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Hip Hop Corner: Expanding the ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ tent By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist
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y Brother’s Keeper Initiative was developed under the Obama administration to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men of color. In September, President Obama issued a challenge to cities, towns, counties and tribes across the country to become “MBK Communities.” The MBK Challenge encourages communities to implement a coherent cradle to college and career strategies for improving life outcomes of all young people. Julián Castro, the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said “The My Brother’s Keeper Community Challenge is really about highlighting effective strategies, and it’s about offering an organizing principle and adding momentum to some of the tremendous work that is already being done from coast to coast.” Tony Neal, founder of the Core DJ’s Worldwide and a community leader in his own right, has been dedicated to lifting up the community through his work. In response to Obama’s Challenge, Neal introduced me to Gentlemen of a Distinguish Nature (GODN) Entertainment, an organization influential with young men and women in urban communities across America. I had a very candid conversation with Shawn Craig, the CEO of GODN Entertainment about what he has accomplished since stepping back out on the streets in 2009 after a 10-year prison stint. His mission has been to follow the Larry Hoover blueprint of growth and development by enlisting his comrades into what he calls the new drug game. In this new drug game, Craig boasted that you don’t have to sell drugs or commit crimes you can sell music, movies, jewelry, and clothing. Craig told me that what he has been able to do is transfer the skills he mastered on the streets into a sustainable enterprise that most importantly supports programs for underprivileged children and battered women called STEPS (Striving Together Encouraging Progression and Success). He constantly instills discipline, dedication and integ-
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rity into his network that spans 26 states and more than 30,000 people. He shows young men and women how to rebuild their lives from negative to positive and is focused on recycling wealth within the community. When we think about the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, we think of structured programming that is designed to guide our young people down the path to the American dream. No one wants our children to believe that life on the streets or going in and out of prison is a credible career. Our children want the best that life has to offer but often do not have proper structure to attain it. They gravitate to lifestyles that are comfortable and familiar. Phillip Jackson, the founder of The Black Star Project, said “The best mentoring organizations in Chicago are street gangs. Street gangs are more committed than churches, street gangs are more committed than our communities and more than the government to our children.” While GODN Entertainment is not a gang, I doubt that it would be invited to the table to talk My Brother’s Keeper collaborations even though the work they do is highly commendable. When we dismiss unconventional methods to engage our youth, we miss opportunities to find a collective solution. Followers of Larry Hoover are committed to
building a national network using strategies that organize masses of young people under one umbrella for political and economic development. Music has been one of the most impressionable art forms of our time. Craig’s organization has been infiltrating the airwaves with music that tells the real story on the streets. They expose the manufactured puppets of hip hop for the propaganda they are being used to spread. They refer to each other as kings, gentleman, ladies and queens. Their goal is to elevate the mind, body and soul. The prison culture has spilled out on the streets where our young people begin to see the world for themselves. When they see GODN Entertainment doing community cleanups in 26 states, they see their brother’s keeper. They can learn from us and we can learn from them, but we can’t be opposed to building together. I am going to challenge Craig to incorporate the MBK community in the GODN structure, I hope they are recognized just as everyone else. For more information, visit godnent.com. Jineea Butler is founder of the Social Services of Hip Hop and the Hip Hop Union. Email her at jineea@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter at @flygirlladyjay.
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McCormick & Schmick’s settles discrimination suit By Zenitha Prince (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A lawsuit that accused two Baltimore restaurants of discriminating against African-American job applicants and employees was settled to the tune of $1.3 million plus injunctive relief, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced recently. Filed in 2008, the EEOC complaint charged McCormick & Schmick’s Restaurant Corp. with violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by engaging in a pattern of race discrimination against Black job seekers by refusing to hire them for front-of-the-house positions at its two Baltimore locations, McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant and M&S Grill. The EEOC further alleged that African-American employees working the front of the house at the establishments were denied equal work assignments because of their race. In addition, the company’s advertising for open positions on its website contained visual depictions of employees that expressed a preference for non-Black workers to the ordinary reader. The lawsuit was filed in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, but was settled prior to any adjudication by the federal court. “Fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEOC remains as firmly committed to combating race discrimination in the workplace as the day we opened our doors,” said EEOC General Counsel David Lopez in a statement. “We are pleased we were able to resolve this important case on mutually acceptable terms.” The consent decree settling the suit establishes a claims fund of $1.3 million for eligible claimants. This includes African Americans who sought employment or were employed as servers, cocktail servers, bussers, hostesses/hosts and/ or bartenders at either or both of the restaurants at any time during the period of Jan. 1, 1998 to Jan. 1, 2010. “This settlement gives hope that when wrong has been done it will be corrected,” said Jose Anderson, professor of law, University of Baltimore. Anderson said in some ways, the case was surprising. “We’ve gotten into the habit of ignoring these patterns that were
so familiar to us in the past,” he said of the McCormick’s practice of discrimination. Which is why the EEOC’s demonstrated commitment to still pursue these cases is so “encouraging,” added Anderson. “We still have to be diligent about identifying discrimination wherever it is taking place.” In addition to monetary relief, the two-year consent decree between the EEOC and McCormick’s provides non-monetary relief meant to promote equal opportunity for Black job applicants and workers. It includes the creation of a quota for hiring Black workers for front-of-the-house positions at the two Baltimore locations; the use of targeted recruitment to attract African-American job prospects, and provides for a decree compliance monitor, among other provisions. “It is always good to see the employer stepping up and admitting that its practices may not be as equal,” said Ray McClain, Employment Discrimination Project director, of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The case is emblematic of an ongoing and persistent problem on the civil rights landscape, said McClain. “Workplace discrimina-
The restaurant in Baltimore settled the racial discrimination suit for $1.3 million.
tion is rampant and it’s been on the increase since Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980,” said the attorney. The Republican president elected a conservative to head EEOC which “sent a signal to companies that they no longer had to be concerned about federal oversight,” said McCain. The professional staff responsible for litigating such cases was “decimated.” “There’s been a constant deterioration in enforcement of protections,” he said. “That is in contrast to the fact that in many jobs there has been an increase in participation by African Americans. But, to a large degree, many of those jobs have been vacated as they become less attractive to White employees ...
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it’s not been because of an absence of workplace discrimination.” According to EEOC statistics, the number of cases filed alleging race-based workplace discrimination has more than quadrupled in a 16-year period from 762 in 1997 to 3,146 in 2013. “That’s only the tip of the iceberg,” said McClain because workplace discrimination is very hard to prove and many times the victims are not even aware of being the subject of discrimination. In fact, out of every 100 cases of such discrimination an estimated one is reported. “It’s clear that it is an endemic and systemic problem that needs to be attacked in every way people of good will and government can manage it.”
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Metro Briefs: Notable news in and around Washington Prince George’s Maryland expands grant program for seniors
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aryland senior citizens who own their homes may have more options to equip them under a new program that provides grants of up to $25,000 for improvements such as grab bars and railings, the installation of ramps or the widening of doorways. The Accessible Homes for Seniors program, which previously provided loans to help seniors make their homes more accessible, has been expanded to allow grants for that purpose as well, according to the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). The state legislature approved the grant program last year in response to growing national concern over the graying of the Baby Boom generation, whose need for high quality, independent and fi-
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When Congress reconvenes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she will introduce a bill that directs federal agencies to give preferential points to federal government vendors and contractors based on their labor practices. Points would be given to vendors and contractors that pay their employees a living wage with benefits without passing on additional costs to the federal government, as well as for permitting workers to unionize. According to Norton, these points will help level the playing field and encourage private contractors and concessionaires to treat their workforce with the dignity they deserve. “The federal government, through contracts, funds approximately two million jobs that pay less than a livable wage,” said
Sheila Locke, underwriter for DHCD’s Accessible Homes for Seniors program, helps spread the word at the Baby Boomer Expo in Timonium.
nancially secure lives is linked more and more to their housing needs. In Maryland and nationwide, close to 1 in 5 citizens will be 65 years or older by 2030 and affordable, accessible and well-located housing will be central to their quality of life. Looking at the housing needs of senior citizens from a national perspective, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies estimates that 80 percent of older adult households are homeowners, although that percentage may change after the rate of homeownership
plummeted following the collapse of the housing market. The center recommends policies that help senior citizens retrofit their homes to accommodate disabilities and policies that promote loan modifications to help protect against foreclosures. In 2012, the legislature established a task force “to study methods for identifying and understanding the renovation and repair needs of low-income and limited-income senior homeowners and identifying resources to assist senior homeowners.”
Norton. “The federal contracting system should not be contributing to growing income inequality. My bill will not only afford federal government contract workers a decent wage, but the federal government would see significant savings in benefits, such as food stamps it now offers to supplement the income of these low-wage workers.” Norton’s bill builds upon the traditional point system used in federal government procurement that rate vendors, contractors and concessionaires with points that are routinely given for various tasks or issues connected to the contract. President Obama has already taken the first important step through his executive order to raise the minimum wage of federal contract workers to $10.10 per hour. In July, Norton spoke at a rally with hundreds of federal contract workers from Change to Win, just before she introduced the Restore Opportunity, Strengthen, and Improve the Economy (ROSIE) Act. The ROSIE Act incentivizes federal government contractors to support collective bargaining, pay liv-
ing wages and benefits, stop wage theft, and avoid paying CEOs excessive salaries. Norton has called on the president to put the ROSIE Act into an Entreprenuers’ Organization. This is her second bill on this issue and is specifically geared toward the federal sector. Hundreds of workers employed by federal contractors and concessionaires at various federally owned buildings in the District of Columbia, and across the country, have engaged in legal strikes to draw attention to their low wages and poor benefits. Included in the services federal contract workers provide for the federal government are retail, food, custodial and security service, as well as many in manufacturing. “Not standing in the way of federal contractor employees, who often seek to unionize, would allow wages to become a private matter for bargaining between the contractor and its employees,” said Norton. “It is time for the federal government to lead on issues of fairness to workers, not be part of the problem.”
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By Susan Page USA Today (RNS) – Former solicitor general Theodore Olson, the Republican lawyer who argued Bush v. Gore and the challenge to California’s Proposition 8, says the Supreme Court through action and inaction in October passed “the point of no return� on same-sex marriage. “I do not believe that the United States Supreme Court could rule that all of those laws prohibiting marriage are suddenly constitutional after all these individuals have gotten married and their rights have changed,� said Olson in an interview. “To have that snatched away, it seems to me, would be inhuman; it would be cruel; and it would be inconsistent with what the Supreme Court has said about these issues in the cases that it has rendered.� The high court let stand without explanation appeals court rulings permitting gay marriage in five states. In an interview with The New Yorker published last week, President Obama said he believes it is a constitutional right but endorsed the court’s incremental approach. Olson disagrees with that, saying the Supreme Court should take a case and affirmatively endorse marriage as a constitutional right. “I think the thing he overlooks
... (is) that there are people in 18 states of the United States that don’t have this fundamental right that he has just announced that he believes in.� Waiting for the process in lower courts to open the door to gay marriage in all 50 states “would not be good enough because it’s not now,� said Olson. “When will that happen? And how much misery and how much suffering do individuals in this country have to experience before that happens?� Given his Republican credentials, Olson has been an unlikely champion in the gay-marriage movement. He served in the Justice Department as assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration and solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration. He was the lead attorney facing Democratic counterpart David Boies in the landmark Bush v. Gore case that finally settled the 2000 election and argued the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that changed campaign finance law. In 2009, he and Boies joined forces to challenge California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Just five years later, the number of states permitting couples of the same gender to marry has exploded from three to 32. Two-thirds of Americans now live in states that allow gay marriage.
“We never thought it would move this fast,� said Olson, attributing the change in legal status and public opinion both to “the work of a lot of lawyers� and the actions by individuals in Hollywood and across the country who have “revealed their sexual identity and told their story.� Recently, a U.S. District Court judge in Puerto Rico dismissed a challenge to a law there that limits marriage to one man and one woman, but Olson predicts that the Appeals Court will overturn the decision. He notes that a closely watched case before a threejudge panel in the 6th Circuit of Ohio could go either way, with Judge Jeffrey Sutton as the apparent swing vote. “He’s a conservative and it’s possible that he might rule in favor of sustaining the prohibition,� said Olson. But if that happens, “all of the judges on the Circuit, I think, would come out the other way.� At age 74, Olson has argued 61 cases before the Supreme Court, on issues ranging from the First Amendment to the separation of powers. He said he doesn’t think about his legacy: “I hope that I will have a few more years left.� But he adds that his work on gay marriage “is the legal accomplishment that I think will always mean the most to me.�
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Cover Bowser wins, keeps Dem streak alive in D.C. By Tonesha Townsel Howard University News Service
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WASHINGTON – With strains of Alicia Keyes’ “Girl on Fire” blasting through speakers in the famous Howard Theater, newly-elected Mayor Muriel Bowser stood surrounded Tuesday night by family and supporters as confetti fell from the ceiling and the deafening sound of corks exploding off the victory champagne engulfed the room. Bowser, 42, a City Councilmember who grew up in the city’s Fourth Ward becomes the seventh black and seventh Democratic mayor of the nation’s capital. She soundly defeated her Republican-turned-Independent Party candidate David Catania, also a City Councilmember, by taking 55 percent of the vote to Catania’s 34 percent. Bowser, surrounded by her fellow City Council members and other supporters, was greeted by a sea of yellow and green signs reading “Vote Muriel” as she gave her acceptance speech.
“I’ve dedicated my life to serving my neighbors in Riggs Park and this city,” Bowser said. “I’m humbled and I’m grateful to stand here as the next mayor of my hometown.” With her victory, Bowser becomes the second African-American woman to be elected mayor of the District Columbia. Sandra Phillips-Gilbert, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner of city’s Ward 6, said she believed Bowser was the perfect person to lead the city at this juncture. “She makes me so proud to be a woman,” Phillips-Gilbert said. “She’s confident, intelligent and smart. Her campaign was positive, nothing negative at all. “She gives hope. She’s strategic. I pride her on being able to knock on doors and really meet the people.” Bowser served seven years as a council member for Ward 4 before running for mayor. Her platform focused on neighborhood issues, such as education and closing the wage between the middle class and lower class,. “ I stand here like all of you on
the shoulders of those who sacrificed so that we may be here,” Bowser says. “ I stand on their shoulders and I take a great deal of responsibility and I will do my best everyday to never let them down.” Bowser’s opponent, David Catania, conceded his bid for election just blocks away from where Bowser and her supporters were
celebrating. He sent a message to his staff to be supportive of the mayor’s efforts. “I want you to offer your hand to our mayor so that she succeeds in making this city amazing,” he said. “Take the spirit of not giving up and use it to support our new mayor.” While the city has been grow-
ing exponentially over the past few years, Bowser faces a number of issues, particularly housing. As Whites have flooded into the city from the suburbs and beyond, many older black residents have found the city unaffordable. Students at local universities, too, long a stable in the city, have also found housing beyond their grasp as gentrification takes hold.
Republican Hogan scores huge upset over Brown By Daniel White Howard University News Service
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ers chanted “We Want Hogan,” before he came out, and “Larry” after his speech. Hogan is a true native of Maryland. His father, former Republican U.S. Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan Sr., represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland. In his acceptance, Hogan thanked his father, acknowledging the continuation of his legacy, saying “40 years later, we’re going to have a Hogan for governor.” “I’m excited because as we were traveling across the state talking to people from both the Republican and Democrat parties, they were looking for a change and I believe this is it,” said Shelley Aloi, a candidate for lieutenant governor this summer. If Maryland is to see any change, warned Hogan, then there is much to be done. “It doesn’t matter what party,” he told the crowd at his victory party. “It doesn’t matter whether you voted for us or not. Starting tomorrow lets work to make our state better.”
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – In a stunning upset, Republican Lawrence J. “Larry” Hogan defeated Democratic favorite Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to become governor of Maryland, part of a dramatic string of Republican victories during the 2014 Midterm Elections.. In a night full of Democratic heartbreak, the Maryland governor’s race, which Hogan called Tuesday’s biggest upset, was a changing of the guard for the state. Hogan’s victory, at least temporarily, ended Brown’s dream to become the first black governor of Maryland and only the third African-American governor in the nation’s history. Doug Wilder once served as the governor of Virginia and Deval Patrick is the sitting governor of Massachusetts. “This is the largest mandate for change in Maryland in 63 years,” Hogan told the enthusiastic crowd during his acceptance
speech. Hogan is only the second Republican governor of Maryland since Spiro Agnew left office in 1969. Republican Robert Ehrlich served as governor in Maryland from 2003 to 2007. Hogan won by a margin of 4.7 percent of the vote, or with 76,596 more votes than Brown, despite losing more than 200,000 votes in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, key indicators of Maryland Gubernatorial success. “Prince George’s County, Montgomery County and Baltimore will wake up to the fact that nothing from nothing leaves nothing and that’s what you get with Brown-O’Malley,” said Isa Shah, a 77-year-old Baltimore Republican, who voted for Obama – twice. Shah is representative of many Maryland residents who see Brown as politics as usual, an extension of the administration of Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley. Voters don’t see that with Hogan. At his election party, support-
Hogan ran on a campaign against taxes and tied Anthony Brown to incumbent governor Martin O’Malley’s records.
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use marijuana at the same rate. She said that no Member of Congress has the right to intervene with the city’s right to self-government and its attempt to erase almost unheard-of racial disparities. “The people have spoken,” said Norton. “And D.C. residents can rest assured that when a mandate comes directly from the people, they haven’t seen a fight like the fight I’m preparing to make against Rep. Andy Harris and any other Member of Congress who attempts to undo our democratic process. Initiative 71 is not just about the legalization of marijuana; it addresses an intolerable racial disparity in our city that has crippled the life chances of countless African Americans and Hispanics. We have not been able to conquer the racial disparity between Black and White marijuana convictions. What we can do with legalization is to take away the instrument that causes this inequality.” On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Roll Call that D.C. vot-
ers alone, not Congress, should decide whether to legalize marijuana. “I’m not for having the federal government get involved,” said Sen. Paul. “I really haven’t taken a stand on the actual legalization, but I’m against the federal government telling them they can’t.” Norton said that Sen. Paul’s statement was particularly noteworthy because it was unrelated to the underlying marijuana legalization issue, and was based entirely on the democratic principle of local self-government free from federal interference. In July, the District’s marijuana decriminalization bill took effect. That same month, the House passed the fiscal year 2015 D.C. Appropriations bill, which, under an amendment sponsored by Harris, would prohibit the District from spending its local funds to decriminalize or legalize marijuana. Norton kept the amendment from being included in the Senate’s fiscal year 2015 D.C. appropriations bill or in the fiscal year 2015 short-
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ongresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has reassured District of Columbia residents that she will defend the District’s marijuana legalization initiative Initiative 71, overwhelmingly approved Tuesday from any and all congressional attempts to block or overturn it. Norton warned residents that Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) is still looking for ways to undo the will of D.C. residents. Harris told The Hill last week, “If legalization passes, I will consider using all resources available to a member of Congress to stop this action.” Norton said that Harris’ interference with a marijuana legalization initiative stimulated by racial injustice is particularly objectionable. An ACLU of the Nation’s Capital study of the District, where about half the residents are Black, found that Blacks are eight times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than non-Blacks, and 91 percent of all marijuana-related arrests are of Black residents, even though Blacks and Whites
Maryland Republican Andy Harris led the attempt to block the law early this year.
term continuing resolution, which expires on December 11. Twenty-three states have legalized medical marijuana, 18 states have decriminalized marijuana,
and two states have legalized marijuana. A February 2014 Pew Research Center poll found that 54 percent of Americans support marijuana legalization.
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ach October, I look forward to reading about the uncanny accomplishments of Nobel Prize winners, particularly those in medicine, science and economics. Their stories are parables about persistence and the capacity of the human mind to do amazing things. This year, for example, through the work of John O’Keefe, MayBritt Moser and her husband, Edward Moser, who won this year’s prize in medicine, we learned of the existence of a collection of cells that serve as a type of GPS for the brain. Eric Betzig, Stefan Well and William Moerner, who won the prize for chemistry, developed a method to be able to more closely track proteins while studying diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Amazing, life-changing stuff. Still, when I read these stories I can’t help but ask: where are the Black science laureates? To be sure, several Blacks have won the Nobel – but mostly for peace and literature. In 1950, Ralph Bunche became the first Black to win the Nobel Peace Prize. South African Albert Luthuli followed in 1960, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964. Since then, several other Blacks – including Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – have won the award. In 1986, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka became the first Black to win the literature prize. Two other Blacks – poet Derek Walcott of St. Lucia and Toni Morrison – won the award in the 1990s. But outside of literature and peace, only one Black has won the Nobel – William Arthur Lewis, a native of St. Lucia, who won for economics in 1979. The Nobel Prize awards began in 1901, and in medicine, physics, chemistry and economics the winners remain overwhelmingly White and Asian. This achievement gap in the sciences speaks to a broader issue in math and science education for Blacks in the United States and in predominantly Black countries in Africa and the Caribbean. In the United States, African
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Americans continue to be overrepresented in certain fields, including education and social work as well as the arts and humanities. But Blacks made up only 7.1 percent of science and engineering degree holders in 2011 between the ages of 25 and 64, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In contrast, Whites made up about 10 times the number of math and science degree holders at 70.7 percent. Many universities continue to struggle to recruit and retain minorities for seats in STEM programs, particularly at the graduate level. Some historically Black institutions, such as Fisk University, have teamed up with elite universities such as cross-town Vanderbilt University, to create more Black STEM doctoral degree holders. The irony is that Blacks have a long and distinguished history in math and science. The math, science and engineering exploits of Africans in ancient Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are well known. Far less known are the accomplishments of Black scientists in the last century in fields like parasitology, plant science, medicine and engineering. Far less known are the accomplishments of Charles Drew, a physician who developed a method for storing blood; Lewis Latimer, who
helped develop the telephone and a longer lasting light bulb; or Garrett Morgan, who developed the gas mask and helped modernize the traffic light. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the demand for jobs in the STEM and health fields will continue to rise in coming decades. There are similar projections around the world. A good education in law, the arts and the humanities feeds the soul and is important for a wellrounded education but expertise in science, technology and health can uplift a people. World Bank official Makhtar Diop said as much earlier this year when the bank announced a grant of $150 million to universities in seven African countries to help advance STEM education there. “I can think of no better way to grow African economies, create jobs, and support research in Africa, than educating young graduates with expertise in high-demand areas such as chemical engineering, crop science, and the control of infectious diseases,” he said. Lekan Oguntoyinbo, is a columnist for the L.A. Wave. Follow him on Twitter @oguntoyinbo or email him at oguntoyinbo@gmail.com.
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he DC Council formally recognized undefeated welterweight Dusty Hernandez-Harrison at a ceremony last Saturday. By unanimous vote, the Council congratulated HernandezHarrison on his many accomplishments as a professional boxer, his current WBC Youth Welterweight World Champion title and his contributions to the residents of Washington, D.C., and its communities, both in and out of the ring. Following background stories and introductions by Councilmember Yvette Alexander, HernandezHarrison said, “It’s an honor to receive recognition from a City that I love so much.” The recognition kicked off a week highlighting the highly anticipated return of HernandezHarrison, 20, to his hometown.
From top: D.C. Council recognizes Dusty Hernandez for his boxing accomplishments. Dusty continues undefeated after early knockout in DAR Constitutional hall.
Hernandez-Harrison (improved to 24-0,13KO) faced veteran Michael Clark (44-12-1,18KO) of Columbus, Ohio, in the 10-round main event of the November 1, Hometown Takeover card. Hernandez-Harrison emerged victorious, knocking out his opponent within the first min-
ute and 42 seconds of the round. Also featured on the card were Jarrett Hurd who faced Terry Cade of Aiken, SD in a six-round junior middleweight match and Larry Recio, who faced Roberto Lopez of Vineland, NJ in a six-round junior middleweight bout.
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