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BENJAMIN CHAVIS: Maya Angelou was freedom fighter with a pen See page 4
Overdue honor for racing pioneer Wendell Scott SEE PAGE 7
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City keeps Chisholm despite average grade Daytona city manager gets high enough grade to keep job for at least another year BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com
Despite receiving a less-thanglowing annual review, Daytona Beach city commissioners and mayor have decided to hold on to City Manager Jim Chisholm. His 3.16 C-average on a scale
of 1-5 was enough to keep his position after facing critical evaluations several years ago when some commissioners graded Chisholm at the level of a 2 Jim or a D. The scale Chisholm ranks any score below a 3 as “does not meet expectations,’’ 3 “meets expectations’’ and 5 as “overwhelmingly exceeding expectations.’’ The average across the board
was above the “meets expectations’’ baseline. He was graded in 11 categories.
His duties The city commission hired Chisholm as city manager in August 2004. As city manager, he is responsible for implementing the policy of the commission, preparing the city’s annual budget and ensuring the city operates in a fiscally responsible manner. As Daytona’s chief executive officer, he also is responsible for the day-to-day management of
all operations of city government.
His rankings Chisholm, who did not offer any reactions at the May 21 meeting, marked high in responsiveness and communication and low in court activities and public meetings. Most of the commissioners and Mayor Derrick Henry asked if the city manager would assert himself more. “If there is a legal issue that comes up that you think we need to be informed about, rather than we ask you, we would more of-
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ten than not have you interject and tell us what your opinion is,” Commissioner Rob Gilliland reported at the meeting. Chisholm was lauded for his communication skills and ability to break down complex legal issues in a manner that a novice would understand. Additionally, the commission noted decisionmaking and budgeting among top scores. Chisholm was asked to improve in multiple areas, including planning and organization, Please see CHISHOLM, Page 2
Swim classes encouraged for kids and adults BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com
Reports of accidental drowning deaths already have begun with the start of the summer season, including at least four victims under age 4 in Central Florida. And last week, Randall Clay Hood, the 26-year-old son of State Rep. Dave Hood, former mayor of Ormond Beach, died in a drowning accident. In an effort to prevent accidents and deaths this summer at area beaches and pools, the City of Daytona Beach is offering swimming courses at the Cypress Aquatic Center on George Engram Boulevard.
Generational effect
Dr. Otto Gomez (right) gives pointers on the music industry to Troy Valance (holding saxophone) during a recent tour held at the Midtown Recording Studio. BY ASHLEY D. THOMAS DAYTONA TIMES aysheldarcel@gmail.com
Classes for all ages “The key to swimming is being flat,” said Joanna McKasy, head lifeguard at the center. “We offer classes starting for children as young as six months or as old as 99-plus. There is a class for everyone and any ability.” Registrations are being accepted for the swimming lessons throughout the summer. Using the American Red Cross curriculum, classes are based on age and ability. “We also have aqua-aerobics classes on Tuesday and Thursdays for $2 a class,” McKasy added.
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hree musical legends and a few up-andcoming artists met at the Midtown Cultural and Educational Center on May 30 to tour Daytona Beach’s state-of-the-art music recording studio. Cuba Gooding Sr. of the Main Ingredient, Dr. Otto Gomez and Lawrence Waldon joined young jazz artist Troy Valance and young percussionist Gregory Banks, giving them an impromptu lesson on music while other guests looked on. “Some of the celebrities performed with the young people, just to bring attention to the studio,” said Percy Williamson of Daytona Beach Leisure Services. “They had the opportunity to perform with a professional and were very ecstatic about it.” Remarked Gooding during the event,“ This is a wonderful studio that the City of Daytona Beach has.’’
Professional quality The Midtown Recording Studio is housed in the center, located at 925 George W
“As the leading cause of death for children 1 to 4 years old, drowning prevention, education and awareness are critically important,” says Stefany Strong, Florida Department of Health in Volusia County spokesperson. Many times there is a generational effect. A person’s mother doesn’t know how to swim, and that person’s mother didn’t know how to swim. A mom or dad can’t swim and their children don’t learn either. “We’ve seen that more people are saying ‘Even if I don’t know how to swim, I’m going to make sure my child does.’”
YMCA programs
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The sound board pictured above is one of many premium pieces of equipment at the studio totaling over $55,000. Engram Blvd. The studio has been in operation since last fall but Williamson says only a soft opening was held at the time. “It’s been open for a little while. We are really out there letting people know we are out there now.” The studio houses $55,000 worth of premium equipment donated to the city by
business partner Pepsico and can host a solo artist up to an entire choir. “It’s a professional music studio and we have a professional engineer running it,” Williamson said. “People can make an appointment to come in. We’ve had church groups, solo artists, groups in the entertainment business.
They practice, cut a CD or have music mixed.” Shamisai Chipudhla, a native of Africa, is the recording studio manager. His background includes work an as an engineer, producer, manager and keyboardist. Please see STUDIO, Page 2
In addition to swimming lessons held at the aquatic center, several YMCA locations are reaching into the community this year to partner with local elementary schools. The Port Orange Family YMCA worked with Turie T. Small Elementary School in South Daytona to teach water safety education the week of May 12. “Even though it would be a free program, we decided to take the program to them,” Jinni Aiers, senior program director at the Port Orange YMCA told the Daytona Times. Swim programs are often held on site at the YMCA but those who may desire to come are not always able due to lack of transportation, schedPlease see SWIMMING, Page 2
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Program will feed hungry kids during summer vacation said the state and local partners – school districts, non-profits and religious and community groups – are trying to expand the number of locations where kids can get nutritious meals and enrichment activities. The program has 3,400 locations statewide – typically recreation centers and affordable housing sites – “so that it’s right there where the kids are,” Gillespie said. “A lot of these families don’t have transportation, and they’re not going to drive across town to get a free lunch for the kids.”
BY MARGIE MENZEL NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE – As the school year ends, classrooms and playgrounds will empty for the summer – but that will leave many Florida children hungry because they rely on free and reducedcost school meals for breakfast and lunch. Food banks, non-profits and community groups are trying to pick up the slack, using federal funding to help deliver up to two meals per day to kids who otherwise might go without. “The need goes up dramatically in the summer,” said Rebecca Brislain, executive director of the Florida Association of Food Banks. “We know that the need is there, and we hear that from our partner agencies, that they are running out of food because school is out,” said Rachel Mohler, nutrition director at Second Harvest of the Big Bend food bank in Tallahassee.
Summer BreakSpot The state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the non-profit Florida Impact are working together on
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Children in a 2010 summer program in Washington, D.C., eat their breakfast. Funding for the 2-year-old Summer BreakSpot program in the state comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Summer BreakSpot, a program that provides healthy food to kids at local sites and reconstructed school buses. Funding for the 2-year-old Summer BreakSpot program comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, funneled through
the state agency. Last year, the program served 12 million meals to 300,000 Florida children, and the USDA reimbursed the state $29.5 million for them. Erin Gillespie, a spokeswoman for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
The program also targets rural communities, where food worries for children can be common. According to last year’s Feeding America “Map the Meal Gap” study, 21.6 percent of U.S. children are “food-insecure,” meaning their households are usually worried that the food will run out before they have money to buy more. In Florida, 25.5 percent of children are food-insecure, about I in 4. And of the state’s nearly 2.7 million public-school students,
just under 1.6 million are eligible for free and reduced-cost meals, according to the Florida Hunger Data Center, Brislain of the Florida Association of Food Banks said the economic recovery is arriving more slowly in high-poverty areas. “The folks that our food banks see are the first affected by a tough economy and the last to recover,” she said.
Increase expected Summer BreakSpot grew by 12 percent last year and is expected to increase again this year. That’s consistent with data showing participation in summer food programs increasing across the U.S. According to a report out Monday from the Food Research and Action Center in Washington, D.C., nearly 3 million American children participated in summer nutrition programs in July 2013 – an increase of 161,000 children, or 5.7 percent, from the year before. “Florida exceeded all categories, relative to the national average, in growth,” Debra Susie, chief executive officer of Florida Impact, said of the national report.
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uling conflicts and other issues. “I feel it was very successful. The classes were one week long, held 40 minutes a day. I covered things like reaching assist, rescue breathing, pool rules and different ways to stay safe at the beach or at the park,” Aiers noted. Aiers also told the elementary students to always have a buddy with them when swimming and how to call 9-1-1.
Scholarships available Some students received scholarships to take swimming lessons at the YMCA, which are still available. In addition to these outreach programs, each YMCA family center location will offer Splash Week, a program developed by YMCA-USA that focuses on teaching water safety and swimming lessons free to the community. The YMCA also will participate in the Safe Kids Water Safety Program provided by Healthy Communities again this year, offering 550 swimming scholarships to low-income families across Volusia County. Swimming classes at the Cypress Aquatic Center is $35 for five classes. The registration form is online at CypressAquaticCenter.com.
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Children cool off at the Cypress Aquatic Center. Swimming lessons for those six months to adult are held summer long.
Health Department announces new provider for Child Protection Team SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Florida Department of Health announced a new service provider for the Child Protection Team (CPT) program for Flagler and Volusia counties. Effective July 1, the First Coast Child Protection Team will assume responsibility for providing services for Flagler and Volusia counties. “The Florida Department of Health is committed to providing access to quality services in a timely manner for the residents of Volusia and Flagler counties,” said Dr. Celeste Philip, Deputy Secretary for Health and Deputy State Health Officer for Children’s Medical Services. “It is important for community members to know these services will continue to be available locally and there will be no gap in services to their families.”
Jacksonville-based team The Florida Department of Health has finalized a contract with the University of Florida Jacksonville for the services of the First Coast Child Protection Team. The Jacksonville-based team was the first pilot site established in 1978 and currently covers Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, St. Johns and Putnam counties. Representatives from the First Coast Child Protection Team and the Department of Health have met with community stakeholders of the child protection team to discuss how the provision of services can be strengthened. The Department of Health also is working to establish new provider agencies for the other child services currently provided by The Children’s Advocacy Center of Volusia and Flagler counties to insure that important child and family services continue to be available locally without disruption. Once contracts are finalized, the department will meet with the new agencies as well as pertinent community partners to ensure a thorough transition.
Applications available for new teen work program The City of Daytona Beach is introducing a new teen employment program called Youth Employment Summer (YES). YES is designed to provide 30 high school students with full-time jobs in the city’s summer recreation
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dealing better with city personnel and to respond more timely to the commission and share information with the commission during early stages of negotiation for more inclusiveness. He also was asked to litigate more versus making settlements when the city is faced with court proceedings. “Overall, our city manager met expectations,” Commissioner Paula
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Retired teachers needed Music lessons are available as well. The studio is owned by the city
programs. The eight-week program is aimed at teaching at-risk teens positive work habits and marketable skills. Eligible students will gain meaningful employment experience and also receive mentoring and lessons in financial literacy. The program’s eligibility requirements for students are: • Must be a high school student enrolled in school or graduating seniors • 15 to 18 years of age • Daytona Beach residents
• Have reliable transportation • Meet family income criteria • Pass a drug and background screening • Have a 2.0 or better GPA Jon Hall Chevrolet and Brown & Brown Insurance are sponsoring the cost of salaries for the teens. Interested students should contact the City of Daytona Beach’s Human Resources department at 386-6718200. Applications and supporting documents must be received by June 6.
Reed said. Reed was selected to organize and analyze the commissioners’ individual written evaluations and gave a bulk of the report at the meeting.
The power of the Daytona Beach city manager has been the topic of much discussion in recent years and is at the forefront of considerations by the Daytona Beach Charter Review Commission (CRC). “The current structure gives, in my opinion, all the power to a person who’s not an elected official,”
Dr. Willie Kimmons, vice chair of the CRC said to the board on Feb. 4 during a meeting at City Hall. “The people that elect people, I think that is where the power should be.” “If you look at the current day-today structure that we have in place, the city manager runs the day-today operation of the city, who is not an elected official, who is supposed to report through the city commission and the mayor and that can be a tremendous, tremendous morale problem when you look at the lines of demarcation and span of control, it makes it very difficult,’’ Kimmons added.
and operated through the Leisure Services Department. The studio is in partnership with Dskcova Music, which is Chipudhala’s music company. “We do have a fee schedule just depending on what you want to have done. If you want to record or if you want to have some background done, if you just want to record we have
an hourly rate,” Williamson added. That rate starts at $45 an hour. There is a full list of services at the studio. Retired music teachers are being sought to volunteer their time to help teach young people music over the summer. For more information or to reserve recording time, call 386-671-5542.
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Gooding’s ready to share ‘Sweet Soul of the 70s’ Lead vocal Cuba Gooding of The Main Ingredient scaled new heights recapturing “The Sweet Soul of the 70s,” and drawing excitement to the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center. Gooding, the proud father of Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., is a Harlem native reigning With The Main Ingredient since 1971, and gaining fame for the million-selling smash “Everybody Plays the Fool.” Gooding reverberated having the doors open for a benefit concert and spoke nearby at home on the edge of Flagler Beach connecting to Ormond Beach. The show covers the musical of Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, The Emotions, Peaches & Herb, and Cuba Gooding & The Main Ingredient. They are the original artists, bringing a blend of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now,” the artistic flavor of the Blue Notes, and “Best of My Love,” the lyrical frontrunner of The Emotions.
Plenty of great hits There’s follow-up with “Reunited,” the stylistic hit by Peaches & Herb, and, of course, “Everybody Plays the Fool,” a gold record winner for Cuba Gooding & The Main Ingredient. More hits will keep the fervor alive. “We are talking about selling 2,500 tickets to people in Florida who only get this kind of music in counterfeit” - and the open mic, karaoke, the blogs, like they do in Jacksonville, said Gooding. Seeing performers appearing live in yesteryears gave them a face that led to what some might call legends and icons. JoJo of Star 94.5 FM radio will emcee, joined by Gooding’s daughter, comedienne April Gooding, and Gooding’s son, actor Omar Gooding, NAACP Image Award nominee. The importance of the music is not being advertised and that’s the lyrics with “the absence of profanity, violence, and drugs,” attests Cuba Gooding. “I know that four generations of young people have embraced that particular song (‘Everybody Plays the Fool’), and we want to
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make it a better place when we leave,” said Gooding.
A family production A cousin and friend of Gooding’s wife, Kimberly, are Gooding’s partners, and have taken on the title “A Good Shakes Production.” The legendary singer wanted to do it alone - “The Sweet Soul of the 70s” - but met with the wrong radio stations and theaters that wanted to exclusively do their own ticketing and mailing lists. In addition, the musical equation involves Dr. Evelyn Bethune, granddaughter of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, elder stateswoman/founder of BethuneCookman College (University). Gooding found Dr. Bethune to be on point when meeting at a comedy show, the result of a comedienne shouting out their names. Bethune, a political scientist/ community activist, is a partner with Carlos Felder, who brings fresh ideas “to building coalitions between groups that struggle alone but prosper together.” Gooding and Bethune have started a movement to develop youth and are doing the humane thing of helping young people to survive and to get an education. Bethune was happy to do the partnership with Gooding Productions because of the quality of the lyrics - and to provide for education in an atmosphere that’s entertaining, and yet has quality. There’s no better music than in the 70s, said Bethune. “Our scholarship provides for our students to stay in school. The kids come from various backgrounds, and many of them are here with no support whatsoever,” she said. “They are living on the streets. That’s why the scholarship is titled, ‘Keep a Kid from Sleeping Under the Bridge.’ We are hoping to help Dr. Jack-
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Cuba Gooding, right, displays his gold record while drawing excitement to a performance involving Dr. Evelyn Bethune, center, and Carlos Felder. son move his project forward as he addresses the issue of homeless college students.”
Funds to help students Dr. Edison Jackson is the president of Bethune-Cookman University and it was learned that the problem is not an ethnic one, but rather one occurring in other colleges and universities as well. The performers will lay down the distinctive sounds and “raise money to allow the endowment to award scholarships in the fall of 2014 and to be awarded to students who need assistance with housing, food, clothing and books.”
The cost of a ticket is tax deductible since the money will go to support a non-profit organization. The show is one of the greatest things to happen in Daytona Beach and the artists are “gung-ho” to perform at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center. Visual acuity from every seat is good and the arrangement superfluous to large Broadway musicals, full-scale operas, symphonies, and local talent. Gooding and his showstoppers are looking for a huge success since the benefit concert is a first in a series to raise scholarship funds. Gooding requests that you
bring others on July 19. The doors will open 6:30 p.m., and the show to start 7:30 p.m., at the Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center, 608 West International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach. To procure the ticket information, visit www.cuba-gooding. com. ••• As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.
Celebrations Birthday wishes to: Arlene Banks, June 6, and the Rev. Lannie Thomas, June 10.
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Maya Angelou: A freedom fighter with a pen Millions of people throughout the world continue to pause, to remember, to celebrate and to recommit to the living spirit and legacy of Maya Angelou. She was one of the most transformative global leaders and visionaries of our time. Maya Angelou was a penetrating literary revolutionary and freedom-fighting poet that used her pen to advance the worldwide struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Angela Davis introduced me to Maya Angelou in 1972 in New York City. For the past 42 years, I have witnessed how Sister Maya effectively used her gifts and talents to lift the aspirations and voice of people in Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, and across America. During the 1960s, she was a member and strong supporter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inspirational humanitarian Angelou was a fearless woman who stood up to challenge and opposed racism, economic injustice, poverty, and all violations of human rights, not only on behalf of Black Americans, but also on behalf of all of humanity. Today, an entire emerging global generation of poets and writers were inspired by the example set by Maya Angleou’s pen and international activism. Maya Angelou was also a strong voice and contributing writer for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). I remember that Carlton Benjamin
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Goodlett, the publisher of the Sun Reporter in San Francisco and leader of the NNPA along with Tom Jervay, Sr of the Wilmington Journal and Louis Austin of the Carolina Times all defended Maya Angelou’s open support of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC). The truth is some Black Americans in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were too afraid of showing public support for the ANC because of the ANC’s strong support from the Soviet Union against apartheid in South Africa. Lest we are too quick to forget that in fact President Ronald Reagan and many in the Republican Party supported “constructive engagement” with the apartheid racially oppressive regime in South Africa. Yet, Maya Angelou never compromised her integrity or commitment to freedom and equality for fear of losing financial gain or popularity.
Conscious advocate When many people avoided saying something positive or supportive about Cuban President Fidel Castro and his “Communist” military support of African liberation movements in Africa, once again Maya Angelou did not flinch nor mince words. She forthrightly stated, “Of course, Castro never had called himself White,
so he was O.K. from the git. Anyhow, America hated Russians, as Black people said, ‘Wasn’t no Communist country that put my grandpappa in slavery. Wasn’t no Communist lynched my papa or raped my mamma.” Angelou was a conscious advocate, like W.E.B. DuBois, of Pan Africanism and anti-imperialism. When news spread about the passing of Maya Angelou at the age of 86 in North Carolina, heartfelt condolences were expressed my people everywhere. One of the leading newspapers in the Caribberan, The Gleaner, headlined “Jamaica Feels the Sting of Maya Angelou’s Passing.” Sheriata Grizzle wrote in the Gleaner: “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again, and bring the dawn. Those were the words of Maya Angelou as she responded to the news that her dear friend and South African president Nelson Mandela, passed last year. The potent words have now resurfaced as news of Angelou’s passing spread throughout the world. Her global influence is undeniable… there has been an outpouring of tributes for a poet who wrote her way into the hearts of many.” We all must now take up the pen of Maya Angelou and continue her spirit for the cause of liberation, equality and empowerment for all people everywhere. May God grant her eternal freedom, rest and peace.
Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is President of Education Online Services Corporation and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes.com.
The delusion of U.S. economic progress Imagine the U.S. dollar being worthless. Picture millionaires and billionaires becoming “thousand-aires” overnight. Think about the possibility of 200 million U.S. citizens being unable to eat unless the government provides food for them. Fathom a day when you check out your 401-k or your bank account and find nothing there. What would happen to Social Security and Medicare if the dollar was devalued to the point of being virtually worthless? The short answer to these scenarios: We would be in a world of hurt and misery. As the recent National Urban League report stated, despite our current fiscal situation, Blacks are “optimistic” about our economic future. So it naturally follows that we seldom, if ever, give a thought to the possibility of an economic collapse in this country. After all, we are the world’s “top economy” the “biggest, strongest, and the ‘baddest’ nation on earth.” Our dollar is the reserve standard for the world; oil is traded in what we call “petrodollars,” which assures that our economy will always rule because everybody needs energy, right? We are the “breadbasket” of the world, and everybody needs to eat, right? We are indeed “all that” aren’t we?
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all of the award shows on BET, the housewives and divas of – you fill in the blank – or the many other mindless, provoking distractions being tossed at us 24/7, you have no idea about the true state of our union. You are hung-up on what Donald Sterling said, what Stephen A. Smith and Michael Eric Dyson said, what that police commissioner in New Hampshire said, and what Mark Cuban said. You are ensconced in what Michelle Obama is wearing, what brand of vodka P. Diddy drinks, Solange’s elevator beat-down, and buying a $200 ticket for the Beyonce/Jay-Z concert. We are not teaching our children and grandchildren about economics, wealth building, finance, entrepreneurship, inflation, hyperinflation, deflation, quantitative easing, cashless society, bartering, self-reliance, gold, silver, bitcoin, fiat, and the role of money in general. In many cases we adults have very little knowledge of these things. We are too busy working 70 hours a week to earn dollars that State of our union could be worthless in the next deIn case you have been spend- cade or two. We are not making ing most of your time watching efforts to prepare for the worst;
we are not “hedging” our bets against economic collapse, and we are definitely not working to become more independent, which includes, at a minimum, being able to grow food and feed our children.
Stake your claim In general, we have very little understanding of what our government is doing and the plans it has for us just in case things get really bad financially. Yes, we talk about conspiracy theories all the time, and we think we know about the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Affairs, the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, the Boule, and all the other so-called secret societies that run the world. While they may make for great conversation, we cannot affect them one iota. They are doing their thing, and all we do is talk about them. Do you really think they care? When it’s all said and done, if a collapse does come, they will be the ones we will have to depend upon because they have the vast majority of the wealth.
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. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes.com.
Remembering Maya Angelou Many people will remember Maya Angelou for her phenomenal career. She was a true renaissance woman – an author, teacher, dancer, performer, radio personality and a producer. I will remember her a sister friend, a wise “auntie” who didn’t mind pulling your coat. She was a generous spirit who made time for virtually any who asked, a gentle and kind spirit. If you dropped by when a meal was being served, she asked you to sit down and enjoy the assembled company. If you came and it was not the meal hour, she never hesitated to offer a cup of tea and a snack. She knew before you did that you needed a hug an encouraging word. I’ve seen her take the hat off her head and give it to someone who admired it. She shared her work. It was not unusual to sit at her working table and listen to a poem or some wisdom she was sharing. Sitting at her table one day, I decided to put some of her words in my cell
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phone, thinking that I’d like to review them one day. She very gently took the phone from me and told me, “Just listen. You don’t have to write everything down. I am giving you my undivided attention and I want the same from you.” Properly chastened, I left the phone on the table for the rest of the visit.
Courage to love Sister Maya loved people, genuinely and unconditionally. When asked about the greatest virtue, she said that it was courage, the courage to love. She loved everyone, the pauper and the princess. She would often list the way she loved, mentioning the Black and White, the Asian and Latino,
a one-eyed man and the woman who is missing a leg. And if you had the privilege of attending her Thanksgiving dinner, you saw exactly that – a rainbow of the people she loved. Each year that I served as president of Bennett College in North Carolina, she visited the campus and gave a lecture to students. Once, I asked her to spend time with the honor students and she told me, sharply. “I would rather spend time with the students at the bottom. They are the ones who need encouragement. That was Maya. At the end of her life, Auntie Maya (which she asked me to call her) was frail. “Getting old ain’t for sissies,” she said. As Blame Bayne wrote on my Facebook page, “No longer caged, she forever sings.” Ache Auntie Maya, Ache.
Julianne Malveaux is a Washington, D.C.-based economist and writer. Write your own response at www.daytonatimes. com.
VISUAL VIEWPOINT: MAYA ANGELOU
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We need to be our brother’s and sister’s keeper I’ve been told I should be the first among many to celebrate President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. After all, I came from a “broken family.” In fact, I am a Black man who was functionally fatherless twice over, and earlier in my life I wrapped my vision of racial uplift around the ways that men like my fathers were damaged by a system that both feared and fetishized them. My brother and I were abandoned in a welfare shelter by our mother, Gertrude, who had lost her own mother when she was a young girl. As a consequence of suffering that I can only imagine, she was institutionalized at a mental facility when she was just 13. At 16, she left the state, beginning a life long struggle with heroin and alcohol addiction. Ultimately, she bore at least seven children, and either formally or informally traded her beauty for the money and temporary security she could garner from the men willing to pay.
Tough childhood My brother and I were rescued by Eva, our great aunt, who raised us on welfare in Camden, N.J. while working side jobs as a domestic to keep food on the table. Charlie, her husband, lost his handle on life. After attempting to murder my brother and me and then commit suicide, he too was committed to an asylum. And, the clearest memory that I have of Luke – the man I knew as my “biological” father – was the summer day he took me at the age of 5 and my 4-yearold brother Larry to a bar, and forced us to drink straight Scotch for his amusement. It’s reasonable to assume that I would understand and actually encourage MBK’s male focus. But my vision of racial justice changed the day I realized that notwithstanding my politics of racial solidarity, I failed to include, much less center, the very women who bore and nurtured me, the women who struggled against, and sometimes failed
LUKE CHARLES HARRIS SPECIAL TO THE NNPA
in the face of stifling conditions that threatened their very existence.
Don’t forget the women I am not saying that young Black boys and men deserve anything less than we are now getting. And, most certainly, my own biological dad and step-father might well have been better situated to raise me had they had opportunities that allowed them to pursue richer lives. Certainly, it is worthwhile to be gender-specific in thinking about what kinds of interventions might have made their lives more productive in their own right, not to mention how they might have enhanced their ability to be good fathers to me and to Larry. And although these efforts are largely situated in the long debate about anti-Black racism, it does make sense to broaden the frame to look at other communities of color as well. But, how can any of us in good faith think that beginning and ending the quest for racial justice by bettering the lives of males even remotely justifies the deafening silence that obscures the lives of women like my two mothers – lives that were traumatized and devastated because they were poor, Black and female? These were the women who tried to care for me despite the barriers they faced – one sacrificed what little she had to provide a home for me, while the other lost a battle with the demons that ushered her to an early grave.
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Dr. Vyjeyanthi “V.J.” Periyakoil, is the lead author of a new study on end-of-life care.
Study: Doctors choose different plan for dying patients than for themselves BY PAUL KLEYMAN NEW AMERICA MEDIA
Doctors, patients want same care
SAN FRANCISCO — A new study questions whether doctors providing end-of-life care are “prolonging life, or are we prolonging the dying process,” said lead researcher Dr. Vyjeyanthi “V.J.” Periyakoil, who directs Stanford Medical School’s Palliative Care Education and Training program. The study, titled “Do Unto Others,” reveals that even though an overwhelming majority of physicians Stanford surveyed (88.3 percent) would reject unnecessarily invasive treatment for themselves and opt instead for comfort care, patients in the United States continue to spend their last days receiving high-intensity care that is often ineffective and sometimes ordered contrary to patients’ wishes. The nearly 1,100 doctors who participated — over half of them women physicians and nearly half of them from immigrant and minority communities — were also highly supportive of patients filling out advance directives that state whether they’d prefer intensive treatment or palliative comfort care, if they become incapacitated at life’s end.
The Stanford study, published last week in the respected journal PLOS One, cites research showing that most Americans want the same care doctors do for themselves: “More than 80 percent of patients say that they wish to avoid hospitalizations and high-intensity care at the end-of-life, but their wishes are often overridden.” Despite that knowledge, says the Stanford report, high-tech treatments have increased dramatically in recent years. Medical data show a 12 percent jump just from 2003 to 2007, in the number of Medicare patients who saw 10 or more doctors in their last six months of life—mainly medical specialists—and spent more days in intensive care units. Not only is most hightech care unwanted, says the Stanford study; it’s enormously costly. Medicare spends a quarter of its budget on services in the last year of life. And 40 percent of that expense is on patients within the last 30 days of life. In fact, said Periyakoil, those receiving high-intensity care in the last six months of life do not survive longer on average than people who get lower-in-
tensity care. Instead, her study reports, starting palliative care sooner after a diagnosis of serious or terminal illness helps patients get control of their pain and their families to reduce unpredictable emergencies.
More ethnic and women doctors Stanford’s study, the largest of its kind, included physicians at two California academic medical centers. Unlike a similar smaller 1989 study that surveyed mostly White physicians, it included enough women doctors and physicians from different backgrounds for the researchers to be able to compare results across racial and ethnic demographics. Periyakoil said in an interview, “Ethnic doctors are in a unique position to be able to advocate for excellent palliative care and early access to it for their patients. And also to be able to explain within their community that high-intensity treatments can become ineffective.” There were significant, but modest differences among those in the Stanford sample. AfricanAmerican and White physicians expressed equal strong support for their patients’ use of written advance directives stating
their treatment preferences. Somewhat less supportive of advance care planning documents were Asian medical practitioners, followed by Latino doctors’ stronger resistance to such documents. Periyakoil emphasized, though, that “almost everyone was positive towards advance directives.” Also, women tended to be more favorable toward use of advance directives than men. And doctors in more general or primary care areas, such as pediatrics or gynecology, were more positive toward the written plans than surgeons and other medical specialists.
‘Tipping point’ Although patients and family members may worry they won’t receive every treatment that might restore their health, Periyakoil, a geriatric doctor, said, “The truth is completely the opposite. Doctors tend to do too much.” A primary reason doctors forge ahead too far is that they are trained “to be optimistic” about finding a cure. Severe disease, she explained, often reaches “a tipping point where the treatment becomes more burdensome than the ill-
ness itself.” Medical education needs to train doctors to recognize such tipping points and coach patients and improve patients’ understanding “that we are not withholding helpful treatments – but harmful, burdensome treatments.” That physicians select do-not-prolong-life orders for themselves is unsurprising, says the Stanford study, because so may medical practitioners “recurrently witness the tremendous suffering their terminally ill patients experience as they undergo ineffective, highintensity treatments at the end of life.” Yet, says the study, a key factor causing many doctors to override their patients’ stated preference — a factor that can overtake a physician’s own ethnic or cultural values — is the culture of “biomedicine with its default set to maximal interventions for all patients, irrespective of the effectiveness of doing so.” Periyakoil noted, “The culture of medicine is so intense and powerful that it mutes the effect that your own ethnicity might have. The more you’re in training, the more acculturated you are to biomedicine, you may stop thinking [of other things], because the culture is so automated, you react to numbers.”
Another major factor perpetuating the disparity between what doctors wish for themselves and chose for their patients, says the study, is that the “current fiscal system rewards hospitals and doctors for medical procedures and providing high-intensity care to terminally ill persons.” “This is a big puzzle to me,” stated Periyakoil. “We don’t train doctors to talk to patients and we don’t reward them for doing so, meaning there’s no reimbursement. We train them to do treatments that are high intensity, and we reward doctors for doing procedures. But we say we want them to talk to patients?” She went on, “There are all kinds of studies showing that doctors don’t let patients talk, that they are not good listeners. We didn’t train them to do any of that.” One provision of the 2009 Affordable Care Act would have reimbursed physicians for discussing a patient’s end-of-life treatment preferences every five years, if the person chose to have that conversation. But that provision was excised from the bill when critics labeled it a pathway to “death panels.”
‘Do not abandon’ As a palliative care physician dedicated to easing pain in severely ill patients, Periyakoil asserted that while doctors are famously taught, “First, do no harm, to her “the most important thing is: First, do not abandon.” She explained that physicians need to stay with the process of healing, “even if it’s suboptimal, even if you don’t agree with your patient, or your patient doesn’t agree with you.” Periyakoil said, she always begins by discussing every possible treatment option a patient or family members could consider, but then separately states her opinion of the better choice. “So if the patient [or family] opts for high-intensity treatment anyway, I don’t try to impose my will on them,” she said. Instead she will tell them that she doesn’t think they’ve made the best choice, but make it clear that, “I’m still here and I will still support you.”
Fitness expert: Diet failure not your fault Atlanta author and entrepreneur shows how brain chemistry’s key to losing weight BY SHARNETTE MITCHELL ATLANTA VOICE
When weight loss and fitness expert Phoenix Gilman relocated from California to the metro Atlanta area a few years ago, she continued her steadfast mission to revolutionize the way the public thinks and about food and the way they consume it. And that is no easy mission when you consider we live in a world that thrives on “supersizing” menu items and getting two-forone bargains, it comes as no surprise that more than two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to the Food Research and Action Center. For those ready to take
back control of their body, Gilman has proven repeatedly that she gets results. If seeing is believing, believe that she has what it takes to get you on track to a healthier and more fit you. At 55, Phoenix has sculpted her 5’11” size four physique into a picturesque frame of health. She has also achieved remarkable results for men and women – of varying ages, body types, and nationalities – who are avid supporters of her methodology and techniques.
Neurochemistry and nutrition Gilman isn’t just a weight loss expert, but she’s an international author and researcher. About 15 years ago, her curiosity led her to research the kryptonitelike tendencies behind food cravings – why are they so impossible to ignore? Her research took her into neurochemistry and nutrition and her findings are
Phoenix Gilman’s private weight loss and personal training studio, Body by Phoenix, is nestled in a small strip mall in Marietta, Ga. documented in her two books which both sport the title “Diet Failure…the Naked Truth: The Brain Chemistry Key to Losing Weight,” with the differentiating titles appended at the end, “Achieving Extraordinary Health at Any Age” and “Keeping It Off.” Both books guide readers on how to implement and execute a solid health strategy. Her research, which is supported by clinical studies, has been recognized by the Centers for Disease
Control, Forbes.com, “Focus Atlanta,” Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Atkins, best-selling authors, and numerous other high profile experts. Her private weight loss and personal training studio, Body by Phoenix, is nestled in a small strip mall in Marietta, Ga. Gilman teaches the science of nutrition and training properly, getting the body to stop storing fat – in record time. In only 16 days, 21 year-old Chloe Couvrette
was able to lose nearly eight inches. “Not long ago, I was a skinny cheerleader,” Couvrette said. “Now I’m a single mother and terribly overweight. I met Phoenix and she changed my life in such a positive way. In six weeks, I lost 15 inches. For the first time, my cravings are controlled. My tummy’s quickly disappearing. I never feel deprived like with typical diets.” What is evident after just minutes of talking with Gil-
man is her sincere enthusiasm and dedication to each client’s success. She teaches clients how to control their appetite center by safely elevating and maintaining serotonin levels by using a dietary supplement versus pharmaceutical drugs. She emphatically believes that “diet failure is not your fault” but serotonin is the culprit.
This story is special to the NNPA News Service from The Atlanta Voice.
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Hall of Fame inductee. “He was good on dirt; he was even good on pavement. But Wendell didn’t have the money or the proper equipment to get to the front.”
Denied 1963 win
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Images of the 2015 class of NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees are displayed during a news conference at the Hall of Fame on May 21 in Charlotte, N.C. The class features, from left, Bill Elliott, Wendell Scott, Joe Weatherly, Rex White, and Fred Lorenzen.
Wendell Scott finally gets his due – induction into NASCAR Hall of Fame BY GEORGE DIAZ ORLANDO SENTINEL/MCT
Wendell Scott, the first Black NASCAR winner, was selected for induction into the 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Wendell Scott is in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Let that percolate for a while. A Black man once dismissed as an interloper when he raced in the 1960s and early ’70s is now among the NASCAR legends, alongside Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty and the rest of the bunch. It took a while. A few years and a few snubs raised questions whether the NASCAR Hall of Fame voting committee would get it right. But it finally did. Big time. Scott recently became one of five drivers elected into NAS-
COMMENTARY CAR’s hallowed hall, which also comes with the distinction of becoming the only Black driver to earn that honor in NASCAR history. The record says that Scott won only one race during his NASCAR career, which is one of the most misleading statistics in the history of sports. Scott raced with a bunch of hand-me-down parts — tires, batteries, engines, anything else that other drivers didn’t need. “Wendell Scott — if he had had the proper equipment, I believe would have been a winner a lot of times,” said Rex White, another
Scott wasn’t like Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, a new generation minority racer embraced by the masses. Scott was dealing with all the backlash and racism of a Black man trying to make a living in a White man’s world. Officials ignored the fact that he won that race in Jacksonville in 1963 and tried to give the victory to a White driver because they didn’t want a Black man posing for a picture with a White trophy girl in Victory Lane. Scott’s tires once got slashed before a race. NASCAR officials once insisted that Scott and his crew would have to shave their beards in Bristol if they wanted to compete in a race. Richard Petty intervened on Scott’s behalf, and the beards stayed. But the discrimination never really went away. Scott, always proud, always resilient, refused to go away as well.
Died in 1990 His family gathered at Charlotte Motor Speedway to reminisce about those days last weekend. Sadly, Wendell Scott died in 1990 and could not share the moment. But there wasn’t a shred of bitterness over the past. Instead, two sons and a daughter reflected with pride over Daddy’s accomplishments. “I think that Daddy would have wanted to share this moment with as many people as he could who have been a part of his struggles,” said one of his daughters, Sybil Scott. “The person who Daddy was, he wouldn’t be walking around letting the bitterness have any role in what’s going on right now.” He stood tall. He persevered. On paper, Scott only has one victory and 147 top-10 finishes. This is one absolute case in which statistics lie. Wendell Scott is a Hall of Famer, by any definition or standards.
Rainbow Tennis League hosts annual event in Daytona Beach BY KIM GIBSON DAYTONA TIMES
The Rainbow Tennis League held its 23rd Annual Tennis Tournament last month at the Florida Tennis Center in Daytona Beach. Tournament Director Jack Spencer and Coordinator Pam Gibson were pleased with the turnout of the May 24-25 event, which attracted players from Miami and all parts of South Carolina and Georgia. The annual fundraiser is to support community junior tennis programs. A social event was held at the AndersonPrice Memorial Building In Ormond Beach.
Lessons, nutritional info The purpose of the league is to promote the development of junior tennis players and programs through structured activities, help eliminate childhood and adult obesity, including, but not limited to league play, program sponsorship and funding, scholarships, tennis and academic-and other programs or activities consistent with the organization’s charitable purposes. The league provides tennis lessons, social/ recreation activities and nutritional information. Member clubs also participate in other tournaments in the southeast. Along with Daytona Beach, ember tennis clubs are located in Atlanta; Augusta, Ga.; Birmingham and Mobile, Ala.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Eatonville, Jacksonville, Orlando and Tallahassee. Visit Rainbowtennisleague.com for more information.
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Doubles anyone? These ladies participated in the Rainbow Tennis League tournament held last month in Daytona Beach. The tournament fundraisers help to support community junior tennis programs. These tennis players were showing off their skills at the May 24-25 tournament.
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Volusia’s Community Assistance Division plans public meetings Volusia County’s Community Assistance Division will hold three publi meetings to provide information about the Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnerships and Emergency Solutions Grant programs. The meetings are: • 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, Babe James Community Center, 201 N. Myrtle Ave., New Smyrna Beach • 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand • 6 p.m. Thursday, June 12, South Ormond Neighborhood Center, 176 Division St., Ormond Beach County staff will provide information on the programs’ status and discuss current funding levels and proposed activities for the 2014/2015 program year. Residents are encouraged to attend and provide input on housing and community development needs. For more information, call Housing and Grants Manager Diana Phillips at 386-736-5955.
Daytona Beach library plans summer programs for teens Teens in grades six and up can “spark a reaction” during summer programs at the Daytona Beach Regional Library at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave. Programs, which begin at 1 p.m. Thursdays, include: • Earthshaking ideas: June 12. Create a structure that can withstand a Jell-O earthquake.
Herronda Mortimer, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Gamma Mu Omega Chapter, is surrounded by students at Spruce Creek High School who were awarded scholarships by the sorority. The students, left to right, are Nathaniel Anthony, Rondalyn Dickens, Mortimer (center) Alexia Johnson and Sahdya Morgan. • Hydroponic gardening: June 19. Start a sunflower or mint seedling without soil in an old coffee container and take it home. • Wing it: June 26. Make crazy paper airplanes with Dr. Leo F. Murphy, associate professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. • Movie: July 3. Watch a recent Hollywood hit about Lego blocks. • Underwater archaeology: July 10. Learn how shipwrecks are excavated, then map shipwrecks and an old anchor using an adapted version of the Battleship game. The Florida Public Archeology Network will lead this program. • Marshmallow Olympics: July 17. Create a device to launch marshmal-
lows farther than anyone else. • Spa crafts: July 24. Create spa products to keep or give as gifts. Learn the science behind them. • Pizza and movie party: July 31. The movie will be chosen by votes cast throughout the summer. Most programs last one to one-and-a-half hours. Movies last a bit longer. Volunteer opportunities are available to teens in grades seven through 12. Information and applications are available at the circulation desk. The programs are sponsored by the Friends of the Library. For more information about teen summer programs, visit www.volusialibrary.org or contact Kristin Heifner at kheifner@volu-
sia.org or 386-257-6036, ext. 16166.
Online workshops June 10 on storm preparation Residents can learn how to prepare their homes for the next wind disaster during free online workshops at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 10. The “Brace for the Storm” workshops will provide information on ways to reduce wind damage and possibly save money on homeowners insurance premiums. Residents may log in at these links: 10 a.m.: www. bereadyflorida.org/index.php?option=com_ civicrm&task=civicrm/
event/info&reset=1&id =106 7 p.m.: www.bereadyflorida.org/index. php?option=com_ civicrm&task=civicrm/ event/info&reset=1&id =109 The workshops are presented by Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, Volunteer Florida, and the Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergencies. For more information, visit www.BeReadyFlorida. org.
Strapp golf tournament takes place June 7 The 11th annual Elisha J. Strapp Invitational Golf Scholarship Tourna-
ment hosted by the Greater Friendship Scholarship Ministry is set for Saturday, June 7 at the LPGA International Golf Course, 1000 Champions Drive, Daytona Beach. The community and education 2014 tournament honoree will be Harold V. Lucas, Jr. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. with a four-person scramble, shotgun starts at 8:30 a.m. Tournament contests include a $10,000 cash holein-one prize and auxiliary holes prizes are Callaway Razr X HL irons, round-trip air tickets and a Sea Mist golf trip for two. The scholarship ministry raises funds to benefit early childhood learning centers and graduating high school seniors who are seeking higher education at an accredited educational institution to improve their skills and quality of life. For more information, email sandrastrapp@gmail. com or contact tournament co-directors Ronald Gibson at 386.405.8589 or Lorenzo Hayward at 407341-6464.
Democratic Club meets June 10 The Democratic Club of North East Volusia County will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in the Volusia Mall, Daytona Beach. Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall will explain recent changes to the county voter laws. During this meeting Ruth Trager, a candidate for the Daytona Beach City Council will be introduced to the members and guests and she will be invited to offer a brief presentation. A light supper begins at 6 p.m. Each member is responsible for his or her own meal. All Democrats are invited to attend.