Chicago Street Journal - February 26 2016 Edition

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Vol. 21 No. 1 February 26, 2016

What's is Really Behind Police in Black History has continued to reflect the tragic consequences for African America’s since slavery of the law as a tool to oppress; from the civil rights marches, the forming of the Black Panther Party of Self Defense in 1966, and today urban communities have become impossible to ignore as protests' continue addressing police misconduct even to:

Chicago Police Officer Kills Young Man and then Sues

the Protest Tens of thousands of black people since the 1866 birth of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tenn. have been lynched, burned alive, beaten to death and mutilated by whites. The 1980 riots in Miami's "Liberty City" and the 1992 L.A. riots involving the Rodney King verdict were again expressed in Ferguson, Mo. Pay attention to this history of brutality and criminalization of the humanity of black people and law enforcement.

Educating Chicago youth continues to be a blame game as the governor, the mayor, teacher union and the public go at itAS Chicago Public Schools has announced the layoff of 62 employees, 17 of them teachers, citing its efforts to stabilize its finances by eliminating $85 million from school budgets; Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education is set to meet to vote on whether or not to expanding charter schools in neighborhoods.

CPS announcing the move, the school district said those laid off include 43 full-time and 19 part-time employees. Chicago schools CEO Forrest Claypool says the fact the cuts are needed is unfortunate for the district's students, principals and teachers.

In announcing the layoffs, school officials pointed to the failure of Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Legislature to come up with a school funding plan. They come as the school (Continued on page 7)

for "Making" Him (the Officer) Kill Him. "That's a new low even for the Chicago (Continued on page 20)

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tricts.

Frank Otton Can history repeat itself as it once was for August 2009 a ribbon-cutting and dedication black businesses, as Black Wall Street Chi- of 75th Street, east of the Dan Ryan was celecago switch its Summit operations to the dis(Continued on page 21)

CSJ photos by Parthenia Luke

43rd Street has be identified as one of the 15 Black Wall Street District of Chicagoland. The Forum Building on 43rd and Calumet is a targeted support project identified at the Black Wall Street Chicago Summit XXVI, Once established the Forum can hold banquets over 2,000 attendees. Bernard Loyd is the owner in which seeking to secure funding support.

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By Donnell Robinson Staff Writer On Dr. Martin Luther King Day January 17, 2016, Street organizations (gangs) from across the city, and from out of town met to address

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their stake in the community and work together: Organized by People Organizing Peace Systems (POPS) Movement lead by Hest Aden from Atlanta, GA., members of the Disciples, Lords, (Continued on page 28)

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By Lionel Nixon On the corner of 35th and State Street stands a monument dedicated to the history of Black Wall Street of Chicago during the 1920s up to the 1950’s, the strips included 35th, 43rd, 47, 51st, 55, 58, 61st and 63rd streets. Presently there are only five black businesses on East 35th Street, including Seaway Bank, none in Lake Meadows.

In wallowing to the Bronzeville Black Wall Streets, John W. Rogers Jr. founder of the Ariel Investments painted a picture of blackowned businesses and blacks in the business

world: “Boom Town? The State of Black Business in Chicago,” reported by The Chicago Maroon.

Rogers said Black businesses continue to struggle for equal footing with “majority owned,” or non-African-American businesses, despite improvements in racial relations.

According to the SBA's Office of an estimated 7% of U.S. business owners are black, up from 6.2% in 2007. It says the rise isn't statistically significant. About 10% of U.S. business owners are Hispanic.

There is only two Black-owned banks remain in Chicago compared to seven twenty years ago, Seaway Bank, and the oldest Illinois Service Federal which is in need of a rescue.

In spike of many success stories prominent black business are raising unsettling (Continued on page 23)

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A Bruce Crosby dedicated his life to politic advancement and voting fairness, he was a political consultant to Chicago Street Journal .

Crosby has rallied, campaigned, organized and fought for the betterment gpvernment in political elections.

“A Writer and A Fighter” Beauty Turner (1957–2008) “was a

Chicago housing activist and journalist.

Ms. Beauty Turner was well known for her greeting “Hey Love”, and “I am a writer and a fighter.” She was Associate Editor of [Chicago (South) Street Journal] and a columnist for the Hyde Park Herald and a number of other local newspapers. Her writings have appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. She was also an activist in the community. Towards the end of her career, the Ghetto Bus Tours which gave a voice to those who Many have learned a lot from watching Crosby in were unable, was known and took part by people all over the action , I also learned his line of work didn't pay world, visiting Chicago. Turner worked as a research assistant much in monetary value, it didn't provide a 401k, for Professor Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist at Columbia Unior fancy suits or a wealthy lifestyle. And when I"d versity. question this when my Uncle would encourage me For 16 years, Turner lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, one to" join the cause" He"d always tell me it's not of the nation's most well known public housing. She had two about the money , it's about the Movement"! And sons named Larry and Landon Turner and also a daughter that was the epitome of Bruce, his selflessness, his named Latanya Turner. Her grandson is Reezy Turner.

At the time of her death, she was compared to the civil rights willingness to be apart when others weren't. Its leader Ida B. Wells. Turner died on December 18, 2008 at the now our turn to be there for him. age of 51. She suffered from an aneurysm and fell into a coma and never recovered. She died at Rush University Medical CenGratitude & blessings to all ! ter.

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gave business networking its beginning working with the Chicago passed on December 24, 2015, he was 1st Vice Chair of Black Wall Street Chicago, founded and Chaired by Defender and later on Ron Carter, publisher of Chicago Street Jourwith many publications. nal. Mr. Armstrong was passionate about the Program Director and an grassroots economic movement to create, Advocate/Speaker for sustain, and increase Black business in maProgressive Institute of jority Black communities in the spirit and Health Education and example of the original Black Wall Street Of Training an Tulsa. With the passion of business as well In October 2008 Al he and his wife, Susanne founded and Brown's life as he had formed amd developed the Quarry at 2324 known it changed. Al East 75th Street, on the Black Wall Street was a successful busiDistrict in keeping the Black Wall Street movements alive. ness entrepreneur excited about the opportunity to connect businesses and people through an ever expanding avenue of possibilities. Then he was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer.

How quickly focus and priorities change! the stricken individual but who also could instruct and Al was a person who was accustomed to being inquisi- speak from an educated vantage point. tive about the buying public and their motives - Considering the challenges that he faced during the procAl's passionate desire was being re-directed! Rather than ess of researching, decision making and anxiety, Al bebeing an advocate for exceptional marketing for business gan working to complete the goal of developing a Naideas and people, he would become a passionate advo- tional Network and website to provide psychological/ cate for Prostate Cancer Education among the Afrikan- emotional support, free screening opportunities, current American male population. An advocate who could emo- treatment options, comparative statistics, housing and tionally identify with the plight of financial assistance information, and dietary changes that may have an impact.

Gus Savage,

a six-term Democratic congressman died Oct. 30 the night before his 90th birthday. Frequently confronted with accusations that he was race-baiting or anti-Semitic, Mr. Savage gave no ground. “Racism is white,” he said. “There ain’t no black racism.”

Mr. Savage said he began his career in activist politics and journalism after serving in a segregated Army unit during World War II. One of his early publications, the American Negro, was a protest magazine that was among the first to print a photograph of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Mr. Savage said he ran the image before

Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender, although it was those larger black publications that sparked national outrage over Till’s death.

In 1965, Mr. Savage founded Citizen Newspapers, a small chain of Chicagoarea weeklies that railed against the city’s Democratic machine, personified

by Mayor Richard J. Daley. With that maverick sensibility, Mr. Savage supported the political rise of Harold Washington, a friend and college classmate who became Chicago’s first black mayor in 1983.

He was the acknowledged leader of the independent progressive black political movement and the architect behind the election of a black mayor.

Savage twice ran for Congress unsuccessfully before winning an open seat in 1980. He became the first African American to represent the district.

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fter speaking with several supporters and securing over 125,500 votes in the March 2014 Democratic Primary for Governor, Tio Hardiman said he have decided to run for congress against Congressman Bobby Rush in the 1st Congressional District. That’s was like a premature ejaculation.

Opps, nope now it’s Cook County Clerk against Dorothy Brown. And lately at a Westside meeting Tio claim he is a revolutionary. Well so are members of ISIS. Tio running around is sounding like a mosquito on crack.

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peaking of revolutionaries; it was announced that Antoine Fuqua the “Training Day” producer is in the mix of producing a movie on the Fred Hampton Story. ‘You can kill a revolutionary, but not the revolution.”

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n that subject, David Chappelle, Blacks and Terrorist: “Terrorist don't take black hostages.

Black people are bad bargaining clips. They call the White House: Hello White House we have Black Hostages and, ‘chick’, “Hello”?”

Here is one ‘Chip off the block’. Syron Smith traveled the states in his organizing of Block Clubs, but now the Block Club University just got back from London, England and has established some international relations for Block Clubs.

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ote for Bill Crosby. The late basketball star Wilt Chamberlin said he had sex with over 500 women in his life time passing at the age of 69, and used no drugs nor any rape charges against him. Now that’s a rapper.

Spencer Leak Jr. Facebook posting: A friend of mine called and said he wanted to make pre need funeral arrangements.

When we sat down to talk, I asked him who were we making them on. He said for himself. He's only in his early thirties so I asked him was he sure he wanted to do this. He went on to say that his Drs told him that he has less than 6 months to live and he wanted to get things in order. It was hard for me to keep my composure but he was so so very strong and I just want to commend him for the way he is carrying himself.

You just never know what's going on with someone. That's why I wish that WE ALL begin to treat one another with dignity respect grace and honor because this time on Gods earth is not promised.

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CBCO Chair Dr. Naomi Davis and Emeritus Dr. Robert Starks presented the Questionnaire on the Black Agenda during the election Church (Wanda Carter/Chicago Communicator)

Formal 5th Ward candidate, Rev. Jedidiah Brown, (30) whose youth movement has aligned with the CBCO Black Agenda Questionnaire and Platform endorsed Mayor Rham Emmanuel with regards.

of the Black Agenda and Black leadership that support Mayor Emanuel puts the Black Agenda in question.

On the notion of some Blacks being bought and sold is highly contentious and creates Donnell Robinson resentment for those who’ve been accused of Staff writer being Uncle Tom and to the degree of Over 30 organizations came together under ‘Sambo’, and some Blacks say the accusation the Coalition of Black Community Organiza- is difficult to prove and very divisive. tions (CBCO) with Naomi Davis chairing in In outreach to those on the posting, most did mid-December 2014, a process began of de- not respond to CSJ inquiry. fining, tracking, managing, and reporting Included on the posting surprising to many government action for or against Black Chi- were Paul McKinley and Mark Carter. cago well being for the March election of McKinley told CSJ he did not support the 2015. — A year later the question arise of mayor as the posting indicated. However, accountability of “Bought and Sold” Black “Reviewing most on the list their backleadership, a posting that no one claim respon- grounds, policies, and actions, some should sible for circulating it. actually be prominently placed on the “Wall CBCO directive was to assist Black voters in of Shame” reserved for Black sellouts.” said making choices in the run-election submitting McKinley. to both mayoral candidates Jesus Chuy and As Black commentator Bruce Dixon noted, Rham Emanuel questionnaires to address the "Rahm Emanuel's biggest asset was the over‘Black Agenda. whelming support of Chicago's As Chuy was the candidate that addressed well-established black political the agenda platform of CBCO for an open and class of preachers, business types, transparent democratic process, Mayor `community leaders' and public Emanuel did not. Yet Emanuel still won more officials. Nearly every prominent than 80 percent of the city’s 2,069 precincts, black elected official in town, with the support of most elected and civic Democrats all, came out for rights Black leadership.

Rahm, for privatization, for genCBCO platform of ten directives from trification, for austerity, for more health, youth, economic development, crime of the same. This is the state of and of course police accountability proved black politics, and the reason that sound; however, in response to the follow-up Rahm Emanuel carried every single one of Chicago's majority black wards."

The Young Leaders Alliance, spearheaded by Rev. Jedidiah Brown, who was in collaboration with CBCO , said he did support the Mayor, not because Deborah Graham Michael Zalewski the Mayor asked him but be(29th) $60,250 (23rd) $29,085 cause he said he wanted to give the Mayor a chance. Proclaiming it was good for the City of James Cappleman Margaret Laurino Chicago.

(46th) $56,652 (39th) $27,701 “I made a mistake” said Brown.

John Pope (10th) $56,590

Deb Mell (33rd) $50,643

Howard Brookins Jr. (21st) $43,266

Michele Smith (43rd) $41,281

Lona Lane (18th) $37,738

Natashia Holmes (7th) $36,677

Emma Mitts (37th) $36,073

Roberto Maldonado (26th) $31,531

Danny Solis (25th) $29,128

lemma that won’t go away.

Chicago Black political history walks in the shadows of the election of President Barrack Obama, and the past with a host of many, former Mayors’ Harold Washington, Eugene Sawyer and even former Cook County President John Stroger.

None elected Lu Palmer and the Chicago Defender which in many cases made and developed black leader and their agenda.

And at one point the Chicago Defender was noted as “Bought and Sold”.

Addressing being an Uncle Tom newspaper, Ron Carter former employee (CSJ publisher) asks the late John Sengstacke, Chair and owner of the Defender chain of newspapers, he replied said “Yes we are and will continue to be”. Sengstacke run the newspaper from 1940 to his passing in 1997.

Sengstacke said black leadership and progressive elected officials turn their backs in supporting the Defender when needed; adding he has no shame in supporting what the machine directs his news and editorial position.

“In doing so my 50 employees got paid every week, and I never missed a print date.”

Much of the political and economic power of blacks lies with elected officials and ministers.

“That’s the problem” once said Elzie HigAnthony Beale (9th) ginbottom, owner of East Lake Ask what the $26,776 Rahmbo had a Management, developer and real African Americans different and more estate manager for many public gained from their iron-fisted mes- housing developments, who is on endorsement in line JoAnn Thompson* sage for the city’s the “Bought and Sold” list. with CBCO (16th) $20,585 “In other communities, business mission. Brown Black religious people are the leaders and develindicated nothing. leaders. He warned opers of the community, not Pat O'Connor (40th) “It was a mistake.” them that they’d ministers and social workers.” $20,076 pay if protests went Higginbottom was one who Millionaire busitoo far. Da mare presented the concept that lead to nessman Dr. Willie the forming of Black Wall Street Debra Silverstein Wilson, and May- wanted the pastors Chicago, and has been an insider (50th) $16,007 oral Candidate to know‘...There of the Democratic politic ma2015, held “three-to was something chine the same as Mr. Seng-five” private meetabout how if you stacke. Higginbottom reference Rey Colon (35th) ings with both is that the businesses are in the $13,215 don’t encourage business of buying and selling Emanuel and Garcia to press his depeace, don’t look and being bought and sold. Not mands to reopen at to me for re- ministers and leaders. However, Will Burns (4th) least some of the sources,’ said Higginbottom has bought many $9,237 record 50 schools organizations in the interest of Young Leaders that Emanuel the machine political interest.

Alliance head As it is now clear the Black closed, eliminate Michelle Harris (8th) red-light cameras Jedidiah Brown, vote is essential to any successful $3,605 and e s t a b l i s h who was also pre- city-wide political campaign in “fairness” in the sent.” Chicagoland. awarding of city The lack of development in all Joe Moore (49th) jobs and contracts. areas in the Black communities $3,480 Traditionally, Emanuel and compared to other communities, crime, drugs, *Money given before death. former Mayor Richard Daley violence, red lights, mismanagement, and and their administrations of desires attention of the Black agenda; Bought Supporters: mostly Black elected yea- and Sold! sayers, have long suffered with “Too many of our “leaders” have gotten used a tremendous migraine di- to the limousines, mansions, entourages and

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ple’s desire to be political free.” said McKinley. “Often times this kind of leader fights “in words” rather than “in (Continued on page 13)

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Red Lights and State Rep. Ken Dunkin wants House Speaker Mike Madigan to let legislators vote on a bill that would eliminate redlight cameras and speed cameras in Illinois, pointing to the recent federal bribery conviction of a former Chicago official who helped establish

Estate about available resources and progress delivering housing. If adopted, the Ordinance will also establish new city policies requiring one-for-one replacement of all currently standing public housing units in future CHA redevelopments, and place restrictions on further sales and swap of public housing land by CHA until CHA produces a plan showing where it will rebuild what it promised to rebuild under the Plan for Transformation when a particular development was demolished.

The Ordinance is co-sponsored by 25 Aldermen and has the backing of nearly 30 diverse community-based organizations, It was first introduced in September of 2014.

For information contact, Leah Levinger, Executive Director of the Chicago Housing Initiative, 773-787

the city’s red-light camera program.

“All I’m asking today is for Speaker Mike Madigan to call House Bill 141 that’s been held hostage in the Rules Committee since last spring,” Dunkin, a South Side Democrat, said at a news conference Sunday at the corner of 76th and Stony Island in the shadow of a red-light camera.

About 30 supporters from the group Citizens to Abolish Red Light Cameras stood behind Dunkin waving signs and chanting in support.

City Council Long -Awaited Public Hearing on “Keeping the Promise” Ordinance The Keeping the Promise Ordinance, legislation intended to hold the Chicago Housing Authority accountable for over $600 million in undelivered housing and services.

Alderman Joe Moreno and a host of other aldermen with the Chicago Housing Initiative Coalition, and Linda Diaz, homeless senior on the waiting list for CHA housing, with Erika Weaver, voucher holder and victim of discrimination.

The intent of the Keeping the Promise Ordinance is to improve CHA's transparency, accountability and performance by requiring the CHA to report to the City Council Committee on Housing and Real

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Huffington Post blasted Rahm Emanuel’s handling of the Chicago Housing Authority, an Agency sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in surplus cash and a waiting list 10 years long. The Huffington Post piece criticized Rahm for allowing the CHA to “[pull] hundreds of millions of dollars from a fund earmarked for its affordable housing program and using the money instead to boost its pension, purchase government debt, and build up a staggering cash reserve.” In total, during Rahm Emanuel’s term as Mayor, the CHA has diverted over $600 million in public funding away from its housing and service programs into non-cash outlays and other line items not directly related

to housing or service provision.

Vacant Land for $1.00.

Approximately 100 vacant, cityowned residential lots in Auburn Gresham will be eligible for purchase via an application period that will open 12am, Monday, February 1 2016 and conclude11:59pm Sunday, March 20, 2016. The City of Chicago made the formal announcement.

FREE Information Session to help you APPLY online for a vacant lot on your block. Call: 773-651-5915 or 773-483-3696.

Photo by Alonzo Rhoden and the Chicago News Network.

Seventh Annual, Black Star Project's Daddy Daughter Dance hundreds of Black fathers showed up at a Daddy Daughter Dance in Chicago.

CPS TO CLOSE ONE OF BEST AFRICAN-CENTERED SCHOOLS IN AMERICA

Alderman Will Burns

announced his resignation as Chicago’s 4th Ward Alderman. Burns will taking a position with Airbnb as the Senior Advisor and Midwest Director of Policy. This comes as a surprise to the public however Mayor Rham Emanuel publicly wished him well in his next endeavor.

The Mayor is expected to take steps to fill his seat, requiring candidates to fill out an online application lead by Alderman Michelle Harris (8th Ward), Chairman of Rules and Ethnics. A commission of community leaders will narrow down final applicants.

Community activist and chair of the National Black Wall Street Chicago,Mark Allen said the resignation will lift up another "traditional" problem pointing out that many Independent and former Aldermanic candidates will soon be raising their usual hell when the Mayor appoints someone from the existing 4th Ward Organization. He also added Cook County Board President still carries the strongest political weight and probably none of the former candidates will get her political blessing for appointment;

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Strong community benefits were presented to the Obama Presidential Library

Barbara A. Sizemore Academy (BASA), of Betty Shabazz International Charter school, was told by CPS that if its 2015 School Quality Rating Score rose from the 2014 Level 3 it would not be recommended for closure. After achieving this goal, and being only .2 of a point from the next highest rating of 2+, BASA was informed by CPS that it was being recommended for closure; CPS was disregarding its written and verbal word. We are asking that you do not accept this recommendation. In addition to meeting agreed upon terms, BASA has additional evidence of significant growth.

If you reject the recommendation, it will allow BASA to continue on its path of improvement, and bolster community trust in CPS to keep its word in supporting improving schools.

Committee to place the Library in a predominantly Black area of the south side of the city as a means of spurring economic growth and development, including economic development metrics requested by the Bronzeville Regional Ad Hoc Collective, to wit: Community-wealth building. Substantial goals, metrics, monitoring, and tracking of the increased household income and net worth of present Bronzeville region residents, directly or indirectly attributable to OPL developments; and an independent third party entity contracted to report/

verify increments over time.

Moratorium & Mapping. Transparent and ongoing mapping of land ownership in the OPL region and “real-time” website reporting of land transfers. Temporary stay of public financing on acquisition of OPL area real estate after official announcement of RFP finalists in order to manage for mitigation of land grabbing.

Grandfathered Real Estate Taxes & Assessments. Establishment of community-led community land trusts in tandem with tax

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he Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was criticized Thursday in a Chicago SunTimes newspaper column by a Black columnist, Mary Mitchell, because the Minister said that the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.) would protect Beyonce Knowles if the Miami Police won't do its job to protect her because it is offended by her performance at the Super Bowl that included a song that featured costumes and lyrics from The Black Panther era.

try. Is she suggesting that the current Chicago Public School budget of about $6 billion be advanced to the University of Islam to better manage educational outcomes for Chicago students? If so, this is a great idea!

If she does not want the Nation of Islam to receive an approximate $11 billion transfer of city funds to fix Does she know that policing problems that others are currently alone won't stop the violence and being paid $11 billion dollars to fix, killing in any community no matter then she is not serious and has another agenda! How can she expect Minister Farrakhan to fix these probMs. Mitchell's major criticism lems with not even a NICKLE from was that Black people are dying in her nor a DIME from the city?

Chicago and if Minister Farrakhan Minister Farrakhan and the Nahas resources, he should use them to tion of Islam are currently donating stop "poor Black men and women" hundreds of millions of dollars in from dying on the streets of Chicago, services to cities and towns across and not use them to protect BeAmerica in many ways-both tangible yonce. Her exact words were and intangible. In services alone to "Farrakhan's threat of using the F.O.I. reclaim felons from prisons across to protect Beyonce is not only a joke, this nation, one could argue it is a slap in the faces of all that the Nation of Islam should the women who are risking be paid billions of dollars for their lives everyday trying to services previously rendered. save young people." She also Ms. Mitchell doesn't really called the strong men of the want these problems Nation of Islam "hustlers" of fixed. She doesn't really want the Final Call newspaper and to help the people on the "sellers" of bean pies, and she block. Her column on Minister spoke of the F.O.I. as a Farrakhan is actually "the slap "prop"! in the face" that she talks about Apparently Ms. Mitchell to serious people doing the really doesn't understand The serious work to save Black Nation of Islam and is ignopeople's lives, and her viewrant about Minister Farrapoint lets the people off the khan's history of protecting hook who are responsible for women, or she has another and being paid billions of dolwho is policing? Is she ready to turn agenda. So I have a few questions lars while failing to fix these issues. over $3.5 billion to the Nation of for Ms. Mitchell.

Attacking Minister Farrakhan Islam in Workforce Development Chicago is getting ready to hire and Human Service dollars to support won't fix the problems of violence and killing in Chicago. Working another Police Superintendent at an the mission to reduce violence in with him will, if she is serious about annual salary of about $300,000. Is Chicago? If so, I agree with her. these issues! she suggesting that Minister FarraPoor education feeds crime and khan get that salary? If so, I am all violence. The education that most

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district faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit, no income from the state of Illinois and no contract with the Chicago Teachers Union.

In addition the Chicago school officials say they're ready to cut $100-million from school budgets and force teachers to pay more pension costs. The teachers' union rejected the latest offer in the contentious contract negotiations that have lasted over a year.

CPS CEO Forrest Claypool says t h e u n io n 's r e j e c t i o n wa s "disheartening" and cost-cutting efforts are necessary without a deal. He says bargaining continues.

The Chicago Teachers Union calls the move an "intimidation tactic" and says the latest offer didn't address school conditions or services.

Teachers in the nation's third-

billion of the city budget. The level of crime in Chicago suggests the police force is not effective at stopping crime. Is she asking the F.O.I. to recruit 12,000 good men and women to earn this money at about $100,000 each per year to protect our city? If so, again, I am all for that.

largest district went on strike in 2012. The union has again authorized the possibility. But the earliest a walkout could happen is May, considering the legal process.

Demonstrations coordinated by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Grassroots Education Movement (GEM), Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools and others throughout Chicago protests of CPS’ “Broke on Purpose” “CPS) challenges are a revenuebased problem because two of the three biggest cost drivers are things that have to be paid: pensions and debt service (which includes the swap termination payments),” said CTU President Karen Lewis. “The third biggest cost driver is charter school proliferation—and though they’ve promised to halt charter expansion there is a state commission that can override their decision. There are no guarantees.”

Claypool said “We will continue working to find a deal that keeps

your children inside the classroom where they belong.

We will not be deterred from working with CTU towards an agreement for the sake of our children and their education.

“Despite facing unprecedented financial challenges that threaten our classrooms, we had reached a tentative agreement with the CTU leadership.”

“We’ll have to cut $100 million from school budgets in order to help decrease our deficit. Lastly, we cannot afford to continue the current practice of paying both teacher and employer pension payments.”

Alderman Dowell who has voted in favor of the $113 million TIF surplus of which CPS gets $60 million feels changing the State of Illinois funding formula and/or using income taxes instead of property taxes to sustain our schools.

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fter seeing Hillary Clinton in person the other day while she visited the Bronzeville community in Chicago, I was not surprised at why young people and older people, for that matter, with free thinking minds are not that interested in her campaign.

She appeared dry and like 30 day -old bread, that you realize you have in your cabinet when you're looking to prepare a much anticipated peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

She was very unappealing, to me at least. On the same day, Bernie Sanders opened up an office in the south loop. I didn't get a chance to visit his grand opening, so his appeal is still a mystery to me, in terms of his physicality, image and personal style.

And please don't act like it's issue oriented substance that black folks are really voting for! Because when have our issues ever been seriously addressed and fulfilled during a president's white house occupational short term visit?

To black people, image matters!

Especially after coming off a near 8 year-run with President Obama, a black man with swag, who's super cool, handsome, lovely wife and smart kids. Therefore, how can blacks, in general, and young social media junkies see Mrs. Clinton, who's stiff like a card board box, robotic and deep into the status quo platform, as someone they even wanna vibe with? Hillary's biggest issue is trying to capture black America after we've had a taste of probably the hippest trip ever in the White House.

Bernie, being equal in age to Hillary, at least has energy. She has very little energy. Hillary is like a stalled old Buick in your dad's driveway that the neighbors are trying to jump start with cables.

Blacks who hope to continue benefiting from her potential presidency are trying to shove the Clinton clan (Bill) down our throats, again. She's just not a tasty appetizer, before dinner salad, entree or dessert. Blacks shouldn't be to blame for that!

And Bernie, even though he's as far as you can get from President Obama, he's not the scripted Clinton. Sanders is saying things that sound like how young people communicate today on social media.

That's how Trump is appealing to America.

Remember, on social media - everything goes.

No script.

Very little concern. Just log on to your lap or desk top or ignite your smartphone and deliver your thoughts regardless how outrageous!

The world is moving at a rapid pace with social media mechanisms dominating the conversation. Good, bad or indifferent, this is the environment we live in..... and simply, Hillary has not captured that space, yet! And finally on Hillary, to bring out Sandra Bland's mom to pimp that tragedy, how shameful. If you really wanna help, go directly to Texas, and hold a Sandra Bland Rally, and demand justice! We'll all join you......

Both presidential candidates, anold white man who's motives are still unclear to me, and an-old white woman, who's husband destroyed black lives, are starving for Negro votes. Bernie and Hillary will collectively get some positive hits, but who'll get the lion's share is uncertain. Maybe we're select another black man, Willie Wilson. Until the next edition..... Peace and One Love.

I Write to Differ.....

NOTE: Listen to Carl West, who'll be live at the Auto Show today from 10 am - 11:30 am, hanging with Perri Smalls on WVON 1690AM.

Dear Readers,

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hicago was one of the centers of black journalism, having at different times several black-owned newspapers, from 1919 there was the Chicago Whip, Chicago Bee, Broad Axe, and the Half Century Magazine. The most influential of the Chicago publications was the Chicago Defender, with nationwide circulation founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905. The Chicago Defender had a major impact on Black History thought and development in America by its combination of news pertinent to blacks nationwide in conjunction with strong editorial viewpoints on a wide variety of civil rights issues.

The "Great Migration" of 1910 to 1920 was due in large part to editorials published in the Chicago Defender urging blacks to leave the oppression of the South for greater opportunity in Chicago and the North.

From my time working for the Chicago Defender naturally a lot was learned. But it was not my intentions to a publisher.

Its inception it was an organizing tool at first site, Chicago Street Journal, (formerly South Street Journal), based from the Mid-South community on 43rd and King Drive it has been an organizing tool from the Bronzeville Political Pac, the 47th Street Business Association, Involved in political campaigns, organizing public housing, and even this publisher running for alderman.

But Harold Lucas describes the newspaper toilet room time, and Phil Jackson said it’s a newspaper not of the norm.

At times more feared than loved.

It has been best of times and eviction times, wisdom and typo’s headline “If we don’t work, no ‘boby’ work. It has been the light of issues to the ‘Lake Front Aldermen, darkest of friendships to the threats of aldermen to sue, and former mayor Richard Daley blocked it from advertising money from St. Elisabeth Church.

And then others block its advertising funds. Then others and others.

(Read the Bought and Sold story on page 4) This reminds me of John Sengstacke embracing the term Uncle Tom newspaper.

Will and could Chicago Street Journal take the stand as Mr. Sengstacke? At times the thought is there.

But as an alternative all of those directions led to the birth of Black Wall Street Chicago and now there are over 50 across the country and five different organizations with the name in Chicago and 14 Districts claimed.

Black Wall Street Chicago was founded by this newspaper on the premise of Malcolm X, “At least establish the businesses in your own community, before it is too late.” As it was in the spirit of Tulsa, Ok. Our readers are dedicated and know our value and trust our vision. We are always seeking ways to bring the readers the best our communities have to offer. We would be remiss if we overlooked polices and its importance to our society; so we your establishment to be a part of our growth and featured in the pages of CSJ. Regardless what part of Chicago you are, for this new name is Chicago Street Journal.

Saturday March 12, will be Summit XXVII, we will be connecting with the community of 75th Street on an economic plan of action.

We are requesting your role as a partner in building the Black Wall Street Districts of Chicagoland.

Take for example on Taylor Street; you may know the one where public housing was the third populated of Black people 10 years ago. Now it is one of the vital business strips of young people enjoying the fruits of economic growth, no bars on the windows, shops open 7 pm like it was noon time, another Rush Street. We are proud to join

Alderman Rod Sawyer in making this happen. Not one of the 14 Black Wall Street Districts equals the vitality of growth that Taylor Street has. Not one! Not yet. But it’s coming.

The future of Chicago Street Journal at time was like going to the emergency room with no doctors (or leadership with no medicine).

However, we hold our heads up high to heal the pain of yesterday news from evictions to sabotage.

This newspaper is your sons and daughters trying to take a stand like the other one.

So send us your love. Protect our independence, and give our readers the needed knowledge we need your presence.

CSJ is normally a free publication. But our readers keep telling us such as Rev. Theo Taylor, "Sell it for dollar" Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this right now gave $1, our non-stop publishing would be done. If CJS is useful to you, please take one minute to keep it on the streets and online and growing. We serve 1,000s of readers over the years, but operate on a fraction of others. We believe knowledge is a foundation. A foundation for human potential, for freedom, for opportunity.

Please extend to us as your partner with support and improve CSJ and meet us Saturday March 12, 11 pm noon at.

Thank you

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Childhood Best Friends As adults we are continuously reminded that there is not enough time in a day to conquer everything you set out to do - especially nurturing friendships or reconnecting with childhood friends. We just do the best we can.

But through a child’s mind, time seems to be never ending especially when you’re having play dates with friends.

Take a few seconds to reflect on your memories of being a child. Who was the friend or friends that made the most positive impact on you? With what friend or friends did you experience the happiest and most unforgettable moments of your childhood? As your mind reveals the answers to my questions, there is a good reason why the special friend or friends left an inspiring imprint in your heart – it’s because of the good and positive way they made you feel. They helped you progress emotionally as well as to self-confidence, communication, and social skills. These are the same universal traits we want and hope for all children to experience and culti-

vate.

It’s important for children to have friendships just as it is for adults. I asked the Cole Cutie Kid’s (Callista, Sienna, Zander, and Mazen) how they felt about having best friends. Callista said, “So good!

It’s like having a twin!” Sienna said, “Good!”

Zander and Mazen both said, “It feels really, really good!” Mazen also said, “You can play with them a lot.”

Zander also said, “They’re very nice to you. I care about my best friends.” The Cole Cutie Kids have been best friends since daycare and continue to teach one another how to be good friends. They are learning and developing good and positive social skills that will continue to blossom into their teenage years.

I encourage parents and grandparents to ask their children and grandchildren the following questions: Do you have a best friend or friends? How does your best friend or friends make you feel? Listen to your child’s or grandchild’s answers. Encourage their positive friendships with others. Make time to coordinate play dates and fun activity events. Be a host and invite your children’s friends over for a party.

Parents, as you already know, it’s never too late to reconnect with your childhood friends, meet new friends or nurture the friendships you have already.

The friends who truly make you feel good and show you they care are the ones to treasure for a lifetime.

Eva Cole, Columnist, Writer, Author, & Voice-Over

40th!!! Soul Vegetarian East 205 E. 75th street (that's 75th and Indiana) BYOB doors open at 7pm poetry starts at 8, $7

Tell a Friend Thursday 2/25-Sat 2/27, 8:30am- (conference) Black History Month Conference: "Come Let Us Build a New World Together" @Roosevelt University, 430 S Michigan Ave . Conference explores the legacy of SNCC and the Mississippi Summer Project and what young activists today can learn from the organization and its work. The conference is dedicated to the life and legacy of the late civil rights activist Julian Bond.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://bit.ly/ SNCC-conference Thursday, Feb. 25: Benedictine University, 9 a.m.

- 3:45 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 26: Roosevelt University, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27: Roosevelt University, 9 a.m. 6 p.m.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: http://bit.ly/ SNCC-schedule

Thursday 2/25, 6pm (art & discussion) Melanated: A Photography Exhibition@Space1858, 1858 W Grand Ave, Melanated [mel-uh-nay-ted] 1. Adjective form of melanin. (Melanin - any of a class of insoluble pigments, found in all forms of animal life, that account for dark color of skin, hair, fur, scale, feathers, etc.) Celebrating the variances and exquisiteness of brown skin, Melanated is an exhibit of a collection of photographs from photographers Koyi Culp, Kimberly Jones, and Jacquette Smith. Photographic works will be on display for one night only. 6:30pm (discussion) PeaceCircle: Racism@Frontline Books This event was inspired by The Earth Center's upcoming event: Racism, The Imaginary Divide on the 27th at 4pm, 1523 W. Morse Ave. Snacks and beverages provided. PeaceCircle starts at 6:30pm. $5 donation All ages welcomed.

 7:30pm (open mic) Soul Restoration LTD featuring Yahdna@Soul Vegetarian Restaurant Open mic poetry hosted by Deana Dean and Sharon Celeste. featuring mother, wife, poet, motivational speaker, mentor, auntie, urban farmer, homemaker, sister, soul feeder, beast slayer, playwrite, nurturer, lover of the people, beautiful boriqua, hostess Yahdna!!! She's celebrating her

Friday, 2/26, 12pm (lecture) Indigenous Activists, Intellectuals, and Literary Practices in the Andes @Buffett Institute at Northwestern, 1902 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, Illinois. Coronado specializes in modern Latin American and Andean literatures and cultures. He has written articles on indigenismo, photography, and the avant-garde.

Currently, he is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled "Lo andino: región, cultura, concepto" that explores how the Andes has cohered in the cultural imagination since the early 19th century.

6pm (film) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Screening and Discussion@UIC Social Justice Initiative, 1253 S Halsted St The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is a new feature length film by award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson, documenting the impact and significance of one of the most well-known Black Power organizations of the late 1960's and early 1970's. RSVP through the eventbrite link. Seating is limited!

Thank you! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-black-panthersdocumentary-screening-and-discussion-tickets21522130271 6:30-8:30 (education) Ancient African History and Culture Event & Book Signing@Afri-Ware Books, 1701 S 1st Ave, Maywood, 6:00PM. Author, Mary Morris, for an exciting evening of excavating Ancient African History and Culture. .

(Refreshments Served)

Saturday, 2/27 12pm-2pm (workshop) Quilting the Black Eyed Pea: Black Poetics, Liberation & Conjure@Olín Studio Chicago, 1957 W 23rd St. This is part one of a two part series. Part 1 - Participants will trace the narration of conjure, and African American spiritual tradition, through the roots of African American literature, poetry and song. Part 2 (date to be announced) - Participants will create their own individual magic spells through gris gris (Continued on page 13)

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abatements to ensure sustained affordability by low and moderateincome households and to avoid displacement.

Neighbor Property Acquisition.

Preferences, incentives, grants, forgivable loans, special-interest mortgages, and other funds set aside for the purchase of OPL region real estate by current residents.

Cash contributions and contracts to community. Endowment of a Benefits Fund with cash advance on signing, and long-term allocations of support for business development and investment; purchasing agreements and collectives; and job readiness and training.

Other practices/prohibitions such as eminent domain forbearance; collaboration/investment toward life -saving trauma center; guaranteed percentages of resident hiring [including Section 3, Davis Bacon, MBD/DBE/WBE with retention requirements]; renegotiated terms for construction trade jobs pipeline; and region-wide network of community centers for teens and lifelong education.

Teens in the Park (T.I.P.) Chicago .

Park District and Donda House, Inc., announced auditions will be held for young adults wishing to perform in Mayor Emanuel’s Teens in the Park (T.I.P.) Fest on Saturday, July 9 at Northerly Island. Talented individuals between the ages of 14 -

20 (as of July 9, 2016) are invited to showcase their talent to earn a performance spot in the 2016 festival.

This year, in addition to well-known artists, T.I.P. Fest will feature new, up and coming Chicago artists.

Auditions to perform in the T.I.P. Fest will take place 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the following dates and locations: - February 27, Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St. - March 5, Hamilton Park, 513 W. 7 2 n d S t .

- March 12, Revere Park, 2509 W. I r v i n g P a r k R d .

Audition slots are limited, and are available on a first come-first serve basis. Pre-Registration does not guarantee an audition slot. Individuals will be contacted via e-mail to confirm an audition date and location, in the order in which their registration was received. e-mails DondasHouseInc@gmail.com.

TBTNEWS ALERT Noted and celebrated businessman, Mr. Jonathan Swain, proprietor of Kimbark Beverage Shoppe in Hyde Park has made the final cut to head up the Chicago Board of Election as its next Chair.

Jonathan is among six other candidates for this covenant post, currently held by Langdon Neal, who is expected to retire at the end of December. Swain's impressive resume', along with the fact that he's the only black finalists, gives him a 'shot -up.' Chief Justice Timothy Evans is expected to make his decision very soon.

Lionel Nixon, media and organizer consultant,

and Zaki Baruti.

Willie Wilson running President of the U.S.

There is a petition being circu-

William Calloway For Mayor! lated that states

Calloway is the brave brother who heard about the Laquan McDonald video, and was determined to uncover the account of a black-teen being executed by CPD and its murder being hidden from not only the general public, but from McDonald's family. This lone wolf decided that it was time Chicago

Dr. Patrice Frederick Joins New Roseland as Medical Director of Surgery

came clean and revealed to its citizens their dirty little secret.

"For far too long, the city of Chicago has operated at a level that is steeped in mediocrity and has not elevated to a higher place in which it needs to. We can fix that. Right now," expressed Calloway. William lives in the South Shore neighborhood. He's a 25 year-old film student at the Illinois Institute of ArtChicago, who has been organizing “die-ins” through a group he calls Christianaire. His first-ever protest was NATO in Chicago. Since then, he has protested many times since, sometimes twice a day, and in every part of the city.

If not for the efforts of activist Calloway and journalist Brandon Smith, video of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke firing 16 fatal shots at Laquan might still be in the hands of investigators and attorneys, not the public.

Chicago One of Most Expensive Cities to Work, Live Worldwide: Report A recent report named Chicago as one of the most expensive cities in the world to work and live.

In its recent Live/Work Index, global real estate services provider Savills measured the combined cost of residential and office rentals per person and per year, according to the report.

Chicago ranked 14th out of 20 cities that were studied by Savills researchers. The cost to live and work in Chicago averaged to $44,700, according to the survey, up 10 percent from five years ago.

However, it could be considered a bargain compared to the other cities that ranked higher on the list.

London was named as the most expensive city to work and live, according to Savills. The average living and working cost totaled to $112,800, nearly 20 percent higher than five years ago. Following close behind is New York with an median cost of $111,300 per person, and Hong Kong, with an average price of $103,200.

San Francisco, which ranked sixth on Savills’ ranking, saw the biggest year-to-year cost of living increase, up 13 percent and up 49 percent from five years ago, according to the report. Researchers tallied the total cost to live and work in San Francisco at $66,300.

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eneath a carefully constructed pretense of concern for racial justice, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has long been a dedicated corporatist “law and order” enemy of Black America. During his time as a top political operative in the archneoliberal Bill Clinton White House, the notorious bully Emmanuel (later to be nicknamed “Rahmbo”) was a driving force behind the 1994 federal “three strikes” Clinton crime bill.

That draconian measure helped make Bill Clinton “the incarceration president” and contributed to a significant increase in the monumental hyper-imprisonment and criminal marking of Black Americans. Among other terrible things, the law put 100,000 more officers on the streets, allocated $10 billion for new prison construction, and eliminated Pell Grant funding for inmates pursuing college degrees while in prison.

Prior to that outrage, Emmanuel joined up with Bill Daley to lead Clinton’s passage of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) – a critical investor rights measure that helped capital drain millions of jobs away from industrial regions where impoverished Black populations desperately needed paid employment.

NAFTA-encouraged deindustrialization notwithstanding, Emmanuel was a leading force behind Clinton’s vicious 1996 “welfare reform.” The “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act’s” elimination of poor families’ former entitlement to basic family cash assistance has wreaked havoc on Black families stuck in jobless ghettoes ever since.

As Barack Obama’s original White House chief of staff, Emmanuel consistently steered policy rightward, towards the interests of the nation’s predominantly white 1% and contrary to those of America’s disproportionately nonwhite lower and working class.

As Mayor of Chicago, Emmanuel moved quickly to shutter 54 public schools in lowincome Black and Latino neighborhoods in the largest deliberate mass school closure in history. Emmanuel’s schools chief provided principals with a guide on “how to handle civil disobedience and to report the names of any teachers and students involved in protests.” The schools closure program has always been a big taxpayer money grab for wealthy Emmanuel allies seeking to build private charter schools in the wreckage left by public school closings.

Emmanuel has stonewalled on numerous abusive and criminal practices on the part of his city’s police force. He flatly denied the Chicago Police Department’s operation of an illegal “black site” detention facility (Homan Square) where thousands of mostly Black and Latino suspects have been “disappeared” and forced into false confessions. The Black Site hellhole

“Nearly every prominent

was exposed by The lack of comprehension of black elected official in Guardian earlier this year. the public’s outrage over town, ... came out for Rahm, the killing and its cover-up Its existence was well known across Black and for privatization, for gentri- when he claimed this week Latino Chicago. that he decided to fire city fication, for austerity, for police chief Garry Sadly enough, more of the same. This is the McCarthy because he had Emanuel has won solid majorities of the Black state of black politics in become “a distraction” – Chicago vote in both of not because McCarthy has 2015, and the reason he for years overseen a pohis Chicago mayoral eleccarried every single one of lice department notorious tion victories to date (in April 2011 and April Chicago’s majority black for racist abuse and cor2015). As the left Black ruption. wards.” commentator Bruce Dixon  * Emanuel’s arrogant noted last spring, “Rahm response to the McDonald scandal has Emanuel’s biggest asset was the overwhelming been to “do as little as possible — until support of Chicago’s well-established black the furor caused by the release of the political class of preachers, business types, video forced his hand.” (New York Times ‘community leaders’ and public offieditorial cials….Nearly every prominent black elected The part of the emerging story that blows official in town, Democrats all, came out for me away the most, is less well known. It conRahm, for privatization, for gentrificacerns a meeting that Emmanuel held with Chition, for austerity, for more of cago’s leading Black ministers and pastors the same. This is the state of right before he finally released the Van black politics in 2015, and the Dyke murder video. As local reporter reason that Rahm Emanuel Mike Fourcher determined, the alleged carried every single one of purpose of this gathering and other Chicago’s majority black meetings held with Black constituents wards.” was to assuage Black fears and anger The facts of the Laquan about how City Hall had dealt with McDonald case are well unthe case. When speaking to the minderstood by now. Anyone who isters, Rahmbo had a different and follows the national news more iron-fisted message for the closely knows that: city’s Black religious leaders. He  * The City of Chicago warned them that they’d pay if protests rushed to offer went too far. Da mare wanted the pastors to know that he would withhold McDonald’s money for jobs programs in the mother $5 million city’s Black ghettoes if violence on the condition ensued. By Fourcher’s account: that she stay silent.

“The Mayor…asked the group to stress peaceful protest  * The city buried through the Thanksgiving a dash cam weekend and to avoid viovideo that clearly lence. ‘He encouraged us to displayed the encourage the community to savage killing for exercise their first amendment thirteen months rights, but to do so peacebecause Emmanuel fully,’ said Rev. Barrett. ‘The feared its release point of the meeting was how would spark civil unrest to encourage that peaceful (this during the ongoing protest.’ According to attenprotests over racist police dees, the Mayor then told the murders in Ferguson, Misgroup that if there was viosouri and elsewhere around lence over the weekend, he would not be able to the nation) that might endanger his refind resources to bring jobs into their commuelection chances the following April.  * The video might have never surfaced if nity. ‘He said, if things go bad then don’t come looking to me for jobs,’ said Rev. Brooks. lawyers and journalists had not been tipped off to its existence and but for the ‘There was something about how if you don’t encourage peace, don’t look to me for reorder of a county judge last week. sources,’ said Young Leaders Alliance head  * Emanuel, running for re-election at the Jedidiah Brown, who was also present.” time of the shooting, fought to keep the It doesn’t get much more offensive than video from going public. He claimed that that. It takes real sociopathic chutzpah to bully releasing it might taint a federal investinormally obedient Black pastors like that after gation even though the U.S. Justice Deyou have just been caught with your racist popartment did not ask the city to hold off. lice-state pants down in hideous fashion. Curi * Emmanuel demonstrated a complete ously enough, Emmanuel seems to have at least

momentarily lost the outward loyalties of the city’s Black bourgeois elite. As Glen Ford notes on Black Agenda Report, reflecting on mass, Black youth-led protests that took place in Chicago’s tony Michigan Avenue shopping district: “It seemed as if the protective shield of Black mis-leadership Class collaboration that has for the last 30 years insulated white mayors from the wrath of Chicago’s outraged Black rank and file, had suddenly been stripped away.

Black ministers joined militant youth in marching down the city’s ‘Magic Mile’ Michigan Avenue shopping district, demanding that heads roll for hiding video evidence in the death of 17 year-old Laquan McDonald, shot 16 times by Officer Jason Van Dyke. For 400 days.

But the community’s rage could not be contained. The Black Caucus of Chicago’s Board of Aldermen demanded that Police Superintendent McCarthy resign. So did Rev. Jesse Jackson and even Bobby Rush, the sellout Black Congressman who has been a dependable servant of the Emanuel administration. The strength of the movement in Chicago can be measured by the fact that so many elements of the Black collaborationist political class have been forced to take a stance in opposition to Mayor Emanuel and the white corporate forces that he represents, and ultimately to compel the mayor to fire his favorite cop.”

Soon, however, the misleaders can be expected to resume their normal role of collaboration with the city’s predominantly white and corporate masters. As Ford notes: “The young people that are soldiers of this struggle understand that movements are defined by their demands. In a joint statement by the Black Youth Project 100, We Charge Genocide, Assata’s Daughters, the #LetUsBreathe collective, and a Black Lives Matter chapter, they declared that ‘Indicting cops does not change the policies that promote the violence and trauma inherent in the Chicago Police Department.’ They want Rahm Emanuel’s resignation, too. The Black Youth Project also demands defunding of the Chicago police, and investment of those dollars in the Black community.

They call for reparations for slavery, Jim Crow and mass Black incarceration; an end to all profit in the criminal justice system; a guaranteed income for all; a federal jobs program, and freedom from discrimination for all workers; and an end to displacement of Black people through gentrification…. These are demands for social transformation – demands that will put the young activists on a collision course with the Black Misleadership Class who are the first line of defense for the white ruling class, and who will soon close ranks in Chicago and elsewhere to try to stop this movement.”

The fight for racial justice in Chicago, as across the nation, requires rank and file class struggle within the Black community itself. The white, Latino, and Asian working class could learn from that.

Last December, Paul Street spoke in Chicago (with Bruce Dixon) on U.S. Imperialism and the 2016 Elections with the Illinois Coalition for Peace, Justice, and the Environment.

He spoke on Rahm Emmanuel, Laquan Mcdonald and the Racist Mass Incarceration State at the Open University of the Left,

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deeds”, which in my opinion makes them nothing more than “cheerleaders” who might as well be traitors.”

Posted by the Dark Knight, a graduate of Rutgers University wrote: The election of Barack Obama to the office of presidency has only exacerbated this contempt for the everyday black person in America. But he did little to turn his political influence to a Black Political agenda.

“African American leaders such as Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, and others believe that as the leaders of the Black community they will be able to continue to guide Blacks like a flock of sheep into Progressive

pastures. ... the flock won’t be lead by the shepherd indefinitely, not when it is being led to slaughter.

Some money in being a Black Leader According to Goviva Speaking Bureau, speaking fees for Jessie Jackson range from $50,000 to $100,000, Minister Louis Farrakhan’s range is from 35,000 to $50,000 which is comparable to what Rev. Al Sharpton makes for appearances. T.D. Jakes and others

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(mojo bags) using the lyrics and poetry that they developed during Part 1. Fee: $10 per person with pre-registration; $15 at the door. Pre-register at: http:// poetics.mivoz.com/ 3pm (discussion) Healing Motherhood@Culture Connection, 400 W 71st. A healing conversation with Dr Billye Sankofa Waters about parenting and motherhood in the African American community. Refreshments can be purchased from Barbara Pillow Sidibeh of Indospin products.

4pm (lecture) Racism: The Imaginary Divide @The Earth Center of Maanu, 1523 W Morse Ave. The idea of race has been the source of so much hatred in the world. We see the atrocities of genocide, slavery, police brutality, and discrimination continue to be driven by this poisonous ideology of race. How can humanity recover? $10 suggested donation but no one

turned away.

4:30 (lecture) Cultural Annihilation of Afrikan People Part I: Black People Compliance with White Supremacy @Frontline Books. This is the First Installment of Scholar Activist Brandon Lamar Scates The Cultural Annihilation of Afrikan People Lecture Series. In Part I he will be suffixing m discussing how New Negros play a pivotal role in the miseducation of Black youth in the inner city as well as psychological oppression and political disenfranchisement through the system of White Supremacy.

also command a sizable contribution in the religious evangelist arena, so this can be big business around a cult personality and if money is not used correctly the community they claim to serve is the biggest loser.

As reported in the Chicago Defender, taking advantage of the Black community’s increasing disillusionment with Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, Rauner enlisted the services of some high profile Black community leaders including Rev. James Meeks, Pastor Corey Brooks, N’Digo Publisher Hermene Hartman, and Dr. Willie Wilson to act as surrogates for his campaign. Hartman was a paid public relations consultant to the Black community; Hartman was ridiculed for only receiving $55,000 for her services. Rauner also appointed Hartman to the $46,960/year Human Relations Committee, where she will have a say in settling employee discrimination complaints in Illinois. While the position is rather innocuous, Hartman fight workplace discrimination. Wilson’s interest in Rauner’s

Struggle, Survival & Spirituality @Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy, 6130 S Wolcott Ave. 6:30pm-11pm (gala) \Shift\ 2016 - HPP's First Annual Benefit Gala@Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S Stony Island Ave. Honey Pot Performance and friends at the Rebuild Foundation's beautiful new Stony Island Art Bank for our first annual benefit gala-6:30pm (film)Screening of The Spook Who Sat By The Door@South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S Michigan Ave. The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee.

Dan Freeman is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency's elite espionage program as its token Black.

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4:30-7pm (education) From the Western Sahara to Chicago's Southwest Side: Spanning Continents & Connecting Stories of

March 3, 2016 Urban Think & Drink: Secretary Ray LaHood, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

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election was business. Sources say that Wilson, who owns a business supply company, is positioned to take over the concessions at the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Rauner appointed Brooks to the Illinois Toll way Board. While Brooks will only collect an annual salary of $31,426, Rauner won the election, appointed Meeks to his transition team, and eventually appointed Meeks to become the Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

Meeks’ critics claim that the appointment was political payback for selling out the community. For Meeks, serving as the Chairman of the ISBE, which administers billions in school grants, allowed him to have a direct say in the education process. Meeks believes education is the top determining factor in a child’s longterm success, and as Chairman of ISBE he

will direct how those funds are spent.

S. Dearborn St., Suite 1400, Chicago.

Census workshops. Spots are still available for a free, hands-on workshop about U.S. Census products for urban planning on March 16 and April 20 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at CMAP (233 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 800, Chicago). Municipal planning staff and volunteers are invited to attend one of the two workshops, each of which will feature the all-

new U.S. Census website, hands-on searches for municipal data, and an introduction to OnTheMap, featuring characteristics of workers who live and/or work in your municipality. Five laptops will be provided and five additional seats will be reserved for persons bringing their own laptops. To RSVP or for more information, contact Jon Hallas (jhallas@cmap.illinois.gov or 312386-8764).

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Chicago Baptist Institute a Historical Landmark in for Sale $15 Million

Ebonie Caldwell, of Ebonie Caldwell Realty Portfolio - A Real Estate Development and Marketing Company, has announced the sale of the Chicago Baptist Institute, a historic landmark building at 5120 S. King Drive, for $15 million. The three story building is approximately 55,000 square feet and with an additional attached lot for sale estimated around 35,000 square feet.

“Bronzeville has indeed experienced a great deal of revitalization over the last three and a half decades as result of an influx of middle and upper -class African-American professionals along with the possibilities of the Obama Presidential Library being located across the street in Washington Park. With its unique history and location, in the Bronzeville & Washington Park area while being located a few blocks west of Hyde Park this historical building is in a residential market area that is recovering at a fast pace.

Planned developments and growing business owners along with a re-emerging nightlife, flagships and franchises is being added to the community’s growth. With its unique history and location, recovering residential market, planned developments, and steadfast business owners whose fortunes are inextricably tied to

the community’s growth, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Washington Park and Bronzeville are reemerging neighborhoods bound to bloom bigger than it was before in the 50's and 60's.

Chicago Baptist Institute was organized in 1934, under the united sponsorship of the Chicago Baptist Association, the American Baptist Publication Society, the American Baptist Home Mission, and Black Baptist Pastors and Churches of Chicago.

The Institute began its work in one room on the second floor of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company building, located at Thirty -Fifth Street and South Parkway, now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive.

The student body numbered fewer than forty persons.

From this humble beginning, the Institute, under the academic leadership of Dean Leroy R. Mitchell, grew from less than forty students to approximately four hundred.

The work was arranged in three departments :the Leadership Training Department, the Missionary Training Department, and the Seminary. Later, a fourth department was added which offered courses of study for the benefit of students with educational deficiencies.

In September, 2011, Dr. Willie Wilson was appointed Chairman of the Trustee Board. Under the guidance of Dr. Willie Wilson, our school was named Chicago Baptist Institute International .In addition, our school has also come out of an enormous financial dilemma .Dr. Wilson has introduced our school to various organizations and ministries that have been instrumental in assisting us in our academic and Christian growth and exposure.

Mr. James Floyd was also named the new president of Chicago Baptist Institute International.

Moving on to higher educational ground, on May 29, 2013, Rev. Dr. John T. Gray was named president of Chicago Baptist Institute. On September 30, 2013, Dr. Joseph Henry was appointed Academic Dean.

Ms. Caldwell said this is the perfect opportunity for a boutique hotel or residential community development due to the massive real estate expansion and the exposure this neighborhood will be getting from the Presidential Library being located in Washington Park or Jackson Park,” says Caldwell.

After Church building Opportunity.

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Many joined to welcome Pope Francis to the U.S. and at the White House and witnessed the first address of a Pope to the United States Congress. However, others called the question of the Catholic Church in its role in slavery.

"As a Roman Catholic who once studied to be a Catholic priest, I have been excited since Pope Francis took over as the leader of the one billion Roman Catholics in the world," said State Representative LaShawn Ford. "I have also been hopeful that he would challenge the leaders of the church and her followers to be stronger voices for fairness and justice in the world."

"The many problems in the world today are the result of evil and hate amongst humanity, said Ford.”The Catholic Church has a moral obligation and responsibility to teach about and then confront hate and evil. The Church must also be united with other faiths to fight for equality and justice, praying for a better world."

In speaking of safeguarding our planet, Pope Francis said, "The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change," also noted in his recent Encyclical Letter Laudato Si'.

remember to try to live by the Golden Rule: "Let us remember the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' (Mt 7:12). This Rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like to be helped ourselves. In a word, if we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us."

"This reminds me of being my brother's/ sister's keeper," said Ford. "The Pope's outgoing leadership shows him to be a moral leader with a conscience, working to make the world a better place for all. After all, less evil and hate make it easier to be a Catholic following Christ. It is my hope that while the Pope is spreading the Good News in America that he challenge the consciences of all people to work for, among many things, a fairer system so we may educate children in America equally. Opportunities for a high quality education that is equal and is proven to meet the needs of our children will help to eliminate much evil and hate."

Accident coincident

Of the 1 billion Catholics in the world, 25% are of African descent, and 3 million are African Americans. With 69.4 million members, the American Catholic Church is the largest religious body in the United States, comprising 22% of the population.

"It was an honor to be one of 11,000 standing and waiting for 4 hours on a beautiful morning at the White House, as the PresiFor your next Church or dent and Mrs. Obama welcomed His Holiness Pope any Event.

Francis of the Holy See," Gentle, Carolyn Williams, ministers said Ford.

"President through song vergers from the Bible, it Obama stood tall, with sooths and calms your spirit. Godpride, and with his chin up, inspired vocal accompanied by her own while the Pope stood humguitar styling will lift you and you will bly with his head down."

"It was also an honor to be feel the love. the guest of Congressman You can view video footage of this proDanny K. Davis in the U.S. duction at https://www.facebook.com/ House of Representatives photo.php?v=698310030207912. as the pope addressed an Although new to the scene, Gentle will be around for a historic joint session of Congress," said Ford. "In long time to come, and we are glad!

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There are still Christians prepared to uphold the traditional Christian line on slavery.

In 1996 Charles Davidson, a devout Christian Senator from Alabama, said that slavery had been good for blacks, and pointed out that the practice had biblical approval, citing the traditional prooftexts such as Leviticus 25:44 and 1 Timothy 6:140.

man slavery and Christian slavery do not lie in the rules. They are almost the same, and where they differ the Christian rules are generally harsher than the Roman rules. Slaves were bought and sold, often at auction. Prisoners captured in war were enslaved. The children of slaves also became slaves. The master had a right to control slave marriage and regulate slave family life Many Christian books regarding slaves as breeding and websites seek to stock. Slave-girls were availestablish that Black able for sex. As one Roman slavery was fundamensaid of his time, Whoever tally different from heard of a man prosecuted for Roman slavery. Acsleeping with his concubine? cording to them, Roman Escaped slaves were hunted. slavery was a much Rewards were offered for more benign system, their return. Once returned and this was the system they could be punished in the most cruel ways, referred to in the Bible. The argument is flawed not merely flogging, but amputation of a foot or in two ways. First, the rules applied to Black "half a foot". slavery, and Christian justification for it, were based on the Old Testament, which regulated the rules for Jews, not Romans. Rules about It is certainly true that Roman slavery was often slave owning were similar across many ancient more benign than Christian. It is known that societies, so apologists sometimes try to regard Roman slaves were often educated, well them as the same thing. But even if slavery had treated, given good food and medical attention, been based on Roman practices in the New appointed to responsible offices, and even Testament, then the argument still does not treated as friends. But this reflects the relative work. The important differences between Rolevel of civilization of the society and the indi-

vidual slave owners. If Roman slave owners behaved better than Christian slave owners, it is because pagan Romans were more compassionate and civilized than later Christians. For identification, Christians chose to brand their slaves where pagans had merely tattooed them, but the purpose and the rules were almost identical.

Main Message by Pastor Cornelius Clark (Jacobs House Church)

By Margaret Herbers A monthly tradition of the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC) is the prayer breakfast, an event that brings local clergy of all faiths under the same roof to pray together, share messages and, of course, enjoy breakfast and fellowship. Here are the highlights of the first prayer breakfasts to take place this year in Chicago and Atlanta.

MC: Dr. Willie Weston, Sr. — ACLC Illinois Co-Chairman The first monthly ACLC Prayer Breakfast of 2016 in Chicago was held on Tuesday, January 19. The program was hosted at the Cosmopolitan Community Church, where Dr. Henry O. Hardy is the pastor emeritus. The featured speaker was Pastor Cornelius Clark, the pastor of Jacob’s House Church in Chicago.

About 140 clergy attended the program.

Raised in a musically gifted family, Pastor Clark has a special calling. Not only does he lead a powerful worship of God, but also he also

inspires believers to walk in the Principles of Truth and to cultivate their own personal relationship with the Lord. His vocal talents secured him a role in the 1992 motion picture Leap of Faith, starring Steve Martin and Debra Winger, and he has been the featured vocalist on several gospel music projects, including programs with Edwin Hawkins, Bishop Larry Trotter and Bishop T.D. Jakes.

Pastor Clark brings a fresh wind of preaching and teaching to the Body of Christ, helping to change the face of what the traditional church calls “ministry.” His message on Tuesday was well received, and the audience thoroughly enjoyed the program and fellowship.

Starting in 2003, the ACLC of Illinois has held a Prayer Breakfast every month, not missing a single month in thirteen years. These dynamic gatherings, hosted by a different church each month, are now averaging 200 participants per breakfast.

The ACLC Prayer Breakfast in Chicago affords an opportunity for prayer, fellowship and receiving God’s word from leading spiritual leaders from Chicago and from around the country. Keynote speakers have included Dr. Ki Hoon Kim, Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, Dr. Michael W. Jenkins, Dr. Clay Evans, Pastor T.L. Barrett Jr., Dr. Stephen J. Thurston, Rev. Leroy Elliot, Bishop Larry D. Trotter, Bishop W. James Campbell, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Otis Moss III, Dr. Robert M. Waterman (Brooklyn, NY), Bishop Jesse Ed-

other values to it. Pastor Clark was the one who led these discussions, and the organizing committee decided that he should be the keynote speaker for the first Prayer Breakfast in 2016.

The ACLC of Chicago also holds a Pastors Forum every Tuesday.

Currently around a dozen pastors Pastor T. L. Barattend these interactive Bible studrett, Jr. (Life Cen- ies. Not only are there clergy who ter COGIC) attend regularly, but they also are inviting other pastors to join the study.

Dr. Willie Weston and Rev. Ken wards (Philadelphia, PA), and many Murray facilitate these study foothers. rums. Dr. Weston has a profound Dr. Willie Weston Sr. is the counderstanding of the Biblical Princichairman of the ACLC of Illinois, ples, and has a gift for teaching and Pastor T.L. Barrett Jr. is the from a biblical perspective. These chairman of the ACLC National studies are received with surprising Founding Committee. Every month, enthusiasm from the ministers, and they meet with their Prayer Breakno one wants to leave at the conclufast organizing committee to plan sion of the lessons. Once a month the next event. the Pastors Forum teaches directly During the organizing committee from Divine Principle PowerPoints, meetings at the end of 2015, the with a strong emphasis upon the team discussed how ACLC could Bible. bring new hope to Christianity. The Contributed by Rev. Kunihiro Prayer Breakfast began as a fellowSagisaka and Rev. Ken Murray ship gathering, but now the committee is trying to find ways to add

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here is America today in what can be in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King? This mock Q&A from President Barack Obama to the community streets. America in view by what could be related to his words of yesterday. Let us begin... abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life. .It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

RC: This is Black History Month, as head of The Christian Leadership Conference, now a holiday in your honor, a monument, streets and buildings and even with Stevie Wonder song sang to many birthdays.

What are you thoughts about yourself?

King: I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. I want you to say, on that day, that I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity.

R.C. What about the title of Drum Major of peace?

King: Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

R.C. Besides your strive to continue your service; Having you got sort of weary?

King: I don’t mind telling you … sometimes I feel discouraged. I felt discouraged in Chicago. As I move through Mississippi and Georgia and Alabama, I feel discouraged.

Living every day under the threat of death, I feel discouraged sometimes. Living every day under extensive criticisms, even from Negroes, I feel discouraged sometimes. Yes, sometimes I feel discouraged and feel my work’s in vain. But then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again.

RC: Religion has been a very substance of your life, how was this developed?

King : Even though I have never had an

RC: Here in Chicago we have more churches than businesses, and more social ills in communities where most of the churches are. There is a critical taste in the minds of many with the religious leadership being political tools. Being a preacher what is your assessment of that?

King :. ..As a preacher... I must admit that I have gone through those moments when I was greatly disappointed with the church and what it has done in this period of social change.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The apparent apathy of the Negro ministers presented a special problem. A faithful few had always shown a deep concern for social problems, but too many had remained aloof from the area of social responsibility. Much of this indifference, it is true, stemmed from a sincere feeling that ministers were not supposed to get mixed up in such earthly, temporal matters as social and economic improvement; they were to "preach the gospel" and keep men's minds centered on "the heavenly."

But however sincere, this view of religion, I felt, was too confined.

RC: As you know we are now have the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama. In the words of the late James Brown noted for “Say it Loud’ I am Black and Proud” a reinforcement of Black Power. Should ‘Black Power’ be acknowledged with President Obama?

needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. However much we may try to romanticize the slogan, there is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not share that power with black aspirations for freedom and human dignity. We are bound together in a single garment of destiny.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

RC: During your life you were known as an extremist. Not like Malcolm X, but still an extremist even among some Black people. There is a group of activist in Chicago by the name of VOTE (Voice of The Exoffenders. Their leaders are Paul, Mark and Joseph. So happens, names represented in the Bible. Some would call them radicals and others say its courage. Then others say they need to watch what they say and how they do and say things. How do you assess them?

King :. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative....

Was not Jesus an extremist for love --"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice -...Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ -- "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist -- "Here I stand; I can do none other so help me God." Was not John Bunyan an extremist -- "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience."

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist -"This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist -- "We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal." So the

question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill, three men were crucified. We must not forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thusly fell below their environment.

The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment.

RC: So is going to jail in your case an example of that.

King: I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

RC: On the point of Malcolm X. What was the relationship of you two if any?

King: I met Malcolm X once in Washington, but circumstances didn't enable me to talk with him for more than a minute. He is very articulate … but I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views — at least insofar as I understand where he now stands. I don't want to seem to sound selfrighteous, or absolutist, or that I think I have the only truth, the only way. Maybe he does have some of the answer. I don't know how he feels now, but I know that I have often wished (Continued on page 17)

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used up all of our money for bail, and about 300 remained in jail, and I felt personally responsible. It was then that President Kennedy telephoned my wife, Coretta. After that, my jail conditions were relaxed, and the following Sunday afternoon -- it was Easter Sunday -- two S.C.L.C. attorneys were permitted to visit me. The next day, word came to me from New York that Harry Belafonte had raised $50,000 that was available immediately for bail bonds, and if more was needed, he would raise that.

RC: People still question your stance on to continue talking about ‘love thy neighbor’, turn the other cheek. Are you about tired of that?

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that he would talk less of violence, because violence is not going to solve our problem. ... I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief.

You know, right before he was killed he came down to Selma and said some pretty passionate things against me. And that surprised me because after all it was my territory there. But afterwards he took my wife aside, and said he thought he could help me more by attacking me than praising me. He thought it would make it easier for me in the long run.

R.C. They was a program a few years ago honoring you, in which your children did not acknowledge Harry Belafonte.

What is your take on that?

King: Over 400 of our followers had gone to jail; some had been bailed out, but we had

King : ... And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.

And I have seen too much hate. I've seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. ... And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

RC: Let us talk about some domestic issues. Presidential candidate millionaire Donald Trump and the former one Mitt Romney said he do not care about the rich nor the poor. There are those of us that can not see a future, men from young to old selling loose squares to make ends meet.

Chicago has transformed over 40,000 black families from Public Housing over the last 10 years as it has build the “White Wall Street” around the Loop, as the poor were an eye soar to the city; And so Stephanie Gathin once said, ‘What the city has done to Black people here in Chicago is a total shame of the leadership.”

How do we address the issue of the poor?

King Jr. Today the poor are less often dismissed, I hope, from our consciences by being branded as inferior or incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands, it does not eliminate all poverty.

The problem indicates that our emphasis must be twofold. We must create full employment or we must create incomes.

People must be made consumers by one method or the other. Once they are placed in this position we need to be concerned that the potential of the individual is not wasted.

New forms of work that enhance the social good will have to be devised for those for whom traditional jobs are not available.

RC: That point is external issues, what about internal? Such as Clarence Thomas and even for the most part Chicago Aldermen that have not address the Parity Legislation for contracts where Black receive only 11%. And have not addressed it for years as elected officials?

King : ., If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. from a 1968 Playboy magazine interview Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends..... Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. …..

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?

Expediency asks the question - is it politic?

Vanity asks the question - is it popular?

But conscience asks the question - is it right?

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right."….

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity...

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great

moral conflict …..We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

R.C: So are you saying Black should strive to gain what is theirs in line with the capitalist system we have in place?

King: I understand that you have an economic

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Through this economic system you have been able to do wonders. You have become the richest nation in the world, and you have built up the greatest system of production that history has ever known. All of this is marvelous, but Americans, there is the danger that you will misuse your Capitalism. I still contend that money can be the root of all evil. It can cause one to live a life of gross materialism. I am afraid that many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life.

RC: I have to remind people like Mark Allen, Paul McKinney, Mack Grover and Revin Fellows about the “N” word. There is store in African, and Taiwan using it with your name . How do you address the word that once was considered a harmful and hateful word among black people and now

it is developing a new meaning of acceptance. What is the physic of the word?

King: Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. …… And, with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must boldly throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and say to himself and to the world, "I am somebody.

I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor. I have a rich and noble history.

RC: American is still presently in two wars, which the President is close to ending.

He will be known for taking down Bin Linden and Gaddafi filling President Bush mandate to “Get Even” with a growing hatred of what happen on the 911 day.

What is your take on war?

King: As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

But they asked — and rightly so — what (Continued on page 30)

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strengthening families and communities by guaranteeing that young Black males obtain Dear Editor; the world-class education they need to sucam Melody Spann-Cooper, a Chicago cessfully compete for professional employbusiness and civic advocate. I am also ment and entrepreneurial opportunities in the Chairwoman of Hales Franciscan our modern economy.

High School, one of only two Catholic Presently, too many Black male teens are schools in the country created for African- left on their own to navigate and thrive in American males. communities adversely impacted by gangs, I am seeking your financial assistance in unemployment, guns, drugs, violence, negaraising a half a million dollars by year-end tive role models and failing schools. This is for this historic and dynamic Chicago insti- a nearly impossible task without the educatution so it can remain open, serve more tion assistance provided by institutions like students, and transition to a leadership deHales Franciscan High School. velopment, cultural arts and science focused Since the Franciscan Friars of the Sacred curriculum.

Heart Province opened the school in 1962, Like you, the demands of my personal Hales Franciscan High School has been an life and running Chicago radio stations island of tranquility away from such daily WVON and WRLL consume most of my perils for African-American youth. day. Yet, I consider my work at Hales FranEveryday at Hales Franciscan High ciscan High School a calling to assist in School, students are taught by loving and

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qualified educators who are also experienced at mentoring, imparting values and sharing culturally specific strategies for dealing with the individual challenges and situational conflicts they face.

Consequently, young African-American males educated at Hales Franciscan High School make life choices that ensure they complete college and become men who can provide for their family and community by realizing their God-given potential.

Just as impressive, graduates become members of the Hales Franciscan Alumni Association. The Association is comprised of approximately 4,000 African-American men who work around the world, and come together regularly to network and volunteer service hours.

Here is something else you should know.

The hundreds of former instructors and administrators who learned how to inspire

and educate African-American males at Hales Franciscan High School now teach thousands of students around the country.

So, students attending schools far away from Chicago are also realizing the benefits of Hales Franciscan High School’s proven teaching philosophies and practices.

I hope you now understand why I believe this historic, community-based, academic institution with a 53-year, national reputation for transforming young Black males into talented, confident, morally upright and successful African-American men is so worthy of your financial support.

If you agree, I humbly ask that you consider making a tax-deductible donation to Hales Franciscan High School today. Contributions can be made online or mailed-in by clicking the donate button below and following the provided instructions. You can also make your donation over the phone by calling (773) 2858400.

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Donnell Robinson Staff Writer CHICAGO – In the wake of the police scandal that engulfed the City of Chicago after the November release of a controversial video of a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, protesters continues to be staged at numerous demonstrations calling for the resignations of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, as well as for the Police Department to be open and fair.

At the fourth and final meeting of Mayor Emanuel’s task force on police accountability when about 40 protesters disrupt it on Feb. 25, 2016 by taking over the stage at Sullivan High School in Rogers Park.

The protesters questioned the legitimacy of both the task force and the Police Department Attempting to defuse more turmoil, Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared before the Chicago City Council to personally apologize for the death of McDonald. "...I am sorry", fired Police Supertindent In addition the Mayor said he welcomes the Attorney General as they opened a civil pattern or practice investigation into CPD, pursuant to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

However, the outcry and Emanuel dismissing Police Chief Garry McCarthy, protestors moved to chant "impeach Rahm" "Rahm resign" and Rahm must go" as well as "too little too late."

Bishop James Dukes and other African American pastors have said Emanuel should resign. “We do not want bacon and eggs; we want justice; we want reBishop James sources, we want accountability, and we want incluDukes sion,” said Dukes, a pastor who has been a familiar face at many protests rallies after the release of police dashboard camera video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times in October 2014.

The office of the medical examiner in Cook County-Chicago diagramed the body of Laquan McDonald. It detailed how each of the 16 bullets entered and exited the body - the head, the shoulders, the torso, the neck, and the arms. The autopsy diagram made the teen seem like a type of target practice for Officer Jason Van Dyke.

Fourteen months after the death of McDonald, Van Dyke, was charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting.

Alavarez did not charge Officer Van Dyke until she knew that the video would be released due to a cook county circuit court order.

The city fought to conceal the video, contesting the Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by independent journalists, by the Wall Street Journal and by the Chicago Tribune. The mayor pushed the City Council to vote for a $5 million settlement to the McDonald family before they had even filed a lawsuit. The settlement apparently included an agreement to keep the video secret.

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A number of aldermen have stated that they were either mis-led or lied to by the City's Corporation Counsel.

A judge set bail at $1.5 million after prosecutors charged him. Following the arrest the city released dash cam videos a result of a court order that shows the teen, being shot by Van Dyke.

State Representatives LaShawn K. Ford and Mary E. Flowers introduced legislation (HB4356) that would create a process for the Recall of the Mayor of Chicago. However, Paul McKinney, questioned the House Bill saying the bill would not apply to Mayor Emuaell second term.

The Mayor stated that he did not see a video that he so fought to repress; but has not stated that he was not aware of the video's content; The mayor says this was the act of one bad police officer who will now face a jury of his peers.

Joining the protester, Jesse Jackson of RainbowPUSH proclaimed "This is not simply a case of one bad cop. Nine police officers were on the scene, yet not one reported the police violence. Instead, a police union spokesman alleged that McDonald lunged at the police with a knife. That false statement went unchallenged. Why?"

First year Aldermen David Moore (17) and Carlos Ramirez -Rosa (35) hold news conference calling for expanded investigations of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration and its knowledge of the Laquan McDonald case. The investigations also would include a hearing before the Chicago City Council.

IPRA cannot interview the officers involved in this incident while the federal and state criminal matters are pending.

The department's investigation of CPD will seek to determine whether there are systemic violations of the Constitution or federal law by officers of CPD. The investigation will focus on CPD's use of force, including racial, ethnic and other disparities in use of force, and its systems of accountability." (Taken directly from a DOJ Press Statement) But this is not nearly enough according to COAL that the Department of Justice opens an investigation into whether or not there was a cover up of this crime at the highest levels of Mayor Emanuel's administration representing suppression of evidence of a crime and obstruction of Ccoalition Of African justice.

American Leaders (COAL) COAL calls on the applauds Attorney General Department of Justice to Loretta Lynch's positive specifically investigate the response to the many preponderance of evidence requests, including COAL's, that points to a cover up of to have the Department of the McDonald murder for Justice investigate the political purposes. murder of McDonald and its The Mayor and his implication of a CPD culture administration fought the that does not serve and release of the video - at the protect all citizens of this height of a municipal City in a fair and equitable election for Mayor and manner and one that does Aldermen. not respect the civil rights of Lorenzo Davis. He was wrongfully C o o k C o u n t y all residents, nor the value terminated for refusing to change his Commissioner Richard of black lives. findings that several Chicago Police Boykin (D- 1st District) in The Justice Department is shootings were not justifiable. the civil rights crisis that currently reviewing the has enveloped the City of Chicago, the police videos, including the Burger King video, and the statements made by officers as part of their department is only 1/3 of the equation. criminal investigation. Once they complete Therefore, a federal investigation must include their investigation, they will resume their a complete account of what the Mayor knew administrative investigation whether to and when he knew it. And it must also look consider discipline, including termination that into the actions by the State's Attorney that would be appropriate for any officers who caused Officer Van Dyke to escape responded to the incident or participated in prosecution for months."

“It appears that there was no investigation preparing the case report. In the meantime, the

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CHICAGO (CBS) – A new study by the American Civil Liberties Union has revealed Chicago police are among the nation’s leaders in the use of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice, leading even New York.

Until the mayor and courts put a stop to it, New York was known for its aggressive stop-and-frisk tactics, in which police officers stop and question a pedestrian, and frisk him or her for weapons or other contraband.

Now, according to the ACLU, Chicago police officers are doing the same thing on a routine basis. According to a report the ACLU will unveil Monday, Chicago police made 250,000 stops that did not lead to an arrest last from May to August last year – more than four times the number in New York during the height of its use of the stops, during the same four months in 2011.

“You’re stopping and frisking a lot of innocent people, with very little productive outcome,” said ACLU Illinois legal director Harvey Grossman. into the Burger King manager's strong claim that CPD officers deleted 81 minutes of facility video of events surrounding the killing of McDonald” said Craig Washington a leader of COAL. In a press release submitted by CPD early 2015 summer, after the Baltimore and Ferguson riots, leaders of varying ranks began meeting with residents as the Department officially launched a neighborhood outreach tour to gather feedback and foster ongoing dialogue necessary to build and sustain trust with communities throughout the city, mainly, the Black community. Department members of all ranks, from CAPS officers to the Superintendent, started participating in outreach sessions that were held well into the (Continued on page 19)

February 26, 2016 Page 19 Aldermen Greg Mitchell (7th) and Michael Scott, Jr. (24th) joined together to ensure the garbage collection fee included in the 2016 budget is capped at $9.50 per household through 2019.

Beginning in 2016, the City will implement a first-ever garbage collection fee of $9.50 per household per month, paid only by households receiving garbage collection services provided by the Department of Streets and Michael Scott, Jr. (24th) Sanitation. As part of the 2016 budget that was approved by City Council in October, 2015 the City’s garbage fee will be capped through 2019. The $9.50 fee will cover approximately one quarter of the City’s garbage collection costs and is similar to what residents living in buildings of five or more units currently pay for private collection.

“During the budget process, I considered the possibility of the garbage collection fee passing. At that time, I started collaborating with Alderman Scott on ways to protect our respective constituents. As a result, we came up with the idea of a cap to ensure the $9.50 Greg Mitchell (7th) garbage collection fee will not increase over the next four years,” says Alderman Greg

Mitchell.

Along with a fee cap, the 2016 budget requires that the City provide a separate and unique fund for the garbage fee revenue. The fund will receive all revenue from the proposed garbage fee and, in turn, cover a portion of garbage costs for the city-provided service. The separate and unique fund solely for garbage fee revenue will ensure that this revenue is being used only for garbage collection services, not other city expenses.

“Throughout this budget process, I’ve heard many of my residents say they want to make sure the garbage fee is actually going to pay for garbage services, not some other city service,” says Alderman Michael Scott, Jr. “I understand their concerns, and I am glad the City Council worked with the Administration to create a separate fund for the garbage fee revenue that is clearly earmarked to pay for garbage collection.”

The garbage fee takes effects January 1, 2016 and will be applied to the City’s water bill for each household receiving streets and sanitation garbage collection services.

Hiring a new police Chief (Continued from page 18)

summer.

Upon Chicago Street Journal inquiring of their findings, a spokesperson replied they have no information on the findings that was done under former Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy administration.

News sources DNA later obtain the report under McCarthy.

After months of pushing for former Superintendent Garry McCarthy's ouster, Alderman Leslie Hairston (5) believes the protests forced the mayor to ask for his resignation. Hairston says the administration's decision to fire Detective Dante Servin for the shooting death of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd and arrest of Jason Van Dyke for the first-degree murder of McDonald was too little too late.

"We need to have a clearance sale in the police department and get rid of everyone who McCarthy brought with him," says Hairston."They're all a part of the problem."

Chicago Department's chief of detectives resigned from his post amid a series of resignations following the release of the McDonald shooting video.

CHICAGO — More than 780 Tasers are on their way to the Chicago Police Department, according to the city.

The new Tasers mean police will now have access to 1,481 Tasers, according to a city news release. All officers responding to calls will receive a Taser at the start of their shift.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced late last year that more police would receive Tasers and training in how to use them. At the time, interim Supt. John Escalante said 21 percent of the Police Department was trained to use Tasers and he wanted to double that.

The push to use more Tasers came after police shot and killed Bettie Jones and Quintonio LeGrier on Dec. 26 in the Austin community.

Hairston says the problems with the city's police department are systemic and she points to a "blue code of silence" that has allowed police misconduct going back to Jon Burge and the recent promotion of Constantine "Dean" Andrews. The chief of detectives, whose promotion McCarthy announced in October, is accused of creating a false witness statement in the murder of David Koschman by Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew—Richard Vanecko.

The Mayor seeks community input into the next police chief. The Chicago Police Board says it will be forwarding its three finalists to Mayor Emanuel early March and sources close to the process say Cedric Alexander is among the top candidates an African-American chief from Georgia is among the front-runners for the job. Emanuel would not confirm the candidates’ names, but did not discount Alexander as a possibility.

Alderman Roderick Sawyer prefers a Chicago candidate. “I’m not saying the gentleman from Atlanta or any other applicant out of state or out of city would not be a good superintendent, but my preference quite honestly would be someone in the department,” he said.

“Additionally, my personal prefer-

John Escalante was name interim Chicago police chief by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, white the Chicago Police Board has been noted to be looking at Dr. Cedric Alexander as the possible new chief.

ence, I think it’s time to see a woman there.”

Hairton says she would like to see a younger police commander from Chicago appointed superintendent.

Hairston believes the current system stifles younger African American officers who may have new and effective ideas about public safety that encompasses all of Chicago.

Organizers are still fighting for civilian oversight of the police board, in order to hold the administrators in law enforcement accountable. This elected community police board would also work to bring to justice any law enforcement officer convicted of crimes against citizens.

The Task Force on Police Accountability recommended a new City policy on the release of evidence, including videos, in police

-involved shootings and other serious incidents.

The Mayor said he will embrace their recommendations. However, Emanuel’s quick decision to back a plan to keep police videos secret for up to 90 days already has some people saying his trust-building campaign starting off on the wrong foot.

Now Emanuel has signed off on a compromise that does little more than limit the amount of time that the code of silence has to operate.

Bishop Dukes said “This can't be business as usual.” “If Chicago is to heal, the truth must come out.”

Jonathan Anderson, who heads the Society of Professional Journalists’ Freedom of Information Committee, said there’s little doubt withholding videos and records of police shootings for up to three months is still too long and can only breed distrust.

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What's is really Behind the

Protest

1955 Emmett Till left and Tamar Rice, 2014, history continues of racial concerns

On the front page of New York Times:

" ...a Justice Department report ... described explicit racism among city officials, abusive policing and a system that seemed to view people "less as constituents to be protected than as potential offenders and sources of revenue.” " (Continued from page 1)

Police Department," said Basileios Foutris, attorney for the LeGrier family. "First you shoot them, and then you sue them."

“Soured relations between the police and the communities they serve are one of the most challenging issues of our time," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said addressing the riots that erupted in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.

This is just one of long line of Blacks killed, inexplicably, in brushes with the law.

In July 1966, James Baldwin published “A Report from Occupied Territory,” a despairing essay in the Nation contemplating race relations in American cities. Describing the deep sense of alienation and despair in the black community, Baldwin wrote: “The children, having seen the spectacular defeat of their fathers . . . cannot listen to their fathers and certainly will not listen to the society which is responsible for their orphaned condition.” Fifty years later, it’s heartbreaking and infuriating to read those words and realize how little has changed.

Chicago in 2015 approved $55 million in what it called reparations of innocence. And likely not the last, as just last December young 19 year old Quintonio LeGrier was killed and his neighbor were accidentally killed by Chicago police.

Malik Ismail, an international traveler, historian and activist pointed out that, Like prosecutors, police officers are tasked with making the society safe. Sometimes their zeal leads them to cross the line and use the power of their badges to make a case that otherwise would not be tribal.

The numbers show the laws and the police killings target one group of people, “Because they're defenseless and more vulnerable than others” says Everoloyce MCullough, south side community activist that works with the street organizations.

“The actions of the police is attributed to obvious racism, as well it should; but even worse than that, this state of the city also reveals the government from the one deal it is also “Capitalism”. Said McCullough says, “Police brutality

goes farther than physical harm.

When then State Senator Barrack Obama pass the “Driving While Black’ law in the State of Illinois, that law meant, ‘don't do it any more’. SSJ in an interview with Senator Obama, ask him what about the innocent that we unjustly incriminated that cause him to pass a ‘Driving while Black law.’

Obama responded. “ The law does not cover that.”

McCullough says police brutality remain with a bigger picture of the law enforcement; concerning the crimes police did that are not caught on video? The innocent people from a simple traffic ticket that builds up

Quintonio LeGrier (left) and Officer Robert Rialmo (Right) to get ones car impound and license taken away? Or the stop and search that leads to a compound warning in a data system; the traffic court when one mainly see mainly Black people.

McCullough continue to say police killings do get attention, but innocent people made out of criminals or cash cows must be addressed as well.”

It is likely that there are many other "LaQuan McDonalds" and officers like Jason Van Dyke never caught on video and the public will never know their names. “ Now look at those in Cook County jail 90% are Black and half are innocent but no funds to put up bail.”

A big problem with blacks, especially black males, is that this system is design to get them into the system early on in life and mark them with a felony on their record thereby allowing them to be legally discriminated against without actually saying they are discriminating against them because they are black. But if you follow the data, even though whites are just as likely to commit crimes as blacks are, they are less likely to be pulled over, charged or prosecuted for these offenses. So if it seems only black men are convicts, that’s only because white men aren’t pursued by the justice system.

Michelle Alexander identified this scheme in her book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”. She should how the government (system) has devised a way to keep men of color in a perpetual state of second classed citizenry in order to continue the cheap/ free labor from the days of slavery.

Even if we change the system today and it became fair, we still have millions who have gone through the system who are still shackled by having the term felon on their record for an offense occurring over thirty years ago.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (D- 1st District) Earlier 2015, partnered with Congressman Danny K. Davis to ask the Justice Department to open an investigation into the police detention facility in Chicago known as 'Homan Square.' It is well known and documented that the CPD has detained over 7,000 individuals there. It is also well known that a high number of those detentions involved the delay or denial of access to counsela clear civil rights violation.

“Capitalism is a big picture of

innocent people is the example of economic injustice.

Ismail said overall, the observation of many Blacks believe the issue of

police brutality against Blacks in America is a major problem. In fact, a good number of people feel this is an issue, which if allowed to fester, will become a major fissure in the fabric of America.

But again and again it is no new news: The profound findings of the Kerner Commission, which former President Lyndon B. Johnson established to study the root causes of the 1967 race riots.

"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal," the commission famously warned. "Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans," it reported, adding that the media had "not communicated to the majority of their audience — which is white — a sense of the degradation, misery and hopelessness of life in the ghetto."

The City of Chicago Police Leaders aware of the tension early summer of 2015 the CPD met with residents across the City to Gather Feedback CPD leadership, including former Superintendent McCarthy, First Deputy Al Wysinger, newly appointed Deputy Chief of Community Policing Eric Washington participated in outreach sessions at churches on the City's south and west sides including the Apostolic Church of God, St. Martin De Pores, St. Sabina, Mt. Calvary, and others.

"We had a wonderful and productive event," said Cortez Trotter of the Apostolic Church of God and Executive Director of the Woodlawn Public Safety Alliance. "Our com-

munity members and neighbors were able to ask questions of the officers and talk about the issues they face, and were receptive and addressed our more pressing concerns. It really helps strengthen the relationships between the public and our police."

Many would point to a radicalized system of justice and not just a case of bad apples. Police misconduct and prosecutors derailing accountability of the police existed long before any present administration arrived and will likely thrive as a culture way past their departure under the code of silence of police departments all over the country. Police brutality is a crime that is has been surfacing in the news recently. Some people are just starting to realize that these injustices against the black community really occur, while others are well aware. However, the injustices towards African Americans, mainly target black males Key Findings:

 Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, more than any other race.

· Nearly

1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting

· 37%

of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population

· Unarmed

black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015

· Only

9 of the 102 cases resulted in officer (s) being charged with a crime Lynch adding that there has been "a serious erosion of public trust." as the Justice Department investigation into the Chicago, Ferguson (MO), Los Angles, Baltimore and the many that was not caught on video. The police force continue be to identified with a law enforcement practices that are unconstitutional and violate civil rights, with a great majority of the cases are African American people.

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The State of Illinois pass resolutions in the brated as the first Black Wall Street District in Senate and the House acknowledging Black Chicago occur on Aug. 29, 2011. Now a major Wall Street Districts 75th Street revisit. and Stony Island.

Black Wall Street – Chicago, moving forward Lead by Dorothy with the designation for 75th Street being the Brown, LaShawn first Black Wall Street - District established in Ford, Donnie Trot2009. with a Summit focus on the business ter, former State strip Saturday March 12, 2016 at Liberation Re. Marvin Colvin.

Christian Center 7400 S. Michigan Ave, from And Congressman 11 am to 2 pm.

Danny Davis will The dedicated 75th Street the “Black Wall be presenting a solutions in Congress.

Street District of Chicago was first proclaimed

by Dorothy Brown, Cook County Clerk in August 2011. the perfect reason for the strip to be patronized by the Black community and recognized as the Black Wall Street District, according to Ron Carter, chairman of Black Wall Street ChiPhoto Bean Soup Times cago. Initiated in 2007 and modeled after the Black Wall Street District in Oakland, Calif., the organizations moves in the spirit of Tulsa, Crystal La’Juene and business partner Jahwill who launched the retail business Ok, where the visulation of Black business Looks & Style located on 75 and Calumet were present.

The honor of the street is a depiction from Association and a host of community and Jahwill who launched the retail Cheryl Jackson of the Chicago Urban League, businesses. The theme for this year’s Summit aspect of the business by first who declared “Chicago would be the next is "Reviving the Spirit of Black Wall Street!" selling socks, then renting a Black Wall Street,” to President Barack BWS-C has conveyed with the building booth at the flea market to finally Obama’s message of “Wall Street to Main owners and restaurant to come to a comprothey partnered to open the store Street,” BWS-C says 75th Street is the main mise in terms of the lease over the years, the street of Chicago for total business and eco- price sale, and everyone’s commitment to on March 17, 2012.

Black History has been having a nomic development with the only business maintaining a strong business presence in the blind spot for businesses and the strip in the U.S. with a majority Black busi- community, said Carter. nesses in parity to its population of the comSince 2007, BWS-C, has been working Black Wall Street of Tulsa Oklamunity. diligently to create and designate 75th Street as homa. Using the template of the “It’s about time” says Mr. Tyson of Ty- Chicago’s official Black Wall Street District. Greenwood district known as Black son’s Tires on 61st and State Street. And then The business strip maintains a restaurants; an Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma, ChiStreet made a Meg on 74th and Vincesses say, “For real? ice cream shop; fashion boutiques for women cago’s Black Wall th You mean it is that’s many Black Stores on and men; barber and beauty shops, a home contribution to 75 Street as the only one street?” She continues to say, “That’s improvement store, and a computer repair business strip in the United States that has 90% of its 90 business headline news! “I did not know that and I been service to name a few. around here for 50 years.” Megs says tell the Looks & Style located on 75 and Calumet owned by Black Americans. porters are encouraged to stimulate black busi"It can have a tremendous lifting of a ness with their spending and to encourage world.

Ave., you don’t have to wait nearly 364 burden on state and local governments,” public and private decision-makers to adopt However, with the dedication of busi- days for the yearly African festival to get th points out Edward Bassett, a first coordinator policies which correlate factors for black businesses on 75 street, State Street to Cottage your authentic and cultural clothes, on 75th Street and once a board member of ness success targeting 75th Street.

Grove, there are experiencing major lost of unique hand-crafted jewelry, Afrocentric BWS-C. “During our ongoing campaign conBlack businesses.

Joining Clerk Dorothy Brown, Senators sumers will patronize 75th Street given atten- Donnie Trotter and Kwame Raoul have pass Promoting the business street of 75th accessories and other unique items. tion to African-American-owned businesses.”

Street, at BWSC Summit XXVII, could not The unique combination of services and resolutions in the Senate as State RepresentaCombined with the dedication of 75th tive Ken Dunkin and LaShawn Ford has indiproducts is the brainchild of natural hair be any timelier, as it joined with Alderman Street as the Black Wall Street District, supRob Sawyer, United Black America Progress stylist Crystal La’Juene and business man (Continued on page 24)

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ComEd to make a $2.6 billion in Bronzeville Anne Pramaggiore, president and CEO, ComEd. attended a community event by more than 200 state public officials and leaders from several community organizations, as ComEd showcased its plans to build its first “Community of the Future” in Bronzeville.

“The Smart Grid Law allowed ComEd to make a $2.6 billion investment to create a smart grid, and we are now building on this foundation to develop innovative products and solutions that will deliver value to

our customers,” said Ms. Pramaggiore.

The foundation for building a Community of the Future in Bronzeville is already set, due to the Smart Grid Law in 2011. The entire community has received smart meters, which allow for two -way communication between the utility and customer.

Smart switches, which help improve power reliability by rerouting electricity when an outage occurs, have been deployed in the area.

C o mE d rec e i ve d t wo grants from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore microgrid technology, including $1.2 million to build a microgrid master controller which will connect to Illinois Institute of Technology’s existing microgrid, and $4 million to design and deploy solar and battery storage technology.

Alderman Pat Dowell adds, Bronzeville is on the verge of a new and exciting renaissance, poised to emerge as an epicenter of innovation.

“We all have the opportunity to support a future of possibility and innovation in Bronzeville, and I am grateful for ComEd’s leadership and vision for making Bronzeville a Community of the Future and in ensuring that this innovation serves our entire community.”

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In an effort to stimulate creativity and selfempowerment Casey Martin is moving forward in re-launching S.B. Fuller products.

In doing so taking a journey into the life of S.B. Fuller and Mr. Joe Dudley two of the most successful black businessmen. Walking

By Faith takes you through the humble beginnings of Mr. Dudley's life to the building of his empire. Learn about the obstacles he faced and how his mental attitude pulled him through. Mr. Dudley was the first African American to be inducted into the Hall of Fame for Direct Selling. Walking By Faith chronicles Mr. Dudley's life; it's a story of a man who was once labeled mentally retarded.

This book is not a lecture, but a chance to read the story of a successful man and the story of those he influenced. It tells the stories of others who have too "Walked by Faith" and made great accomplishments while becoming a stronger person.

This is a book that can inspire anyone to strive for success. Here you have a man who succeed simply by having the will to do so. Samuel B. Fuller (June 4, 1905 – October 24, 1988) was founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Re-

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This is a must read and collector item. A man who was a true leader and understood how to encourage people to use their talents in order to strengthen their communities and help others.

In 1976, Fuller, as a result of health problems, asked his top distributor, Joe Louis Dudley, Sr., to move to Chicago and become President of the Fuller Products Company. Dudley ran both Fuller Products Company and Dudley Products Company from 1976 until 1984. In 1984, Fuller Products Company was purchased by Dudley.

Be a pillar of the community and spread this useful message. Inspire others to read the story of a man who came from great poverty and succeeded through hard work, and perseverance. A man who had only a 6th grade education but gained a wealth of wisdom and knowledge through faith and action. A man who worked with, inspired and created many Black millionaires.

PEORIA - The president and CEO of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce has been named to the Illinois Enterprise Zone.

Larry Ivory of Peoria is one of three who has been appointed to the Illinois Enterprise Zone, Gov. Bruce Rauner announced.

Ivory oversees the daily operations of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce while promoting its mission across the state.

He was the Chamber's chairman from 1997-2002.

Ivory also is a board member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and the regional vice presi-

Larry Ivory ,

dent for Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.

One of the missions his organization is undertaking, Ivory said, is establishing a black chamber in both Missouri and Ferguson, the city besieged in conflict after Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white city police officer in August.

Also named to the board were Jovita Carranza, the president and founder of The JCR Group, which provides business development services to companies and non-governmental organizations, and Lawrence W. Falbe, a Chicago-based environmental and energy attorney at the law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP. His practice focuses on environmental transactional support, brownfield issues, environmental regulations and litigation, energy development and facility siting.

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questions about the current state of black entrepreneurship: Why do so many other ethnics do so well now in business in the Black community? Is Chicago's business culture institutionally biased against promoting AfricanAmericans into business with a progressive Plan of Action community by community, and ward by ward? Where is the next generation?

“We’ve gone backwards,” Rogers said.

“Today, only one minority company is represented in Chicago’s top 25.”

Although it was not always been this way the growth and prosperity of Black Metropolis was directly tied to the rapid growth of the black population, particularly during the Great Migration of the 1920’s had nationwide publicity as a model of black achievement.

The deterioration of the financial base occurred when white businessmen who previously had ignored the black community began to realize its economic potential.

The introduction of established white chain stores and commercial enterprises gave insurmountable competition to the independent black business district and progressively siphoned off its energy and self-supporting financial base.

Black Wall Street Chicago (BWSC) formed May 19, 2007, by (South) Street Journal by publisher and Editor Ron Carter celebrating the birth and economic agenda of Malcolm X. Carter said, “It adopted its name in the honor and spirit of Black Wall Street of Tulsa, OK, with the directives in sustaining and increasing black business.”

Since it formed there has been 14 Districts in its name and four organizations baring the name.

Nationally, from its radio program from 2008 to 2010 produced by Sonja Perdue of Chicago Black Business Network, over 50 BWS’s has started thought out the U.S.A. Plan of Action from Summit XXVI on November 21, 2015 main direction targeted property/land acquisition and the district’s plan of action for 2016. The plan is to catch up with other communities in Chicago represented in the Chicago Metropolitan Area Plan (CMAP) 2040 for the 14 BWSC Districts in Chicagoland.

Carter said, “BWSC must target our agendas together the same way it was done on west Taylor Sheet and the new 'white wall streets' of Chicago’s near south and west sides.”

Roland Davis, a real estate driven businessman and head of BOPS Chamber of Commerce offered a campaign designed to invite black businesses to locate or relocate to available commercial spaces in districts in his role of securing 5,000 homeowners for property ownership.

Davis addressing the summit said that, “Poverty is the issue of crime and social ills.

Where is the next generation; continuing to protest police brutality and Stop the violence marches? Or address poverty to crime and injustice as it is not witness in any other ethnic

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Yvette Moyo, publisher of South Shore Current proposed business and community organizations come together and network their talents in the agenda of business as a whole.

Maywood Voted as a BWS District In the 1970s several of Maywood's industries transferred out of the region, including the village's major employer, American Can Company. The village's retail base also declined, as Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck department stores left the main shopping street, Fifth Avenue. Somewhat offsetting these losses, in 1969 Maywood had gained the Loyola University Medical Center, including the Stritch School of Medicine.

In the 1990s, Maywood began to rebound from the economic decline of the previous decades. Trying to attract new industry and businesses, the village established a tax increment financing district on the former site of American Can Company, which was leveled in 1997. Economic change has been accompanied by demographic shifts, as Maywood's African American population increased from 3 percent in 1930 to 82 percent in 2000. Whites and Hispanics constitute 10 and 11 percent of the population, respectively, and live in the village's integrated northeastern section.

community due to the lack of economic stability? “ Understand that without economical strength, there could be no control over the types of schools, housing, employment or political representation in the community.

Lionel Nixon political and media consultant introduction a resolution at the summit calling for each of Districts act upon having a business incubator.

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oral runoff campaign, Mayor Rahm Emanuel have presented a clear road map for how they will spur African-American business growth by reforming the city's contract process, complying with minority set-a-side requirements and creating special investment pools and incentives to assist aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners. Mayor Emanuel did pen a piece published in the Perspective Section of the March 10, 2015 Chicago Tribune entitled, “Rahm Emanuel: Forget right to work. Create a right to thrive.” In the editorial, the Mayor unveiled a concept called Right-ToThrive Zones in his neighborhood economic policy speech earlier this year that he believes will spur neighborhood development and create neighborhood jobs. Zones will be established for the city’s most economically depressed neighborhoods.

Rather the Mayor’s focus to the objectives of the Black Wall Street main task is for the Summit to collaborate with the Chicagoland community businesses and strengthen the economic base among Black Americans. what’s missing from the Mayor’s Right-To-Thrive Zones are immediately disruptive strategies that specifically benefit African-American entrepreneurs and fast track the reversal of these past discriminatory economic policies.

This is important because African-Americans

strongly desire to regain control of our neighborhood business districts so we can begin using the proceeds to heal, strengthen and protect our communities.

Harold Lucas, heading the 43rd Street Black Wall Street District said the Bronzeville community has be identified the Forum Building on 43rd and Calumet is a targeted support project. Once established the Forum can hold banquets over 2,000 attendees, where those African American organizations, churches and so forth can turn their dollars over to help address crime and give the youth a base of economics in their communities where they can see the generation before them showing examples for them. Bernard Loyd is the owner in which we support to secure the needed support.

With the African American buying Power said to be approaching $1 Trillion, other ethnic groups were creating businesses in more since 2008, the number of African Americans becoming entrepreneurs actually declined. That is one of the chief conclusions from new data from the Kauffman Foundation's Index for Entrepreneurial Activity.

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cated they will do the same in the House. At the same time BWS-C is waiting on a reply from the Mayors’ office on his formal support of the Black Wall Street District for Chicago.

With the big picture Carter said it has been conveyed that the quarterly summits cannot be idle while increasing numbers of businesses face the risk of closing due to the monopoly of others. “This is why we are brining the summits to each district introducing it to the community at large.

Carter pointed out Chicago 2020 plan did not include the stability of Black businesses “The Black community should be represented as China Town, Little Village, Greek and Italian Town is represented in Chicago.”

Chicago can be different. Carter says there are folks, who are ready to move this special interest forward, even when there is opposition.

“But we'll need the resources to do it -- to pay

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“And we'll keep at it, because we know that the work we're doing together right now can make the lives of hundreds and an example to the U.S.A. for the sustaining and increasing black business better for decades to come.

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demonstrate that at least 10 new jobs (not necessary from the community that is undeserved) were of a minimum of $1 million, or $500,000 if the funds are invested in certain high-unemployment or rural areas. In return the investors receive a visa.

These investors invest in the hotels of Las Vegas and up and down the commercial strips of Black America.

“There is no reason Black Chicago should not take a lead in shaping this direction of this economic policy for at least the communities where we live”, said Carter.

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Dr. Webb Evans, “How to get off The Economic Bottom, below commercial project in the name of Dr. Evans.

Standing up, holding up the dollar bill, declaring, “The Million Dollar March!” That was the late Dr. Webb Evans.

Some people know him as a member of P.U.S.H. Others know him as a member of Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, Black United Front, NAACP, Cathedral Baptist Church and the Baptist Pastors Conference of Chicago. But most people know him as "Mr. Buy Black" due to his daily efforts getting people to "Buy Black" as a method to get Blacks off the Economic bottom.

Dr. Webb understood and pushed his mission to 'Buy Black'. He stated many times over that "anybody can come to this country and within a short time they are doing better than Black African Americans."

But with mission for over 54 leading the United American Progress Association, recently rename United Black American Pro-

UBAPA members at their monthly business network meeting.

Left, proudly displaying the organization’s new name banner, adding ‘Black’ into it, United Black American ProAssociagress Association by board gress members that followed Dr. tion (UBAPA).

Webb Evans.

UBABA members The name change was hold banner andone to reflect the objec- nouncing the tive of the organization in name change to its beginning years of op- United Black eration to Buy Black.

American ProStepping up to the role gress Associaof Chair Pastor John tion, adding Crishom and president “Black” after 54 years founder by Min. Rahim “Sax Web Evans Preacher” Aton. to carry on Webb Evans leadership.

Remember the 'Shop Ins' of Black Businesses? UBAPA members would pick a day so often and flood that black business cash registrar .

UBAPA members would tell non-black

stores (such as one on 71st and State Street) to stock black products (Reggio's Pizza as an example), or none of their products would be sold.

Minister Aton states that many people tell Dr. Evans that they don't hear other races tell-

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“We live by what we know Dr. Evans is right saying that ‘If others lived in the community and was contributing to the welfare of the community it would be different.

But they don't live in the community and their only interest is to come in and get the money out’.

Rev. Chisom added “Since we don't have Black Business owners bringing money from the Arab, Asian, or Caucasian communities, Blacks should keep every dollar possible in the Black community by buying Black.”

Dr. Evans, made his transition February 23, 2015 at the age of 101 years old. He wrote three books on Black getting from the ‘Economic Bottom’ with messages and steps in "Buy Black" as a methods to get

Blacks off the economic bottom.

UBAPA was moved forward with the Dr. Webb Evans Community Development Corporation's with its first mission to aquire a four store front commercial building at 79th and Hermitage to serve as a model vehicle through which Religious and Community Organizations, Area Businesses, and Area Residents can work together to solve problems and improve the quality of life in the Black community.

It also serve as an institution center where residents can come to receive vital training in cultural, educational, entrepreneurial and entertainment careers.

UBAPA meets every forth Monday for the “Buy Black” Economic Business Network meeting, at Girfts From God Ministry 1814 West 74th Street

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The business of Syrup "When I first started, there weren't any mentors for me to follow in this industry," Hoskins says. "From a business standpoint, I persevered and I believed in myself and I was excited to enter the industry I'm in."

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Black owned food vender products are on the shelves of many stores across the nation but many of them are taken off of the shelves. Let's help to put her and many other venders to get on (and stay on) the shelves in our local markets in Black communities. Yvette J. Moyo

publisher of South Shore Current said she identical the list of the Black vendors in Jewel. “Our Real Men Cook product was in Jewel for over 10 years, and now we work to help them. We've got to provide the information and coach the consumer on how to grow sales for the vendors. Things like, "Patti LaBelle" likely made .20 per unit, need to be communicated.”

Moyo went on to point out, “Begin by supporting Michele Hoskins' Michele Syrups and Reggio's Pizza to name a few. These are the veterans in the business, the ones who took the most hits, and survived everything imaginable, including racism in limiting their access to the retail shelves. And you must lean on the store management to get what you want on the shelves.”

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He along with others made apologies for the wrong they have done to the community from violence, drugs and lack of responsibility.

“We are speaking the same and getting re-educated, and from this we are going to make a difference.” added Wright.

The meeting in honor of the life and work of Dr. King convened inside the Bronzeville Tourism and Convention Center on 35th and Dr. King Drive. It began with a short march to commemorate the Freedom Fighters sacrifices of the various street organizations.

Moderating the meeting was Ms. Gwen Baxter and Mr. Dale Williams with a panel discussion on 2016 Agendas for the betterment of the community Mr. Shaka Barak, Mr. Benny Lee, Mr. Kenu Bey, Fred

Hampton Jr., Revin Fellows and CSJ publisher and editor Ron Carter.

Gwen Baxter said “POPS overall objective is to encourage the future support of all sincere organizers who has a vested interest in seeing the lives of our youth become equipped with self sustaining w a y s t o build the Communities up so they can safely establish a Family and Homes.”

The Chicago Police Department reported that Chicago has over 25,000 street organizations members in some form or other.

With participants of most over the age of twenty-five to up 60 years of age, “We are Old school leaders coming to together, where we are reaching out to the younger ones.”

Said Wright.

The panel address a full range of issues from culture, racism, politics and religion to strengthen the minds of the youth to allows them to develop a sense of independence which counteracts the sense of dependency which can linger into adulthood.

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Starting with the youth and teaching them about business is priceless.

Aaron said, as he has been a resource for the men in his family and community. “In the past, the people who live in violent neighborhoods usually wouldn’t talk — but they’ll talk to Aaron, and people like Dirk”, says Blaise Von who is the business manager of Aaron and granddaughter of Mikey Coward.

Baxter added, “We also hope that support will be made available for the continued success of this form of meeting on a monthly basis as a "1 Love Nat i o n ". . . i n Lo v e & Service”.

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blame Rahm Special CorreEmmanuel, the sitting Despondent: mocratic mayor of Chicago Raynard Jackson for having absolutely no anhen swer to the crime wave taking acplace in his city.

Name me the last big city claimed director, Democratic mayor that made actor, producer, lives of the Black community Spike Lee broke better? Why Republicans onto the Hollycontinue to allow liberals to wood scene in blame them for the woes of the 1980s; he liberalism simply baffles me. truly had to fight The murder rate in Chicago the power. Holhas nothing to do with the lywood was not NRA; but have everything to ready for a do with liberalism. Liberal young, brash, policies like welfare are to provocative blame for the breakdown of filmmaker like the Black community. Liberal Lee. policies like open borders for He burst on the illegals are responsible for the scene with movies like She’s Gotta Have It, high unemployment rate for Blacks in cities School Daze and Do The Right Thing. These like Chicago. movies created spirited debates in Black and So, if you are a liberal and like to blame White communities, centered on the hot soothers for the plight of the Black community, cial issues. Back then, you may not always then you will love Lee’s Chi-Raq. But I think agree with Lee’s movies, but you could count a better title for the movie would me Chion him to stimulate heated conversations. rade, because the movie is exactly that - a Lee has never tried to hide or shy away charade. from his liberal beliefs and his puboppose the name of Spike lic support for Democrats and Obama; thus his latest movie, ChiLee’s movie, “Chiraq.” I apRaq, is a profanity laced, liberally plaud the fact that he wants to bring biased, finger pointing diatribe that national attention to the senseless blames Republicans and Whites for all the murders taking place in Chigun violence ... What I object to is cago. the branding of Of course, as usual for Lee’s movthese communities ies, there is the perfunctory swipes and ridicule of Black Republicans; to the rest of the in this case Ben Carson. This is why world ... All they it is extremely imperative that Rewill ever know is publicans have an active surrogates program. Black Republicans are the name Chiraq constantly ridiculed in movies, TV and the overreachsit-coms, and in pop culture. I have ing association with the war torn constantly expressed to party leaders the necessity of having a vibrant nation of Iraq.” surrogates program where Black Alderman David Moore 17th Ward Republicans are seen on TV, heard on the radio, and interviewed in ruth is newspapers.

So, as is common for liberals like Stranger Than Lee, they never miss an opportunity Chi-Raq to blame the murder rate in cities ... Chi-raq ... You like Baltimore, New York, or Chicago on the National Rifle Associamight also wonder tion (NRA); though he never menif the Chief Critic tions that these cities are all run by in City Hall will liberal Democrats. He never mentions that each of these cities all change his mind have some of the most restrictive about the film and its title … gun control laws in the country. stranger things have been happenSpike couldn’t bring himself to lay the blame where it belongs—at the ing. Correspondent: Robin Robinfeet of liberal policies being propagated by Democratic politicians.

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There is certainly something painfully sad about a riot. One sees screaming youngsters and angry adults fighting hopelessly and aimlessly against impossible odds.

And deep down within them, you can see a desire for self-destruction, a kind of suicidal longing.

Occasionally Negroes contend that the 1965 Watts riot and the other riots in various cities represented effective civil rights action. But those who express this view always end up with stumbling words when asked what concrete gains have been won as a result. At best, the riots have produced a little additional anti-poverty money allotted by frightened government officials and a few water sprinklers to cool the children of the ghettos. It is something like improving the food in the prison while the people remain securely incarcerated behind bars. This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

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about Vietnam (Iraq)? They asked if our own nation wasn't sing massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. …

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral ques-

R.C. There is this concern of ‘Black on Black crime’ and Blacks are just pone to crime more than others. Is there a justification for it?

King: It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ...Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream…. for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

a young man. Do you regret it?

King: I never will forget one night very late. It was around midnight... the telephone started ringing and I picked it up. On the other end was an ugly voice. That voice said to me, in substance, "Nigger, we are tired of you and your mess now. And if you aren't out of this town in three days, we're going to blow your brains out and blow up your house." I’d heard these things before, but for some reason that night it got to me. ...But if physical death is the price that a man must pay to free his children and his white brethren from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing could be more redemptive. This is the type of soul force that I am convinced will triumph over the physical force of the oppressor.

R.C. For the most part there will be no other you. So what can others do?

King: You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.

You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

R. C. I recall the day you were killed.

While I was a paperboy one night delivering the Chicago American newspapers on the south side of Chicago; I looked to the west north and notice an orange glow.

There was a riot going on. As I got home, I ask my mother, ‘What is going on?’ Whatever her answer was, my thoughts were, when I grow, I will not have to deal with all this because all the racist white people will be dead. But yet, still today the same issues.

King: I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive brighteyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" Some-

body's asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate on the streets of Selma and Birmingham and communities all over the South, be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men?"

Somebody's asking, "When will the radiant star of hope be plunged against the nocturnal

bosom of this lonely night, plucked from weary souls with chains of fear and the manacles of death? How long will justice be crucified, and truth bear it?"

I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because "truth crushed to earth will rise again." How long?

Not long, because "no lie can live forever."

How long? Not long, because "you shall reap what you sow."

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

R.C. Thank you Dr. King for your time

again.

R.C. A little spin here on UFO. Do you think they are real?

King: Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us.

I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they

tions of our time; ... Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

The foundation of such a method is love....

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

R.C. This year as years before, police have been found not guilty of wrongful deaths.

Just in the case of your assignation riots happen, with the theme for justice. But riots happen not just in America for justice.

As a result the governments do address some actions.

Can’t you see some benefit from riots?

King: The riot is the language of the unheard...I want to stress this. The futility of violence in the struggle for racial justice has been tragically etched in all the recent Negro riots. Yesterday, I tried to analyze the riots and deal with their causes. Today I want to give

would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.

R.C. I must ask you this. It is somewhat odd. But using today at 39 years old; you are young enough to be my son. you died as

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