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Vol. 21 No 4 October 30—November 19, 2014

Donnell Robinson Staff Reporter With the get-out-the-vote effort ramping up in Illinois, resulting in thousands of new voters registered, the November 4 governor race has at

least a few voters talking, debating, and asking each other over the dinner table, “Who do you plan to vote for this year?”

Now the question; who will select the Next Governor: Money, The People or the Press?

Voter registration is up due, at least in part, to the recent volunteer efforts of concerned citizens, a maelstrom of individuals who cared enough about the future to have devoted many collective hours to reaching out to new voters in

Mayor admits errors but keeps cash Frank Ottman Staff Reporter Citizens of Chicago are requesting a review of the current policies and practices as they pertain to parking, red light, and automated speed enforcement.

Initiating a petition, State Representative La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, urged the City of Chicago to place a moratorium on red light cameras that have tagged thousands of Chicago drivers for tickets that many feel are undeserved; the process is under investigation.

Rep. La Shawn K. Ford

The red light ticket issue continues to raise more concern as Rebekah Scheinfeld, Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s appointed head of Chicago Department of Transportation, announced there will be no refunds for tickets issued after the administration’s underhanded implementation of a shortened yellow light interval.

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“Pant’s on the ground, Pants on the Port Au Prince, New Orleans ground…Looking like a fool with to Steubenville, Ohio, and even your pants on the ground.” Those Terrebonne Parish. lyrics went viral A two-year study across America in by the National 2011 after one American Medical man wrote a song Association, led about his disgust Dr. Mark Oliver for younger men Mansbach, conwearing their pants low. cluded that the continuous wearing Saggers are everywhere, from of sagging pants severely impacts London to Paris, Barcelona to sexual performance.

Frank Ottman Staff Reporter Probation Challenge and The PCC Network, will present a ‘Mayoral Candidate Debate/ Forum’, Saturday, November 1, 2014, 12 pm, at

Frederick Collins

Rahm Emanuel

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the St. Paul Community Development Ministries, 4550 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago.

All mayoral candidates have been invited, with most consenting to participate. Only a few (to date) have not responded.

Dr. Amara Enyia,

Ald. Bob Fioretti

the weeks before early voting began. Could it be that neither money nor the press has driven the high numbers of voter registration applications submitted to the office of Cook County Clerk David Orr—hopefully resulting in higher voter turnouts than originally prognosticated by local pundits and pollsters—and could this possibly result in true selection of elected officials, this year, by and for the citizens of Illinois?

"Registration in suburban Cook is going to be significantly up over four years ago," Orr said.

"My guess is we'll easily be more than 25,000 registrations up over four years ago." City residents account for most of the 100,000 new voter registrations collected by "Every Vote Counts," a coalition that targeted low to moderate income neighborhoods and young people. "Anywhere possible that I knew there was going to be a young person there, I was there to make sure we registered our people to vote," said DeJuan Jackson, of Chicago Votes.

The law passed this year allowing citizens to vote if they will be 17 years old by Election Day may also, at least in part, account Josie B. Childs, convener of the Harold for the influx of newly Washington Tribute registered voters.

Committee says RauGovernor Quinn, ner’s commercial, in his reelection bid, is “defies and belittles running a tight race Mayor Washington’s legacy.” against Republican businessman Bruce Rauner, whom Quinn often depicts as an out-of -touch billionaire. Rauner fires back, targeting Quinn’s democratic base, working the African American business community with donations, moving conspicuously close to what some have called buying up Black leadership, and borrowing from a four-year-old Tom Hynes ad, which resurrected a late Harold Washington video on firing Pat Quinn.

“The African American and progressive communities consider Mayor Harold Washington’s legacy to be iconic and not to be cheapened by candidates of either party for political gain,” said Mrs. Josie B. Childs, political activist, convener of the 2013 Harold Washington Tribute Committee. Rauner’s recent commercial, she said, “defies and belittles Mayor Washington’s legacy.”

“We find it disturbing that Rauner would insult the intelligence of this community by

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The Probation Challenge organization will deemed as total disrespect. take note of those (absent) who are vying for Rev. Harold Bailey founder and president of mayoral leadership, but dare not to show face the Probation Challenge organization, said, “No and give accountability of their stewardship, Mayoral Candidate should take a taxpayer’s nor give plans for their future leadership. This (Continued on page 4)

William Kelly

Andrew Nelson

Bob Shaw

Gerald Sconyers

William ‘Dock’ Walls

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Jane Addams Hull House on the Westside of Chicago it's said to be Haunted.

Will you spend a night for $5,000

Valerie Moore I'm THERE! When ? Lol will long as the Annabel doll not there lol

Jamie Wolfwood For that kinda bread Ill spend a week in that

The Flying Car:

Science Fiction is Science today.Since "The Jetsons" first aired in the early 1960s, flying cars have been a staple of science fiction, appearing in films like "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Star Wars," and "Back To The Future." But now flying cars aren't science fiction, they're just science. AeroMobil, a company based in Slovakia, released a video on Wednesday featuring it's latest prototype of a flying car. The AeroMobil 3.0 is capable of driving down a road, or taking off from a runway. The two-seat vehicle can travel at more than a hundred miles per hour as a car, and nearly a hundred fifty miles per hour when converted into a plane. Even better, it fits into an average parking spot and runs on gasoline.

government agency partners. The IAAFC is looking forward to discussing the need for improved accountability, transparency, and reliability to ensure strong and thriving communities. The IAAFC will achieve its goals working in coordination with the Office of the Governor, Nearly three ounces of marijuana was confiscated the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, and members of the General Assembly. Additionally forging partnerships to achieve the Black Agenda with elected officials at every level of government.

Corrections Officers and Inmates and others charged Smuggling Pot in County Jail

Young Voters of 17 years old can vote after it was found hidden inside two sandwiches that a Cook County corrections officer Jason Marek, 29, formerly of Orland Park allegedly tried to smuggle into the Jail last year in exchange for a $200 bribe. As a result of that seizure and an allegedly broader conspiracy, the corrections officer, three inmates, two civilians, and a Chicago police dispatcher are facing federal charges in connection with alleged smuggling of marijuana and other contraband into the jail.

Three jail inmates allegedly conspired with two civilian women to bribe Marek, a corrections officer since May 2011 according to a three-count criminal complaint that was filed early October.

The investigation was a joint effort between the FBI and the Sheriff’s Office of Professional Responsibility, with Sheriff Dart’s full support, to improve the security and integrity within the Cook County Jail.

According to the charges, an ounce of marijuana, which sells for approximately $200 outside the jail, could be sold for five times as much, or $1,000, inside the jail.

BLACK AGENDA – The Illinois AfricanAmerican Family Commission (IAAFC) is unveiled a black agenda at Malcolm X College, that will begin a comprehensive process to address systemic issues within Illinois’ African American communities.

The black agenda will begin with three primary issue areas and implement a process that embraces business partners, incorporates community agencies, and includes

For the first time in state history, thousands of Chicago 17 year olds will be eligible to vote as they were able to do in the Primary Election of 2012. “We’re proud to have so many young people who can make history this election,” said Langdon D. Neal, Chairman of the Chicago Election Board. “Thanks to a new law, this will mark the first time that 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the Primary Election if they will turn 18 by the November General Election. The idea of this law is to let those who will be 18 have the power to help decide which candidates will be on the fall ballots.”

Since the law took effect on Jan. 1, the Chicago Election Board has worked with numerous schools and civic organizations to register 9,044 young voters, including: 3,444 who will be 17 at the Primary but 18 by the General Election; 4,641; 18-year-olds; and, 959, 19 -Year olds.

Among the organizations who joined and supported the effort were: the McCormick Foundation, Mikva Challenge, the Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese High Schools, the League of Women Voters, the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Rock the Vote, Chicago Votes, Constitutional Rights (Continued on page 6)

“The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.” Michael Moore

Publisher and Editor: Ron Carter Associate Publisher; Mim DePelichy Associate Publisher, Marketing Consulting: Lionel Nixon Hip Hop Section: Real Deep Writers: Chinta Strausberg, Lionel Nixon,

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mug...long as I can bring my piece...

Seaquitta McClinton Yeah, its really nothing in there. I been in that house at least two times with my students on field trips Terrance Pitts Hell Yea!!I'm scared of the living not the dead...lol Brian Jeffery King Jr. I'll spend the night for 500

Monica

Davis Where is it?

Byron Benguche I guess everyone doesn't know the story of the Hull House Devil Baby.

Hold on to your seats people! The rumor mill in Washington is that before President Barack Obama exit the White House he wants a Supreme Court Judge to retire quickly (I.e., Ginsberg) so he can nominate his pick while Harry Reid and the Dems still control the US Senate. Remember, this is a LIFE TIME appointment. Who is his rumored pick? Are you ready for this? "ERIC HOLDER"!!! Remember Harry Reid changed the rules of the senate so the Republicans couldn't stop it either.

On the local scene Tommy Brewer a judge on

the Cook County 7th Subcircuit in Illinois, appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court was at the AKArama Foundation talking to State Rep. LaShawn Ford, over hearing Ford saying if the people want him to run for Mayor of Chicago he will. “Somebody has to be able to win.” …. Also seen at the event was Myla Meeks the wedding planner for Trinity Church of Christ. ..

Paul (McKinney) Joseph (Watkins) Mark (Carter) names of the Bible, where it is said the coming of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. So happen these three ‘Braveheart’ activists all have done time. Now under the name of Violence Of The Exoffenders (VOTE). Their names from the Bible; Paul: Saint Paul was an important leader of the early Christian church, his story told in Acts in the New Testament.

Joseph: This name was borne by rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Portugal. Mark: Saint Mark was the author of the second Gospel in the New Testament. Leaders are to lead not repeat the same tools of the oppressors to oppose; like the N-word. Maybe their names need to be unzipped from them. Hmmmmm.

Word is the Rodger Park community police are gang banging non -white businesses owners for cash. Next Chicago Street Journal.

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In Honor of Lu Palmer

By Chinta Strausberg First elected in 1996, the controversial Judge Clayton J. Crane has been endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party, but mayoral hopeful Robert Shaw is urging African Americans and “fair-minded” white voters to dump the controversial judge who is seeking retention on November 4th.

Shaw, who made his comments during his Sunday WVON talk show, said Crane, who is a former Cook County assistant state’s attorney, “should not be re-elected because he presided over the trial of Morgan Howard” a black former Chicago policeman then current railroad detective who was shot 28 times by four white Chicago policemen. But the Cook County Democratic Party is way ahead of Shaw having already put out a huge approved party sample ballot asking votes to punch 226 to retain Judge Crane. However, Shaw is urging blacks to punch 227 he says is a 'no' vote.

Morgan, then 53 with no criminal history, was Judge Clayton shot by Chicago policeJ. Crane men, John Wrigley, Eric White, Timothy Finley and Nicolas Olsen on February 21, 2005 going down a wrong street near his home.

The police shot Morgan, a former Chicago policeman and then current detective for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, 28 times mostly in his back claiming he fired first—a charge Morgan and a lone eyewitness deny. A jury acquitted Morgan on the discharging of a firearm charge.

Morgan survived and was charged with aggravated battery, attempted murder and discharging a firearm. In 2007, Morgan was found not guilty of battery or firing a gun, but no verdict was return on the attempted murder charge. So, the states attorney’s office tried him a second time leading to his conviction in 2012 and ultimate sentencing to 40-years in prison.

While Judge Kathleen Mary Pantie had set Morgan’s bail at $2 million despite Morgan’s lawyer, Sam Adam, Jr.’s request for a lower bond, it was Judge Crane who upheld the $2 million bond.

Morgan’s 2007 trial where he was found guilty of attempted murder was an emotional

Morgan Howard survived and was charged with aggravated battery, attempted murder and discharging a firearm in 2007 after being. shot 28 times by four white Chicago policemen.

one with blacks accusing the cops of murder. Morgan, whose wife, Rosalind, had raised $12,000 towards his $2 million bond and who received the balance of the $2 million from an anonymous person,went back to jail having had his bond revoked after the guilty verdict.

Morgan swore he never shot at the police, and David Protess, president, Chicago Innocence Project, is still asking a myriad of questions like “Why wasn’t a gunshot residue test done of Morgan’s hands” after the shooting?

“Why was Morgan’s car destroyed before forensic testing could be conducted, including of the bullets that pierced it? Why were only three bullets preserved from the dozens of rounds fired, as Morgan’s advocates claim?

“Under the circumstances, how do we know whether any of the remaining bullets that hit Morgan were fired form his own weapon by police”? asked Protess.

Even more troubling for Protess and the black community was the question “Why was Morgan shot 21 times while his back was turned? Weren’t seven direct its to his front torso enough to subdue him? And, was race a factor in the shooting”?asked Protess. He added, “The first question goes to the issue of who is truly responsible for attempted murder…Morgan or the cops who repeatedly shot him”?

Flipping the script, Protess asked, “Would the case have been handled differently if the four officers were black West Siders and the shooting victim was a white Gold Coast resident”?

The key question remains—did Howard Morgan receive due process of law or was the fix already in?

Many people continue to fight for his release and to sign this on-line petition launched by Change.org <a>http:// www.change.org/p/please-help-us-freehoward-morgan

Thursday, October 30. Building Global Partnership for African Leadership and Development. THEME: Capacity Building for USA- Africa Partnership, 8 AM to 4:30 PM, Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Drive/SCI 316, New Academic Library, 4 th Floor, 8 – 4:30 PM. Free admission, requires online registration; Register on EVENTBRITE: http://www.eventbrite.com/edit? eid=13195916341. for more info: www.csu.edu/internationalstudies/ globalinstitute, Vendors/Exhibitors Registration fee - $25 required. Pay online https://8174.thankyou4caring.org/donate.

October 30 to November 2; The Harlem Fine Art Show.

Coming to Chicago, at the Merchandise Mart Plaza.

Night Reception October 30, 2014, 6 pm to 10 pm, RSVP at HFAS.org by October 23 Thursday, October 30, Math Boot Camp, for 7th- to 12th-Grade Black Boys. We Teach Math, including pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry and more. at The Black Star Project 5:30pm, 3509 South King Drive.

For info or to register your young man, call 773.285.9600.

Saturday, November 1, COAL part of the upcoming African American Legacy (AAL) Summit entitled "Collaboration to Action: Building a Peaceful Chicago," Chicago Community Trust and other to strategize about how to formalize actionable solutions to the growing violence in Chicago. COAL will attend as opposed to holding the November Coalition Power Breakfast.

NOVEMBER 7, Accessing Capital: Preparing Your Business for Funding NOVEMBER 1, 2014 * "Chiraq." "The murder capital." "The most violent city in America." Every day glaring headlines further the myth that our great city is a never-ending war zone. That Chicago is a violent city with uncaring residents is a narrative we do not accept. Collaboration to Action: Building a Peaceful Chicago will provide an uplifting, inspirational and action-oriented forum and collaborative workshops to highlight good work being done. African American Legacy believes we are collectively responsible for protecting our community and ensuring it thrives. 8 A.M. TO 2 P.M., KENNEDY KING COLLEGE, 740 W. 63RD ST. Certifact Academy Income Tax Class on

the Weekend of November 7,8,9, 2014. Friday from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Be prepared to make money during tax season in 3 months7667 West 95th Street, Ste 1E, Hickory Hill Illinois 60457. Call Jeffrey Dawkins (South Suburban Black Wall Street) for more information @ 708-9554643

November 14, 6 PM-9PM the RTW Veteran Center BUILDING DRIVE FUNDRAISER keynote speaker Jesse White, Secretary of State, US Army Veteran, 101ST Airborne Division Paratrooper. Since February of 2011, the RTW Veteran Center has been serving these veterans and the general public in need.

In 2013 alone we served over 50,000 meals to homeless veterans and others PAZZO'S, Authentic Mediterranean-Italian Restaurant, 311 South Wacker Drive, Anthony Simpkins312-6710084 Arnetha Gholston-Habeel312-972-2582 Nov. 24, The United American Progress Association under the leadership of Dr. Webb Evans & Min. Rahim Aton and the UAPA meetings every 4th Mon. @ 7pm @ 1716 W. 79th St. Chgo, IL.. – Sunday November 16, 2014 Audrey L. Woodley, President and Founder of Changing Oasis, Inc., launch of her latest books Manifested in Heels, and 7 CPR( Conditioned Prayer Reflections) ‘Spiritual Principles along with other key note beauty and fashion entreprunuers speakers Tracey Bond and Nikki Burnett, both who own successful fashion and beauty brands. 2532 W Warren Chicago, from( 1-4pm) Inquiries: alwoodley@hotmail.com cc:blackfashionamerica@gmail.com 708-5959105.

Nov 21, 22, 23 - Dec 5, 6, 7, BAC Professional Theatre presents a Forever Plaid holiday! The legendary Plaids aren't sure why they’ve been returned to Earth from the great beyond, but a phone call from the heavenly Rosemary Clooney lets them know that they’re needed to put a little harm ony i nt o a disc ordant worl d.

Fri/Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 3:30 pm, Tickets $22 / $ 20 BAC members. More information and tickets for all Mainstage Live! shows at http://www.beverlyartcenter.org/_mainstage/ index.php.

Saturday, November 22, This is a series of classes covering issues relevant to people of African descendant that are offered on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month from 10 am until 3pm. The Address: 700 East Oakwood Boulevard, near 39th and Cottage Grove, Room 403. More Information: nubianmalik09@yahoo.com. http:// carrutherscenter.squarespace.com/

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Chicago Street Journal Rev. Harold Bailey founder and president of the Probation Challenge organization, said, said, “No Mayoral Candidate should take a taxpayer’s vote for granted!

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vote for granted! A candidate or elected official should earn respect.” Bailey continued saying, “Respect has to be earned… Respect includes accountability to the community for which he or she serves.”

The content of the debate Candidates should consider, without question, why there are so many closings of schools... especially in the black communities! Why are there so many organized gang-conflicts! Why are gangs’ affiliates and their leadership having continued detrimental conflicts over drugs and violence!

And, let's not forget the unsettled issues involved in and with the Chicago Police Department and conflicting counts and crime figures.

There are other acute issues too numerous to mention!

‘The Panel of Respected Journalist’ Chinta Strausberg will serve as moderator.

Strausberg is Editor in Chief of 3:16 Magazine and talk show host of the ‘Strausberg Report’

airing on the PCC Network, as well as a former political reporter for the Chicago Defender Newspaper.

Art Norman, Chicago Channel 5 News. Art Norman is a special contributor to NBC 5 News.

Juanita Bratcher, Editor and Publisher of CopyLine Magazine, Author, and former politics and education reporter for the Chicago Defender Newspaper.

Rev. Bailey, will serve as Mayoral Debate Facilitator.

With ten candidates running to get on the ballot for February 2015, Rev. Bailey, said, "We honestly... without biasedness, seek to awaken those that perhaps might be slumbering from the hardships that have been intentionally bestowed upon them by spiritually evil political forces!"

The Criminal Justice system will be one of the highlights of the debate. For decades Rev. Bailey has sounded off loudly on ills of the

Chicago/State criminal justice system. However most of his sentiments to fell on deaf ears. In what he says is because of city and county administrative influence.

Rev. Bailey, having served 14-years as a Chicago/Cook County Adult Probation Officer, and 14-years as a member and chairman of the Chicago/Cook County Department of Corrections, has noted that the complexion of those who pimp the system are more than often Blacks and Hispanics and only a few whites.

"The circumventing of youth has been by a well generated map orchestrating crime, and permitting drugs into the communities along with a fellow-companion which is none other than violence!”

“We cannot give a license to an elected mayor to render injustice!’

“However, it is highly noticed that those who rule over the incarcerated – are by large white in administration. He said that given an historical prospective… it is liken unto the days of yesterday. The ‘P’ that was in Penitentiary, is the same ‘P’ that is in Prison… the same ‘P’ that is in Plantation. Bailey said “The game is still the same, only players have changed”.

Many political analysts agree that race has continued as a factor in the mayoral race, but will not be the main factor. Candidate William ’Dock’ Walls, looking at the landscape, says no one candidate for Mayor has ever been able to match the Machine's money or ability to get out the vote. “Several candidates combined have a better chance of achieving that goal of replacing Emanuel.” according to Walls in announcing his third run for Mayor. “The main objective is to defeat Rahm. To do that we must first make sure Rahm does not get 50 percent of the vote.”

Along with the Mayoral candidates running in the February election are approximately 215 candidates running for alderman, an apparent anti-incumbent movement, a potentially powerful backlash against the immovable block of aldermen who have been inexorably tied to Rahm, at the expense of citizens, many seem to feel. This dynamic likely to boast voter turnout.

Kicking off the first Mayor Debate, Chicago Street Journal asked Rev. Bailey if he would be taking a major role in this election as the late Lu Palmer did in the election of Harold Washington. Rev. Bailey pondered, and hasn’t answered.

For more information, contact: Rev. Harold E. Bailey at mrheb@aol.com or 773.978.3706.

Neely

Summers

City Treasures Stephanie D. Neely is stepping down from her elected position to work for the private sector. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he has selected Kurt Summers Jr. to fill the vacancy effective December 1, 2014. The appointment is pending City Council approval.

Neely, a native Chicagoan who grew up on the Southside, is one of three citywide elected offices in City of Chicago government; the other two are Mayor and City Clerk. As Treasurer, she was elected in 2007 and was reelected in 2011. Summers will be submitting petitions to be place on the ballot to be elected in February 2015.

Summers previously served as Chief of Staff to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and as her appointed Trustee for the Cook County Pension Fund. “I want to congratulate Kurt Summers on his appointment as Treasurer for the City of Chicago. I witnessed firsthand Kurt’s commitment to service, drive and work ethic when he served as the head of my transition team and then as my Chief of Staff.

Summers is excepted to run for the elected post for Feburary 2015 city elections. “I am humbled and honored that the Mayor has presented me with this opportunity to serve as the next Treasurer of the City of Chicago,” Summers said. “I intend to bring to the Treasurer’s office a focus on financial stewardship, accountability, innovation, and investment. This is not a short-term investment for me. I am committed to having a long-term impact, and I will work to earn the support of Chicagoans. I believe, if we leverage our financial capital and capabilities, we can invest in the type of economic development that transforms every neighborhood in the city.”

Summers is a life-long Chicago resident and a graduate of Whitney Young High School.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Management Distinction High Honors in Finance and International Business, with a minor in East Asian Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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A report to be presented to the United Nations next month alleges the Chicago Police Department has engaged in "ongoing, pervasive" violence targeting the city's youth of color …. .cbslocal

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implying that we are more concerned with a firing 25 plus years ago than details of the candidates’ plans for the welfare of the State of Illinois, and how each candidate would execute his plan”. Said Childs.

Four years ago, Quinn was in a tough Democratic primary against State Comptroller Dan Hynes.

Hynes ran a seemingly devastating attack ad leading up to the primary, discussing at length why he fired Pastor Corey Brooks, receiving heat from over his endorsement Quinn as the city’s revenue director. of Republican businessman Bruce Rauner for governor, stand Yet Quinn won over Hynes. firm in his support.

Buying the press, Rauner has perhaps successfully shaped some wake up , the dems been promising ers held at Chicago State Universegment of public opinion, due blacks jobs for forty plus years and sity, Obama spoke, and at several more to wealth than campaigning. for the last 40 years as a people points throwing his arm around The Democratic Party’s strong we've done nothing but lose wealth Quinn, praising him. The audience united platform has weakened since under the dems, numbers don't lie,” was largely African-American, 2008; a cloud over the party that has going on to say, “blacks that keep voters who will make a major difnot helped. voting these clowns in are insane, ference in the vote results in a DeWestside community developer and are in need of mental therapy.” mocrat-leaning state. and activist, Valerie F. Leonard Corey in his letter said, “As a First lady Michelle Obama atsaid, “I think Rauner was tended a rally for Quinn better prepared for tonight's as well, and recorded a debate than he was last week. campaign ad saying she He still sounded like he just and the president met his close black supportplanned to vote for their ers yesterday, and is trying fellow Chicago Democdesperately to remember rat. Former President their names. He sounded Bill Clinton also came much more comfortable talkto campaign with Quinn ing about how much money in Chicago. he gave to black causes than Wallace ‘Gator’ how many blacks he hired in Bradley says, "When I high level positions or how see African American's many jobs he created in signs saying they should black communities.” vote for Rauner as op“Quinn did as well as he posed to Quinn, I did last week, and there were cringe!. With Quinn, at no surprises. He is comfortleast we have someable in his skin and with his President Barack Obama, left, embraces Illinois Gov. thing. We may not have relationships. The state of Pat Quinn after an early voting and campaign rally for all that we want, but Illinois has a dismal record on Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn at Chicago State University Sun- Rauner is letting you black contracting under day, Oct. 19, 2014, in Chicago. Early voting in Illinois know that he is going to starts Monday for the Nov. 4, election. | Charles Rex Quinn (and, truthfully, all Arbogast/AP Photo take what little you governors before him). Rauhave away from you. ner criticized, and has yet to pro- leader in the African American Think people, think! Don't be duce a vision, goal or plan to correct community I decided to step up and sucked-in by the big media hype." this. There's nothing in his prior fight to make a change, which is “This election is really not about record that gives me comfort that he why I am supporting Jim Oberweis the persons of Quinn or Rauner,” will do this.” for U.S. Senate. I have mobilized a said activist priest Father Michael Concerned voter Harold Arnold, volunteer army of Oberweis sup- Pfleger, “It's about whether we want bitter of Rainer’s campaign and porters throughout the south side of to RAISE the minimum Wage, Ban ‘buying up’ black leaders said, Chicago to help Jim win this elec- Assault Weapons, Save Medicare “Rauner is catastrophic and will set tion.” He continued in the letter, and Affordable Health Care, it's you back even worse than a Scott “When we win on November 4 we about whether we want to just BalWalker/Rick Scott type. They do will send a loud message that the ance the books or Balance the Playnot want you to vote....Voter Sup- Republican Party is the party of ing Field....If we do then VOTE, pression. ....no minimum wage for opportunity.” because this election is perhaps the those who need it....slash of proPresident Barack Obama re- most important we have had since grams/Medicare, pensions, govern- turned to Chicago to support Quinn, 2008.” ment shutdowns that affect as Democrats fight to hold control jobs...abolishment of unions etc. If of the governor's office. Speaking at that's what you want, vote for the a rally to several thousand supportGOP Tea party. I won't and a majority won't either. Rauner is a GOP Tea Party billionaire Ted Cruz type politician.”

But selling out has been more of buying in, according to a letter written by Pastor Corey Brooks, currently receiving heat from over his endorsement of Rauner and Republican State Senator Jim Oberweis— running against incumbent U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. The letter states in part, “I have already personally maxed out to Jim - $2,600 to his campaign. I know many of you cannot max out, but please give what you can. Give till it hurts.”

“This goes to show you that the Sellout Pastors of Chicago will do anything to maintain their position on the plantation,” said African American community activist, Tio Hardiman, who ran the antiviolence group CeaseFire, and, challenged Quinn in the Democratic gubernatorial primaries, and is considering a state senate run next year.

Jodean Yoube expressed “We don't need minimum wages, we need our own businesses again so we can feed our own people, I hear you on the voting, but sacrifices has got to be made so our people can

…..in a way perpetuated by its "culture of impunity."

The above alarming statistics are presented alongside youth testimony, collected at an August 2014 community hearing and via a confidential "police encounter line," in the report released by the We Charge Genocide coalition.

The group of activists, which will present to United Nations Committee Against Torture in Switzerland, is calling for a response from CPD, identification of the department's treatment of colored youth as torture, and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

"Behind these stories and numbers are real people—real people’s severe pain, humiliation, suffering, and death at the hands of those charged with the duty to 'protect and serve' Chicago," the report reads.

Though about 33 percent of Chicago's population is AfricanAmerican, the city's arrest rate of black youth is disproportionately high, according to the report. In 2011, 77 percent of the Chicago Police Department's youth arrests were of black youth. In 2012, that percentage increased to 79 percent.

The report also notes that black and Latino targets were involved in 92 percent of the Chicago Police Department's uses of stun guns from 2009 to 2011. Throughout the first half of 2014, black targets have been involved in 78 percent of the department's stun gun uses, the report notes.

The use of stun guns has also failed to significantly reduce the

number of police-involved shootings since they were implemented by the department in 2010, the report notes.

Black Chicagoans are, again, drastically overrepresented among those who are shot by police. As the Chicago Reporter previously observed, black Chicagoans are 10 times more likely than their white peers to be shot by a police officer.

The report notes it's also rare for a Chicago police officer to be held accountable for misconduct allegations. Among 10,149 complaints of excessive force, illegal searches, racial abuse or false arrest filed by residents between 2002 and 2004, only 124 -- 1.2 percent -- were sustained, and only 19 cases led to a penalty of suspension of at least a week or worse, according to the document.

Citing a 2007 report by a University of Chicago Law School professor, the report notes that a brutality complaint filed against police in Chicago is 94 percent less likely to be sustained than elsewhere. In the city, only 0.48 percent of brutality complaints are sustained, compared to 8 percent nationally.

Specifically, the group is calling for the United Nations Committee Against Torture to demand a response from the CPD "regarding the steps it will take both to end this treatment and to fully compensate the individuals, families, and communities impacted by this violence."

It further calls on the committee to identify the CPD's treatment of youth of color as torture and for the (Continued on page 7)

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City of Chicago, World Business Chicago and the Urban Land Institute have been laying the infrastructure for the past year, supported by federal transportation infrastructure dollars earmarked under the banner of The Presidential Library "Relevant Plans for the Red Line/ Garfield Blvd". The question stands questioned as tool to dis- with African Americans being utilizing play African Americans - under the Obama Presidential Library The Bronzeville community group was construction as a regentrification tool.

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met with Jimmy Lee Tillman II recently at an early vote rally recently hosted by his campaign. The son of former Third Ward Alderman Dorothy Tillman, he is running in the U.S. 1st Congressional District against incumbent Bobby Rush, who has served in the position since 1993. He said his campaign represents “young and vibrant leadership rooted in a lifelong education and training that has prepared him to take the baton and run with it, backed by the confidence of a diverse constituency who he has taken the time to listen to and understand.”

The Chicago Tribune had this to say about Bobby Rush: “Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush… isn't much of a presence in the district or on Capitol Hill. He took a leave of absence to deal with his wife's illness, no doubt a big reason he missed more than a third of votes in 2013. But he's had one of the worst missed-vote records in Congress for several years.

Constituents complain that his office doesn't return phone calls; local mayors say they field those pleas for help instead. It has been 14 years since an energetic up-and-comer — Barack Obama — tried and failed to beat Rush. There are plenty of other up-and-comers, but they're waiting for Rush to abdicate the throne. It's time.”

Yes it’s time. But will the person who steps into this challenging position be ready for the task?

Growing up in a well-known and prominent Chicago Democrat family, he says he was Michael J. Fox of his family, a “closet Republican” while his platform, I notice, balances a mix of ideologies that traditionally would be considered both “conservative” and “liberal.”

He has devoted much of his campaigning to hours of dialogue with voters in farm and suburban areas, as gerrymandering has changed the constituency of this previously Democrat Black majority stronghold. Will County farmers and suburban small business owners tell him they are hurt by Illinois’ excessively tight regulations, they would like local control of school curriculum and funding, school choice, and while we’re talking, please offer relief from unaffordable mandates the Affordable Care Act paradoxically imposes upon struggling middle-class families.

This does not mean he won’t promote the Black agenda, with reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, nonviolent offender reentry, police demilitarization and John Conyer’s Reparation Proposals on his prioritized action item list. As the only Republican Black Caucus member and backed by the majority party, he believes he will be uniquely empowered to get the job done.

With a practice run in the 2012 Republican primary for the same office under his belt, and a 2010 run for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner, in which he garnered over 160,000 votes, while not winning that race, Tillman is ready, in 2014, to win this election. I find his extensive dialogue with many different groups in Chicago and dedication to bipartisan answers that will help small businesses refreshing. He has shown a tireless willingness to go the extra mile to hear and represent the concerns across a diverse constituency. I believe Jimmy Lee Tillman is the right man to fill the large shoes that Bobby Rush has, through many dedicated years of service—while family issues have lately interfered—left for young, vigorous leadership to fill.

Foundation Chicago, Operation PUSH, the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Olive-Harvey Expands Diesel Training for Students: Navistar donated three

the only tax payer inspired, community based supported group that was able to submit a bid to host Obama's Presidential Library on the former Michael Reese Hospital site. A representative pointed out, “The deal has been fixed from the beginning. Nothing is fair or a level playing field because Marty Nesbitt representing the University of Chicago will utilize the Presidential Library to further destabilize, then regentrify the historic Washington Park community.

The concern is, systematically removing what is left of the African American lower income community. The

vehicles to help prepare OHC students for the 110,000 jobs in transportation, distribution and logistics coming to the Chicago region. Students seeking future certification as diesel technicians at Olive-Harvey College, in preparing for careers in the fast-growing TDL (transportation, distribution, and logistics) field. Navistar donated an IC Bus™ AC Series shuttle bus and two trucks—an International® TerraStar® that’s used for a variety of applications, including pickup and delivery, landscaping, construction and disaster recovery; and an International WorkStar ®that’s used in heavy applications in the construction, emergency, waste and utility industries. In October 2013, Olive-Harvey College broke ground on a nearly $45 million TDL Center slated to open in 2015. bays, and a working warehouse

West Side Nonprofits Rise to the Challenge A cohort of nonprofit organizations on Chicago’s West Side have recently signed on to take the 30-Day Compliance Challenge. The program was developed by Valerie F. Leonard to help nonprofits increase their fundraising capacity by ensuring that they are current with all the necessary filings at the state and federal levels within 30 days. This will remove one of the many barriers to fundraising, freeing organizations to focus more on the day-to-day activities of running programs and services.

Leonard, an expert in community and organizational development, cited the need for organizations to step back and review their

nonprofit filings. “I work with organizations on a number of issues, including strategic planning, financial management and board development”, she said.

“What I found, is, no matter what issue I’m hired to address, all roads lead to compliance.

Organizations-- large and small-- have challenges navigating the requirements of state and fed er al r eportin g for nonprofi ts. ” Between 2010 and 2014, over 25,000 Illinois nonprofits lost their tax-exempt status for failure to file Form 990 for three consecutive years. Approximately 43% of the state’s nonprofits were impacted. Over 8,900 of those

organizations were in Chicago. Likewise, 40% of the nation’s 1.4 million nonprofits lost taxexempt status during the same period. Some organizations that have lost tax-exempt status have been able have it reinstated after paying taxes, penalties and interest and submitting applications to the IRS. Given the costs and time involved to have tax-exempt status reinstated, most impacted organizations decide to close their doors.

Paul Norrington, the Vice President of the K-Town Historic District, signed up for the 30Day Compliance Challenge to do a reality check for his organization. “There are so many people in our communities who fight every day to make our lives better. Many of them form or join organizations to make a bigger difference”, Norrington said. “Unfortunately, too many of those organizations fail because they don't understand the ‘business’ of nonprofits. These workshops are very helpful for organizations that want to address those issues.”

The 30-Day Compliance Challenge is a series of 4 intensive workshops that cover a number of issues, including what to do if your organization’s tax-exempt status is revoked; a review of the reporting requirements for federal and state regulating agencies; an overview of the role of the community, foundations, the nonprofits and GuideStar in maintaining nonprofit compliance; the limits of nonprofits’

Valerie F. Leonard involvement in political campaigns and lobbying efforts and the relationships between maintaining compliance, board governance and effective fundraising.

Organizations that complete the 30-Day Challenge will receive certificates. Valerie F. Leonard 773-571-3886 or 773-350-5298 consulting@valeriefleonard.com

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During the summer, WVON Radio show host Mark Wallace protesting the Red Light Camera at Belmont and Lake Shore with columnist Mark Weyermuller and 44th Ward GOP Committeeman Scott Davis.

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ating one ticket per day to 56 per day for a two -week period last summer before mysteriously dropping back to normal. Tickets for so-called rolling right turns on red shot up during some of the most dramatic spikes, suggesting an unannounced change in enforcement. One North Side camera generated only a dozen tickets for rolling rights out of 100 total tickets in the entire second half of 2011. Then, over a 12-day spike, it spewed 563 tickets — 560 of them for rolling rights. Many of the spikes were marked by periods immediately before or after when no tickets were issued — downtimes suggesting human intervention that should have been documented. City officials said they cannot explain the absence of such records.

The mayor and his Chicago Department Of Ttransportation chief “gave it due consideration” but decided to keep the $7.7 million.

City Hall’s top watchdog announced last July that he has launched a sweeping probe of

the city's red light camera program in response to a Tribune investigation that found suspicious ticket spikes at dozens of intersections throughout the city. Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said his office will examine the shortcomings exposed by the Tribune’s reporting to ensure the program is run “more efficiently, fairly, and in a manner fully deserving of the public’s trust.”

“It is only fair to the people who drive the streets of Chicago that a moratorium be placed on the automated traffic violation system until it has been determined that the process is fair and just,” said Rep. Ford.

“Fair and just practices should be the goal government in Illinois, as it aims to protect the welfare and safety of everyone living in and visiting Illinois.”

Ford said he plans to file legislation to support the will of the many people calling for the city to put an end to the red light cameras.

A petition is being circulated stating, “We further request that the fees, fines and other revenues collected associated with these poli-

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cies be given a cap, that they would no longer double in amount.”

The final warning and subsequent ticketing has begun. Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras are issuing the tickets to speeding motorists in the City of Chicago.

Chicago’s red-light camera enforcement, begun in 2003 to increase safety on Chicago streets, has become a prime revenue venture.

Fines for violations: $35 for vehicles traveling 6-10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit and a hefty $100 for vehicles traveling 11 or more miles over the posted speed limit. The City also reported where ASE cameras have been installed, the number of recorded speeding events has dropped by nearly two-thirds from the first week of warnings to the third week of ticketing.

On May 14, 2013, the Office of Government Inspection published an audit of the City’s Red-Light Camera (RLC) program.

The audit found that Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) was unable to substantiate its claims that the City chose to install and maintain red-light cameras at intersections with the highest angle crash rates in order to increase safety.

Citizens to Abolish Red-Light Cameras (C.A.R.L.C.), a group committed to the removal of red and speed light cameras throughout all Chicago, has staged protests calling for the immediate removal throughout the city of Chicago.

WVON talk show host Mark Wallace, who helped organize C.A.R.L.C., has circulated petitions to put the question on the 2014 election ballot.

“Chicago is an operator of predatory ticket cameras for the sole purpose of collecting revenue that comes almost entirely from safe drivers. Chicago uses deliberately improper traffic light timing and under-posted speed limits so that thousands of very safe drivers who are not causing traffic hazards for anyone will get tickets for the "crime" of safely operating their vehicles,” said James Walker, a concerned citizen.

C.A.R.L.C. point out that the camera at 99th and Halsted has brought in $9 million since it was installed, with red light camera operating company receiving the bulk of money; the city would receive substantially more if these tickets were written by an officer from the municipality.

Redflex Holdings Ltd., the red light camera Australian parent company contracted with Chicago, revealed recently an internal investigation uncovering evidence that its 10 year old

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Chicago program appears to have been connected to a $2 million bribery scheme involving a past Chicago city official.

Other red light camera companies' tactics have been questioned for years. Senator Dan Duffy (R-Barrington) tried to ban red light cameras in 2010, his attempted legislation shut down by political insiders.

The US Attorney's office is launching a federal investigation of financial connections between Chicago insiders and red light camera lobbyists. Duffy says the $300 million obtained through "illegally-installed" cameras should be reimbursed to ticketed drivers.

Senator Duffy said he's preparing to introduce legislation that would push for reimbursement of red light camera tickets.

C.A.R.L.C. feel that the city’s red and speed light camera program is a violation of its citizen’s constitutional rights designed solely to increase financial coffers of select city insiders.

“We urge the City to order a moratorium on the expansion of the camera system. Then the City should initiate a thorough and open review of this surveillance system, including whether to reduce the number of cameras.

Finally, for those cameras that remain, the City should implement new rules to safeguard individual privacy.

After calls to several city officials for comments, responses included “Chicago has made it possible for drivers to view videos of their red light violations. You will need to enter your license plate information to retrieve your red light violation video,” and “Drivers who are unable to pay their red light ticket will have “an arrest warrant issued” and their “license will be suspended.” This can result in an inability to renew your license and/or vehicle registration until the fine has been paid.”

C.A.R.C.L.’s objective is for 100,000 signatures to send a message to the city’s aldermen and Mayor Emanuel. The law requires 47,000 signatures or 8 percent of the total number of voters in the last municipal election, which were 585,628. Wallace said the difficult part is not in getting the signatures to the Board of Elections 90 days before the election, but finding a city alderman willing to sponsor the referendum. He said they have a few people in mind, but admitted it will have to be an alderman with a lot of political fortitude, who is willing to stand against the mayor..

For more information contact, Courtney Scott (773)401-1675.

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Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the department.

The release of the report came on the eve of a status hearing for Glenn Evans, the Chicago police commander relieved of his duties in late August after he was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct for allegedly sticking his gun into the mouth of a suspect. Evans was the subject of more excessive-force complaints than any other CPD officer between 1988 and 2008 but was still promoted to commander. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The We Charge Genocide coalition gets its name from a 1951 petition filed to the U.N. that documented a number of police-involved shootings and human rights abuses.

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“In our study we discovered that sagging pants wearers are 70% more likely to prematurely ejaculate during intercourse,” says Mansbach.

“75-82% of the men who wear saggy pants have some sort of sexual dysfunction which can be traced back to the constant misaligning of their hips and lower torso from the gait that’s symptomatic of sagging pants.”

As with any body part, a lack of blood flow means little to no oxygen from blood, no nutrients, and no

cleansing of toxins. Long-term reduced blood circulation can result in bodily harm. For men, this means sexual performance issues and impaired urine flow. This situation can also lead to problems with the bladder, kidneys and prostate. It could even eventually have the effect of shriveling of the organs. For diabetics, this could mean gangrene and necessary amputation.

And that’s not all…

Sagging jeans can compress the lateral femoral cutaneous (LFC) nerve, which runs down your thigh.

The constant pressure on the LFC nerve might cause it to go into overdrive and start registering pain prematurely, a medical condition called meralgia paresthetica. This serious neurological disorder can cause numbness of the leg, stinging pain,

oversensitivity to heat and even atrophied leg tissue, in some cases.

The Drs TV: Is Wearing Saggy Pants Unhealthy?

The Doctors used a mannequin to demonstrate sagging pants, and Dr Rachael Ross showed as well that a low-riding belt from sagging pants can compress the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. She said that this can cause numbness in the feet and pain in the legs.

“The quick fix is to pull up your pants and/or relax the belt,” Dr Ross said.

Dr Travis Stork said that the nerve being compressed is what provides feeling to a good portion of your thigh and leg. He said it can also be called Skinny Pants Syndrome, so those skinny jeans can cause this problem for women as well.

“You have to change your behavior if you’re getting that numbness

there,” Dr Stork said.

Local Governments Going After Saggy Pants-Wearers

by Alex Harris

During the first decade of the 21st century, many North American local governments, school systems, transit agencies, and even airlines passed laws and regulations against the practice of wearing sagging pants, although no state or federal laws have been enacted banning the practice. US presidential candidate Barack Obama, speaking just before the 2008 US Presidential Election appeared on MTV and said that laws banning the practice of wearing low-

slung pants that expose one's underwear were "a waste of time ... Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants.

You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on.

Some people might not want to see your underwear. I'm one of them."

Municipalities across the South, most recently in Tennessee, have cited concerns for the health of their residents — among other reasons — in expansions of local public indecency laws to include people whose pants droop well below their waist.

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Roseland Community Hospital Mammography Center. For all women insured, underinsured and uninsured, schedule your appointment today at the Mammography Center of Roseland Community Hospital. At the “New” Roseland Community Hospital, every month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To schedule an appointment, call Rhonda Perdue at 773.291. 1935. Appointments are available; Monday-Friday 9:00am5:00pm. Saturday 9:00am-3:30pm.

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Chiropractor and wife sentenced to Federal Prison for $1 Mil. Insurance Fraud Scheme A former suburban chiropractor and his wife, who was a fitness instructor and personal trainer, were sentenced to federal prison terms for engaging in a $1 million health insurance fraud scheme that continued for a year after they were indicted in 2011. Wendy Carr, 43, was sentenced to 28 months in prison, a week after her husband, Andrew Carr , 45, both of Lake in the Hills, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Between 2005 and June 2011, Andrew Carr submitted health insurance claim forms for at least 376 patients to six different private health care insurers, knowing that more than $4.2 million worth of claims were for services that were not provided, and as a result, he fraudulently obtained payments totaling approximately $865,697.

Between January 2009, when Wendy Carr joined the scheme, and June 2011, she processed the insurance claims, knowing that claims were for services that were not provided.

After the couple were indicted in June 2011, they submitted an additional 596 fraudulent claims totaling more than $475,000 for 51 additional patients over another year and, as a result, fraudulently obtained an additional $164,168. Each pleaded guilty to health care fraud earlier this year.

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Whenever I’m out anywhere and someone finds out I’m a Personal Trainer I get the exact same response, male or female, black or white, big or small. They look down at their stomach, touch it with both hands and say what can I do about this. Everyone wants a tight flat stomach, but most people don’t know the best way to get it. A tight stomach comes about with the reduction of one’s body fat percentage. There are three critical keys to reducing your body fat and getting the stomach you want.

1) Diet: If you don’t have the definition in your abs that you want, it is because of the extra fat that is sitting around your waistline. Please understand this next point and take it very serious, you can't "spot reduce." You can’t just do some crunches or some sit-ups and end up with a six pack. To lose extra fat in your mid-section, you'll need to lose weight all over your body. Controlling your diet is the best way to reduce your body fat.

Replace bad carbohydrates with protein in your daily diet. This forces your body to burn more body fat for fuel, therefore, the fewer bad carbs you consume, the more body fat you burn. So to maximize the amount of abdominal fat you use for fuel, you'll drop your carbohydrate intake very low on days you go through resistance workouts, which should be 3-4 days a week.

"Good" carbs are not processed and contain a fair amount fiber (i.e. whole grain bread, oatmeal and whole-grain cereals, legumes, veggies, fruits, etc.) "Bad" carbs are refined or processed (i.e. white bread, white pasta, soda, sugary foods, including ice cream).

Fish & Seafood- Seafood is one of the best sources of protein because it's usually low in fat. Fish such as salmon is a little higher in fat but it is the heart-healthy kind: omega-3 fatty acids.

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will help boost your metabolism and burn more calories. Strive to get at least thirty minutes of cardio exercise on most days (i.e. 5-6) of the week.

White-Meat Poultry- Stick to the white meat of poultry for excellent, lean protein.

Dark meat is higher in fat. The skin is loaded with saturated fat, so remove skin before cooking.

Beans- One-half cup of beans contains as much protein as 3 ounces of broiled steak.

Plus, these nutritious nuggets are loaded with fiber to keep you feeling full for hours.

Protein on the Go- Grab a meal replacement drink, cereal bar or energy bar. Check the label to be sure the product contains at least 6 grams of protein, and is low in sugar and fat.

2) Cardio: The second best way--after diet--to drop belly fat is by engaging in regular aerobic activity. Vigorous exercise, such as running or swimming in short intense burst,

1. Jumping Rope - This is one of the simplest, yet most effective exercises one can do.

In just 15 to 20 minutes, jumping rope will give you an unparalleled total body workout.

Jumping rope is ideal for cardiovascular endurance.

2. Sprinting - Sprinting not only burns huge amounts of calories while sprinting, it also keeps your metabolism increased for days after. Sprinting combined with running / jogging can bring amazing results fat burning results.

3. Spinning - These high-intensity workouts to music simulate a challenging bike ride, complete with hills, valleys and varying speeds, all dictated by the group instructor. And assist with defining your abdominal muscle group.

3) Strength Training your stomach is like any other muscle: You have to train it if you want it to grow stronger. Building your abdominal muscles will help you stand up straighter--which means your stomach will look and feel flatter! Stronger stomach muscles mean more defined muscles as well.

In conclusion it was reported in an issue of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, individuals getting 40% of total daily calories from protein, while also following a weight and cardio exercise program, lost more than twice as much body fat, and more important for aesthetic purposes- more than twice as much abdominal fat as those getting just 15-20% of total daily calories from protein and following a cardio-only exercise program. Diet, Cardio, and Strength Training all work collectively

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Representatives from 25 organizations, armed with the Durban Declaration and Program of Action, met on the corner of 47th Street and Wentworth Avenue as reparations enforcers. The group being led by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) and the Coalition for the Enforcement of Repair and Restoration (CERR) carried out their plan to present to Norfolk Southern Rail Road a Compensation Presentment for past crimes against Afrikan humanity. With chants of “Reparations is a human right,’ and “If there were no crimes against our humanity, there would be no violence in our streets”, the group proceeded west toward the Norfolk Southern Rail Yard. Concluding their march, the group proceeded back to the 47th Street Rapid Transit station. There, in the midst of early evening travelers, they made statements on their intent on continuing their efforts. As each organizational representative concluded their statement, shouts in unison declared “NO JUSTICE NO PROFIT.” The organizers vows to return with continued non-violent direct action protest if NS does not agree to begin earnest conversations in regards to the settling the presentment.

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alloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve. reference in Chicago in 1920. The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939. Thus, alShow and The Adventures of Ozzie and HarHalloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic though a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated riet in 1948. The custom had become firmly festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah- to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Poestablished in popular culture by 1952, when w i n " ) . tato Famine brought almost a million immigrants Walt Disney portrayed it in the carThe festival of Samhain is a celebratoon Trick or Treat, Ozzie and Hartion of the end of the harvest season in riet were besieged by trick-or-treaters Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time on an episode of their television show, used by the ancient pagans to take and UNICEF first conducted a nastock of supplies and prepare for wintional campaign for children to raise ter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between funds for the charity while trick-orthe worlds of the living and the dead treating. overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.

The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the The Day of the Dead celebrations might fires attracted insects to the area seem to be very similar to Halloween. In which attracted bats to the area. both celebrations people dress up in cosMasks and costumes were worn in tumes, there are a lot of skeletons everyan attempt to mimic the evil spirits or where, and there are special sweet treats appease them. and candies given out. Also people spend Trick-or-treating, is an activity for a lot of time in graveyards and death imchildren on or around Halloween in agery is everywhere. which they proceed from house to But there are some big differences between the house in costumes, asking for treats such as conin 1845-1849, and British and Irish immigration to holiday that promotes fear of the dead and the fectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?"

America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized begging holiday that celebrates the dead. The Day of the The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to on Halloween was virtually unknown in America Dead holiday is about celebrating the dead, not play a trick on the homeowner or his property if until generations later. being afraid of the dead. It’s a holiday for no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the people to honor their ancestors and loved ones main traditions of Halloween. It has become sowho have passed away and invite those spirits Spread from the western United States east- back into their homes to be part of the family once cially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in prepa- ward, stalled by sugar rationing that began more. It’s a celebration of family and a show ration for trick-or-treaters. in April 1942 during World War II and did of respect for those who have passed away.

The history of Halloween has evolved. The not end until June 1947. activity is popular in the United States, the United Early national attention to trick-or-treating They pay their respects to their loved ones by Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to increased was given in October 1947 issues of the chil- tending to their graves, cleaning up graveyards, American cultural influence in recent years, implanting flowers and trees, and leaving offerings at dren's magazines Jack and Jill and Chilported through exposure to US television and the graves. They also wear the clothes of their dren's Activities, and by Halloween episodes other media, trick-or-treating has started to occur deceased relatives, paint their faces as skulls or of the network radio programs The Baby among children in many parts of Europe, and in wear skeleton masks and costumes, and build alSnooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran, Akaria tars in their homes to honor their loved ones. compounds and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia.

The earliest known reference to ritual begging One of the most well known ways that people celeon Halloween in English speaking North America brate the Day of the Dead is to turn themselves occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, into skeletons using elaborate makeup and masks.

Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, The skeletal appearance highlighted with flowers, reported that it was normal for the smaller chilbright colors and artwork is a striking image that dren to go street guising (see below) on Halloween has now become an icon of the Day of the Dead. between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs. Another isolated reference appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century.

Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

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Letters to the Editor

What Matters Most to You? Tell Somebody!

Dear Editor; uesday, November 4, 2014 is Election Day. This time we get to choose several different city, state and federal offices including Governor, Cook County Board President, US Senators and Illinois senators and representatives. (See the second page of this release for a complete list).

We will also have a chance to weigh in on an increase of the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour.

People will tell you that voting does not matter. They will say that it is a waste of time. It is not!

When you vote, you are telling the world what matters to you. Voting is your voice!

We are living in hard times. Hard times that are, in many ways, the result of choices and decisions made by other people. People who you may not know and you may not have voted for, shape the things that are happening.

African Americans are unemployed and underemployed, overextended and living in and near neighborhoods where violence and police brutality is normal. Keeping our homes is harder. Neighborhood schools have been shut down and the ones left continue to fail our children. Even with ObamaCare, too many of us use emergency rooms as doctors and can't afford the tests they suggest. And if you live on the south side of Chicago, you have no trauma center.

We are living on the edge.

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What matters to you? Jobs -tell the people in charge that you want jobs paying a living wage so that you can take care of yourself and your family.

What matters to you? Safety -- tell folks how tired you are of the violence in your community and mistreatment from those who are supposed to keep us safe.

What matters to you? Education -- let them know that you believe that our children have the right to go to schools that teach them well and they should be able to go to college and not spend their entire lives paying back loans.

What matters to you? Feeling Good -- tell the candidates that you want better health care, healthy food and safe places to exercise and play in our communities.

What matters to you? Creating sustainable wealth in our Communities -- tell all candidates you want increased focus on economic development in our community and creating an environment for our businesses to grow and prosper.

What matters to you? A Government full of people who serve You - make them hear you!

When politicians don't hear our voices, they believe that we don't matter. We become invisible. When they hear from us (when we make time to vote), we make a difference.

We, as African Americans, must tell our elected officials what we expect from them and that we will hold them accountable after the election.

In hard times, it is easy to give up - easy to stop trying and car-

ing. But it is in the hard times, that it is even more important that we keep trying. Keep trying to make a difference.

If you are tired of political malarkey and plans without substance make time to vote. If you are done with empty promises delivered to ensure re-election and not to serve us, vote! Our votes can be used to give a candidate a seat and remove them if they fail to deliver.

The Coalition of African American Leaders (COAL) strongly urges each and every one of us to get out and Vote on November 4.

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rom comment of Chicago Street Journal story (September 11, 2014) ‘Max-ing the Minimum Wage Agenda’ has, against the precedent set for this election by Chicago's corporately sponsored media providers, made the commitment to endorse Pat Quinn in the Illinois

gubernatorial race.

CSJ is a non-partisan publication dedicated to looking at all sides of each issue through the lens of what best fulfills the needs of the working residents of Chicago. This endorsement decision was not made for partisan, or historical, reasons.

While both parties agree, in theory, that government aid should not be needed by full time workers to afford housing, transportation, food, clothing, and medical care, only Governor Quinn has committed to supporting an increased minimum wage. Welcoming Bruce Rauner, who has advised lowering it, to the discussion table, CSJ is looking forward to meaningful dialogue on how to restore America's dwindling middle class through wage/living expense parity. Understanding the burden raising the minimum wage presents to small businesses, if this is not the candidate's preferred solution, then we hope to hear workable alternate solutions offered.

We feel living wages are important enough to eclipse many discussions, as where working people, including teachers, police, and those others able to find employment in Chicago, and throughout Illinois, cannot afford living expenses, the system we understand ceases to work.

Societal structures giving collective bargaining power on behalf of workers have increasingly been privatized. The question whether unions have historically enjoyed "too powerful" a bargaining position in a few instances becomes mute if collective bargaining is replaced across the board by privatized structures. From charter schools to government owned entities such as Navy Pier and Chicago parking, which, outsourced, no longer contribute to worker pensions, Illinois has, in recent years, increased the privatization of previously government owned services. As collective bargaining is increasingly removed from the picture, what remaining protections to ensure living wages for the working class remain?

CSJ is dedicated to covering all sides of the important debate regarding raising the standards of living for the working class--including contributions from Independent and other parties, write-in candidates, should they care to make statements on (and not limited to) the issues.

Believing that healthy dialogue is the key to solutionfinding, and informed citizen activism drives the most effective representation, CSJ is committed to providing a forum where all sides of the important questions are presented fairly; let the people decide how best to respond.

The Great Moral Majority is Alive and Well.

Dear Editor; Many of us during the civil rights movement and desegregation became all too aware of the group of people who referred to themselves as “The Moral Majority” and its intent to change what they perceived as societal injustices. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was then the leader of The Moral Majority led well with his unwavering positions that “all men are created equal”, of which, its’ very concept was borrowed from the US Constitution. Richard Nixon often referred to some members of the Moral Majority as the Silent Majority, of whom, I now have the responsibility of collaborating with and the honor of consulting and leading.

Preparation for my leadership as Moral Majority Leader began as a child and has culminated with my having acquired: rich enlightening life experiences, 30-35 years strong business experience (banking & finance, entrepreneur in cosmetics, and real estate) accompanied by my earning Suma Cum Laude designation that accompanies a BS degree in Business Administration. My talents lye within the categories of: leadership, communications, and strategic management etc. In addition to the accolades that society respects, I have a strong relationship with God that is simply unshakable.

The Agenda during my tenure as Moral Majority Leader is as follows: Vision: Let the will of the American people prevail.

Mission: We the people (moral majority), in order to help form a more perfect union, help establish justice, and better

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s the big media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and Crain's Chicago Business have endorsed Rauner. Unsurprisingly, This political milieu brings me back to another era in history, when the then South Street Journal interviewed the Tribune editor, asking why they were endorsing George Bush over Al Gore. The Tribune identified themselves, at that time, as a Republican newspaper, and stated, “Yes, the Clinton administration with Gore has done a good job, but we just want our man in office. It’s our turn.”

With endearing enduring consistency, the Chicago Tribune once again seems to state, “They got their turn, now it’s ours.”

As a publisher who has watched the literary political tide ebb and flow through the years, I observe that the Chicago Sun Times has oft changed direction like the wind. In 2012, they finally announced they would no longer endorse candidates.

The Crain Chicago, with its big business agenda, of course supports Bruce Rauner.

Every press endorsement should reflect thoughtfully on the meaning of the election, weighing issues according to readership epistemology, from the smallest paper to the largest, and identify priority issues, supplying evidence to back the panorama we paint. Consistency is a responsibility, helpful to readers and non-readers; a good conservative publication can be counted on by progressive readers to present views diametric to their own and vice versa. What of the paper that strives to represent all sides, truly in balance? A challenging equipoise.

Chicago Street Journal strives to represent to such a diverse readership.

Rauner endorsements have been made by a number of well known African-American ministers. Rev. James Meeks – Founder and Senior Pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator—for one. He says he's backing Rauner because it's time to shake up the Democratic Party and hold them accountable to the promises they make on the campaign trail. He is not alone in his view.

We agree that accountability is important, believing that Meeks might well start in Chicago. Is Chicago’s Mayor to be held to the same level of accountability as Illinois’ governor?

We don’t think so.

Rauner attacked the governor for failing to address African American issues. “Gov. Quinn is taking the AfricanAmerican vote for granted,” he charged, adding that Quinn was the “worst governor in America” and had done little to nothing for African-Americans. The truth of the matter is that Quinn opened the doors to many more contracts for minority vendors.

ensure freedom for all, do hereby commit to engaging in the formulation and implementation of strategies that help pave the road to achieving the following goals, of which, are focused on advancing the will of the American people: Promote good moral behavior in our private, professional and public lives. Advance agenda's that reflect the shared values of the American people. Monitor the different branches of government (judicial, legislative and executive) to better ensure that, American citizen's Constitutional rights, are preserved and protected through identifying violations and supporting the enforcement of current legislation as a remedy.

Furthermore, the agenda's of The Moral Majority during my tenure as leader are as follows: Promote the cease and desist of unlawful, harmful, character damaging attacks on American citizens, that usually involve the use of taxpayer resources (i.e. technology) to advance tactics such as, character assassinations that too often involve illegal admittance of victims to mental institutions, of which, is deliberately intended to eliminate and/or destroy the victims (the motive is

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Bruce Rauner suddenly recently funneled $200,000 to an organizational capacity building grant, and an Ron Carter, $800,000 investment in The Southside Publisher and Editor Community federal Credit Union's Micro Loan fund. We thank him, while questioning his long term dedication, noting an ABC7 Chicago report: not one African-American to be found among top executives at his private equity firm, GTCR. He couldn’t, according to the interview, find any black folks to hire. “They weren’t there.” Quinn did not have the same difficulty building a diverse cabinet, with a number of African-Americans heading departments.

Dr. Willie Wilson sponsored the Chicago State early summer forum at which Rauner talked over solutions the Baptize Institute presented to him, perhaps resulting in some clergy and community leaders endorsing Gov. Quinn, including Rev. Albert Tyson, Michael Pfleger and Bishop Claude Porter.

Governor Quinn won the 2010 election over Republican Senator Bill Brady without endorsements from Illinois' major media outlets. Chicago Street Journal is proud to support Governor Quinn’s reelection campaign not because he is Democrat, we are nonpartisan. We note that he has demonstrated commitment to the working class, not wavering to wellpaying special interest lobbies.

Rauner’s nonstop TV commercials and campaigning have cost over $20 million so far vs. Quinn’s $15 million. Rauner comes from the business world, with no visible roots connecting him to community. His recent donations to the South Side Federal Credit Union and a building grant, while appreciated, had such support been demonstrated before the campaign it would feel more sincere. Yes, elected officials must understand businesses in order to grow and create jobs for the State. Working with the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce was an example. We expect the Governor to also show active support for the Black Wall Street Districts of Chicago agenda of worker parity as well: workers should share ethnic characteristics of the predominant group of residents in any neighborhood in order to ensure hiring fairness across the board.

The underserved in Illinois deserve representation throughout the next four years. Quinn has been consistent, from early days, as a consumer advocate, pushing for affordable housing, early childhood educational opportunities, fair wages and sustainable development for all, including underserved communities. President Obama, in support of Quinn, I join President Barack Obama, therefore, in recommending: Vote for Quinn.

usually for selfish ill-gotten gain). Curb child abuse (i.e. pornography. prostitution and violence), at the very least our goal is encourage the simplification of victim offense reporting requirements. We support prison reform that is focused on rehabilitation and the restoration of prisoners voting rights once the debt to society is paid. Promote legislation that helps stop stalking (physical, cyber, etc). Encourage and support affordable housing for seniors (shared housing) Increase Moral Majority membership and encourage citizen engagement in the democratic process in all communities. Promote and support legislation that will increase the maximum dollar amount of financial aide made available to students in order to successfully complete undergraduate degree programs. In addition, we are promoting the return of the arts and sports to the school curriculum in the inner schools.

Please Note: in order to effectively implement strategies and promote fair evaluations, stipends are needed to cover costs such as: research, operating costs, construct legislation, and lobby for the passing of legislation etc.

Also speaking engagements for churches and organizations will be scheduled for 2015.

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October 30 , 2014

By Chinta Strausberg

Even though 52-years ago the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-1 to ban prayer in schools, Spencer Leak, Sr., CEO, Leak & Sons Funeral Home and chairman emeritus of Liberty Baptist Church, met with scores of ministers and church members at Josephine’s Cooking Restaurant where he vowed to lead the fight needed to restore prayer in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Leak, a member for 45-years of Liberty Baptist Church, said his pastor, Rev. Dr. Darrell Lamar Jackson, will hold a planning meeting in three weeks at Liberty located at 4849 S. King Drive. Leak said Rev. Jackson “is going to take the lead in our quest to get the bible in the CPS.” Black On Black Love is also involved.

Leak explained that meeting “will be timed after the Nov. 4th election because the election we are concerned about is the one for mayor and 50 aldermen who we are going to put this proposition to. We are going to make this a part of their campaign. They are going to have to answer to us whether we can get this done and if not we need an elected school board to get this done.”

He will be inviting the aldermanic candidates asking for their support. “We know the timing is right for us to get this done. We won’t have another municipal election for four more years,” said Leak vowing to press this issue to the aldermen and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). “We want them to put the bible in the curriculum of the CPS.” “If we can have Huckleberry Finn in the curriculum of the CPS where Finn uses the word ‘n….’ 15-30 times in the course of that story…if that book can be a part of the CPS curriculum and it should be, then certainly

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see that the days of begging

have been long gone in the 1960’s and still in 2014. There are some who are still wishing and hoping that somebody will give you something for 500 years or more. When you are still stuck in this mode, but maybe, just maybe for once we can do for ourselves.

None of our politicians or churches will help the majority of our people get out of this mess we call poverty, they take in money like a grave yard take in bodies.

They cannot implement any public job industries and they won’t tell you this.

Along with this they are making a billion dollar industry off of our race within the prison systems. They are way over the limit in capacity. A lot has to do with

“We can have Huckleberry Finn in the curriculum of the CPS With her husband, Dr. John Long by her side, applauds his where Finn uses the word ‘n….’ 15-30 times in the course of wife Dr. JoAnn Long, pastor of New Believers Church, lays that story…if that book can be a part of the CPS curriculum out her reasons for joining the fight to restore the bible in and it should be, then certainly the bible can,” Spencer Leak Chicago Public Schools. said the bible is an excellent guide Sr. stated. to teaching youth about morals. (Photo by Chinta Strausberg)

the bible can,” Leak stated.

“The bible is a book of values and when Mayor Emanuel was asked when we had a spike of violence over one of the weekend why, he held his hands up and said ‘values.’

“What other book teaches values like the bible. No other book can do it. We’re holding the mayor to his word. Mr. Mayor, you said the problem was values. We got a book that teaches values and we can keep our young people from destroying themselves if that book is put into the CPS,” Leak told this reporter.

When told that some ministers said the fight to restore the bible to the classroom is a losing battle, Leak quipped, “God specializes in losing battles. He specializes in the impossible. When you give God the proposition that something is losing…God gets

inadequate representation (www.examiner.com ). We have been hood winked and lied to by deception. They have been talking about building and creating jobs, have you seen any, not even as much as a toilet paper factory, to employ somebody, need I say more.

How many people does your church employ and who gets paid?

Do the numbers and math; look at who’s living in the big houses and driving the fancy cars. Are we blind, deaf and dumb to the facts or are we looking for a rescue, verses, doing it ourselves.

What Bank is your money deposited in on Monday, can you get a loan on Tuesday: Ask your preacher or Leader, as see what he tell you.

You will get your pie in the hereafter but how is he living his Life on this earth? Look at how many conventions are held around the Country every year, millions of our dollars are being spent, who benefits and who pays for all of this. "Who?” we do. How many ministers; each week is on the radio and TV every Sunday.

active and God can only get active if we his created ones. This will win and we’re going to make it win,” he said.

Dr. JoAnn Long, pastor of the New Life Believers Church, said, “I believe in Dr. Leak’s vision in getting the bible restored in our classrooms to have that option.” As a child, Dr. Long said she read the bible in school and that children today should be able to do the same thing. She said the bible teaches morals and values and that is what students today need. “We want our children to have high morals. The bible is also a guide….”

Also attending that meeting was mayoral hopeful Bill Walls who said, “The Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that it is legal to teach the bible in schools.

You can teach it, but you can’t preach it.

The bible is taught in schools all across America and there is no reason why it can’t be taught here in Chicago.”

Bishop Edgar Jackson, pastor of Beth El All Nations Church, said the bible “is an instrument we must use to bring some civility back into our society especially the young people who don’t know right from wrong. They do not have a moral foundation that they may be able to judge between what is right and wrong.

Agreeing was Gwendolyn Smith who said, “We perish for lack of knowledge and without knowledge we can’t move in this world. A lot of children have lost their way because they have not been taught…. We can’t let them learn on their own.”

Ask them who are they paying our money too and who’s benefiting from these shows, or is it just entertainment or what.

I am going to send this to some ewspapers to see if they will print it, to help get the message out.

When you wake up, take a look at our website www.ibebpac.org if you are not afraid, to see what common sense people are doing, you may want to become a part of something that you can make a difference by employing someone and earn you some money at the same time.

When all of you that care, forward this paper to all of the people in your network let’s get the word out.

Ask your preacher about this statement. You can tell them to call me @ 773-577-9656.

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by Bruce Crosby ollowing Dr. Rev. and motel accommodations, and advocacy to Charles E. Loen encourage the hiring in department stores in the 1991 federal condowntown area and other business in City.” viction by an all-white Beginning in 1965, Rev. Koen led United jury for ostensibly burning Front of Cairo, the first Black United Front down the building in Cairo, Illinois, of an organization in America, which, through his agency he had worked for years to develop, Dr. leadership, evolved to a progressive cadre of Koen, —targeted by the FBI counter intelliholistic community developers. Specializing in gence program (COINTELPRO) and placed on housing development and banking, Dr. Koen President Nixon’s Enemy List in the 1960s— became President of National Association of wrote the book, The Roundup of Black Leader- Neighborhoods, leading the fight against the ship. bipartisan move to displace Born August 7, 1945 in black and poor people Pyramid Court, Cairo, Il, across America. When he Charles lived in segregated received 50,000 write-in public housing until leaving to votes, running for Governor attend college at 18. An athlete of IL, Democrats and Reat Sumner high school, he publicans took serious noplayed basketball and football, tice. and began participating at the In 1968 Rev. Koen joined age of 16 in humanitarian acwith a group of East St tivities administering to the Louis/St Louis Missouri/ needs of people in Cairo when Illinois activists, forming a (now) Congressman John group called “Black LiberaLewis D, Ga. came to Cairo to tors” who protested against help organize a chapter of the segregation/integration in Student Non-violent Coordithe Metro East Area of Illinating Committee (SNCC). nois and Missouri. Opposi“Our purpose,” said Rev. tion from the St. Louis EsKoen, “was to help raise con- Rev. Charles E. Koen tablishment resulted in a sciousness…about racial injusnumber of arrests. Nearly tice in Cario, and advocate for better conditions beaten to death by St Louis Police, who claimed for Blacks who rights were being violated. Our another Black Liberator member assaulted work included organizing to integrate public them, he spent two months in the St. Louis

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Rev. Charles Koen (seat 2nd right) worked as an activist (and with the Black Panther Party) for five decades as a youth leader, then young adult leader inspired by Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King’s ministry of universal spirituality, building communities spiritually, physically, socially and economically. workhouse where Mrs. Koen visited, witnessing income for poor citizens who lived dilapidated his near death from a 48 day fast protesting the and sub-standard housing in Cairo, Il. We later unjust imprisonment. began to evangelize this idea of affordable housing throughout IL and to other parts of the Rev. Koen worked as an activist for five US. Our efforts to provide decent low income decades as a youth leader, then young adult housing in Cairo was very successful.” In the leader inspired by Dr. Rev. Martin Luther early 1970s Rev Koen and others organized a King’s ministry of universal spirituality, build- non-profit called Little Egypt Housing Develing communities spiritually, physically, socially opment Corporation, matching low-income and economically. According to Dr. Koen, “we residents to over 70 units of Affordable houssaw the need to develop and implement proing. grams that included building affordable housing in response to the need for safe affordable low (Continued on page 16)

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Twenty-five new projects for Chicago’s 2040 plan in communities across metropolitan Chicago Fourth round of Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) Local Technical Assistance projects will support goals of building a strong, livable, and prosperous region More than two dozen new projects led by local governments and nonprofits will receive staff assistance or grants to drive implementation of the GO TO 2040 comprehensive regional plan.

Since 2011, the CMAP Local Technical Assistance (LTA) program has sponsored over 100 projects to help Randy Blankenhorn, CMAP executive director. the region's communities plan for City of Blue Islivability, economic competitiveness, and land capital improvement program and Village improved quality of life for residents. of Bensenville zoning update. In Blue Island, "Now in its fourth year, as recommended by CMAP will assist the city on a capital imGO TO 2040," said Randy Blankenhorn, provement program, implementing recommenCMAP executive director. "Community capacdations from the community's LTA-developed ity for planning is often limited, and this procomprehensive plan. The Village of Bensengram helps bridge that gap while also facilitatville will receive assistance to update zoning ing municipalities' efforts to collaborate with codes to better align with priorities found in its their neighbors and other stakeholder organicomprehensive plan. Among other new prozations. The result is improved quality of life jects are a downtown master plan incorporatand economic prosperity, both locally and ing arts-based "placemaking" for the City of regionally."

Aurora, a transportation plan to support the This year, CMAP encouraged proposals that proposed Pullman National Historic Park in focus on implementation of past plans, such as Chicago, and a comprehensive economic deupdates of zoning and regulations, creation of velopment strategy (CEDS) for McHenry capital improvement plans, and analysis of County. municipal review procedures. Other project Franklin Park submitted an application types include comprehensive plans, bicycle along with ten other communities, to develop a and pedestrian plans, and county-wide ecotruck routing and infrastructure plan in the nomic development efforts, among many othO'Hare International Airport area of DuPage ers. Visit www.cmap.illinois.gov/lta for a full and Cook Counties. Based on recommendalist and map of selected projects. tions from CMAP's O'Hare Subregional Projects that build off past plans include the Freight-Manufacturing Drill-Down Report,

this project will address disconnected truck routes, poor roadway conditions, and congestion.

Two regional projects were accepted into the 2015 LTA program. One application, submitted jointly by all seven of the region's Counties, involves a regional truck permitting plan. Another regional project, submitted by the Chicago Metro Metal Consortium, a coalition of Counties, manufacturing industry representatives, economic developers, and others, will help this group to review and evaluate the impact of potential infrastructure investments on the region's metal manufacturing cluster. Both of these projects highlight the importance of investing in regional infrastructure to enhance the region's economic competiveness.

"To remain a strong and vibrant region, we must recognize that we are all part of one metropolitan Chicago economy," said Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, "which is why I am thrilled that the LTA program supports so many opportunities for communities to work together across jurisdictions, helping them create and implement plans that make a real difference in residents' lives. I am particularly pleased that the CMAP board approved support for Metro Chicago Exports, streamlined truck permitting and support for the Chicago Metro Metals Consortium. These projects represent priorities for my administration and grew directly out of the historic and unprecedented regional collaboration that I catalyzed among the seven counties in northeastern Illi-

nois last year."

Other LTA partners include the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, the Metropolitan Planning Council, Center for Neighborhood Technology, The Chicago Community Trust, and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Chicago, and transportation and planning agencies across the region.

CMAP established the LTA program shortly after GO TO 2040's adoption in October 2010 with a $4.25 million three-year federal grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Since the HUD grant expired in January 2014, the program has been supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the Illinois Attorney General, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and The Chicago Community Trust.

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is the region's official comprehensive planning organization. Its GO TO 2040 plan serving seven counties and 284 communities of northeastern Illinois to implement strategies that address transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and other quality-of-life issues. See

Rev. Koen (Continued from page 15)

Rev. Koen organized local citizen involvement in voting rights through cooperation of IL Legal Aid, whose historic voting right case, Illinois “Kendricks vs Moss”, replaced IL’s at-large city form of government with single member districts known as an Aldermanic form of government. He served as the Executive Director of the United Front, Inc from its organization in the sixties until 1988.

In 1976 Rev. Charles E Koen was nominated

by President Jimmy Carter to serve as Rural Development Board downstate coordinator, on the board 1978 to 1984. In 1979 he was elected to head National Association of Neighborhoods based in Washington D.C. In 1980 he was elected as an Alderman joining the Cairo City Council. In 1982, he became Vice Director of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), serving until 1986.

In 1981, after being called by the community of Roseland-Pullman, chosen Chairman of the Board of Union National Bank of Chicago.

He served as National Rainbow Coalition Field Director from 1996- 2002, and appointed Elder in the Church of God in Christ, Southeast Jurisdiction, MI, to develop the southern IL and southeast MI area, providing low and moderate income rental housing, and addressing other issues including troubled youth in the two-state area.

On March 28. 1989, he was arrested and charged in the Southern District of IL with 24 counts for arson, mail fraud, misapplication, and embezzlement, and false representation.

He was convicted on January, 21, 1991, sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. He spent 52 months in federal prison, released on parole in September, 1995, after which he served 8 years of probation. While on parole he served as Pastor of Christian Hope Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. At Christian Hope, his leadership revised a church credit union into a community development credit union, able to function across America, planning ownership of a historical African American Graveyard and organization of a school to teach young Black men carpentry skills and assist them to become union members.

On January 24, 2008, Charles Koen was again indicted, with a number of United Front members, and is still serving time. On October 7, 2014, his petitions for executive clemency were heard by the IL Prisoner Review Board, asking for humanitarian consideration due to advanced age and serious health issues been exacerbated by Illinois’ dismal prison conditions.

We urge concerned citizens to send a letter to the Governor asking him to grant Rev. Charles E Koen clemency: Governor Pat Quinn Office of Governor 207 State House Springfield, Illinois 62706 or call 217-782 0244.

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Internet radio talk show host, Warren Ballentine, 43, was convicted on federal charges for engaging in two mortgage fraud schemes that defrauded lenders of approximately $9.7 million in total.

Ballentine, now a resident of Durham, Warren Ballentine Ballentine's attorNorth Carolina, formerly says that he is innoney, Lewis Myers of Country Club Hills, cent. Photo credit: Ann Jr., owned the Country Club Ragland/NNPA Hills Law Office of Warren Ballentine, LLC. He was found approving at least 20 loans totaling guilty of two counts of bank fraud, approximately $6.1 million, two counts of making false statethrough false statements in mortments to lenders, and one count gage documents, including the each of mail fraud, and wire fraud, buyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intention to occupy the by a jury that deliberated for less homes as a primary residence. than an hour.

Ballentine's trial was delayed a Outside the courtroom, Ballenweek after Myers tried to pull out tine's attorney, Lewis Myers Jr., of the case at the last minute, vowed to appeal, saying Ballentine claiming his client wasn't cooperatwas ignorant of the scheme, and ing with him. Ballentine told the merely acted as a closing attorney, judge he'd been suffering from earning a total of about $8,000, depression and family health issues while the real masterminds reaped and admitted he'd stopped returning millions. his lawyer's phone calls. Kennelly, Myers noted that several of however, refused to let Myers off Ballentine's co-defendants, who the case. testified against him, had cut deals In a recent posting, Ballentine with the government. thanked God "for the vindication "The people who concocted this that will surely come." scheme never talked to The government is being repre[Ballentine]... They never had a sented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys single conversation with him about Jason Yonan and Andrew S. it," Myers said.

Boutros.

Ballentine professed his innocence in a Facebook posting at the time when he was charged, early last year.

"I made a standard fee on closings," he wrote at the time. "I know some may say everybody says their (sic) innocent. Well I am."

Ballentine remains free on bond pending sentencing, which was set for Jan. 21, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly. He faces a maximum penalty on each count of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine or an alternate fine of twice the gross gain or twice the loss, whichever is greater; restitution is mandatory. Ballentine is also subject to forfeiture of more than $9.7 million.

According to the allegations, between December 2004 and February 2005, Ballentine schemed with others to defraud various lenders into approving at least eight loans totaling approximately $3.6 million, through false statements in loan documents, including applications, HUD-1 settlement statements, and occupancy statements concerning the buyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; intention to occupy the homes they purchased as a primary residence. Ballentine then represented the buyers, recruited by others, at real estate closings, knowing that they had signed and submitted false documents and had been fraudulently qualified to purchase properties in Chicago, Monee, Woodridge, and Mokena.

Between February 2005 and May 2006, Ballentine engaged in a similar, separate scheme with others to defraud various lenders into

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The Chicago Defender has announced the appointment of noted journalist and editor, Kai El' Zabar, to the position of Executive Editor of the weekly newspaper. She become the first woman in the paper's long and storied history to hold the top editorial position.

Cheryl Mainor, who became the Chicago Defender's first woman publisher in June, said, "This is an exciting time as we move towards our 110th anniversary. With Kai in position providing editorial direction for print product and guiding the evolution of the newspaper digital platform.

However, the Defender in the early 80’s had its first Managing Editor, Faith Christmas.

The Defender statement added, “We are poised to maximize our capabilities and continue as a leader in the development of cuttingedge content relevant to the African American community." El' Zabar, while a native of Cinncinati, Ohio, is no stranger to the city or the

Chicago Defender, having previously worked at the newspaper as staff writer in the late seventies. Prior to this appointment, El' Zabar has been editor, managing editor and contributor for numerous local publications. Under her editorial leadership at N'DIGO Magapaper from1993 to 1997, that paper grew from a monthly, to a biweekly, and then to a weekly schedule. She's also held positions at Minorities in Business, LifeLines, The Journal of African American Health and www.tavistalks.com.

Speaking about her new role, El' Zabar says, "I am honored to become the editorial visionary for the Chicago Defender as it continues to grow and transform. We are on the verge of taking back our rightful place as the voice of the black community in Chicago and invite you to join us in making new history."

The Chicago Defender is a part of Real Times Media, a Detroit-based media and marketing company. Founded in 1905, the Defender will celebrate its 110th anniversary in May of 2015.

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September unemployment rates fell in Metropolitan Area 2014* 2013 every metro area for the sixth consecutive month and most are at six or seven year 5.6% 7.2% Bloomington-Normal lows, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Champaign-Urbana 6.0% 7.9% Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois DepartChicago-Jolietment of Employment Security (IDES).

6.0% 8.5% Naperville Rates fell in all 102 counties for the 12.0 fourth consecutive month.

8.2% % Danville “More people say they are working and Davenport-Moline-Rock 6.4% 7.0% fewer people describe themselves as un- Isl. 12.2 employed in every metro across our state.

7.9% % Decatur That’s great progress to build upon as we 10.7 move forward,” IDES Director Jay Row7.7% % ell said. “Private employers have added Kankakee-Bradley more than 300,000 new jobs since our Lake-Kenosha, IL-WI 5.9% 7.8% economy began to improve in 2010. Bet6.6% 9.3% ter still, more job creation is on the hori- Peoria 11.3 zon given that these same employers con8.2% % Rockford sistently post more than 200,000 help wanted ads each month.”

5.7% 7.5% Springfield Illinois businesses added jobs in eight 6.1% 8.2% metros. Largest increases: Champaign- St. Louis (IL-Section) * Data subject to revision.

Urbana (+2.2 percent, +2,400), Springfield (+1.9 Over-thepercent, September September Year +2,100), Dan- Metropolitan Area 2014* 2013** Change ville (+1.4 Bloomington-Normal MSA 89,200 89,900 -700 percent, +400) Champaign-Urbana MSA 109,700 107,300 2,400 and Kankakee- Chicago-Joliet-Naperville Metro 3,798,00 40,10 Bradley (+1.4 Div. 3,838,100 0 0 percent, Danville MSA 29,000 28,600 400 +600).

Chi- Davenport-Moline-Rock Island MSA 182,400 183,300 -900 cago-JolietDecatur MSA 51,700 51,600 100 Naperville 44,300 43,700 600 rose 1.1 per- Kankakee-Bradley MSA cent or Lake County-Kenosha County 405,600 401,100 4,500 +40,100. Larg- Metro Div. Peoria MSA 177,900 179,000 -1,100 est decreases: Rockford MSA 148,400 148,100 300 BloomingtonSpringfield MSA 113,000 110,900 2,100 Normal (-0.8 230,900 -600 percent, -700), Illinois Section of St. Louis MSA 230,300 *Preliminary **Revised Peoria (-0.6 percent, -1,100), Quad Cities (-0.5 percent, -900). Industry sectors recording job growth in the majority of metros were Leisure and Hospitality (8 of 12), Mining and Construction (7 of 12) and Wholesale Trade (7 of 12).

Not seasonally adjusted data compare the current month to the same month of the previous year. The September 2014 not seasonally adjusted Illinois rate was 6.2 percent and 12.2 percent at its peak in this economic cycle in January 2010.

Nationally, the unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in September and 10.6 percent in January 2010 at its peak. The rate identifies those who are out of work and looking for work. Historically, the state unemployment rate is higher than the national rate.

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Real Deep Associate Publisher It brings me great pleasure to introduce to the readers of the Chicago street journal Mr. Hector “witness” Dominguez. From the Latino section of the HOODHOPEMOVEMENT, Witness hails the HHM vision: World peace by way of social media, music and community activism.

Witness was born and raised in Chicago, in Humble Park. Though all of his brothers were involved in the street life, Witness had a calling on his life. The only male in his family besides his father who chose not to affiliate with the street tribe culture, he nevertheless faced many life difficulties due to both of his hard working parents seldom being present. At age 15 he attempted suicide by jumping out the window.

At 17, both of his parents became pastors, while he wasn’t fully comfortable in the pew.

At 19, his best friend, Katie, died in a car wreck and taking the loss hard, though with mixed emotions, he fled the church, returning to Christ at age 21.

He took a liking to hip hop early in life, listening to Bone Thugs, Harmony, and 2pac.

Rapping since 1996, he has no problem being labeled a Christian rapper. One of his earlier freestyles tells the story: “I know what you thinking you the pastors boy /but I was 17

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when I became the pastors boy/and even then it’s hard to hear the pastors voice/when the only pastor you ever heard was pastor troy…..

(Pastor troy is a hardcore southern rapper with a message saturated with heavy street references) He and his wife of 10 years have children together and run a church youth program catering to all ethnicities. A sneak peek of some of his material, definitely on point, was a much needed breath of fresh air in a hip hop climate thick with disrespect of women and criminality.

His song “can’t do“ inspires—don’t allow anyone to tell you what you cannot do. Praying for the whole world, and in particular his hometown of Chicago, he plugs “Forgiven Boutique”, a Christian clothing store owned by a comrade of peer, Chief Keef, then reveals plans to release a freestyle or remix a month for eight months leading to release of his long awaited album: “leading while bleeding “on HPTP (He paid the price) records. Witness can be found at his church, located at 1651 N. Karlov, on Facebook as Hector Witness and Twitter, Instagram and Sound Cloud at yosoywitness. Can he get a witness?

Versatile Poet Spoken Word Award; from 2000-2008, one of Chicagoland’s most successful open mic host and Spoken Word performers.

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work. In 1989 as an opening act for Ice-T, he met MC Light and Big Daddy Kane backstage.

In 1990 he was crowned best Chicago high school rap artist at the HS City-Wide Jamboree.

He founded P.O.E.T (People Of Extraordinary Talent), and began touring schools with edutainment programs.

FATHERHOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Upon the birth of his first child in 1993, Blaq Ice opened New Jack Jewelry in the Englewood Mall. Its success led to more ventures, including record shops, beauty salons and clothing stores. His second son was born in 1996.

Throughout the 90s, business thrived and P.O.E.T. continued touring.

POLITICAL CAREER In 2000, as first Chicago Hip Hop artist to run for office, and near youngest candidate to run in the 17th ward or the city, Blaq Ice ran for Alderman with campaign slogan, "Tradition has gotten us where we are, change will carry us into the future." Winning several debates, he finished second to the incumbent, again in 2003 and 2007, second in those races. The real victory was in demonstrating to youth an example of an educated, loquacious young black man, getting involved, speaking out.

THE INTRODUCTION OF BLAQ ICE In November 2000, inspired by a show produced by Strawberri Taylor (Queen of Erotic Poetry), he entered the spoken word scene. A coworker, thinking she was being condescending, called him black ass Ice. Black Ice became his new stage name. Then Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam hit the airwaves, and, discovering another using the name, he changed the spelling. In 2004, Blaq Ice was awarded Most

FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH On September 3, 2008, his eldest son, 15, was lost to Osteosarcoma cancer, on his second day as sophomore at Urban Prep Academy. Blaq Ice, devastated, contemplated suicide, and mourned for years, often shedding tears on stage. Spoken word became therapy; he recommitted to activism. In 2009, he established the Tyrone Hawthorne Cancer/ Scholarship Foundation, awarding Urban Prep Academy graduates with $100 expense scholarships, helping families of slain teens with burial, and granting wishes to child victims of violence and/or children stricken with disease.

A year after the loss of his son, Blaq Ice created the Truth Hour Bible Radio Show co-hosted

by Bro. Julius, with the motto, "If you can't read it, don't believe it,” attracting worldwide listenership. In 2010, the Kings and Queens of Poetry brand, honoring fellow poets, was born.

Over 2,000 listeners lead to tours in Mexico, Aruba and Jamaica. In 2011, Blaq Ice created P.O.E.T RADIO, a trailblazing internet radio station dedicated to open mic poetry, now hosting shows Sunday-Thursday, winning 2013 National Poetry Award: Best U.S. Poetry Station/Show.

In May of 2013 Blaq Ice created the Legends of Chicago Hip Hop reunion, and in June of 2013 he and J.M.D., his Hip Hop big brother, former L.O.D. member and Chicago Hip Hop Legend, established the Legends of Chicago Hip Hop organization.

Today, Blaq Ice is father to his remaining son Denzel, an international award winning spoken word life artist, touring in and out of the country, entertaining and inspiring thousands of fans and supporters, and a teacher and lecturer in schools and colleges across the U.S., with his P.O.E.T. organization membership spanning three countries. In 2013 Legends of Chicago Hip Hop was featured for community work in Jet Magazine and several other publications.

Fifteen albums and several awards later, Blaq Ice has established a legacy as one of the great Kings of Poetry in Chicago Hip Hop and American Spoken Word.

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was happening, first you passed and complained silently about the inconvenience, of irst I would like to thank the publisher of what seemed to be the constant street constructhe Chicago Street Journal for providing tion, (infrastructure improvements), later a me the opportunity to launch my very first Starbuck appeared. Then you begin to pass column in this important publication. By way various properties in the area that had privacy of introduction I am Dr. Lyn Hughes, Activist fences. Doesn’t this sound like I could be deScholar, Author, Founder of the A Philip scribing the South Loop!

Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and CulThat is exactly what happened in the area tural Economic Development (CED) consultonce known as the old 2nd ward, which had ant. For those who are unfamiliar with that been a historically significant area for African latter term, it means all things related to the Americans as far back as 1916. Thus the north broader term of Tourism. end of Bronzeville is now gone! And the transCulturally related products and or services formation of record row is taking place. With are a huge part of the tourism industry and all all of the activity that is occurring, the remainthings African American related occupy a very der of Bronzeville is up for grabs. large portion of those dollars. However, unforThe tourism industry is one of the fastest tunately the irony of this scenario is that the growing industries in this country. There are vast majority of that segment is not packaged, jobs and business opportunities hidden inside marketed and sold by African American peothat multibillion dollar envelope. You certainly ple. I believe the reason for that is that we have can’t stop it, nor should you want to. But can failed to recognize the value of our own culyou say: Bed and Breakfast establishments, tural product. restaurants, and small retail shops that are I think it is because we have not informed aimed at the dollars those tourists have left in ourselves on their pockets the many after they pay unrecognized their hotel and undevelbills, and take oped opportutours from nities that are down town, right before etc. our eyes. We If something do not and was available, have not seen they could them because head to Chino one has cago’s Southcome along side to spend and paraded them before us and some of those dollars. You could be the said here is something that will proprietor of one of those businesses, benefit you. That is your responor you could be employed by one of sibility. To take advantage of the those businesses. Wake up the remultiple opportunities that CED maining area of Bronzeville and holds requires that YOU do a Pullman your next. little work—Do the required research to develop the niche you decide you Since I don't have the time or want to pursue. Trust me if you don’t energy to write another book, someone else will. and I don't have a radio or a For two decades I have been TV show, the thought octalking about Cultural Economic curred to me that instead of Development and the Cultural Economy having these kinds of disand how these unfamiliar components of cussions with just my small Tourism can, could, and do affect our inner circle that I should community. Most do not consider or try to be more productive grasp that museums, theaters; festivals, with those conversations. art galleries, cultural and heritage tourism desAs the saying goes, pass it tinations, conferences, art fairs etc., and lest we on! Thus, I decided to do that by starting this not forget the music industry and all of the blog. I decided to call it “Just something to businesses large and small that form the infra- consider.” Who knows—there just might be structure of the tourism industry. something that grabs your attention and will All of the things I have just mentioned can motivate or inspire an idea. Thus this converand do have an economic impact on a commu- sation is my first installment of "Just Somenity, either adversely or positively. They are all thing To Consider" in fact, a part of what is referred to as the culStay tuned! In future issues I hope to bring tural economy. Further, all of these things your attention to opportunities and activities represent a substantial portion of the nation’s that just might benefit you if you are willing to economy. work for it.

Let’s take moment and reflect on a few I am honored to have the opportunity to communities in Chicago that used to be conwrite on the important subject of Cultural Ecosidered undesirable, and where the population nomic Development and all things cultural, as was at one time 100% African American. It is it relates to the African American community more the rule and not the exception that what in particular. Until next time, “Just Something seemed to be overnight, that these communiTo Consider” ties changed i.e., became gentrified, and became trendy neighborhoods.

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Dr. James Jones with Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

He is also an affiliate of HoodHope movement and doing a lot of work in the community with regard to redemption. Part of that redemption includes employing people from the hood with his record label and t-shirt business.

Also part of his efforts in giving back is agreeing to be a part of HoodHope movement hip hop summit in the capacity of spokesperson.

Included also as a part of the collaborative effort is Dr. James Jones who possesses several degrees in history, education and African American studies. Dr. Jones has also specialized in studies involving the civil rights movement, black popular culture, hip hop culture and has just completed his first book. He is currently revising a doctoral dissertation about the Black Panther party and is currently a professor of history at Prairie view A and M University.

This is being organized to unify celebrities and entertainers to create accountability regarding uplifting impoverished communities and conveying a positive message to our youth. There will be more to come.

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of August 2008, only warnings had been issued. The local chapter of the ACLU threatened legal action in response, saying that sagging did not violate the Flint disorderly conduct ordinance.

Sagging clothing is a violation of some school dress codes, and the prohibition has been supported in the court systemSeveral other laws passed in towns throughout Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, is the inclusion of an express declaration that “the exposure of a person’s buttocks, and genital area or undergarments is offensive and indecent.”

The definition for indecent exposure of undergarments is provided as anyone “wearing pants or skirts more than three inches below the top of the hips.” The ordinance requires a fine of at least $25 for an initial offense, and up to $50 for each subsequent offense.

Cagle said that in the month since the law went into effect, the Pikeville police haven’t had to write a single citation for public indecency. “We haven’t even had to give a warning yet,” he said. The initial passage of the law by Pikeville garnered widespread media attention

Although laws targeting sagging have been around since at least 2007, the wording related to “the health of the wearer,” seems to have first appeared in an ordinance passed by the city council of Dublin, Ga., in late 2010.

Additionally, in April of 2012, an Alabama judge sentenced a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for sagging in the courtroom where he was entering a plea on charges of receiving stolen property.

However, there is some question to the constitutionality of laws requiring that a person’s bottoms be a certain distance from their hips. According to Neil Richards, a professor of law at Washington University, these laws don’t fare well when challenged on First Amendment grounds. And the ACLU has been known to challenge similar laws on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause.

Challenges to the laws go back several years, including a similar law in Florida that was ruled unconstitutional by a Florida Circuit Court judge in 2008 because of the case’s “limited facts,” after a 17-year-old Riviera Beach boy spent a night in jail on accusations of exposing too much underwear.

Saggy-pants laws violate a basic First Amendment right to free speech and expression.

However, in regards to health, Moral of this story: Pull. Your. Pants. Up. Visit the BlackDoctor.org Mens Health center for more articles.

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Perspective by: Rahman Fleming

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my honest humble opinion, mainstream rap has betrayed the black community.

From its very inception, rap music was the visceral voice of the black community, particularly with the song "The Message" by GrandMaster Flash and the Furious Five, released in 1982. With this song and others like it that followed, rap become the social commentary of the black community. Rap was the medium, and rappers were the reporters.

Rap music had many different genres, such as party rap, comedic rap, and even battle rap, but social commentary rap always seemed to be the standout form. This form of rap, literally began to change the minds and collective conscious of the black community. In the late 80's and early 90's rappers such as KRS1 and groups such as Public Enemy, used their music to not only shed light on the plight of black African people in America, but also this form of rap began to teach and uplift the black community.

Rap at this time, made it cool to know African roots and be proud to wear an African medallion, and be knowledgeable about African history. Matter fact if you didn't have a lil knowledge, and have an African medallion, you were not cool, and part of the lame unpopular crowd.

Rap began to change with the début of the group N.W.A. Rap still had its social commentary perspective, however it seem to now be from the perspective of those forced to live the street life due to the poverty inflicted by America's institutions of racisms. Even though rap had evolved into a more gritty and violent art form, it still was a positive force, by shedding light on many issues that news media simply refused to address such as police brutality and how drugs affect families, as well as showing the consequences of living the street life.

Rap, often times affectionately labeled "gangsta rap" continued to evolve, as more gritty rappers emerged from the west coast, east cost, as well as the southern states. Rap even was taken to a new plateau with the emergence of Tupac Shakur, whom exemplified the seeming duality of rap, showcasing its social conscience side and its gritty street life side.

However as time went on, more and more rappers, often referred to as "studio gangsters", seem to come out and just glorify and promote the negative aspects of street life, without giving the same social commentary and showcasing the consequences of street life. Whereas rap once made it cool to be knowledgeable about African history and culture and be proud

of it, now rap made it cool to sell drugs, shoot other black people and disrespect black women, and it only continues to get worse.

Rap no longer produces any KRS1s, Furious Fives, or Tupac Shakurs, but rap is turning out dozens of studio gangsters daily. Why is this? Well depending on who you ask, you'll windup with different answers. Some will say, that rap has just evolved to mirror our culture, others will say that rap has influenced our culture into its current self destructive state. I'm inclined to believe the latter reason.

There has been a rumor for years, that major executives and other wealthy powerful people in the white community who were fearful of the positive effects rap was having on the black community, all got together to form a plan to manipulate things so that rap would instead be a force of negativity to the black community. Now to some that is just a crazy conspiracy, myself however, I've seen pretty strong evidence to suggest it is true. I wont go into all of that, nor will I say that is soley to blame for rap's betrayal of the black community, even though its a major factor and a root factor in my opinion.

I will just say this, I feel rap has betrayed the black community, because many aspiring rappers have forgotten the true meaning and purpose of what rap was....to be a relevant and entertaining form of social commentary. We no longer have many aspiring rappers who have the guts to make a song like the message, who have the guts to put knowledge and African pride in their music like Public Enemy, who have the guts to evolve from the THUG into the AFRICAN WARRIOR like Tupac, who have the guts to refuse a big paycheck for making negativity promoting music.

Now there are a few pappers who are making socially conscious music, such as Jasiri X and Sa Roc, however they are mostly underground artist who have garnered loyal followings off Youtube. The fact is, while I admire rappers like them very much, there is just not enough of them right now. Not enough rappers willing to have some real integrity, not enough rappers who are doing it out of love and not a paycheck, not enough real rappers with pride for themselves and their community. Which is why I believe, RAP HAS BETRAYED THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

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blog of Paul S. Dahlman; “I think the young urban culture has rebelled in the same manner the kids in Hollywood did back in my day. The tight pants became baggy pants, the steel chains became gold and the leather jackets became hoodies. When I see a sideways hat I see what people once saw in me. It doesn’t matter if the kid is black or white, it’s because of the way he is dressed. You can’t tell me that people shouldn’t be judged by the way they dress if they are dressing for the purpose of fear. We wanted to look like Satan loving lost children even though we weren’t. The kids today want to look like thugged out gangsters, so they dress like thugged out gangsters. They also turn to selling drugs because it’s just easier than the alternative. At some point you grow up and move on. You leave the childish things behind you. You wear clothes that are not too tight or too baggy. You put the spikes and gold chains away. You hang up your leather and you turn your cap forward. You grow up.

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associated with sagging, there doesn’t appear to be much conclusive evidence in support of that claim.

An ordinance approved June 30 by the City Council of Pikeville suggests evidence exists “that indicates that wearing sagging pants is injurious to the health of the wearer as it causes improper gait.”

According to language in the ordinance, the state public indecency law “allows for some behavior that is considered indecent.”

Sagging pants fit the definition, Mayor Phil Cagle told TNReport although he said the ordinance is meant to give cops authority to arrest people for wearing “anything that’s

considered indecent.”

“It wasn’t passed just for saggy britches, we just added that to it because we were getting — some of that looked like it was getting started here, and all you could do is just ask them to pull their pants up,” Cagle said.

Benetta Standly, statewide organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia stated, "In Atlanta, we see this as racial profiling ... It's going to target AfricanAmerican male youths. There's a fear with people associating the way you dress with crimes being committed."[12] The interim police chief of Flint, Michigan ordered the arrest of saggers for disorderly conduct; however, as (Continued on page 22)

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Chicago Street Journal

HOODHOPE HIPHOP SUMMIT Real Deep Associate Publisher Hip Hop Hood hope hip hop summit is being formed as a result of a much needed solution to the conditions that effect so many of the communities where these artist hail from and where most of their fans reside.

When I and Mr. Ron Carter discussed it I knew it would be a great idea and an idea that was also not brand new.

As I recall The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan achieved success in organizing a gathering involving many rappers to discuss the issues that plague the ghetto.

The formulation of a such a summit is absolutely necessary to the growth of the community in that hip hop has an impact on our youth which cannot be underestimated. I Recall as a

THE BIRTH OF ICE COLD Competing in historical lunchroom battles with C.O.D (Crew of Destruction) members, people began to say he was “ice cold,” so he adopted it as his stage name and then joined C.O.D., who became Legion of Doom (Traxx, Pac Man, EL Radio, JMD & Ice Cold) gaining local fame at Homecomings, Prep Rallies, Black History programs, park districts and political functions.

Opportunities poured in, including the late Mayor HarOnce in a lifetime, society is blessed with a rare spirit that old Washington's Inauguration. L.O.D. realized they brings forth cultural change, sets new standards of greatcould make a difference in their community, and beness, paving a new path for future generations. came the commercial act for BADD MIX (Body and Drugs Don't Mix and No Dope Express), the first rap American poet, international Spoken Word life artist, engroup to appear on the new CAN TV channel 19. Blaq tertainer, lecturer, promoter, producer, host, published Ice worked hard, knowing the others, a year ahead of author, mentor and activist, Blaq Ice, has left an imprint in him, would graduate, leaving him solo. In 1988, he local and national arts and entertainment with his moving changed his name to Ice Cold the Ultimate Warrior, Spoken Word poetry and artist/activism. after a favorite WWF wrestler.

THE BEGINNING Blaq Ice was born Tyrone De'Andre Hawthorne in the Englewood community on Chicago's south side. He developed an early love for arts, entertainment and R&B, gracing family gatherings with his dance skills, which he began showcasing at elementary school talent shows. He fell in love with Hip Hop in 1985 after watching the movie Krush Groove, and then meeting the M.O.C. Rappers (Top Dog, Double C & Baby Fresh).

THE FOUNDING OF P.O.E.T In 1989, with world renown saxophonist Darrell Wilson ( Sax Preacher ), as manager, Blaq Ice began his solo career, and adding two dancers, Knowledge & Wisdom, the act skyrocketed, leading to Chicago park district and Chicago Summer-fest tours and a section in the Back to School and Bud Billiken Parades. In 1989, Chicago WHPK 88.5FM and WKKC 89.3FM began playing his

Real Deep (center) with the Woodlawn youth in front of the office at 61st and St. Lawerence

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youngster one of my favorite groups was N.W.A …

N-words with an attitude. These brothers produced genocidal music with a message promoting criminal conduct and direct disrespect of women.

According to a reliable source these brothers were convinced with a guaranteed pay off to produce this music and promised that it would be promoted with radio play and pushed to the top of the chart. All of this was of course conducted as a secret meeting behind closed doors and nondisclosure statements were signed to seal the deal.

When this was brought to my attention I was shocked and appalled, however being a historian I was not surprised at all.

And it made sense because at the same time the “gangster” rap was being promoted, the billion dollar prison industrial complex was being built fuled by a poison called crack cocaine in which the real Rick Ross was used as pawn by the president of the united states of America Ronald Regan and the c.i.a to distribute this poison and the money was utilized to fund a illegal war known as “the Iran contra scandal” This is fact and can be researched and also read about in a book the Real Rick Ross has out entitled “crack in the system” (Continued on page 22)