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hamas on its way to the United States as of the Florida Courier’s press time Wednesday afternoon (which was moved up to allow storm preparations). The storm tore into Haiti’s southern coast early Tuesday, ripping off corrugated rooftops, toppling trees and flooding streets and agricultural fields in a country still struggling after a devastating earthquake six years ago. The dangerous Category 4 COMPILED FROM STAFF CARLINE JEAN/SUN SENTINEL/TNS storm, one of the strongest CaAND WIRE REPORTS Worshipers at St. Clement Catholic Church in Wilton Manors prayed ribbean hurricanes in years, for the people of Haiti during a special Mass and prayer vigil as HurHurricane Matthew pum- was carrying winds of 145 mph meled Haiti, Cuba and the Ba- when it made landfall at 6 a.m. ricane Matthew hit the island nation.
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“The task force’s primary focus was on developing strategies to provide relief to I-75, which serves as a critical gateway to Florida for both people and freight,” Tom Byron, a Department of Transportation assistant secretary who chaired the panel, said in the newly released report. “I-75 faces significant safety, efficiency and reliability issues today – all of which are anticipated to become more significant as our population, visitors, economy and trade flows continue to grow.”
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damning report entitled “Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education” reveals America’s public schools fail over half the nation’s Black male students – with most of Florida’s largest school systems scraping the bottom of the barrel. “The American educational system is systemically failing Black males. Out of the 48 states reporting, Black males are the least likely to graduate from high schools in 33 states (including Florida)…Black and Latino males are tied for the least likely in four states, with Latino males being the least likely in an additional four states,” the report enumerated.
‘Set up to fail’ The overall 2007-2008 graduation rate for Black males in the U.S. was only 47 percent. The report shows that out of 50 states, half have grad-
A national study shows that Florida’s urban school systems, including Miami-Dade, St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville and Tampa are among the worst in America in educating Black boys. Florida ranks 49th of the 50 states. uation rates for Black male students below the national average. New York’s graduation rate of only 25 percent for Black male students is the lowest of any state. New York City, the district with the nation’s highest enrollment of Black students, and which has received many accolades for reform, only graduates 28 percent of its Black male students on time. The fourth biennial report released by the Schott Foundation for Public Education provides state-by state data that illustrate which U.S. school districts and states are failing
to provide the resources Black male students, and all students, need for the opportunity to learn. Without targeted investments to provide the core, research-proven resources to help Black male students succeed in public education, the report concludes, they are being set up to fail.
Next to last New York’s 25 percent is the only state trailing Florida (37 percent) in the national rankings. The Black male graduation rate of most of FlorSee STUDY, Page A2
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Congestion, crashes Among other findings, the report showed that the stretch of I-75 between Hernando and Alachua counties has a higher crash rate than other similar roadways in the state. Incidents increased between 2010 and 2015, closing, on average, at least one lane or interstate ramp every 16 hours and all lanes in one direction every nine days. See REPORT, Page A2
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Come on down, the water’s fine President Obama and daughter Sasha swam at Alligator Point in Panama City Beach on Aug.14. He encouraged Americans to travel to the Gulf Coast beaches though studies say the BP oil disaster still poses health risks. See story on page A3.
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Vote for Blacks running for circuit and county judges. Most Florida courthouses are the last bastions of White power – in black and blue robes. In places like Broward County, in which only four of 90 full-time judges are Black, in a county that is 26 percent Black – Black and Hispanic judges currently on the bench have been targeted for defeat by White attorneys looking for steady income in a down economy, which is causing even large law firms to lay attorneys off. Blacks are judicial “consumers” – especially as criminal defendants – in disproportionate numbers. Judges literally hold the power of life and death in the socalled criminal justice system. Too many times, Florida judges – many of whom are appointed by the governor, then run perpetually for reelection – bring no real-life experience (other that what they learned in their own closed circles) or cultural diversity to the Florida judiciary. It’s the same story in civil court, including child support and custody matSee VOTE, Page A2
Meanest stretch of hurricane season begins BY KEN KAYE SUN SENTINEL/MCT
Hurricane season might seem pretty tame so far, particularly in light of the predictions for a highly active year. Through the first seven weeks, a hurricane and two tropical storms have emerged, about average activity. But the meanest stretch – the seven weeks from mid-August through early October – is here, and “now the game starts,” said Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Waters in the tropical Atlantic are heating up. The atmosphere in the deep tropics is becoming moister. The upperlevel winds are easing. And more robust tropical waves are rolling off the coast of Africa. Possibly adding fuel, “La Nina,” the large scale atmospheric force that promotes storm formation, is kicking in, experts say. See SEASON, Page A2
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An urban search and rescue team searched for bodies in Pass Christian, Miss. in September 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.
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Six years ago, the Florida Courier reported on “the meanest stretch of the hurricane season” between mid-August and early October, and published a story about how Florida’s urban schools were failing Black boys.
near the town of Les Anglais, on the southwestern tip of Haiti, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. At one point, Matthew was a Category 5 storm, making it the most powerful hurricane in the region in nearly a decade.
Death toll mounting At least three deaths were blamed on the storm in Haiti and four more in neighboring Dominican Republic, bringing the death toll on the island of Hispaniola to seven as of See STORM, Page A2
Transparency demands continue LAPD shooting death leads to more protests, questions about releasing videos BY KATE MATHER, JAMES QUALL AND JOSEPH SERNA LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
LOS ANGELES – In recent months, law enforcement leaders around the country have found themselves backed into the same corner following controversial police shootings captured on video. Chiefs in Fresno, Charlotte, North Carolina, and other cities initially refused to make the recordings public. But after days of protests and continuing demands for transparency, police leaders relented and released the video in the hope of reducing tensions and validating their accounts of what happened. Faced with criticism over the fatal police shooting of a Black 18-yearold last weekend, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck found himself in a similar position and opted on Tuesday to release surveillance footage that showed Carnell Snell Jr. holding a gun moments before he was shot. Beck, generally a staunch advocate of keeping such videos confidential, said he acted out of concern for public safety as well as to correct claims by some who knew Snell who said that the teen didn’t have a gun. “My huge concern is that the dueling narratives further divide the community,” he said.
Agencies’ challenge The move underscored the challenge law enforcement agencies confront in trying to keep video of police shootings confidential during a time of heightened public scrutiny of how officers use force, particularly against African-Americans. By releasing videos in these high profile cases, police departments have raised expectations that they will make recordings public in the future. Police leaders nationwide have long argued that the release of such videos can imperil investigations and violate the privacy of people captured on body or dashboard camera recordings. But proponents of making the videos public say recent events show that the recordings can be made public without endangering investigations and that departments should not be cherry picking which videos to release if they want to regain trust in minority communities.
Matter of public trust “It’s clear that keeping video confidential isn’t going to work. It undermines public trust more than it advances it,” said Peter Bibring, director of police practices for the ACLU of Southern California. “Body camera footage or other video doesn’t provide See SHOOTINGS, Page A2
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“I didn’t dig deep until 2012,” he revealed. “I reached a point of comfort and maturity, and aging. I decided then to dig deep. But I would caution others to not wait as long as I did,” he suggests, citing the toll it took on his mental and physical health.
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Ja’han Jones is a writer who had an epiphany earlier this year when he noticed that 197 Black people had already been killed by police. He knew he could very well be one of them, so he wrote his own obituary. Check out what Jones, who lives in Harlem wrote: “Ja’han Elliot Jones, 24, was unarmed when shot and killed in conflict with local police officers,” the obituary reads. “His familiarity with the Black canon steered him into a potent state of unapologetic Blackness – one in which the James Baldwins and Young Jeezy’s; the bell hookses and the Queen Bey’s; the Frantz Fanons and the Futures all occupied hollowed, cherished beautiful space in Jones’ identity.”
80 obituaries At first Jones was going to submit what he came up with as a freelance item, but then he realized he’s not the only one with those thoughts, so he created the “Black Obituary Project.” “So often, we are killed and our photos are posted about but our stories are not,” Jones told The Huffington Post. “This grants black folks agency we’re often denied in death. We are telling our stories – speaking of our triumphs and tragedies – before anyone else attempts to do so for us.” He added that one of the goals is to show the wide range of people who fall victim to anti-black violence. “We are all harmed – young, old, righteous, ratchet, and all between,” he said. Jones notes that the 80 obituaries that
Ja’han Jones launched the Black Obituary Project last month. According to its website the project is “a collaborative undertaking by a swath of Black folk, designed to convey the reality of state-sanctioned violence and its residual impact.’’ have been written so far show that “black folks are uniquely burdened by the weight of mortality.”
Highlighting darkness Yes, it’s not exactly something to raise your spirits, but Jones thinks and hopes it something that will be therapeutic for those who participate. “I pursued this project because I hoped to publicize that we, Black people, have reconciled the darkness of our circumstances with the brightness of our aspiration. The darkness isn’t our doing. We live in it, but we didn’t create it. So highlighting that darkness, in my opinion, indicts our nation in a way I feel is necessary.” The “Black Obituary Project” is open for submissions online at blackobituaryproject.com and will continue accepting them indefinitely, Jones said.
JAHEIM & JOE
The Jacksonville Music Festival is scheduled Oct. 14 at the Veterans Memorial Arena with Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Jaheim and Joe.
Questioned himself Now that his life’s secret had been divulged, Moody was eventually able to put life in perspective. For years, as he internalized his pain, he blamed himself for the abuse. He wondered why he wasn’t strong enough to stop his perpetrator. He classified himself as weak. He questioned why he didn’t tell anyone when it happened. He wondered if there was something wrong with him and why he was chosen as a victim. Surely, there must have been a reason, he surmised. Was he normal or abnormal? For years, these questions plagued him. And for years he couldn’t quite find the answers. Later in life, through his faith, counseling and the support of his wife, he got answers. But he discovered and finally believed that it wasn’t his fault. Predators are simply good at what they do – instilling fear in their victims. “Yes, I found answers. Sometimes things just happen. I did nothing wrong. It just happens. There are 46 million survivors in the United States. This is something that’s gone on forever,” he pointed out. But Moody is quick to note that he didn’t always have such a matter-of-fact attitude toward the abuse
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or his abuser. There was a time when he wanted revenge.
Now in control “But I knew that wasn’t the right thing to do. Now, I don’t want to know where he is or what he is doing. “I’ve decided I’m not going to let him control my entire life. I have forgiven him, but I haven’t seen him. If I were to see him, I’m not sure how I would react.” Moody found inspiration and motivation through his own experience and journey.
‘Provide a voice’ In his book “Fighting through the Fear: My Journey of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse,” co-written by his Morehouse College roommate, Florida Courier Publisher Charles W. Cherry II, Moody says his project goals are to “give hope that we can heal, have the ability to dream big, and provide a voice to the voiceless.” Today, Moody does speaking engagements on childhood sexual abuse and his life story. Those who were once unaware he was harboring a big secret commend him for speaking out. He once feared his employees knowing the truth about his life. “If my employees were to see me as weak, then we have a problem,” he stated. He was motivated by the need to keep others from discovering his truths.
‘Driven to succeed’ “We (abuse victims) are either extremely driven, or we tend to take a destructive path in life. I was driven to succeed,” explaining his tremendous success even while enduring intense inner and outer pain.
As Moody reflects on his life today, he says he has had a good life, despite the years of silent suffering. “I wrote the book for those who suffered in silence. I couldn’t find anyone else who explained their journey, so I decided to share my journey,” he says proudly. Today, he speaks before diverse crowds at leadership conferences, churches, Rotary clubs, and business organizations and anywhere he believes he can be of help. “Many men have whispered, ‘Thank you’ to me. Others I’ve encountered have said they hadn’t said anything in 50 years. Writing the book has been a blessing in my life and in the lives of many others.”
Helping others “I never planned on telling the world. I planned on dying with this. When you’ve been a childhood abuse victim, you develop a fear… you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But if I worry about dying, I will miss living,” he said reflectively. His life’s mission is now to help other childhood sexual abuse survivors to know that they are not alone. He gives them hope through his speeches and his book and he is committed to helping them endure a ghastly experience that seeks to rob them of their lives and peace of mind. For more information, speaking engagements or for a copy of the book, “Fighting through the Fear: My Journey of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse,” or to contact C. David Moody, Jr., go to moodyspeaks.com. Moody is also on social media: cmoody1003 on Instagram; @cmoody1003 on Twitter; C. David Moody on Facebook.
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The Times Union Center for the Performing Arts in Jacksonville will be the site of an Oct. 28 show featuring Anthony Hamilton, Lalah Hathaway and Eric Benet.
FLORIDA COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Jacksonville: Edward Waters College is scheduled to play Webber International University on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m.
Riverview: The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Hillsborough will host a 3K Walk/Run on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 9 a.m. at YMCA Camp Christina, 9840 Balm Riverview Road. Details: www.namihillsborough.org.
St. Petersburg: 95.7’s Beats by the Bay Music Festival is Oct. 22 at Vinoy Park. Performers include Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Joe, Monica and August Alsina.
Orlando: Catch Ludracris on Oct. 13 at CFE Arena for an 8 p.m. show. Tampa: Empowered Ministries will present a breast cancer awareness event on Oct. 15 at 9:30 a.m. at 1215 E. 109TH Ave. Hosted by a cancer survivor, the event will include a walk, breakfast and information session at Holy Temple Church. Details: 813-866-0924. Altamonte Springs: The Rhythms at the Roost concert series starts Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. at Cranes Roost Park. Performers: Sam Jaffe and Sisaundra Lewis. Free admission. Details: www. uptownaltamonte.com. Miami: Cee Lo Green is scheduled Oct. 8 during a celebration of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County’s 10th anniversary. www.arshtcenter.org.
Orlando: Chaka Khan will perform Oct. 24 and 25 during the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Complete festival schedule: www. epcotfoodfestival.com Miami: Kes the Band is the scheduled headliner of the Miami Broward Carnival on Oct. 9 at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds. Details: miamibrowardcarnival.com. Tampa: The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists (TBABJ) is accepting applications for its 2016 Griot Drum Scholarship Contest, which awards thousands of dollars to students of color majoring in journalism. Details: www. tbabj.com. Daytona Beach: Tickets are on sale for an Oct. 22 show with Jeffrey Osborne and Gerald Albright and Oct. 23 at The Mahaffey in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg: Catch Tracy Morgan on Nov. 11 at
The Mahaffey Theater and Nov. 13 at Hard Rock Live Orlando. Miami: The King and Queen of Hearts Tour featuring Maxwell and Mary J. Blige stops at the AmericanAirlinesArena in Miami on Nov. 29. Orlando: Tickets are on sale for the Nov. 19 Florida Classic game pitting BethuneCookman University against Florida A&M University at Camping World Stadium. Details: floridaclassic.org. Naples: Vanady Daniels, author of “The Power of Positive: Inspiration, Encouragement, Motivation and Enrichment,’’ will speak at a Literary Luncheon on Oct. 29 hosted by the Collier County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at The Club at Mediterra. RSVP at CollierDST@gmail.com or by calling 239-450-5856. St. Petersburg: Lauryn Hill The MLH Caravan: A Diaspora Calling! Concert stops at The Mahaffey Theater on Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 at House of Blues Orlando. Orlando: Hosted by Orange County, a Regional Affordable Housing Summit is set for Oct. 20 from 8:30 to 4 p.m. at the Orange County Convention Center. Details: www.ocfl.net.
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Orlando shooting spurs get-out-the-vote activism BY KATE SANTICH ORLANDO SENTINEL/TNS
ORLANDO – The Pulse gunman’s attack on a gay nightclub may have inspired a level of political activism that even the fight for marriage equality did not — potentially spurring Central Florida’s LGBT community to turn out en masse on Election Day. Given recent polls that show the presidential race
to be a virtual tie in the Sunshine State, some say gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender voters could be a deciding factor. “You cannot deny that (LGBT) issues are a central if not defining difference in many parts of the country, including a state that saw such tragedy in June,” says Jay Brown, communications director for the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign. “We are
organizing a massive getout-the-vote effort, and Florida will be a key state for us.”
#turnOUT campaign Considered the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, with more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide, the group held a training session in Orlando in August — part of its #turnOUT
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Christine Leinonen, mother of Christopher Leinonen, flanked by Orlando nightclub survivors Brandon Wolf and Jose Arraigada, speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27. Christopher Leinonen was killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting. 2016 campaign to register and mobilize LGBT and pro-equality voters in battleground states. The group cites exit polls showing nearly 80 percent of LGBT voters backed President Barack Obama in 2012 and that roughly 6 million such voters cast a ballot in an election where Obama won by just under 5 million votes. Florida had the closest margin of all, with less than a single percentage point between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. “You could have people who ordinarily wouldn’t turn out, but do in this case because of the Pulse shooting — not just among the LGBT community in general, but especially among the younger demographic, 35 and under, who traditionally don’t turn out in great numbers, gay or straight,” said Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at University of Central Florida.
Clinton or Trump? The June 12 shooting, which left 49 people dead and at least 68 wounded, claimed a disproportionate number of victims in their 20s and early 30s. Many were Hispanic — another group that Jewett said may be more likely to vote as a result. If so, most analysts agree, they’ll be far more likely to vote for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. But Susan MacManus, a professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, said that for other voters the shooting’s impact can cut both ways.
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More Democrats Those more concerned about gun violence tend to support Democrats in general and Clinton in particular. Those who most fear terrorism on American soil tend to lean Republican and support Trump, she said. A landmark 2012 Gallup poll of LGBT Americans, considered the most indepth of its kind, found that 44 percent of LGBT voters identified as Democratic, 43 percent as independent, and 13 percent as Republican — though 20 percent described themselves as “conservative or very conservative.” “I am gay, I am a registered Republican — and I will be voting for Hillary Clinton,” said Antony Larry of Orlando. Larry, in his late 20s, said he once was a conservative activist but now considers himself a liberal. “What I’m seeing is that a lot of my friends who before just weren’t interested in politics are definitely going to vote,” he said. “They especially want to vote against (U.S. Senator) Marco Rubio, not because he is a Republican, but because of what he did and the way he used Pulse for his own agenda.”
Rubio rage On the second-month anniversary of the massacre, Rubio was a featured
speaker at the “Rediscovering God in America Renewal Project” in Orlando, where he emphasized his opposition to same-sex marriage but told fellow Christians to “love” and understand LGBT people. The event also featured Mat Staver, founder of the Maitland-based Liberty Counsel, often labeled an anti-LGBT hate group. Rubio has defended his views and the speech itself and said both sides have a right to freely express their opinions. “This intolerance in the name of tolerance is hypocrisy,” he said. Equality Florida — the statewide LGBT civil-rights group — issued a statement condemning Rubio’s actions, though it typically steers clear of endorsing candidates at the federal level.
Membership increase Michael Farmer, the group’s statewide deputy development director, said membership has soared following the Pulse shootings, to more than 265,000 residents throughout Florida. As the first organization to establish a fund for Pulse victims, Equality Florida also raised $7.8 million within a few weeks via GoFundMe.com, the most successful campaign in the platform’s history. Nearly half the group’s members are straight but support LGBT civil rights, Farmer says.
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“The Orlando massacre has become a symbol of the two components of fear over personal safety that we see as a big part of this election — random shootings and terrorism on American soil,” she said.
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Symptoms of anemia are very common to many other conditions and can therefore be easily missed. Common anemia symptoms include: Feeling tired often Shortness of breath Dizziness
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There are some things that you should know if you’ve been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. In certain people, chronic kidney disease can lead to a serious condition called anemia. Anemia occurs when your body doesn’t have enough red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen to the rest of your body, giving you energy to do your daily activities. If anemia due to chronic kidney disease is left untreated, you are at risk for serious health consequences, including a higher risk of heart complications or needing a blood transfusion. If you are unsure if you have anemia, or it’s been a while since you’ve checked, a doctor can diagnose it through a simple blood test.
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Do you have chronic kidney disease? Do you have any of the following symptoms:
Feel tired often Shortness of breath Dizziness Racing heartbeat
If you have chronic kidney disease and checked off at least one of the above symptoms, you may have a condition called anemia.
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ANEMIA DUE TO CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE CAN BE TREATED
Anemia due to chronic kidney disease is primarily treated with an injection of a medication that helps your body produce red blood cells. Because your body needs iron to make red blood cells, your doctor may also give you iron, either in pill form or as an IV.
A RESEARCH STUDY MAY BE AN OPTION
The PROTECT Study is a new research study evaluating an investigational oral medication for people with anemia due to chronic kidney disease. The study compares the effectiveness of the investigational oral medication to an approved anemia medication given by injection. During the study, qualified participants will either receive the investigational oral study medication or the approved injection. Treating your anemia may give you more energy and reduce your risk of serious health consequences.
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Here’s why Black people should vote Green The Democratic Party and their minions are leaving nothing to chance in their drive to get Hillary Clinton elected president of the United States. After spending the year claiming that Vladimir Putin is interfering in the elections or discrediting the ineffectual Bernie Sanders, they are not giving up with only six weeks remaining in the campaign. Voters know Hillary Clinton to be a liar, lawbreaker, warmonger and unreconstructed Goldwater girl. That well-known history makes her unattractive to millions of people who vote for Democrats. The fear of a Donald Trump victory keeps them on her side, but the support is shallow, with complaints and longing for a better choice. Fortunately, many Democrats are no longer living in hope, but are taking a serious look at the Green Party. Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka are making headway with people who don’t want to fall for the smoke and mirrors again. Team Hillary should fear that votes for the Greens will jeopardize her chance to complete Bill Clinton’s wish of “two for the price of one.”
Fearful criticism The anti-Green Party onslaught is in overdrive. Some of the attack consists of smears and lies against Stein and Baraka. One article in The Nation magazine is blunt: “Your Vote for Jill Stein is a Wasted Vote.” Others take a softer approach and raise the specter of a President Trump. The good cops at the same publication warn, “Don’t Assume Someone Else Will Stop Trump.” Bernie Sanders ought to be ashamed for leading millions of people on a path straight to Hill-
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ary Clinton, but he refuses to disappear. This is no time for a protest vote, says the sheepdog in chief.
Real revolution But support for the Green Party should not be consigned to the triviality of protest voting. A vote for Stein and Baraka should be seen as a truly revolutionary act, not a faux Sandersesque revolution, but as part of the necessary effort to kill off the Democratic Party once and for all. The Democratic Party uses left-leaning Americans to do the business of the ruling class. They may claim to be more inclusive, which isn’t difficult to do in comparison with the White peoples’ party. Democratic presidential candidates talk about protecting a woman’s right to choose abortion, but do nothing to protect that right as it is stripped away across the country. They continue to be seen as the antiwar party even as they use regime change more successfully than George W. Bush ever dreamed. The party with unquestioned support among old-line civil rights organizations has done more than Republicans to keep the mass incarceration of Black people alive and well. They refuse to use the tools already at their disposal to punish killer police.
Just one choice People who call themselves leftists or progressives have on-
Hillary Clinton’s racial hypocrisy Hillary Clinton has some gall calling Donald Trump and his supporters racists! She and her Black and White supporters are the worst kind of racial hypocrites. But you can bet that their friends in the major media will do their best to hide their hypocrisy. For example, during the first debate, Clinton accused Trump of perpetrating a “racist birther lie” against Obama.
Playing race card I have not seen any media reports of how Clinton, her husband and her campaign dealt card after card against Obama from the deck of racism when she ran against him in 2008 including: • In Pennsylvania, using the race card to attract White voters by attacking Obama for his membership in Rev. Jerimiah Wright’s church saying she “would have left” such a church.
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• Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who ran her campaign in the state, saying that White voters probably would not vote for Obama because of his race. • After the South Carolina primary, husband Bill equating Obama’s campaign with the past presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson, implying Obama was just a marginal Black candidate. • Bill Clinton’s reported comments to Sen. Ted Kennedy that a “few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”
Not alone She and husband Bill were not alone in making racist comments about Obama. A few high
Random thoughts of a free Black mind, v. 285 Hurricane Matthew: I’m writing this on Wednesday afternoon, the day before this major storm is forecast to make landfall somewhere on the Sunshine State. As I speak to friends and family outside of Florida, it’s clear that many of them don’t quite get how hurricanes work, and the effect they have on us when there’s a powerful, well-organized storm on the horizon and coming our way. They don’t understand the fo-
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cus on weather forecasts; the growing concern; the increasing stress of preparation and planning. As the psychological well-
ly one choice. They must work to replace the Democrats with a new and truly progressive party. The Green Agenda opposes American interventions abroad and Democratic Party trade deals which bestow corporate personhood and steal jobs. The Green Party pledges to abolish student debt, close U.S. military bases abroad, establish health care as a human right and provide constitutional protection for the franchise. All of the issues that matter to progressives are on the green party agenda. Yet the plea to hold one’s nose and vote for the supposed lesser evil still resonates. The duopoly continues for a reason. They effectively use propaganda and fear to prevent defections. Both parties do the business of the one percent, further imperialism and continue enshrining anti-Black racism with legal imprimatur. Yet they each use a variety of issues to give the appearance of substantive difference.
Not progressive Barack Obama makes war, promotes austerity and bails out the banks. Yet we are told that his administration was progressive and must be continued in the person of Hillary Clinton. This year, Donald Trump is the perfect Republican foil. His open appeal to White nationalists broke with a tradition of winks and nudges and coded language. His open racism and boorish behavior makes him anathema to million, but the Hillaryites leave nothing to chance. They use their friends in corporate media to create fictitious connections with the Russian government and keep doubters in line. But what would be so terrible about a Hillary Clinton defeat? profile so-called liberal Democrats were also in the antiObama racism club. When Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently called Trump a racist, I did not see the major media point out his own racist comments in 2008 when he said Obama was a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” In all of the reporting of Democrats calling Trump racist, there were few reminders of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment on Obama saying: “I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.” And how could we forget or ignore, as the “drive-by media” apparently has, former President Jimmy Carter’s reference to Obama as “this Black boy?”
All forgotten These racists comments by Clinton and her liberal colleagues have been forgotten and buried by her friends in the media and the Black political elite as they sing “Trump is a racist” being of half of Florida’s population rises and falls on “the cone of concern,” most family and friends outside of the state have no clue of what we’re talking about. Eleven years ago, I put Lisa, 5-year-old Chayla, and 18-month-old “Wig” on the last Southwest Airlines flight out of Fort Lauderdale going to Jackson, Miss., just before the airport was shut down as Hurricane Wilma rolled in. I battened down the hatches and stayed. I will never forget the sound as the heart of the storm came down our street from right to left. I can best describe it as a fully revved-up jet engine slowly passing you as you stand on-
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Can’t be worse Obama deported more immigrants than any other president, so the xenophobic Trumpian appeals shouldn’t change what exists now. Trump says he will do what progressives say they want and end the practice of regime change and military intervention. Democrats always aid corporate interests and big banks, so Trump can do no worse. The list of Democratic Party treachery is long and ought to galvanize the urge for change. Not only must the left end the quadrennial surrender to people they say are their enemies, but they must be unafraid to say that a Democratic loss is a necessity. The Democratic Party has long outlived its usefulness and there must be a plan in place to stop genuflecting to the more effective evil.
Response to Dems The response to the panicked plea for Hillary Clinton should be a declaration that the Democrats will soon be history. The choice must be an active one with an organizational effort to relieve the Greens of also-ran, in unison and on cue. I guess it all depends on which team the purveyor of racist rhetoric is playing on. Calling Trump a racist is not the only hypocrisy Clinton is guilty of. While rioters were burning, looting, and attacking police and innocents in Charlotte, N.C., all she could say was that the problems in inner cities were due to systematic racism expressing no empathy with or sympathy for innocent, law-abiding Black residents. As to the shootings and slaughter of Blacks in Chicago and other cities, neither Clinton, nor her buddies Obama and the attorney general, found the time to strongly condemn such mayhem. She goes out of her way to sympathize – not with the families of the slain in those cities – but with the Black Lives Matter movement, treating the slayings of Blacks by police as typical and ordinary.
Nothing to say The more she, Obama and Black and White Democrats are silent over lawlessness and the ly a few feet away from it on the runway. Meteorologists estimated those winds at about 60 mph. On Thursday, Matthew was forecast to hit somewhere in the state at a wind speed of 100 to 120 mph. That’s not something I’m interested in seeing, nor exposing Chayla and Wig to. So a decade later for my family, it’s Southwest to the rescue again. I was able, at the last minute, to score $50 one-way tickets to Atlanta. That’s where three of us will be, assuming that the storm didn’t accelerate and beat us to Fort Lauderdale airport. In Atlanta, we hope to live a refugee lifestyle only for a few days, until Lisa gives me the “allclear” (she’s staying here with
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spoiler status and put them on the road to being the party that millions of Americans so desperately need. Every four years we are told the time isn’t right, or the Republican is too awful, or there will be a Black president, or only if you don’t live in a swing state, or some other fairy tale used to frighten. Instead, boldly vote Green in blue states and in red states and in swing states. If there is any fear, it should be directed at the Hillary Clinton big tent of the one percent and imperialists. It should be directed at the people who ended the right to public assistance and filled the prisons with Black people. The question, “Do you want Hillary to lose?” is used to intimidate. The answer ought to be, “Yes I do. Because we must finally drive a stake in the Democrats’ heart.” Vote Green.
Margaret Kimberley’s column appears weekly in BlackAgendaReport.com. Contact her at Margaret.Kimberley@ BlackAgendaReport.com. epidemic of murders in many urban cities, the more they turn off law-abiding Black residents who feel she and Democrats care more about those pulling the triggers and killing their children than they do them. Whether they know it or not, the more Hillary and her Black and White supporters cry racism and express more empathy with rioters and looters than with law-abiding Black inner city residents, the more they will drive White Independents, borderline Democrats – and more Blacks than they can imagine – into the Trump camp! History just may repeat itself. In 1968, the riots and racial division helped to elect Richard Nixon. It could do the same for Trump in 2016.
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Jacksonville Democrat Reggie Fullwood, who pleaded guilty last week to wire fraud and failing to file an income-tax return, has resigned from his House District 13 seat. Fullwood on Monday sent a copy of his resignation letter, which was dated Friday, Sept. 30, to House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, RMerritt Island. In an email message to the speaker, Fullwood said he had intended to send the letter Friday, but it was delayed because it was being re-
viewed by his attorney. Crisafulli accepted Fullwood’s resignation in a 1 p.m. email message, following his announcement earlier in the day that Fullwood was being immediately suspended because of the guilty plea.
Planned to fight Fullwood will forfeit his salary and any other House privileges for the remainder of his term, which was set to expire on Nov. 8. “I will miss public service, but I will always work to better my city and this
state through volunteerism and community service,” Fullwood said in his resignation letter. Fullwood said he had originally planned to contest his federal charge of wire fraud, which dealt with the misuse of campaign funds, as “a repackaged version of state election law violations that are routinely handled by the Florida Election Commission.” But he said that argument was rejected by the judge. “My options were to either go to trial with an uncertain outcome and face the possibility of a lengthy
appeal or seek an immediate resolution,” Fullwood said. “As a father of three children, I felt that bringing closure to this matter was the best choice.”
Apologizes in letter He apologized several times in his resignation letter, including, “Again, I thank the people of District 13 for allowing me to serve them for six years, and I earnestly apologize to all of the people of this state for my actions.” Fullwood’s plea and resignation came after Fullwood won an Aug. 30 Dem-
ocratic primary for his House seat. He was set to face Republican Mark Griffin in the general election. Fullwood’s resignation has set in motion a process where the Duval County Democratic Executive Committee will pick another candidate to replace him on the ballot. Fullwood is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on Jan. 9, where he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for wire fraud and a one-year term for failure to file a tax return. He will also forfeit more than $60,000 as a result of his plea.
Justices turn down Palm Beach schools’ speech case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involved a decision by Palm Beach County schools to remove school banners for a tutoring service run by a former porn star. The Supreme Court, as is customary, did not explain its reasons for declining to hear an appeal filed by attorneys for David Mech. The case, which focused on free-speech issues, stemmed from a program in which schools hung banners on their fences to recognize sponsors of programs. Three schools displayed banners for Happy/Fun Math Tutor, operated by Mech, who has taught math at Palm Beach State College and is certified to teach secondary-school math in Florida, according to court documents. But in 2013, the schools removed the banners after parents complained about the common ownership of the tutoring service and a company that had produced pornography. Mech is a former porn star. Mech challenged the decision based on First Amendment grounds, but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year upheld the decision to remove the banners. That prompted Mech’s attorneys to file a petition with the Supreme Court.
More Citizens’ policies approved for ‘takeouts’
Nearly 100,000 Citizens Property Insurance policies will be offered to five private insurers, as state regulators Monday approved a final round of policy “takeouts” for the year. The Office of Insurance Regulation approved December takeouts for Avatar Property & Casualty Insurance, National Specialty Insurance, Safepoint Insurance, Southern Fidelity Insurance and Southern Fidelity Property & Casualty. Most of the 97,390 policies that could be moved are personal-lines accounts, with 12,217 policies from coastal accounts and 1,925 from commercial non-residential accounts. The takeout program has been a key part of Citizens’ strategy to move policies into the private sector, reducing the state-backed insurer’s risks. Most of the newly targeted policies, however, are expected to remain with Citizens, as private firms have historically sought to pick up the least-risky policies. Citizens customers also can opt to reject the offers from private insurers. Since the start of the year, the Office of Insurance Regulation has approved 667,470 policies to be removed from Citizens. Many of the same policies are made available to more than a single company. As of Monday, 48,360 had changed hands. As of Aug. 31, Citizens had 491,695 policies.
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TLANTA – C. David Moody, Jr., by all accounts, was living a picture perfect life – a beautiful wife, two wonderful children, and a successful business that many would have loved to call their own. For more than 30 years, his construction company, C.D. Moody Construction, Inc., has erected buildings for the 1996 Olympics Committee, Coca-Cola, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the Home Depot, large churches, and major colleges and universities including his alma mater, Morehouse College, in Atlanta, as well as Walt Disney World in Orlando.
In his captivating new book, ‘Fighting Through the Fear,’ one of Black America’s leading entrepreneurs reveals how keeping a childhood secret almost destroyed him, and how he recovered.
Proud and successful All his life, Moody took humble pride in his accomplishments. And with extraordinary drive and determination, he surpassed almost every goal he set for his small business. His firm became one of the largest African-Americanowned companies in America. For almost 20 years, Moody’s construction company has appeared regularly on Black Enterprise magazine’s list of the Top 100 Black-owned businesses. In 2015, C.D. Moody Construction was ranked No. 59 on the list, earning more than $56 million in revenue last year. Having earned his bachelor’s degree from Morehouse, and later another bachelor’s in architecture from Howard University, he had amassed a life of greatness. His outgoing personality and savvy business skills garnered him the admiration of the rich, the famous, and world leaders, as well as people who were simply a part of his local community. But there was a dark secret that was causing this former college football quarterback, successful business owner, builder, community leader and family man to simultaneously live a life of turmoil.
Guilt and shame It was unthinkable to his
The Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College is just one of the many construction projects Moody’s company has completed over three decades. admirers that he was, in actuality, a man filled with guilt, shame, discontentment, fear and even low self-esteem. What a stark contrast to his outward appearance as a stellar businessman with scores of employees working for him, and as a philanthropist and leader admired by so many. Unbeknownst to those around him, this darkness inhabiting his soul was all the result of something sinister that happened in his childhood; a secret he had been harboring since age 10, and one he planned to take to his grave. Not even his wife knew the immense pain and confusion he was suffering inside and out throughout their marriage.
And yes, the horror he held within had begun to manifest itself on the outside through panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), breathing complications and other ailments. Eventually, he suffered a complete nervous breakdown. His secret had taken its toll.
Couldn’t breathe So what could have been so horrendous to bring “a man of steel” to his knees? What would leave an employer of many and an accomplished business owner to find himself on the side of the road unable to breathe – yet seemingly with no explanation from doctors other than stress? What could have been caus-
ing him to feel like a failure, while clearly he was a success by all accounts? Why was he so consumed with shame and guilt that overwhelmed him? You see, on a fateful day in his hometown of Chicago, when he was a mere 10 years old, the safe and secure life he’d known up to that point – changed forever. A trusted 17-year-old male babysitter violated the innocent young Moody by forcing him to have sex with him – an act that would send him on an odyssey and a journey of pain that would last a lifetime, and an act that would define the young boy’s life at that juncture. It was the worst experience of little David’s life.
But it became worse. His perpetrator threatened to hurt or kill him if he ever told anyone.
Lifelong secret So the scared, wounded and confused little David kept the secret. And the pain and suffering inside tore him apart throughout the remainder of his childhood, and to his surprise – even into adulthood. It left an indelible mark that would plague him for the rest of his life. In an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier based on his riveting book, “Fighting Through the Fear – My Journey of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse,” Moody says he never imagined this experience would ricochet from his childhood into adulthood and devastate his whole life. “That’s why I’m speaking up,” he said. “I never would have imagined this. It really does affect your whole life. I’m amazed at the damage it does.” In his case, he experienced a mental disorder, physical ailments, and constant feelings of worthlessness. A fear of failure drove him to intense work habits and high expectations – all in an effort to avoid being viewed as “weak.” Looking back, he says the most remarkable discovery of his journey is realizing just how much childhood sexual abuse affects people their whole lives through.
Blurted it out The first time Moody uttered a word of this travesty was decades after its occurrence, and well into his adulthood at the age of 36. When his wife came home and shared with him that she’d discovered a relative had been sexually abused, Moody then blurted out that he, too, had been molested as a child. It just came out. He hadn’t planned it, but that was the day he let the secret out. A weight was lifted from him, but it took more than two decades for him to speak publicly for the first time about his ordeal – at age 57. See MOODY, Page B2
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No need to be upset about ‘them changes’ People are quick to say something every time a Black man stands up and protests. These days, people with money, people with benefits and people with power that embrace the status quo will say it is all right to protest but everyone should protest in the way “we” want you to protest. I understand that. My feeling is, if you’re going to belittle, criticize or demean the protester you should try to walk a mile in the protestor’s shoes.
Sit or stand A quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) has been vilified, so to speak, for not standing during the playing of the United States National An-
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them. Also, an American gymnast, was recently criticized for not placing her hand over her heart during the playing of the national anthem during the Olympic games. Those actions didn’t bother me one bit. Why? Because there are people that do a variety of things at any event when and where the national anthem is played. Some sit. Some refuse to remove their hats. And some talk
on their phones and do various other things.
‘Them changes’ when the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is played? Should people around the world stand when the anthems of African countries, European countries or other nations are played? Perhaps. My problem today is all of the issues that arise from “them changes.” All of the fake, so-called patriots and national anthem lovers don’t know a damn thing about the lyrics that Francis Scott Key wrote in the year 1814 or what the song was initially about.
Key’s original “The Star-Spangled Banner,’’ originally known as “Defense of Fort M’Henry,’’ was written during the War of 1812 where Key witnessed attacks on the city of Baltimore and wrote the words based on his experienced that
night. What is called the national anthem today is nothing like what Key wrote back then and, in many people’s minds, the song is nothing that merited the love and appreciation by Black people in America that lived back in those days. I don’t want to publish the whole original song in The Gantt Report. Look it up for yourself. But I will show you an excerpt that says in part: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
It happens You see, the devil can make you think you’re praising and honoring one thing when you’re really paying tribute to something totally different!
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Congestion on I-75 is at an acceptable level on typical weekdays but becomes a problem on weekends and holiday periods, with projections showing that weekday capacity will be exceeded by 2040. The congestion will increase with population growth in the region as well as with an increase in tourists, many of whom use the interstate to get to Orlando and the Tampa Bay region. The amount of freight carried between Florida and other states is expected to increase 80 percent on the I-75 corridor by 2040, with the interstate in the Ocala area “carrying the most tonnage of all highways in the state,” the report said.
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transparency if the public never gets to see it.” Some law enforcement experts were critical of police leaders for giving in to protesters by releasing video they otherwise would not. “What you’re seeing is basically a policy of appeasement,” said Jon Shane, a professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York City and a former police captain in Newark, N.J. Shane said state legislatures should decide the rules for making recordings public. In California, lawmakers have repeatedly failed to draw up statewide policies on the issue.
Oct. 1 shooting Snell was shot on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 1, after he ran from a car that officers thought could have been stolen and reached an area between two houses with a closed metal gate that had
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Wednesday, with the toll expected to grow. There were also reports of two people killed in Colombia and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The hurricane also rolled across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes in Cuba’s easternmost city, Baracoa, and leaving hundreds of others damaged. By Wednesday morning, Matthew hit open water east of the Bahamian island of Inagua on the way to the capital of Nassau and to Florida’s Atlantic coast by Thursday evening.
Little protection In Haiti, many residents hunkered down in flimsy shacks that offered little protection from the howling wind, heavy rains and battering storm surges. Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of the country’s civil protection agency, said more than 10 towns were flooded and numerous homes and boats destroyed. But landslides, downed trees and washed out bridges were hampering access to some communities, and authorities had not yet determined the full scale of the damage.
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Protestors turn their backs on Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beach as he reads his report during a police commission meeting on Oct. 4.
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This is nothing new. If you read The Gantt Report, you would know the devil can change anything he wants to change. He has changed “the time,’’ the “calendar,’’ the money, the law, the schools, the health care system and everything else he wants to change. I usually stand when America’s and other nation’s national anthems are playing, but I will never criticize the people that do not. Personally, when I see people that hate and criticize people that protest things they know nothing about the late drummer Buddy Miles’ song – my mind is going through “them changes.’’
“somewhat-transparent” mesh, Beck said Tuesday. Snell, the chief said, turned with the gun in his hand. Officers felt Snell was an “imminent threat,” Beck said, and one fired three shots. Snell hopped the fence and again turned toward the officers, Beck said, still holding the gun. Police fired an additional three rounds. Some residents questioned the police account, including whether Snell had a gun. The decision to make the video of Snell public followed lengthy conversations among Beck, Johnson and Mayor Eric Garcetti, according to interviews. All three were concerned with the competing narrative about the killing.
What video shows The video came from a nearby business and shows a young man in a blue sweatshirt, identified by police as Snell, running through a strip mall and behind parked vehicles, holding what appears to be a gun in his left hand. The man crouches and appears to tuck the handgun into his sweatpants before running
Officials had spent Monday trying to persuade residents in vulnerable coastal communities and in shantytowns around the capital, Port-au-Prince, to move into emergency shelters set up in churches and schools. But many were too afraid to leave their homes, in case they were robbed. Some sought shelter only after the worst of the storm hit, sloshing through knee-high water and debris-strewn streets in the pelting rain. “There was panic in the cities of Jeremie and Les Cayes,” Alta Jean-Baptiste was quoted as saying in Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper. “The population was distraught because of the rise of the water.” A video filmed in Les Cayes and shared on social media showed palm trees being whipped by fierce winds. “Pray for us!” a voice is heard yelling.
More suffering Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest country, is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people, and a deadly cholera outbreak blamed on U.N. peacekeepers who responded to the disaster. “Thankfully the force of the storm was not so strong in Portau-Prince, where 50,000 to 60,000 people are still living in tents after the earthquake of 2010,” said
out of view of the camera. Moments later, a police officer is seen running in Snell’s direction. Despite the decision to release the recording, Beck said the department had yet to decide if it would release video from body cameras worn by officers in a second deadly police shooting, which took place in South L.A. on Sunday. Beck has said that the video clearly refutes reports that some of the shots were fired when the man was on the ground. But releasing that video, he said, could set a standard for the LAPD in terms of complying with public records requests for such recordings.
Sparks questions Beck cited a number of reasons why he was hesitant to release body camera video, including concerns about the graphic nature of some recordings and the time it would take to sort through an enormous volume of video to comply with public records requests. But he was also worried frequent release of videos could vi-
Jean Claude Fignole, a program director in Haiti for the international aid agency Oxfam. Hunger is also likely to become a concern in the coming weeks and months, aid groups said. Some crops in the south of the country were destroyed. “This comes right on the heels of one of the worst droughts in the last 50 years,” said Jessica Pearl, country director for the Portland, Ore.-based Mercy Corps. “For many households, this was the first decent harvest they were expecting, so to have this setback and loss is very difficult.” The storm hit at a particularly difficult time for Haiti, as authorities were preparing for a longdelayed presidential election on Sunday. Government officials and aid agencies were anxious to avoid the kind of the delays, confusion and waste that marred the relief operations in 2010. Here is some information that could be helpful for Floridians impacted by Hurricane Matthew.
Emergency management websites State of Florida Division of Emergency Management: www. floridadisaster.org. 850-413-9969 Twitter: @FLSERT • Federal Emergency Management Agency: www.fema.gov. 202-646-2500 Twitter: @fema • Federal Alliance for Safe
olate the privacy of members of the public captured in recordings. “I know, as a lifelong police officer, that I see people on the worst day of their lives,” he said. “People shouldn’t feel like when the police come to your house that what’s happened to you is going to be splashed all over the Internet.”
‘Eye for an eye’ At a weekly Police Commission meeting — where protesters booed Beck as he walked into the room — activist Melina Abdullah accused the department of trying to “assassinate” Snell’s character after his death. She and others called for the LAPD to make videos of other police shootings public. “If they can release that video, they can release every damn video,” said Abdullah, an organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Times staff writer Veronica Rocha contributed to this report.
Homes: www.flash.org. 850-3857233. Twitter: @FederalAlliance • National Hurricane Center (includes storm tracking map, preparedness guide and other information): www.nhc.noaa.gov. Twitter: @NWSNHC • Citizens Property Insurance: www.citizensfla.com. 1-888-6851555. Twitter: @citizens_fla • National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hurricane Resource Page: www.nasa. gov/ mission_pages/hurricane s/ main/index.html. Twitter: @NASAHurricane • Florida Power and Light: www.fpl.com/storm: Features checklists, information on how to report an outage and check on its status as well as other preparation tips. Twitter: @insideFPL.
Online information Google has enhanced its weather forecasts and Public Alerts in Google Search to better track hurricanes. When you launch a web search about particular storms, you might see your location in relation to the oncoming storm, visualizations of its forecasted track, wind severity and arrival time according to NOAA, and instructions for preparing and staying safe, from FEMA and ready.gov.
Hurricane phone apps • NOAA Radar US: View animated weather radar images and
Recommendations To meet those challenges, the task force developed a set of immediate to long-term recommendations: • Expand the capacity of I-75 between Hernando and Columbia counties, including express lanes and truck-only lanes. • Improve and expand nearby roadways, including U.S. 301 from Hernando to Duval County and U.S. 41 from Hernando to Columbia County. • Expand freight rail capacity and connectivity, with emphasis on CSX’s “S-line,” which runs from Polk to Duval County. • Provide more long-distance choices for residents and tourists, including intercity bus services and passenger rail. • Evaluate the need for new “multimodal, multiuse corridors” to connect Tampa Bay and Northeast Florida after evaluating the enhancements to I-75 and other highways in the region.
hyperlocal storm patterns. $1.99 for iPhone and iPad. • Hurricane app by the Red Cross: Stay up to date with NOAA alerts and connect with friends and family. It also has a flashlight, strobe and alarm. There is a second free app with first-aid advice for situations ranging from anaphylactic shock to heart attacks. Go to redcross.org/mobile-apps/hurricane-app. Free for iPhone and Android. • The Weather Channel: Free for iPhone and Android. • Dark Sky: Predicts weather events down to the minute using animated visualizations at your exact location. $3.99 for iPhone and iPad. • Know Your Plan: From the Insurance Information Institute, it helps advance planning with preloaded checklists or those you create your own. Free for iPhone and Android. • Flashlight makes a flashlight out of the phone. Free for iPhone and Android.
This information was provided by the Miami Herald. Alexandra Zavis and Jenny Jarvie Los Angeles Times (TNS) contributed to this report.
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A researcher found that patients passed kidney stones after riding Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World. The doctor then did tests with Disney’s permission.
Roller coaster ride could dislodge kidney stones Painless passing of stones reported in research conducted at Disney World BY MELISSA HEALY LOS ANGELES TIMES TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Just ask any one of the 300,000 Americans who, in any given year, develop kidney stones: What if the excruciating pain of passing one of those little devils could be prevented
by strapping yourself into a make-believe runaway mine train, throwing your hands in the air and enduring G-forces as high as 2.5 for about three minutes? Would you do it? Heck yeah, they’d do it. In a bit of medical research inspired by strange and remarkable patient accounts, a Michigan State University urologist reports that, yes, riding a medium-intensity roller coaster such as the Disney theme parks’ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad can result in the painless passing of small, and even a few
large, kidney stones.
Ride in back For best results, ride in the back, where — roller coaster aficionados all seem to agree — the thrills are greatest. Independent of kidney stone volume and location, findings reported last month in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association showed that sitting in the back of the roller coaster resulted in an average passage rate of 63.89 percent. Front-seat rides resulted in a far more modest pas-
sage rate of 16.67 percent. In what magical kingdom, you may well ask, does someone think to conduct such research? Dr. David D. Wartinger, a professor emeritus at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, initiated the study after a series of patients reported something almost too strange to believe: In the wake of riding Big Thunder at Walt Disney World in Orlando, these patients said their kidney stones passed painlessly from the kidney through the narrow duct of the ureter and into the bladder. In one case, a patient told Wartinger that he passed one kidney stone after each of three consecutive rides on the roller coaster.
How it works Using a 3-D printed model of that patient’s kidney, Wartinger and his colleagues implanted three kidney stones of various sizes into the upper, middle or lower passageways of the clear silicone model. Two of those mineral clusters, which can form as the kidney filters waste from the bloodstream, were small-to-moderate size — 4.5 millimeters and
13.5 mm. Those might pass through the duct leading to the bladder without incident but could also cause considerable pain and discomfort as they passed unaided. But a third measured 64.6 mm, a size that would rarely pass without treatment — the administration of ultrasound shock waves, called lithotripsy, designed to break up the deposit and allow it to pass.
Disney cooperation The researchers received permission from Walt Disney World first, then concealed the kidney model in a backpack and rode Big Thunder 20 times, varying their seat position between front and back. After analyzing the location of those three kidney stones at the end of each ride, the researchers concluded that “findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones,” Wartinger said. When the kidney stone was large, the initial position of the kidney stone affected the likelihood of its
passing during the ride. But even those passed two in three times while the silicone model rode the thrill ride. “Many people in the United States probably live within a few hours’ drive of an amusement park containing a roller coaster with features capable of dislodging calyceal renal calculi,” wrote Wartinger and co-author Dr. Marc A. Mitchell of the Doctor’s Clinic in Poulsbo, Washington.
Preventive method Roller coaster therapy might be a good preventive treatment for people who are high risk of developing obstructive kidney stones, wrote Wartinger and Mitchell. They suggested that patients who have had kidney stones in the past, or women who have had kidney stones and are thinking of becoming pregnant, consider a thrill ride or two in a bid to clear tiny stones before the deposits grow larger. Kidney stone sufferers who have had their deposits broken up by lithotripsy might also consider a roller-coaster ride to finish the job, they said.
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Make any day taste like Sunday
SEARED HALIBUT WITH LEMON BUTTER SAUCE Serves: 4 Lemon Butter Sauce 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 8 tablespoons whipping cream 3/4 teaspoon fresh garlic, chopped turmeric, to taste salt, to taste white pepper, to taste 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced Halibut 4 teaspoons olive oil 4 halibut filets (6-8 ounces each) salt pepper lemon zest
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herbs Vegetables 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 small zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch strips 2 small yellow squash, cut into 1/4-inch strips 2 small red peppers, washed, seeded and sliced into strips Potatoes 2 cups Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes (from 16.23-ounce package) For lemon butter sauce, add white wine, lemon juice, cream, garlic, turmeric, salt and pepper to saute pan. Heat on high heat and reduce to half its original volume. While lemon sauce is reducing, prepare fish and vegetables.
Once reduced, remove from heat and swirl in diced butter. For halibut, heat non-stick skillet on medium-high heat with olive oil. Season halibut with salt and pepper. Sear until deep golden brown, approximately 5 minutes each side. Remove from heat and cover with foil. For vegetables, add olive oil to skillet over medium-high heat. Saute zucchini, squash and pepper until crisp-tender, about 2-3 minutes. Keep warm. For potatoes, prepare mashed potatoes following package instructions. To serve, plate mashed potatoes, vegetables and halibut. Drizzle halibut with lemon butter sauce and garnish with lemon zest and fresh herbs. Note: Haddock or striped bass can be substituted for halibut.
Family Features
With school, work and evening activities all spiraling in different directions, most families find that some things have to give. Make sure quality time around the dinner table isn’t one of them with these savvy solutions that can help make weekday meals a cinch.
One-dish wonders Most busy families are well-versed in the benefits of slow cooker meals, but when you haven’t planned that far ahead there are other options, such as your oven’s broiler, that allow you to capture the convenience of single-dish meals. A cookie sheet filled with your favorite protein, veggies and a sprinkle of seasoning will broil in minutes. Just remember to cut your protein into small pieces that will cook through quickly and line your sheet with foil for easier cleanup. Another quick-fix idea: empty the odds and ends from the pantry and veggie drawer to make a stir-fry in minutes.
Go for the gold When it comes to mealtime, Sunday dinner is the gold standard. It’s the one day of the week when you’re most likely to go “all out” and prepare a great-tasting meal. But you can achieve similar meals during the week using delicious, time-saving sides such as packaged Idahoan Signature Russets mashed potatoes, which can be made in just 5 minutes. The smooth flavor of Idahoan Signature Russets – like original homemade mashed potatoes with just a hint of butter and cream – makes any day taste like Sunday.
Quick-prep proteins Every family has its favorite go-to meals that stand the test of time. Build your repertoire with a few recipes centered on proteins that take next to no time to prepare. Eggs don’t have to be restricted to the breakfast table, especially in preparations like a frittata or quiche. Or rely on seafood, which can be seared to perfection in minutes. A mild white fish is an ideal foundation for creating diverse, rich flavors, such as this Seared Halibut with Lemon Butter Sauce. For more tips to increase family time and get quick meals on the weeknight dinner table, visit idahoan.com. ROASTED CHICKEN PROVENCAL Serves: 4 8 chicken thighs (bone-in, skin-on) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 cup dry white wine 1/4 cup chicken broth 2 thyme sprigs 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 cups Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes (from 16.23-ounce package) 1 cup sliced cremini mushrooms 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 cup pitted black olives, halved sauteed green beans Sprinkle chicken thighs with salt and pepper. In 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, brown chicken thighs on both sides in hot oil. Add white wine, chicken broth, thyme sprigs and garlic. Over high heat, heat mixture to boiling. Cover and simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, prepare mashed potatoes according to package directions. In skillet, add mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and olives; cover and simmer 5 minutes longer until chicken is tender. Serve chicken thighs with mashed potatoes and sauteed green beans.
HOISIN ROASTED PORK WITH STEAMED GREENS Serves: 4 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 pork tenderloin filet (16 ounces) 8 ounces fresh sugar snap peas 8 ounces green beans 2 cups Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes (from 16.23-ounce package) Heat oven to 350 F. In bowl, combine hoisin, honey and soy. In non-metallic bowl, pour marinade over pork and set aside for 15 minutes. Heat medium nonstick frying pan over medium heat. Add marinated pork and cook each side 1-2 minutes. Transfer pork to baking tray and cook 15 minutes, or until cooked to desired doneness. Steam fresh sugar snap peas and green beans together. Set aside. Prepare mashed potatoes following package instructions. To serve, plate mashed potatoes, sliced pork and steamed vegetables. Spoon pan juices over pork and enjoy.
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The Miami Dolphins cheerleaders hosted their annual swimsuit fashion show and calendar unveiling on Sept. 30 at the Hard Rock Stadium (formerly Sun Life Stadium). The 2017 calendar was shot in Barbados. The calendar can be ordered at www.DolphinsCheerleaders.com. The cheerleaders represent eight countries, 28 cities and speak a combined five languages.
Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon hits a home run during the first inning against the New York Mets on Sept. 26 at Marlins Park in Miami. Gordon called it “the best moment of my life,’’ after he hit a home run that he said was for Jose Fernandez. On Sept. 25, Fernandez, the team’s pitcher, died in a boating accident.
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New book delves into race and rock ’n’ roll BY DR. GLENN ALTSCHULER SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER
In 1967, Ralph Gleason, the music critic of The San Francisco Chronicle (and soon to become a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine), celebrated rock ’n’ roll for banishing African-American influences. “Remarkably free from prejudice,” Gleason wrote, singers, songwriters, session musicians, producers were neither “ashamed of being white” nor attempting to become part of Negro culture. For the first time in decades, Gleason declared, “something important and new is happening artistically and musically in this society that is distinct from the Negro and to which the Negro will have to come, if he is interested in it at all.”
Shift explained By 1970, Jack Hamilton, a professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia, reminds us, rock ’n’ roll was becoming rock, with “black music” set apart from “white music.” In “Just About Midnight,’’ Hamilton provides a provocative explanation of this shift. Rock music, he argues, was built “on an ideology of authenticity” based on notions of individual genius, personal expression, and political rebellion. Rockers proclaimed their “affinity for and indebtedness to black musical forms,” but set them in the past, relegating them to “source material,” while constructing “an ideal increasingly defined by an exclusionary white masculinity.” And critics pilloried black artists for succumbing to commerce and abandoning the authentic musical traditions of their race, including gospel and the blues.
An interracial enterprise
REVIEW Review of Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination by Jack Hamilton. Harvard University Press. 340 pages, $29.95 Hamilton’s use of the language of academic literary and music criticism does not always keep his analysis “legible and lively for non-specialists.” And, at times, he pushes his thesis harder than the evidence warrants. That said, “Just About Midnight’’ provides a fresh and often fascinating revisionist history. To illuminate the interplay of rock music and racial thought and document “the web of commonality” that refutes “racially hermetic discourses,” Hamilton juxtaposes performers who are rarely compared with and contrasted to one another: Sam Cooke with Bob Dylan; the Beatles with Motown, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder; Aretha Franklin with Janis Joplin and Dusty Springfield; Jimi Hendrix with Mick Jagger. His analysis demonstrates that rock was, inevitably and indubitably, an interracial enterprise.
‘Pop,’ not ‘white’ Hamilton emphasizes, for example, that Bob Dylan “heard himself in conversation” with Little Richard and Chuck Berry. And that, although Sam Cooke was dismissed for selling out, “A Change is Gonna Come” may well exceed “Blowin in the Wind” in political power. Although the Beatles “made it all right to be white,” Hamilton reveals that the Fab Four had “a long and vital relationship” with Motown, whose founder, Berry Gordy, has been derided for diluting Black music for the market, but whose “signature accomplishment” was a steadfast refusal to accept the equation of “pop” with “white.” A “tragically unintended consequence” of anointing Aretha Franklin as “the Queen of Soul,” Hamilton writes, was that it pushed African-American performers even further from the rock ’n’ roll mainstream they “had helped create and sustain.”
‘Never fully heard’ According to Hamilton, Jimi Hendrix became the exception who proved the rule: the essential whiteness of hard rock and heavy metal. And he contends that the Rolling Stones’ insistence on the contemporary relevance of Black music to rock ’n’ roll “was never fully heard.” None of his artists, Hamilton concludes, ever set out to make music that was “white.” They recognized their debt to the great African-American gospel and rhythm and blues artists. But throughout the 1970s and beyond rock became suffused with musical violence, “just another marker of white male hegemony,” with little or no political or imaginative purpose. And rock’s ideology of white authenticity, Hamilton claims, took its power “precisely from the fact that it conceals and outwardly denies its existence.”
Dr. Glenn C. Altschuler is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.
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‘The Women of Brewster Place’ author dies at 66 Gloria Naylor, best known for her awardwinning book “The Women of Brewster Place,’’ has died. She was 66. She died of a heart attack on Sept. 28 in the Virgin Islands, her sister, Bernice Harrison, confirmed this week. Naylor had been living and working in the Virgin Islands. Naylor, born in New York, was the daughter of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin, Gloria who had been sharecroppers in Mississippi. Naylor She earned a bachelor’s degree at Brooklyn College and a master’s in African American Studies from Yale University. While in college, Naylor became immersed in the works of African-American female authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and. She drew inspiration from these authors and began writing stories centered on the lives of African-American women. This resulted in her first novel, “The Women of Brewster Place.’’
Book became miniseries She taught literature at several institutions, including New York University, Cornell and Boston University. “The Women of Brewster Place’’ was published in 1982 and earned the National Book Award. In 1989, the book was adapted and made into a TV miniseries by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. Naylor’s other books included “Mama Day,’’ “Linden Hills,’’ and “Bailey’s Cafe.”
Inspired authors Author Tananarive Due told Ebony magazine that Naylor’s novel “Mama Day,’’ gave her “permission to write my truth.’’ Writer and journalist Rosemarie Robotham called her “a true literary light.” Added author Bernice McFadden, “Gloria Naylor gave me permission to write my truth. To rejoice, scream, cry and pray on the page,” she said. “To embrace my Blackness – my womanhood and to hold both in high esteem and guard it with my life.” Authors also paid tribute to Naylor on Twitter. Terry McMillan encouraged her followers to “read everything Gloria Naylor has ever written.’’ Tayari Jones thanked Naylor for choosing her for a literary award in 2000 and for helping to launch her career.
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