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LAID TO REST After 64 years, the mortal remains of a Daytona Beach teenager who died at the notorious Dozier School for Boys are finally returned home.

Hidden for years

BY ANDREAS BUTLER FLORIDA COURIER

DAYTONA BEACH – After more than six decades, one family was finally able to mourn the loss of a son and brother who never reached the age of manhood.

Billy Jackson was born on Feb. 18, 1939 in Daytona Beach. He attended all-Black Campbell Elementary School.

He died at the age of 13 at the 1,400-acre Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna – in Jackson County, northwest of Tallahassee – which operated from 1900 to 2011.

It was famous for torturing and harshly treating its juvenile occupants.

Push is on to clear Marcus Garvey’s name

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residents demanded the governor and state and federal attorneys investigate the facility. They were convinced that 32 unmarked graves at the school were the bodies of boys abused and killed decades ago.

Made demands The four men, all of whom sufIn 2008, four former Dozier fered from brutal beatings while

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Garvey’s movement took Black America by storm, and his book influenced succeeding generations of Black activists.

His shipping line, Black Star Line, was launched in 1919 with the vision of eventually transporting African-Americans to AfriSee GARVEY, Page A2

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students at the school, sent letters to then-Gov. Charlie Crist, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney general alleging that the boys were victims of state-sponsored hate crimes and murder.

Their goal, they said, is for “every last child, Caucasian, Hispan-

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Young activist Marcus Mosiah Garvey began his activism when he left Jamaica at the age of 23. He traveled to England, but later returned to Jamaica to found the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914. He came to the United States in 1916 and he organized the UNIA’s New York division the following year.

Garvey promoted the idea of Black people returning to Africa – but not all of them. Many would be “no good there,” he once wrote, according to the book “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.” He also tried to develop colleges and industries in Liberia, but faced opposition from European colonial powers.

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Mourners in Daytona Beach reflect on the life of Billy Jackson, who died at the age of 13 while in a state “reform school.’’

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WASHINGTON – Nearly 100 years after a politically motivated criminal conviction on federal mail fraud charges – and on what would have been his 129th birthday – the descendants of Jamaican-born Black activist Marcus Garvey and members of Congress are pushing for his legal exoneration.

Garvey is well-known within the worldwide African Diaspora for developing and advocating a Pan-African philosophy known as “Garveyism” that sought to empower people of African descent.

Dozier occupants – all boys under the age of 18 – often suffered physical abuse, including rape, torture and severe beatings, which sometimes resulted in death. Many of these atrocities took place at the “White House,” a small building at the school.

About 300 former Dozier students formed an organization called “The White House Boys” to work to keep the legacy and stories of the victims alive. Many say that their time at Dozier reduced them to live lifetimes of violent behavior, crime, and mental health challenges.

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Korissa Pitts of Oviedo inspects T-shirts made by female survivors of incest or child sexual abuse in 2005. Each different color represents a different method by which a girl or woman was abused.

BY ROBYN H. JIMENEZ SPECIAL TO THE NNPA FROM THE DALLAS EXAMINER

Florida has hundreds of miles of the world’s best beaches.

As the hot summer of 2007 hits its home stretch, the Florida Courier takes a look at the fights Black Floridians had to wage just to cool off in segregated beaches around the state. This week: Jacksonville’s historic American Beach.

COURTESY OF MARSHA PHELTS

The Brown family (left to right) – Olivia, Ramona, Doug and Zachary – all appear lost in

BY STARLA VAUGHNS CHERIN Editor’s note: This is part FLORIDA COURIER their thoughts while watching the waves lap onto American Beach during the annual Labor one of a two-part story of how American Beach, a 40-min- Day Family Affair at Burney Park. one woman survived sexual ute drive heading northeast abuse, drug abuse and menfrom Jacksonville, is the dia- lation. Current residents hope author of “An American Beach to go on South Beach or in tal illness.

Palm Beach and develop it as mond in the crown of Black for a resurrection. It needs an for African Americans.” success in Florida. It is the only infusion of homebuyers and “We have to be vigilant and a Black community? You have DALLAS – Marian Jefferson, luscious, sun-bathed beach- business so the remaining step up to the plate as Blacks. it now. It is a gift from God and now 37, recalls when she befront property purchased by 100 acres stays historically We must do this. If we don’t, we have to keep it,” Phelts told came an incest statistic after Black people for Black people true to its legacy for future it will slide away. Once you the Florida Courier. being molested at age 8. that has not been completely Black Floridians. lose a community, you won’t Jefferson, her mother and Black beachfront “Blacks continue to have an get it back. Once it makes that disassembled or sold off. younger sister lived with her Today after 72 years in ex- interest and purchase property turn, there is no way as a race resort grandmother who was once reistence, American Beach re- on American Beach and it has for us to regain what you have The ironically named tired, but re-entered the workmains a predominately Black a future because it still hasn’t already lost.

American Beach was the force to help care for them. One community, with Blacks mak- made that changeover,” said “We don’t have the num- dream of Abraham Lincoln day, her mother left her and her ing up 85 percent of its popu- Marsha Phelts, resident and bers or the money. Who wants Please see BEACHES, Page A2 6-year-old sister at home alone while her cousin, Darron Taylor, 12, mowed their lawn. They were told not to open the door for anyone, but Taylor banged on the door saying that he was American population. Some of those murdered. hot and thirsty. Jefferson tried Florida looks to combat gangs, reform 93 percent of Black murder calling her mother but was not the juvenile justice system to stop killings victims were killed by other Rate decreasing, able to reach her.

Black people, which means despite stats “And I thought, ‘Well, it’s just The U.S. Department of that there were relatively few a glass of water.’ And so I let him BY STARLA VAUGHNS CHERIN Still, murder rates are Justice’s Bureau of Justice interracial murders. in and I went back to my room. FLORIDA COURIER decreasing in Florida and Nationwide, two years ago, across the nation. The toStatistics report that in 2005, I heard noises in the bedroom Murder kills more than the Black people were 49 percent 6,783 Black men were mur- tal number of Black people next to me, which is where my sister was, and when I opened victim. For Black people, es- of the total number of murder dered, up from 6,342 in 2004. killed dropped over the last the door, I saw her naked on pecially Black men, murder is victims in the U.S, despite Men between the ages of 17 10 years, from 10,400 in 1995 being only 12 percent of the and 29 represent 51 percent to almost 8,000 in 2005. But the bed with him,” Jefferson killing the race. said. “I begged and pleaded alarming trends show that murder rates of young Black with him to leave her alone and men between the ages of 17 he said, ‘Fine, but you will have BACK TO SCHOOL / COLLEGE FOOTBALL, 2007-2008 and 29 are increasing. to take her place.’ ” The Florida Department of Jefferson was too young to fully understand what she had agreed Law Enforcement’s (FLDE) to, but she knew she was the only Index Crime Trends shows one that could save her little sisa decrease in murders over ter. The younger sister was dithe last 10 years. In 1998 the rected to go to Jefferson’s room. murder rate was 6.44 percent (966 people killed statewide).

Experienced molester?

In 2005 it is down to 4.92 percent (881 statewide).

It was on her sister’s bed that In 2006, the FDLE’s Uniform he began to rape her. Jefferson Crime Report shows 756 murendured what she described as ders were committed in Flori“excruciating pain that seemed da. Of that number, 329 were to last a lifetime.” She said that White and 425 were Black. she had begged her cousin to In response, Florida Govstop and even tried fighting him. ernor Charlie Crist asked the He became angry and grabbed state Supreme Court to conher hands, placed them over her vene a grand jury to investihead and placed a pillow over gate criminal activity across her face to quiet her down. At the state that is believed to be Please see SHADOWS, Page A2 gang-related, including car jacking, child pornography, home invasions, extortion, murder, and drug trafficking, COURIER INDEX among other crimes.

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Juvenile justice system to be examined

Publisher’s note: We will decrease the number of pages in the Florida Courier through the summer months to allow our hard-working staff to take more time off. We will resume our regular 16-page configuration with our HBCU football issue on Aug. 24.

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More than 120,000 juveniles were arrested in 2006. About 16 percent of juvenile crime is theft. Approximately 15 percent of the arrests were for simple assault, about 12 percent for drugs. Sixty of Florida’s children were murdered last year.

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Shawn Crawford of East St. Louis, Ill., places stuffed animals in front of an apartment in the public housing complex where three children were found murdered in 2006. Impromptu memorials for murder victims can be found in most Black communities nationwide.

Crist has appointed a “Blueprint Commission” to assist in reforming Florida’s juvenile justice system. Former Lt. Governor Frank T. Brogan, now president of Florida Atlantic University, chairs the 25-member Commission and will study and collect data to make recommendations to the Crist and the Florida Legislature. Members of the Blueprint Commission have backgrounds in religion, education, medicine, business, politics, and law and law enforcement.

The Commission also includes some former juvenile justice defendants.

A number of concerns Citing the immediate issues of recidivism, overrepresentation of minority youth and an increase in female offenders, the Commission will hold public hearPlease see MURDER, Page A2

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Nine years ago, the Florida Courier featured a series of articles on state beaches that were racially segregated, but were owned by Black Floridians.

The newspaper also recognized the start of the new school year and college football seasons around the state.

ic and African-American who disappeared from the Florida School for Boys (to be) accounted for and, whatever relatives he may have, be given peace at last,” said Michael O’McCarthy, who resided at the school in 1958-59.

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Guns over hair Gun dealers have no state oversight

BY MARY SHANKLIN AND CHARLES MINSHEW ORLANDO SENTINEL / TNS

ORLANDO – Florida’s barbers, construction workers and talent agents face tougher oversight than gun dealers, who in Florida are only monitored by a short-staffed federal agency.

Cosmetologists and other licensed professionals in the Sunshine State are required, for instance, to self-report felony and misdemeanor convictions within 30 days. In addition, state law enforcement alerts Florida’s licensing agency about any drug trafficking convictions of licensed professionals.

Unlike 13 states that license gun dealers, Florida’s firearms retailers have no state oversight. Dealer licensing and monitoring falls under the watch of the federal Bureau of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Gaining attention Oversight of dealers has gained more attention in recent months because of their role in helping vet potential buyers. A dealer in Jensen Beach, for example, turned away Omar Mateen, who later purchased a semi-automatic rifle just days before he shot and killed 49 people at Pulse nightclub on June 12.

University of Central Florida professor Jay Corzine, who has studied homicides and firearms, said state licensing would not eliminate problematic dealers, but it would better safeguard the public from corrupt dealers.

“I don’t care if my barber has a checkered past, but people selling firearms is another story,” he said. “There are dealers who have committed felonies but not been arrested, so there is no fail-safe system. But state licensing could provide an added layer of protection.”

Federal approval only In Florida, to get a dealer license and renewal after three years, applicants must go through the ATF. A federal licensing center reviews applications and fingerprint cards. It also conducts background checks. Field officers interview applicants and recommend approval or denial.

In addition to denying applicants for felony and domestic violence convictions, ATF can deny them for failure to comply with state or local laws, including zoning infractions. Across the U.S., the denial rate was one for every 636 applicants in 2014.

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AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2016

Where them dollars at?

I would imagine bank robbery is a global phenomenon, and most countries around the globe have had their share of financial institution theft.

Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Clyde Barrow, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger have been recognized as some of America’s most famous bank robbers.

The so-called “Top Ten” bank thieves even include a Black man named Charles “Chaz” Williams.

However, the world’s greatest bank robbers are bankers themselves!

It’s gone On any day, when you put one dollar or one billion cash dollars into a bank, before the sun rises on the following day, the money you deposited is gone!

Don’t take my word for it. Go to a casino for instance, hit a

Where is it?

LUCIUS GANTT THE GANTT REPORT

million-dollar jackpot, and tell the casino you want to be paid in cash. Take that million and go to 10 different banks and make cash deposits of $100,000.

Take some time, of any length you choose, then go back to each bank and say you recently deposited $100,000 in cash and you want to close your account and get your money back. Watch how the bankers laugh at you!

Oh, they’ll give you a bank check or a cashier’s check that you probably can’t cash anywhere immediately.

But your money is gone.

Well, it is somewhere that’s difficult for me to explain in a brief column like The Gantt Report.

Wherever it is, it is being invested by the bank that will profit off of investments of your money. That scenario is not, or should not be, unexpected.

Using depositors’ money to make loans and other investments is how banks generate a lot of revenue. Banks are businesses, and businesses should make money.

But when banks make bad investments with your money – like buying trillions of dollars of bundled sub-prime mortgages – the banks lose your money. Your money is gone, the bankers get wealthy and rich, and nothing is done about it.

Making excuses No one goes to jail because the

friends of bankers that are supposed to regulate the banks come up with an explanation like, “The largest banks are too big to fail!”

The bank depositor rip-off thing is not limited to the United States. It is happening everywhere.

Top world economists have warned that Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, is teetering on the edge of crisis. They say the only way to protect it against future shocks is to nationalize it.

That bank has more than a few customers that have deposited billions of dollars. So if Deutsche can’t make a profit investing and getting interest on billions and billions of dollars, what is the problem with banks?

Could the problem be graft?

Greed? I don’t know.

I told you But if I die today, the readers and supporters of The Gantt Report know that I pulled the sheet off of beast bankers 20 or 30 years ago.

I knew what some of them were

doing. I knew if they stepped on depositors on their way to the top, they would fall on their depositors when they began to collapse!

The new thing so-called Black intellectuals and youthful #Black Lives Matter activists are saying is that all African-Americans should put their money into Black banks.

OK, that sounds good, even though Black banks sometimes make bad loans and bad investments, too.

Wherever you put your money is your business. I would put my money – if I had some – into a lot of different banks and investments so if one failed, or stole the dough, I would still have money somewhere else.

Buy Gantt’s latest book, “Beast Too: Dead Man Writing,” on Amazon.com and from bookstores everywhere.

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Florida’s contractors, Realtors and other professional licensees face renewal every two years. State licensing also gives Florida officials some control over who conducts business in the state. The state Department of Business and Professional Regulation, for instance, solicits complaints about licensees and publicizes disciplinary actions against them.

And Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation, another state licensing agency, requires collection agencies to renew their license every year and the agency is notified immediately if a licensee is arrested.

Self-reporting required The state gives its licensed professionals 30 days to report misdemeanor and felony convictions. If a licensee does not report, he can face disciplinary action up to revocation of the license. When a licensee is convicted of a crime related to drug trafficking, the state

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Report filed Finally, in January, a 168-page report by University of South Florida (USF) researchers was presented to Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on excavations at the site. The report outlined the 51 sets of remains unearthed from an unmarked graveyard known as the Boot Hill Burial Ground, including victims of a 1914 dormitory fire. USF anthropologists identified 21 of the sets of remains through DNA and other methods.

Jackson’s body was one of those identified by researchers. His remains were shipped home last week.

Funeral services were held at R.J. Gainous Funeral Home in Daytona Beach on Aug. 13.

Beaten to death?

Jackson was at Dozier from August to October 1952. A Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation says that he died from a kidney infection.

But former Dozier occupants and Jackson’s family believe Jackson died following a severe beating after a third escape attempt from the place.

Johnny Walthour of Jacksonville – who died earlier this year – told the Florida Times-Union newspaper that Jackson’s stomach was bloated and bruised in October 1952 when he helped bury him.

Tortured at Dozier During the funeral, for-

It’s harder to get a barber’s license than it is to get a gun dealer’s license in the state of Florida. immediately suspends his license.

There is no self-reporting mechanism for gun dealers.

“We educate them on what’s prohibited, but there’s no self-reporting procedure in place,” said Mary Harmon Salter, area supervisor for the ATF’s Tampa area office. Dealers, she added, undergo background checks initially,

mer Dozier occupants reflected on their horrific experiences there as children.

Jerry Cooper stated, “I am one of the White House Boys. I was there with Billy Jackson. He was my brother. He was a nice boy. We called him ‘Rabbit’ because he was a runner. He ran away three times and had to go to the White House each time.

“I was told not to talk to Black boys or I would be taken to the White House across the street and whipped by a big Black man who had a belt with holes cut in it. He hit us on our backs and it tore our skin up and it stuck to our skin.”

Echoed Charlie Fudge, “I was beaten the same way as the others. I prayed a lot. I didn’t think that I was going to make it out of the school.’’

‘Come get me’ Johnny Lee Gaddy eulogized Jackson. Gaddy is now a pastor who co-authored a book titled “Dark Days of Horror at Dozier: Rapes, Murders, Beatings & Slavery,” with Antoinette Harrell.

“I was there when I was 11 years old,” Gaddy remembered. “At first, I thought it was a nice place with pretty buildings and cut grass. I had no idea that I would almost die there.

“I was called names and treated very badly. I prayed and asked God to save me. I prayed for my Mama to come get me.

“I was taken to the White House and beaten so badly by a man that looked to be 500 pounds.

My white gown was bloody. I was told to hold onto the bed and don’t let go. If I did let go of the bed, the guy was going

when they move and when they renew their license.

Few inspections For years, the agency has had to do more with less. During a recent fiveyear period, the agency’s staffing shrunk by 1.5 percent. It lost 81 staffers between 2009 and 2014 but its responsibilities grew, with a 22 percent increase

to turn me over and hit my private parts. I didn’t want that to happen.”

‘Mothers needed help’ During the funeral, family friend Roy Fletcher said, “That could have been me. When I was a little boy, I got into trouble too. I cut class in kindergarten.

“There wasn’t anything to do in Daytona.

The churches weren’t involved back then. Mothers needed help. They couldn’t do it by themselves. Billy’s mom needed help.”

‘Back home’ Ida Cummings is Jackson’s niece.

“There is some closure, but it’s still unsettling when you think of all the things done to these children,” she said.

“They preyed upon the poor and defenseless.

They went after those who couldn’t fight or didn’t know how to fight for their rights. Many families faced fear and intimidation. A lot of families didn’t know what was going on with their children.

“Several gentlemen that I have spoken with that went there said that they were taken their innocently. Many said that they weren’t given trials. Judges told them they were ‘going up the road.’ Many of their families had no money,” said Cummings. “(Billy) is back home where he always wanted to be. We are fortunate to get him back. We hope that no other families have to experience this.”

‘In bad shape’ Billy Jackson’s sister, Mattie Jackson, recalled

in federal firearms licensees, which includes dealers, pawn shop brokers, collectors and others.

In 2009, the agency inspected one in every 5.3 dealers. Five years later, it inspected one in every 7.4 dealers, according to the agency’s most recent report on firearms commerce.

ATF spokesman Kevin Richardson said the agen-

the day the family was notified of his death.

“Mr. Wally Gatlin who ran the facility came to visit us twice. The first time, he told us that Billy was in bad shape. The second time, he told us that Billy was deceased.

“I remember Mom telling us that they killed him. I was just 8 years old. My mother was like any mother that had lost a child. What else was she to do? She was just devastated.”

Painful memories Mattie Jackson said that wasn’t the last contact her family had with Dozier.

Her grandson spent time in Dozier in 2009 and had his arm broken at the facility.

Cummings said, “I remember Aunt Mattie calling me and saying, ‘Please don’t let them kill him like they killed my brother.’ It brought back flashbacks and painful memories. Fortunately, he got out. He has stories about that place too.”

Billy Jackson is survived by his sister, Mattie Jackson (Daytona Beach); two nephews: Shawn Irving (Daytona Beach) and Dawn Irving (Orlando); three nieces: Wanda Aaron (Daytona Beach), Wendy Irving (Orlando) and Ida Cummings (Washington, D.C.); and a host of great nephews, great nieces, and the White House Boys. One nephew, Vaughn Irving, preceded him in death.

Jackson was interred at Mt. Ararat Cemetery in Daytona Beach.

Florida Courier photojournalist Duane C. Fernandez Sr. contributed to this report.

cy has to prioritize. Among other things, it focuses on dealers who sell guns that end up at crime scenes.

“Just because they haven’t been inspected doesn’t mean they are doing something wrong,” Richardson said.

Partisan divide In states across the country, gun dealer licens-

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ca to visit and live, as well as opening trade between Black-owned businesses and African countries. He raised more than $1 million from Black Americans to fund the venture.

That year, an assistant district attorney in the New York District Attorney’s office, Edwin P. Kilroe, questioned Garvey about UNIA activities. Garvey fired back with an editorial in the organization’s newspaper, the Negro World. He was sued for libel, but the case was later dropped.

On FBI radar The scrutiny didn’t stop there.

J. Edgar Hoover – who in the 1960s and ‘70s was to use the power of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in what became known as COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence Program) to destroy Black political leaders and organizations such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers, to name a few – began to watch Garvey.

In 1919, Hoover was a young FBI agent. He wrote then in an FBI memo that Garvey was “an exceptionally fine orator, creating much excitement among the negroes through his steamship proposition.

“It occurs to me…that there might be some proceeding against him for fraud in connection with his Black Star Line propaganda and for this reason I am transmitting the communication to you for your appropriate attention,” Hoover wrote.

Charged, convicted Not coincidentally, Gar-

ing and other firearms-related measures generally win support of Democrats and face opposition from Republicans. New York, Indiana and California are among more than a dozen states that have some form of state licensing.

Gun store sales clerks in Indiana must have a state license and law enforcement officials must attest to their “good character and reputation.” In California, dealers must obtain about a half-dozen licenses or permits by local and state regulators. In New York, dealers have to be licensed and maintain records of sales.

In Georgia in 2014, the state repealed gun control measures including state licensing of dealers. The legislation was driven from concern that residents were losing their constitutional rights to own firearms.

In Florida, Rep. Randolph Bracy, an Orlando Democrat who served this year on the state’s House Civil Justice Committee, said he would introduce a bill calling for state licensing next year if he wins a state Senate seat he is seeking.

vey was eventually charged with mail fraud related to the sale of Black Star Line stock and convicted in 1923. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence after four years and Garvey was eventually deported to Jamaica, where he lived from 1929 to 1935. He then moved to London and never returned to America before he died in 1940.

Garvey’s family is seeking a posthumous presidential pardon. A petition for pardon was filed with the White House Counsel and the Justice Department on June 24 by Garvey’s son, Dr. Julius W. Garvey.

Precedent for pardon Garvey’s supporters compare him to 2nd Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Black West Point graduate, who was court-martialed and dismissed from the Army. A review found that Flipper’s court-martial was unjust and President Bill Clinton pardoned him posthumously.

In a recent statement, Garvey’s supporters said his conviction was “motivated by a desire on the part of the federal government to discredit, disrupt and destroy Garvey’s civil rights movement.”

Furthermore, they added, his conviction was “executed through court surveillance and deception, with undercover agents posing as Garvey supporters” and “aided by judicial proceedings that have been condemned as factually unsound and politically and racially motivated.”

Alex Ganitano of CQRoll Call contributed to this report.

AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2016

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Tampa woman becomes 25th national president of Jack and Jill Joli Cooper-Nelson of Tampa recently was elected the 25th national president of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. at its 42nd convention in Palm Desert, California.

Jack and Jill is considered

the premier organization for African-American families.

Prior to being elected president, Cooper-Nelson was the national vice president and has served as re-

gional director, regional secretary-treasurer and regional program chair of the Southeastern region. She also chaired the organization’s National Advisory Council and served on the

National Budget & Finance Committee and the National Program Committee.

Professionally, she is a founding member of CSW Private Equity Investments, LLC., a New York-based pri-

vate equity firm.

Cooper-Nelson is an active member of the Greater Tampa Chapter of Jack and Jill of America. Her family also are active participants.

They consist of husband,

Tony Nelson and three children – Ashley, Alana and Anthony.

She also is a member of New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She has served on several Tampa area nonprofit boards, including the United Way of Tampa Bay and Greater Tampa Joli CooperChamber of Nelson Commerce.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

To learn more about Jack and Jill of America, Inc., visit www.jackandjillinc.org.

ADOPTIONS

A home for Jeremiah Editor’s note: This is a monthly series spotlighting Florida children available for adoption.

One Church One Child of Florida is a faith-based, 501(c)(3) organization, operating statewide in partnership with the Department of Children and Families and local community-based lead agencies and their providers to help raise awareness and recruit adoptive and foster families for children in local communities and churches to partner in supporting local children in foster care through Church WatchCare Ministries.

The Rev. Beverly H. Lane of Tampa serves as president of Florida’s One Church One Child State Board of Directors and is regional vice president for the national One Church One Child. She helps to lead the charge across the state to find both permanent and temporary homes for Florida’s children in foster care.

The reality is that over 50 percent of the children who need a permanent family are minorities. This monthly series features children from all over Florida who are waiting in foster care for a forever loving family to call their own. August’s child is Jeremiah.

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Black, Hispanic journalists sold out to Democrats When the leaves start falling, we know autumn is around the corner. We also know the national conventions of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) are about to take place.

Even though the NAACP, the NUL, and the NABJ are all supposed to be tax-exempt organizations established to promote agendas that further the causes of their Black membership, their true missions are quite different.

Black ‘buffoonery’ All of these groups espouse radical, far-left, liberal ideologies and have sold out their Black members, pawning off their political capital for the cheap lies of the Democratic Party. This buffoonery was yet again on display during the past two weeks at their annual conventions.

I know the leadership of all these groups and have been extremely critical of them and their organizations in previous columns. Many of the leaders of these groups are personal friends of mine and they will admit privately that my criticisms are justified. Yet they do nothing to change their liberal bias.

No Republicans Isn’t it amazing that none of these groups had one Black Republican involved in any of their conventions? Not one as a keynote speaker or a moderator for any of their panels.

That’s why I counseled all of my associates in Republican

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leadership to decline invitations to address their conventions, especially the Trump campaign. It makes absolutely no sense for any Republican to address these liberal groups unless and until they agree to include Black Republicans as panelists, moderators, or as keynote speakers.

These groups all issue perfunctory invitations to the Republican leadership so they can “claim” Republicans were invited, but yet declined their offer.

This is all a charade.

As horrible as all these conventions were over the past two weeks, I was most horrified by the NABJ. What they put on display for public consumption was just embarrassing as hell.

Journalistic ‘whores’ This year, the NABJ and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) held a joint convention in Washington, D.C. The groups committed what amounts to journalistic prostitution last Friday when they allowed Hillary Clinton to speak during a luncheon session.

(Oops, I apologize to prostitutes. Prostitution is selling oneself for money. These journalists did it for free, because they philosophically agree with Clinton’s views.)

I was stunned that throughout Clinton’s speech, she was giv-

Why liberals hate the Green Party Liberals have moved far beyond the usual rationales for sticking with the Democrats and are now carrying on a fullfledged hate fest. Their targets are Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Ajamu Baraka (also a Black Agenda Report editor and columnist).

The screeds have become more and more extreme and defy the run-of-the-mill rationales that progressives use to justify remaining within Democratic Party lines.

Holding one’s nose and voting for the “lesser evil” Democrat is passé. So is fear of Republican judicial appointments. Concern for abortion rights doesn’t cut it anymore.

Telling lies Liberals are no longer going through the motions of criticizing the Democrat. Instead they openly show love for Hillary Clinton and disdainfully pile on Stein and Baraka with fury.

The site Very Smart Brothas declared that a vote for Stein was akin to putting it in the

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trash. They also threw in a dig at Cornel West because he dared to criticize Barack Obama.

The Huffington Post chose to deride Green Party convention delegates because they ate at McDonald’s. Gawker tried to link Ajamu Baraka to Holocaust denial.

The list is long and will get longer between now and Election Day.

Liberal wolves The degree of antipathy is actually quite useful. It tells us why the Green Party is so important and why liberals are such a dangerous enemy.

They are wolves in sheep’s clothing. They spend years wringing their hands because Republicans control state legislatures. But when the recently released DNC emails show that

Random thoughts of a free Black mind, v. 283 Yep, I’m a fan – I’m a Summer Olympics junkie. I even have the opening and closing Olympics fanfares – two of the greatest pieces of music of all times – on my phone and computer. (My kids get tired of hearing it during Olympics years.)

Here’s my short Olympics ‘experience.’ In 1975, I was on the Morehouse College track team with future 400-meter hurdles Olympian Edwin Moses. As a

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freshman, I broke a longstanding high jump record by jumping 6 feet, 10 inches, which was

en thunderous applause as she talked about her various policy positions. Mind you, she was speaking before a group of Black and Latino journalists who are “supposed” to be objective.

Imagine the media backlash if a room full of White journalists clapped and cheered during a speech given by a Republican presidential candidate.

The fact that the leadership of both groups remained silent while this was happening is simply just another indication that they are in agreement with what their membership did. The leadership of both organizations should be summarily fired.

It gets worse. After Clinton’s speech, NBC’s Kristen Welker (Black) and Telemundo’s Lori Montenegro (Hispanic) asked questions. It is quite obvious that Montenegro is a leftist liberal, pro-amnesty Democrat and Welker allowed Clinton to walk all over her, journalistically speaking. She knew Clinton would be lying about what FBI Director James Comey said about the investigation into her personal e-mail server. Welker let Clinton give a rambling answer, but never challenged her.

Since this was a gathering of Black and Hispanic journalists, one would expect the moderators to ask Clinton why she has spent very little time engaging with journalists from minority news outlets or why her campaign has spent negligible amounts of campaign dollars with minority media outlets, or even about the number of minorities she has hired to leadership positions for her campaign. the party starves local races of money, they say nothing. When they spoke up at all, they made a big deal about a spurious Russian hacker connection to Donald Trump.

There is no longer any pretense of claiming a desire for systemic change or even calling themselves “progressives.” They are “with her” – as the slogan goes – and her illegal activities and record of mass killing don’t dissuade them from supporting her.

Liberals don’t want the Democrats to change. They cling to a bizarre hope for reform, nibbling around the edges while keeping the criminals in charge.

They prefer to look down their noses at Trump supporters or consider themselves the cool kids in the high school clique.

When they have an opportunity to make history and begin the process of dismantling the hold of the Democratic Party, they instead become quite vicious on their behalf.

A good excuse Donald Trump is the perfect foil for their con game. His open appeals to racism and unpredictable statements and behavior give them an excuse to do nothing except make excuses for the very crooked Mrs. Clinton.

They don’t even feign concern an elite height at the time. But both Ed and I had to enter a major track meet so that we could meet the Olympic Trials qualifying standards to have a chance to go to the Trials.

However, knee problems did me in. I took a steroid injection before a practice and couldn’t feel my knee anymore afterwards, so that therapy didn’t work for me. An orthopedic specialist told me surgery was my only other option. Back then, surgery meant a 6-inch scar and uncertain results. No surgery for me, and therefore no Olympic Trials.

Ed went on, of course, to qualify for the 1976 Trials as a

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This is why neither group gets much support from within their respective communities and, because they are viewed as arms of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Republicans rightly ignore them.

Not nonpartisan The NABJ has made a conscious decision not to be a professional journalistic group, and instead choosing to be a Democratic journalistic group in violation of their own constitution.

Look at what NAHJ President Mekahlo Medina had to say about Clinton: “Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton has placed an emphasis on inclusion and shown support for communities of color.” This doesn’t sound like the talk of a journalist who is supposed to be objective.

Can any of my journalist friends explain how they are when Republicans who contributed to Chris Christie and John Kasich start doling out dollars to Hillary. They long ago gave up on fighting for peace. Just as the word “Trump” is a one-word attack ad, questions about foreign policy turn into harangues directed against Vladimir Putin.

American police departments keep up their body count. The United States risks war with China and Russia and unemployment is still high. But they say nothing about any of those issues. They cheerlead for Hillary Clinton just as they did for Barack Obama, and will say nothing against her once she is in office.

The election of 2016 will be a notable one in history, but for all the wrong reasons. Millions of people voted for the not-soleft-wing Bernie Sanders, who wasn’t serious about denying Clinton the nomination. Yet, they wanted change within the Democrat Party. He left his followers high and dry and made the case for the people who feared and scorned his halfhearted campaign.

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400-meter hurdler, win there, and win a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics. After losing a race in 1977, Ed did not lose another race for nine years, nine months and nine days while winning medals in three different Olympics. I think fondly about my years of training at Morehouse with a future Olympic champion whom we all knew even then was a special athlete and a brilliant brother…

Africa wins! If you look as “non-traditional” sports – at least as far as Black folks are concerned – you’ll see the sons and daughters of Africa competing and winning everywhere: tennis, fencing, springboard div-

ing, water polo, gymnastics, to name a few. We represent from all over the world: North and South America, Western Europe, the Middle East, and of course Africa itself. If all the Olympians of African descent were all repping the United States of Africa, the U.S., China, Russia or Japan wouldn’t stand a chance in the medal count. But the real winner is…

Weave! Seems the predominant fashion for sister Olympians. Green, red, yellow, blue, it’s flying around everywhere…

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who used free media attention and blatant appeals to White nationalism to win the nomination.

But Trump makes statements which don’t sit well with the Republican establishment. He went on record saying that the trade deals beloved by the duopoly are harming American workers. He asked reasonable questions about United States/ Russian relations. He was then used to invent numerous lies about the Russian president, who was already demonized by the media and the ruling classes.

Liberals are now quite deranged and applaud a woman who will crush their feeble agenda as soon as she says the oath of office. Progressives and bigmoney Republicans are now on the same page, and that is why Stein and Baraka face so much scrutiny and so many Big Lies.

The Green Party’s existence is proof that the Democratic Party emperor has no clothes. Far from being wasted votes, support for the Green Party ticket can be the beginning of the end for the Democratic Party.

There is no downside to that.

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EDITORIAL

Broward circuit judge doesn’t deserve re-election

As I was leaving church service in Pompano Beach recently, I picked up the Black-owned Westside Gazette newspaper and saw a large article entitled, “The Big Reveal of Judge Destry,” featuring Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry highlighting his life and judicial career. I was utterly flabbergasted to see Judge Destry, who is seeking re-election, portrayed as one who has a rich history and tremendous interest in the African-American community.

In nearly 35 years of practicing law in Broward County, I have never spoken out or written about why a sitting judge does not deserve to be re-elected. In this instance, I am compelled to share my thoughts and experiences with the community.

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to 60 years in prison for driving with a suspended license and having some gun ammunition in his car, even though prosecutors had asked for 13 years.

In a petition, thousands called for his removal from the bench over his harsh sentence. Judge Destry later reversed himself. Destry now claims he imposed this ridiculous sentence to get this young man’s attention, and he really had no intention of actually going through with it.

Nonsense.

He now admits to a private meeting (kept secret from everyone else involved in the case) with “community leaders” and claims that his abrupt turnaround in reducing the sentence to probation had nothing whatsoever to do with the community demand for his ouster. If that was the case, why a secret meeting where neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys were invited?

Not only does such a meeting fly in the face of legal ethics, it calls into question just what was discussed at that meeting that caused Judge Destry to reduce the sentence from almost a lifetime in prison to a mere slap on the wrist.

Where do you think that young man would be right now if there had been no public outcry over the sentence?

Even more disturbing – how many more are there like him who did not have his or her sentence publicly announced, sparking the outrage of a community demanding justice?

A few months back, I received a call from one of his campaign representatives and was asked if I would support his bid for reelection. I responded, “I cannot in good conscience do so.”

Matthew Destry is neither a friend to minorities nor to the poor. He has demonstrated over and over again that justice in his courtroom is at best sporadic and at worst Matthew provided only to Destry those whose favor he covets.

During an almost nine-year tenure, Destry has been the target of criticism in the media, by practicing attorneys, and by Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, whose office represents mainly the poor and minorities.

Destry is the most terrifying kind of judge – unpredictable, harsh, and wildly and inconsistently My experience wielding his discretion. Some exThat brings me to my own peramples: sonal experience with Destry.

I represented a man charged 60-year sentence with carrying a concealed firearm Last year, Destry sentenced a and possession of a firearm by a 23-year-old with a prison record convicted felon. The case land-

We need leaders, not pleaders Yet another “shocking” report, “The Ever Growing Gap,” came out last week. The ominous headline stated, “It will take Black families 228 years to earn the same amount of wealth White families have today.”

Here’s a newsflash: “We already know that.”

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Thus, we sit back and allow our “pleaders” to continue to beg for protection from political candidates, such as the national NAACP recently calling on them to “pledge to protect and preserve our lives.”

Is that the best we can get from our supposedly powerful civil rights organization?

They also tell us to register and vote our way out of our misery.

While we have not counted the years it would take, we know that working for wealth equality is futile and merely serves as a deflection that causes Black people to spend our precious time on a quixotic mission.

Every so often, revelations like this latest one come out to keep Black people mired in our current situation. The more drastic ‘Elevation’ necessary We don’t need “pleaders,” we and terrible the information, the more apathetic and pathetic we need authentic, fearless, unapolbecome. ogetic, honest leaders, who will

Obama administration says ‘no’ to medical marijuana In a not-so-subtle slap in the face to proponents of Florida’s Amendment 2, a key agency of President Obama’s administration has “just said no” to medical marijuana in Florida and elsewhere!

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that marijuana will remain a Schedule 1 drug and continue to be illegal “for any purpose” under the Controlled Substances Act as is the case with heroin and cocaine. Such drugs have been determined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have no medical use.

The announcement further stated that marijuana meets the three requirements for placing a substance on the Schedule 1 list: (1) it has a high potential for abuse; (2) there’s no currently ac-

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cepted medical use in treatment in the United States; (3) there’s a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

‘Not accepted’ Further undercutting Amendment 2 proponents, the DEA cited a Health and Human Services evaluation that shows marijuana has no “currently accepted medical use” because “the drug’s chemistry is not known and reproducible; there are no adequate safety studies; there are no ade-

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ed in front of Destry. A Lauderhill police officer claimed he stopped my client – who was racially profiled – because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt, and also claimed he had cited my client for it. (He hadn’t.)

Took cop’s word After a hearing, Judge Destry told me that I made a compelling and strong argument, but that there was no way he wasn’t going to take the word of a cop who was a three or four-year veteran with prior military experience. (Destry loves to talk about his own military experience out on the campaign trail and in his campaign literature). He ruled against my client, despite the overwhelming evidence supporting our position.

Oh, and that “veteran police officer”? It has been widely reported that the officer committed suicide a day before law enforcement authorities were to arrest him on a warrant prepared

by Broward County prosecutors on charges of official misconduct and falsifying official records stemming from racial profiling.

Another example If you are a minority or represented by anyone other than a big-money lawyer, you are more likely to be sentenced to prison

by Judge Destry. Take, for example, first time offender Maxime Cherilus.

Neither of his two jobs was bringing in enough money to provide for his family. So he did something desperate and criminal that got him arrested: he sold crack to an undercover police officer.

His case fell in front of Destry, who sentenced him to ten years in prison – six times what the prosecution was recommending.

The fact that he was a first-time offender didn’t matter.

There were no secret meetings with community leaders, no public outcry, and the sentence was not reversed by Destry. Coincidence? not succumb to foreboding statistical “revelation,” but will provide the “elevation” Black people must have in order to take care of ourselves with the resources we already have.

While we are wringing our hands about being 228 years behind in wealth, and some of us truly believing that politicians can and will turn that trend around, other groups are running right past us, not worrying about meeting the elusive goal of equality.

The proof of that is also in the same report that speaks to our financial demise. It says, “Over the last thirty years, the racial wealth divide has grown. If average Black wealth grows at the same rate it has over the last thirty years, it will be 228 years before it equals the amount of wealth possessed

by White households today…For Latinos, it will take 84 years.”

Black folks, compare 228 years to 84 years and ask yourself, “How is that possible?” No, they did not suffer 245 years of enslavement as we did, but that same truth can and should be used by our people today, with our tremendous cache of intellectual and financial

quate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy; the drug is not accepted by qualified experts; and the scientific evidence is not widely available.”

Stating that “there is no evidence that there is a consensus among qualified experts that marijuana is safe and effective for use in treating a specific, recognized disorder, the DEA concluded, “the known risks of marijuana use have not been shown to be outweighed by specific benefits in well-controlled clinical trials that scientifically evaluate safety and efficacy.”

If the DEA announcement is not enough evidence that Florida voters should reject legalizing marijuana by voting ‘no’ on the scam that is Amendment 2, the Obama Administration has consistently made it clear that it opposes legalization of marijuana for any purpose.

Don’t legalize it The official website of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) makes the Administration’s position very clear: “The Obama Administration continues to oppose legal-

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20-year sentence As reported in the New Times newspaper four years ago, when Demetrius Vidale was 19, he hurled a rock at a bus in Broward County. His mother Paula, turned him in and he was placed on probation as a youthful offender. Then, last year, Vidale was linked to a grand theft; Destry sentenced the 22-year-old to 20 years in prison.

“I am not afraid to say when my son is wrong. I was the one who turned him in and started this,” Vidale’s mother told the newspaper. “This mess is because of Destry. Your life can be ruined depending on what day you catch him on.”

Destry’s sentence in Vidale’s case was reversed – thrown out – last summer, since Destry relied only on hearsay in his probation revocation and sentencing.

Disrespect or ignorance

side of justice – cases don’t get better with age, and defendants who are rotting in jail cells don’t reap any benefits.

Despite this, Destry is known to boast on the campaign trail that he “stands by every ruling he’s ever made.” Including the 13 times he’s been reversed by the appellate court? Including sentencing Herbert Smith to 60 years?

Will say anything He talks about how transparent he is in his courtroom, yet has secret meetings in his chambers that result in reversals in his courtroom. If a judge will say anything he can to get re-elected even in the face of documented proof to the contrary, why would we buy what he’s selling?

Judge Destry’s version of justice evinces his propensity to consistently betray fairness and justice.

It is incredulous how he has suddenly developed such great interest in our community, as he has obviously bamboozled a few into supporting and endorsing his bid to return to the bench.

He certainly will not get my vote and does not deserve your vote.

Destry is among the most reversed judges in the Broward courthouse. Why is this important? Because it shows either a deep disrespect for the law, or a studied ignorance of it – either of which ultimately results in injustice.

A judge who doesn’t get it right Johnny L. McCray, Jr. is an the first time ensures that justice is delayed. Justice delayed is jus- attorney in private practice in tice denied. Time is never on the the South Florida area. resources, as an incentive to work even harder on elevation and not be sidelined by the latest revelation about how bad things are for our people.

No change Our POTUS says the income gap, not the wealth gap, is, “the defining challenge of our time...”

But where is the change? He blamed much of that on the politicians, and we fell for it once again, thinking they would eventually do the right thing and help us rise to financial utopia.

Let’s get this straight, brothers and sisters. A redistribution of wealth, which is what it would take, is not going to happen. MLK called for that more than 50 years ago, but we have gone down rather up.

White folks may give up the political wheel of this ship of state, but they will never acquiesce, agree, or willingly participate in any effort to cut that 228-year period even in half, much less make it even.

Most of their wealth, while earned from the free labor their ancestors enjoyed when we were

ization of marijuana and other illegal drugs because this approach runs counter to the public health approach to drug policy.”

Discussing the public health impact, it recites the many dangers of legalization of the drug including: • Marijuana use poses significant risks to public health (Poses considerable danger to the health and safety of the users themselves; can lead to dependence and addiction; is associated with addiction, respiratory illnesses, and cognitive impairment; is also the second-leading substance for which people receive drug treatment, and a major cause for visits to emergency rooms).

• Increased availability leads to increased health and safety costs (Legality increases the availability and acceptability of drugs; increased availability and acceptability of marijuana would likely lead to increased consumption; increased consumption leads to higher public health and financial costs for society).

Legalization will not solve public health or safety challenges (Marijuana legalization would not eliminate the black market

brought here, is locked down in generational inheritances. Do you really think they will all of a sudden get religion and give that up?

Wasting our time Enough with “Black Pleadership” that is only concerned about their own elevation, as they bow down before their masters and plead to be protected and preserved. No more revelations in reports that provide huge income to those who write them – reports that end up on the trash heap of time that was wasted by Black folks complaining about their contents.

Let’s get busy behind real leaders who are willing and able to work with us toward elevation, rather than getting stuck reading the voluminous pages of repeated revelation.

James E. Clingman is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people.

for the drug, or improve public health and safety).

Florida voters should take particular note of the ONDCP’s comments in its “Marijuana Resource Center” regarding state laws and marijuana: “Confusing messages being presented by popular culture media, proponents of “medical” marijuana…perpetuate the false notion that marijuana is harmless. This significantly diminishes efforts to keep our young people drug free and hampers the struggle of those recovering from addiction.”

The concluding comments sums it up nicely: “The Administration steadfastly opposes legalization of marijuana…because legalization would increase the availability and use of illicit drugs, and pose significant health and safety risks to all Americans, particularly young people.”

The Obama administration is right on this issue. Florida voters should VOTE NO on Amendment 2 in November.

Clarence V. McKee, Esq. is a consultant to the VOTE NO On 2 Campaign (www.VoteNo2.org).

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AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2016

Boko Haram posts new video of abducted girls Release of prisoners sought in exchange for Nigerian schoolgirls

BY ROBYN DIXON LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS

JOHANNESBURG – Some of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been killed in Nigerian air force bombings, the group said in a video released on Aug. 14.

The video appeared to be the first proof in months that dozens of the girls are still alive, more than two years after they were captured from the town of Chibok.

Their faces bleak, the group of several dozen girls could be seen wearing long Islamic gowns, guarded by a masked man in camouflage. Some fought back tears. Many held babies, likely the product of rape after the girls were forcibly married to fighters.

About 40 of the girls have been married off, the masked man said.

“No one cares for us,” one girl, identified as Maida Yakubu, said in the video.

‘We are suffering’ “We are suffering here. The aircraft has come to bombard us and killed many of us. Some are wounded,” Yakubu said, according to an Associated Press translation. “Every day we are in pains and suffering. So are our babies.

Some of our husbands that we married also are injured, some dead.

“Please go and beg the government of Nigeria to release the members of our abductors so that they too can free us to let us come home,” she said. “We are really suffering, there is no food to eat, no good water to drink here.”

The masked fighter, who seemed to represent the Boko Haram faction led by Abubakar Shekau, demanded the release of

The video, posted on Twitter, appeared to be the first proof in months that dozens of the Chibok girls are still alive. prisoners in return for releasing the girls.

The group split recently, after an Islamic State-run magazine named Abu Musab Barnawi as the new leader of Boko Haram, angering Shekau and his followers. Both factions have since released video and audio statements attacking one another.

Bodies shown The spokesman warned in the video that no one would see the girls again unless the government stopped fighting the group and released Boko Haram prisoners.

“Presently, some of the girls are crippled, some are terribly sick and some of them, as I had said, died during bombardment by the Nigerian military,” the spokesman said. The video showed what the fighter said were the bodies of girls killed by airstrikes.

“Let me say again, release our

people and we release your girls.

Otherwise, they will never be released. If you think you have the power to come and rescue them, go ahead and try,” the spokesman said, according a translation by a Nigerian newspaper, the Premium Times.

The video was posted on Twitter on Aug. 14 by a Nigerian journalist, Ahmed Salkida, who has Boko Haram contacts. The Nigerian army said it was seeking to question Salkida.

nian border.

Boko Haram’s scorched-earth policies have forced farmers off their land, stopped fishermen from fishing in Lake Chad and prevented the transport of food across the region, leaving a large area facing starvation.

The policy appears to have hurt Boko Haram as much as it hurt surrounding communities, with many fighters surrendering to Nigeria’s military because of hunger.

Driven out

218 missing

Boko Haram controlled a vast swath of territory in the northeast of the country until last year, when a coalition of armies from Nigeria and neighboring countries drove the Islamist terrorist group out of all the major towns that it controlled.

The Nigerian air force has been bombing Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa forest, in the northeast, near the Cameroo-

The girls were kidnapped in April 2014 from their boarding school, where they had gathered for examinations. Boko Haram fighters stormed the school late at night, loaded the girls into trucks and took them away.

Several dozen of the girls managed to escape by jumping from the trucks and running into the bush. One, Amina Ali, was recovered in May, married to a Boko

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Haram fighter, with a baby. But 218 are still missing.

A few weeks after they were kidnapped, about 100 of the girls were shown on video dressed in Islamic clothing. Some 15 were shown in a video released in May this year.

Worldwide protests The Nigerian government, then under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was harshly criticized for failing to act swiftly to locate and recover the schoolgirls.

After the kidnapping, Shekau appeared in a video, grinning and laughing, calling the girls “slaves” and saying he planned to sell them in the market.

Activists in Nigeria initiated daily protests and the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, triggering peaceful protests and garnering support from people around the world.

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TWO SIMONES, MUCH RESPECT Texas swimmer wins two golds and two silvers

Biles ‘just at another level’ among gymnasts

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Aly Raisman won the silver medal in the floor exercise, the last event of women’s gymnastics, and considered herself the best in the world.

That’s because Simone Biles is otherworldly.

“I don’t even consider myself competing against her,” Raisman said. “She’s just at another level. She’s incredible.”

Biles won her fourth gold medal and fifth medal of the Rio Games on Tuesday. The Spring, Texas, resident joins swimmers Katie Ledecky (2016) and Missy Franklin (2012) as the only American women with five medals at a single Olympics.

“It’s pretty insane what I’ve accomplished in my first Olympics,” Biles said. “It’s definitely rewarding, and I’m very proud of myself. I don’t know. It’s crazy …”

RIO DE JANEIRO – When Simone Manuel woke up on Aug. 11, she was just another Olympic swimmer. Twentyfour hours later, the Sugar Land, Texas, native was front-page news.

LeBron James, Serena Williams and other celebrities tweeted their congratulations to Manuel, who became the first African-American woman to win an individual swimming medal.

“I didn’t know this,” Manuel said on Aug. 12 of the celebrity tweets, “but (swimmer) Lia Neal sent me a screen shot of it (Friday) morning, so I think that’s pretty cool.”

Tied with Canadian Manuel achieved the impossible, overshadowing the much-anticipated Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte showdown on one of the final nights of swimming. She tied Penny Oleksiak of Canada for the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle, with their shared time of 52.70 setting an Olympic record.

Manuel’s roommate in the Athletes’ Village, swimmer Katie Ledecky, stayed awake until Manuel arrived at 2:30 a.m.

“I opened the door to the room, and she got up and gave me a hug and said, ‘I wasn’t going to fall asleep until I gave you a hug,’ and that really meant a lot to me,” said Manuel, who gave the U.S. a gold medal in the event for the first time since 1984. “She didn’t have to say much after that, because her staying up said enough in itself.”

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Simone Manuel reacts after seeing her first-place finish on the scoreboard in the women’s 100m freestyle at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio on Aug. 11.

Consistent gymnast

Biles competed every day of women’s gymnastics competition, performing 11 times. Eight times she scored above 15, including Tuesday when she had a 15.966 in the floor exercise, which was .466 better than second-place Raisman.

It was Biles’ consistency day in and day out that stood out.

“The reward is the medal, but if you don’t bring your best performance, she’s not satisfied,” said Aimee Boorman, Biles’ personal coach.

Biles’ best performance might have been her worst score, a 14.733 in the balance beam Monday. Biles had a low takeoff on a front somersault, grabbing the 4-inch-wide beam to regain her balance. The fact that she didn’t fall off tells the MARK REIS/COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE/TNS story of how good Biles is.

Simone Biles delivers a gold-medal performance in the individual women’s floor exercise The fact that she still won A little research final on Tuesday. the bronze — not lost the Fellow Stanford students gold — despite an automatfrequently mistake Manuel ic half-point deduction exfor a volleyball or basketball plains how great Biles is. player. Manuel, 20, realized she was differ“The fact that somehow because that ent than most swimmers when she was 11. expectation (to win five gold medals) “She asked me a question about why was put on her, it became a letdown that she didn’t see many others like herself in she got a bronze on beam,” said Boorthe sport of swimming,” Sharron Manuman, who works at the Biles-owned World el, Simone’s mother, said on Aug. 12. “I Champions Centre in Spring. “It’s like, didn’t have an answer for it immediately, ‘No, that’s still an amazing accomplishand I said, ‘That’s a good question. I don’t ment.’ And it’s even more amazing that know. Let’s look it up.’ she stayed on the beam with her two toes.”

“We got on the Internet, and we looked up information, and we pulled different articles and started reading. I think for her In great company that was the moment that she realized she It became firmly established after team had a bigger role to play in what she was and individual gold medals that Biles doing in the sport of swimming.” would leave Rio as the greatest gymnast ever, supplanting Nadia Comaneci. Only four other women in artistic gymnastics ‘Hope and change’ have won four gold medals in a single At her news conference after her victoOlympics, the last coming in 1984 by Rory, Manuel acknowledged the history she manian Ecaterina Szabo. made. Manuel said she wanted her gold Biles, 19, appears to be the only one in medal to serve as an impetus for “hope gymnastics not signing off on the idea. and change,” accepting she now has a role “I don’t know,” Biles said. “I would nevSimone Manuel and Simone Biles celebrate with a selfie. to play as an inspiration to other Africaner rank myself. It’s weird.”

Americans.

Gymnasts aren’t long for their world, “It comes with the territory, because and this likely was the last we see of Biles there aren’t many of us in the sport of in the Olympics. Boorman knows as “I’m the kind of swimming, and we definitely talk a lot much, becoming emotional when asked the question. about that with Simone,” Sharron Manuel said. person that tries “When she was about 15 in high school, we started talking to to stay the same. her about swimming isn’t just going to be about her and that What’s next?

I’m glad I can be there will be a point in her life when the swimming will be more Biles isn’t ready to address her future, though. than just for her, that it will be a time when she will have to an inspiration “First, we’re going to have some fun, and I don’t want to think share that gift with the world, and it will carry a message.” about it yet,” Biles said. “We all need to have a little bit of a break to others, but I and kind of trying to be normal once we get back home.” haven’t really One thing Biles will never see again is normalcy. Everyone Won’t change thought about will recognize her as the star she is. Five medals, four of them While Manuel’s victory might elicit change, at least in her gold, will prove life-changing. how my life has sport, she insists the gold medal won’t change her.

“It is kind of scary with the public eye being on me at all changed.”

“I’m the kind of person that tries to stay the same,” she said. times, but it’s rewarding as well,” Biles said. “I think we’ll get “I’m glad I can be an inspiration to others, but I haven’t really used to it.” thought about how my life has changed.”

Biles twice held up her index finger after winning the floor ex– Simone Manuel Manuel won a silver medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay Sunercise. She is the one and only, and not just in one event. day night and a silver in the women’s 50-meter freestyle.

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BY RONDA RACHA PENRICE URBAN NEWS SERVICE

Gymnast Simone Biles.

Swimmer Simone Manuel.

Shot putter Michelle Carter. All three won gold medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics in sports not typically associated with Black American athletes.

Eighty years ago, a grand total of two Black American women athletes, Tidye Pickett and Louise Stokes, both in track and field, traveled to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where Jesse Owens won four gold medals. Because his victories debunked Adolf Hitler’s pronouncements of Aryan supremacy, many believe Owens was the only Black American Olympian there.

“He wasn’t alone,” says filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper. “There were 17 other p e o p l e .”

Her documentary, “Olympic Pride, American Prejudice,” tells the stories Deborah of Pickett, Riley Draper Stokes and the other Black American Olympians with Owens.

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The film, “Olympic Pride,’’ shows German director Leni Riefenstahl and her crew filming gold-medal runner Archie Williams on Aug. 14, 1936. dium, the Nazi stadium, sitting there next to Mack Robinson. His mother. And he said he was so proud.

Just seeing her reminded him of just how amazing his mother was.”

More gold and silver Nine of them also won medals in the Nazi capital.

Some did so with Owens.

Some competed against him. Some didn’t compete with him at all.

Ralph Metcalfe shared the podium for gold with Owens after the 4x100meter relay. Then Metcalfe won silver to Owens’ gold in the 100-meter dash.

Jackie Robinson’s brother, Mack, took silver to Owens’s gold in the 200-meter dash.

In the high jump, Cornelius “Corny” Johnson won gold, while Owens’ fellow Ohio State Buckeye, Dave Albritton, snagged silver. Archie Williams mined gold and James “Jimmy” LuValle bronze in the 400-meter run. John Woodruff won gold in the 800-meter run. Frederick “Fritz” Pollard scored bronze in the 100-meter hurdles, and Jackie Wilson earned silver in bantamweight boxing.

Footage, interviews Draper found their stories accidentally while researching the life of American trumpeter Valaida Snow, who shared her tale after being interned during Hitler’s rise.

Snow’s positive comments about the Black American Olympians in Berlin sparked Draper’s curiosity. It took the former advertising executive four years to put the puzzle together. That puzzle is chock full of stunning archival footage, interviews with some of the Olympians’ children, and even actual audio from Olympians Williams and LuValle.

In fact, their words help narrator Blair Underwood, also an executive producer, tell the story.

“It’s remarkable to have their voices and to have them kind of guide you through their experience

Aug. 5 premiere

This photo was taken in June 1936 in New York of some of the Olympic athletes who would compete in Berlin. Left to right rear: Dave Albritton and Cornelius high jumpers; Tidye Pickett, track star; Ralph Metcalfe, sprinter; Jim Clark, boxer; and Matthew Robinson, sprinter. In front are John Terry, left, weightlifter and John Brooks, broad jumper. through Berlin. It kind of feels like you’re having that conversation with Archie or Jimmy,” Draper says.

Letting them speak Digging through the archives of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Draper found interview transcripts and then hunted down the corresponding audio.

As demonstrated in her breakthrough Black-model-focused 2012 documentary, “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution,” Draper has a knack for letting her subjects speak for themselves. That was easy in “Versailles ’73;” her subjects were still alive.

It is decidedly more difficult when all the subjects are dead. But Draper is committed to letting Black people speak, even if

it is about the 1930s where their voices are harder to find.

“I don’t like anyone to speak for me, so I don’t want to take someone else’s voice from them because I don’t like my voice taken from me,” Draper says. “I think that’s a respect thing.”

Son’s pride This also speaks to the independent filmmaker’s work ethic. Louise Stokes Fraser’s son, Wolfie, recognized it immediately after seeing an early cut of “Olympic Pride.”

“He looked for seven years to find footage of his mother and was unsuccessful, and he was a cameraman for NBC for 30 years,” says Draper, who found the footage in ar-

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chives in both Los Angeles and Berlin.

When he did see his mother, Draper says, “He

cried a lot. He saw his mom on the boat, and he saw his mom getting off the bus.

He saw his mom in the sta-

That kind of response is what keeps her Atlanta-based Coffee Bluff Productions grinding. (Draper named the company after a historic stretch of her native Savannah.) “Olympic Pride” premiered theatrically in New York and Santa Monica on Aug. 5. It is also available on Comcast’s Xfinity Streampix and can be pre-ordered on Amazon. A 10-city expansion is in the works for September.

If Draper and those like her hope to continue to buck the Hollywood mainstream, she says, the public will have to step up and massively support these movies.

“We need a movement to elevate the film in the consciousness of people who want to see this type of film. We need folks on Facebook (1936OlympicsMovie) to tell us they like the film,” Draper says.

“We have to convince distributors that there’s an appetite for African-American films,” Draper says.

“People have to be convinced that African-Americans want to see something different.”

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How methods to fight mosquitos have changed

BY ALEXIA FERNANDEZ LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS

It’s not the fog of war, but it’s a war on bugs. And sometimes it’s fought with, well, fog. Recent efforts to halt the spread of the Zika virus in Florida bring to mind other times authorities have unleashed billowing clouds to combat pests.

DDT In the 1940s, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was developed as what the Environmental Protection Agency calls the “first of the modern synthetic insecticides.” It was initially used to protect against malaria and typhus, among other diseases transmitted to humans by insects.

DDT was effective against a variety of insects and quickly became popular among U.S. farmers. DDT also was used in livestock production and sprayed in gardens, institutions and homes.

Migrant workers arriving from Mexico for seasonal farm work were sprayed thoroughly with DDT. Millions of workers arrived in the U.S. under the bracero program from 1942 to 1964.

Attitudes toward DDT changed in 1962 with the publication of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking book “Silent Spring,” which spread public concern about the dangers of pesticide use.

DDT was eventually suspected of causing a serious decline in the population of brown pelicans. As a result of chemical deficiency, pelicans produced eggshells that were so thin most of them would break before the embryos could mature.

In 1972, the EPA banned DDT for its environmen-

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Fran Middlebrooks, a groundskeeper at Pinecrest Gardens, uses a blower to spray pesticide to kill mosquitos on Aug. 4 in Miami as Miami Dade County fights to control the Zika virus outbreak. tal effects and its potential risks to human health.

The pesticide is considered a possible human carcinogen, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Studies on animals showed they developed liver tumors after ingesting large doses of DDT.

Malathion The insecticide malathion was registered for use in the U.S. in 1956 for agriculture, gardens and public recreation areas.

It’s still widely used in combating mosquitoes.

Usually, it is released from trucks or helicopters and ejected in an ultra-low volume spray that stays in the

air longer and kills mosquitoes on contact.

In Southern California, “malathion” became a familiar word — and a source of controversy — in the 1990s when it was sprayed from helicopters to battle the Mediterranean fruit fly, which officials viewed as a major threat to California agriculture.

In 1990, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services began experiments on child volunteers, applying small amounts of malathion to their skin to test possible allergic responses in humans. The study was approved by a scientific panel from UCLA with the permission of the children’s

parents.

The results of urine analysis tests found no traces of malathion in any of the 67 samples, but samples from 12 children did show substances that form when malathion is metabolized in the body.

A report in 1991 based on those studied said malathion spraying posed no serious threat to a majority of residents but did acknowledge that, in certain circumstances, some people could suffer from rashes, hives or other allergic symptoms.

Though the EPA says malathion poses no serious risks to human health, it warns against contact with high doses. Malathi-

on can overstimulate the nervous system, inducing nausea, dizziness or confusion.

In 1994, malathion was sprayed over 32,400 homes in Los Angeles County.

That year, during a series of aerial sprayings in Corona from February to May, about 250 residents reported skin rashes, allergic reactions and other symptoms.

Duet and naled After authorities confirmed instances of locally transmitted Zika in Miami, crews descended on the city’s Wynwood neighborhood in July to unleash clouds of insecticide.

The infections were of special concern because it appeared the virus was transferred by mosquitoes in Florida. Previously, Zika infections reported in the U.S. had occurred only among people who had traveled abroad.

The type of pesticide released has been varied to prevent mosquitoes from building a resistance to the chemicals. The application methods also vary.

One insecticide, Duet, is sprayed through a handheld portable backpack on the ground, and other pesticides, such as deltamethrin and Biomist, are released from equipment mounted on trucks.

Aerial sprayings of a pesticide called naled began on Aug. 4 to exterminate adult mosquitoes. The CDC urged people to stay away while naled was being sprayed.

A “large portion” of the mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus were killed during the initial sprayings in Wynwood, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC director, said at a news conference.

Naled was registered for use in the U.S. in 1959 and is primarily released to control adult mosquitoes.

The insecticide is also used on food and feed crops for animals and in greenhouses.

It doesn’t pose an “unreasonable” risk to human health, animals or the environment, according to the EPA. The agency found that spraying causes exposure hundreds or thousands of times below an amount that might pose a health concern.

On Aug. 5, Miami-Dade County officials authorized the use of a second chemical, VectoBac WDG, for aerial sprayings. The chemical is used to kill mosquito larvae. It is alternated with naled.

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sonnel vowing to defend Sofia and other Muslims from infringement of their constitutional rights.

‘A bit paralyzed’ To avoid planting such fears, some Muslim parents have opted to tune out election talk altogether, abstaining from TV and radio to shield their children from attacks on their religion.

Others prefer to charge headfirst into the fray, urging their children to volunteer at phone banks so that they learn the importance of political participation. And many more parents are caught somewhere in the middle, still unsure of how and when to have the dreaded Trump talk.

“I’m a bit paralyzed,” said Svend White, a Chicago-based Muslim father who’s facing the issue with his 10-year-old daughter. “I don’t know exactly how to broach it. I’m trying to preserve my daughter’s natural pride in her community and her background before it starts to get tainted by the fear and prejudice that’s out there.”

The Trump talk

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A group of young Muslims stage a small protest as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage for a campaign rally during the Kansas GOP caucus at Century II in Wichita, Kan., on March 5.

Election anxiety runs deep for Muslim parents Some have opted to tune out campaign talk altogether, abstaining from TV and radio to shield their children from attacks on their religion.

BY HANNAH ALLAM TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Election Day is coming soon, and Rashida

Tlaib is making sure her two sons understand what a watershed event this could be for American Muslims like them. The political climate is ugly, she warns, and the rhetoric is getting nastier by the day.

They need this victory, Tlaib explained. He’s simply got to win.

No, no, not him. The candidate they’re rooting for is local: Abdullah Hammoud, a Muslim Democrat running for the Michigan legislature.

Hammoud’s sweeping primary victory this month in a littlewatched race is giving Muslims across the country a pick-me-up

at a time when Republican nominee Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Islam proposals dominate the presidential campaign.

“We’re ecstatic,” said Tlaib, who lives in Detroit. “I want my sons to sit down with Abdullah and shake his hand and say, ‘He has a cool name like mine, and he has the same face, and he prays in the same way — and he has access to be a member of the legislature.’”

Deportation fears Hammoud’s ascent provides one answer to a question that Muslim parents are asking them-

selves every day: How do I talk to my kids about this election?

To Tlaib and other Muslim parents, the Michigan race is a positive aside in an otherwise wrenching election-year conversation involving thorny questions of faith, democracy and identity.

Last month, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign released a TV political ad called “Role Models,” featuring children listening to Trump’s offensive words about women and minorities — a direct appeal to many parents’ unease with his rhetoric.

Among Muslim parents, anxiety over the election runs even deeper.

Already, families say, their American-born children ask whether Trump is going to arrest or deport them. The experience of 8-year-old Sofia, who packed up her dolls to await forcible removal from her home, triggered the hashtag campaign IWillProtectYou, with U.S. military per-

Aamir Nooruddin, a Muslim father in Maryland, said he decided to have an in-depth Trump talk with his 8-year-old daughter, Sakeena, after visiting a grade school where the students peppered him with questions about whether he worried about his children’s future in the country.

The fears telegraphed in the students’ questions made him wonder how his own daughter was dealing with the ubiquity of Trump’s message.

When Nooruddin asked, he was dismayed to hear a girl who’d only known a Black president respond matter-of-factly that Trump doesn’t like “brown people” or Muslims.

Solemn response Rather than “pile on,” Nooruddin said, he emphasized that bigotry isn’t confined to one person or one political party. But then Sakeena caught him watching a New York Times montage of unfiltered scenes from Trump rallies, with supporters yelling racial slurs and cheering on a man wearing a shirt that said, “F--- Islam.” She looked at her dad and asked: “Do they really hate us?”

That was tough, Nooruddin said. He came up with a response that discussed the angst among many Americans over economic hardship and the country’s changing demographics. He wrapped it up by urging her to be living proof that the bigots are wrong – just work hard, be polite, smile.

“I feel bad because what I really mean is, ‘Don’t come off as a threat,’” Nooruddin said. “And that’s a tragedy in itself, that as a parent you have to tell your child not to appear as a threat.”

Education level sharply divides the presidential race cent, and 53 percent to 46 percent).

In 2004, President George W. Bush beat then-Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts among those with no college degree, 53 percent to 47 percent. Among those with college degrees, the two men tied at 49 percent.

The Bloomberg poll also showed a sharp decline among those 18-34 years old who say they definitely plan to vote in November. When compared to a Bloomberg survey taken in June, the number fell to 46 percent from 60 percent.

BY JOHN MCCORMICK BLOOMBERG NEWS/TNS

CHICAGO – There are many demographic fault lines emerging in this year’s presidential campaign, but few are deeper than the division among likely voters based on educational attainment.

Those with the least number of years of education are far more likely to support Donald Trump, while those who have had the most schooling are much more likely to back Hillary Clinton, according to a Bloomberg Politics national poll released last week.

“The presence or absence of a college degree is more predictive of the vote in this election than we’ve seen in past elections,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, who oversees many political surveys for Bloomberg.

Another trend may also be developing in the presidential campaign that could pose a threat to Clinton: apathy among potential voters under age 35.

Sanders’ impact

Change from 2012 Both of these subplots were revealed in the new poll, with educational level offering the starkest contrast.

Clinton wins the college-educated segment by 25 percentage points, 59 percent to 34 percent. Trump’s edge among those without a college education is 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent.

Trump’s lead is 4-to-1 among White men with less than a college degree, 76 percent to 19 percent. Clinton’s advantage with college-educated women is 64 percent to 31 percent.

That’s vastly different from

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Hillary Clinton waves to supporters at a Women for Hillary event at West Los Angeles College on June 3 in Culver City, Calif. what was recorded in the 2012 presidential election, when exit polling showed 47 percent of voters were college graduates.

In that contest, President Barack Obama only narrowly beat Re-

publican challenger Mitt Romney among college graduates, 50 percent to 48 percent.

Other contests It’s also different from the two

presidential contests before that.

In 2008, Obama won among both those who did and did not graduate college by almost identical margins over Sen. John McCain of Arizona (53 percent to 45 per-

A Bloomberg survey taken in September 2012, roughly at this same point in the election cycle, showed 64 percent in that age group said they definitely planned to vote.

“Our data hints at a burst balloon of enthusiasm among younger voters,” Selzer said.

“Among those who do intend to vote, a majority support Clinton, but more of them do so to stop Trump than to support Clinton.”

Selzer said she suspects the decline in younger voters saying that they definitely plan to vote is related to the June exit from the race by Clinton’s former nomination rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a candidate who excited more young adults than Clinton.

“One could see how those still feeling the loss from Bernie Sanders’ exit might opt out of voting altogether,” she said. “At least for now, it’s something to watch.”

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica become the first athlete to win three straight Olympic 100-meter titles, winning gold at the Rio Olympics with a speed in 9.81 seconds, fending off Orlando’s Justin Gatlin in a race on Aug. 14.

It was Bolt’s seventh gold medal.

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Key West event to honor African refugees The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition declared by the United Nations General Assembly will be commemorated at 6 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Key West African Cemetery at 10741094 Atlantic Blvd., Key West. It’s located near Higgs Memorial Beach, between the White Street Pier and the West Martello Fort.

The event continues a tradition established in recent years to honor the memory of the 295 African refugees who were buried at the site in the spring of 1860.

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Allyson Felix, 30, has accepted her second-place win with class in the 400-meter race. The track and field star won a silver medal at the Olympics on Monday night after being edged out by Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas who did a dive to the finish line and won the gold. After the race, Felix, with seven Olympic medals, was the most decorated female athlete in U.S. track and field’s history.

1,432 rescued It also recognizes the heroism and generosity of the Key West community, which came to their aid when the refugees and their captives, totaling 1,432, were rescued by the U.S. Navy from three American slave ships bound illegally for Cuba.

Many of the 295 who died from illnesses and abominable conditions endured aboard ships were children.

The presence of the surviving Africans in Key West during their 12 weeks of detention there as they awaited being returned to Africa (not their original homelands but the American colony of Liberia), by order of President James Buchanan, gained nationwide attention, drawing journalists and curiosity seekers from around the country to Key West.

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Actress from Orlando has role in new TV series Starting next month, actress Kristen Ariza can be seen in a new TV drama on Crackle.

The native of Orlando will play Tamara Dacey in “Start Up,’’ which also stars Martin Freeman, Adam Brody and Edi Gathegi. Tamara is wife to Gathegi’s character Ronald Dacey, who is the second-in-command of a Haitian gang.

Set in Miami, “Start Up” explores what happens when a brilliant, yet controversial tech idea gets incubated on the wrong side of the tracks by three strangers who don’t necessarily fit the mold of tech entrepreneurs. The premiere of “Start Up’’ is Sept. 6.

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CORRINE BAILEY RAE, CHRISETE MICHELE & EL DEBARGE The Allstate Tom Joyner Family Reunion will be at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee from Sept. 1-Sept. 5. The event will feature plenty of celebrity guests and performers, including singers El DeBarge, Corrine Bailey Rae and Chrisette Michele. Details: FamilyReunion.BlackAmericaWeb.com.

Kristen Arizawill play Tamara Dacey in the TV drama “Start Up,’’ which also stars Martin Freeman, Adam Brody and Edi Gathegi.

She then studied at Florida State University, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in theater. She has performed on stage in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Most recently, Kristen can be seen in the HBO feature, “Confirmation,’’ which depicts the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings where Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment. Starring Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce and Greg Kinnear, Kristen plays Deputy Press Secretary Judy Smith, the real-life inspiration behind the ABC hit “Scandal.’’

FLORIDA COMMUNITY CALENDAR Miami: The Bad Boy Family Reunion will be at the AmericanAirlines Arena on Sept. 10 and Tampa’s Amalie Arena on Sept. 11. Performers will include Puff Daddy (Sean Combs), Faith Evans, Lil Kim and French Montana.

Tampa: The Children’s Movement of Florida will host a forum featuring candidates for Florida Senate District 19 on Aug. 23 at 6 p.m. at Robert W. Saunders Library, 1505 N. Nebraska Ave. Jacksonville: A Kings &

Queens of Hip Hop concert is Aug. 27 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.

Artists will include DMX, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Trina and Scarface.

Miami: Drake’s Summer Sixteen Tour, which features Future, makes an Aug. 30 stop at the AmericanAirlines Arena.

Orlando: Dru Hill and Lyfe Jennings perform Aug. 27 at House of Blues Orlando for a 7 p.m. show.

Jacksonville: Jill Scott takes the stage Aug. 28 at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts, Aug. 30 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at

the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach and Sept. 1 at St. Petersburg’s Mahaffey Theater.

Fort Lauderdale: The Keb’ Mo’ Band will perform Sept.

22 at the Parker Playhouse.

Miami Beach: Leon Bridges will perform Sept. 13 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.

Jacksonville: Kenny G stops by the Florida Theatre Jacksonville on Sept. 1 for an 8 p.m. show.

Miami: Kanye West’s The Saint Pablo Tour stops at AmericanAirlines Arena on Sept. 16.

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FOOD

AUGUST 19 – AUGUST 25, 2016

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FROM FAMILY FEATURES

Farmers are the experts when it comes to enjoying the fruits of the land in the best way possible. Learn to eat like a farmer, and your taste buds will be sure to thank you later.

Across the United States, farmers are working hard to bring high-quality foods from their fields and groves to grocery store shelves and, ultimately, to your pantry.

Sometimes foods you may not even think about coming from a farm have been grown with the most tender, loving care.

One example is olives, which are typically bought in cans, far removed from the produce section people more typically associate with farms. In California, hard-working, multi-generational farming families produce more than 95 percent of the olives grown and con­sumed in the United States. The farms – groves, to be exact – are home to thousands of trees that bear olive fruit for harvest each fall.

It should come as no surprise that these families have fine-tuned some of the most appetizing olive recipes by passing them on from one generation to the next. These farmers don’t just grow olives, they cook with them too, and are sharing some of their favorite recipes – from snacks to salads and pasta – using California Ripe Olives.

Find more California olive farmer-approved recipes at CalOlive.org.

COWBOY CAVIAR Recipe courtesy of olive grower Natalie Jameson Servings: 8-10 2 cups chopped tomato

1 can (6 ounces) large California Ripe Olives, drained and coarsely chopped 1/2 cup prepared vinaigrette dressing corn chips 3 green onions, sliced In medium bowl, stir together 1 avocado, peeled, pitted and tomato, green onions, avocado, cut into small cubes black beans and olives.

1 can (15 ounces) black beans, Toss with dressing and serve with corn chips. rinsed and drained

ROTINI WITH SHRIMP AND OLIVES Recipe courtesy of olive grower Pablo Nerey Servings: 6-8 1 pound rotini pasta 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons chopped garlic 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt pepper, to taste 1 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for garnish 2 tablespoons prepared pesto 1 can (2.25 ounces) sliced California Ripe Olives Bring large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook 8-10 minutes, or until al dente; drain well and set aside.

In large skillet, heat butter and olive oil over medium heat.

Add garlic and stir until golden, being careful not to burn.

Add shrimp to skillet and season with garlic salt and pepper. Cook about 5 minutes, or until shrimp are pink, stirring frequently.

Reduce heat to medium-low and add cream to skillet; simmer until thick.

Add cooked pasta to sauce and stir in Parmesan cheese, pesto and olives.

Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

RED POTATO AND OLIVE SALAD Recipe courtesy of olive grower Carolina Burreson Servings: 4-6 Dressing 1/2 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon sugar Salad 1/2 cup sliced California Ripe Olives, drained 1/2 cup grape tomatoes, halved 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley 1/4 cup chopped celery 1 1/2 pounds small red potatoes, quartered and boiled until tender 1 jar (6 ounces) marinated artichoke hearts, drained and coarsely chopped 1/4 medium red onion, thinly sliced In sealable jar, mix together dressing ingredients and refrigerate at least 4 hours.

When ready to serve, place all salad ingredients in large bowl. Drizzle with dressing and toss lightly to coat.