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Editorial An economic solution to war on Black boys By James Clingman NNPA columnist
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emember the Jena Six? Some 15,000 to 20,000 protesters went to Jena, La., in 2006 to demonstrate against injustice. After all the speeches, threats, marches, and church rallies, the people went home and nothing really changed. The prosecutors did their thing and the system rolled right over Mychal Bell and the other five defendants. It was business as usual. Did we learn anything from Jena that we can apply in Ferguson? What will take place in Ferguson when the protesters leave? What happened in Sanford, Fla., after they left? What has happened in Staten Island since Eric Garner was choked to death and the marches have end? The latest report says the prosecutor is still trying to “collect the dots,” much less connect the dots, and most have forgotten about Garner and his family and moved on to Ferguson, as it now becomes the crisis du jour for Black people. Eleven years ago, Kenneth Walker was shot and killed by a police officer on I-185 in Columbus,
Ga. He was in a car that was pulled over by mistake. He was on the ground, unarmed, when a police officer shot him twice in the head. After protesters and marchers went home, the officer was acquitted. There are many instances of Black men killed by police with impunity. So what’s my point? Well, as I watched the church services and listened to the speeches in Ferguson, I eagerly awaited the speakers’ solutions. I could have missed it, but I never heard a solution that centered on economics. I heard the obligatory voting solution, in light of an embarrassing 12 percent turnout among Black voters, but an “I Voted!” sticker will not stop a policeman’s bullet, and voting alone will not change our condition in this nation. I also heard the praying solution, and I do believe that prayer changes things. However, I am suggesting that the folks in Ferguson and all across this country not only pray but fast as well. That combination will definitely create change. Be clear now: I am not talking about giving up food for a period of time. The kind of fasting I am suggesting is a “product fast. Capital-
ism can tolerate marches that call for voting and prayer, but it has a great deal of angst when a decline in consumption and sales occurs. “Black-out” days and other shotgun approaches are nice gestures but have no overall affect; they are simply more symbolism without substance. They make you feel good but won’t cause anyone to change. Folks just go out the next day and buy what they want. A product fast is quite different. For instance, Black folks purchase a lot of soft drinks, sneakers, liquor, fast foods, and other items we don’t think we can do without. Just stop buying some of these products until corporate CEOs tell the politicians who would tell the governors who would tell the mayors and prosecutors who would tell the police chiefs who would tell their officers to stop violating our rights. You better believe their voices will be heard. Money runs politics, and when campaign donors are against something they will get results from the politicians they support, especially when their bottom-line is adversely affected. For example, can you imagine Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Coca Cola CEO Muhtar
Blacks should protest with their money and flex their buying power to bring change.
Kent, Pepsi Cola CEO Indra Nooyi, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Nike CEO Mark Parker, McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson, Diageo Liquor’s CEO Ivan Menezes, and even Anheuser Busch’s CEO Thomas Santel, standing before national media and calling for an end to injustices against Black people? Nothing personal against these companies; it’s just as they say in war, “collateral damage.” But the damage would stop when the folks who run this country speak out.
Al, Jesse, and others have been marching for decades, and we got Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Timothy Thomas, Nathaniel Jones, Kenneth Walker, Patrick Dorismond, Amadou Diallo, John Crawford, Ezell Ford, and nameless others. We need leaders who are unafraid to call for economic solutions, not leaders who will hurt you if you get between them and a TV camera or microphone.
The lessons of Ferguson: Economic inequality
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am haunted by the words spoken by Lesley McSpadden immediately following the shooting death of her son, Michael Brown, at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson a month ago. She said, “Do you know how hard
it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate? You know how many Black men graduate? Not many. Because you bring them down to this type of level, where they feel like they don’t got nothing to live for anyway.” McSpadden’s words reflect more than her own deep anguish. They have been echoed by many of Ferguson’s citizens and civic leaders who have rallied for justice since Brown’s killing. They also expose the pervasive problems of joblessness and hopelessness fueling so much of the anger and tension in communities of color across America. Brown’s death was the spark that ignited a long-smoldering fire in Ferguson; and while the immediate goal of the National Urban League and our affiliate network is the arrest and indictment of Wilson, this column represents the first in a three-part series that aims to examine some of the root causes and identify solutions that must be implemented to avoid crises simi-
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lar to Ferguson in the future. Let’s begin with the lack of jobs and the epidemic of unemployment in Ferguson, a city that is 67 percent Black. The National Urban League’s 2014 “State of Black America Report” found that the St. Louis Metro area, which includes Ferguson, had a Black unemployment rate of 19.6 percent and a White unemployment rate of 6.9 percent – resulting in an unemployment Equality Index of 35.2 percent on a 100-point scale. This level of economic inequality reflects a glaring disparity of opportunity and has created a chasm of misunderstanding and distrust that is behind much of the violence that has erupted between police and citizens. Four years out of the recession, America’s private sector is expanding, but too many people have been left behind. In fact, many communities like Ferguson are worse off. According to a recent Brookings study, “Between 2000 and 2010-2012, Ferguson’s
poor population doubled.” The National Urban League has long been leading the charge for targeted federal and state action to bring jobs and opportunity to hard-pressed communities across the nation. Our “Jobs Rebuild America” campaign is a $100 million, five-year effort to engage federal government, business, and non-profit resources to create economic opportunity in 50 communities across the country through the Urban League affiliate network with a special emphasis on vulnerable youth. In response to the crisis in Ferguson, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a letter to his Senate colleagues calling for both a thorough federal investigation of the shooting death of Brown and targeted legislation to bring jobs to Ferguson and similar struggling cities. Sanders points out, “There is an economic crisis facing our nation’s youth, particularly young African Americans. Nationwide, the youth unemployment rate today is
more than 20 percent and AfricanAmerican youth unemployment is nearly 35 percent. The legislation would provide $5.5 billion in immediate funding to states and localities to employ 1 million young Americans between the ages of 16 and 24.” At Brown’s funeral service, the Rev. Al Sharpton called on the nation and our community to task: “We can’t have a fit; we’ve got to have a movement. We’ve got to be here for the long haul and turn our chants into change, our demonstration into legislation.” One of the big lessons of Ferguson is the importance of investing in jobs, education and other tools to combat poverty in our communities instead of militaristic weapons for use against our communities. We hope that Washington and America are listening – and preparing to act. Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.
Finance The five Cs of credit for getting business loans By Cary P. Yates Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times
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yths and misconceptions about the reason banks decline loans and the rate at which this happens are as common today as ever. As a banker, it’s my goal to bring clarity to the process, and explain what it takes for a business to get a loan and why a loan application may be declined. For a banker, evaluating a credit application means reviewing the five Cs of credit: credit history, collateral, capital, conditions and capacity. You may have heard of these five general areas that help determine whether a business loan will be approved. Yet here are five things you may not know about the five Cs: Both business and personal credit history are important when pursuing business credit, particularly smaller loans. Looking at credit history helps us answer the question: How has the borrower handled credit obligations? Both business
and personal credit are relevant. On the personal side, a lender will look at the business owner’s history of credit management including FICO score and details of their credit record. A lender also will want to know whether the business applying for credit has paid suppliers and other business obligations in a timely manner, including those to other financial institutions. When you pursue a loan at a bank that knows you, a banker can see your current balances relative to 12-month averages and annual sales – and can better determine whether your business has strong enough cash flow for new credit. And a banker can see if a business avoids overdrafts. It helps tell the lender whether the business is credit-ready. When it comes to “capital,� a banker wants to see that an owner has a significant investment of personal capital in a business. When a lender sees the owner invest money in the business, it shows you’re committed to succeeding. What’s more, a business owner with assets that can
be converted into cash in case of a sudden downturn in revenue will be better able to operate his or her business and repay debt. “Conditions� are both internal and external factors that affect the ability of a business to repay a loan, as well as the intended use of the loan. For example, on the external side, conditions can be economic factors, such as the strength of the housing market for businesses that are tied closely to this important sector. In today’s improving economy, conditions in many industry segments are getting better, giving banks confidence in lending to those segments. On the internal side, conditions include the borrower’s business experience and knowledge. A lender will ask: Is the owner someone who has extensive experience in the industry or relatively new? In some cases, business references and education are personal factors that can affect conditions. “Collateral,� when it’s required, is a secondary source of repayment to a
lender in case of default. Collateral can include personal assets – like investments and CDs – and business assets – such as real estate, inventory, equipment and accounts receivable. Collateral doesn’t replace good payment history or showing your ability to handle the proposed debt level. Nobody wins when a bank turns to the final option for repayment of liquidating collateral. In fact, it often results in a loss to the financial institution – it’s absolutely the last thing a bank wants to do. A lender looks at cash flow and debt to determine whether a business has the “capacity� to handle new credit. Before extending a loan, a banker wants to make sure a busi-
ness has the ability to repay a loan given its other pre-existing loan or payment obligations. Typically, lenders look for a business seeking credit to have a debt-to-income ratio of no more than 40 to 50 percent, depending on its credit score. Again, a long-term relationship with a bank can help, since the banker knows the customer, and is able to see deposit inflows to have a good idea of business income and sales. To help more small businesses achieve financial success, Wells Fargo recently introduced Wells Fargo Works for Small Business – a broad initiative to deliver resources, guidance and services for business owners. For more information, go to: WellsFargoWorks.com.
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fer hands-on activities and showcase innovative projects created by inventors, hackers, crafters, artists and “do-it-yourselfers” of all kinds. The event is one of only four featured faires across the country. The goal of the event is to demonstrate creative and unusual pursuits to inspire others to explore their own curiosity and to make something new and different. Fun and innovative hands-on activities for children and adults will include walkable robots, robot challenges, FIRST robotic teams and drawbots; Wind-powered art and robots and giant wind machines; Science demonstrations, Tesla coils and singing bowls; Prototypes of electronic systems made with Little Bits; Hovercraft rides; 3-D printers
and scanners; Bi-copters, rockets and other flying machines; Feltmaking and conductive thread and LED sewing for light-up clothes; Solar-powered flashlight making; Interactive simulations and video games, coding classes, scratch programming, app making and hacking; Cardboard playgrounds and recycled art exhibits; and NASA’s digital photo booth. The faire also will offer food, two stages of entertainment including a series of short talks from “Inventors in our Midst.” The event is accessible from the Silver Spring Metro Station, and free parking is available in the nearby Town Center and Wayne Avenue garages. For more information, go to www.makerfairesilverspring.com.
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With new students reporting for the Fall semester, many from Ebola-ravaged West African countries, the mood at area universities and schools is guarded. Howard University sent an email to faculty, staff and students, urging them to take precautions. They encouraged anyone who has traveled to West Africa in the last month to get tested and cleared of the disease. The deadly disease has hit hard Nigeria, Sierra Leon, Liberia and Guinea, killing more than 1300 people. It is caused by a virus in a wild animal transferred to humans if they eat wild meat. People can also get infected if bitten by animals with the virus. The virus spreads from person to person if there is contact with blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person. Georgetown University Hospital, is educating employees and reviewing protocols in the un-
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No newcomer to large crowds, Sculark will begin leading the Jericho City of Praise in Landover this September.
(Washington, DC) - On Sunday, September 7, 2014 Jericho City of Praise will officially install Dr. Jasmin “Jazz” Sculark as the new pastor to lead the ministry of one of the largest churches in the country. Dr. Jazz will serve as one of the youngest women to lead a mega church in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Sculark, nationally and internationally known as pastor, teacher, author, evangelist and better known in the Christian community as “Dr. Jazz, The Daughter of Thunder,” was named PastorSelect at JCOP in Landover, Maryland, in March 2014. Since then
nearly 500 people have joined the church. “I am going to build on the legacy of Apostle Betty Peebles,” Pastor Sculark said in a statement. “I am not coming to lay a foundation. I am coming to build upon a
in 1992 at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and has since built a worldwide ministry. Services will be held at JCOP beginning September 4, 2014 at 7 pm nightly and will include guest speakers, Dr. Charles Booth and Pastor John K. Jenkins, with musical guests Tasha Cobbs – Dr. Jasmin “Jazz” Sculark, Jericho City of Praise and Stephen Hurd. foundation that has already been Official Day will commence laid. I am excited about what God Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 9:30 will do with Jericho City of Praise am with Co-Pastor Susie Owens and the people in the D.C. Metro- and VaShawn Mitchell. At 7 pm politan area.” Bishop T D Jakes will minister and Pastor Sculark is a native of officiate the installation ceremony Trinidad and Tobago. She received with musical guest Pastor Jason her license to preach the Gospel Nelson.
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BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. – The youngest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leaned toward the 30 students facing her inside the library at Riverview Gardens High School last week. Many of them live near the epicenter of the chaos that erupted in Ferguson. It’s why Bernice King chose this school for this discussion. The students seemed curious about this visitor, whose late father led the marches and protests that they’ve read about in class. But before she arrived, a school district administrator asked for a show of hands of those who thought non-violent protests and peaceful resistance used during the American civil rights movement remain relevant in light of Ferguson. Only one hand shot up. King is aware of this disconnect. “My dad’s legacy is on the line,” Bernice King told the students. “If this doesn’t turn out the right way, it could begin to have people question what happened years ago.” Bernice King believes the com-
munity is at a critical moment as it continues to confront the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. And as it is for the students she spoke with last week, much of her concern is centered on the violence that may return as the legal process moves forward. “If he’s not indicted, what’s going to happen?” asked Justin Fowler, a senior, referring to Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown. “You tell me. You live here,” said Bernice King. “That’s the big question out there right now. So what’s going to happen?” “Everything will go bad,” he said. Defenders of Wilson say he shot Brown in self-defense. The fear that a grand jury may not indict him is why King and others with the King Center in Atlanta are in the St. Louis area listening to groups of youths to determine the best way to advocate nonviolence. They plan to develop a relationship with Riverview Gardens students, who are predominantly African American and live closest to the unrest. The King Center officials hope to develop a strategy to help young people channel their anger in a nonviolent way, defusing
a potentially explosive situation if the investigation doesn’t produce the results that many hope for. The Ferguson situation has worn on the students who met with Bernice King. They are the leaders of Riverview Gardens High. They’re the captains of the football team. The class officers. Members of junior ROTC. Some have participated in the protests on West Florissant Avenue. Some have gone there to hand out water. Some stayed home, where they still couldn’t escape the sounds of violence at night. Those who participated in the civil rights marches of Martin Luther King Jr.’s era have had trouble connecting with the young people on the streets of Ferguson who see the 1960s as irrelevant. Bernice King tried to bridge that divide. Her father, she said, “helped people channel that anger into something positive to bring about the change they were hoping for.” “They saw tanks, too,” she said. “You think this is the first time tanks have been in a community? It’s not. You all think this was the first time tear gas was used? It was used on my daddy. In Selma. Tear
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In a discussion with some Ferguson students, Bernice King focused on the potential renewed violence that may occur if officer Wilson is not charged.
gas, tanks. So, really, you’ve got to start thinking: What is the vision you want to see come out of this? It’s got to be big. You’ve got to see well beyond this moment.” Bernice King was just 5 years old when her father was assassinated in 1968. She dealt with death throughout her childhood, losing her uncle to a drowning and her grandmother to a fatal shooting. Her anger built, turning into rage at times. She’s since directed that energy into advocating the nonviolent philosophies of her father
through the King Center. She added, “You have to find a way to arrest that anger.” Ronada Hood, a senior, said she appreciated the conversation. The situation in Ferguson has made it more difficult for her to find a part-time job, since many of the businesses near where she lives have been looted and destroyed. “The violence didn’t solve anything,” she said. Elisa Crouch writes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ferguson residents urged to crowd voting booths By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON – In the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, Black teenager by a White police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and the social and political unrest that followed, civil rights leaders have urged citizens of the St. Louis County suburb to transform their community at the ballot box. The revelation that Ferguson, a town that’s nearly 70 percent Black, was represented by a White Republican mayor and a city council that was more than 80 percent White, shocked outsiders and many believed the lack of political voices contributed to the largely non-violent protests that erupted in Ferguson. Darren Wilson, the six-year police officer who shot and killed Brown on August 9, served on a Ferguson police department that is more than 90 percent White. “What is troubling about Fer-
guson is the lack of voting representation of African Americans within that government and that has to change,” said Barbara Arnwine, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law. Less than 12 percent of eligible voters in Ferguson cast ballots in 2013. “Turnout is especially low among Ferguson’s African-American residents, however. In 2013, for example, just 6 percent of eligible Black voters cast a ballot in Ferguson’s municipal elections, as compared to 17 percent of White voters,” according to ThinkProgress. org. Even the voter turnout rates for the national midterm elections in 2010, which are usually lower than the turnout numbers for presidential elections, were nearly nine times higher than Black voter turnout in Ferguson during the last election cycle. According to the Associated Press, Blacks outvoted Whites in
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both 2008 and 2012. After President Obama drew sharp criticism from political pundits on the right and the left for his response to the killing of Brown, and the disconcerting images of St. Louis County police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters, Pamela Meanes, the presidentelect of the National Bar Association, said that President Obama can’t win for losing. “If he was too passionate, individuals would say, ‘he’s [interfering] with the investigation,’” explained Meanes. “If he’s too calm, people would say, ‘he’s not passionate enough.’” Meanes added: “The real issue is whether or not his words touched the people of Ferguson. I think they did.” Last week, more than a dozen civil and human rights groups released a statement and list of recommendations for community stakeholders, law enforcement officials and lawmakers in an effort to address the killing of Black
men at the hands of police officers across the nation. The group called for “an independent and comprehensive federal investigation by the Department of Justice ... ” The recommendations, crafted by the civil rights groups, included comprehensive reviews of excessive use of force reports and killings by police officers on unarmed minorities, and the adoption of national standards on use of force for all law enforcement officers. “The tragic killing of Michael Brown is not an isolated incident. This is emblematic of deficiencies disparities and discrimination in the American criminal justice system,” said Janai Nelson, the associate director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “ It’s a system that has been marred by racial profiling, by over-policing by excessive force by law enforcement and the killing and the extreme frustration that we see surrounding not only Michael Brown’s death but the
deaths of three other unarmed persons in little over a month.” A New York City police officer killed Eric Garner, 43, with a chokehold during an attempted arrest in July. On August 5, John Crawford III, 21, was fatally shot by police as he walked around a Wal-Mart talking on his cellphone and carrying a toy gun in Beavercreek, Ohio. Two days after Brown was killed, police shot and killed Ezell Ford, 25, a mentally disabled man in Los Angeles, Calif. Nelson said, “We call on the Department of Justice not only to conduct a formal and independent investigation, but also to enact much needed structural reform of the United States criminal justice system and to address the pervasive and long-standing deficiencies in police practices and supervision and the widespread failure to deal with issues of racial bias in the criminal justice system, both implicit and explicit that result in the tragic deaths and mass incarceration of Americans of color.
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Jesse Jackson reports on the dismal numbers of Blacks and Latinos employed by high tech companies.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – After he completes his campaign for more diversity in Silicon Valley, Jesse Jackson plans to expand the pressure on technology companies in other regions of the country and then go after other sectors of private industry, including financial services, banking and advertising. In an interview after speaking at the annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here, the Atlanta-based civil rights organization co-founded by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that gave birth to Jackson’s Operation PUSH and Rainbow PUSH, the civil rights leader was already eyeing other targets. “As you cut down on the civil service jobs, those jobs disappear. Where are the growth industries? Silicon Valley for starters, the automotive industry next, banking next – the whole private sector. You fish where the fish are.” Jackson said getting high-tech companies to disclose their employment data, EEO-1 forms that large companies must file with the federal government, was a major victory. “We asked for their EEO-1 reports, but most of the big companies didn’t want to deal with that because they have 2 percent or 3 percent minority employment across the board,” Jackson told the NNPA News Service. He lamented on the lack of Black board representation at Google or Facebook and said he would chal-
lenge the absence of people of color. “One of the myths is that it’s [technology] is so sophisticated that we can’t do it,” said Jackson. “First of all, 70 percent of all of the jobs in Silicon Valley do not require high tech skills – lawyers, ad agencies, marketing, social services or engineering, though we can do that, too.” He added, “When you look at Facebook’s board, the only engineer on its board is Mark Zuckerberg, its founder. Don Graham [former publisher of the Washington Post] is not an engineer. [Former White House chief of staff] Erskine Bowles is not an engineer yet he sits on the board. It’s just a tight, White circle.” In March, Jackson sent a letter to 20 companies, including Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Hewlett Packard, Google, and eBay stating, “Technology is supposed to be about inclusion, but sadly, patterns of exclusion remains the order of the day. When it comes to African Americans on Boards – ZERO. C-suites, ZERO. Minority firms in IPOs and financial transactions, advertising and professional services – ZERO. These ZEROES are contrary to the enlightened values exposed by the industry. Rainbow PUSH is seeking meetings with tech leaders to address these ZEROES head on.” When Jackson met with companies, most initially resisted disclosing their employment data. “Those companies all filed a lawsuit in court and won – they won the right not to expose their EEO records,” he said. “Their rationale was that if they tell their
numbers, they would be giving up propriety information.” Before going on attack, Jackson did what he always does when he targets a company – he purchased stock so that he could take his case to shareholders at their annual meeting. Then, one by one, the companies began disclosing employment data.
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eBay (61 percent White; 24 percent Asian; 5 percent Latino; 2 percent Black) Google (61 percent White; 30 percent Asian; 3 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Black) Facebook (57 percent White; 34 percent Asian; 4 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Black) Twitter resisted until Jackson used Twitter and ColorofChange.org to launch an on-line petition drive demanding that Twitter reveal its employment data. Ironically, Blacks over index on Twitter (26 percent), according to a Pew Research Center study, followed by Hispanics (19 percent) and Whites (14 percent). Twitter finally disclosed its data on July 23, showing: 59 percent of its staff in the U.S. is made up of Whites; 29 percent Asian; 3 percent Hispanic and 2 percent Black. On the day Jackson addressed SCLC, Apple released its employment data showing 54 percent of its jobs were held by Whites, 23 percent by Asian, 11 percent Hispanic and 7 percent Black. Its employment of people of color appears to be highest among high tech companies.
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The EPA will require oil refineries to measure the air quality at their fences including those near low-income communities.
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or the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may require oil refineries to regularly measure the air quality at their perimeters. These fence line measurements will give surrounding communities – largely low-income communities of color – data on the level of pollution they are exposed to each day. The EPA’s proposed rule changes are the result of a lawsuit brought against them by Earthjustice, an environmental advocacy nonprofit, and a few grassroots groups around the country, including the Community In-Power Development Association. The group is based in Port Arthur, Texas, a historically Black neighborhood-turned fence-line community surrounded by four oil refineries, six chemical plants, one international incineration facility, and one petroleum coke (petcoke) facility. Hilton Kelley founded the association in 2000. He says the lawsuit was years in the making. “We’ve been asking for at least six or seven years to get them to revisit these guidelines, and take a look at the possibility of updating them. I think every five years or so, they’re supposed to look at ways they can increase protection of citizens who live next to these kinds of facilities,” said Kelley. The civil suit was filed in federal district court last year. In February, the EPA settled and a consent decree
was signed for the agency to begin the process of updating its rules for petroleum refineries. When Theresa Landrum was growing up in southwest Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s, it was a pleasant place to be, she said. Residents tended vegetable patches and fruitbearing trees. The land was rich, situated on mineral fields. The men in Landrum’s family made a decent living at the industrial plants in the area. Marathon Petroleum was the closest plant, and at that time, she says, it was “just one building up on a hill.” Today, the Marathon Petroleum Detroit refinery stretches for miles along I-75, refining 123,000 barrels each day. “Things started to not grow anymore. A lot of neighbors, friends, and family got sick – breathing problems, asthma, all kinds of cancers, skin rashes. They just attributed it to our lifestyle, but a lot of people didn’t smoke or drink and ate healthy, from their garden,” said Landrum, who lost both her parents to lung cancer, and is a cancer survivor herself. Saleem Chapman, environmental justice program manager at Clean Air Council, a mid-Atlantic advocacy organization based in Philadelphia, gave testimony in Houston at an EPA hearing on behalf of the affected communities. “Philadelphia is one of the most polluted cities in the nation and people are not currently aware. We can’t develop proper resources or the proper ways to keep people
protected because we don’t have access to the data. We’re as much in the dark as the communities,” said Chapman, a Philadelphia native. Some say regulations that are already in place to protect fence line communities aren’t being enforced. Landrum, for example, cites local elected officials and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality as barriers to environmental justice efforts. “The MDEQ has been very lax in doing their jobs. They’re very hesitant to issue violations, and they do not deny any permit,” said Landrum. Environmental justice and environmental racism are concepts that have been around for decades. The former aims to achieve equality for all in environmental decisions, procedures, and rules. The latter refers to the practice of establishing environmental hazards in or near communities of color and/or little means. The concepts are still unknown to many, but as climate change becomes a more critical issue, the concepts are gaining traction. The EPA will continue to solicit public comments on its rulemaking through October 28. “We live within a stones throw of a chemical storage tank,” said Kelly. “It’s very taxing on one’s nerves to live in such a community, but [Port Arthur] is an area where the land is cheap and historically, it’s the only area Black people could live, back in the ‘40s and ‘50s. So it just became a way of life.”
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he Howard University Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center recently announced Kendrick B. Meek, a former member of the U.S House of Representatives and former Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, as the institute’s visiting fellow for 2014. As a member of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Meek was instrumental in pioneering legislation creating new trade incentives for Haiti. He has been both a staunch supporter of the Haitian Diaspora and a leader on issues challenging the country. “Dr. Walters was a great advisor to me and many other elected officials throughout our great country as a public policy and political thinker,” said Meek. “I am very proud to have been selected to serve as a fellow in the Ronald Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center.” As a visiting fellow, elected or appointed officials are chosen to share their expertise with the Walters Center and the greater campus community. Meek will facilitate lectures on topics that will include both foreign and domestic policy. He will also contribute to informational sessions geared toward students. “Historically, Howard University has been at the forefront of advocacy and political discourse,” said Meek. “No other HBCU can celebrate or even have access to what Howard students have access to.” Meek’s political involvement began at the age of 12, as he helped his mother, former Congresswoman Carrie Meek, run for state legislature. He continued to hone his political leadership skills at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) where he was the founder and president of the
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university’s Democratic Club and later statewide president of the Young College Democrats. After graduating in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, Meek began his career as a patrol trooper with Florida Highway Patrol. He was later promoted to captain and assigned to the security detail of Democratic Lt. Gov. Buddy McKay. However, he was determined that writing laws – instead of enforcing them – would be where he could have his greatest impact. Meek served in the Florida House from 1995 to 1998 and the Florida Senate from 1999 to 2002. In 2000, he helped staged a sitin in the office of Gov. Jeb Bush around the issue of “One Florida,” a plan to end official. Meek, also lead a statewide petition to drive and successful Florida constitutional amendment for smaller class sizes in the state which was approved by Florida voters. In 2003, Meek was elected to represent the 17th, U.S. Congressional District of Florida, and became the first son to succeed his mother in Congress. During his tenure, Meek was an early member of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, a precursor to the Homeland Security Committee where he also served. He was
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