Florida Courier - January 17, 2014

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JANUARY 17 – JANUARY 23, 2014

VOLUME 22 NO. 3

DON’T IGNORE US

Cigarette companies advertised in Blackowned media for decades, but a federal lawsuit settlement doesn’t require them to run anti-smoking ads in Blackowned media outlets.

Black newspaper owners make moves in Tallahassee and D.C. to get their fair share of an estimated $30 million in federal anti-tobacco ads and millions in state advertising, just as Gov. Rick Scott pushes to increase Visit Florida’s tourist ad budget to $100 million next year.

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In Washington, D.C, the U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund were scheduled to finalize an agreement with the four major tobacco companies on Wednesday that requires them to spend more than $30 million advertising with the three major television networks and run fullpage ads in 35 White and Hispanic newspapers, as well as purchasing space on their respective websites. However,

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Haiti recovers slowly

not a single ad was required to be placed in a Black print or broadcast media company. In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott announced last week that Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism marketing corporation will receive $100 million in funding in the 2014-15 state budget. In both cases, Black newspaper owners stepped in with hard questions asked of a federal judge, tobacco companies, the Justice Department, and Black politicians, and Florida’s governor, respectively.

Hearing rescheduled The 24-page proposed consent agreement, reached January 10, was scheduled to go before U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday for final approval. The proceeding has been rescheduled for Jan. 22. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the Justice Department, the Tobacco-Free Action Fund and the tobacco industry would all See ADS, Page A2

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: JANUARY 15, 1929 – APRIL 4, 1968

Happy birthday, Dr. King!

Reconstruction lags four years after quake BY JACQUELINE CHARLES THE MIAMI HERALD / MCT

CANAAN, Haiti – The sunbaked cinderblocks in Claude Saint-Elys’ dirt yard are an eroding reminder of the dream: a two-bedroom house with enough room for him, his wife and five surviving children. “We have rocks, and blocks. That’s it,” Saint-Elys, who lost his 5-year-old son in the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, said about building his dream home on this barren hillside north of Haiti’s capital. Across the way, down a dirt road, truck driver Mackenson Chery is building his dream brick by brick. Chery’s spacious home is partly walled-in with newly cemented blocks and covered with shining zinc sheeting.

Construction boom Canaan has become a squatters’ paradise of mushrooming construction of makeshift shacks and concrete homes, with quake victims, land speculators and

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Visitors took pictures during the 2011 dedication ceremony at the Martin Luther King Memorial, in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall. MLK birthday observances are underway around the world this week.

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SNAPSHOTS NATION | A3

Study shows half of Black men arrested by age 23

FLORIDA | A6

Judge denies effort to revoke Alexander’s bond ENTERTAINMENT | B5

‘12 Years a Slave’ earns Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama

ALSO INSIDE

FAMU taps Cornell VP as first woman president BY MARGIE MENZEL THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

The Florida A&M University Board of Trustees named Dr. Elmira Mangum as the university’s 11th president on Jan. 9. She will be the first woman to serve as permanent president since FAMU was founded in 1887. Currently the vice president for budget and planning at Cornell University, Mangum will also be the first FAMU president in 60 years who didn’t graduate from the university. She said her to-do list is “to strengthen the academic programs that we have, strengthen our faculty and provide the services that our students need to fulfill the promise that we made to them when they entered.”

Dr. Elmira Mangum The trustees voted 10-2 to accept the search committee’s recommendation of Mangum, but only after a public hearing that showed widespread support for keeping

Interim President Dr. Larry Robin- solving financial irregularities and son on a permanent basis. instituting a campus-wide antihazing initiative. Last month, the Tough times regional accrediting body lifted FAMU has not had a full-time FAMU’s probation – a critical depresident since Dr. James Am- cision because otherwise, the unimons resigned in the summer of versity wouldn’t have been able to 2012, following the hazing-relat- accept federal financial aid. And ed death of ‘Marching 100’ drum the Marching 100 returned from major Robert Champion after the suspension in August with a new Florida Classic football game in director, new roster and a new set of rules. November 2011. As a result of Champion’s death and a series of questionable au- Asked not to apply dits, the Southern Association of Many of the trustees praised Colleges and Schools placed FA- Mangum’s qualifications. Some MU on probation in December also took time to rebut the charge 2012. that they had acted improperly by Robinson, who had been proasking Robinson in 2012 not to apvost under Ammons, was tapped ply for the permanent post. as interim president in July 2012. “It was my understanding – and During his 18 months in that role, See MANGUM, Page A2 Robinson led the university in re-

COMMENTARY: LUCIUS GANTT: EVEN CONVICTS CAN BE GREAT LIKE MLK | A2 COMMENTARY: DR. WILMER J. LEON: YOU HAVE THE WATCHES; THEY HAVE THE TIME | A5


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