crime; an offense against society’s typecasting of Black youth as violent, unintelligent and worthless.

Collectively, these incidents bring into sharper focus the racist rants of former University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity members in that now infamous videotape. This is the world in which young Black Americans live. It is a sobering reality that a generation that many hoped would truly be post-racial (as if that will ever be the case) is more deeply entrenched in racism than the prior generation. And institutional racism has a vice grip upon young Blacks that is more consequential than white mobs of decades past.

It’s enough to make me take a trip to the nearest Starbucks. I’ll take a latte with some truth talk.

Not far from the Morgantown campus of the University of West Virginia and College Park home of the University of Maryland, a young, Black University of Virginia undergraduate student was accosted by police. Martese Johnson had his face bashed into the pavement and bloodied by Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) agents outside a pub near the UVA campus. The episode was captured on videotape. Johnson had proper ID and was not resisting arrest when the ABC agents pummeled him, causing injuries that required 10 stitches in his head.

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The push to eliminate predatory lending In the aftermath of a letter signed by 500 consumer advocates from all 50 states, an unprecedented push for reining in abusive small-dollar, high-cost loans has engaged the White House and Capitol Hill. When an increasing number of Americans are striving to keep their financial houses in order, eliminating predatory lending is making news.

Harms consumers One major development was the announcement of a longawaited draft proposal from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). At a public field hearing in Richmond, VA .on March 26, Richard Cordray, CFPB director, explained the significance of proposed regulation.

“Extending credit to people in a way that sets them up to fail and ensnares considerable numbers of them in extended debt traps, is simply not responsible lending,” said Cordray. “It harms rather than helps consumers. It has deserved our close attention, and now it leads to a call for action.”

CFPB’s detailed fact sheet identifies all covered loans.

The Bureau’s proposal endorses a strong ability to repay principle. When lenders assess ability to repay, they would be expected to determine the borrower can repay without defaulting or reborrowing. Lenders would begin verifying consumer income and major financial obligations as part of determining the ability to cover their basic living expenses and the loan. There would also be heightened protections for any loan made within 60 days of a previous one.

A troubling aspect of the proposal, though, is that it would offer an alternative to determining a consumer’s ability to repay the loan. Lenders could ignore the underwriting requirements if they limit a borrower to no more than six short-term loans or a total of 90 days of indebtedness in a given year. Other alternatives to determining ability-to-repay would apply to longer-term loans.

‘Protection measures’ Consumer advocates maintain that payday lenders have proven to be adept at exploiting loopholes, and as a result, borrowers deserve both prevention and protection measures. Advocates are calling for loopholes to be closed before the rule is finalized.

For two panel members at the hearing, CFPB’s proposals were a cause for encouragement as well as concern.

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Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 human rights organizations, said the ability to obtain and preserve economic security is an essential civil and human right of all Americans. It has also been a nagging concern for its disproportionate impact on communities of color.

He said, “They have gone from experiencing redlining and other forms of overt lending discrimination to, in more recent years, predatory and deceptive mortgage and consumer lending often under the guise of ‘easy access to credit’ – with the most devastating consequences resulting from the abusive mortgage lending practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession.”

‘Cycles of debt’ Henderson added, “At the same time, we are concerned about the impact of any kind of safe harbor provision that could continue to expose some borrowers to prolonged and expensive cycles of debt. We are especially concerned about the impact any loopholes could have in states which already outlaw high-cost payday lending, because they could create an artificially high nationwide ‘floor’ that the industry could exploit to weaken existing state protections.”

Mike Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending, agreed with Henderson.

“This proposal’s ‘safe harbor’ provision is an invitation to evasion. If adopted in the final rule, it will undermine an ability to repay provision that gives consumers the best hope for the development of a market that offers access to fair and affordable credit,” said Calhoun.

With regulation and legislation now pending, consumers can still add their voices and influence to this continuing public debate.

Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org. Click on this article at www.daytonatimes. com.

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NNPA President Benjamin F. Chavis moderates a panel on the Black Press.

Challenging, hopeful future for Black Press D.C. panel discusses impact and obstacles of newspapers

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WASHINGTON – Jordan Shanks, a sophomore English major at Howard University admitted that before Black Press Week, he didn’t know much about the Black Press or the Richmond Free Press, the Black newspaper published in the Virginia city where he grew up.

“The State of the Black Press is impacted by the generation gap between the older folks and the younger folks,” said Shanks.

Members of the Black community, young and old, believe that bridging that gap will be critical to the future of the Black Press.

Despite myriad challenges facing the Black Press, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., president and CEO of the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200-Black owned newspapers, said the 188-year legacy of African-American newspapers remains strategically important, insightful, indigenous and impactful.

“The challenge for us today, however, is to have a greater sense of economic accountability and economic equity and parity with those companies that are the profit beneficiaries of the trillion dollar consumer spending of [Black] people in the United States and throughout the world,” said Chavis.

Bishop Hezekiah Walker accepts NNPA’s Torch Award for Religion at an event hosted by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Foundation. He is shown with publishers Jackie Hampton of the Mississippi Link and John B. Smith Sr. of the Atlanta Inquirer. nect all segments of the community in a way that has never been done before.”

New revenue streams

‘Soldiers without Swords’ “What is the state of the Black Press in America and in the world today? It is financial assessment time,” said Chavis.

“The Black Press needs to be financially more sustainable and profitable.”

Chavis and others also echoed Shanks’ concerns about a generational and cultural gap preventing youth from engaging with the Black Press.

E.R. Shipp, an associate professor and journalist-in-residence at Morgan State University in Baltimore, said that shortly after she began teaching a course on Black media at the school, she showed her students the documentary “The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords,” then she tasked them to start tracking Black newspapers online.

“Oh, my God, my students didn’t find too much to be impressed with,” said Shipp. “After seeing all of this glorious past, they saw a very disappointing present,” said Shipp. “Too many people involved in the Black Press today think that they are living that glorious past and they are not being real about what’s happening now.”

Demographics challenge Many students have never heard of the Black Press, said Shipp.

“The challenge is not just to celebrate what has gone before, to celebrate that legacy, but to actually do something to make sure

B. Doyle Mitchell, Jr. president and CEO of Industrial Bank, addresses the crowd at a Black Press dinner before accepting Torch Award for Business. that the Black Press is known by the younger generation, embraced by the next generation, and eventually taken over by the next generation,” said Shipp.

“But right now, I say the State of the Black Press is shaky as far as reaching beyond those who have grown up in the Black Press.”

Jake Oliver, former chairman of the NNPA and publisher of the Afro-American newspapers, said that there’s a demographics challenge that the Black Press needs to address.

“We seemed to get distracted by our quest to go after the dollars and we forget that we also

have to go after readers,” said Oliver. He said that the playing field for newspapers has never been more level and that taking advantage of social media will be the key to capturing market share in the new digital news delivery space.

Social media traffic Oliver added that his staff at the Afro has grappled with social media for eight years, but saw a breakthrough about two years ago when Facebook started to allow users to “like” articles from their cell phones.

The number of “likes” on the Afro’s Facebook page jumped from 15,000 to 100,000 in a month, said Oliver. Now, the Afro’s Facebook page is closing in on 430,000 “likes” Oliver said, adding that the Afro also has 11,000 Facebook followers in India.

“I’m excited about what we’re about to do,” said Oliver. “Within the next three to five years, if not sooner some startling innovations, not only technologically, but also as a result of some of the programs that the NNPA is about to promote and create will form a foundation so that we can recon-

Chavis recommended developing new revenue streams, including a leased photographic images service, similar to Getty Images, mounting regional polling services to take advantage of the upcoming 2016 election cycle, and launching a national public awareness campaign on criminal justice reform.

Shanks suggested that Black newspaper publishers show a greater willingness to engage in what’s going on with the younger generation through social media, especially through student government associations at Black colleges.

Shanks said that a negative experience with a reporter in the mainstream media influenced him to change his major from communications to English, but that he’s reconsidering a career in journalism after Black Press Week. “[Black Press Week] taught me that you can be authentic in journalism and still tell the story,” said Shanks. “It’s about finding the audience that audience that wants to hear it and the publication that wants to put it out.”

The 75th NNPA annual convention June 16-20 in Detroit also will feature “the first day totally dedicated to uplifting, mentoring, and encouraging our youth to prepare for leadership, entrepreneurship” in the Black Press, said Chavis.

He added, “We have come a mighty long way from Freedom’s Journal, [the nation’s first Black newspaper] to today. We have made progress. But we still have a long journey ahead.”

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B-CU wins season series in baseball over FIU Redshirt senior Jordan Robinson was 3-for-5 at the plate Tuesday night, helping to spark Bethune-Cookman’s baseball team to a 7-4 victory over Florida International University at the Miami school’s baseball stadium.

The win for the Wildcats helped them complete the season series sweep of the Panthers, having defeated FIU a week ago in Daytona Beach.

Three times Bethune-Cookman took the lead in the game.

Three times FIU answered. However, the fourth time would be an all-important two-run eighth inning that eventually propelled the Wildcats to victory.

The hot-hitting Jordan Robinson continued his hitting streak at a season-best nine games, collecting his third hit of the night with a run-scoring double to left that crossed Nathan Bond for the go-ahead score at 4-3. Robinson would advance to third on the play as the FIU defense tried to cut down Bond at the plate.

Pounce from Panthers B-CU (11-21) would add to the lead on the next play, using an Austin Garcia sac fly to score Robinson from third, giving the Wildcats a 5-3 advantage heading into the home-half of the inning.

FIU (13-16) answered once again, this time with J.C. Escarra solo home run.

That brought the Panthers to within 5-4 heading into the final frame.

However, the Bethune-Cookman offense was not finished.

With the bases loaded for Garcia in the top of the ninth, he placed a two-run single to right center, plating Jameel Edney and Bryant Munoz. That allowed BCU a comfortable 7-4 lead heading into the bottom-half.

Clint Clymer toed the mound for B-CU in the ninth, working a scoreless frame in striking out two of the four men he faced. He did allow a walk, but nothing else as he got Brian Portelli to pop up for the final out of the contest.

Win for Austin The win went to Michael Aus-

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The Wildcats’ baseball team claws its way to a win over Florida International in Miami. tin out of the bullpen, picking up his third consecutive victory in relief action and upping his record to 3-1 on the season. Additionally, Clymer earned his fourth save of the year.

B-CU starter Sidney Duprey went 4.1 innings, giving up two runs on two hits in his time on the bump.

The loss went to FIU reliever Williams Durruthy, lowering his record at 0-1 on the year. David Lee worked five innings for the Panthers as the starting pitcher, giving up two runs (one earned) and striking out seven batters before exiting without factoring into the decision.

The Wildcats got on the board first in the game, using the first of

a season-best five RBI from Garcia, as he grounded out to second, pushing across Robinson for the game’s opening score.

FIU countered in the bottom of the third when centerfielder Kolby Follis walked and stole second to start off the Panthers at-bat.

He worked his way to third on a groundout from Julius Gaines, only to be plated moments later on a Jack Schaaf sacrifice fly to center, knotting the game at 1-1.

Another score B-CU stepped back out in front in the top of the fourth.

Robinson worked his way on base after striking out, but reached safely courtesy a wild

with three hits and three runs, adding a RBI. Garcia ended his night 2-for-5 with a game-high five RBI. Cummings added a pair of hits and a run driven in. And it was Edney continuing his hitting streak at a team-best 11 games with a single and a run scored.

Bethune-Cookman was back in action Wednesday night when the Wildcats traveled to the University of Miami for a showdown with the No. 12 Hurricanes inside Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. The game was finished after the Daytona Times’ deadline.

pitch from Lee. Freshman third baseman Mijon Cummings would drive him in two plays later on a single through the left side, putting the Wildcats back up, 2-1.

After FIU answered in the fifth, the Wildcats marched back out at 3-2 in the top-half of the sixth when Garcia drove in Munoz on his second hit of the ballgame.

Five RBI for Garcia The homestanding Panthers tied the game again at 3-all in the seventh off the bat of Schaaf, as he drove a sac fly deep to left that allowed Follis to score the tying run.

Robinson led the B-CU offense

This story was courtesy of BCU Athletics.

Duke center Jahlil Okafor (15) blocks a second half shot by San Diego State forward Winston Shepard (13) on Sunday, March 22 at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein (15) dunks against Notre Dame in the NCAA Tournament’s Elite 8 on March 28 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

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It was March 10, five days before Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament, and someone had just uttered two magic words to Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports: Duke-Kentucky.

“From your mouth to God’s ears,” he said, visions of a championship game ratings bonanza dancing in his head.

Well, here we are, three weeks later and two games from the potential dream matchup, not only for TV executives but for casual fans and college basketball itself.

“If it did happen, I’m sure everybody would be all excited about it,” analyst Bill Raftery said Tuesday, adding he imagined seeing endless replays of the role

his colleague Grant Hill played in Duke’s regional final victory over Kentucky in 1992.

But Raftery also stressed that the national semifinals have much to recommend them first, featuring another No. 1 seed in Wisconsin against undefeated Kentucky and another Big Ten power in Michigan State against Duke.

All eyes on semifinal It’s all part of a show that so far has captured viewers’ attention, with ratings and viewership totals among the highest in the modern history of the event.

For example: Saturday night’s Notre Dame-Kentucky regional final averaged 8.4 percent of homes and 14.7 million viewers

— with a peak of 19.7 million — making it the mostviewed college basketball ever on cable TV and mostviewed show of any kind in the history of TBS. Both of those records figure to fall this Saturday when TBS carries the semifinals before handing off to CBS for the final Monday.

Next year, TBS will have the entire Final Four for the first time. CBS returns to carry it in 2017.

‘Team Cast’ returnes Turner also is reprising its “Team Cast” concept Saturday, now re-branded “Team Stream Presented

by Bleacher Report.”

Like last year, the idea is to give passionate fans the chance to watch a separate telecast geared toward their team, produced with

locally known announcers and without concern for a down-the-middle account like the one on TBS. TNT will carry the Duke and Kentucky “Team Streams” and truTV has Michigan State and Wisconsin.

The trick will be to avoid the confusion many viewers experienced last year, when they tuned to TNT and wondered why the telecast seemed so tilted to one team, not knowing that was the whole idea.

Craig Barry, Turner’s senior vice president of production, said there will be far more reminders this time of what viewers are watching and where they can turn for the version they are looking for.

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“Sixty-eight percent of AfricanAmericans live within 30 miles of these coal-fire power plants,” said Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.

She said that African-American children are two to three times as likely to miss school, be hospitalized, or die from asthma attacks than White children.

She said, “For us, it’s very much a civil rights issue if certain communities are being disproportionately impacted by the pollutants that come from these coal plants.”

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Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, speaks to the press outside the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court to decide pollution standards for Black communities

BY JAZELLE HUNT NNPA NEWS WIRE SERVICE

WASHINGTON – As fossil fuel companies and environmental groups fight over the future of American energy, people of color suffer the casualties.

The latest battle is occurring in the Supreme Court with National Mining Association v. Environmental Protection Agency and its accompanying cases, in which coal mining companies and coalfired power plants have sued the EPA over new regulations on the air pollution that overwhelmingly settles on communities of color.

The suit focuses on the Mer-

cury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) the EPA issued to coaland oil-fueled power plants in 2011. It’s the first-ever federal rule to limit toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants, which would be required to reduce emissions by upgrading their facilities to more public health-friendly systems.

Cancer, asthma and more Very few power plants run on oil, but the United States relies on coal for nearly half of its electricity.

Leading coal mining corporations assert that the EPA should

not be allowed to issue such regulations without first considering the upgrade and compliance costs they impose. In other words, the plaintiffs want to continue manufacturing without the available community health safeguards, arguing that these regulations present an unfair financial burden and infringe on their ability to make profits.

Coal-powered facilities spew literal tons of pollutants into the air each day. This cocktail of toxins causes cancer, chronic heart conditions, ADD/ADHD, and respiratory diseases ranging from asthma to lung cancer in the surrounding communities. Mercury, in particular, is a neurotoxin—

The NAACP is one of several groups backing the EPA in the suit. The NAACP’s accompanying report titled, “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People,” grades and ranks nearly 400 coal plants around the nation. It also documents the 75 worst-offending facilities, the worst-offending companies, the toll on local communities, and the national and global implications if the emissions from these plants are not improved.

“A total of four million people live within three miles of these 75 failing plants…out of these four million people, nearly 53 percent are people of color,” the report reads. “Living in such close proximity to coal plants has serious consequences for those communities. Coal plants are singlehandedly responsible for a large proportion of toxic emissions that directly poison local communities in the United States.”

Top offenders According to the report, the top five plants with the worst environmental justice performance were: Crawford Gen. Station and Fisk Gen. Station in Chicago; Hudson Gen. Station in Jersey City, N.J.; Valley Power Plant in Milwaukee, Wis.; and State Line Plant in Hammond, Ind. Most of the top offenders are in the Midwest, which houses 32 percent of all of the nation’s coalpowered energy plants. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, and

Colorado are home to the most failing plants.

In addition to severe health problems, the Black communities will bear the worst of the effects of climate change that result from unchecked air pollution.

“Indeed, Hurricane Katrina and the tornadoes in Pratt City, Ala. have already vividly demonstrated that the shifts in weather patterns caused by climate change disproportionately affect African-Americans and other communities of color in the United States—which is a particularly bitter irony, given that the average African-American household emits 20 percent less [carbon dioxide] per year than the average White American household,” the report states.

“The six states with the largest proportion of African-Americans are all in the Atlantic hurricane zone, and all are expected to experience more severe storms as a consequence of global warming.”

Decision by summer EarthJustice, a nonprofit environmental justice organization, estimates that the MATS regulation would reduce mercury emissions by 75 percent, preventing up to 11,000 premature deaths, nearly 5,000 heart attacks, 130,000 asthma attacks, and more than 540,000 missed work days each year. Some power plants have already adopted the latest methods for reducing impact on human health; the MATS regulation would require all power plants to match the bestpracticing plants’ emission levels by a certain date.

The Supreme Court heard arguments for the case last week in a 90-minute hearing. A decision is expected by summer.

“Fifty percent of all coal-fired power plants are 40 years old or older. The coal industry is trying to protect its old clunkers,” said Lisa Garcia, vice president of Litigation for Healthy Communities for EarthJustice, and chief advisor to the EPA on the creation of the mercury standards.

“Interestingly, no one is saying, ‘don’t build it.’ Everyone is basically saying, ‘we can do this better.’ So you can operate and make your profits, but we can also do it in a healthier way that protects communities.”