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ADVENTURE IN ASIA Here’s a recap of President Obama’s challenging trip to the Far East.

BY CHRISTI PARSONS TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU / TNS

President Obama’s trip to former enemy nations in Asia got off to a bad start last week when, just after he announced a grand gesture of reconciliation with Vietnam, he learned that its communist government was intimidating dissidents he had invited to meet with him privately. Obama fumed over the mat-

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TALLAHASSEE – After barely surviving an attempt by members of the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees to oust her last fall, President Elmira Mangum is in the midst of an evaluation process that could end with her leaving the post she has held for two years. A special committee will take up her evaluation June 9 ahead of a Board of Trustees meeting. Mangum’s contract calls for a three-year term that began April 1, 2014. It requires her and the board to “confer no later than June 30, 2016 regarding the renewal or extension” of the contract. If that does not occur, “the parties agree to allow the natural expiration of the term of the agreement regarding Dr. Mangum’s service as president.” Eight of FAMU’s 13 trustees are new, appointed by Gov. Rick Scott or the Florida Board of Governors – which oversees the state university system – over the last six months. Alan Levine, a member of the Board of Governors, said the new trustees were chosen with an eye toward moving past previous conflicts that have led to controversies involving the FAMU board.

The sight bolstered Obama’s impulse in his final years in office to write U.S. foreign policy in bolder strokes. His trip to Vietnam and Japan shaped up as a testament to his inclination to push forward while setting aside Greeted by millions criticism, as the normally cool More than 2 million Vietnampresident repeatedly confrontese people, young and old, lined ed both complaints and deeply the streets to welcome Americans emotional situations. back to Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, many of them campTaking responsibility ing out overnight despite the govThe most powerful sign of ernment’s decree that such an asObama’s reach for history came sembly would not be allowed. THORSTEN GUTSCHALK/ACTION PRESS/ZUMA PRSS/TNS “It was like a ray of light,” said at the end of the week, when he stood in front of the people of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama, and Japan’s one Obama administration offiHiroshima to own responsibiliPrime Minister Shinzo Abe plant a tree in the garden of the Ise cial who was in the presidential See OBAMA, Page A2 Shrine during the G7 summit on May 26 in Ise-Shima, Japan. motorcade.

ter on his way out of Hanoi and his aides voiced his fury to their counterparts, but they soon encountered what they took as a heartening sign.

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‘HERE’S WHAT I’VE DONE FOR YOU LATELY’ COMPILED FROM WIRE AND STAFF REPORTS

On the heels of criticism of Black college funding cuts, complaints from Black business owners trying to land stimulus contracts, and the limited impact in Black communities of billions in stimulus money, the Obama administration released a special report listing at least 100 projects funded by the $787 billion economic stimulus it beOLIVIER DOULIERY/ABACA PRESS/MCT lieves benefits Black America.

SNAPSHOTS FINEST | B3

Before going abroad to try to forge common ground between Israel and the Muslim world, President Obama lists 100 projects he says benefit Black America Log on to www.flcourier.com to read the full “100 Projects” report. The report was sent from Corey Ealons, the president’s director of African-American media, in the form of a news release headlined “President Obama Marks 100 Days of Recovery

With ‘100 Projects, 100 Days’ Report.” It comes after Obama’s education budget cut $85 million in grants to historically Black colleges and universities nation-

wide, and in the wake of last month’s press conference during which President Obama was asked what his administration would do about the rising rate of Black male unemployment that reached 50 percent in New York City in 2006. His generally non-responsive answer, including his conclusion that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” drew widespread criticism from Black-owned media, columnists and bloggers around

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On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Jacksonville announced that she plans on forming an exploratory committee to help determine if she will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Mel Martinez. Her congressional colleague and fellow FAMU graduate, Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, is the consensus Democratic frontrunner thus far for the Senate seat. And with Meek vacating his seat in a district with a large bloc of HaitianAmerican voters, the race to replace him could yield the first Haitian-American elected to Congress.

FAMU president gets six-figure bonus as school suffers budget cuts NATION | A6

Running on her record?

Black minister becomes mayor of infamous Mississippi city

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Sharing Black Life, Statewide

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‘Run, Corrine, run?’ Brown considers Senate as fight for Meek’s old seat heats up

Not dysfunctional “I think FAMU today’s got one of the strongest boards in the country,” he told The News Service of Florida last week. “The issue of board dysfunction is off the table. … It’s just not something that can be used as an excuse going forward.” Meanwhile, petitions and opinion columns addressing the president’s evaluation have appeared in Florida newspapers and online. Mangum had a column in Friday’s Tampa Bay Times touting her achievements. “We are, once again, becoming the school of

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Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard shoots over the Los Angeles Lakers’ Pau Gasol during a 2008 game. The two will go at it again this week for a championship ring. See Page B5 for a story on the Magic’s journey to the Finals.

“I just think the state needs more than someone who’s there to talk a great game, smile and take pictures, but the key is to deliver for the people of Florida,” Brown told the St. Petersburg Times last week. In a separate written statement, she said, “I’m proud of my record fighting – and delivering – for Florida families and I believe that record stands out among all of the candidates. I have helped create tens of thousands of jobs, brought your tax dollars back home to Florida, worked to improve education by hiring Please see BROWN, Page A2

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SNAPSHOTS COMMENTARY | A4

Donovan Livingston ‘raps’ his Harvard graduation speech NATION | A6

College course to explore Pinckney’s legacy Veterans exposed to toxic gas denied benefits

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Doctor’s murder puts focus on abortion, extremism COMPILED FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

WICHITA, KAN. – With one bullet, a gunman ended George Tiller’s life and the controversial career of an abortion doctor who had been a target for years, killing him as he stood in the foyer of his church last week. The crime has drawn the condemnation and outrage from President Obama

and strong emotions across the nation. Tiller, 67, was shot once just after 10 a.m. Sunday as he stood in the lobby of Reformation Lutheran Church, where he was serving as an usher. The gunman threatened to shoot two men who tried to apprehend him. Using a license plate number witnesses provided of the getaway car, police arrested Scott Roeder, 51, along Interstate 35 about

four hours after the shooting. Roeder was charged Tuesday with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

Constant target Tiller and his clinic have faced continuous threats and legal action. A Wichita jury ruled in March that he was not guilty of illegal abortion on 19 criminal

charges he faced for allegedly violating a state law requiring an “independent” second physician’s concurring opinion before performing later term abortions. Immediately following the ruling in this criminal case, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts made public MIKE HUTMACHER/WICHITA EAGLE/MCT a similar complaint against Dr. George Tiller was fatally shot on Sunday, May Tiller that was originally 31, during church services at Reformation Lutheran Please see ABORTION, Page A2

Church in Wichita, Kansas.

ALSO FLORIDA | FORECLOSURES IN STATE HAVE MOVED BEYOND SUB-PRIME LOANS | A3 INSIDE EDITORIAL | CHARLES W. CHERRY II: MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A FREE BLACK MIND | A4

Seven years ago, the Florida Courier followed the Orlando Magic’s losing effort in the National Basketball Association finals, and examined President Obama’s mixed record regarding issues of importance to Black America.

Jones High School Marching Tigers Band students Xavier Thomas and Vincent Simon lay a wreath at the Florida wall of the National World War II Monument.

Orlando’s Jones High band makes whirlwind tour of D.C. WASHINGTON – After performing in Monday’s 2016 National Memorial Day Parade – the largest such parade in the country – members of Orlando’s Jones High School Marching Tigers Band toured many of the city’s historical sites before returning home. In addition to marching in the parade, the Jones band visited the White House; memorials dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial; the National Archives; the Smithsonian Institution’s Air & Space Museum; the National World War II Monument; Arlington National Cemetery; and the Smithsonian Institution’s American History and Natural History museums. “Such a rich experience with history and culture is certain to be life-changing for the students and provide an educational opportunity that goes beyond the brick and mortar classroom,” said Jamaal W. Nicholas, Jones High’s director of bands.

Inspiring for 66 years The Jones High band program was founded in 1950 by James W. “Chief” Wilson. Since then, it has served as a vehicle for community uplift and inspiration for thousands of Orlando high school musicians. Located in Orlando’s Parramore district, 89 percent of Jones High students receive subsidized school lunches. “The invitation to participate in the 2016 National Memorial Day Parade is a very high accomplishment for the Jones High School band program,” Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer noted. “The selection committee wrote that it was ‘impressed by the Band’s background and credentials.’ This prestigious invitation…honors our city through the recognition of the band’s student members, director, parents and supporters.”

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