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PUNCHED IN THE FACE Blacks in Alabama led an Obama voter-style coalition that elected the first Democratic US senator there in a generation, dealing Donald Trump another electoral failure. Here’s how Democrats say it happened. COMPILED FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. – Democrat Doug Jones, who started the Alabama race for U.S. Senate as a massive underdog, swept to victory with support from AfricanAmericans, educated females, urban and college-town dwellers, and disgusted Republican Tuesday night in a repudiation of scandal-stained Roy Moore.
Obama-style turnout According to CNN exit polls, 29 percent of Alabama voters were
Black, about the same rate they voted for Barack Obama’s two elections in 2008 and 2012. That turnout is considered to be extremely high for an off-year special election. Blacks favored Jones over Moore, 96 percent to 4 percent. Ninety-eight percent of Black female voters, and 93 percent of Black male voters, cast ballots for Jones. Jones also won over young voters between ages 18-29 by 22 points; women by 16 points; and independent voters by 8 points. Jones picked up 21 percent of Republican voters, the same group
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that voted for Mitt Romney over Obama by 99 percent to 1 percent in 2012. Consequently, President Donald Trump’s troubles with Congress just got worse.
Tougher struggle The Republican loss shrinks
the GOP’s Senate majority to a thin 51-49. That makes passing laws even harder for a president who was already struggling to keep every GOP senator in line behind his agenda, especially on health care and taxes. It also makes it more plausible for Democrats to seize control of the Senate next Novem-
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ber. Trump’s unpopularity had already put the House in play. The 2018 map makes the Senate a tougher reach for Democrats – but not quite as tough now.
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White House door hits Omarosa Little ‘color’ in Trump leadership COMPILED FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
WASHINGTON – She is among President Donald Trump’s most high-profile Black supporters, a reality television star turned government official. Now, Omarosa Manigault Newman – who married John Allen Newman, pastor of The Sanctuary @ Mount Calvary in Jacksonville earlier this year – is set to leave her role as director of communications in the White House Office of Public Liaison, a position in which she was tasked with working on outreach to various constituency groups.
‘Other opportunities’
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On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Manigault Newman was resigning to pursue other opportunities effective Jan. 20, one year to the date after Trump’s inauguration. Throughout last year’s campaign, Manigault Newman, who had been a contestant on Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice,” often appeared at rallies alongside the candidate. She held meet-and-greets between Trump and African-American clergy and helped arrange visits during his run for the presidency in predominantly Black inner-city neighborhoods. All of this came as Trump frequently characterized AfricanAmericans as “living in hell” during campaign speeches, while also facing repeated questions about racial discrimination lawsuits related to his New York apartment rental busiSee OMAROSA, Page A2
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TALLAHASSEE – Continuing a petition drive to get on the November 2018 ballot, backers of a proposed felons’ rights constitutional amendment raised more than $1.1 million last month. The political committee Floridians for a Fair Democracy brought in $1,158,703 during the month and had raised an over-
all total of $4,073,395, according to a newly posted report on the state Division of Elections website. Last month’s total included $800,000 in contributions from Laurie Michaels, a Fort Worth, Texas, psychologist. Floridians for a Fair Democracy is proposing a constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights for all nonviolent felons who have
served their sentences, completed parole or probation and paid restitution. Felons convicted of violent crimes, such as murder, would not be eligible. The committee needs to submit 766,200 valid petition signatures to get the measure on the 2018 ballot and had submitted 495,455 as of Dec. 12, according to the Division of Elections.
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Donald J. Trump is a ‘dead witch walking’ For all of Donald Trump’s first year as POTUS, he has been referring to investigations of him, his campaign, his transition team and the Oval Office as fake news or a “witch hunt”! Well, the man that called Black professional football players “sons of bitches,” in my mind, has witch, snitch and bitch problems in Washington, D.C.
We all see it Despite all of the presidential pushback, anyone with eyes can see that many of the so-called best and most talented people hired by the president have been fired, replaced, indicted and jailed or put on house arrest.
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A couple of the president’s former advisors have pled guilty to crimes such as lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and also on government security clearance forms and documents. Don’t worry about what has been reported about investigations by the FBI and the congressional committees in the U.S. House and Senate. Worry about Special Counsel Robert Mueller!
It’s all there When the White House says Mueller’s investigations have produced nothing, the fact is that evidence has surfaced to show the lies, the distractions, the cover-ups, the back drafts and back channels and the far-too-many meetings with the Russians that did everything they could to undermine American elections and undermine American democracy! Take my word for it. It seems Mueller has all he needs to have to bring charges on everybody in the West Wing. I believe Mueller has audio tapes, emails, photos, memos, documents, bank statements and tax returns of some politicians that have refused to release them. So why are investigations continuing?
Wants them all Mueller appears to be trying to
nail the whole kit and caboodle! He wants “Ali Baba” and his 40 political thieves! Mueller is trying to cut off the “pardon” possibility at the pass! He is amassing federal crime information as well as information about violations of state laws that can be used to bring state charges that cannot be pardoned by the president. As I’ve written before, collusion, obstruction, perjury and false statements are not enough for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller is following the money!
The money trail will also lead to money laundering, exorbitant real estate deals, payoffs, kickbacks and maybe even bribes! Yes, if all of the investigations going on in the nation’s capital are merely “witch hunts,” the witch has been spotted, surrounded and is about to be apprehended! Nothing less than a political death in the form of an impeachment for the president and possible jail time is in store for his snitches and bitches. Politically speaking perhaps, President Donald J. Trump is a “dead witch walking”!
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When you follow the money, it will lead to Russia’s desire to end American and American allies’ economic sanctions that hurt the Russian oil businesses, banking businesses and other businesses so much.
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nities,” she battled panel host Ed Gordon, a veteran journalist. Gordon pressed her about her White House role and she repeatedly sidestepped the questions.
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nesses in the 1970s. But Manigault Newman’s efforts did not translate to much support – Trump won just 8 percent of the Black vote, while Democrat Hillary Clinton took 88 percent.
On Wednesday, there were widespread reports that Manigault Newman was forced out – fired by White House chief of staff John F. Kelly – and that she left the building lobbing vulgarities. Ryan was among those tweeting that Manigault Newman was escorted from the White House cursing. As for public talk of their split, both Trump and Manigault Newman – active Twitter users – had not posted any messages by Wednesday night, the Florida Courier’s press time, about her departure.
Black advocate Even so, for much of her tenure in the White House, Manigault Newman did tout her efforts to woo African-American support for Trump. She served as a liaison of sorts between the White House and leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus. She helped coordinate meetings between Trump and the presidents of historically Black colleges and universities. Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaigns, said Wednesday that Manigault Newman’s role was never clearly defined. “She appeared on Trump’s shows – seemed to be loyal, which Trump liked – and was supposedly doing outreach to the African-American community, but there was never any strong relationship,” Belcher said. “I think almost anyone given the task of any sort of Black outreach for a president who has sympathized with neo-Nazis and white supremacists was going to fail.”
No help from Trump In recent months, Trump has been assailed for saying “both sides” were to blame for the violence at a white supremacist rally in August in Charlottesville, Va., where a woman was killed. And more recently, Trump has
TRUMP from A1 servatives also has limits. Burned by his decision to back a candidate who lost the GOP primary, Trump gambled on campaigning hard for Moore even as other Republicans withdrew their support when Moore was accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls. Trump argued that another Democrat in the Senate would thwart his plans to roll back abortion rights, curb illegal immigration and block new gun controls. Despite Trump’s overwhelming victory last year in deeply conservative Alabama, its voters rejected his advice.
An embarrassing bigot Moore’s opponents in Alabama, including some business leaders, feared that electing him would embarrass the state. It wasn’t just the prospect of an accused child molester winning one of its seats in the Senate; it was also Moore’s well publicized history of prejudice. To those familiar with his inflammatory rhetoric – he once declared Muslims unfit for office – it came as no surprise that during the campaign he called Native Americans and Asians “reds and yellows.” Or that he railed against “sodomy” by gay men and lesbians. Or that on the eve of the election, his wife, Kayla Moore, defended him against accusations of anti-Semitism by saying – in remarks written in advance – that “one of our attorneys is a Jew.” Yet Alabama, a state with a painful history of racial strife, not
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In this file photo, Omarosa Manigault Newman looks on during the daily press briefing at the White House on Jan. 24. repeatedly targeted Black professional athletes on social media, castigating, among others, players who kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality. “None of this has helped her job, or her supposed outreach, to African-Americans,” Belcher said. And Manigault Newman has had her own battles with other prominent African-Americans.
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only rejected Moore; it elected a Democrat who once prosecuted Ku Klux Klansmen for the killing of four girls in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The win – which Moore refused to acknowledge – marked the first time a Democrat has captured a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in a quarter of a century.
where. Many of his campaign’s key strategic decisions were based in large part on a special election race that came before it in South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District. “It was pretty much an exact model,” Clyburn said. On June 20, Democrat Archie Parnell, a Sumter, S.C., tax attorney, came within three percentage points of beating conservative firebrand Ralph Norman to replace ex-GOP Rep. Mick Mulvaney in Congress. Political strategists noticed Parnell’s strong performance in a Republican district. Those looking to win in places favorable to Donald Trump were asking what the Parnell campaign did right. The answer, said Kendall Corley, Parnell’s special election campaign strategist, was to employ a hyperlocal, grassroots approach to engaging voters, particularly in the Black community, where Southern Democratic strongholds are often strongest.
Dems listened Black Democrats on Capitol Hill are finally feeling elated – and validated – as they look ahead. After years of griping that national party leaders aren’t taking their advice on how to win elections across the South, AfricanAmerican lawmakers Wednesday saw the story of the Jones campaign as a case study in what happens when people listen to them. The message: Go local. Become intimately familiar with the constituents. Go early to the churches and the neighborhood gathering spots. Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond of Louisiana and Assistant House Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, among others, have long argued that more often than not, the Democratic Party campaign apparatus makes an aggressive pitch to Black voters in the closing weeks before an election instead of making a sustained voter engagement effort throughout a campaign.
S.C. model What gives Democrats new optimism is that the structure and strategy in the Jones campaign can be used as a model else-
In March, Manigault walked out a breakfast meeting with the National Newspaper Publishers Association – the trade group of more than 150 Black newspaper before it ended. The catalyst for the walkout was a reporter’s question that led to a dispute about the accuracy of a story written by Black journalist Hazel Trice Edney in January. Earlier this year, April D. Ry-
Federal vs. local Appealing to people at the most granular levels of civic life is what works in elections for the school board or county council, Corley explained to McClatchy on Wednesday morning. Rarely, until recently, has this philosophy been applied to federal elections. At some point during the Jones campaign, the Democratic National Committee – led by Jaime Harrison, the former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman now in DNC leadership – asked Corley to help implement a similar ground game in Alabama. “We put a point of contact in each county, and people in churches, where a lot of African-
an, Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, alleged that Manigault Newman “physically intimidated” her. Manigault Newman denied the accusation. And in August, Manigault Newman sparred with members of the National Association of Black Journalists at their conference in New Orleans. Speaking on a panel titled “Black and Blue: Raising Our Sons, Protecting Our Commu-
Americans still receive information and knowledge,” said Corley. “We set up what we call ‘Adopt a Precinct,’ in which certain civic groups like fraternities and sororities, churches, barber shops, adopt a precinct they are in, or is contiguous to their organization building, and they are responsible for the turnout in that precinct. We gave them maybe a list and any other resources that they needed to run the vote out.” Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist who helped coordinate voter outreach in Black churches for the Parnell campaign, was also brought in to help ensure the Jones operation maintained a similarly consistent and productive presence in the pews. “The big difference in this race is that they had an African-American plan,” said Richmond.
Stay local Rep. Terri Sewell, currently the only Alabama Democrat in Congress and the first Black woman ever elected to represent the state, said as in the Parnell race, the Jones campaign worked hard not to nationalize its campaign. “I can tell you that the DNC came in and listened to the elected officials on the ground who said, ‘We don’t need any more media money, we need (get out the vote) money, and we need it in these areas,’” said Sewell. She said that Harrison, DNC Chairman Tom Perez and Deputy DNC Chairman Keith Ellison also came and “literally asked me for names. Not just asked me for a strategy but, like, who would you hire in this neighborhood, this town.”
Manigault Newman’s pending White House departure means the Trump administration’s top official and unofficial leadership team is less diverse than ever. Here’s the list of remaining nonWhite top governmental officials: • HUD Secretary Ben Carson (African-American); • Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (Chinese-American); • Labor Secretary Alex Acosta (Cuban-American); • U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley (Indian-American); • Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai (Indian-American); • Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma (IndianAmerican).
Terence Cullen and Denis Slattery of the New York Daily News and Kurtis Lee of the Los Angeles Times (TNS) all contributed to this report.
Moving forward At the DNC, Harrison has been working to lay the groundwork in other states. He plans to roll out a “Dems for You” program in all 50 states modeled after an initiative he started in South Carolina that will encourage state Democratic parties to organize community services events – from school supply drives to resume-writing workshops – as a way to gain visibility in their communities. “It’s a sustained effort that does not go away after an election and does not arrive because of it,” Harrison explained. The DNC also needs to provide money and resources targeted at promising places. A complaint in the South Carolina congressional race was that these resources didn’t come soon enough. The national party has also made promises in the past to make wiser choices about where and how to compete in red states, but often left Democrats feeling disappointed or neglected.
Learning lessons Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico acknowledged that “my colleagues aren’t wrong” in some of their grievances, but the party’s House fundraising arm was learning lessons and applying them, including working with CBC members. Seawright said something different was clearly starting to happen. “No way in hell did anybody think the Democratic National Committee or anybody else would invest at the level they did in a state like Alabama, a red state,” he said. “And guess what? It paid.”
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Miami schools working on #MeToo plan for students BY ALEX HARRIS MIAMI HERALD/TNS
MIAMI – In a year where allegations of sexual assault, harassment and rape
by powerful men are coming at a rapid-fire pace, Miami-Dade Schools wants to remind its students how to say #MeToo. Students can report in-
appropriate sexual behavior to teachers, counselors, schools police officers or principals, all of whom are legally mandated to report suspected abuse.
“Be the one who drags someone from the dark shadows of abuse into the light,” urged Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho during a
recent school board meeting. Warning signs But one board member worried that students
and parents aren’t aware of their options, or even worse, how to recognize the signs of abuse in their peers or their children. “We have a lot of procedures, but people don’t always know them or follow them because of lack of awareness,” said Martin Karp, vice chair of the school board. At the recent meeting, the school board agreed with Karp’s plan to create a campaign that spans all grade levels and reminds students how to report a suspected predator, as well as how to identify warning signs of inappropriate adult behavior. The plan would also create a class in The Parent Academy that trains parents to recognize the symptoms of abuse in their children and talk to their children about when adults cross the line.
Another teacher arrest Last month, a physical education teacher at Brownsville Middle School was fired and arrested on charges of sexually battering a 14-year-old girl. He’s suspected of sharing nude images of himself with students via a messaging app after starting an innocuous conversation about school. Karp said parents have approached him with concerns about teachers having untraceable, private conversations with students outside of the approved software for those conversations — Edmodo. His proposal involves reviewing and possibly revising the rules for adult communication with children.
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This proposal, which sets a February deadline for a completed plan on how to pull off the campaign and classes, is Karp’s second on the topic. In 2005, he proposed that schools strengthen their anti-sexual abuse curriculum and include warnings about sexual predators on the internet in their classes. “It’s not something that just started happening. It’s been going on for a long time and we need to prepare our kids,” he said. “If you follow the percentages, you’re talking about tens of thousands of students that will experience some type of inappropriate conduct.
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With Jones win, Black women and the unborn lose Alabama Democratic SenateElect Doug Jones is the antithesis of almost everything that conservatives and Alabama voters believe in – especially the sanctity of life and the rights of the unborn. He is joined at the hip with Planned Parenthood and abortion rights groups who have no respect for the right to life of the unborn or for those babies who make it to birth canal, but are killed in socalled “partial birth” abortions. His victory allows Planned Parenthood, abortionists, and those who consider the unborn nothing more than a mass of tissue – regardless of heartbeat and movement – to raise the flag of victory in Alabama. It’s a major victory for the abortion lobby and its allies nationwide!
for Disease Control (CDC) report last year, the rate of abortion among Black women is higher than among White women. While Black women comprise only six percent of the nation’s population, they account for 35 percent of the reported abortions. This has special implications for Black voters in Alabama who make up over 25 per cent of the state’s population – especially Black women and their unborn babies.
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As Dr. Alveda C. King, director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has said, “Abortion is genocide…Black Americans are being exterminated by the genocidal acts of abortion… Blacks need jobs, not abortions.” Even the Rev. Jesse Jackson, before he was co-opted by the Democratic Party establishment and ran for president in 1984, told Jet Magazine in 1973, “Abortion is genocide.” According to a U.S. Centers
A Kaiser Family Foundation Report on legal abortions by race of women who obtained abortions in Alabama in 2013 showed that while White women abortions comprised 37 per cent of abortions, abortions to Black women comprised 59 percent. As we approach the 45th anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade which made abortion legal nationwide, it’s important to note that the pro-abortion rights Alan Guttmacher Institute has report-
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ed that there have been nearly 50 million abortions performed since that time. Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union puts it in more real terms, saying that of the 50 million children that have been killed by abortion, “17 million of them were Black children.” She has written that abortion “has become the number one killer of Black people in this country – killing more Blacks than accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths…combined!”
Double a large city To put the abortion picture in Alabama in perspective, a 2011 issue of the Alabama Policy Institute’s “Guide to the Issues” on abortion, says it all: “While the exact number of abortions performed in Alabama prior to their legalization in 1973 is unknown, more than 505,000 abortions have been performed since the Roe v. Wade decision. This total is double that of Birmingham’s current municipal population of 229,800.” Given that the Birmingham population last year was even less than in 2011, the figures are even more shocking. Put in a more graphic way, the number of babies killed by abortions in Alabama since Roe v. Wade would
Why Jones’ win in Alabama doesn’t matter Democrat Doug Jones’ hair’s-breadth win over Republican Roy Moore is being hailed as a great victory. In reality, it makes no difference. An unemployed Alabama Black construction worker, John Dewayne Richardson, provided food for thought. According to the Washington Post, he said, “People don’t vote because they don’t feel their votes matter because nothing is going to change. What difference is it going to make?”
Did we learn? Did not Barack Obama or Donald Trump v. Hillary Clinton or John F. Kennedy teach us a lesson? The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road. Even the Jackson, Miss., experiment and the Black Lives Matter movement are bound and limited by bourgeois electoral politics. Instead, start with independent political action movement beyond mainstream electoral politics. Give it an anti-capitalist base. Add massive doses of anti-racism, anti-sexism, antihomophobia, and pro-immigration. Give it an internationalist view. Our allies represent oppressed people of the world. Get over the “Dump Trump” syndrome. Instead, dump capitalism with its bourgeoisie electoral politics. It is not about replacing Trump with Bernie Sanders types. The capitalist economic crisis is real. Attacks will continue lowering wages, cutbacks in social areas as well as attacks on our democratic rights.
Not about politics Alabama’s history is strewn with varying degrees of independent Black politics not relying on electoral politics. Black miners activated struggles in the 1890s and the turn of the 20th century. Organizing Black sharecroppers signaled still another method. The modern civil rights era brought us Rosa Parks and the E.D. Nixon-inspired Montgomery bus boycott.
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populate a city more than twice the size of Birmingham. Given these numbers, with Alabama now having an “abort at any time” advocate in the U.S. Senate – Doug Jones – you can bet that abortionists are sharpening the scalpels and forceps to plunge their abortion scissors deep into the heart of the Alabama antiabortion community. A Jones win is a great victory for Planned Parenthood and its
It’s time to get real. Donald J. Trump is not an aberration of most White males in the United States of America. In fact, he is exactly what most of them are all about. That’s why he’s president of the country today.
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Birmingham’s Rev. Shuttleworth’s 1956 efforts to end segregation in that city woke up the struggle. Dr. King’s Birmingham SCLC campaign exemplified another form of battle not led by electoral politics. The Selma to Montgomery marches marks another epoch struggle.
Independent movement The Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) helped usher in a more concentrated form of independent Black politics mixed with Black solidarity, and Black awareness. The group helped to create a transition from civil rights to Black rights. LCFO, with its symbolized Black scowling panther, was nicknamed the Black Panther Party, aided by Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretaries that Stokely Carmichael led. True, none of these Alabama episodes were anti-capitalist. They did contain seeds of independent politics that spawns it. My argument is that these happenings included elements of independent – albeit different – methods of struggle. Spontaneous reaction to Black oppression is not enough. The Black working class and Black working class-minded sisters and brothers must be the central leadership. Alabama represents fertile ground. Build the movement!
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Alabama – Amid the Democratic swooning, here’s some #realtalk. Doug Jones beat Roy Moore – a radical Christian fundamentalist, child molesting, disgraced judge who stole money from his own non-profit organization and who ran one of the most dismally flawed campaigns in recent memory – by only 1.54 percent,
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Broad support And contrary to what is often stated by too many newspapers, radio and television commentators, he is not in the White House mainly because of votes from White hillbillies, as can be seen by the following: • Fifty-three percent of White women voted for him, despite having heard and seen him proudly bragging about being able to sexually grope and harass women. • An overwhelming number of White veterans voted for him, despite his having been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War; despite his brazen ridiculing of Sen. John McCain for having been a prisoner of war for five years in the same conflict; and despite Trump’s strong support of serious efforts to privatize the Veteran’s Hospital system. • Millions of low-income, working-class and middle-income White males and females voted for him, despite his resolute refusal to provide his tax returns as did his predecessors. • Those same millions voted for him, despite his defiant refusal to give up control of his family businesses. Thus his businesses are generating millions – if not billions – of dollars for Trump and his family while he is in the White House. • A sizable number of Black folks and Latinos voted for him, despite
or about 21,000 votes. According to numbers from the 2016 elections, approximately 700,000 Trump voters stayed home. Do the math… Something else. The state’s Republican senior senator said he wouldn’t vote for Moore, and urged Alabama voters to write in the name of a “distinguished Republican.” About 23,000 Alabama voters did just that. Do the math… My point? To paraphrase what somebody said, “Success has many parents; failure is an orphan.” I’m hearing that Black folks in Alabama were voting for their own survival because they (we)
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his attitude toward people of color, especially those of African descent. That attitude is patronizing at best and White-supremacist at worst. He’s the kind of White person who passionately believes we should be eternally “grateful” that our ancestors were enslaved because it rescued them and us from “savage” Africa.
All Trump supporters All of the above voted for Trump despite his election victory having been assisted by operatives connected to Russian president, Vladimir Putin. It’s obvious that Donald Trump considers Putin a solid ally in the effort to keep people who look like them as the dominant force in world affairs. The bottom line is that Donald J. Trump, during both the Republican primary and the campaign for presidency, made it absolutely clear as to who and what he is. Not a single person who voted for him can honestly say that he lied or misled them. They got what they voted for: a poster boy for White supremacy.
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all now recognize that not voting has consequences (as if some of us didn’t know). So this was a perfect storm favoring Alabama Democrats: a dismal GOP candidate; an acceptable moderate Republican candidate with a historical connection to Black Alabama; a Black community feeling it is under siege; the momentum of the #MeToo anti-sexual harassment movement that helped make the child molestation allegations public; the disastrous Trump presidency. If Dems think their “ground game” was either the main or the only factor here,
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eugenics-believing founder Margaret Sanger – and a big loss for Black women and their unborn babies.
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they’re delusional as usual… Black politicians – In our Page A1 story, ‘Bama Dem Rep. Terri Sewell said to the Democratic National Committee, “We don’t need any more media money, we need (get out the vote) money.” That’s code for “Give the money to Black politicians” who can get paid to fly around the country and parachute into Black communities to “energize” Black voters. And Black-owned media gets shut out. More to come on that…
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Obama joins chorus warning about Trump’s America I have been in the vanguard of those warning about this fearful symmetry between current-day America and Nazi Germany. In fact, my concerns were such that I began sounding alarms long before a conspiracy of bigotry, ignorance, and complacency misled voters to elect Donald J. Trump the 45th president of the United States. I reacted to this black-swan election with “WTF: President-elect Donald J. Trump?! America. What. Have. You. Done?” posted on November 9, 2016.
Early warnings But commentaries like “Trump for President? Don’t Be a Sucker!” April 8, 2011; “Hip-Hop Mogul Pens Fawning Letter Chastising/ Cheering Racist Trump,” December 11, 2015; and “Republicans Bewailing Trump as Their Nominee; Democrats Hailing Hillary as Theirs,” June 8, 2016, all attest to my early warnings. But such warnings are now mainstream, so much so that no less a person than former President Obama has joined the chorus. But none of us – not even Hillary Clinton – got right-wingers frothing with outrage like Obama did after saying this during a Dec. 6 address to the Economic Club of Chicago, according to Crain’s Chicago Business: We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly. That’s what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolf Hitler rose to dominate. Sixty million people died… So, you’ve got to pay attention. I won’t dignify any of that outrage by citing it, let alone commenting on it. But I know that right-wing zealots – arguably Trump’s “brownshirts” – want you
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The trolls howling at Obama for daring to issue this warning are the very ones giving their version of “Seig heil” to all of Trump’s fascistic policies and rhetoric. Frankly, Trump’s willing enablers are every bit as converted today as Hitler’s willing executioners became during the darkest days of his Nazi regime. to think that these warning are only coming from left-wing liberals who still can’t accept that Trump is president. And too many reporters and commentators are either too ignorant or too lazy to cite evidence that counters this narrative.
Replace the system Barbuda is governed by the nearby island of Antigua, and Prime Minister Gaston Browne sees an opportunity to upend a system that he and others have long wanted to do away with. Browne describes Barbudans as “squatters,” and their communal land system as “welfare.” He proposes giving them the right to pur-
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chase property for $1. This may sound like a good deal, but Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation. They see no reason to live under the system that makes life precarious for people all over the world. Barbudans are to be commended for defending their rights and for not being easily fooled. The seemingly good deal of cheap private ownership will eventually lead to a system of haves and have-nots. As of now, “A cleaner and a doctor can both have oceanfront property,” but that would end with the establishment of private property.
The American plutocracy gets its immoral tax bill “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson said that about slavery, but he might well have been talking about what is now happening in Donald Trump’s Washington. Republicans are putting the finishing touches on a tax bill that takes from the poor to give to the rich. Then they plan to turn to savaging federal programs for the poor to make up for the deficits they’ve created. Millions of vulnerable Americans will suffer for their greed and their folly.
Disgraceful bill The tax bill – cobbled together in secret meetings without a public hearing, passed with handwritten amendments in the columns, legislators forced to vote without reading it – is simply a disgrace. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, low-
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But nobody personifies this incomprehensible conversion to Warnings from Europe Trumpism quite like the longestThis is why I hasten to note that serving Republican in the U.S.
Will ‘disaster capitalism’ wreck Barbuda? The Caribbean island of Barbuda was a paradise before Hurricane Irma struck in September. Not only was it a place of scenic beauty, but the system of government for its 1,800 people gave it a measure of equality that is rare in the world. There is no private land ownership in Barbuda. All property is held in common and one local leader explains the result: “There’s no great inequality in Barbuda.” Of course, a natural disaster is a great opportunity to make changes, in this case changes that will not benefit the people.
Europeans – from Prince Charles to Stern, the most respected news magazine in Germany – are issuing similar warnings. I commented on the former in “Prince Charles Draws Analogies Between Trumpism and Nazism,” February 8, 2017. Here is how The Hill, the most respected political news magazine in America, commented on the latter on August 23, 2017: A German news magazine’s latest cover image shows President Trump doing a Nazi salute. Stern is portraying Trump wearing an American flag and doing the salute, which is illegal in Germany. The caption reads ‘Sein Kampf,’ which means ‘his struggle’ – a reference to Adolf Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf,’ or ‘My Struggle.’ ‘Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Racism: As Donald Trump stirs the hate in America,’ a translation of the cover reads. Meanwhile, the trolls howling at Obama for daring to issue this warning are the very ones giving their version of “Seig heil” to all of Trump’s fascistic policies and rhetoric. Frankly, Trump’s willing enablers are every bit as converted today as Hitler’s willing executioners became during the darkest days of his Nazi regime. I have written many commentaries lamenting the myriad ways evangelical Christians and Republican politicians have sacrificed their values and principles at the altar of Trump’s presidency. (Acclaimed ethicist Peter Wehner gives compelling testimony to this fact in the New York Times under the headline, “Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican.”)
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er-income people will end paying $5.3 billion more in taxes, while those earning $1 million or more will pay $5.8 billion less. The Tax Policy Center reports that nearly the top 1 percent will pocket twothirds of its tax breaks. Ten years from now, when all the measures kick in, those earning $75,000 or less per year will end up paying on average more in taxes. This is a brazen expression of money power, as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch put it, an example of American plutocracy – a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy. The vulnerable will suffer the costs. An estimated 13 million
Money target The island has already been targeted for private development. The government in Antigua gave a consortium run by actor Robert DeNiro and an Australian billionaire the rights to lease land for a resort. Called “Paradise Found,” it was destroyed along with every other structure on Barbuda. But the precedent it set was not a good one. The entire island’s population was evacuated to Antigua in the wake of the hurricane, and infrastructure such as schools are still unrepaired. Antigua claims that it cannot rebuild unless Barbudans accept the proposal for private ownership. The cost of rebuilding is estimated to be $250 million. Browne dangles the offer of $1 property to convince Barbudans to accept disaster capitalism as the only way to restore their homeland. Barbudans have only to look at New Orleans and Puerto Rico to see their fate. There is nothing like literal displacement to whet the capitalist appetite. A devastating blow from nature can accomplish in one fell swoop what they scheme to do over a period of years. will lose health insurance. Those workers who get their insurance in the state exchanges will be hit with 10 percent increases in rates or more. Graduate students will be faced with massive tax hits, as the bill taxes tuition that universities waive (money that the students have never seen). Ten million low-income parents will be stripped of the child tax credit.
Plunder for the rich This while the top one-tenth of 1 percent, who make over $4.5 million a year, pocket an average tax cut of $127,000. The plunder has become immoral. Now, the Republican Congress will turn to savaging programs for the poor to help pay for the tax cuts. Next, “We’re going to go into welfare reform,” Donald Trump threatened at a rally last week. Sen. Marco Rubio reassured business leaders not to worry about deficits; the next step will be “…reducing spending. That will mean instituting structural changes to Social Security and Medicare for the future.” The House Republican Budget Resolution makes their priorities clear. It projects 40 percent cuts in programs for low- and moderate-
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Senate (at 40 years), Orin Hatch of Utah. Remarkably, like fish to water, Hatch has taken to helping Trump tear down the democratic institutions and bonds of bipartisanship he spent his career building up. You’d never know that before he became the deacon of Trump’s political crusade, Hatch was best known for striking legislative compromises with his best friend in the Senate: Democrat Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, also known as “the Liberal Lion of the Senate.” But sadly, Hatch has gone so far over to the dark side that Politico quoted him early this month as preaching this Republican heresy recently: “I’ll say this for ya. (Trump has) been one of the best presidents I’ve served under.” One cannot avoid saying here that former President Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave. But surely he has been doing that ever since Trumpism trumped Reaganism in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. In any event, no leader since
Hitler has done more to rattle the “thin veneer of civilization” than Trump. This is a comparison nobody can deny.
Quit or be dumped Note that I’m on record declaring my abiding belief that America’s constitutional checks and balances, as well as its democratic institutions, distinguish it from Germany’s Weimar Republic. This is why I am so confident that Trump will either resign in disgrace or be impeached before he can come anywhere close to emulating Hitler’s destruction. All the same, I fear the zeitgeist of his presidency will leave an indelible stain not only on the reputation of America, but also on the psyche of its people. God help America.
Anthony L. Hall is a native of The Bahamas with an international law practice in Washington, D.C. Read his columns and daily weblog at www.theipinionsjournal.com. Click on this commentary at www.flcourier. com to write your own response.
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its resources to return people to “Paradise” has a literal meaning their homes and repair infrastrucof “a beautiful location.” But Bar- ture. buda is also a haven of equality, and the people’s resolve is proof Many don’t know Not many people even knew of that most of humanity do not want to live amid dog-eat-dog competi- Barbuda’s existence, much less the tion. Most of the world would look fact that it has such a successful like Barbuda if more of us had the system of governance. Throughgood fortune to live under such a out history, there have been wars and revolutions waged in efforts system. Prime Minister Browne exhorts to gain what people on this tiny isBarbudans to accept cruise ships land already have. The prime minister may dismiss and airports as an inevitability that will benefit them. The devel- their devotion to their way of life opment that is offered to them is as “foolishness,” but Barbudans of dubious benefit. Some of them know better. They see the foolishwill win, and some of them will ness that controls the rest of their lose. They are right to be skeptical. region and hold on to their sysThe system they are told to em- tem for a good reason. Their story brace has done precious little for should be better known and they other people in the region. The must be supported in their efforts. United States colonies of PuerThey can clearly see the hand to Rico and the Virgin Islands al- writing on the wall. “If we’re not so sit unrepaired and devastated. careful, it’s going to be uninhabitPrivate property does little to help able for us, but habitable for somepeople in a time of crisis. body else.” It is simply untrue that capitalMargaret Kimberley’s column ism is the only “out” for Barbuda and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is- appears weekly in BlackAglands and all of the other devastat- endaReport.com. Contact her at ed Caribbean islands. The mod- Margaret.Kimberley@BlackAel for restoration is socialist Cuba, gendaReport.com. Click on this which not only cares for its people commentary at www.flcourier. when disaster strikes, but devotes com to write your own response.
income Americans by 2026. This includes cuts in Medicare, which will be turned into a voucher, losing value over time; more than $1 trillion in cuts from traditional Medicaid; and 30 percent cuts in food stamps, leaving millions without food assistance.
Damaging cuts Hit hard will be Pell Grants that help low-income students pay for college, child nutrition assistance for the very vulnerable and SSI benefits for the disabled and impoverished elderly. Domestic services – everything from education to transportation – will be cut. Spending on low-income programs is already as low as a percentage of the economy as it was in 1970. Trump, of course, pledged that he would not cut Social Security and Medicare during the campaign. That pledge seems no longer operative. He promised a health care plan for “everyone.” Not true. He said the rich would not benefit from the tax cuts. Not true. He said that he would not benefit. A lie. Republicans claim the tax cuts will produce growth and jobs. They claim the spending cuts will reduce deficits and help sustain growth. These are but excuses for
the immoral.
Clear moral calculus We will be judged, the Bible says, by how we treat “the least of these.” In Isaiah 10:1-3, it is written: “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?” But politicians respond not to what is moral but to what is popular. What will be the reckoning at the polls? Will Americans fall for the smoke and distractions? Or will they vote in large numbers against those who impose this folly? Only a political reckoning will curb the damage that is being done to this country.
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. is president and CEO of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Click on this commentary at www.flcourier.com to write your own response.
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The museum’s exhibits explore the history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi between 1945 and the 1970s.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Civil rights museum in Missipppi opens without the presence of some prominent activists – and with Trump. BY JAWEED KALEEM LOS ANGELES TIMES/ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
JACKSON, Miss. – Protesters greeted President Donald Trump in the Mississippi capital on Dec. 9 as he came to speak at the opening of a civil rights museum. After the White House announced that Trump would visit the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and give a speech at its dedication, many people in Jackson said they would boycott the event. They included Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who was a prominent civil rights activist; Rep. Bennie Thompson; former Gov. Ray Mabus; Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba; and members of the NAACP.
Don’t respect him “Mr. President, we don’t need you in Mississippi to tell us what a civil rights movement is about,” said Lumumba, who gathered with activists at an AfricanAmerican history museum about a mile west of the opening to condemn Trump’s arrival. “We do not respect your attitude and your division of this nation. We do not respect your xenophobia. We do not respect your denial of the fact that Black people are to be respected for their worth, dignity and rights,” said San Francisco NAACP branch President Amos Brown, who grew up in Jackson.
White House responds White House spokesman Raj Shah pushed back against those speaking out against the president, who have accused Trump of enabling White supremacists in his statements and Twitter posts and promoting tax and health policies that disproportionately hurt minorities. “It’s a little unfortunate that a moment like this, that could be used for unification and bringing people together, some folks are choosing to play politics with it,” Shah said. “But that’s not going to deter us from honoring heroes in the civil rights movement.”
Invitation-only audience Trump attended the event at the invitation of Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who oversees the Mississippi Department of Archives that runs the museum.
The Mississippi Museum of Civil Rights is located in Jackson, Miss. It’s the country’s first state-sponsored civil rights museum.
IF YOU GO The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is located at 222 North St., Suite 2205, Jackson, MS., 39201. The phone number is 601-576-6800. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. General admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students 4-18 and $6 for seniors 60 and up. Children under 3 are admitted free. Group rates also are available. The museum includes eight galleries that focus on the years 1945–1976 when Mississippi was ground zero for the national Civil Rights Movement. The galleries encircle a central space called “This Little Light of Mine.” There, a dramatic sculpture glows brighter and the music of the Movement swells as visitors gather. More information: https://mcrm. mdah.ms.gov
The president landed in Jackson with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. Charles Evers, the brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, greeted Trump at the airport. “These buildings embody the hope that has lived in the hearts of every American for generations. The hope for a future that is more just and is more free,” Trump said to a mostly White, invitationonly audience in the museum.
Nine-minute speech Speaking for about nine minutes after a short tour of the museum, Trump said: “The fight to end slavery, to break down Jim Crow, to end segregation, to gain the right to vote, and to achieve the sacred birthright of equality. “That’s big stuff. Those are very big phrases. Very big words. Here we memorialize the brave men and women who struggled to sacrifice, and sacrifice so much, so that others might live in freedom.” Trump called Martin Luther King Jr. “a man who I studied and watched, admired for my entire life.” He also spoke See MUSEUM, Page B2
Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia is on display at the museum.
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Museum. It will include a panel discussion and activities for kids. Details: spadymuseum.com
West Palm Beach: An African History forum is Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 3345 Haverhill Road. Speaker: Brian Knowles, School District of Palm Beach County. Free. Jacksonville: The African Village International will host a Kwanzaa celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 26 at the Ritz Theatre and Museum, 829 N Davis St. More information and other Kwanzaa events: www. africanvillageintl.org Boca Raton: The Rock the Block New Year’s Eve Party is at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Performers: Salt N Pepa, Wang Chuck and A Flock of Seagulls. Coconut Creek: The Village People will perform Dec. 31 at the Seminole Casino. Fort Lauderdale: The Carlton B. Moore exhibit on display at the Broward County African- American RESEARCH Library and Cultural Center continues through Dec. 30. The former commissioner and NAACP president died in 2014. Pinellas Park: United One Insurance is hosting a free Toys for Tots roadside party from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 16 at 7001 66th St. N. Guests are asked to take an unwrapped gift for Toys for Tots. Delray Beach: A celebration of Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s 142nd birthday is Dec. 16 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Spady Cultural Heritage
Tampa: The 10th Year Black Business Bus Tours Reunion is Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. leaving from the Bounce Boy, 5008 E. 10TH Ave. Details: 813-394-6363 Kissimmee: Reggaeton Old School is scheduled Dec. 16 at the Silver Spurs Arena at Osceola Heritage Park. Daytona Beach: A Motown Christmas Spectacular is Dec. 16 at The Peabody featuring the Motortown All-Stars and the Marvelettes.
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Keyshia Cole & Friends will be at Jacksonville’s Veterans Memorial Arena on Dec. 29. With K-CI & JoJo, Ja Rule, 112, Doug E. Fresh, Carl Thomas and the 69 Boyz.
Jacksonville: The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus will present “The Cool Side of Yuletide on Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. at 5 p.m. at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church. Details: Jaxchildrenschorus.org.
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Clearwater: The Silver Anniversary Celebration of Winter Wonderland continues through Dec. 22 in downtown Clearwater. Free entrance, but a charge for some activities and food. Proceeds help kids in Pinellas County. Details: ccvfl.org. Miami Gardens: Free one-one business consulting sessions are available through December for Miami Gardens residents. Call M.D. Stewart & Associates for an appointment at 305-890-4984. Miami Gardens: Tickets are on sale now for Jazz in the Gardens – March Saturday March 17 & Sunday March 18, 2018. Performers include Anita Baker, Smokey Robinson and Chaka Khan. Details: Jazzinthegardens.com
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Trailblazing journalist Simeon Booker dies at 99 Reporter covered Till case, Little Rock school integration, presidential elections BY STACY M. BROWN NNPA NEWSWIRE
Simeon Booker, a trailblazing Black journalist who covered the Civil Rights Movement for the iconic African-American magazines Ebony and Jet, has died. He also was the first Black person to work as a full-time Washington Post reporter. Booker, who is credited with playing an integral role in delivering the story of Emmett Till’s murder, was 99. “As chairman of the NNPA, I know that we honored Simeon Booker during Black Press Week for his overall excellence of journalism and certainly he is someone that has been very, very important to our industry,” said Dorothy Leavell, the national chairman of the NNPA and publisher of the Crusader Newspapers in Chicago, Ill., and Gary, Indiana. “His presence will be deeply missed. Even though he lived a long life, we still mourn and we send our sympathies to his family and want them to know that he was highly appreciated at the NNPA and the Black Press around the country,” Leavell said.
MUSEUM from B1 of local civil rights activist “Sgt. Medgar Wiley Evers … he fought in Normandy in the Second World War” and then battled “grave injustices against very innocent people.” Evers was murdered in Jackson in 1963. Evers’ widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, was in the crowd.
One of its kind The Mississippi State History Museum also opened on Saturday, housed with the civil rights museum in another wing of a downtown building. Together, the two museums cost more than $90 million. The civil rights museum is the only state-sponsored museum of its kind in the nation. Its exhibits explore the
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More major stories Booker remained on the dangerous frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement, reporting on the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1961, Booker rode with the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Riders through the Deep South. When the buses were firebombed in Anniston, Alabama, Booker arranged the Freedom Riders’ evacuation with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Continuing his work of indepth reporting, Booker toured Vietnam and interviewed General Westmoreland for Jet in the mid-1960s. In 1964, Booker outlined the importance of the ongoing Civil Rights Movement in his book, Black Man’s America.
‘A freedom fight’ Simeon Booker was the first Black staff reporter for the Washington Post and was Jet’s Washington bureau chief for 51 years.
Worked at ‘The Afro’ Simeon Saunders Booker Jr. was born on Aug. 27, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland to Roberta Waring and Simeon Saunders Booker Sr., a YMCA director and minister, according to his biography published by The HistoryMakers. After his family moved to Youngstown, Ohio, Booker became interested in journalism through a family friend, Carl Murphy, the owner and operator of The Afro-American newspapers, also known as “The Afro,” in
history of the civil rights movement in the state between 1945 and the 1970s, including major national turning points such as the lynching of Emmett Till outside Money, Mississippi, in 1955.
Public speech nixed Trump was initially expected to speak at a public ceremony outside the building for a celebration to include a speech by Myrlie Evers-Williams. But the White House said late in the week that Trump would talk to a smaller crowd of about 200 museum donors, civil rights figures, and local and state officials inside the museum before flying to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach. “There’s not a lot of Black people here,” said John Perkins, an 87-yearold Jackson resident and veteran of the civil rights movement who sat in the
Baltimore, Md. In 1942, after receiving his bachelor’s degree in English from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Booker took a job at the The Afro-American as a young reporter. In 1945, he moved back to Ohio to work for the Call and Post.
Studied at Harvard Five years later, Booker was the recipient of the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University to study journalism and develop his talent as a reporter. After leaving
Harvard in 1951, Booker became the first full-time Black reporter at the Washington Post. In 1954, Booker was hired by the Johnson Publishing Company to report on current events in its weekly digest, Jet. In 1955, Booker helped to redefine the role of Jet and the entire Civil Rights Movement with his famous coverage of the Emmett Till murder and trial, turning an all too familiar event in the Deep South into a national tragedy that united the Black community.
Booker covered every presidential election since the Eisenhower Administration in his 53 years with Johnson Publishing until he retired in 2007. In 1982, Booker received one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award. “A legend who served generations well,” tweeted the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “The best at what he did. A freedom fighter for the ages.” Popular CNN White House Correspondent April Ryan wrote: “Thank you Simeon Booker for your stories that exposed truth this nation did not always want to see and or read. History.”
front row of the auditorium with his daughter, Joanie Potter, next to a seat reserved for Bryant. “For me personally, it’s like an Ebenezer, a new beginning. I hope this can be symbolic of a time for reconciliation. … It was a heart searching for me to come here after the president was coming, but I decided it’s too important.’’
Turned their backs A few blocks outside the museum past a security perimeter, demonstrators lined High Street with signs as some turned their backs or took to their knees in protest against Trump, who has mocked National Football League players who kneel during the national anthem in protests against police brutality. They included Nicki Nichols, a White resident of Jackson. “The position of the president of the United
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The museum’s mission is to document, exhibit the history of, and educate the public about the Civil Rights Movement Mississippi. States is generally regarded as a respectable individual who strives to ensure the safety and security of the nation, and its citizens,”
Nichols said. “Donald Trump has consistently failed to live up these standards, and has also repeatedly chosen
to use his position to belittle not only those whose values he does not support, but to belittle American citizens.”
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Thousands of Caribbean culture lovers converge on South Florida every year before and during the Columbus Day weekend to attend the annual Miami Broward Carnival, a series of concerts, pageants, parades, and competitions. On Carnival Day, “mas” (masquerade) bands of thousands of revelers dance and march behind 18-wheel tractor-trailer trucks with booming sound systems from morning until nightfall while competing for honors. Here are some of the “Finest” we’ve seen over the years. Click on www.flcourier to see hundreds of pictures from previous Carnivals. Go to www. miamibrowardcarnival. com for more information on Carnival events in South Florida. CHARLES W. CHERRY II / FLORIDA COURIER
TV One cancels Martin’s morning news show BY STACY M. BROWN WASHINGTON INFORMER
The only Black daily newscast on television is no more. TV One is canceling Roland Martin’s morning show “NewsOne Now” due to budget cuts. “After four years of award-winning programming and distinguished service to our viewers as the only Black daily newscast on television, the network has made the difficult decision to suspend the production of NewsOne Now as a daily morning news show. The last live show is scheduled Thursday, December 21, 2017,” TV One’s Interim General Manager Michelle Rice wrote in a memo. The news shocked staffers—including Martin—as the network had just expanded the morning show to two hours in September,
Golden Globe nominees include ‘Get Out’ BY NICOLE HYATT EURWEB.COM
Nominations for the 2018 Golden Globes were announced Monday morning with Jordan Peele’s hit horror flick “Get Out” earning nods for best picture, and best actor (Daniel Kaluuya). The Globes, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, honor acting in film and TV in 25 categories: 14 for movies and 11 for TV.
More Blacks listed Issa Rae, Denzel Washington, Sterling K. Brown and Octavia Spencer also picked up acting nods. Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” leads the nominations with seven — including nods in the director, lead actress and supporting actress categories — followed by “The Post” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” with
according to Page Six. “There were lots of tears…The staff was completely caught off guard,” Page Six reported a source as saying.
Caught off guard The memo added, “While we will continue our long-standing partnership with Roland Martin to ensure his important voice can be heard across all Urban One platforms examining issues of importance to the Black community, we regret this decision adversely affects several of our valued colleagues whose positions will be eliminated with the suspension of the show.” The news caught viewers off guard and many, including highprofile journalists, took to social media. “Maybe if the viewers make
enough noise, TV One will reconsider canceling Roland Martin’s NewsOne Now,” said journalist Jawn Murray. “The only news show geared toward African Americans—and ditch the dozen or so Black crime shows they air.” Gregory H. Lee, Jr., the editorial director at NBA. com and the past Roland president of the Martin National Association of Black Journalists called the cancelation of NewsOne Now “crazy.” Lee wrote: “Roland Martin’s morning show had real substance and covered the issues of our community.
New format The morning of Dec. 7, Martin read more from the memo that was sent out to employees of the Urban One company. “We are committed to providing quality news content to our viewers, but now realize a daily news program is not sustainable in this current financial climate,” Martin read. “Our plan is to take a moment to regroup and restructure NewsOne Now in 2018 under a new format that will serve the needs of our diverse audience and the business.”
Won’t be silenced Martin noted that, during the show’s run, there were a number of stories that were covered on NewsOne Now that weren’t covered anywhere else.
“For me, my voice will not be silenced,” said Martin. “You have numerous platforms, numerous opportunities the ability to be able to communicate with folks through social media as well, that voice will always be there, speaking to our issues.” Martin continued, “The most important thing for us to understand is that we move forward… speaking to our issues and our concerns. I understand that a lot of people are hurt and disappointed by this…between now and Dec. 21 we’re going to keep doing our jobs, keep giving folks hell, keep holding folks accountable and doing and saying what is required.” The Washington Informer is a member publication of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
six each. “Lady Bird” stood alone in third place with four nominations, including Saoirse Ronan in the lead actress category. “Call Me By Your Name,” “The Greatest Showman,” “All the Money in the World,” “Dunkirk,” and “I, Tonya” all followed with three nominations each.
Jan. 7 show HBO’s summer hit “Big Little Lies” earned six nods to lead the television nominations, four of which went to the show’s main actresses Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley. FX’s “Feud: Bette and Joan” followed with four nods, and “This Is Us,” “Fargo” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” tied for third place with three nominations each. Kristen Bell, Garrett Hedlund, Sharon Stone and Alfre Woodard announced the noms from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The 75th annual Golden Globes ceremony will be held at the hotel’s Grand Ballroom at 8 p.m. on Jan. 7 and will air live on NBC. Seth Meyers is set to host. For the complete list of nominations, visit goldenglobes. com.
Daiel Kaluuya received a nomination for best actor in the Jordan Peele film.
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FROM FAMILY FEATURES
The holidays are filled with temptations and opportunities to over-indulge, and if you’re managing your health and weight, the season can feel anything but merry. Depriving yourself of your favorite holiday treats isn’t only unpleasant, it’s also unnecessary. Many experts recommend that instead, you focus on building a healthier lifestyle through a well-balanced, long-term eating plan. For example, Atkins offers a balanced approach with foods containing fiber-rich and nutrient-dense carbohydrates, as well as good fats and proteins, while focusing on reduced levels of refined carbohydrates and added sugars. When preparing your holiday menu, look for recipes that contain adequate protein, healthy fats and high-fiber carbohydrates, and you’ll be able to enjoy the flavors of the season without guilt. Learn more about the benefits of a balanced, low-carb approach to eating at Atkins.com. GARLIC ROSEMARY PORK LOIN Recipe courtesy of “Atkins: Eat Right, Not Less” Prep time: 15 minutes Total time: 1 hour Servings: 4 1 pound boneless pork loin olive oil cooking spray 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 3 garlic cloves, minced 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, thinly sliced Heat oven to 350 F. In small skillet over medium heat, cook pork loin, fatty-side down, 4-5 minutes to brown top and render some fat. Coat 7-by-11-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Place pork loin in dish. In small bowl, combine mustard, garlic and rosemary; stir well. Spoon mixture over pork. Transfer to oven and bake 45 minutes-1 hour, until loin is cooked through but still slightly pink in center. When pork is cooked, let rest 5 minutes before slicing. Slice and serve immediately.
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Happier Healthier Holidays LESS IS NOT MORE If you’re looking for more inspiration, tips and recipes, try finding additional resources such as “Atkins: Eat Right, Not Less: Your Guidebook For Living a Low-Carb and Low-Sugar Lifestyle.” Filled with 100 whole-food, low-carb recipes and simple solutions, the new book contains a variety of meal plans, lowcarb takes on classic foods and tips for creating a lowcarb kitchen. Readers can also learn about Atkins 100, a flexible and personalized low-carb lifestyle program.
SWEET POTATO-PUMPKIN PUREE Recipe courtesy of Atkins.com Prep time: 20 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes 3 large egg whites 5 tablespoons sugar substitute, divided 1/2 cup half pecans 1 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled 1/4 cup unsalted butter stick 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 15 ounces pumpkin (without salt, drained, cooked and boiled) Heat oven to 250 F. Lightly butter baking sheet. In medium mixing bowl, beat egg whites with electric mixer at high SALTED CARAMEL CHEESECAKE BITES Recipe courtesy of “Atkins: Eat Right, Not Less” Prep time: 10 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes Servings: 18 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/3 cup plain protein powder 2 tablespoons stevia 6 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/3 cup chopped almonds or macadamia nuts 1 tablespoon sugar-free caramel syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/8teaspoon xanthan gum (optional) 1/4 teaspoon sea salt or sea salt flakes In large mixing bowl, combine heavy cream with protein powder and stevia. Whisk until smooth. Add cream cheese, almonds or
macadamia nuts, caramel syrup and vanilla extract; blend until smooth. If cream cheese clumps slightly, mix with rubber spatula, breaking up bits of cream cheese against side of bowl. Sprinkle mixture with xanthan gum, if desired, and mix about 30 seconds. Mixture will thicken slightly. Cover tray that will fit into freezer with sheet of wax paper. Using soup spoon, scoop mixture
speed until foamy. Gradually add 3 tablespoons sugar substitute and continue mixing until soft peaks form. Spoon onto prepared baking sheet and spread with spatula to 1/4-inch thickness. Bake 35 minutes. Turn oven off; let meringue stand in oven 45 minutes. Crush meringue and place in bowl. Add pecans and toss gently to combine. Set aside. While meringue is resting, place sweet potatoes in medium saucepan. Cover with water to 2 inches above potatoes and bring to boil. Cook until tender, about 20 minutes, and drain. Return saucepan to medium-high heat. Add potatoes, butter, cream, remaining sugar substitute, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and pumpkin puree. Stir to combine. Mash with potato masher until smooth. Heat through, about 1 minute. Transfer potato mixture to serving dish and cover with meringue topping. onto tray, making 18 mounds. Alternatively, use two silicone candy molds or empty ice cube tray coated with olive oil spray and press cheesecake mixture into 18 molds. Sprinkle with sea salt. Freeze at least one hour before serving. Note: Can be stored in freezer up to 1 month. Tip: Switch up flavors by using sugarfree hazelnut syrup in place of caramel and hazelnuts or walnuts instead of almonds.
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This recipe for Patti LaBelle’s Sweet Potato Pie was found at www.epicurious.com.
A sweet potato pie that tastes like Patti’s BY SUSAN SELASKY DETROIT FREE PRESS/TNS
At a Walmart, I spotted boxes of Patti LaBelle’s Sweet Potato Pies. Two years ago the pies, sold exclusively at Walmart, were scarce. It was all due to a video by James
Wright of California at that time, who made a YouTube video of his review of what he refers to as “Patti’s Pie.” Since then, the video has been viewed more than 5.5 million times. Wright’s video was hilarious and can still be viewed on YouTube. Since the pies were not available at that time, we made a version of
Patti LaBelle’s pie from a recipe we found at www.epicurious.com. There were plenty available recently at Walmart and they’re on roll back price of $2.97 for an 8-inch pie. So if you’re in need of a sweet potato pie, try this version. When I made it, our staffers loved it. And it’s, well, easy-as-pie.
PATTI LABELLE’S SWEET POTATO PIE Makes one 9-inch pie Preparation time: 40 minutes Total time: 2 hours 40 minutes (not all active time) You can make the crust up to two days in advance. CRUST 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter-flavored vegetable shortening, chilled 1/3 cup ice water FILLING 3 large orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (about 21/2 pounds), scrubbed 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, melted, divided 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs, at room temperature, beaten 1/4 cup half-and-half 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg or 1/2 teaspoon ground Whipped cream, for serving (optional) For the crust: In a food processor, pulse the flour and salt a few times. Add the shortening and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with a few pea-sized bits. (Or mix in a bowl using a fork or pastry blender). Gradually add enough of the ice water until the mixture clumps together (you may need more or less water). Gather up the dough and press into a thick disk. If desired, wrap the dough in wax paper and refrigerate for up to 1 hour. On a floured work surface, roll out the dough into a 13-inch circle. Fold the dough in half. Transfer to a 9-inch pie pan, and gently unfold the dough to fit into the pan. Using scissors or a sharp knife, trim the dough to a 1-inch overhang. Fold the
B5 dough under itself so the edge of the fold is flush with the edge of the pan. Flute the edge. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate while making the filling. For the filling: Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the sweet potatoes and reduce the heat to medium. Cook until the sweet potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife, about 30 minutes. Drain and run under cold water until cool enough to handle. Peel the sweet potatoes and place in a medium bowl. Mash with an electric mixer on medium speed until very smooth. Measure 3 cups mashed sweet potatoes, keeping any extra for another use, and set aside. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Uncover the pie shell and brush the interior with about 1 tablespoon of the melted butter. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the brown sugar evenly over the bottom of the pie shell. Bake until the pie dough is set and just beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. If the pie shell puffs, do not prick it. Remove pie shell from oven and cool while you finish making the filling. In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer on low speed, mix the mashed sweet potatoes, the remaining melted butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar, the granulated sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Spread into the partially baked pie shell, smoothing the top. Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake until a knife inserted in the center of the filling comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool completely on a wire cake rack. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve with whipped cream. Adapted from www. epicurious.com. Tested by Susan Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen.
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Breaking barriers on the runway Full-figure woman wins model competition of ‘Project Runway’ BY JOHN-JOHN WILLIAMS IV BALTIMORE SUN/TNS
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. — Liris Crosse, the Randallstown native who made history this season of “Project Runway” by being one of the first plus-sized models to compete on the show, has won the modeling portion of the competition. Crosse, who was a fanand judge-favorite with her strong runway walk and bold personality, was awarded the distinction along with Jazzmine Carthon, another model, during the reunion show. As a result of her win, Crosse will appear in an upcoming fashion spread on the digital edition of Marie Claire.
Ready for her shoot Crosse previously broke down barriers for the show walking in the finale in 2015, when Ashley Nell Tipton, a designer who specialized in plus-sized fashion, won the competition. But this season was the first that “Project Runway” added an array of models of all body types, ranging
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from size 0 to 22, throughout the season. Crosse, who is 5 feet 11, is a size 14. “I feel on top of the world,” Crosse texted The Baltimore Sun shortly after the results were revealed. “It’s a win for a girl from Baltimore who had a dream and stuck to it. I can’t wait to bring these hips and lips to the pages of Marie Claire for a major model diversity moment. I’m going to put my all into that shoot when it’s time!”
Teaches self-esteem Crosse, who has been dubbed “the Naomi Campbell of plus sized modeling” wrote that she was “so proud to represent plus size women and women of color everywhere.” “I’m a big believer that representation matters,” she added. “A lot of times we don’t see plus models in editorial spreads and even less of Black plus models when the opportunity is given. I’m going to continue to show the world how beautiful it is to include both in fashion.” This has been a busy year for Crosse, who also appeared on “The Steve Harvey Show” in May to talk about her model boot camp program, which teaches self-esteem and industry tips to aspiring models.
More honors She also received the
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Liris Crosse, who made history this season of “Project Runway” by being one of the first plus-sized models to compete on the show, won the modeling portion of the competition. Model of the Year Award at Full Figured Fashion Week 2017, which was held in June in New York. But “Project Runway” was her most notable moment — making her a recognizable face among fans of the Emmy-winning fashion design reality show, hosted by Heidi
Klum. (Kentaro Kameyama was the Season 16 winner for the design portion of the competition.) “I thought the design competition was so interesting because they were also different,” Crosse wrote. “Everyone could find a designer that they grav-
itated to. They all were challenged with including plus size in their collections, too. I’m glad that ‘Project Runway’ stuck to the theme of change and diversity. I pray that more of them will adapt to more sizes outside of the competition now.”
Malcolm X’s seven daughters have reportedly teamed with the tech company Hingeto to launch a clothing line in honor of their late father. As reported by Madame Noire, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz, Qubilah Shabazz, Malikah Shabazz, Malaak Shabazz and Attallah Shabazz have launched the “Malcolm X Legacy” line, which consists of sweatshirts, athletic tees, slippers and hats donned with their father’s name, iconic images, and mantras. The outlet reports that the “designs are based on Malcolm X’s 12 principles of unity, justice, human rights, self-sacrifice, spirituality, self-determination, education, economic independence, self-defense, anti-racism, cultural pride, justice, and restoration.” “Honoring Malcolm X’s legacy via a clothing store is a dream and the most meaningful application of Hingeto’s system to date,” said Leandrew Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Hingeto. Check out the line of apparel at MalcolmXLegacy.com.
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