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Obamacare prevails, Trump is shutdown
Because the Republican bill failed to pass, millions will keep their health insurance as Obamacare prevailed again last week. Donald Trump has faced defeat in his first real legislative showdown as president. In what some may describe as a case of mutiny or rebellion, House Republicans were forced to face legislation pulled to repeal the Affordable Care Act from consideration on the House floor. The end result is former President Barack Obama’s signature achievement while president living on and the many Americans that depended on a subsidy to help pay for healthcare still receiving assistance. “We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future,” said House Speaker Paul
Ryan. For three months Trump and Republican leaders led a strongwilled effort to end affordable healthcare that Obama worked tirelessly to put in place. All Republicans weren’t on board however, exposing a divide among the party. They were 10 to 15 votes short of what they needed to pass the repeal bill. Trump and Ryan made an executive decision to withdraw the bill rather than face the embarrassment of its downfall on the House floor. Still, Trump attempted to claim victory in the face of defeat. “The best thing that could happen
is exactly what happened,” he said. “Obamacare unfortunately will explode. It’s going to have a very bad year.” Trump is predicting more premium increases and for Democrats to come to the table requesting help. “Democrats will come to us and say, ‘Look, let’s get together and get a great health care bill or plan that’s really great for the people of our country,’” Trump said. A major reason for the bill’s demise was the opposition of members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which wanted more aggressive steps to lower insurance costs and to dismantle federal regulation of
insurance products. The bill would have repealed tax penalties for people without health insurance, rolled back federal insurance standards, reduced subsidies for the purchase of private insurance and set new limits on spending for Medicaid, which covers more than 70 million low-income people. The bill would have also repealed hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes imposed by the Affordable Care Act and would also have cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood for one year. The bill never won over
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News Democratic push to end gerrymandering, helmed by Eric Holder, to begin in Virginia Eric H. Holder Jr., the former U.S. attorney general, is coming to Virginia to support Democrats trying to hold on to the governor’s mansion, the first stop for his new national campaign to reverse years of Democratic losses on the state level by reshaping legislative maps that have favored Republicans. Holder will deliver the keynote address at the Democratic Party of Virginia’s annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner on June 17, four days after voters cast their ballots in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He will be speaking as chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), formed last year to undo what it calls partisan gerrymandering by Republicans, who took control of 26 state legislatures in the tea party wave of 2010. The group is coordinating with Democratic campaign groups to fund gubernatorial candidates who would veto any new legislative map that appears to be gerrymandered. The group is also funding legal challenges to legislative maps and supporting ballot initiatives to create independent redistricting commissions. Former president Barack Obama has said supporting the group’s efforts would be one of his top priorities after leaving office. Virginia and New Jersey are the only states electing a new governor in 2017, while governors are on the ballots of 36 states in 2018. The next Virginia governor will have sway over the restructuring of congressional districts, where Republicans hold seven of 11 seats, despite Democrats having won all statewide offices in recent years.
The process of re-drawing district lines to give an advantage to one party over another is called “gerrymandering”. “This November’s elections in Virginia are a top priority for Democrats and give us the opportunity to undo Republican gerrymandering and have a legislature and Congress that truly represent the views of the people,” Holder said in a statement. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), barred from seeking reelection, helped create NDRC and is raising money for the group. Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former U.S. House member Tom Perriello are competing for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Virginia. The NDRC says it will support the Democratic primary’s winner. “What we hope to do is make sure Democrats all over the country understand the significance of the Virginia governor’s race and hope to elevate the significance of winning the race,” NDRC Executive Director Kelly Ward said in an interview. “We want to play a big and heavy role in the resources that it’s going to take to win the Virginia governor’s race.” She would not say how much money the group will spend. Under IRS rules, it can raise unlimited contributions but cannot coordinate with a campaign. The most recent financial disclosure shows it raised $65,000 before formally launching in January and expanded its fundraising efforts. The NDRC’s general counsel also argued a case to challenge Virginia’s state legislative maps, which the U.S. Supreme Court map has ordered a lower court to re-examine for signs
Eric H. Holder Jr of racial bias. In the House, where Republicans were in charge when the legislative districts were redrawn after the 2010 Census, Democrats are outnumbered 66 to 34. In the Senate, where Democrats were in control at the time of reapportionment, the GOP has a much slimmer advantage of 21 to 19. Last year, a federal court ordered one of the state’s congressional districts redrawn after deciding that the existing map illegally packed African American voters into a district. Democrats picked up an additional seat in Congress after that ruling. Meanwhile, the Democratic
(from page 1) conservatives who wanted a more thorough eradication of the Affordable Care Act. It also didn’t have the backing of more moderate Republicans who were aware of the Congressional Budget Office’s assessment that the bill would leave 24 million more Americans without insurance in 2024, compared with the number who would be uninsured
Party of Virginia is ramping up its coordinated campaign for the general election, when all 100 House of Delegates seats and all statewide offices are on the ballot. A spokeswoman for the party said that McAuliffe transferred $100,000 from his political action committee this week to support its organizing and data-sharing efforts. The party hired Lauren Brainerd, a former field director in Virginia who most recently led the coordinated campaign for Hillary Clinton in Florida, to lead the coordinated campaign and rebuild a statewide organizing program. under the current law. The budget office also warned that in the short run, the Republicans’ legislation would drive insurance premiums higher. For older Americans approaching retirement, the cost of insurance could have risen sharply. There are no plans to try the repeal again. Republicans will now focus on other issues. STAFF & WIRE
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Va. unemployment rate down, continues to add new job availability Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was down 0.1 percentage point in February to 3.9 percent, the lowest rate since June 2008. When Gov. Terry McAuliffe took office in January 2014, the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent. Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continues below the national rate, which was down 0.1 percentage point to 4.7 percent. Since McAuliffe entered office, Virginia has added 191,600 net new jobs. “This report confirms we are continuing to make great strides in building a new Virginia economy,” said McAuliffe. “To date, my administration has helped close 902 economic development deals worth a record-breaking $15.6 billion in investment, ensuring thousands of jobs for Virginians in 21st century industries. I’m pleased to see yet another decline in the unemployment
Gov. Terry McAuliffe rate, as well as record highs in our labor force and household employment. [This] is a positive sign that our economy is strengthening thanks to targeted investments in key sectors.” Virginia has the second-lowest
unemployment rate of any major U.S. state. In addition, initial claims filed in 2016 for unemployment insurance benefits were the lowest Virginia has seen in 44 years, going back to 1973. “Virginia continues to grow its economy, and this administration will continue to ensure economic opportunity exists for everyone across the Commonwealth. We have been focused on matching skills training to jobs, investing in our education system, and providing a competitive environment for businesses to thrive. By doing so, Virginia will continue to see economic progress,” said Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam. Virginia’s labor force expanded for the 11th consecutive month to 4,281,022, up more than 7,300 people in February, setting a new record high for the Commonwealth. Household employment also rose by more than 13,400, the 26th consecutive monthly increase and another record high. Virginia’s
nonfarm payroll employment increased by 11,400 jobs in February and is 53,500 jobs higher when compared to February of 2016. Virginia’s over-the-year employment growth was 1.4 percent in February and has been positive for 35 consecutive months. With February’s over-the-year employment growth and January’s revised overthe-year growth of 1.3 percent, Virginia’s growth was once again above 1.0 percent after falling below 1.0 percent in November and December. Nationally, total nonfarm employment grew 1.6 percent in February compared to a year ago. In January, the private sector recorded an over-the-year employment gain of 48,800 jobs, and the public sector recorded an over-the-year gain of 4,700 jobs. Compared to a year ago, on a seasonally adjusted basis, seven of the 11 major industry divisions experienced employment gains.
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Henrico Police Athletic League’s (PAL) dance team recently participated in a dance showcase at Varina High School. This is PAL’s second year having a dance team that consists of girls aged eight to 12-years-old. They dance at various venues and events throughout Richmond area.
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Lady Panthers 2017 NCAA national runner-up GEO STROTHER The Lady Panthers of Virginia Union University, fought their way through the brackets to earn the right to face the undefeated, No. 1 seed Eagles of Ashland University for their second DII NCAA National Championship. Despite their valiant effort, Ashland (37-0) outlasted the No. 6 seed Lady Panthers by the score of 93 to 77 Friday night at Ohio Dominican’s Alumni Hall in Columbus, Ohio. “They finished their easy baskets, where we missed a lot of easy baskets,” said VUU coach AnnMarie Gilbert. “Oftentimes, it looked like we were playing a little fatigued or just not balanced.” For most of the contest, the margin was either one or two possessions. However, from the five-minute mark in the third, Ashland took over the game, out-rebounding the Panthers 19-13 in the second half,
expanding their lead to 16 points in the fourth quarter putting the cap on an undefeated season and clinching the 2017 NCAA DII National Championship. The Lady Panthers, who finished national runner-up for the second time in program history, were led by Alexis Johnson, who scored a season-high 28 points. Lady Walker, the second player in program history to record 1,000 career points and rebounds finished with 19 points. Ashley Smith followed up her 28-point semi-final performance, by adding just 6-points in the contest. The Ashland Eagles were led by Jodi Johnson and Laina Snyder with 19 and 17 points, respectively. The Virginia Union University women’s basketball team finished the 2016-17 season with a record of with a 28-5 and ranked #2 (highest finish in history) in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association poll of the season, which was released on Saturday, March 25. The Lady
PHOTO: Virginia Union University Panthers moved up from the #18 spot based in part to their miraculous run through the NCAA Tournament, culminating in an appearance in the 2017 National Championship game. Coach Gilbert and her Lady Panthers
returned to Virginia Union’s campus Saturday greeted by a warm welcome from family, alumni, students and fans. Congratulations Virginia Union University on an exceptional season.
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99 problems... PATRICK CHRISTIAN I face animosity and hostility from strangers every day. Why? I have not done anything to these people or anyone else that they can accurate say. I have been looking for a job for eight years, these same companies are more concerned with immigrants obtaining and maintaining gainful employment. One of the main reasons is that everywhere I go, applying for on-line jobs or to email a resume, my computer usage is being monitored, these people know all the hundreds of jobs that I have applied for, which I am either over-qualified for or completely qualified for. Even for general laborer positions, I have not gotten a call or interview for. I am a citizen whose ancestry dates back over 500 years, and a veteran and am unprotected. People have even said that I have committed capital crimes and that I am going to be put in a line-up. Why, so they can lie on me? This is outrageous. During all this, the media always quotes judges and politicians about how important the Constitution is and that everyone’s actions and conduct should be in keeping with such. We must consider this primary aspect. What if children or anyone has been harmed and the fact that I cannot be framed or blamed, the crime is going not only unpunished, but uninvestigated. This is scary. Next, we gave every president an opportunity despite corporate America buying them all off, and that they won over who we supported, The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 No. 13 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com
or that they did questionable acts, why not give President Trump a chance? This is “The United States of America”. The government has already leaked sensitive intelligence that got Americans killed and injured, but American’s and foreigners kill Americans every day. What is so hard about following protocol? If one, wishes not to do so, why not just change your position? Once one is exposed, they either deny it or give excuses, in lieu of taking responsibility for their actions. Many of the times there is subreptitious support, which is never exposed. Think about this-people that the United States Government call “Enemies of America”, including the Russians, North Koreans, North Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Easterners (many are even considered terrorists), Cubans, Drug Cartels, the British/English, Germans etc., have jobs, businesses, and property in America who profit from United States citizens daily. The government went to Korea and got two Koreans. No one will get American born citizens from anywhere. Nor will anyone review any cases where American children have been railroaded in the judicial system and penalized, due to adult failures. Again, who has distinguished who is more important than someone else is? What about in all the city and states where the consenting sex age is 16? This gives every divergent adult male an excuse to inappropriately address and sexually abuse a child. If this does not work, The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Annual Subscription Rates Virginia - $50 U.S. states - $75 Outside U.S.- $100 The Virginia Legacy © 2016
all they have to say is “they paid the child money”, and still get away with it. For a female who pursues a male child it is a different story. She cannot get away with saying the “consenting sex age is sixteen” we both consented. She will be held accountable. On top of that, most male adults who sexually abuse male children usually get away with three or more before anything is even said. Mothers and principals are not doing that great of a job in monitoring adult and children interactions. Legislators do not help the situation any nor publicly does law enforcement. We know that children do not have rights because they cannot vote; therefore, politicians securing their support is futile. This is probably why there are so many active child pornography websites. Another part of the problem is society does not report a large percentage of mental, physical, and sexual child abuse, or academic, spiritual, and psychological child abasement. American and foreign exported foods and beverages are purposefully being manufactured and processed with substances that cause consumers health problems. Government entities do not care, have been paid off, or guilelessly approach the situation. Unless you go to the emergency room and they know exactly what you consumed that got you sick, will there be a recall. Usually with all recalls, there is a delay and most consumers have
already ate or drank the product that was contaminated. Most all other reports go through an even longer process. In an emergency, it would have already sickened thousands. Some fresh fruits and vegetables taste like pure chemicals. Tap water also tastes bad sometimes. I do not know why there is such a fluctuation on the taste of tap water, bottled water, and some foods, because these people test, inspect, and maintain these items regularly, and I am sure have to follow guidelines. This is why I feel these are not inadvertent mistakes, but deliberate acts. Like food preparers who taint the food they prepare and serve or sell. Most of these contaminants are extremely hard on the throat, and digestive tract. Can all students in all schools pass the same tests? If not-why not? Does the private, charter, magnet, and parochial schools groom students to do great on PSAT’s and SAT’s for college entrance? Why do public schools have such a problem with disciplining students, and improving the grades of below average students? Non-public schools do not have the same problems, or rather the media and government does not talk about it. The major problems with non-public schools is that some of the trials, tribulations, and adversities that the children face are not publicized as they are in the public schools; therefore, the stigma is lessened, unrevealed,
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(from page 6) and camouflaged. This means that the mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and psychological, spiritual, and academic abasement adults perpetrate against children is not addressed; while in public schools they attempt to diminish these facts as they relate to how impacted children are from these whether they are a challenging child or not. Another major difference is that usually the non-public schools and parents can afford counselling, and can teach these children coping skills that do not solve their problems, but provide them with means to sometimes understand and manage them; whereas, in public schools these types of interventionists are at times ineffective. This is why I feel that there are more problems in the public schools because of all the people they seem to require to be involved. When I was in school there was only the teacher and the principal, and once you got to high school a counselor. Also in the ghetto a big number of parents are unequipped to rear their children covering all the aspects of parenting. Another reality is that in the nonpublic schools there is a higher level of deniability in parenting, than in the public school system…. A large percent of females objectify themselves by the way they act and the way they dress. It is them and their body but some get carried away showing their anatomy to the public. A lot of females with both male and female children of all ages do the same. I also understand as they get older, they feel that it may do something to their self-esteem by letting people know that they have been taking care of themselves and still look good. But what do you say to your daughter pre-teen and teenaged daughter who dresses the same and wants to wear makeup and skimpy
clothing? How does the way a mother conducts herself cause a son to view females? I would not want my girlfriend, wife, daughter, stepdaughter, god-daughter, sister, niece, mother, grandmother, aunt, nor cousin to flaunt her body around for any and all to see. When women objectify themselves it is impossible for men not to do the same. I love looking at a beautiful woman with a great figure, but if she was my girlfriend or wife, and I was the only man who knew that she had a drop dead gorgeous body, it would mean even more to me. Female athletes are in a position where it is their sport of choice where their uniform is fitting or they play beach volley ball, but generally speaking I feel females should be conscious of their apparel mothers and non-mothers, especially teenagers. So beyond their natural beauty and attractiveness they would not receive any unwanted attention. Another thing is when you see men being affectionate with each other in public. I do not really see that a lot in Richmond, but other places they are open with their affection. I have seen girls kissing each other, but you hardly even see male and female couples do more than hug, hold hands, or caress, once and a while you may see a quick kiss. These are incidences when privacy is adamant. It is ones business not everybody’s business, especially when children are around who are not yours. In the privacy of your home it is great to let your children know that their parents love each other and them, but certain things must be kept in a certain environment, called private. We must have discretion when it comes to these things. When it comes to our oaths and convictions. When it comes to our employment position, especially if it sensitive. The next important element of existence we should be discrete about is numerous
personal facets of our life; which some people take for granted. Lastly, when it comes to love so that we do not hurt the ones we love; therefore, we must always be conscious of this so we will not lie and put ourselves in a compromising position. Another troubling piece of information is to find out the increased number of male children who are medically altered. This is a crime, isn’t it? What parents and other adults talking children into wanting to do this; what type of abuse and/or abasement has these children experienced to cause them to question their gender; what type of parent or guardian will consent to this; and what type of doctor will agree to perform these types of operations? There is something sinister about this. Another factor is that when the female children question why are these children in the girls’ bathroom, or locker room; they were not born a girl, and when the male children question, why they are in the boys’ bathroom, or locker room. The children are surely and truly not at fault. Which of any of these children is been put into this position fair too? Between the humanitarian standpoint, the legal standpoint, the moral standpoint, and the ethical standpoint who is more at fault for creating this dilemma for the children? The school for attempting to accommodate each child, and providing a legitimate explanation. The parents’ for contributing to such a quandary and confusion. The doctor for performing the operation regardless of consent by the parents. The legislatures for not speaking up against it. More important, has the child, parents, guardian, and doctor’s mental health capacity been questioned? If so or if not, how does this fit into the picture? How is a child born to “naturally” have, his or her gender altered? Again, there
is some underlying, hidden sinister intentions involved. Next, why is the government more concerned with Iran than they are Russia and China? China has the largest Army and Navy in the world. The Chinese military is also pretty disciplined. China has all types of high tech weaponry and massive quantities of them. I do not even know if we still have “first strike capabilities” over these other countries. I do not even know if this matters if they beat us to the punch. I do not even know how important national defense really is to leaders with all of this domestic bickering and disloyalty and favoritism and finger pointing, with all of these different nationalities in our country, especially those with dual citizenship who can afford, to freely, travel back and forth. The best example I can give is George Washington and the other revolutionaries finally set the sun on the “British/English Empire”, to have the politicians and judges to turn around and pass laws that still cater to Europeans to this day. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. How many people know that the original Constitutions said that we will be “paying the” British/English monarchs forever. Maybe this is why they have so much money, because we fill their coffers. It is time to cut the cords. This reminds us that even though people come to America and want to become a citizen, they are still loyal to their homeland. I apologize for always writing such long prose, but I cannot help it. There is lots that need to be said in a rational and honest manner. The question is, as leaders, what can be done about some of these things? Something should be done concerning these subjects and there is no better place to start than legislatures and law enforcement. The writer is with the American Fundamentalist Movement
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Faith & Religion
‘Religious left’ emerging as political force in Trump era SCOTT MALONE Since President Donald Trump’s election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York’s Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity with crowds three times what they usually draw. In January, the 181-year-old Upper Manhattan graduate school, whose architecture evokes London’s Westminster Abbey, turned away about 1,000 people from a lecture on mass incarceration. In the nine years that Reverend Serene Jones has served as its president, she has never seen such crowds. “The election of Trump has been
a clarion call to progressives in the Protestant and Catholic churches in America to move out of a place of primarily professing progressive policies to really taking action,” she said. Although not as powerful as the religious right, which has been credited with helping elect Republican presidents and boasts well-known leaders such as Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson, the “religious left” is now slowly coming together as a force in U.S. politics. This disparate group, traditionally seen as lacking clout, has been propelled into political activism by Trump's policies on immigration,
Governor vetos GOP’s religious imposition bills Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) broke the state’s veto record on last week after striking down two identical Republican bills that would have sanctioned discrimination against the state’s LGBTQ community. McAuliffe said in a statement that the religious imposition measures, SB 1324 and HB 2025, would have protected from civil liability those who actively discriminate against same-sex couples. The legislation, he said, was nothing more than an attempt to stigmatize people and would hurt the state’s economy. “We should be pursuing policies to make Virginia a more vibrant and welcoming place to live, work, and raise a family,” McAuliffe said. Former Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore had set a 90-veto record that McAuliffe broke with his vetoes of the religious imposition bills. Other recent vetoes by McAuliffe include HB 2264, which would have defunded Planned Parenthood in
Virginia, as Rewire reported. The governor had vetoed a similar bill, HB 1090, in 2016. McAuliffe in January vowed to veto an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban if it landed on his desk. Both bills, like similar legislation proposed by GOP lawmakers in Michigan and Iowa, would have prohibited the state from providing grants or contracting with entities that offer abortion care or maintain facilities where abortions are performed. While Democrats control the executive branch in Virginia, Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of the general assembly. Lawmakers will reconvene in April, though Republicans lack the majorities needed to override a veto. McAuliffe has never had a veto overridden. McAuliffe’s term began in 2014. A state law banning consecutive terms prohibits him from seeking re-election.
Serene Jones healthcare and social welfare, according to clergy members, activists and academics. A key test will be how well it will be able to translate its mobilization into votes in the 2018 midterm congressional elections. “It’s one of the dirty little secrets of American politics that there has been a religious left all along and it just hasn't done a good job of organizing,” said J. Patrick Hornbeck II, chairman of the theology department at Fordham University, a Jesuit school in New York. “It has taken a crisis, or perceived crisis, like Trump’s election to cause folks on the religious left to really own their religion in the public square,” Hornbeck said.
Religious progressive activism has been part of American history. Religious leaders and their followers played key roles in campaigns to abolish slavery, promote civil rights and end the Vietnam War, among others. The latest upwelling of left-leaning religious activism has accompanied the dawn of the Trump presidency. Some in the religious left are inspired by Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic leader who has been an outspoken critic of anti-immigrant policies and a champion of helping the needy. Although support for the religious left is difficult to measure, leaders
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So.Baptist leaders stand by Moore after his apology RNS - Russell Moore can keep his job. But only after he apologized for criticizing Southern Baptists who supported Donald Trump for president. The beleaguered head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission was told by his agency’s executive committee that it stands by him, according to a statement released last Monday. The decision followed a monthslong saga over Moore’s fate that split the denomination between his supporters, who tended to include younger Southern Baptists and minorities, and members of an older generation who often are more interested in ties with the Republican Party. “For us not to stand in affirmation of the principles that Dr. Moore has espoused would be unfaithful to the mission entrusted to us by the Convention,” the statement said. Last week, Moore and SBC leader Frank Page issued a shorter joint statement about how they “fully support one another” after the two held a two-hour meeting. The SBC is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and the ERLC is its public policy arm. The commission’s board of trustees,
Russell Moore including its executive committee, oversees Moore. During the election season, Moore wrote, spoke and tweeted critiques of then-GOP candidate Trump and questioned the motives of Christian leaders who supported him. A number of Southern Baptists, including Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress and former SBC President Jack Graham, were members of Trump’s evangelical advisory board. In May, on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Moore said Trump represented “an embrace of the very kind of moral and cultural decadence that conservatives have been saying for a long time is the problem.” Trump himself waded into the debate by tweeting: “Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no
heart!” In response to Moore’s actions, some Southern Baptist leaders threatened to halt funding of his agency or the whole denomination. Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas and a Trump supporter, told The Wall Street Journal that members of his church didn’t believe the ERLC “represents our church’s beliefs.” Graham’s Texas church decided to hold back $1 million in funds for the denomination. But after apologies from Moore and his “numerous private conversations with many of those who had criticisms of him,” the ERLC committee decided to support Moore. “We realize that divisions do not heal overnight,” the committee said. “But in terms of leadership and support, Dr. Moore is the man to whom it has been entrusted to lead this entity — speaking prophetically both to our culture and to our Convention. He will continue doing so with the confidence of our support.” In his latest statement, Moore said
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he had not meant to “suggest it was sinful for Southern Baptists or others to advise candidates or to serve on advisory boards in order to bear some influence there.” “What I was attempting to talk about were those — most often prosperity gospel teachers — who were willing to define the gospel in ways that I believe untrue to the plan of salvation, or to dismiss the moral concerns other Christians had,” Moore said. He added that he stands by his convictions to address “what the gospel is and is not, what sexual morality and sexual assault are and are not, and the crucial need for white Christians to listen to the concerns of our black and brown brothers and sisters in Christ.” Moore said he regretted his social media postings that “were at times overly broad or unnecessarily harsh. That is a failure on my part.” Graham, the Texas preacher, welcomed Moore’s apology. “This is a gracious and unifying statement from @drmoore,” he tweeted.
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Film review: “I Called Him Morgan” DWIGHT BROWN Bee Bop. Jazz. The 1950s and 1960s were a hotbed for cool music, and the hip musicians, who played those genres on records and in smoky, dimly lit nightclubs, were a special breed. Years later, most people still revere legendary trumpeters like Miles Davis and Chet Baker and are amazed by the lives they led. Time to add another artist of note to that list of iconic instrumentalists. His name is Lee Morgan. His life was as colorful and tragic; his talent as deep. This enlightening and haunting documentary gives him his due. Credit the Swedish musical documentarian Kasper Collin for reassembling the sordid pieces of Edward Lee Morgan’s’ life. Collin has had some practice. He also documented the career of American avant-garde jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler in My Name Is Albert Ayler, in 2006. He continues his tributes to lesser-known jazz artists with this absolutely spellbinding non-fiction film that plays out like a torrid novel. It tells the story of an ambitious young man, who was shepherded by the greats, fought the demons of drug addiction but was finally undone by a paramour. The story is so primal and tortured it also deserves to be a feature film starring someone like Michael B. Jordan or Nate Parker. Someone with depth. Lee Morgan, born in Philly and a gifted trumpeter as a young adolescent, joined the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at age 18 in the early ‘50s. Stints or guest performances with John Coltrane and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers further solidified his reputation in the jazz community for blowing a sweet horn. Recording around 25 records, mostly for the famed Blue Note Records label, added sheen to his career and allure. But as a musician’s life can go, he had his troubles. An addiction to drugs got him kicked out of Blakey’s band. He was broke, homeless and
Lee Morgan often sold his worldly possessions for a fix. Heroin. The stabilizing force in Morgan’s increasingly harrowing life was a magnanimous older woman named Helen. She fed him, put a roof over his head, was his ardent lover, and his biggest fan. If Morgan regained his footing at all, it was because of her unwavering support. She loved him with all her heart, but not unconditionally. She had her pride. When Morgan turned his attention to a younger lover, his common-law-wife was not about to take it on the chin. She had a plan—and a gun. Reconstructing Lee Morgan’s bio through old interviews with Morgan, anecdotes from jazz greats like Wayne Shorter, photos and archival footage vividly recreates the jazz age and the trumpeter’s travails. The most soul-crushing recollections,
however, come from Helen herself. Her stories can be heard on an audio cassette interview that was arranged by a night school teacher who was intrigued to find out that one of his students did a stint in prison for committing perhaps one of the most heinous acts of violence in the jazz world. Hearing Helen recall the ups and downs of her relationship that left her in an emotional fog is like hearing an old jazz 78rpm record that is so scratched you can barely make out the tune, but you do. Everything you hear and see leads up to an ill-fated, cold wintry New York City night in 1972. Performers and an audience are gathered at an East Village jazz bar. Morgan is there with a girl on his arm. A shot rings out. An irrevocable crime of passion occurs. Time stands still. People live or die
with the consequences. Kasper Collin has assembled a top-notch tech crew for this urban tale. The splendid cinematography of Bradford Young (Arrival, Selma) recreates scenes with the artistry of a painter. Editing by Collins with the help of Hanna Lejonqvist, Eva Hillström and Dino Jonsäter make you feel like a picture book has come alive, reeling out photos with a rhythm as precise yet eclectic as a jazz score. Watch “I Called Him Morgan,” and you will sit enraptured. Morgan’s music and Helen’s foggy memories will take your breath away. It’s an amazing coda to a jazz musician’s life. It’s the encore Morgan never had the chance to do. An exceptional documentary. Haunting.
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Black artists demand museum remove painting of Emmett Till COLORLINES - A white artist’s painting, inspired by famous photos of Emmett Till’s body after his murder, generated controversy when several black artists accused the painter of exploiting black death for profit. Artnet reported last week on demands that organizers of the Whitney Biennial, a recurring exhibition at New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art, remove and destroy Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket.” The painting, which the Whitney unveiled at the Biennial’s opening on March 17, is based on images originally published by Jet Magazine and The Chicago Defender 1955 of Till’s body at his open-casket funeral. Those pictures inspired outrage against Till’s lynching by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for allegedly flirting with Bryant’s wife, Carolyn. British-born and Berlin-based artist and writer Hannah Black, who previously participated in a Whitneybased residency, published an open letter on Artnet asking Biennial leadership to remove Schutz’s work from the exhibit “with the urgent recommendation that the painting be destroyed and not entered into any market or museum.” Black explains her belief that “Open Casket” devalues and repurposes an image of black suffering for the sake of consumption. “The painting should not be acceptable to anyone who cares or pretends to care about black people because it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time,” she wrote. Till’s name has circulated widely since his death. It has come to stand not only for Till himself but also for the mournability (to each other, if not to everyone) of people marked as disposable, for the weight so often given to a white woman’s word above a black child’s comfort or survival,
Artist Parker Bright (center) standing in front of Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket”, while wearing a shirt reading “Black Death Spectacle” at the Whitney Biennial taken from Twitter last week.
and for the injustice of anti-black legal systems. Through his mother’s courage, Till was made available to black people as an inspiration and warning. Non-black people must accept that they will never embody and cannot understand this gesture: The evidence of their collective lack of understanding is that black people go on dying at the hands of white supremacists, that black communities go on living in desperate poverty not far from the museum where this valuable painting hangs, that black children are still denied childhood. Even if Schutz has not been gifted with any real sensitivity to history, if black people are telling her that the painting has caused unnecessary hurt, she and you must accept the truth of this,” said Black. “The painting must go.” Black goes on to describe the painting within broader conversations about appropriation and the potentially destructive impact of non-black people circulating images depicting black people’s deaths at the hands of police or white supremacists. “Although derided by many white and whiteaffiliated critics as trivial and naive, discussions of appropriation and
representation go to the heart of the question of how we might seek to live in a reparative mode, with humility, clarity, humor and hope, given the barbaric realities of racial and gendered violence on which our lives are founded,” she wrote. Artnet reports that black originally issued the letter via Facebook with more than 30 signatories of different races before removing it and reposting with only black ones. Links to that post now yield a “This page is not available” message, but Artnet quoted black as writing that she updated the co-signers list “in response to some helpful criticism.” The Fader published a transcript yesterday with 27 of those names; they include composer Hannah Catherine Jones, artist and writer Carolyn Lazard and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary. Another signatory, Parker Bright, staged his own protest at the exhibit’s opening. The Guardian reports that Bright stood close to the painting, blocking it from many viewers’ eyes, while wearing a shirt reading “No lynch mob” on the front and “Black death spectacle” on the back. “I wanted to confront people with a living, breathing black body,” he told the publication. Schutz responded to the criticism and letter in a statement to media. She said she created “Open Casket” last August “after a long, violent summer of mass shootings, rallies
filled with hate speech and an ever-escalating number of camera phone videos of Black men being shot execution style by police.” She emphasized that the painting would not be for sale. While she was surprised by calls for its destruction, and said that “public discussion and argument is important and essential for art.” Biennial curators Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks wrote in a statement to Artnet that they included “Open Casket” “to acknowledge the importance of this extremely consequential and solemn image in American and AfricanAmerican history and the history of race relations in this country.” The Biennial’s website notes that the exhibition’s works address “a time rife with racial tensions, economic inequities and polarizing politics.” The Biennial also features works focused on race from artists of color like Henry Taylor, whose painting, “The Times They Ain’t A Changing, Fast Enough!”depicts Philando Castile’s killing by St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer Jeronimo Yanez. Till’s murder reentered the news earlier this year when scholar Timothy Tyson revealed in his book, “The Blood of Emmett Till” (and a corresponding Vanity Fair interview) that Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted to him that she fabricated allegations against Till.
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Summit tackles issue of minority teacher shortages If there was any doubt about the importance of VEA’s recent inaugural Teachers of Color Summit, Jahana Hayes erased it during the event’s keynote speech. The 2016 National Teacher of the Year, a high school history teacher in Connecticut, grew up in a housing project, raised by her grandmother. “All my teachers were white, and most of them couldn’t have loved me more if I had been their own,” Hayes told a hushed crowd of about 250 educators. “But they didn’t have the experiences, or the words, to have the conversations I needed to have. I think kids need to ‘see it to be it.’ For a long time, I thought teaching was only something white women did.” The need for more teachers of color is becoming more urgent all the time, and the numbers in Virginia are stark: Nearly one-half of students attending Virginia public schools are minorities, but fewer than one in five teachers is. Hayes went on to recount how she was haunted for years by a remark she overheard one of her teachers make the day after parent conferences were held at her elementary school. Hayes’ grandmother had no driver’s license and was unable to attend the conference, which led one teacher to say something, in Hayes’ earshot, about how none of the families in the projects cared about their children’s education. Years later, as President Obama introduced her as the National Teacher of the Year during a White House ceremony, Hayes glanced back at the other honorees from the other 49 states and U.S. territories. “I could count on the fingers of one hand the number who were minorities,” she said. “That’s what this field looks like.” Today, Hayes spends her time in the classroom trying to strike a balance between excelling in her chosen profession and making it clear to all her students that they can succeed. “We have to know the students sitting in front of us and include them in the conversation about their education,” she said. “The need to be reminded every day of the beauty, intelligence and talents they
possess. They need to know that even if I’m the only one, I believe in them and in their ability to succeed.” The Teachers of Color Summit, designed by VEA to call attention and seek solutions to the mismatch between students and teachers of color, drew classroom teachers, district human resources directors, building administrators and others to Richmond for work VEA President Jim Livingston called “a moral imperative.” Angela Owens, a member of the Prince William Education Association and a middle school principal, came on behalf of her students. “I want to recruit—and sustain—the finest and most diverse educators I can for them,” she said, noting that her school’s student population is about one-third black, one-third Hispanic and one-third white. Virginia State University student and education major Amber Collins came to have her educational outlook reinforced. “We talk about ‘urban’ schools,” she said, “and it often means a school with mostly minority students where a lot of teachers are scared to teach. I hope to teach in a diverse environment someday and I want to address cultural differences in a sensitive way.” In addition to hearing from speakers including Hayes and former NEA President Reg Weaver, Summit attendees had the opportunity to attend workshop sessions on topics including meeting the needs of minority educators once they’re hired, the importance of teaching race and social justice issues, strategies for recruiting and retaining excellent teachers of color, and managing college debt. They also had ample chances to hear and swap personal stories. A panel discussion about minority teacher preparation programs at two colleges and one high school opened the Summit, which closes this weekend with a gala reception honoring the 50th anniversary of the merger between the Virginia Education Association and the Virginia Teachers Association, followed by a morning of solutionseeking roundtable discussions. -VEA
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VSU hosts investiture ceremony for President Abdullah
Virginia State University (VSU) held the Investiture Ceremony for its
14th president, Makola M. Abdullah, Ph.D. last week.
(from page 8) a Honduran woman who has been point to several examples, such as a surge of congregations offering to provide sanctuary to immigrants seeking asylum, churches urging Republicans to reconsider repealing the Obamacare health law and calls to preserve federal spending on foreign aid. The number of churches volunteering to offer sanctuary to asylum seekers doubled to 800 in 45 of the 50 U.S. states after the election, said the Elkhart, Indianabased Church World Service, a coalition of Christian denominations which helps refugees settle in the United States - and the number of new churches offering help has grown so quickly that the group has lost count. “The religious community, the religious left is getting out, hitting the streets, taking action, raising their voices,” said Rev. Noel Anderson, its national grassroots coordinator. In one well-publicized case, a Quaker church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 14 took in
living illegally in the United States for 25 years and feared she would be targeted for deportation. Leaders of Faith in Public Life, a progressive policy group, were astounded when 300 clergy members turned out at a January rally at the U.S. Senate attempting to block confirmation of Trump’s attorney general nominee, Jeff Sessions, because of his history of controversial statements on race. “I’ve never seen hundreds of clergy turning up like that to oppose a Cabinet nominee,” said Rev. Jennifer Butler, the group’s chief executive. The group last week convened a Capitol Hill rally of hundreds of pastors from as far away as Ohio, North Carolina and Texas to urge Congress to ensure that no people lose their health insurance as a result of a vote to repeal Obamacare. Financial support is also picking up. Donations to the Christian activist group Sojourners have picked up by 30 percent since Trump’s election, the group said. But some observers were skeptical
Abdullah celebrated his first year as president of VSU in February,
marking his achievements. Within his year of leadership, the freshman enrollment increased by 30 percent, the university was removed from warning status by the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Colleges and the University opened its Academic Excellence Center, which serves as an university learning center designed to help students develop successful study skills, prepare for careers and internships, receive academic advisement and learn about study abroad opportunities, to name a few. Abdullah, a native of Chicago, is an academic administrator committed to excellence. He attended Northwestern University for his master’s and doctoral studies. Abdullah is the youngest African American to receive a Ph.D. in engineering. He earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University in civil engineering.
that the religious left could equal the religious right politically any time soon. “It really took decades of activism for the religious right to become the force that it is today,” said Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the political science department at Stonehill College, a Catholic school outside Boston. But the power potential of the “religious left” is not negligible. The “Moral Mondays” movement, launched in 2013 by the North Carolina NAACP’s Reverend William Barber, is credited with contributing to last year’s election defeat of Republican Governor Pat McCrory by Democrat Roy Cooper. The new political climate is also spurring new alliances, with churches, synagogues and mosques speaking out against the recent spike in bias incidents, including threats against mosques and Jewish community centers. The Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, which encourages alliances between Jewish and Muslim women, has tripled its number of U.S. chapters to nearly 170 since November, said
founder Sheryl Olitzky. “This is not about partisanship, but about vulnerable populations who need protection, whether it’s the LGBT community, the refugee community, the undocumented community,” said Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, using the acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. More than 1,000 people have already signed up for the center’s annual Washington meeting on political activism, about three times as many as normal, Pesner said. Leaders of the religious right who supported Trump say they see him delivering on his promises and welcomed plans to defund Planned Parenthood, whose healthcare services for women include abortion, through the proposed repeal of Obamacare. “We have not seen any policy proposals that run counter to our faith,” said Lance Lemmonds, a spokesman for the Faith & Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group based in Duluth, Ga.
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UVA tests online program to help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are hoping that the power of the internet – and compelling personal experiences – will help reach people with HIV who are neglecting their health because of fear, stigma or substance abuse. The researchers are testing an online program they have developed to address the problems they see most commonly among people who are failing to take their HIV medications. In some cases, they say, people won’t even fill their prescriptions because they don’t want anyone to know about their diagnosis – even their pharmacist. “A lot of our patients are from rural areas, and they fear people finding out they have HIV, because they fear being rejected,” explained Karen S. Ingersoll, PhD, of UVA’s Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. “It’s a realistic fear, so we address the need for social support when living with HIV.” The researchers hope the innovative method they’ve devised to provide that support – including testimonials from HIV-positive people who overcame similar problems – will speak to both the minds and hearts of study participants. Overcoming fear The researchers have developed a multi-week program, called Pos4Health, that addresses important topics such as depression, substance abuse, stigma and wellness. Over the course of the interactive program, study participants learn more about HIV, how it works in the body and the drugs that battle it. They learn strategies for disclosing their HIV status to others. And, importantly, they see videos featuring people living with HIV from UVA’s Ryan White Clinic. Pos4Health stands for Peers Offering Support for Health. “We recruited 10 people living with HIV
from our own clinic who are [study participants’] peers. They agreed to help us build this intervention,” Ingersoll said. The peers shared their personal experiences living with HIV both before and after diagnosis and treatment. Their testimony is shown in short video clips on each of these topics, spread throughout the program. Between the video segments are interactive features such as games, quizzes and animations. “All of these peers are now living well with HIV,” Ingersoll said. “They’re living very healthily.” Study coordinator Christina Frederick, who helped developed the online program, noted that the people featured have faced many of the same obstacles as study participants. “They had significant challenges – homelessness, addiction, prison,” she said. “And they overcame them.” Ingersoll said she hopes that study participants will identify with the people in the videos and the struggles they’ve faced. “We have men and women, gay and straight, a good variety of folks who are representative of the patients in our clinic,” Ingersoll noted. “We show people who are struggling and afraid that there are people who are willing to share that they have HIV.” “These are not actors,” added Kirsten MacDonnell, research coordinator. ‘A long and healthy life’ To participate in the study, people must have had problems sticking to their HIV medications and have or had substance problems. They do not need to live in the Charlottesville area. “The main goal of the study is to help people take their medicine well, because everything else will fall into place if they do that,” Ingersoll said. “Their health will be maintained, they won’t decline in terms of HIV attacking their system. If they take their medicine well as soon as they’re diagnosed, they can live a long and healthy life.”
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Union hosting authors of “Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From Jail” Union Presbyterian Seminary’s William Smith Morton Library will host a series of readings by the authors of “Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From Jail,” a 2015 memoir of Dr. David Coogan’s experience teaching 10 men to write their ways to freedom, beginning at the Richmond City Jail in 2006. The readings will take place April 4 at 7 p.m., 3406 Chamberlayne Ave., Richmond. The event will feature David Coogan, Naji Mujahid, Tony Martin and Stanley Craddock, followed by Q&A and a reception with book-signing. The stories in “Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs From Jail” explore racial conditions, economic traps, and turning points on the path to imprisonment in modern America, as well as the spiritual, political, and redemptive power of memoir. They emerged from Coogan's work with over five dozen inmates at the Richmond City Jail, supported by Virginia Commonwealth University’s College of Humanities and Sciences through its Student Engagement Program and Career Enhancement Scholarships. Coogan is an associate professor of English and co-director of the Open Minds Program at VCU. He is also the author of Moving Students Into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper in “Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements,” Autobiography as Inquiry: Crafting and Ethical Code in Jail in “Working for Justice: A Handbook for Prison Teaching and Activism,” and the co-editor with John Ackerman of “The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen Scholars and Civic Engagement.” He is currently working on a new book titled “Memoirs of Mass Incarceration: The Rhetoric of Revolutionaries, Witnesses and Survivor”.
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