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Genet Hopewell challenging Superior Court Judge Johnson

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

her law partner and District 5 Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson, former DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, and attorneys Mawuli Davis and Dwight Thomas – broke into cheers and applause.

Hopewell was highlighting differences between herself and Johnson, who is being investigated by the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission for denying a defense attorney’s urgent requests for a bathroom break, causing her to urinate on herself, during a murder trial in June.

Former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young has also complained about how he was treated

Longtime DeKalb attorney Genet Hopewell is surrounded by friends and supporters at a press conference to announce her campaign for the seat held by Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson.

Attorney Genet McIntosh Hopewell will challenge DeKalb Superior Court Judge Courtney Johnson for her seat in the May 22 nonpartisan election.

Announcing her candidacy on Feb. 7, Hopewell, a 35-year DeKalb lawyer, drew sharp contrasts between her and the judge she hopes to unseat.

“Those who know me will tell you that I am a patient person, that I am calm, I am understanding. I am compassionate,” she said.

“And above all, I do have common sense.”

At that “common sense” comment, the 25 supporters surrounding her – including Please see HOPEWELL, page 4

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Tire dumping a growing problem in DeKalb Sites proliferate faster than county can clear them

George Davis, head of church security at Greenforest Baptist Church, estimates that more than 2,000 tires were dumped on property the church owns on Rainbow Drive.

The county is also cleaning up dump sites at Fork Creek Mountain Park on River Road and at Countyline Park on Old River Road.

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

In a secluded corner of the campus of Greenforest Baptist Church in Decatur lies a mountain of tires.

George Davis, a deacon and head of church security, estimates that there are more than 2,000 tires dumped behind the house, directly across from the Porter Sanford Center, that the church is refurbishing for meetings.

No one knows how or when the tires got there.

Davis said this week that they discovered the first few tires on the property about two weeks ago. Then the pile kept growing.

George Davis “Yesterday around 2 p.m., someone leaving a meeting saw a black pickup truck with tires on it going down the driveway,” Davis said.

By the time church security got to the location, the truck was gone – and the pile of tires was larger.

Davis, a Greenforest member since 1988, said he has never seen anything like that.

“We really just feel violated,” he said Jan. 31. “I have seen tire dumping on the news but we never thought this would happen to us, a church.”

DeKalb County officials say tire dumping has become a common and expensive problem, on public and now private properties.

Gordon Burkette, Keep DeKalb Beautiful program director, said they get calls every day about tire dump sites ranging from 100 to 1,000 tires.

“It is a huge problem,” Burkette said Feb. 1. “Tires are expensive to take care of and a big health problem because they are a breeding ground for mosquitoes. One or two tires can creates thousands of mosquitoes. Imag-

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ine what happens with hundreds of tires.”

Burkette said the problem appears to be getting worse this year.

“Every day this year that we have been at work we have had calls about tires,” he said.

“This week, we got a call every day. Last week, every day we were here, we got a call.”

In 2017, Burkette said they retrieved about 100 tires a month.

“We are already over that this year,” he said.

Already this year, 25 dump sites have been reported to the county.

Burkette said tire dumpers favor isolated roads and secluded properties.

Last summer, after removing hundreds of tires and other debris from Old McDonough Road, the county closed the road and erected barricades blocking access to it.

The county is still cleaning up Fork Creek Mountain Park on River Road, where more than 20,000 dumped tires were discovered in December. Tires were also dumped at Countyline Park on Old River Road.

Marvin Billups, DeKalb Parks & Recreation Department deputy director, said it was disheartening to find the tire dumps on park land.

“I have been here going on 15 years and we never had this kind of intrusion,” he said,

“People tend to respect parks.”

Businesses and residents have to pay to dispose tires at the county landfill. Billups believes that greed is behind the increase in tire dumping in the county.

Both parks are in Ellenwood, on the way to the county’s Seminole Landfill.

“I think the people doing it are being paid to take them to the landfill. On their way, they find isolated areas to dump them so they can keep all the money for themselves,” Billups said. “I think they want to maximize their profits.”

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Leadership DeKalb convenes and connects leaders, informs them on matters vital to the county, and enhances their leadership skills.

District 4 seeks Leadership DeKalb taking applications for Class of 2019 appointees to advisory boards Animal lovers and people passionate about technology and communications who live in DeKalb Commission District 4 can apply for appointments to two boards overseeing those functions.

Commissioner Steve Bradshaw is seeking volunteers for the DeKalb Animal and CATV advisory boards.

He says that Animal Board members will serve “as liaison to animal advocacy groups, animal Steve Bradshaw professionals and county government for the purpose of creating a method for clear communication.”

The CATV Citizens’ Board will advise commissioners the CATV system’s facilities, equipment, and access channels.

Interested residents should send a resume and statement of purpose to Alesia Brooks at adbrooks@dekalbcountyga.gov.

Vaughn Irons addressed Leadership DeKalb’s Class of 2017 on Economic Development Day. The nonprofit leadership training organization is accepting applications through March 26.

Leadership DeKalb

Community and business leaders looking to hone their knowledge of DeKalb County and build a network of influential friends can apply for Leadership DeKalb’s Class of 2019.

The nonprofit leadership training organization is accepting applications through March 26 for its 10-month class that takes place monthly from Sept. 14, 2018, to June

7, 2019. Class sessions are held third Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Leadership DeKalb, which has more than 1,000 alumni, convenes and connects leaders, informs them on matters vital to the county, and enhances their leadership skills. Eligible applicants include leaders from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Class members learn about history, di-

versity, government, justice, arts and culture, education, health and economic development in the county.

The cost for the program is $3,200 and there is a $35 application fee.

To nominate someone, or to apply for the class, visit www.leadershipdekalb.org, email contact info@leadershipdekalb.org, or call 404-373-2491.

Repeat violators face felony charges, fines up to $25,000 and 5 years in jail TIRES,

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Burkette said that residents must stay alert and report tire dumping when they see it happening.

Referencing the Fork Creek Mountain Park dumping, which is the county’s largest dump site to date, Burkette said there are people living close to the park.

“Someone must have seen the truck with the tires,” he said. “People have to be vested

in their communities. If you see something, say something. If you see a truck pull up and start dumping tires call the police. We might be able to catch one of these people.”

Dumping tires is a misdemeanor charge but repeat violators face felony charges and fines up to $25,000 and/or five years in prison.

Burkette said piles of dumped tires grow like kudzu.

“If there is one today, there will be 10

tomorrow and by next week, 200,” he said.

“That’s why we have to come and get them.

That stuff you have to get out of the neighborhood fast.”

At Greenforest Baptist, church trustees now plan to post “No Dumping” signs and to block access to the property where the dumping took place.

Dr. Emory Berry, the church’s pastor, said they don’t yet know what the costs of removing the tires will be. He said they

working with District 3 Commissioner Larry Johnson, who represents the area.

“We were shocked and surprised to learn of the dumping,” he said. “Hopefully we will be able to get to the bottom of it.”

To help stop dumping Call 678-406-7929, if you see trucks dumping tires. To report dumped-tire piles, call Keep DeKalb Beautiful at 404-2942010.

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“She is respectful to everyone. She is fair.

She is impartial, and she is firm.”

Challenging an incumbent judge is rare in DeKalb HOPEWELL,

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by Johnson when he came to Ellis’ trial to testify about the need to raise money for campaigning in politics.

“I have testified before the toughest of the tough and the meanest judges in the country,” he told AJC columnist Bill Torpy in September 2017.

“I have never felt so disrespected in a courtroom in my life.”

Johnson also denied Ellis the opportunity to mount his defense, leading to the Georgia Supreme Court overturning his sentence.

Hopewell told supporters holding “Elect Genet Hopewell” signs at her campaign kickoff that she was raised to show respect for others no matter their position in life.

“I will be fair and impartial to all who come before me,” she said. “I will have the utmost respect. In short, I will do everything that I can to be one of the best judges in DeKalb County.”

Hopewell is undertaking a tall order. Historically, DeKalb County voters do not remove Genet Hopewell incumbent judges from office unless they disgrace themselves.

In the last 35 years, the only incumbent judge to be unseated in DeKalb was State Court Judge J. Oscar Mitchell, who made national headlines in 1960 when he cuffed and shackled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and sentenced him to four months of hard labor in Georgia State Prison at Reidsville for “a probation violation for driving in Georgia with an Alabama license.”

Time Magazine at the time said Mitchell’s action “reeked of red-neck justice.”

In 1982, Clarence Seeliger, now a DeKalb Superior Court Judge, defeated Mitchell, who had been in office for 30 years. Seeliger challenged Mitchell for his insensitive handling of African Americans in his courtroom and for refusing to hire any professional African Americans in the courts.

Hopewell hopes to dislodge Johnson by highlighting issues with her temperament, and her handling of people in her courtroom.

Hopewell said she is not running just be a judge.

“If I just wanted to be a judge I would run for the open seat,” she said alluding to the race to replace Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey, who is retiring. “It’s about that division running efficiently. For me it’s about improving the bench. I want the bench to the best it can be.”

When people go to court, Hopewell said, they expect the judge to be competent, impartial and fair, listen to them, treat them with respect and make a fair decision.

“People lose faith in the justice system when they don’t have these things,” she said, adding that justice should not depend on which courtroom you end up in.

“Everyone should get the same high quality of service,” Hopewell said. “There is a lot of discontent with this judge. Everywhere I go, people are complaining about how poorly this judge treats them. They should be talking instead about the issues of the case, not the judge.”

While she has spent most of her legal career in private practice, Hopewell has been a DeKalb

Recorders, Magistrate and Juvenile Court Judge for more than a decade.

To unseat Johnson, she said she intends to let the voters know about her background and qualifications.

Davis Johnson said it’s time for a change on the bench and that Hopewell, who has been her law partner since 2007, is eminently qualified to be judge.

“I know she has the background,” she said. “She is respectful to everyone. She is fair. She is impartial, and she is firm.”

Thomas, president of Atlanta-based Dwight L. Thomas PC, said he is supporting Hopewell because DeKalb County deserves better than what Johnson has been dispensing.

“We deserve judges that respect all people – lawyers, witnesses and litigants,” said Thomas, who lives in Stone Mountain and was one of Ellis’ lawyers. “Judges should not disrespect people. You have to have judicial temperament. You have to be willing to listen to people even if you disagree with them. You have to treat people with courtesy and not be snapping at them. We thought we had that stuff in the rearview mirror.”

Thomas said he has known Hopewell for 35 years and is confident that she is well suited for the job.

Johnson, who was elected in 2010, did not respond to requests for a comment about Hopewell’s challenge. She is completing her second four-year term and was unopposed in her 2014 re-election.

– Tekia Parks contributed to this report.

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”Having five Wal-Mart stores within a 10-mile radius of our neighborhood is not giving us the shopping choices we need.”

Hidden Hills Civic Association trying to entice Publix to stay

By Tekia L. Parks

In a last-ditch attempt to convince Publix to stay open on South Hairston Road, the Hidden Hills Civic Association is sponsoring a Super Shopping Day at the supermarket on Feb. 17.

The association represents 1,600 singlefamily homes near the Publix, which is scheduled to close on March 3. It is asking residents to shop at the store on Feb. 16 to demonstrate their buying power.

It has also launched an online petition, collecting signatures to send to Publix to try to change the company’s mind.

Residents can sign the petition at www. wearehiddenhills.com.

At a Feb. 6 association meeting with District 5 Commissioner Mereda DavisJohnson, residents said the county is partly to blame for Publix’s impending departure.

In a Jan. 25 letter to DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond, Hidden Hills resident Miriam Martin wrote, ”Having five Wal-Mart stores within a 10-mile radius of our neighborhood is not giving us the shopping choices we need to have a viable community.”

Martin, who lives on Wedgewood Drive

October, and Walmart Neighborhood Market at Panola Road and Covington Highway in Lithonia on Jan. 30.

On Jan. 11, the Sam’s Club on Turner Hill Road in Stonecrest closed.

At the Feb, 6 meeting at Berean Community Center on Young Road, Davis Johnson suggested that e-commerce played a part in the store’s departure.

She said she doesn’t believe it’s a demographics issue.

“Believe it or not, stores are closing everywhere,” Davis Johnson said.

Residents said they were frustrated with e-commerce being used as an excuse for the recent and impending store closings.

“I’m not believing that,” Martin said.

“People still buy groceries.”

Davis-Johnson says she is always supSharif Williams / CrossRoadsNews portive of citizens voicing their concerns.

The Hidden Hills Civic Association is asking residents to shop at the Publix on South Hairston Road “I try to get to the facts and then you see on Feb. 16 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the store open. what can be done about it,” she said. in Stone Mountain, said she believes that partment to come up with a formula that Publix spokesperson Brenda Reid said the county’s desire to generate new revenue would allow for healthy competition to in November that the South Hairston store overrides the possibility of healthy compe- keep quality stores in our communities,” has been under-performing for some time tition which has caused stores to close and Martin wrote. and that the company has been unable to The area near the Hidden Hills com- make it profitable. leave eyesores in the community.

“Your office must work with the Board munity lost the Kroger at North Hairston The Publix is at 2075 South Hairston of Commissioners, and the Planning De- and Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain last Road in Decatur.

40 employers coming to Goodwill job fair at Saint Philip AME Church Job hunters can seek to impress nearly 40 employers at a Feb. 22 job fair at Saint Phillip AME Church.

The job fair, co-hosted by the church and Goodwill of North Georgia, takes place 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Elaine Armstrong, Goodwill’s vice president of marketing, said they are encourage anyone who is looking for a job – or a better

job – to attend.

“Attendees should dress in business casual attire, bring copies of their resume, and be prepared to talk with multiple hiring employers,” she said.

Employers who will be ready to hire include DeKalb County Schools, Georgia Department of Labor, Marriott Corp., and Pepsi Co.

Job hunters are encouraged to pre-register at www.careerconnector.org.

Those who need help creating a resume and assistance honing their interview skills should visit any Goodwill career center prior to the job fair. For a list of centers, visit http:// goodwillng.org/locations.

Last year, Goodwill of North Georgia provided job training and employment

services to 52,485 people and helped 24,188 people find jobs or start new businesses.

The organization currently operates 60 stores and about 58 attended donation centers. Proceeds from the stores help fund job training and placement programs.

Saint Philip AME is at 240 Candler Road in Atlanta, at the corner of Candler Road and Memorial Drive.

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Motley argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning Brown v. Board of Education and eight others.

Trailblazing female civil rights attorney coming into focus

By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

The life and work of trailblazing civil rights attorney Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) will be discussed on Feb. 18 at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.

Motley, one of many unsung civil rights heroines, is not as well-known as her mentor Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, but Constance Motley her fingerprints are all over some of the nation’s most far-reaching legislation that helped shape civil, educational, women’s and human rights.

The only female staff attorney of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Motley was on the front line of the legal assault on segregation. Her 20-year work as a key strategist and litigator brought her into close association with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While King and civil rights activists were fighting in the streets, Motley battled in the courts between 1946-1964 to desegregate southern schools, buses, and lunch counters.

She was a key litigator and legal strategist for landmark civil rights cases like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the desegregation of the universities of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

She represented Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others jailed for their participation in sit-ins, marches and freedom rides.

The Feb. 18 Black History Month discussion, “Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice Under Law,” takes place 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

It will be led by Dr. Gary L. Ford Jr., author of “Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law.” The 176-page book, the definitive treatise on Motley, was published by University of Alabama Press on Sept. 26, 2017.

Ford is assistant professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College. The book, which grew out of his dissertation, explores how Motley broke down barriers, overcame gender constraints, and operated outside the feminine role assigned to women by society and the civil rights movement. It documents Motley’s ground-breaking work which is finally emerging from the shadows.

He says the narrative of the civil rights movement is fundamentally and irrevocably altered by the inclusion of Constance Baker Motley.

“Her story is like a breath of fresh air that only strengthens the legacy of the movement as a whole,” he told Eastern Connecticut State University on Jan. 24.

Ford said Motley’s contribution expands the view of history from the model of leader-

Constance Baker Motley was photographed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King at the 1965 SCLC Convention honoring Rosa Parks.

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“Her story is like a breath of fresh air that only strengthens the legacy of the movement as a whole. Judge Motley broke down barriers for other women of color, attorneys and women in general.”

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ship by charismatic men to a more complex model that includes female change agents and leaders.

“Judge Motley broke down barriers for other women of color, attorneys and women in general,” he said.

Among Motley’s many accomplishments: She was the first black woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, the first black woman to be elected to the New York Senate, the first to be elected president of the Borough Council of Manhattan, and the first black woman appointed to the Federal bench.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson named her to the southern district of New York, a position she held for 40 years.

In 1950, as the lone female lawyer on the Brown v. Board of Education case, Motley wrote the first brief in the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared segregated public schools unconstitutional.

In 1962, she successfully argued before the Supreme Court for the admission of James Meredith to the all-white University of Mississippi. As a federal judge in 1978, she made the breakthrough decision that allowed female reporters into the locker rooms of Major League Baseball.

Born Connie Baker in Connecticut in September 1921 to parents from the Carib-

Though not as well-known as her mentor Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley won many landmark civil rights cases.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Educational Fund, Inc.

bean island of Nevis, Motley was the ninth of 12 children. Her father, McCullough Alva Baker, worked as a chef with various student societies, including the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University, often bringing home leftovers from the tables of rich white students. Her mother, Rachel Huggins, worked as a domestic.

Motley decided at an early age that she wanted to be a lawyer, but couldn’t find the money for college until white philanthropist Clarence W. Blakeslee saw her organizing and speaking on behalf of her neighborhood community, and paid her way through private college – Fisk University in Tennessee and New York University – and Columbia Law School, where she was the first black woman accepted.

Motley argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning Brown v. Board of Education and eight others, including the 1962 desegregation case that forced the all-white University of Mississippi to accept James Meredith as a student. The 10th decision, which would have allowed blacks to sit on juries, was eventually overturned in her favor.

There were also legal cases she argued in lower courts for integration at the University of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Among them, the case that paved the way for Charlayne Hunter-Gault to become the first black student to enter the University of Georgia at Athens in 1961. Hunter-Gault went on to become a star on PBS’ “MacNeilLehrer Report.”

In 1963 Motley helped Harvey Gantt win admission to Clemson University in South Carolina. He went on to found his own ar-

chitectural firm, and was elected mayor of Charlotte, N.C., in 1983.

Motley also won a difficult court victory for Vivian Malone Jones in the second University of Alabama case in 1963, despite opposition from the state’s racist governor, George Wallace, who famously declared “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!” in his inaugural address on the steps of the state capitol in January 1963.

Motley also won the enrollment of the “Little Rock Nine” to the racially segregated Central High in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.

The students, with the court order in hand, were physically blocked from entering the school by Gov. Orval Faubus and the state’s National Guard. They were only allowed access after President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to the city to quell the white opposition and escort the students into class.

Motley also won rulings that desegregated countless restaurants and whites-only lunch counters in Tennessee and Alabama, and she petitioned Georgia courts for King’s right to march in his home state and visited him in jail as his lawyer.

Motley also spent time in Mississippi under armed guard helping to protect famed civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was murdered in 1963 by a white supremacist.

Sources for this story include: n Gary L. Ford’s “Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice Under Law” n www.commondreams.org/ views/2015/02/23/justice-black-woman-amazing-constance-baker-motley n www.seniorwomen.com/news/ index.php/culture-watch-jo-freemans-review-of-constance-baker-motleyone-woman-s-fight-for-civil-rightsand-equal-justice-under-law, n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Baker_Motley, and n http://www.easternct.edu/pressreleases/

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Decatur’s oldest AME church celebrating 148th anniversary

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, the oldest A.M.E. church in Decatur and the second oldest in DeKalb County, will be 148 years old this year and it is celebrating with a series of events on Feb. 17, March 11 and March 17.

Established in 1870 under the leadership of the Rev. Granison Daniel, Mt. Zion A.M.E. began life as Rocky Knoll A.M.E. Church in an old boxcar on or near Lawrenceville Highway.

Its current Lavista Road location was donated by Judson Stokes Sr. The old boxcar building was improved for several years until the church building was constructed.

The Rev. Lemora B. Dobbs, who was appointed senior pastor in June 2017, is Mt. Zion’s 40th and first female pastor.

Dobbs said that the Lemora B. Dobbs church, which serves the needs of Lavista Road families and community, has much to be thankful for.

“This celebration is about inclusiveness, love, and working to help others in need,” she said.

The two-month celebration includes a Gospel Sing-a-Long on Feb.17; the 148th Church Anniversary Service on March 11; and a Prayer Breakfast on March 17.

During a two-hour sing-a-long directed by Minister of Music Adrienne Nelms-Hickman, adults and children will learn about traditional Negro spirituals and songs used by African Americans to advocate for freedom, inclusion

Mt. Zion, the second oldest A.M.E. church in DeKalb County, which began life as Rocky Knoll A.M.E. Church (1970s photos) is celebrating its 148th anniversary.

and stronger faith.

During the sing-a-along, which takes place 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., there will be a photo exhibit of Mt. Zion’s history dating to the 1920s in the church’s Fellowship Hall.

Bishop to preach on March 11 Bishop Regional Thomas Jackson, the A.M.E. Church Sixth Episcopal District presiding prelate, will preach at the 148th Church Anniversary Service, March 11 at 10:30 a.m.

Oldest black churches in DeKalb n 1849 – Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, 848 Porter Road, Decatur n 1860 – Flat Rock Community Church, 4542 Evans Mill Road, Lithonia, founded as Flat Rock Episcopal Church. It became United Methodist in 1971. n 1868 – Antioch AME Church, 765 S. Hairston Road, Stone Mountain, is the first AME church founded in DeKalb. n 1870 – Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, began in a boxcar on or near Lawrenceville Highway. It is now located at 2977 Lavista Road in Decatur n 1882 – Thankful Baptist Church, 830 West College Ave., Decatur n 1896 – Union Missionary Baptist Church, 2474 Bruce St., Lithonia

Jackson, who was elected and consecrated the 132nd bishop of the A.M.E. Church in 2012, oversees more than 500 churches in Georgia.

At 3 p.m. on March 11, a community service Regional Jackson featuring gospel music will take place. Elected officials have been invited and there will be words of faith from community partners.

The anniversary festivities culminate on March 17 with a Prayer Breakfast at 10 a.m.

Mt. Zion AME is at 2977 Lavista Road in Decatur. For more information, visit www. mtzionamec.org or call 404-633-2288.

Columbia Drive UMC’s ‘Heritage to Horizon’ events celebrate black history sical tributes, African Georgia gubernatorial dance, skits, and a soul candidate Stacey Abrams food dinner as the Deand DeKalb Solicitorcatur church highlights General Donna ColemanAfrican Americans’ Stribling will be keynote achievements from speakers at Columbia Drive yesterday, today and United Methodist Church’s tomorrow.

“Heritage to Horizon: The All events are free Spirit to Overcome” events D. Coleman-Stribling Stacey Abrams open to the public. celebrating Black History Abrams, who is former state repreMonth.

Abrams will speak Feb. 11 and Coleman- sentative and Minority Leader, will share Stribling on Feb. 25. On Feb. 18, Columbia her vision for a bold, forward-looking UMC’s senior pastor, the Rev. Ralph L. Georgia. The service will be followed by Thompson Jr., will speak on the Black History Meals from the Motherland, a soul food dinner featuring everything from yams Month theme. and collard greens to corn pudding and Each service starts at 10 a.m.

The “Heritage to Horizon” events also decadent desserts.

Thompson, a sought-after preacher, include inspiring worship experiences, mu-

The 75-member Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band will perform at 4 p.m. on Feb. 25.

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teacher, author and community leader, will bring a prophetic message on Feb. 18. The church’s Heritage Choir will perform.

Coleman-Stribling, who has been DeKalb County solicitor-general since January 2017, annually prosecutes more than 13,000 misdemeanor crimes. She also prosecutes county ordinance violations.

On Feb. 25 at 4 p.m., the Metropolitan

Atlanta Community Band, co-founded in October 1996 by music educators Dr. Alfred D. Wyatt Sr. and Curtis Byrdsong, will perform in concert. The 75-member band of amateur and professional musicians has performed all over the country.

The church is at 2067 Columbia Drive.

For more information, visit www.CDUMC. com or call 404-284-4151.

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In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia law violated the 14th Amendment.

‘Loving’ tells the story of couple who changed marriage laws Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, right and left, are portrayed in the movie Loving by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga (middled photo).

They were arrested in Virginia in 1958 because he was white and she was African American.

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“Loving,” the story of a mixed-race couple arrested in Virginia for getting married, will be screened Feb. 16 at the Scott Candler Library in Decatur.

The movie – released in November 2016, and starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton – is part of the library’s Black History Month series of movies about African-Americans who impacted history.

The 1 p.m. screening is for adults 18 years and older.

“Loving” tells the story of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were arrested in 1958

for marrying because he was white and she was African American.

The couple traveled from their home in Virginia to Washington, D.C., to marry. On their return to Virginia they were arrested for violating a state law that banned marriage between people of different races.

At the time, 24 states had laws banning mixed marriages.

A judge sentenced them to a year in jail but suspended the sentence if they left Virginia for 25 years. The Lovings chal-

lenged the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

In 1967, a unanimous court eventually ruled for them by finding that the Virginia law violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which states: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within T:7.75” its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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Negga, an Ethiopian-born actress, received a 2017 Academy Award Best Actress nomination for her role in the movie.

Edgerton received a 2017 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture.

The movie won the AARP Best Movies for Grownups Award in 2017.

During the screening, complimentary popcorn will be provided by the Friends of Scott-Candler Library.

The library is at 1917 Candler Road in Decatur.

Black History Month contest for young performers Young people with talent can show off their black history chops and vie for up to $100 in prize money on Feb. 17 in the Stewart Foundation’s Black History Month Contest.

Contestants can enter poetry, dance, monologue, spoken words and other creative art forms. They will have three minutes to perform.

The contest is open to the first 20 entrants who are up to 18 years old. They must register at www.eventbrite.com/e/blackhistory-month-talent-show-contest-tickets42985694369.

Contestants will be judged on creativity, originality, relevance and overall delivery.

The contest takes place 9 a.m. to noon at Nancy’s Pizza, 265 Ponce de Leon Ave. N.E. in Atlanta.

There will be complimentary continental breakfast and Nancy’s Pizza for lunch.

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History isn’t just something you read about, it’s something you make every day.

Models will showcase fashion designs from African Art and Design Gallery on Feb. 17 at the Sights and Sounds Black Cultural Expo Museum at North DeKalb Mall.

The fashion show, coordinated by Tracey Spencer, struts off at 1 p.m. There will be a drumming presentation at 3 p.m.

Participants will also get to play the Sights and Sound Wheel of History Game and view a special exhibit on Civil Rights Activists.

Selma the movie and Selma the documentary on the bridge and the ballot will be screened.

The event is part of the museum’s celebration of Black History Month taking place Saturdays in February The Sights and Sounds Black Cultural Expo Museum, which has more than 8,000 pieces of art, documents, books, artifacts, and other memorabilia, is inside the mall at 2050 Lawrenceville Highway in Decatur.

For more information, visit http://www. preservingblackhistory.com/sights-andsounds-black-cultural-expo-museum/ or call 404- 454-1462.

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“Most people in that area, they have to choose between a roof and food. I wanted to make that decision easier for them.”

Ninth-grader serves sandwiches to the homeless Clinic for men soon at Vinson Health Center

By Tekia L. Parks While many 15-year-olds are busy on their cell phones or sleeping in on Saturday morning, Sevon Burns is busy making sandwiches or cooking hotdogs to serve to homeless people in Decatur.

For the last 17 months, the Stone Mountain High School ninth-grader has been serving men and women hungry for food and attention.

Between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. every Saturday, Sevon can be found serving others outside Club Chit Chat at 2920 Ember Sevon Burns Drive in Decatur.

Working though her Sandwiches with Sevon group that she set up, she served hotdogs and chips to 80 people on Feb. 3. That was eight more than the 72 people she fed on Jan. 27.

“Most people in that area, they have a job but don’t have enough to put a roof over their head. They have to choose between a roof and food. I wanted to make that decision easier for them,” she said.

Sevon began feeding the homeless in September 2016 when her father, Anthony Burns, challenged her to find something to do because she showed no interest in afterschool activities.

She started out making sandwiches and serving them with a bag of chips, a drink and fruit or candy. She also prepared meals for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Easter and fed 100 people over the holidays.

Today, the menu can range from hotdogs to meatballs and may include baked beans, potato salad or pasta salad.

On cold winter days, she includes soups or chili as well.

Teeno Flower, owner of Club Chit Chat, said he couldn’t resist the 15-year-old daughter of his friend Anthony Burns, when she asked to use his place of business to distribute the food.

“I think she has the biggest heart,” he said.

Now Flower and other small business owners have started donating funds for food, tables, paper plates, disposable utensils and other items needed for the food giveaway.

Sevon Burns estimates she has served 3,500 plates since she started providing meals outside Club Chit Chat on Ember Drive in September 2016.

“We raise money for her every week,” Flower said, adding that Sevon has changed his life by making him question the way he uses his time. “I never seen a child that passionate about helping people,” he said.

“Grown people don’t do what she’s doing.”

Sevon is also raising $2,000 at www.gofundme.com/sandwicheswithsevon to continue to feed the homeless. As of Feb. 8, she had raised $215 from eight people in the last six months.

On their first outing in September 2016, Sevon and her father fed 35 people. Since then, she has only missed five Saturdays, all for reasons beyond her control. Even through recent inclement weather, Sevon showed up with hot soup to warm the stomachs of those suffering in the cold.

“Those are her people, so she gotta take care of them,” her father said. He said her passion for feeding the homeless has blown him away.

“It’s routine now,” he said. “I don’t spend my Saturday any other way.”

Sevon’s example has inspired teens in the Ember Road neighborhood and now some are volunteering with her on Saturdays to feed the homeless.

Sevon, who estimates she has served 3,500 plates since she started 17 months ago, said the project has to be weekly.

“I can go once or twice a month, ok,” she said. “But what about the other two Saturdays?”

Starting Feb. 21, DeKalb County men will have a health and wellness clinic to take care of their nonemergency medical needs.

The Men’s Health and Wellness Clinic, a first for the county, is opening at the DeKalb Board of Health’s T.O. Vinson Health Center in Decatur.

The clinic, which will serve patients Wednesday and Thursday evenings by appointment, will offer low-income, uninsured or under-insured men non-emergency, chronic disease management and primary care medical services, including pharmaceuticals.

The Men’s Health and Wellness Clinic is funded by the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority and is in partnership with DeKalb Medical Center’s Physicians Care Clinic Inc. It is part of a larger men’s health initiative providing disease-specific prevention education and community health outreach activities targeting men living in DeKalb County.

Dr. S. Elizabeth Ford, DeKalb County District Health director, said the Board of Health views the clinic’s opening as an opportunity to address men’s health in DeKalb County, where males experience significantly less than optimal health outcomes and have lower life expectancies than their female counterparts.

“With the help of our partners, we are pleased to provide a resource for men to receive free preventative services and view this accomplishment as a stepping stone to addressing men’s health in DeKalb County,” she said.

The National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for almost one in four deaths, and that it affects men more significantly than women.

“Eliminating or decreasing risk factors can lower the chances of developing a chronic disease such as heart disease,” Ford said.

The T.O. Vinson Health Center is at 440 Winn Way in Decatur. For more information. call 404-508-7847.

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Johnson said they had a robust discussion of the issues around the new tax plan in his first tax town hall in January.

Johnson hosting 2nd town hall to explore GOP tax plan Mobile Farmers Taxpayers can find out more about the and trims the changes the tax bracket for Market deadline “We’ve invited new tax law at a Feb. 12 Tax Teach In at the top income earners to 37 percent from academics, Lou Walker Senior Center.

39.6. moved to Feb. 15 Fourth District U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson is The 4th District includes portions of policymakers,

hosting the 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. town hall meetDeKalb, Rockdale, Newton and Gwinnett w Your PRIDE, South DeKalb! the health care ing as part of a nationwide effort to explain counties. Johnson said they had a robust Businesses, communities and other orShow Your PRIDE, South DeKalb!

Show Your PRIDE, South DeKalb! community and to constituents what the Republicans’ tax local governments to plan means to families, jobs and economic growth. participate.”

“We’ve invited academics, policymakers, Hank Johnson the health care community and local governsigned the tax bill into law on Dec. 22. ments to participate,” Johnson said.

The $1.5 trillion tax law reduces the corThe Tax Teach In is Johnson’s second in the district since President Donald Trump porate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent

discussion of the issues around the new tax plan in his first tax town hall in Lilburn in January.

The Lou Walker Senior Center is at 2538 Panola Road in Lithonia.

For more information, call 770-9872291. To RSVP, visit www.facebook.com/ events/198770780705036/.

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DeKalb County Cooperative Extension extended the deadline by 14 days to get more participation.

The mobile farmers’ market, which launched in May 2015, starts in the spring and makes visits around the county weekly for 16 weeks.

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