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B-CU names building after retired provost

One million steps toward learning

BY PENNY DICKERSON DAYTONA TIMES news@daytonatimes.com

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A long line of leaders greet students on the first day of school as part of the annual Million Father March.

B-CU president Dr. Edison Jackson, Volusia School Superintendent Tom Russell and school board member Ida Wright welcome and encourage students.

Local leaders give students handshakes and words of encouragement on first day of school as part of the Million Father March

BY PENNY DICKERSON DAYTONA TIMES news@daytonatimes.com

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he pitter pat of anxious feet marched forward with pride to shake the hands of leaders in the annual Million Father March, a national movement that provides an opportunity for men to show their commitment to the educational success and social development of their children on the first day of school and throughout the school year.

Leading the symbolic line at Turie T. Small Elementary School in Daytona Beach on Monday was BethuneCookman University President Dr. Edison Jackson followed by civic, judicial and school board leaders, including Daytona Beach City Commissioner Paula Reed, Volusia County School Superintendent Tom Russell and retired Volusia County Circuit Judge Hubert L. Grimes.

“It is an honor to participate in this positive effort with the Million Father March. It is our duty as a communitybased university to be involved in any way that we can. I am so pleased that our students, staff and faculty will be there as well,” Jackson said prior to the march. He will lead the initiative again at 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 31 at Westside Elementary School, 1210 Jimmy Ann Drive.

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History and legacy have intersected at the corner of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. boulevards for years that precede its rural roads and civil rights echo. Dr. Ann Taylor Green is the third namesake whose academic stature and community service have earned the right to grace the hallmark location.

For 38 years, Green served Bethune-Cookman as an instructor, provost and vice president. She is now an active retiree in Daytona Beach, who has lived to see her heritage archived as the Ann Taylor Green General Studies Building.

Dr. Ann The university Taylor Green was to host a special naming ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 27 at B-CU to place her name on one the campus’ most historical buildings. The event was to take place in the parking lot of the general studies building.

Historic site A native of Birmingham, Ala., Green is a graduate of Talladega College who further earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics Education from North Carolina A&T State University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Administration from The American University.

During her years at then-Bethune-Cookman College, she gained the reputation as a no-nonsense math instructor who equally embodied many of the same characteristics as the school’s founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.

Following her retirement, Green was bestowed the title of provost emeritus.

In the tradition of firsts, the same building that will bear her name also was the formal McLeod Hospital, which served the students of the former Daytona Education and Industrial Training School for Girls. It additionally served as a training place for aspiring nurses.

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Commissioner Henry opens account to seek Taylor’s House seat

BY DAYTONA TIMES STAFF

Daytona Beach Commissioner Patrick Henry has opened a campaign account to try to succeed Rep. Dwayne Taylor in the Florida House of Representatives in District 26.

Taylor is facing term limits next year and can’t run again for the Florida House position he has held since 2008.

The commissioner opened an account this week, joining Republican Michael Cantu, who opened an account in January.

Last year, Henry won the Zone 5 commission re-elec-

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tion handily against 24-yearold political newcomer Stanley B. Pandy II with 72 percent of the vote. Zone 5 represents the historically Black district in the city’s Midtown area.

Henry first became a Daytona Beach commissioner in January 2011 when he won a special election to fill the seat vacated by his brother, Derrick Henry. The latter is now mayor of Daytona Beach.

Taylor running for Volusia chair Taylor announced earlier this year that he plans to run

for Volusia County chair.

He served as a Daytona Beach Commissioner from 2003-2008 and was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2008, a seat previously held by current Volusia At-Large Council Member Joyce sack.

If Taylor is elected, he would accompany Cusack, making it the first time two Blacks would sit on the county’s most powerful dais simultaneously. Cusack won’t face re-election until 2018.

The current council has seven members and is chaired by Jason Davis.

Daytona Beach Commissioner Patrick Henry, left, will vie for the Florida House seat now occupied by Rep. Dwayne Taylor.

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New Smyrna Beach residents stepping in the name of fitness

Left to right: The “Babe steppers include Fallon Davis, Christy Bell, Faith Testerman, Wanda Walker, Robin Jones, Jennifer Bastick, Donna Gray-Banks, Steve Bostick and Precious Jones.

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Steve Bostick of New Smyrna Beach approached Donna Gray-Banks, community resource director of New Smyrna Beach, in June about a line-dancing exercise class for adults.

Little did he know that by July it would have attracted a group of dedicated patrons from 25-70 years old.

Christy Bell is the oldest dancer and she on occasion will out-dance some of the younger patrons.

The stepping and line-dancing class is led every Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. by Precious Jones at the Alonzo “Babe” James Community Center, 201 N. Myrtle Ave. To sign up, contact Jones at www.precious812000@yahoo.com.

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Farrakhan: October ‘Justice or Else’ march just the beginning the Black Lives Matter Movement.

“We honor the young ladies that fashioned that cry and all who have joined on but no one can rob the young sisters of the honor that God used [them] to say something that caught on and today Black lives do matter,” he said. “Let’s go to work in our communities to make sure that all of our people fall in love with their Blackness and say, ‘Black lives matter’ and Black love will make sure that Black lives matter.”

The truth matters, too.

The United States Park Police (USPP) estimate of 400,000 attendants at the original march wildly contradicted the estimated count provided by march organizers, which was roughly 1.5 million.

Working with Boston University, the Park Service later revised its estimate to 837,214 – more than twice the original estimate.

With a 20 percent margin of error, the size of the crowd could have been 655,000 to 1.1 million men, according to Farouk El-Baz, director of Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing.

Even the lowest revised estimate was more than twice the size of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks during the “Justice or Else” press conference at Metropolitan AME Church in Northwest Washington, D.C. in June 2015.

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WASHINGTON – In a wideranging conference call with the Black Press, the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said the upcoming “Justice or Else” rally set for Oct. 10 celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just the beginning of the movement.

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., president and CEO of the NNPA and the national director of the 1995 Million Man March, moderated the call last week, fielding pooled questions from dozens of publishers and editors from Black newspapers across the country.

Farrakhan said that walking down the steps of the United States Capitol building and seeing Black men standing together, shoulder-to-shoulder all the way

down to the Washington Monument and over to the Lincoln Memorial was his most memorable experience from the Million Man March on Oct. 16, 1995.

The minister boasted that the men went home and recommitted themselves to their families and wives, others registered to vote, and gang members left their weapons at home.

Still work to do Critics, however, charged that little long-lasting follow-up was done on the local level.

Farrakhan said that those who benefit from White supremacy fear the power of unified Blacks, Latinos and all minority people and have continued to work against that unity, since the 1995 march.

Farrakhan said that since the

BRIEFS County sets Section 8 meeting for Sept. 15 Volusia County’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program will host an informational meeting for landlords who are renting or interested in renting to Section 8 participants.

The meeting will be from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the second-floor classroom of the Volusia County Historic Courthouse, 125 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand.

Staff members from the county’s Community Assistance Division will explain the program’s rules and regulations.

Reservations are required by Sept. 4.

To RSVP, contact the county at communityassistance@volusia.org or call 386-736-5955, ext.

12566.

Palm Coast church to host Gospelfest A Gospelfest event and dinner is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 12 at First Church, 91 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast. It is sponsored by the Women’s Day

Million Man March, the Black community is not as strong as it should be, so the struggle for “Justice or Else” must take place on two fronts.

“We can not go to Washington appeal to our government to intercede to see that Black men and women tried in their courts get justice in accordance with the law and leave our communities in shambles with us killing one another,” said Farrakhan. “We as men and women must take responsibility for our community and rid our community of fratricidal conflict and that strengthens us as we go to our government to demand justice.”

Black Lives Matter tribute Farrakhan said that he thanked God for the women who ignited

Committee.

Performers will include Jared and Octavia Evans for the praise and worship part of the program.

Others include Nathaniel Shropshire III; James Robbins, Alexis Williams, Diane and Gloria Stillman, Stacey Smith, Marva Jones and her mother, Blanche London on piano.

Other gospel stylists include The FAME Ensemble, New Destiny, and “Gap It Thru” Dance Ministry of Dominion Fellowship Church of Palm Coast.

Tickets are $20 per person and cannot be purchased at the door.

First Church, the pastoral ministry of the Rev. Gillard S. Glover, can be reached at 386-446-5759.

Daytona’s Main Street Bridge to close Sept. 15-16 The Main Street Bridge in Daytona Beach will be closed to vehicular traffic from 8 a.m. Sept.

15 to approximately 6 p.m. Sept.

16 to accommodate electrical repairs.

The drawbridge will be left in the open position to allow for the passage of boats.

Detour signs will be in place.

Motorists will be asked to use the bridges at Seabreeze and Inter-

Justice for all Following the controversy over the number of people attending the Million Man March, Congress prohibited the Park Service from making official estimates.

Unlike the Million Man March that primarily focused on the empowerment of men of color, the call for “Justice or Else” is meant to address the struggle for justice for Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, women, military veterans and poor Whites, everyone who feels deprived in America.

“Even though our struggles may be different, justice is what we seek for all,” said Farrakhan.

The minister also praised Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work during the last years of his life that revolved around economic equality, unionization and labor rights, and land ownership.

Farrakhan noted that Blacks were largely shut out of the prosperity enjoyed by White settlers following the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862. Blacks

national Speedway boulevards.

NAACP, sorority continues College Prep Boot Camp The Flagler County NAACP and Chi Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority are sponsoring a free College Prep Boot Camp seminar on Aug. 29, 10 a.m. to noon, at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 U.S. 1 North, Palm Coast.

It is designed for grades 9 through 12 and will provide information and strategies to successfully pursue and complete a college education with emphasis on the college admissions process and funding.

Sessions will be facilitated by a retired college professor. College recruiters will be available.

Parents are invited to participate at both sessions.

Pre-registration is not required, but students must arrive 30 minutes earlier to sign in at each session.

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

Flagler NAACP to host banquet on Aug. 29 The Flagler County NAACP will host its annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 6 p.m. Aug. 29 at

weren’t considered citizens in 1862, a key eligibility requirement that prevented them from claiming any of the millions of acres of free land west of the Mississippi River granted to White settlers by the United States government.

“We have to have land, brothers and sisters, as a basis for economic development,” said Farrakhan, proposing a legislative agenda that would promote land ownership in the Black community.

Support for Black press He encouraged Black business owners to advertise in the Black press and buy subscriptions to community newspapers, and that part of the estimated $1.1 trillion in annual buying power wielded by the Black community be used to build hospitals, factories and to support Black colleges.

He also lamented the anger and frustration that young people have expressed across the nation and that uncontrolled and misdirected anger can lead to great destruction.

“We don’t have a lot of time, but we can turn the anger of our community into production,” the minister continued, adding that young people will be more than eager to live productive lives rather than lives of crime and suffering and savage behavior, if properly guided.

On voting As the presidential election approaches, Farrakhan warned Blacks against casting their votes foolishly and continuing to vote for the Democratic Party that could and should do more for the Black community. He added that he doesn’t see himself voting for Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) or Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.).

He made no mention of Willie Wilson, the Black Chicago businessman who is also running for president as a Democrat.

“The Black vote is a powerful vote,” said Farrakhan. “But unless any of these candidates that are running for president of the United States speak to the need for justice for those that are deprived, why should we give them our vote?”

the Ocean Ballroom of the Hammock Beach Resort, 200 Ocean Crest Drive, Palm Coast.

The guest speaker will be Dr. Amir Whitaker, an attorney and educator for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Music will be provided by Darnel Butler & Xpression.

The Community Service Award will be presented to the Rev. Edwin Coffie, pastor, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church.

For more information, call 646220-9600 or the NAACP at 386446-7822.

Program to focus on breaking the cycle of abuse “Exposing Abuse - How to Break the Cycle” is the subject of a free program on Aug. 30 at 9:30 a.m. and Sept. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lifetree Café, 142 Fairview Ave., Daytona Beach.

The program includes a filmed interview of a teenage girl who tells her story of abuse. A discussion will follow.

It’s for pre-teens through adults. Refreshments will be served. Child care is available.

More details: Call 386-4515223.

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from Page 1 president of the Gamma Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., which is the first sisterhoodbased, global organization for African women of character and collegiate scholarship established in 1908 on the campus of Howard University.

Under her leadership of the Daytona Beach alumnae chapter, the organization presented the Ebony Fashion Fair for many years starting in 1978 and began its Men of Tomorrow program in 1980.

She remains a dedicated member of the university and the community and earlier this year was named one of two recipients of the first “Citizens in Action” awards presented by the National Pan-Hellenic Council of Volusia County.

Green, who is married to Arthur R. Green, also is a member of the Daytona Beach Chapter of The Links, Inc., and Mt. Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Daytona Beach.

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B-CU president Dr. Edison Jackson and local community leaders showcase signs of positive reinforcement.

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The Black Star Project Reading is fundamental are the first words students decoded Monday morning didn’t light up smart phones or notes passed during class. Instead, leaders held up laminated inspirational signs that stated: Welcome Back to School, Education is the Key to Success, Men Standing for Action, Science is out of this world, Math is Powerful.

All of the aforementioned aligned with the mission of The Black Star Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to provide educational services that improve the life-quality outcomes of less-advantaged Black and Latino communities and to close the racial academic achievement gap.

The organization launched the Million Father March in 2004 and expected 700 cities and 1,100,000 men to participate this year. The march is an opportunity for Black men to show their commitment to the educational lives of their children on the first day of school and throughout the school year.

No child left without Research shows that children whose fathers take active roles in their educational lives earn better grades, score higher on tests, enjoy school more and are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.

The Florida Department of Education School Accountability Report (2013-14) stated that 74.5 percent of the students enrolled at Turie T. Small Elementary were Black or African-American and 95.9 percent were classified as economically disadvantaged. On Monday, they were greeted and empowered by leadership united to help ensure they beat the odds.

“Today we’re actually showing our families, our communities and students themselves that education is important,” said Stephen C. Hinson, principal of Turie T. Elementary. “We’re in a big competition with a lot of things our kids encounter on a daily basis so we need to put the message out there and make sure they’re seeing it, they’re hearing it and reading it. There are people out here that they can see are successful. We want our kids to be successful so we’re sending that message loud and clear.”

Positive male role models from B-CU served as motivating examples for students.

Men standing for action B-CU co-sponsored the event and has a longstanding reputation for investing in the futures of males destined to become both scholars and fathers. The dividends will include generations of new leaders like Jackson and his peers who remain a hand shake away and willing to encourage.

Cary White is a B-CU graduate student who donned a business suit and pinstriped tie with the added accent of his Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity pin.

His presence and words spoke volumes: “We’re welcoming students out here and wishing them a good school year and showing them how to dress and how to be professional for the future,” shared White, who added the valuable cliché’ “Knowledge is power.”

To better prepare fathers for future marches to come, B-CU also hosts the Teen and Young Fatherhood Conference. The third annual event was held in February and addressed issues that face fathers ages 14 to 24 and included speakers and life-changing workshops that focused on innovative teen fathers’ programming, proven parenting techniques and unique obstacles that teenager fathers face in education, legal issues, mental health and identifying employment resources.

“When the younger students come up to these young college males, they see hope,” offered Russell.

“They see that they can finish the race, and they can move forward in their education and that’s the key.

This (event) was really a good picture of what can happen.”

Above: President Jackson, Principal Stephen Hinson and Superintendent Tom Russell join parents and students to kick off a rewarding school year.

Left: Family members joined in on the fun at the Million Father March.

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It’s hard to be what you can’t see Children of color are now a majority of all public school students and will soon be a majority of all children in America. Yet children’s books and the publishing industry have failed to keep up with the rainbow of our children’s faces and cultures and needs and the wide variety of their daily experiences.

As award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Christopher Myers says, this matters in order to give all children a deeper sense of connection to the books they’re reading and to each other and to prepare them to live in a rapidly globalizing, multicultural, multiracial, and multi-faith nation and world.

Roundtable discussion I was grateful that Chris Myers joined other leading children’s book authors at a roundtable before 2,000 college-age students, public school teachers, and juvenile detention personnel preparing to teach in summer Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® programs. Our reading curriculum has long been centered on excellent books reflecting a wide variety of cultures, races, and experiences.

For some children it is the first time they have seen books with characters who look like them

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and share some of the struggles in their lives. Our goal is to help children fall in love with reading, and they respond.

The “all-White world of children’s books” is nothing new. Rudine Sims Bishop, the moderator of the children’s book roundtable, noted that was the title of a landmark study 50 years ago “calling out the children’s book world not only for failing to include African-Americans in children’s books, but also for feeding White children ‘gentle doses of racism through their books.’”

No ‘color’ The old books were guilty of sins of commission and omission, and of course Black children were not the only ones left out. Bishop said since 1994, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin has been counting the number of new children’s books featuring AfricanAmericans, Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and LatinoAmericans each year. But even as

Planned attacks on Planned Parenthood It is often said, “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Actually, the first casualty of politics is truth. That’s particularly true when it comes to the orchestrated attacks on Planned Parenthood.

The anti-choice Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released seven videos that seek to discredit Planned Parenthood.

Media Matters said, “The latest video again relies on footage already debunked as highly edited, features conversations with thirdparty providers who acted as the middlemen between researchers and clinics, and relies heavily on the account of a technician who did not work for Planned Parenthood…”

Carson injects race Dr. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, has also launched a major attack against Planned Parenthood. In an interview with Fox News on Aug. 12, Carson said that Planned Parenthood erects most

the number of Americans of color has continued to grow rapidly, the percentage of books reflecting them has not: the annual total has hovered around 10 percent.

It’s hard to be what you can’t see. Children of color need to be able to see themselves in the books they read. Just as importantly, all children need to be exposed to a wide range of books that reflect the true diversity of our nation and world as they really are.

Tonya Bolden, who has written many powerful nonfiction books for young readers, said engaging history books – especially on her history – were largely absent when she was a child.

“When it came to Black history, I remember there was Crispus Attucks and Phyllis Wheatley. And I think there was a part of me that said, okay, one was free, and he got shot; the other one was brilliant, but she was enslaved . . .

What kind of options are those?”

It wasn’t until she got older that she realized how much was being left out. Now she strives to make history come alive in ways that allow children to recognize their ties to people who came before them.

Another connection Writer

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code where Planned Parenthood has an office,” the newspaper recalled. “The report was intended to show that the abortion clinics are placed mostly in areas where Black residents exceed the average Black population of the state.

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of its clinics in Black neighborhoods as a “way to control that population.”

However, ABC’s Martha Raddatz reported, “Planned Parenthood estimates that fewer than five percent of its health centers are located in areas where more than one-third of the population is African-American.”

In a detailed rebuttal, the Washington Post awarded Carson “Four Pinocchios,” indicating a “whopper” of a lie, the highest level of falsehoods.

“A 2011 report by Life Dynamics, which opposes abortion, used Census data to determine the African-American and Hispanic population of each zip

More Black denials than access to mortgages The nation’s oldest minority professional real estate trade association recently held its 68th annual convention in Houston.

Founded in July 1947, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) grew from a fledgling group of one woman and 11 men from only eight locales, into today’s national network of mortgage professionals with an estimated conference attendance of more than 1,000.

Long before civil rights legislation was introduced in Congress, NAREB stood for all those who believed that owning a home in America should be both affordable and obtainable, but were somehow locked out of their own American Dream. That kind of leadership and service deserve a celebration.

In spite of restrictive covenants commonplace as early as the 1940s, to the years of blockbusting and White flight of the 1960s, NAREB and other housing advocates held fast to their founding principles and never

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gave up or gave out.

Worse than ever The irony is that today despite their dedication and advocacy of other housing groups – or even federal laws that guarantee equality and protections in housing and credit regardless of race or creed – the American Dream is still elusive, especially for consumers of color.

Nationwide, Black America’s homeownership is shrinking. A 2013 NAREB report entitled “The State of Housing in Black America” found that Black homeownership rates dropped from a high level of just of under 50 percent in 2004 to 43 percent by 2013.

By late 2014, according to the

“But when you look closely at the data, it turns out that there are only about 110 locations (out of about 800) where the Black population exceeds 25 percent of the overall population. That certainly does not support the claim that “most” clinics are in ‘Black neighborhoods.’

“Separately, in 2011, the Guttmacher Institute surveyed all abortion providers (about 1,700), including Planned Parenthood, and found that 60 percent are in majority-White neighborhoods. Fewer than one in ten abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half of the residents are Black. The statistics did not change when the numbers were adjusted for nearly 600 providers that conduct more than 400 abortions a year.”

Referring to the founder of Planned Parenthood, Carson said, “I know who Margaret Sanger is, U.S. Census Bureau, only 42 percent of Black families were homeowners, compared to the national average of 64 percent and the 72 percent average for Whites.

Why? Why is Black homeownership shrinking? An analysis by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) of the most recent Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) report for 2013 showed that both Black and Latino homebuyers are typically denied access to private sector conventional mortgages that over the life of a loan are far cheaper than the government-backed offerings.

Little access to private conventional loans leaves consumers of color with disproportionately high use of mortgages underwritten by government-backed programs such as FHA, VA and USDA. Some statistics: Blacks received only 36,903 loans – just 4.8 percent of all purchase mortgage originations in 2013, despite the Black population exceeded 39 million residents.

Hispanic borrowers received slightly more mortgage originations at 7.3 percent of all pur-

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about another kind of connection when she read her poem “Noise” from the book “Good Luck Gold.” The poem’s protagonist is being teased by a group of children – “Ching chong Chinaman” – for her hair, nose, skin, the shape of her eyes: It’s only noise/ Ching chong / I won’t let it in. / I won’t let it in. / I promise myself / I won’t let them / Win. Wong said she was asked to read that poem during a visit to a school in Singapore by a teacher troubled by the racial hostility that existed there. Even when the context was completely different, a poem like this describes a common feeling of racism and dis-

crimination that lets children finally see themselves, too.

It also lets other children make their own connections with how this person is feeling, including those who have never been teased about their race or eyes and those who have done the teasing.

All children need these kinds of experiences. Is your school providing books that celebrate and include every child?

and I know that she believed in eugenics and that she was not particularly enamored with Black people.”

He is correct in saying that Margaret Sanger believed in eugenics, the idea that the human race can be improved by encouraging or discouraging reproduction based on genetic traits. Even so, Carson tells only half of the story – the half favorable to his point of view.

The Washington Post researched Sanger. Here’s what it found.

ate African-American clinics, but White activists actually gave little or no assistance. Whatever the activists’ personal beliefs about race may have been, there was no grand program to exterminate nonwhites or the poor,’ Hajo concluded.”

The Post also noted, “Sanger in 1938 appeared to speak positively about the German program undertaken by the Nazis…Yet in 1939, she wrote that before Hitler came to power, ‘I was one of the few Americans who joined the Anti-Nazi Committee and gave money, my name and any influence I had with writers and others, to combat Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.’ She added that ‘my three books were destroyed [burned] and have not been allowed to circulate in Germany.’”

It would be great if we could get these orchestrated lies about abortion out of circulation.

Blacks excluded “Starting in 1916, Sanger’s clinics at first were aimed mainly at poor immigrant women. The first clinic was in a neighborhood ‘populated largely by Italians and Eastern European Jews,’ according to the 2010 book “Birth Control on Main Street,” by Cathy Moran Hajo. Sanger did not open a Harlem clinic until the 1930s, even though infant mortality rates there were similar.

“Hajo found that in the 19161939 period, White activists were more likely to exclude AfricanAmericans from clinics, rather than include them. There were some half-hearted efforts to crechase mortgage originations in 2013, even though they represent more than 51 million people.

Similarly, in refinance mortgage lending, Black borrowers received only 191,004 loans – only 4.4 percent of more than 4.3 million the previous year. This comparatively low level of lending continues a trend that began after the nation’s housing crisis.

“For most Black families, owning a home is the key building block for their financial security,” noted Keith Corbett, a NAREB panelist and executive vice president with the Center for Responsible Lending. “Until we raise the level of Black homeownership, it is doubtful we will see racial wealth gaps closing either.”

Earlier CRL research found that many homebuyers of color were steered into highercost, subprime loans – even when they qualified for cheaper ones. After analyzing 50,000 subprime loans, CRL concluded that Blacks and Latinos were almost a third more likely to receive a higher-priced loan than were Whites with the same credit scores.

Charles W. Cherry II, Esq., Publisher

Opinions expressed on this editorial page are those of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the editorial stance of the newspaper or the publisher.

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More disparities Earlier this summer, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report. Its findings show even more disparities in homeownership: Despite the housing rebound in many parts of the nation, minority and low-income neighborhoods remain severely distressed.

As of 2014, the homeownership rate for minorities as a group remains 25.5 percentage points lower than that of Whites.

More than 40 percent of Hispanic and Black households with mortgages report paying interest rates above 5 percent, compared with less than a third of White and Asian/ other minority households.

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online from China and in some parts of the United States has replaced crack cocaine.

Officials in Broward County say the drug has contributed to at least 29 deaths over the last year.

While police locally say flakka hasn’t been found here yet, they have dealt with other similar drugs that have led to hospitalizations and deaths.

“The dangerous thing about synthetic drugs is that the chemicals used to make them are always changing,” said Sgt. Chris Cesena of the Kansas City police drug enforcement unit. “The user doesn’t realize what they’re taking. These are harsh chemicals.”

Capt. Dan Cummings of the Jackson County Drug Task Force said synthetic drugs can vary widely in their potency from batch to batch.

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Alpha-PVP, also known as flakka, has caused a rash of emergency room visits and overdose deaths.

New killer drug ‘flakka’ spreading across country Broward County has been hardest

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BY TONY RIZZO AND GLENN E. RICE KANSAS CITY STAR/TNS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s a new drug. And it’s a killer.

Known on the street as “flakka,” the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country. It’s causing a rash of emergency room visits and overdose deaths.

In one highly publicized Florida case, a man reportedly high on flakka gnawed on and disfigured another man’s face before he was shot to death by police. Another user tried to break down the door of a police station in Fort Lau-

derdale, and a few weeks later, a man impaled himself while trying to climb a fence around the same station.

“This is the worst drug I have ever seen in my 18 years of law enforcement across the board,” said Johnny Bivens, sheriff of Lewis County, Ky. “Nothing compares to this.”

Also known as alpha-PVP, it has a similar chemical makeup to other drugs commonly known as “bath salts,” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Linked to suicides It typically comes in a white or pink crystalline form and is foulsmelling. It can be eaten, snorted, injected, or vaporized in an electronic cigarette device, according to the national institute,

which has included flakka on a list of emerging trends.

It is particularly potent when vaporized, sending the drug into the bloodstream quickly, and making the user particularly susceptible to overdose.

“Alpha-PVP can cause a condition called excited delirium that involves hyper-stimulation, paranoia and hallucinations that can lead to violent aggression and self-injury,” the institute warns. “The drug has been linked to deaths by suicide as well as heart attack. It can also dangerously raise body temperature and lead to kidney damage or kidney failure.”

29 Broward deaths Authorities say flakka is easily accessible. It can be purchased

In a recent investigation involving the sale of K2, commonly known as synthetic marijuana, Cummings said, confiscated samples tested in a laboratory ranged from 3 to 4 percent pure to as high as 80 to 90 percent.

Someone used to the weaker form is at a higher risk of overdose if they unknowingly ingest a purer form, he said.

Bivens said his office in Kentucky became aware of the drug around last Thanksgiving when reports of people acting strangely, sweating profusely and displaying intense paranoia started coming in.

“They always constantly think that someone is after them,” he said. “One of the main things we have seen was people experiencing rapid weight loss, about 40 pounds a month. People don’t eat. They are up for 10 to 12 days at a time. Their body becomes covered in abscesses.”

Users report that the drug is highly addictive, he said.

And it was highly profitable for the people selling it. Dealers were able to obtain the drug online and were selling it for $250 a gram, he said.

Appeared in 2012 Flakka started appearing in the United States in a handful of cases in late 2012, said Rusty Payne, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration in

A simple way to stay healthier: Be a giver

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If there’s a magic pill for happiness and longevity, we may have found it.

Countless studies have found that generosity, both volunteering and charitable donations, benefits young and old physically and psychologically.

The benefits of giving are significant, according to those studies: lower blood pressure, lower risk of dementia, less anxiety and depression, reduced cardiovascular risk and overall greater happiness.

“Volunteering moves people into the present and distracts the mind from the stresses and problems of the self,” said Stephen G. Post, founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York. “Many studies show that one of the best ways to deal with the hardships in life is not to just center on yourself but to take the opportunity to engage in simple acts of kindness.”

Studies show that when people think about helping others, they activate a part of the brain called the mesolimbic pathway, which is responsible for feelings of gratification. Helping others doles out happiness chemicals, including dopamine, endorphins that block pain signals and oxytocin, known as the tranquillity hormone.

Even just the thought of giving money to a specific charity has this effect on the brain, research shows.

‘Happier when they give’ Intuition tells us that giving more to oneself is the best way to be happy. But that’s not the case, according to Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University.

“If you are a recipient of a good deed, you may have momentary

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Countless studies have found that generosity, both volunteering and charitable donations, benefits young and old physically and psychologically. happiness, but your long-term happiness is higher if you are the giver,” Ariely said.

For example, if you give people a gift card for a Starbucks cappuccino and call them that evening and ask how happy they are, people say they are not happier than if you hadn’t given it to them. If you give another group a gift card and ask them to give it to a random person, when you call them at night, those people are happier.

“People are happier when they give, even if they’re just following instructions,” Ariely said. “They take credit for the giving and therefore are happier at the end of the day.”

Volunteer study The way we give is important, too, Ariely said. Taxes are a form of giving that typically does not make Americans happy. “If you give directly from a paycheck, we don’t pay attention to it,” he said.

“It’s the way we give and how we give that makes us happy. The key is to give deliberately and thoughtfully, so that other people benefit from it.”

Research supports this, and researchers started from a baseline of equal physical characteristics among study participants, so it wasn’t a case of healthier people

being more willing to volunteer.

A 2012 study in the journal Health Psychology by Sara Konrath and a team at the University of Michigan found that older adult volunteers had a lower risk of dying in a four-year period than non-volunteers, as long as they volunteered for altruistic versus self-oriented reasons.

“In order to gain a personal benefit from volunteering, you have to focus on how your giving helps other people,” said Konrath, now director of the Interdisciplinary Program for Empathy and Altruism Research and assistant professor at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. “We have the ability to shift our focus, and many of us do have an other-oriented reason for giving. If we can just focus on that aspect rather than what we can get out of it, chances are it will be better for our own health, too.”

Sleep better, less pain An online national survey of 4,500 American adults (the 2010 United Healthcare/Volunteer Match Do Good Live Well Study) found that people who volunteer have less trouble sleeping, less anxiety, less helplessness and hopelessness, better friendships and social networks, and a

sense of control over chronic conditions.

Even as a way to manage chronic pain, volunteering holds great potential.

“If you could say that on a scale of 1 to 10, insulin as a treatment for diabetes is a 9.5, drugs for Alzheimer’s disease are 0.05, volunteering is somewhere up around a 7,” Post said. “If you were somehow able to package this into a compound, you’d be a billionaire overnight.”

With an aging population, reducing cognitive decline is important, too. A recent review of studies published in the November 2014 Psychological Bulletin found that, among seniors, volunteering is likely to reduce the risk of dementia and is associated with reduced symptoms of depression, better self-reported health, fewer functional limitations and lower mortality.

Lower blood pressure Volunteering has even been shown to lower blood pressure.

In a June 2013 study from Carnegie Mellon University, adults over 50 who volunteered at least 200 hours in the past year (four hours per week) were 40 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than non-volunteers.

There are several possible ex-

Washington, D.C. By last year, a “tremendous” number of cases were being reported, he said.

In the last seven or eight years, officials have identified 400 different varieties of synthetic drugs.

“Alpha-PVP or flakka is just another one that has emerged unfortunately and it is causing a lot of problems in a lot of places,” Payne said.

The area hit hardest by the drug is Broward County. It first surfaced there last year, said Lt. Ozzy Tianga of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

At first, because users displayed many of the same symptoms and behaviors seen with cocaine or other synthetic drugs, officials did not realize they were seeing something new, he said.

The level of “excited delirium” experienced by flakka users tended to be much worse, and laboratory testing confirmed the presence of something new, according to Tianga.

“They were acting psychotic, very similar to acting as if they were mentally ill,” he said.

‘Like old-school LSD’ Based on calls from other parts of the country, Tianga said he expects the drug to continue spreading.

“I have received calls from Kentucky, all of the northeast quadrant of the United States, from Texas all the way up to California,” he said.

And because what he calls an “epidemic” is so new, he said, there are no proven rehabilitation methods.

“We have had some individuals who have experienced excited delirium up to five months after they use the drug,” he said. “It is almost like the old-school LSD that could create a delayed response to the drug.”

Payne of the DEA said that despite the claims of those who sell it online, it is illegal in the United States.

“A lot of people like to think legal means safe; therefore I can do this and be safe,” Payne said.

“There have been a lot of funerals unfortunately that have operated under that assumption.”

planations for this, said study author Rodlescia Sneed, now a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. Volunteerism may boost self-esteem and protect people from social isolation, both of which are linked to better health in older adults, she said.

Doing volunteer work may also give older adults perspective on their own life struggles, which can help them better cope with stress. Helping others also may promote the release of stressbuffering hormones that may reduce cardiovascular risk.

The benefits of giving are seen in younger people, too. A recent study of 10th-graders at a Vancouver high school found that students who spent an hour a week helping children in afterschool programs over 10 weeks had lower levels of inflammation and cholesterol, plus a lower body-mass index.

And if you can’t find time to volunteer “hands on,” there’s some benefit to making a meaningful donation to charity. “Studies show that people who donate meaningfully even just once feel happier months later, though it is best to do so with some regularity,” Post said.

Therapeutic behavior Researchers also have found that those in Alcoholics Anonymous who help other alcoholics double their likelihood of overcoming alcoholism one year after going dry. The benefits of helping others are greatest when you have experienced the same chronic problem, Post said.

“We are on the cusp of reaching the point where we are going to see more areas in clinical care, including preventive medicine, psychiatry, adolescent pediatrics, geriatrics, pain clinics and cardiology, where health care professionals recommend volunteering as a therapeutic behavior,” Post said.

The concept is being used in therapeutic farm communities developed for people with serious mental illness. “The premise is quite successful,” Post said.

“If you encourage people with major mental disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder, to contribute meaningfully to a community, they can better manage their condition.”

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Cross-country team begins season on Sept. 4 University of Miami on Sept. 5 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens. The game kicks off at 6 p.m.

It will be televised on ESPN. The first home game in Daytona Beach is Sept. 19 against Lane University. The game starts at 4 p.m.

Season tickets for the 2015 season are on sale at the B-CU Box Office and can be purchased by calling 386-481-2465. They can also be purchased through Ticketmaster.

For the latest information on the Wildcats, follow the team on Twitter, @BCUGridIron. Fans also can download the official Bethune-Cookman Wildcats app for up-to-date information.

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Bethune-Cookman begins preparation for the 2015 cross county season having already answered its biggest question: Who will replace Ricy Brown?

According to Director of Track & Field Donald Cooper, the answer is Xavier Walton from Titusville.

Walton, the Florida Class 2-A cross country runner-up from 2014, will make his B-CU debut on Friday, Sept.

4, when the Wildcats men’s cross country team opens its season at the University of Tampa Classic in Tampa.

In addition to his cross-country Xavier success, Walton Walton also placed sixth in the 3,200 meter run at the 2014 State 2-A outdoor meet. That puts him in perfect position to take over Brown’s role in the distance events when the Wildcats defend their 2015 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference indoor and outdoor titles later in the 2015-16 seasons.

‘Next sensation’ Brown, a senior last year, was third at last year’s cross country meet nd never placed lower than fifth at any conference track meet.

“We’re about to unleash our

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The Wildcats are shown in a previous game against the University of Miami. The teams face off next month. next sensation,” Cooper said.

“We’ll miss Ricy, no doubt, but Walton has prepared himself to step in and fill that void. “Coach [Garon] Jackson and Ricy will help guide him through what should be a great, competitive season in the MEAC.”

FSU’s Dalvin Cook found not guilty of misdemeanor battery

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Florida State University running back Dalvin Cook remained stoic, just as he had for the entirety of his trial, as the court clerk announced that Cook was found not guilty of misdemeanor battery.

His grandmother, Betty Cook, was a lit-

The Wildcat men were ninth at last year’s MEAC Cross Country Championships, while a young Wildcats women’s cross country squad, paced by junior Nyajock Pan, finished seventh overall.

The cross country team will compete in six meets leading in-

to the conference meet Oct. 31 in Salisbury, Md.

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tle less reserved as she led a small cheering section behind Cook with a scream and a “hallelujah Lord.”

“I’m just blessed the truth came out,” said Cook, who was suspended indefinitely from team activities after being charged with misdemeanor battery on July 11. “I’m trying to go work back on the field. I’ve been working, but it’s time to get at it now.”

The trial lasted for more than 10 hours on Monday but the jury of six took less than 30 minutes to reach a verdict inside the Leon County Courthouse.

Cook was accused of punching Madison Geohegan, 21, outside of a Tallahassee bar June 23.

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Gibson, a truant who came from the rough streets of Harlem, emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s.

No player, not even the great Arthur Ashe (who came a decade after Althea), overcame more obstacles to become a champion than did Gibson—the first African-American to play at (and win) Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open).

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The Bethune-Cookman’s season opener in volleyball against Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton is Aug. 28 for the Florida Atlantic Invitational. It’s a noon game.

The team also is scheduled to play Binghamton that day. Stetson and Georgia Southern are scheduled for Aug. 29.

The Wildcats return all six starters from a 2014 team that produced the program’s best record in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play (8-2) and a monumental victory over Florida A&M, that snapped a 49-match losing streak to the archrival Rattlers.

The NASCAR Nation mourns one of its fallen brothers.

Justin Wilson wasn’t a NASCAR guy. He was an IndyCar racer who died Monday, a day after he was struck by debris and suffered a severe head injury, and lapsed into a coma.

Wilson was competing during the Verizon IndyCar Series race at Pocono Raceway when his Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet took a spin on Lap 179 of the 200lap race Sunday.

The tragedy cuts deep for obvious reasons.

AJ Allmendinger — a former teammate at Michael Shank Racing when the team won the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway in 2012 — reached out to deliver one of the most poignant messages in a series of tweets.

“Life isn’t fair sometimes.

We lost one of the great ones today. One of the best ever. I know ur up there being a Wheelman JW. Ur amazing!!!”

Forced out of the game to make a living, Gibson later brought her talents to golf, breaking another color barrier: the Ladies Professional Golf Association, where she competed for over 10 years. Her life transcended sports, and her fame thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights Movement.

“Althea’’ captures the legend’s highs and lows.

The film, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 19th American Black Film Festival, was executive produced by women’s sports legend Billie Jean King, actor John Amos and activist investor William A. Ackman (CEO, Pershing Square Capital Management).

The funding by NBPC, a media arts organization, is helping to make possible the celebration of Althea Gibson Week, Aug. 24–29 in New York. (Gibson was born on Aug. 25, 1927.) The week includes an Aug. 29 Long Island premiere screening at Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington, New York For more information, visit http://altheathefilm.com/phone/althea-week.html.

And then this: “My friend, brother, teammate and especially to one of the most amazing people I have had the pleasure to be around.

I love u @justin — wilson.”

Chevrolet issued a prepared statement to the media as well.

“The motorsports community has suffered a tremendous loss with the passing of Justin Wilson.

Justin will be missed. He loved the sport and the fans truly loved him. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family, friends and legions of fans. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Julia, and their two young daughters, and everyone at Andretti Autosport.”

Wilson was 37. He is survived by wife Julia and two daughters.

Stewart steps up Tony Stewart does not get a lot of publicity for his random acts of kindness, and there’s a reason for that.

Stewart hates the attention. But in another postscript to the tragedy involving Justin Wilson, it should be duly noted that Stewart loaned his plane and pilots to Stefan Wilson, Justin’s brother, so that Stefan could get from Indianapolis to his brother’s side at the Pennsylvania hospital Sunday night.

Wilson was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Allentown on Sunday and died the following day. Thanks to Stewart, his brother was there at his bedside. “@TonyStewart is a top man. Thanks Smoke. #racingfamily,” tweeted Dario Franchitti. “@TonyStewart words can’t describe how thankful the @IndyCar community is for your generosity in helping JWs family. #RacingFamily thanks u,” tweeted Beccy Hunter-Reay, the wife of Sunday winner Ryan Hunter-Reay.

Ratings plunge The 2015 TV ratings report for NASCAR is not good. The Saturday night race at Bristol earned a 1.9 overnight rating on NBC Sports Network. That reflects a drop of 44 percent from last year (3.4) and a drop of 49 percent from 2013 (3.7) while both races aired on ABC. The 1.9 number is the second-lowest for any Sprint Cup race this season, ahead of only a 1.5 for Kansas on Fox Sports 1 in May. Overall, 12 of the 13 Sprint Cup races on cable have seen a decline in overnight ratings. The Kentucky race is the only exception.

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