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Thousands gather in DC for One Million Man Match anniversary

Story Page 3 HAAPY ANNIVERSARY – Some of the nearly 500,000 cheer wildly as Minister Farrakhan addresses the One Million Man March annivrsary celebration held in Washington D.C. held at the weekend

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School discipline is bacially Biased, that’s why Seattle is banning some suspensions.

Washington state’s education system has made national news several times in the past few months, mostly for not-awesome reasons: First, a court ordered the Legislature to pay $100,000 a day into a special education fund for failing to fund K–12 adequately; second, and semirelatedly, teachers in the state’s largest school district, Seattle, went on strike for eight days over cost-of-living raises and test-score-based teacher evaluations, among other issues.

But now, finally, there is some bright news out of Washington schools, partially as a result of strike negotiations: Last week, the Seattle School Board unanimously approved a oneyear ban on out-of-school suspensions for elementary school students accused of nonviolent offenses like disruptive behavior and general disobedience.

These infractions constitute roughly three-quarters of elementary school suspensions; the other quarter—for “assault, fighting, and threats of violence”—are all “considered exceptional misconduct and warrant an immediate suspension,” according to a Seattle Times report on the resolution.

The Seattle board’s decision to test out this ban stems from research that showed that suspensions reflect racial and socioeconomic divides, with nonwhite students disciplined at dramatically higher rates

than their white classmates.

From a lengthy report earlier this summer in the Seattle Times: In Washington and nationally, schools have begun to reconsider their discipline policies because removing students from school rarely leads to improvements in behavior, and because the skew in suspension rates mirrors that achievement between students of different races.

To wit, in Washington state: Of 69,754 suspensions and expulsions meted out in 201314, the vast majority—78 percent—went to kids from low-income families, most of whom were students of color.

While Seattle’s suspension rate is lower than the state’s average, the racial discrepancies in discipline there are vast enough for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education to be investigating the district’s treatment of black students, with no conclusions offered as yet.

Part of the problem is the much-reported-on shortage of nonwhite teachers in American classrooms: In Washington state, 87 percent of teachers are white, compared with 63 percent of students.

In the U.S. as a whole, the student population is rapidly getting more diverse while the teaching force remains overwhelmingly—82 percent, at last count—white.

Capitol building during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Washington. Evan Vucci / AP Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who spearheaded the original march, is leading an anniversary gathering Saturday at the Capitol called the “Justice or Else” march.

“I plan to deliver an uncompromising message and call for the government of the United States to respond to our legitimate grievances,” Farrakhan said in a statement.

He told leaders in the Black community to “teach love for one another.”

Farrakhan also praised the young protesters behind Black

Lives Matter. He called them the next leaders of the civil rights movement and called on older leaders to support them.

“We got some fine young men that we arte training. I’m 82 — I don’t know how long I got but I’m not worried cause I got a torch lit with the wisdom of good,” Farrakhan said.

A U.S. Capitol Police newsletter that went out on Friday warned Farrakhan had incited violence in the past, but Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine said she hadn’t authorized the newsletter and apologized to Farrakhan and his staff.

The two groups issued a joint statement Friday, saying they are “committed to a joint efContinued on page 14

State Senator Bill Perkins officially launches his campaign for Congress Highlighting his record of taking bold actions and getting real results, State Senator Bill Perkins officially declared his candidacy for Congress, 13th District. Perkins kicked off his campaign in front of Schomburg Plaza, where he started his political involvement as a tenant leader. The seat is now held by Charles Rangel who has announced he won’t be running again.

Perkins said, “I am running because we need leaders we Continued on page 14

Elizabeth Warren gives speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for

By Wesley Lowery

In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for broad policing reform — including de-escalation training and body cameras for all police officers — and likened the current Black Lives Matter movement to the civil rights movement that won black Americans the right to vote in the 1960s.

“None of us can ignore what is happening in this country.

Not when our black friends, family, neighbors literally fear dying in the streets.” Warren said. “This is the reality all of

us must confront, as uncomfortable and ugly as that reality may be. It comes to us to once again affirm that black lives matter, that black citizens matter, that black families matter.”

In the address, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post prior to her delivery, Warren draws direct parallels between the civil rights movement and the current anti-police-brutality movement, and it sought to link issues on economic inequality with systemic racism.

She traces racial economic inequality, citing inequities in the housing system, as well as decrying restrictions to voting

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) speaks about raising wages during the forum AFLCIO National Summit (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

rights.

“Economic justice is not — and has never been — sufficient to ensure racial justice.

Owning a home won’t stop someone from burning a cross on the front lawn. Admission to a school won’t prevent a beating on the sidewalk outside,” Warren declared. “The tools of oppression were woven together, and the civil rights struggle was fought against that oppression wherever it was found — against violence, against the denial of voting rights and against economic injustice.”

Warren’s address, delivered at the Edward Kennedy

Institute in Boston, was perhaps the most full-throated endorsement to date by a federal lawmaker for the ongoing protest movement, and it drew immediate praise from some of the most visible activists.

“Senator Warren’s speech clearly and powerfully calls into question America’s commitment to black lives by highlighting the role that structural racism has played and continues to play with regard to housing discrimination and voting rights,” said DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist who said he hopes to meet Continued on page 14

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Black men and women from around the nation gathed on the National Mall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March and called for policing reforms and changes in black communities.

Waving flags, carrying signs and listening to speeches and songs, the crowd wove their way through security barricades and souvenir vendors at the U.S. Capitol and spread down the Mall on a sunny and breezy fall day.

Among the attendees was Nate Smith of Oakland, California, who joined the 1963 March on Washington and the 1995 Million Man March.

“It’s something that I need to do,” the 70-year-old man said.

“It’s like a pilgrimage for me, and something I think all black people need to do.”

Russ Green was also at the Million Man March in 1995 and wrote to MSNBC that he “most vividly” remembers “walking past two brothers … holding a [Black] Nationalist flag between them, dressed in the full regalia of the Black Panther Party, grim looks on their faces with their free hands clenched into fists of solidarity.”

“Saturday will be different.

I’m looking forward to standing with my black, brown and red brothers to demand Justice or Else,” Green wrote.

Neal Blair, of Augusta, Ga., stands on the lawn of the

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Ancient medicine may offer a new hope

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Black woman judge is nominated for Bronx DA

By J. Zamgba Browne Special to NY Beacon

Bronx County is on the verge of electing its first ever female African-American district attorney after she was nominated by the county’s Democratic leadership in a borough that is heavily democratic.

If elected in the upcoming November general election, Darcel Clark, an appellate division judge, will succeed another trailblazer, Robert Johnson who was elected the first Black district attorney in the county 26 years ago.

Judge Clarke who grew up in the Soundview Houses, a city housing project, appears confident she can handle the job and ready for the challenge. “I am not afraid. As a politician, health care worker, I don’t care who it is, the case comes in, I am going to investigate it,” said Clark.

But she stressed during a town hall gathering that she would make sure the case is properly investigated. “I am going to weigh the facts and then I will make my determination, and it’s not going to be based on whoever it helps or hurts,” said Judge Clark.

Her nomination is receiving mixed review. Dick Dadey. Executive director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, expressed concern that she was nomination without going through a primary is not too cool.

For her to be selected by a small group of political cronies in the Bronx Democratic machine is ludicrous “The way she was nominated is extremely antidemocratic and tarnishes her selection,” said Daddy.

Put aside the selection process, he said Judge Clark has

impressive credentials for the position. A 1986 graduate of Howard University Law School, she was employed in the Bronx District Attorney following that same year.

The 13 years she spent at that office, Clark worked her way to become an assistant district attorney in the criminal court and narcotics bureaus. She was later appointed acting justice of the New York Supreme Court in 2004. A year later she was elected to the post.

A defense attorney in the Bronx, Alexander Sanchez said that Judge Clark is well respected and well liked among the defense bar. He recalled working on cases against Clark when she was a prosecutor.

Sanchez said he would like if Clark become the next Bronx District Attorney she would work to reduce or eliminate the backlog of cases.

“I would hope that she would be very aggressive about teaching her assistant district attorneys to flag those type of cases so they would be eliminated as quickly as possible,” said Sanchez.

Judge Clark also received the nod of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who said he admired her work as a judge and as an assistant district attorney. “I cannot think of anyone who would have been a better candidate than Judge Clark, and I am very pleased that she is the Democratic Committee’s nominee,” he added.

Meanwhile, the same Bronx Democratic County Committee that nominated Judge Clark also nominated her soon to be predecessor, Johnson to become a New York State Supreme Court Justice.

The Meridian System, a foundation principle of ancient and traditional Chinese medicine; and, the essence of Acupuncture therapy, seems to have earned its place as a credible and important concept in western medicine.

Ancient Chinese believed the Meridian System runs throughout the human body carrying energy (QI). It is this system that acupuncturists access with needles through Acupuncture points whether they are treating pain in a patient’s back, assisting a patient through a weight loss program or helping someone beat a smoking habit, etc.

Despite Acupuncture’s reputation for treatment success, western medicine has remained skeptical of its truth, its healing value, and the existence of meridians in general—primarily because scientists were never able to confirm the existence of such a system. A recent article

by Diane-Sheppard, Ph.D., L.Ac., provided startling background information that challenges outdated western theory on this issue and lends credibility to the existence of the Meridian System.

According to Sheppard, a Korean doctor named Kim Bonghan was the first to publish a description of the ancient Chinese Meridians in the 1960s. Although researchers in Japan confirmed his work in 1967, Bonghan’s findings were basically dismissed by western medicine because he allegedly, failed to leave details regarding how his outcomes were determined.

Although westerners claimed Bonghan’s findings could not be authenticated— Meridians are now identified as Bonghan Channels—a direct result of his breakthrough work. Believe it or not, Bonghan Channels have been mapped by modern technology in such major discipline processes as electron spectroscopy (a technique used to study the electric structure in atoms and

molecules) and CT scans (special x-rays that scan cross-section images of the body).

According to Sheppard, modern researchers have “actually identified and mapped physical structures that closely correspond to traditional meridians.”

Although the concept of meridians existed in the annals of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, western medicine historically treated it as lore. It is now more than apparent, what western medicine identified as lore is more than a mixture of Chinese wisdom tradition and myth, it is real.

According to researchers, Bonghan Channels appear to carry biophotons (a combination of the Greek words for life and light). Biophotons are normally seen in lightening bugs and deep water fish that glow).

Biophotons are emitted by DNA molecules and produce a laser-like light that appears to carry tremendous amounts of information through the Bonghan Channels.

Imagine the fodder for science fiction stories—human beings as carriers of intelligent light. This almost unbelievable phenomenon was actually confirmed as far back as 1991 by Russian researchers and again

confirmed in both 1992 and 2005 in studies published by the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. In 2009, the Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies identified the Bonghan System as a “newly-discovered circulatory system”. The report also proposed, Bonghan’s System may have breakthrough significance for modern medicine.

Of significant interest is Bonghan Systems have even been observed surrounding tumor tissues—a finding which “may have great significance in relation to serious health problems in modern society, namely, obesity and cancer.”

Understanding Bonghan Channels actually do exist, may inspire skeptical patients to consider Acupuncture as an option for pain management.

Currently, many medical plans are stingy with their authorizations for treatment by an Acupuncturist; but, are more than generous with their prescription authorizations for pain pills and muscle relaxers that come with long lists of dangerous side effects.

Chronic pain suffers might consider challenging their health insurers for more access to Acupuncture therapy as a treatment option -

AMAC to Congress: ‘Get real and start dismantling Obamacare’ “Americans are already paying through the nose for the ideological ambitions of Washington liberals.

The price tag will continue to go up.

Obamacare is steadily forcing new, higher premiums. At the same time, Democratic lawmakers are hatching schemes such as the one that would have taxpayers footing the bill for health insurance for millions of individuals who are in this country illegally.

It just doesn’t make sense.” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

At least four independent consulting firms, Oliver Wyman, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Hay Group, and Milliman, are reporting that Obamacare premiums will soar next year. Some reports say they will go up in some cases by as much as 60%.

In fact, Weber revealed, “the federal government confirms that, in general, health care costs associated with Obamacare are predicted to bend the

cost curve up by 14 percent to 49 percent for most Americans. Hardest hit by the rising costs are those who can least afford it, America’s older citizens.

Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership in Congress has come forth with a bill to provide illegal aliens nationwide with access to Obamacare- compliments of your tax dollars and mine.”

It’s time for our lawmakers to “get real” and create solutions for America’s problems, Weber said. In an Op-Ed article posted at townhall.com this week, he called on Congress to start writing and passing sensible laws that address the top-of-mind concerns of Americans-particularly those that impact their day-to-day lives.

One o f th e k ey reas o n s fo r Obamacare, in the first place, was to cover the over 38 million Americans without health insurance. Six years later 38 million are still without insurance.

Weber called for a thoughtful, common sense approach to issues of

concern to taxpayers - including senior citizens. “They are paying higher taxes (or penalties) for Obamacare, while now also paying shockingly higher premiums, and getting less before the benefits kick in, due to higher deduct-

ibles. In short, let’s dismantle the house of cards that is Obamacare.

Let us trumpet a return home for those who are illegally in the United States, not continue to belabor the issue, not provide them with sanctuary from our laws in cities facing rising crime rates, not add health care benefits compliments of a generous but broke American worker and pensioner, and certainly not offer benefits that will now create new waves of illegal immigration. In short, let us tell Congress to represent those who work legally, vote legally, and have done so all their long lives.”

The Association of Mature American Citizens [http://www.amac.us] is a vibrant, vital senior advocacy organization that takes its marching orders from its members. We act and speak on their behalf, protecting their interests and offering a practical insight on how to best solve the problems they face today

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No due process for ‘standing while Black’

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

Is Patrick Lynch, president of the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, obliged to defend his members even when they are wrong?

The open letter posted on the PBA website and printed in the New York Daily News lacks credibility and contributes to the fractured state of police-community relations.

He has cautioned the media, and others, about rushing to judgment of James Frascatore, the walking assault machine that tackled former tennis star James Blake, put his knee to Blake’s back, and then cuffed him. This was captured by a security camera; the footage is ubiquitous online. Lynch says, “No one should ever jump to an uninformed conclusion based on a few seconds of video.”

Lynch makes every excuse that he can for Frascatore, and chides “pundits and editorial writers” because “they have never faced the dangers that police officers routinely do.”

Comments about Blake’s false arrest and further cover-up are “irresponsible, unjust, and un-American.” Lynch says Frascatore deserves “due

process, not summary professional execution called for by editorial writers.”

Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all the legal rights due to a person. When did James Blake get due process? Frascatore tackled Blake with neither provocation nor even conversation. Either Lynch didn’t watch the video or he doesn’t care that there is a pugilistic police officer that has no regard for due process when he interacts with the public.

Frascatore should have been history in the NYPD some time ago. He has only been part of the NYPD for four years, yet five complaints against him have been filed with the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). All of these complaints involve the excessive use of force. Frascatore is fast with his fists (he is accused of punching people in the head, the mouth, and in the torso); tragedy would be compounded if he were using a gun. For all of Frascatore’s abuse of power, it took his assault of Blake to get him desk duty. Blake has very reasonably called for Frascatore’s firing. But loudmouth Lynch (consider his comments in the wake of Eric Garner’s mur-

der) has talked himself onto a limb with his passionate, but baseless defense of a police “officer.”

If there were due process, Frascatore would have been arrested for assaulting Blake.

But police officers accused of wrongdoing hide behind their uniforms and rarely pay for their crimes. If there were due process, a man with five complaints before the CCRB would have been put on desk duty, if not suspended or fired, some time ago.

The New York Daily News reported on a 2013 incident where Frascatore and two others followed bicyclist Warren Diggs home. Once there, they demanded identification from him but proceeded to punch in the head and pummel his body – before he could retrieve his ID. Diggs’ significant other, Nafeesah Hines, saw part of the fracas and began recording it. She asked officers for their names and badge numbers; two complied but Frascatore refused.

When Hines went to move Diggs’ bicycle from the sidewalk and into their home, she was told that she was tampering with evidence and Continued on page 16

Project Ready – A pipeline to post-secondary success

By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X Our nation’s high schools are in a state of troubling crisis.

Too many of our students are graduating ill-equipped for the academic rigors of college and, ultimately, the challenges and needs of today’s global, hightech economy.

For many of our high school graduates, earning a college degree will be their first step on the path towards the “American Dream” of the job, the house and future economic security.

And the data consistently points to this traditionally accepted conclusion: those who earn a college degree are more likely to attain higher-skilled and better paying jobs than their peers who only have a high school diploma. But a recent report points to a concerning reality, one where insufficient college readiness is cutting off large numbers of students from a critical conduit of future opportunity and success – and because of historic disparities in education between White students and Black and Latino students, students of color are impacted in greater numbers.

The ACT testing company, which administers a popular, nation-wide college admissions and placement test, published a report that showed that one in three students who took the ACT are not ready for college course work. In fact, just over six in 10 students met the test’s college-ready benchmarks in English, math, reading and science.

The data points to a disturbing performance gap when you compare the results of Black and Latino students to their White peers. For White high school students who took the ACT in 2014, 76 percent tested competent for college-level English courses and 52 percent tested competent for math. Only 34 percent of Black high school graduates tested competent for college-level English courses, and just 14 percent were ready to tackle college-level math. For Hispanic students, 47 percent were prepared for college-level English and 29 percent were ready for college-level math courses.

As we face a nationwide challenge to prepare all of our students for post-secondary academic success, it must be acknowledged that students of color are feeling the impact of the failure to prepare our students in far greater numbers.

This failure not only hurts the individual student by curbing job prospects and higher earning potential, it weakens our nation and our standing as a strong competitor in a global marketplace that values the knowledge and skills that come with schooling and training beyond high school.

Understanding that time-tested correlation between educational opportunity and future economic empowerment, The National Urban League has developed Project Ready, a signature programming initiative that prepares African-American students and other urban youth for college, work and life. The project works with 8th to 12th grade students – along with their Continued on page 14

Beyond the Rhetoric: A major blow to women and minority-owned businesses non-union shops must pay Gov. Gilmore insisted on no ally funded projects to operate environment. This has a direct

By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist

(The following are excerpts from testimony I gave before the Civil Rights Commission explaining the discriminatory practices via an Executive Order placed by President Barack Obama).

A Project Labor Agreement is between an owner of a specific construction project and applicable labor unions.

It is an agreement that union rules must be followed from the beginning to end of the project. In essence it becomes very cumbersome for a nonunion shop to participate. For instance, union wages must be paid to the non-union shop plus the union level medical benefits and pension plan even though the money will never be credited to the non-union shop employees. Also, the

union dues. Consequently, a Project Labor Agreement pretty much blocks the use of non-union shops and their employees. PLA’s are mainly used on local, state and federal projects as private corporations find them wasteful and too expensive.

Ninety-eight percent of Black and Hispanic construction companies are non-union shops. Thus, a Project Labor Agreement greatly limits the opportunities for Black and Hispanic firms whenever they are used. The possibility of Black and Hispanic labor is greatly suppressed also. There was a serious matter over the use of Project Labor Agreements when the Woodrow Wilson Bridge was about to be rebuilt. Maryland’s Gov. Glendenning demanded the use of a PLA while Virginia

usage. Through research we compared the utilization of Black firms and employment on highway construction work for the states of Virginia and Maryland.

Maryland had a state-wide PLA on its highway program while Virginia was a Right to Work program. Virginia’s utilization of Black firms and employees was greater than Maryland by a 3:1 ratio. That caught the attention of President George W. Bush and he ordered no PLA on the bridge project. From there he eventually banned all PLA’s on federally funded projects as they “discriminate against women, minorities and small business.”

Right after his inauguration President Barack Obama issued his first Executive Order (February 9, 2009). E.O. 13502 ordered all major feder-

under a Project Labor Agreement. This is a major blow to women and minority owned businesses and employees. Diversity is negatively affected.

If the U.S. Civil Rights Commission would do an audit on construction union employees they would find these construction crafts are in violation of Executive Order 11246. They are discriminatory. The US Department of Labor hides this by reporting racial employment by unions as a total number. They never report exclusively on construction unions by craft. If they did, it would uncover a disgrace.

The NBCC has been trying to get these numbers beginning in 1997 but to no avail.

Small business, which is 98% of Black construction firms, happens to be best developed in a Right to Work

impact on jobs and the sustainability of such firms.

Section 3 of the HUD Act This is also known as The Economic Opportunities for Low and Very-Low Income Persons. 24 CFR part 135 was implemented by former HUD Secretary George Romney in 1968. It was a response to urban unrest in Black communities, especially the Watts Riot of 1965. The program was strengthened by Secretary Jack Kemp in 1992 as a result of the Rodney King Riot in Los Angeles. Under the law thirty percent (30%) of all jobs created by HUD money are to go to people living in public housing or living under the poverty level (Section 3 workers). Also, 10% of all contracts should go to firms hiring those Continued on page 16

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By James Clingman NNPA Columnist

has six electoral votes. New Hampshire is 93 percent White and 1 percent Black, with four electoral votes. There are 538 electoral votes among the states, 270 of which are needed to win the presidency of the United States. I ask again, why are Iowa and New Hampshire so important in the scheme of things?

And I reemphasize that Black folks, comprising a grand total of 3 percent of the total population of these two small states, have absolutely no influence, not to mention power, in what is taking place right now in the political arena. We are relegated to being spectators if we care to watch this current show; it is a rerun, so many of us are not interested anyway.

By the time you read this article the séance for Ronald Reagan, known as the Republican debate, will have taken place at the Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

You remember that famous

city, right? It’s the place where the White cops beat Rodney King within inches of his life were declared not guilty. Of the 500 there, I saw just five Black people in the seats at the CNN debate. Another insult to Black voters, or another indication of political impotence?

We are just spectators, brothers and sisters, watching the Dems and Repubs race toward the finish line in November 2016. They will put on a great show for us though, as they invoke Rosa Parks’ name and cite the sanctity of the Black vote.

Each party will try to convince us that it can and will “take care of us” because God knows we can’t take care of ourselves.

Then, in January 2017, Black people will settle in, once again relegated to their plantation of “choice” for four more years, without having gotten one ounce of quo for our quid.

My article, “Black Political Dilemma” (2014), posed the possibility of Ben Carson running against Hillary Clinton

for president. Some folks responded by saying, “That will never happen,” “You’re crazy, Jim,” and “Carson will never be nominated.” Some folks even laughed at the question, “What will Black people do if that happens?” Well, you may want to stay tuned.

Black people have dug ourselves a deep political hole, and now we must figure out how to get out of it. It really doesn’t matter who wins the highest office in the land, Blacks will be in the same relative position as we have been under a Black President for the last seven years. In other words, we ain’t got nothin’ comin’. Only we can save us, not Hillary, Carson, Sanders, or Trump.

Because we have tried to play politics without having a strong economic base, we have become impotent and irrelevant. Reflect on the words of T. Thomas Fortune, journalist and co-founder of the National Continued on page 16

Child Watch: Young Black males – Pushed out and pushed away

By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Damien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education was always stressed. No one, including Damien, ever thought he wouldn’t finish high school.

When his father, grandfather and aunt all died within a short time of one another as he was starting high school, it shook him off his solid foundation.

But through his terrible grief he kept going.

Then he hit a roadblock: he failed the math section of the proficiency test required for graduation. “I took the math portion of the test numerous times, went to summer school,

attended tutoring in school, attended tutoring at another high school, and even had a teacher from my mother’s school come to the house and tutor me – and still I could not pass the test . . . At the end of my senior year I found myself pushed out of school and unable to graduate because I could not pass one portion of a standardized test.”

Damien’s “offense” was having spent 12 years in public school classrooms that left him unable to graduate. Years later Damien wrote about how his school pushout derailed—and nearly destroyed—the course of his life. “[W]hat often is not discussed when you repeatedly fail like I did are the deep feelings which I felt of

shame, embarrassment, disappointment and intellectual inadequacy … based on a test that kept reminding me that maybe I was not good enough. “…So with no high school diploma I spent the next seven years working multiple jobs…

United Parcel Service, Gibraltar Strip Steel, Labor Ready, DialAmerica, construction, telemarketing, and the list goes on. Throughout the course of those seven years I was arrested and involved in some illegal activities and found myself constantly looking for creative ways to bring in revenue.” Damien eventually turned his life around, got his GED, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees with

honors from American Baptist College. That’s where he met one of his mentors who immediately saw his brilliance and steadfastly encouraged him, Rev. Janet Wolf.

After graduating from American Baptist College – which John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette and Jim Bevel attended and became key leaders in the Nashville and national civil rights movements – Damien earned a Master’s in Divinity degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Today, he is a minister, a school counselor, and an organizer with the Children’s Defense Fund Nashville Nonviolent Organizing Team advocating for and mentoring children and youths – mostly

Black boys – and others pushed out of school and put at risk of the prison pipeline who might not be as lucky and as able to get their lives back on track as he was.

Eric Brown is one of Damien’s colleagues who wrote about his experience being pushed out and pushed away by adults. Eric, the son of a third-generation pastor, was rooted in the church. But as a teenager he started to realize adults in the church community were sometimes among the first to judge the youths around them: “I noticed my frustration with identity through my experiences of how church folk Continued on page 16

Ford Motor Company encourages HBCU student achievement Each generation of African Americans has been challenged with both old and new hurdles to clear in the life-long marathon to achieve success and to fulfill career goals and objectives. The importance of attaining a quality education cannot be overstated in particular for the African American community.

I serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) that represents the interests of 126 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). NAFEO is the only national membership association of its kind, representing the presidents and

chancellors of the diverse black colleges and universities: public, private and land-grant, two-year, four-year, graduate and professional, historically and predominantly black colleges and universities.

Working with NAFEO has help me to grasp and to understand the complex matrix of issues involving our nation’s HBCUs. Completing a college education in America can determine one’s quality of life quantitatively in terms of potential annual income as well as helping to become socially self-sustainable. As we all know, however, a college education is now more expensive than ever before; and, entry to good schools is

highly competitive.

Recently, I was pleased to learn about a program that was specifically created to reach and to provide students scholarships at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Company Fund are reaching out to students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities for their third edition of the Ford HBCU Community Challenge Competition.

Up to $75,000 in scholarships, and university and community grants will be awarded for the first-place student team and its project.

The Ford HBCU Community Challenge is an extension of

one of the Ford Fund’s signature educational programs — the Ford College Community Challenge.

The Ford HBCU Community Challenge is conducted in partnership with the Tom Joyner Morning Show and the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, and encourages HBCU students to design community projects that address pressing local needs. Salute to Tom Joyner and Rickey Smiley for their leadership in the effort. The program’s theme is “Building Sustainable Communities.” I like this theme because it helps to encourage this generation of African American college students to consider the importance of

community development as a professional career focus.

The top three teams selected will be flown to the Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan to present their projects before a panel of automotive and media professionals.

We need to look for ways to engage and challenge our young talented minds with an opportunity to make a difference in our communities. The truth is there should be more corporations that follow the Ford Motor Company emphasis on higher education and community development.

Every HBCU institution should urge its students to Continued on page 16

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Here is something to think about as we watch the political circus that is currently dominating the news: Black people are nowhere to be found in the real action, nowhere to be found in determining the candidates from which we will eventually choose to compete for the presidency, and nowhere to be found in the debate questions or answers.

We are merely watching from the balcony, as we had to do back in the 1950s in segregated theaters and churches that relegated Black people to the rear of the building. We were also told to be quiet, especially in the churches, way back when.

All Black folks are doing right now is watching. Yeah, we talk a lot, from our vantage point in the peanut gallery, but we have absolutely zero skin in the political game at this point, which means we lack self-determination in the

political process. Yes, we have the individual choice to vote, but that’s about it, y’all, and even in that act, we will only be choosing between the decisions that others have made.

Have you ever wondered why two small states, Iowa and New Hampshire, have so much impact on the national election? Is it simply because they are the first two states to conduct caucuses and primaries every presidential election year? Is it because they have such a large number of electoral votes? Even though some candidates who win those states do not always get their party’s nomination, these two states are held up as the political “trend-makers” and benchmarks for a candidate’s success. That’s why they all flock to those two little states long before the election really begins.

For all of you critical thinkers out there, try these stats on for size: Iowa is 91 percent White and 2 percent Black; it

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African Scene War crimes charges for demolishing ancient Malian shrines in Timbuktu

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All is not ‘hunky-dory’ in Africa, says Mo Ibrahim (GIN) – The cheap gas boom has not been the best of news for African countries where oil and other raw materials have been the basis of their export economies since colonial times.

Gas and oil are not the only raw materials to suffer as economies in Asia and the west contract and investors take wait and see positions while they look for the next promising trend.

The region’s difficulties were highlighted in the latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), a comprehensive survey started by Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim as an independent project to promote better governance and economic development in Africa.

“We can’t pat ourselves on the back and pretend everything is hunky-dory,” declared Ibrahim, who earned billions of dollars installing some of Africa’s first mobile phone networks. “It’s not.”

“While Africans overall are certainly healthier and live

in more democratic societies than 15 years ago, the 2015 IIAG shows that recent progress in other key areas on the continent has either stalled or reversed, and that some key countries seem to be faltering.”

This year’s rating of 50.1 on a 100-point scale, while up from 46.5 when the index was first issued in 2000, is down from a peak of 50.4 in 2010.

Under the Ibrahim Index, 100 represents a prosperous, democratic utopia.

When times were good, short-sighted governments in Angola and Zambia, among others, put insufficient money aside for improving education, health care and roads at a time when commodity prices were high and government coffers were flush, said Nathalie Delapalme, the Ibrahim Foundation’s executive director for research and policy.

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(GIN) – T h e In t ern ational Criminal Court will hear charges of war crimes against Ahmad al Faqi Al Mahdi for the deliberate destruction of religious or historical monuments in Timbuktu, Mali.

It is the first prosecution of this type by the court which is based in The Hague.

Legal proceedings against the suspected Islamist will begin in January.

Mr. Mahdi, a Malian citizen, is accused of ordering his followers to flatten at least nine tombs and the Sidi Yahia mosque that had each been carefully maintained and considered holy since in the Middle Ages. The monuments had been named World Heritage sites by the United Nations.

The designation makes their destruction a criminal act.

Prosecutors called al Mahdi the leader of an ‘Islamist morality squad’ called al Hesbah, which carried out the orders of a so-called Islamic court that was formed during the occupation.

The suspected rebel told the court: “My name is Ahmad al Faqi a Mahdi, and I am from the Tuareg tribe. I was born about 40 years ago. I am a graduate of the teachers’ institute in Timbuktu and I was a civil servant in the education department... beginning in 2011.” No plea was entered during the court session.

Meanwhile, in Timbuktu, news of the trial was greeted with jubilation.

“The people of Timbuktu are very, very, very, happy!

Very, very, very happy. That man is a criminal!” roared

Alhassan Hassaye, the city’s 73-year-old master mud mason. His family had been in charge of replastering the monuments each year since the Middle Ages.

“It shows that we will have justice for what he and his followers did...that there are people who will defend the people of Timbuktu,” Hassaye said.

Ancient monuments have found themselves at risk in recent years, threatened by a generation of jihadists who seek to destroy any structures deemed un-Islamic. In 2001, Afghanistan’s Taliban, allied with al Qaeda, dynamited a pair of sixth-century Buddha statues carved into sandstone cliffs.

In August, the group leveled a fifth-century Catholic monastery in Syria and blew up a 2,000-year-old Roman temple.

But the razing of Timbuktu’s shrines was a particularly heavy loss for the people of the outpost which has long marked a gateway between sub-Saharan Africa and the world, reported Drew

Hinshaw of the Wall Street Journal.

The mosques, made of mud, and patched up with more mud yearly, constitute some of Africa’s most venerable architecture.

But in 2012, al Qaeda drove into the city and within months, the group and its local allies began bulldozing monuments. The militants shrugged off U.N. threats that they would be tried for war crimes.

The city’s mud masons, however, hatched a plan to rebuild the shrines—using the same clumps of mud that the Islamists had left on the ground.

In 2013, when French paratroopers liberated the city, Western preservationists poured in, offering to help with computer modeling software.

This year, the masons completed all 14 of the monuments they said were destroyed.

“It’s for all humanity,” said Mr. Hassaye, the lead mason.

“The world has a need for Timbuktu.” w/pix of Ahmad al Faqi Al Mahdi and destroyed mausoleum

UK detains 5 in pursuit of Nigerian oil ministry laundered funds Nearly half a dozen suspects, including the former Minister of Petroleum Resources of Nigeria, were swept up by UK authorities in a crackdown on corruption coordinated with Nigerian President Muhammed Buhari.

According to multiple media accounts, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) obtained a court order to seize 27,000 pounds ($41,000) from the London apartment of Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former Nigerian oil minister, long linked to financial scandals.

Ms. Alison-Madueke was scheduled to appear in court on Friday, where bail was granted.

That same day, her “palatial home” in the Asokoro district of Abuja was sealed in an operation led by the anti-theft Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission, according to Nigerian media reports.

If found guilty of money laundering and bribery, she could face up to 14 years in jail.

Diezani Alison-Madueke served as oil minister from 2010 until May 2015 under former president Goodluck Jonathan. She was also the first woman to head OPEC as alternate president from 20142015.

The arrests by the NCA’s International Corruption Unit (ICU), are part of an investigation into economic crimes at the ministry. A spokesman for Nigeria’s presidency, Garba Shehu, said: “The government of Nigeria is collaborating with the UK authority in the investigations and her trial.”

The ICU is specifically empowered to trace and recover

the proceeds of international corruption. In the case of Nigeria, it is claimed that between 20 and 50 billion Nigerian dol-

lars disappeared during former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

Former Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi highlighted the disappearance of billions of petrodollars a year ago in a 300 page report of extensive documentation, for which he was fired.

Before being stripped of his post, Mr. Sanusi described what he called “leakages” of cash from Nigeria’s oil industry. Oil accounts for around 95 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings.

If Nigeria continued to leak cash at the rate described in his report, the consequences for the economy would be disastrous, he said.

According to Mr. Sanusi, between $10.8 billion and $20 billion out of $67 billion worth of oil sales by the state

oil company in the previous 19 months was unaccounted for.

The state oil group has denied any wrongdoing.

The crackdown comes as the U.S. government scrutinizes the former Nigerian oil minister and her associates, according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporter Drew Hinshaw. The State Department, he said, has been looking at whether she or her relatives benefited from her position and whether to ban her from entering the U.S. where she is said to have several homes.

Shehu, speaking for President Buhari, said: (The President) thinks there should be a world-wide movement to help countries such as Nigeria to get back what has been looted from them.” w/pix of D. Alison-Madueke

HHC president says MetroPlus Gold plan now available for city workers

preventive care. Last year I had forgotten to get a mammogram and they made sure I did. Everything is in plain, simple language that you can understand.”

MetroPlus Health Plan has nearly half a million customers and its commercial plans are among the most popular and most affordable on the state’s online health exchange.

MetroPlus has also ranked as the top managed care plan in New York City in quality and patient satisfaction for seven of the last ten years in the consumer’s guide issued an-

nually by the New York State Department of Health.

MetroPlus representatives will participate in benefit fairs that agencies are hosting through the month of October. An advertising campaign will also accompany the new MetroPlus Gold expansion, focusing on government-themed publications and websites.

MetroPlus Gold benefits include: · A comprehensive benefits package for children and adults, including well-child care, primary care, maternity

care, specialty services, hospital care, emergency care, mental health services, lab and radiology services. · An extensive provider and hospital network with over 13,000 physicians in over 27,000 locations including private offices, neighborhood family care sites and at hospitals. The MetroPlus network includes over 20 hospitals in New York City. · A focus on prevention and care management with programs designed to pro-actively address the specific needs of New Yorkers with diabetes, asthma and HIV; pregnant women; and mental health or complex medical or transplant issues. · No-cost, no deductible, option available in the basic plan for employees and their dependents. ·No co-pays for lab, X-rays and specialists, and limited co-pays for most in-network services. · No paperwork – There are no bills or claims forms for in-network services.

Member support available 24/7 in numerous languages and dialects.

For more information employees can visit http://www. metroplus.org/gold or contact their benefits manager, or call MetroPlus Gold customer service at 877-475-3795, Monday through Saturday, 8: am to 8:pm..

The New York City Comptroller’s Office is Holding Millions in Wages Owed to

Over 1,000 Workers

If you worked for a private contractor on a construction or building services contract with a New York City government agency YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO UNPAID PREVAILING WAGES AND BENEFITS

VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT IF YOU ARE OWED WAGES: comptroller.nyc.gov/unclaimedwages

To collect your award you must file a proof of claim by visiting comptroller.nyc.gov/unclaimedwages online or by visiting the Comptroller’s Bureau of Labor Law in person at One Centre Street, Room 1122, New York, NY from 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. Questions? Call 212-669-4443 or email laborlaw@comptroller.nyc.gov

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MetroPlus – the plan of choice for nearly half a million New Yorkers – has built a reputation for affordable quality healthcare. I am delighted to extend this new option to public employees in our effort to enroll one million New Yorkers by 2020,” Dr. Raju said.

“The success of MetroPlus is helping our essential health system to reinvest in the services we provide. It is allowing us to remain true to our mission of caring for all New Yorkers and keeping communities healthy.”

“Government and other public employees seeking a low-cost health insurance plan with premium service, a large network and top quality rankings now have another health insurance option,” said MetroPlus Chief Operating Officer Seth Diamond.

“Even employees who haven’t changed health insurance in years should look into the alternative we offer and our consistent record of keeping customers healthy and happy.”

“I’ve been a MetroPlus Gold member since 1991. I like the one stop shopping and the follow-up that the plan provides,” said Willette Slocumb, a Coordinating Manager at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and a member of CWA Local 1180. “It’s like they spearhead your health care. They tell you everything you need to do in terms of

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New York City Health and Hospitals (HHC) President and CEO Dr. Ram Raju announced that its MetroPlus Gold no cost, no deductible commercial health plan is now available to all employees of New York City plus other local entities such as CUNY, the MTA and Port Authority.

The premium plan had previously only been available to the public health system’s employees. The agreement between HHC and the New York City Department of Labor Relations to add MetroPlus Gold as a health insurance option marks an important step in Dr. Raju’s plan to reach one million MetroPlus members by the year 2020.

MetroPlus Gold – with no co-pays for most in-network services that includes HHC and private doctors and hospital providers in 27,000 locations — has long been available to HHC employees.

Now, nearly 800,000 additional New York City employees, non-Medicare eligible retirees, their spouses or qualified domestic partners and eligible dependents will be able to choose this option starting this month during “Open Enrollment,” the only time of year that public employees can change their health insurance provider without a qualifying event such as a birth or marriage.

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Federal agencies join forces to help young children to survive The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced that they have joined together to establish a new National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (Center of Excellence).

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The Education Development Center, Inc., in Waltham, Massachusetts will receive $6 million over the course of the next four years to manage the Center of Excellence.

The Center of Excellence advances infant and early childhood mental health intervention that promotes the social, emotional, and behavioral health and development of young children. It has been shown to improve young children’s social skills, reduce challenging behaviors, enrich adult-child relationships, improve classroom quality, and reduce teacher stress and turnover.

“This collaborative effort reflects the critical role early childhood providers, parents, and caretakers play in facilitating a young child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development,” said SAMHSA acting administrator Kana

Enomoto. “The Center of Excellence will help provide the effective tools and resources to child care centers, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, and other home visiting programs to ensure the healthy development of children during their formative years.”

The Center of Excellence will support the Obama administration’s goal of expanding access to high-quality early care, education, and home visiting for all young children through: • Developing state of the art tools, training, and technical assistance to help states and Tribal nations build strong and sustainable behavioral health support systems for children.

• Ensuring that more child care centers, preschools, and home visiting programs have access to consultants who can help them meet the needs of young children, particularly those struggling with developmental and behavioral challenges.

• Advancing research, training, and policies that improve outcomes for young children, including reducing suspensions and expulsions from early childhood programs.

The Center of Excellence also aligns with the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Report to the President, which recommends that all children should have a healthy start and enter school ready to learn – cognitively, socially, and emotionally. The Center of Excellence will help to ensure that teachers, staff, caregivers, and communities have the resources to address the social, emotional, behavioral, and physical needs of children.

“The new Center of Excellence is a vital and cost-effective investment in the next generation and in many future generations to come,” said Linda K. Smith, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at ACF. Continued on page 16

President Barack Obama waves to the audience after speaking ay a World AIDS Day event, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington

What updated National HIV/AID strategy means for Black America

By Carma Henry Special to the NNPA from The Westside Gazette “We’ve come a long way in the fight against AIDS, and we can’t let up now,” said President Obama.

In 2010 President Barack Obama made history by releasing the first National HIV/ AIDS Strategy to provide a blueprint for the U.S. response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Now, five years later, the White House has released an update to the strategy, taking special care to address the unique needs of the Black community.

Several transformative events have occurred since the strategy was first released in 2010, such as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis. The National HIV/ AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020 builds upon that foundation.

“We’ve come a long way in the fight against AIDS, and we can’t let up now,” said President Obama when he released the strategy. The president went on to say that the updated strategy “focuses on making sure every American, no matter who you are, where you live or how much money you’ve got, can get

access to life-extending care.”

The updated strategy was launched in July at an event at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Key throughout the document is the notion that certain populations bear a disproportionate HIV burden.

Black Americans accounted for 45 percent of HIV diagnoses in 2013; Whites accounted for 27 percent of diagnoses.

Sixty-five percent of diagnoses resulted from male-to-male sexual contact. Fifty-one percent of those diagnosed live in the South. In 2010, the rate of new HIV infections among Black women was 20 times that of white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The updated strategy mentions the Black community 41 times, calling on federal agencies to allocate funding to the communities that are affected

by HIV the most, including Black MSM, hetero-sexual Black men and women, and Black transgender women.

In addition to recognizing that there are social determinants that can play a role in higher HIV rates in the Black community, such as housing, education and employment, the strategy advocates for more

efforts to test new healthcare service-delivery models in different settings. Stigma also plays a role, so the updated strategy promotes confronting it while enforcing civil rights laws and helping states protect PLWHs from violence and discrimination associated with their HIV status.

The strategy has four key areas of critical focus over the next five years: • Widespread testing and linkage to care • Keeping PLWHA in care • Universal viral suppression • Full access to comprehensive PrEP services Ten indicators, among them the following, will be used to mark progress and ensure that the strategy is doing what it sets out to do: • The percentage of PLWHA who know their serostatus will be at least 90 percent.

• The number of new diagnoses will be reduced by at least 25 percent.

• The rate of new diagnoses among gay and bisexual men, young Black MSM, Black women and people who live in the South will be reduced by at least 15 percent.

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SUNY Student Assembly calls on SUNY to divest from fossil fuels The Executive Committee of the Student Assembly of the State University of New York (SUNY SA) passed a resolution calling on SUNY to fully divest from companies and interests that manufacture fossil fuels. The resolution was put forth to the Assembly’s Executive Committee and successfully passed during the Committee’s business meeting on Saturday, Sept. 26.

The resolution calls upon SUNY and its universities to freeze new investments in fossil-fuel companies immediately and to divest completely from any direct ownership in these companies or in funds that include fossil-fuel equities and corporate bonds, and

instead invest in alternative energies and technologies.

The Assembly believes that this action is paramount in maintaining SUNY’s role at the forefront of sustainable economic progress.

This mandate comes in response to a number of factors including the $950 billion that has been divested from fossil-fuels worldwide, the exponential growth of the solar industry and other alternative industries that has occurred inside the U.S. over the past five years and will continue to occur far into the future, and the World Health Organization’s statistics on the 4.2 million yearly global deaths linked to climate change.

Multiple SUNY universities currently have divestment campaigns in place, and in passing this resolution, the Assembly formally states that it is time for SUNY to begin the process of divestment.

Zachary Beaudoin, Chair of SUNY SA’s Sustainability Committee, is proud to have been a part of what he considers an extraordinary move, stating, “As divestment becomes a recognized and heralded global financial decision, I am thrilled that the Assembly has called upon SUNY to fully divest from fossil fuels. This action speaks to the ongoing measures in which SUNY SA actively participates that continue to shape SUNY’s status

as a world leader on such important topics.”

SUNY Student Assembly President Thomas Mastro believes that the Assembly made a strong, productive decision in the passing of this resolution. His remarks were as follows:“Passing this resolution and calling upon SUNY to divest from fossil fuels were progressive steps for SUNY SA to take. From Plattsburgh to Geneseo, our students have asked their home campuses and SUNY itself to divest, and as student representatives, our organization formally agrees. By removing fossil fuels and potentially harmful technologies from its list of investments

and instead involving itself with alternative technologies and clean energy, SUNY will take the lead on this important initiative and continue to be a beacon of progress for our nation and our world.”

The Student Assembly of the State University of New York (SUNY SA) is an organization comprised of student leaders elected by their peers from across SUNY’s 64 campuses.

Empowering students throughout the state, the SUNY SA is committed to student life and ensuring the representation of its members on the state and national level as well as throughout the SUNY system.

Circle of Sisters joins Emmis Radio & Café Mocha to ‘Salute Her’

Host Lonnie Love

New York-based non-profit, Distributing Dignity to help raise funds to provide feminine supplies to homeless women in shelters across the Tri-State area.

The Salute Her: Superwomen Making a Difference Awards will recognize seven women from all walks of life. One of those honorees will be the incomparable daytime talk show host and author Wendy Williams who spent most of her successful broadcasting career with WBLS and will receive the PowerHouse Award.

The remaining 2015 recipients of the “Salute Her” honor are: Gentle Treatment, Woman of Style Award: Malinda Williams (Actress); Champion for Children: Michaela Pereira (CNN anchor); Champion for

Host Angelique Perrin

Honoree Tamela Mann

at the Jacob Javits Center on October 17 and 18, 2015 that will also feature over 200 upcoming and established vendors, panels and breakout sessions, and live broadcast and performances.

Café Mocha’s mission to inspire others and create a network environment reflects the ‘spirit’ of the Circle of Sisters Expo to bring together women to empower one another. The annual Salute Her: Superwomen Making A Difference Awards Reception & Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 15, 2015 from 5:30-9pm, at Harlem’s storied Alhambra Ballroom, 2116 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, Harlem, New York City will pay tribute and reward extraordinary women innovators with their “Salute Her” award presented by Hyundai. Proceeds from the event will support the

Honoree Michaela Pereira

Change: Charisse Lillie (President of Comcast Foundation); Game Changer: Tamela Mann (Award-winning gospel singer/ actress); Creating the Legacy: Linda Spradley Dunn (Founder/ CEO of Odyssey Media); and Media Legend: Irene Gandy (Broadway publicist).

Now in its fourth year, Salute Her: Superwomen Making A Difference Awards will be hosted

by Loni Love, actress and host of the hit daytime FOX 5 talk show, “The Real,” and Café Mocha co-host, veteran broadcaster Angelique Perrin. The evening will include Gentle Treatment VIP Pre-Reception and feature a special surprise tribute to the honorees. Individual tickets can be purchased for $55.00 at www.

SaluteHerNY.Eventbrite.com.

Launched in 2012 at the historic Audubon Ballroom, now

the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center, “Salute Her” past honorees include businesswomen, Vy Higginsen, Marty Gillis, Ricki Fairley-Brown, Latraviette D. Smith, Simone Smalls and Deborah Williams; TV and radio broadcasters Debi Jackson, Fredricka WInfield, D. Cherie Lofton, Shirley Strawberry and Egypt Sherrod; journalists Audrey J. Bernard, Lola Ogunniake and Constance White; publisher Jamie Foster-Brown; actresses Sheryl Lee Ralph and Terri J. Vaughn; authors Demetria Lucas and Ilyasah Shabazz; civil rights activists Sandra Barnhill JD, Dr. Bernice King, Evelyn Mejil and Sabrina Fulton; entertainers Gloria Gaynor and Cynthia Bailey; spiritual leaders Rev. Dr.

Honoree Linda Spradley Dunn

Honoree Malinda Williams

Jo Ann Browning and Omarosa Manigault; and civic leaders Esther Aguilera and Helen Ho. Favorably known as ‘radio from a woman’s perspective’ Café Mocha is built upon the concept of women helping other women to grow through shared experiences and information.

Syndicated in more than 30 markets and available on Sirius/XM channel 141, Café Mocha airs weekends and is co-hosted by Grammy-nominated artist and hip hop legend MC Lyte; actress/ comedienne Loni Love broadcast veteran Angelique Perrin and actress Nicole Ari Parker.

This high-energy, two-hour show format features the latest in urban music, lively chats from an unabashedly women’s perspective, no-holds barred advice and exclusive interviews with top performers, celebrities,

politicians and civic leaders.

The 2-day R&B Live concert will feature performances by the legendary Chaka Khan, alongside R&B superstars Tamar Braxton and Avant. R&B Live takes place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Oct. 17. The entire event concludes on Sunday with the Gospel Explosion featuring Tasha Cobbs, Tina Campbell, Casey J. and more at the Jacob Javits Center. From the stars of Starz’s hit show, Power, discussing the viewer’s shift from reality TV to drama series, to some of the most powerful women in corporate America discussing their climb to the top, the panels & breakout discussions offer something for everyone!

Panel Highlights: Earth-

Honoree Irene Gandy

Honoree Wendy Williams

quake as he sits down for a one-on-one conversation with Bobby Brown; hair tips with WE TV & LA Hair’s Kim Kimble; Deja Vu hosts the men of Being Mary Jane; and the Money Making Conversation with Emmy Award-winning producer, Rushion McDonald.

State of Black Music & Culture Panel: Music transcends communities, nations, and across cultures all over the world. Black music and culture move people like no other sound. It gets in your soul and transforms everyone. Music industry entertainers share what makes them stand out amongst the crowd. Fans will hear from singer & actress, Jennifer Hudson, as she discusses her life as a mother, actress, singer and entrepreneur.

Season Premiere Panel:

Move over reality TV; America wants more drama. Whether it’s Netflix, Cable, or TV, join the cast-members from some of your favorite shows, as they hit the NY 529 Event Hall to discuss their hit TV shows and making it in acting. Fans will hear from Rotimi Singer from Starz’ hit TV series, Power; Wendy Raquel Robinson, currently starring in BET’s The Game; and more!

Black, Female & In Charge Panel: Hear how the most powerful women in corporate America got there and what it takes to stay in the Executive Suite! Fans will hear from Miko Branch, Co-founder of Miss Jessie’s hair products; Gale V. King, Executive VP & Chief Administrative Officer for Nationwide Insurance; Celebrity Chef

Honoree Charisse Lillie

Melba Wilson, Food Network & CNBC On-Air Personality, and Chef & Restaurateur of Melba’s Restaurant; and more!

Health -- S.O.S. Panel: No matter what you say, we are ticking time bombs as it relates to many health issues such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, depression, anxiety and stress. What simple steps can we do to shift the paradigm and forgo medication and a death sentence?

Our experts say if you add movement, remix your diet and shift attitude, you can emerge anew from head-to-toe in 90 days!

HealthFirst welcomes celebrity chefs Bobby Brown, Pat Neely, Melba Wilson, Madison Cowan, and more to the stage for this year’s Cooking Pavilion.

The HealthFirst Cooking Pavilion is the tastiest part of Circle of Sisters! EXPO attendees can watch cooking demonstrations from some of the nation’s best culinary masters, complete with samples and giveaways to complete your kitchen décor. Hosted

by Celebrity Chef Nikki Shaw, bring your inner-foodie to the HealthFirst Cooking Pavilion and enjoy the delicious cuisines Circle of Sisters has to offer!

Tickets for the EXPO are also on-sale now. For a limited time, tickets are only $10 per day and can be purchased at CircleofSisters.com. Circle of Sisters is presented by AARP, in association with COBA and AT&T, and made possible by HealthFirst and NY’s 529 College Savings Program.

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Circle of Sisters -- the largest EXPO in NYC uniting, motivating and celebrating women of color – along with WBLS 107.5 FM, your #1 source for R&B, 1190 WLIB AM, your home for Gospel & Inspiration, and WQHT HOT 97 FM, the #1 station for Hip Hop in the world, will join forces with Café Mocha radio show that airs Saturday mornings, 6- 8am on WBLS 107.5 to bring the acclaimed “Salute Her” Tour presented by Hyundai New Thinking New Possibilities campaign to New York recognizing women who share a common commitment to make a positive contribution to strengthen their respective communities. Emmis Communications Corporation is planning a star-studded line-up of talent

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Disney Dreamers Academy selects new Champions to serve as program ambassadors

By Audrey J. Bernard Lifestyles Editor

After already distinguishing themselves among thousands to be selected for the exclusive Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine, five program alumni have further differentiated themselves by being chosen to serve as program ambassadors, also known as Champions, for the 20152016 year.

The selected students will act as Disney Dreamers Academy national spokespersons, social media contributors and mentors for the next class of 100 Dreamers. Disney Dreamers Academy is an annual fourday educational and mentoring program for high school students created by Walt Disney World Resort and hosted by Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine.

This year’s Disney Dreamers Academy Champions are: Imani McClendon, Union, NJ, Class of 2012. Imani is a national gold, silver and bronze medal winner in the NAACP ACT-SO competitions. She is majoring in Economics with a minor in Management and Organization at Spelman College, and has traveled with the college to London, Ghana,

Disney Dreamer’s Academy 2016 Champions (Pictured from left to right): Aisha Louis, Jonathan Johnson, Matthew Young, Mickey Mouse, Disney Vice President of Global Initiatives and Integrations/Disney Dreamers Academy Executive Champion Tracey D. Powell, Rachel Pence and Imani McClendon

and soon Trinidad and Tobago, doing community service and immersing herself in the different cultures. She aspires to a career in marketing and public relations at a company like Pixar or Proctor & Gamble.

Aisha Louis, Hollywood, Fla., Class of 2013. Aisha is majoring in TV and Film at Howard University, and is a writer/reporter for WHBC 96.3 HD3 radio. Her passion for media, women’s empowerment, mentorship and diverse storytelling led to her founding Photo-Synthesis Mentoring, which aims to empower young women of color through media literacy. Aisha credits Disney Dreamers Academy for giving her the confidence to whole-

heartedly pursue screenwriting and directing.

Jonathan Johnson, Irvington, NJ, Class of 2015. Jonathan, also known as J. Isaac, is the Disney Dreamers Academy’s 2015 Dreamer of the Year. He won an Honorable Mention in the Selma Essay & Speech Competition and second place in the Shout Down Drugs Songwriting Contest and performed his anti-drug song “Sin City” at major events throughout New Jersey. A self-styled “edutainer” who hopes to one day attend Julliard Performing Arts Conservatory, he aspires to influence young people and communicate truth through the arts and entertainment.

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Rachel Pence, Charleston, W. Va., Class of 2014. Rachel is studying Environmental/Homeland Security at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Originally from Charleston, West Virginia, Rachel volunteers at the Marine Science Center in Daytona Beach, Florida helping rescue and rehabilitate injured land and sea turtles. In her free time she raises awareness of endangered species through a T-shirt company and website that she founded, Rachel’s Rescues T-shirts.

Matthew Young, Jacksonville, Fla., Class of 2014.

Matthew is a freshman in the College of Business at Florida State University. He graduated from Stanton College Prep in 2015. He recently completed the International Baccalaureate program at Stanton College Prep, where he held memberships in four national honor societies and positions on the Honor Review Board and Leadership Class. Matt’s passions include serving in his church and traveling.

His goal is to earn his Juris Doctorate and become a corporate lawyer and possibly venture into politics.

Having graduated its eighth class in March, Disney Dreamers Academy continues to hold true to its mission to inspire and fuel the dreams of teens, help them discover a world of possibilities and prepare for the future.

Each year, 100 students selected from among thousands applicants participate in hands-on, full-immersion workshops related to a bevy of career paths ranging from animation to zoology at the Walt Disney World Resort.

Participants, also known as Dreamers, learn important skills such as communication techniques and networking strategies from renowned entrepreneurs, executives and celebrity speakers.

The Champions platform was formed in 2012 to showcase the success of the program’s alumni and inspire future applicants. The newly selected Champions will

represent Disney Dreamers Academy at select Walt Disney World-sponsored events throughout the country. This year’s Champions were chosen from a pool of alumni from the program’s eight classes.

“Our Champions have been a great resource for sharing the message of Disney Dreamers Academy and the personal impact the program has had on their lives,” said Tracey D. Powell, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts vice president of deluxe resorts and Disney Dreamers Academy executive champion. “This year’s Champions represent yet another exceptional group with big dreams and compelling stories.

We are confident they will be great representatives of Disney Dreamers Academy and an inspiration to future applicants.”

The 2016 Disney Dreamers Academy will take place March 3 to 6, 2016. High school students nationwide can now apply at www.disneydreamersacademy.com to be among 100 selected to participate in the 2016 Disney Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and ESSENCE Magazine.

For more information visit www.disneysdreamersacademy.com, follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/disneysdreamersacademy or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ dreamersacademy. # # # Apply to Be a Disney Dreamer: Disney Dreamers Academy will accept applications for the 2016 program beginning April 1 to October 30, 2015. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates.

Disney seeks students with a winning combination of attributes that reflect strong character, positive attitude, and persistence to take advantage of opportunities. Key Attributes: Intellectually curious – Creative and quick-witted; Compassionate – Gives to others who need their assistance; Courageous – Overcomes obstacles, brave, spirited, survivor; and Leader – The “go-to” person, pursues ideas with passion. Attitude: Dreams about their future; Positive approach to life; Grateful and humble; and Takes advantage of resources.

Does this sound like someone you know? We’re looking for Dreamers for next year’s Disney Dreamers Academy, so they can get the tools to help make their dreams come true. Potential Dreamers must be between the ages of 13–19, live in the United States, and be enrolled in high school grades 9–12 when applying. For a complete list of rules, click here.

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From page 3 can trust, who will stand on principle and are not afraid to speak truth to power. Throughout my career, I’ve stood up for the people who too often seem left out of the process. I stood up against the landlord lobby to pass the city’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act, protecting 5,000 children each year. I stood up for reform in Albany taking the operations and finances of public authorities like the MTA out of the shadows. I stood up for the Central Park 5 and criminal justice reform and against the unwarranted use of eminent domain that has threatened small businesses and our communities. And I was the first New York elected officials to stand up for Barack Obama for President.”

Perkins added, “I’ve never been a go-along, get-along legislator – and that’s not what this district needs. Instead, I have worked to make a difference -- to fight for better schools, affordable housing and accessible health care. I’ve taken on the status quo and the special interests and been a voice for fairness, basic justice and the people of this district.

And that’s what I will do in Congress.”

Perkins was introduced by Raymond Santana, one of the Central Park Five who said, “Senator Perkins has the passion, toughness and commit-

ment we need fighting for this community in Congress. Back when we were first accused, when things were bad and Donald Trump was calling for our execution Bill listened to us, supported us and had the guts to publically stand with us. He never seems concerned with the politics or personal risks, he just does what is right and works for the people who need it most. He is someone the community trusts and is willing to take bold actions.

And that’s why I’m so excited he is running for Congress.”

For the last nine years, Bill Perkins has represented the 30th District in the NY State Senate, which includes 44% of the voters in the 13th Congressional District. Previously he has served as a tenant leader and for nine years as a City Councilmember. He was the first NYS elected official to endorse Barack Obama in 2008 and has built a record of taking action and getting results: taking on the landlord lobby to pass NYC’s historic Lead Paint law; standing up to hedge-funders to fight for our public schools; speaking out early about the plague of rats on our streets; sponsoring the City Council resolution before any lives were lost putting NYC on record against Bush’s Iraq War disaster; and when no one else would, standing with the Central Park Five and against Donald Trump’s call for their execution.

families – to increase college awareness; improve navigational and life skills; and raise confidence and self-awareness around decision making. The National Urban League wants more than increased enrollment numbers, we want students to go to college and thrive in college. That can only happen with preparation.

Project Ready students make academic progress, benefit from cultural enrichment opportunities and develop important skills, attitudes and aptitudes that will help them make the transition from high school and position them for post-secondary success. Students are immersed in an environment that offers academic, social and cultural supports and opportunities designed to develop college readiness.

Progress is monitored in a variety of subjects, including STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) courses, to ensure students achieve a level of expertise that can take them beyond their high school classrooms.

Since 2006, more than 7,000 students have participated in their local community’s Project Ready program.

In 2011, Urban League affiliates with Project Ready pro-

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fort ensuring a successful and peaceful assembly” Saturday, according to NBC Washington.

The original march on Oct. 16, 1995, peacefully brought hundreds of thousands to Washington to pledge to improve their lives, their families and their communities. Women, whites and other minorities were not invited to the original march, but organizers say all are welcome Saturday and that they expected hundreds of thousands of participants.

The National Park Service estimated the attendance at the original march to be around 400,000, but subsequent counts by private organizations put the number at 800,000 or higher. The National Park Service has refused to give crowd estimates on Mall activities since. advertisement Attention has been focused on the deaths of unarmed black men since the shootings of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012 in Florida and 18-yearold Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Deaths of unarmed black males at the hands of law enforcement officers have inspired protests under the “Black Lives Matter” moniker around the country.

Families of Brown, Martin and Sandra Bland who participated in the march asked the crowd not to forget the names of their loved ones and not be silent about their deaths.

“We will not continue to stand by and not say anything anymore,” said Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton.

A “Justice or Else” stategrams reported that at least ment said those involved in the 96 percent of participating movement were demanding an students would be promoted end to police brutality and also to the next grade or were accepted into a two- or fouryear college. In a 2012 survey of middle- and high-school students enrolled in programs in selected cities, 93 percent of students who responded said they had learned what it takes to succeed in college.

From page 3 Another 81 percent said they did activities to get ready for with Warren to further discuss college and 75 percent said racial injustice. “And Warren, they attended college tours. better than any political leader I rest assured that num- I’ve yet heard, understands bers like these, numbers that the protests as a matter of life demonstrate an enthusiasm or death — that the American for learning and future suc- dream has been sustained by cess, are the kinds of numbers an intentional violence and that we want to see for all of our the uprisings have been the renation’s students. But before sult of years of lived trauma.” we can meet the challenge of Born out of the unrest in cultivating a future American Ferguson, Mo., after the police work force prepared to com- shooting of Michael Brown pete in our fast-paced, infor- last summer, the current protest mation-driven economy, we movement has upended the must ensure that our students efforts of Democratic presidenare prepared to enter, prosper tial candidates to reach out to and grow in institutions of black voters. The three candihigher learning. Project Ready dates have faced protests and stands as ready proof that interruptions at some of their when we commit to putting campaign events. Both former our children first by directing Maryland governor Martin our time and resources to their O’Malley and Sen. Bernie success, you will find many Sanders (I-Vt.) have met with students ready to meet the some of the most visible acchallenge. tivists, and former secretary of Marc H. Morial, former state Hillary Rodham Clinton mayor of New Orleans, is pres- and Mckesson have agreed to ident and CEO meet soon.

Project Ready – A pipeline to post-secondary success From page 6

Thousand Gather for Million Man March 20th Anniversary in D.C. justice for Native Americans, Latinos, women, the poor, the incarcerated and veterans.

“We want Justice for Blacks in America who have given America 460 years of sweat and blood to make her rich and powerful,” the statement added.

Life has improved in some ways for African-American men since the original march, but not in others. For example: —The unemployment rate for African-American men in October 1995 was 8.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In September it was 8.9 percent.

—In 1995, 73.4 percent of African-American men had high school degrees. In 2004, 84.3 percent did, according to the Census Bureau.

—Law enforcement agencies made 3.5 million arrests of blacks in 1994, which was 30.9 percent of all arrests, the FBI said. (By comparison, they made 7.6 million arrests of whites that year, which was 66 percent of all arrests.) By 2013, the latest available data, African-American arrests had decreased to 2.5 million, 28 percent of all arrests.

Anti-Muslim protesters plan to demonstrate at mosques around the nation on the same day.

President Barack Obama, who attended the first Million Man March, was in California on Saturday. d of thing. We actually have a chance to do things that can do good. We’re getting better education, things are starting to change. If we keep on this pace, everything might be pitch perfect.”

“I came to the first one. It was an indescribable feeling… the brotherhood…it was like

family. The [10th anniversary] Millions More Movement I brought him with me. It’s continuing history for me, and a new history for him. I understand now how the older generation felt to see young people. I’m almost hitting 50 and…I see a lot of these teenagers here, 20-somethings, and it’s very encouraging to seem them so involved. It’s very important that young kids and teenagers and 20-somethings really understand and get involved because I don’t think it’s going to stop here. There’s a lot of work to do.”

Woody “Mr. Juneteenth” Broadnax Jazelle Hunt advertisement Woody “Mr. Juneteenth” Broadnax, Portland, OR (with Cynthia A. Jones, Seattle, WA) “In 1995 [Black men] were inundated with lies. Lies that we could be nothing but a shoeshine boy…a dope fiend, a prisoner, or a pimp. Because of these lies, it stunted our growth and we didn’t take the opportunity to stand up as men.

So in 1995, it was us older brothers. In 2015, this is about the Millennials who will take us into the future. Now that they’re killing us the way they are, when they’re marginalizing our children the way they are, we cannot afford…for your children to grow up with lies and misconceptions about who they are or what future lies ahead of them.” <img class=”img-responsive img_inline” src=”http:// media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/ newscms/2015_41/1257751/ matthew_boyd_8c7c58c576efd4baf440d84796228cca.nbcnews-fp-360-360.jpg” alt=”” title=”” itemprop=”image”/> Matthew Boyd Jazelle Hunt

Elizabeth Warren gives speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for The activists have called for a host of police reform measures, including body cameras, de-escalation training, special prosecutors in cases of police killings and a review of police union contracts.

“It is a tragedy when any American cannot trust those who have sworn to protect and serve,” Warren said. “This pervasive and persistent distrust isn’t based on myths. It is grounded in the reality of unjustified violence.”

But the topics of police violence and reform have yet to gain significant traction in the Republican primary. In a three-hour debate held earlier this month, the topics weren’t brought up once — by either the moderators or candidates.

[Why Hillary Clinton and her rivals are struggling to grasp Black Lives Matter] At times, Warren’s speech read as if it could have been authored by the activists themselves — unyielding in its criticism of police violence and even

invoking the phrase “hands up, don’t shoot,” a Ferguson rallying cry that conservatives have attacked as a lie because the Justice Department concluded that Michael Brown’s hands were most likely not up in the air when he was shot and killed

by Darren Wilson.

“We’ve seen sickening videos of unarmed, black Americans cut down by bullets, choked to death while gasping for air — their lives ended by those who are sworn to protect them. Peaceful, unarmed protesters have been beaten.

Journalists have been jailed.

And, in some cities, white vigilantes with weapons freely walk the streets,” Warren said.

“And it’s not just about law enforcement either. Just look to the terrorism this summer at Emanuel AME Church [in Charleston, S.C.]. We must be honest: 50 years after John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out, violence against African Americans has not disappeared.”

Thursday, September 10, 2015 is not just an ordinary day for Patricia “Pat” Stevenson, founder, CEO, and publisher of the Harlem Community News, Inc., a Harlem-based corporation that publishes several community newspapers including the Harlem News,

New York City, presented by City Councilman Inez Dickens on behalf of Congressman Charles B. Rangel.

The savvy publisher donned her usual spiffy business attire for a more glamorous look that included a regal designer’s gown and a new side sweep hairdo featuring cascading curls as she greeted her family members that came from as far as Savannah, Ga., politicians, business owners, community leaders, colleagues, employees and friends at her birthday bash that featured a VIP cocktail reception, dinner & program and entertainment and dancing to the music by Phil Young Experience. Others participating in the program included Rev. Dennis Dillon (invocation) and Dr. Ellen Jacobs (blessed the food).

The cultivated ceremonial program was emceed by WBLS Community Affairs Director Bob Lee and featured favorable praise about the

Pat, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer

Pat with aunt and uncle, Carol & Alphonso Green

worked tirelessly to make tonight’s event happen. They each contributed their time and talents to commemorate 20 years of positivity.

Their efforts remind us that together, we can do whatever we put our minds to do.”

She also thanked and recognized her family who came from Savannah, Georgia to attend this great tribPat received a proclamation from ute in her City Councilwoman Inez Dickens honor in-

Pat with mother Marie Sloman (l) and aunt Pat with brothers Gregory Green (l) and Louise Butler (r) Reginald Green (r) and Princess Jenkins

Pat, Emcee Bob Lee

Lloyd Douglas, Pat, Derick Broomes, Sabrina Brice, Tony Rogers, Bob Tate

Brooklyn News, Bronx News and Queens News using the inspirational motto, “Good News You Can Use.” That day was recently proclaimed PATRICIA STEVENSON DAY at a lavish birthday bash simultaneously celebrating her 20 years of publishing and community service at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem,

Committee member Dawn Hill then presented Stevenson with a beautiful spray of flowers before the delicious cake cutting ceremony.

An event of this magnitude takes diligence, dedication and loyal friends.

“When a small group of people learned that 2015 would be the 20th anniversary of my first publication in support of Harlem Week, the response was overwhelming. When those same people thought of my birthday in September and my annual party, they insisted that 2015 be a little different. Instead of simply celebrating my birthday, they determined it was the appropriate time to recognize the 20 years I’ve been engaged in the publishing business and more specifically, the Harlem News,” expressed Stevenson when explaining how the event materialized.

In her moving remarks, Ste-

(seated) Ruth Clark, Randreta Evans, Dr. Cynthia Grace (standing) Gil McGriff, Hazel Smith, Leslie Wyche, Pat, Ruth & George Hulse

Committee toasts Pat (l-r) Maria Cavenaghi, Pat Lilly, La-Verna J. Fountain, Virginia Montague, Thelma Russell, Princess Jenkins, Tony Rogers

b’day girl from Walter Edwards, Thelma Russell, Lloyd Williams, Vince Morgan, Dr. Eunice Ramsey Parker who called Pat “classy and classic,” Hon. Inez Dickens, and culminated in a champagne toast to Stevenson by Princess Jenkins who called her friend a “change agent” whose legacy will be a part of the Schomberg Center.

venson thanked that dynamic group -- Sabrina Brice, Maria Grazia Cavenaghi, La-Verna J. Fountain, Eugenia Foxworth, Dawn M. Hill, Ruth D. Hunt, Princess Jenkins, Pat Lilly, Virginia Montague, Tony Rogers and Thelma Russell.

“I am grateful for and humbled by the support of this eclectic group of people who

ditional corporate and table sponsors included Defiant Hope Ministries, Inc; Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce; HealthFirst; Dr. Marcella Maxwell; Prestige Management, Inc.; and Skanska USA Building. Friends of Pat for the event included Derek Broomes: Harlem Congregation for Community Improvement; Eugenia Foxworth: Foxworth Realty; Gloria James: C. James Publishing; Cheryl McKissack: McKissack Group; Dr. Eunice-Ramsey Parker: Foot Center of New York; Thelma Russell; and Lisa Sheppard: T-Mobile.

“Twenty years ago a great deal of negative commentary was taking place regarding the Village of Harlem. I would watch the news and read the newspapers and wonder why only negative news was being told when so many positive things were taking place in Harlem,” Stevenson said in

Pat, Dawn Hill, Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook

cluding Mother Marie Sloman, Aunt Louise Butler, Brothers Gregory Green and Reginald Green and Aunt Carol and Uncle Alphonso Green and her son Dominic. She also movingly thanked all others. “From you, I’ve learned valuable lessons about community,” she said.

In addition to the hard work of the committee, ad-

her evening’s message. “My family taught me a long time ago that when I see something that needs to be changed, I could either wait around for someone else to take action, or I could. That’s when I decided to create a vehicle for Harlem’s good news to be shared,” she concluded. (Photos by Nadezda Tavodova)

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September 10, 2015 proclaimed Patricia Stevenson Day!

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No due process for Child Watch: Young Black males – ‘standing while Black’ Pushed out and pushed away

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From page 6 was arrested. The Civilian Complaint Review Board found inconsistencies between Frascatore’s statements and the recording Hines made. It recommended “retraining” Frascatore. Hines also sued the city for false arrest and settled out of court. Warren Diggs still has a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city.

The Diggs case reveals Frascatore as an accomplished liar who doesn’t mind breaking the rules. Just as there was an attempt to cover up the Blake arrest, there was also an attempt to justify the brutal assault of Warren Diggs and the false arrest of Nafeesah Hines. Due process, Patrick Lynch?

As Blake has so gracefully said, all police officers are not like Frascatore. He declined to accuse the NYPD, just the outof-control officer. He accepted the apologies of the police commissioner and the mayor.

But he insists that something

must be done about excessive force, and he has indicated that he might pursue a lawsuit otherwise.

The NYPD says they have spent millions on training and retraining. Did Frascatore ever get the training the CCRB recommended? Why not monitor those officers who have been “retrained” to see if they have changed their ways? Why not prioritize investigation of those with repeat complaints so that bad apples like Frascatore are terminated before they do more damage?

Patrick Lynch does his members a disservice when he excuses the behavior of officers like James Frascatore, whose only due process should move him out of the NYPD. Due process means arresting Frascatore for assaulting James Blake.

Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist based in Washington, DC. She can be reached at www.juliannemalveaux.com.

Beyond the Rhetoric: A major blow to women and minority-owned businesses From page 6

Section workers. Section 3 activity is broad. Waste removal, painting, landscaping, accounting, janitorial, day care, construction, secretarial are some of the activities that can be applied to Section 3 opportunity. There are billions of dollars that apply to the Section 3 requirement annually. The goal is to use HUD funding to bring people into the workforce and out of poverty. If properly applied the need for HUD activity in our cities would start diminishing year by year.

In 1998, the NBCC learned that only 4 HUD grantees out of nearly 6,000 were complying with Section 3. Also, each grantee is to comply with annual activity reporting.

Over 90% of these grantees were not even submitting their annual report. To the benefit of the current administration, the majority of grantees now take the time to submit an annual report. However, there

are still no more than 4 grantees actually in compliance with Section 3. If the vast majority of grantees would comply, this nation would have over 100,000 new jobs for the unemployed per year and approximately $5 billion in contracts for new or small business owners.

An example of the missed opportunity is the Chicago Housing Authority. It was discovered during a three year review (2008 – 2010) by HUD that the CHA received over $1 billion in HUD funding. Not once during those three years did CHA hire a Section 3 company or utilize a Section 3 resident. This is happening all over the nation. There is a lot of economic damage done via this noncompliance and HUD knows it – that is the tragedy.

Harry C. Alford is the co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce®. Website: www. nationalbcc.org Email: halford@nationalbcc.org.

Blackonomics: Blacks missing from political circus From page 7 Negro Business League: “No people ever became great and prosperous by devoting their infant energies to politics. We were literally born into political responsibility before we had mastered the economic conditions which underlie these duties.”

Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic em-

powerment for Black people.

He can be reached through his website, blackonomics. com. He is the author of Black Dollars Matter: Teach Your Dollars How to Make More Sense, which is available through his website; professionalpublishinghouse.com and Amazon Kindle eBooks. ### - See more at: http:// www.blackpressusa.com/ blackonomics-blacks-missing-from-political-circus/#sthash.o2slYYh3.dpuf

From page 7 were quick to label students and young adults as criminals based on music, clothing, hair styles, and vernacular. I felt many church folks never took the chance to listen to the concerns of students, but rather preached their notions of a child’s image as evil to children they said they love . . . [M]any of my friends began to go down a road of crime based on fulfilling a destiny we felt older adults already forced on us.”

Eric was able to envision and forge a different identity for himself after finding the right adults willing to serve

as role models and mentors instead of prejudging him. He also graduated with honors from American Baptist College, where he was mentored

by Rev. Wolf, and received two master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University – a Master’s of Theological Studies and a Master’s in Ethics. He is a minister and a volunteer chaplain at Riverbend Maximum Security Institute where he co-facilitates the Community Building and Conflict Resolution Circle on death row.

We need to stand up and fight against unjust systems that often push young people out of school and onto the path

to prison. We also need to make sure we are doing all we can as individuals to show love and care and support to young people – especially Black and Hispanic – who already often feel pushed out and pushed away.

Marian Wright Edelman is president of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense. org.

Ford Motor Company encourages HBCU student achievement From page 7 participate in this exciting program. It is an opportunity for the students, universities and communities to all win. Timing is important to get the necessary information to apply for this opportunity. Go to the following links to get information about the Ford HBCU Community Challenge: www.blackameri-

caweb.com/hbcuchallenge and www.rickeysmileymorningshow.com/hbcuchallenge.

Student have until November 1, 2015 to apply and to enter. Let’s inform college students in our communities about this now. Let’s raise up a new generation of innovators, developers, engineers and leaders who are committed to the sustainable development of

our communities.

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All is not ‘hunky-dory’ in Africa, says Mo Ibrahim From page 8

a harder time lifting their citizens out of poverty, she said. “They could have been better positioned to confront the crisis that is in front of them.”

Spending cuts, such as those threatened in Kenya and other nations, have made the poorly-paid and under-housed

resentful and angry.

“Many countries that most need economic takeoff aren’t getting it because their politicians don’t support widespread growth,” said Johannesburg-based economist Thabi Leoka. “We don’t have exemplary leaders to tell other leaders they should be doing well.”

“The whole Africa rising

story is in question,” she added.

Published annually, the IIAG provides a comprehensive assessment of every African country using 93 indicators across the following four categories: safety & rule of law, participation & human rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development. w/pix of M. Ibrahim

Federal agencies join forces to help young children to survive From page 10

The Center of Excellence will provide child care centers, preschools, and home visiting programs with unprecedented access to expertise needed to enhance their capacity to sup-

port the well-being of young families and children.

“Safe, secure, and positive relationships are essential for the future well-being of infants and young children. We are thrilled about this opportunity to

strengthen the relationships among caregivers and young children through education, workforce development, and research,” said Michael Lu, MD, associate administrator for maternal and child health at HRSA.

What updated National HIV/AID strategy means for Black America From page 10 Although it’s important to have a national plan for addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it is even more crucial that the plan be effective.

Many HIV/AIDS activists voiced optimism that the strategy will address the unique needs of the Black community.

“When you look at the current epidemic, it’s Black,” says Barbara Joseph, chair of the National Black Women’s HIV/ AIDS Network Inc., based in Houston. “As a Black woman who has lived with this disease for over 30 years, I know that we cannot continue to nod and wink about what’s going on in our communities. It’s time we focus our collective will on com-bating this epidemic.”

Vanessa Smith, executive director of South Side Help Center in Chicago, agrees, saying, “We’re dealing with unprecedented health disparities in regards to HIV/AIDS in African American communities.”

The updated strategy and other federal-government efforts “speak to the need to provide treatment and education to African Americans,” she says.

Some HIV/AIDS advocates have also lauded the updated strategy for addressing concerns that were not adequately addressed in the original document.

“This new version of the strategy corrects a number of the missions pointed out in our gender audit of the initial version of the strategy,” says Naina Khanna, executive director of Positive Women’s Network

USA, based in Oakland, Calif.

Khanna was referring to a report the organization produced that found that the original strategy failed to do enough to address the needs of women living with and affected by HIV. In a blog post about the updated strategy, Douglas M. Brooks, director of the Office of National AIDS Policy, wrote that “community organizations from around the country have expressed steadfast support of the updated Strategy.”

He also expressed the administration’s willingness to partner with the community to make it work, writing, “We look forward to working with stake-holders across sectors and around the country to implement the updated Strategy and achieve its 2020 goals.”

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Here are more results from the 9/10 NY Primary and the district leader races. Congrats to Central Harlem District leader Dan Clark, of the 70th Assembly District and to East Harlem District Leaders Johnny Rivera, John Ruiz, and NYC Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito of the 68 th

Assembly District.

About a year ago, Mist (My Image Studios) Harlem co-owners Walter Edwards and Carlton Brown entered into an agreement with South African Mark Henegan, owner of Brooklyn bistro Madiba, entered into an agreement which

Dr. Thomas Calhoun, is named President of Chicago State University effective January 1, 2016. The Dr. Calhoun hire will stem the CSU’s declining student enrollment numbers and to improve its financial statements.

Dr. Calhoun holds degrees in philosophy, biology and education.. He is an ordained AME elder. Founded in 1867, CSU student population was mainstream. Today, African Americans represent 80% of the CSU student body. It qual-

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ifies for HBCU consideration.

Dr. Wayne Frederick, Howard University President, was named to the Mutual of America Life Insurance Board of Directors.

Editor/journalist George Curry, leaves the NNPA, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a Black publishers trade group. Former Emerge magazine editor, Curry’s immediate plans are to revive EMERGE in a digital edition, having it up and running in 6 -8 weeks.

CARIBBEAN TIMES Conde Nast Travel Magazine article, “7 Caribbean Islands That people Never See are Anguilla, a British dependency; and Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts/Nevis. Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadine, Montserrat and Dominica,

which are among the jewels in the crown of Anglophone islands. Why are they unseen?

Some require infrastructure upgrades; and others are plagued by unpredictable natural phenom. They conform to the island getaway paradise paradigm.

All are poised to get a larger share of the 2015/2016 winter tourism season. Antigua has just finished a $100 million airport upgrade and will accommodate direct Jet Blue flights from JFK and Alitalia flights from Milan, next month.

FALL PREVIEW The NY Philharmonic presents IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: Great African America Singers and Their Legacy which celebrates American Legends – Marian Anderson,

$59. Visit nyphil.org or call 212.875.5656.

Visit the 2-day fine art exhibit “FOR MY EYES ONLY,” showcasing the works photo essayist

Kwame Brathwaite

Marian Anderson William Warfield, Betty Allen and George Shirleymarrying their works with music by Joplin, Mahler, Verdi, Gershwin, Bach, Kern and Copeland, at the David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, on October 14/15. Tickets are $39 to

Kwame Brathwaite and painter/photographer Bob Gumbs, at the Dwyer Cultural Center, located at 258 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, opens on October 16/17, 6-8 pm. Brathwaite and Gumbs are founding member of AJASS, the African Jazz Art Society and Studios. Proceeds from the art sales will be used for Braithwaite’s holistic eye-care regimen.

Bob Tate and Emmett Causey revive their weekly MAMBO JAAMBO Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Brazilian influenced jazz sessions at the Lenox Saphire bistro, located at 341 Lenox Avenue on Tuesday, October 20 and every Tuesday thereafter. There is no cover and extended happy hours. Showtime is 7-11 pm. Call Bob 917.402.2644 or Emmett at 917 742.1239 The Upper Manhattan Domestic Violence Services Collaborative and its partners will sponsor the SHINE THE LIGHT IN HARLEM, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS WALK And SPEAK OUT on October 26. The Walk begins at one of four locations - at 125 at St. Nicholas, 135 Street at Malcolm X; 125 at Fifth Avenue and 116 Street at Frederick Douglass Boulevard at the Adam Clayton Boulevard- and lead to 125 Street at ACP NY State Office Building by 6 pm. The Speak Out begins at 6:15 pm. WEAR PURPLE. For more info, call 646.442.3100.

Last week, Californian voters got a special gift a law which automatically registers drivers to vote when a licensed is obtained or renewed. This is in sharp contrast to Alabama machinations, which is closing offices throughout the state, normally in densely populated Black areas, making it difficult for those residents to register to vote.

That action exemplifies voter repression. Why is the American south afraid of the Black voter?

Guess it is because of the Black vote in2008 and 2012 Why is African-American GOP presidential hopeful, retired brain surgeon Ben Carson, do-

Ben Carson ing well in the polls, alternating between #1 and #2. These numbers may explain why Trump is talking an exit strategy. His fundraising prowess, his politico outsider status and his perennial gaffes conspire to charm the GOP

far right enthusiasts crazies. On Sunday, October 4, Ambassador Harold Doley hosted a fundraiser for him at Villa Lewaro, in Westchester County, NY, which netted $50,000. Could Carson be the next GOP Congressional speaker!

Robert Gray Who is the African American trucker, Robert Gray, 46 who ran and won the Democratic Primary for Governor of Mississippi without campaigning? Beyond party outsider, Grays says that he wants to bring more money to Mississippi, expand Medicaid, create jobs and improve infrastructure. Mississippi has a large percentage of African Americans and the nation’s largest number of Blacks elected to a state house.

Six thousand federal inmates in American prisons for nonviolent drug offenses, will be released from prison by the end of November. Most of the inmates are Blacks and Latinos. Approximately 1/3 of them are immigrants.

MEDIA MATTERS Race stories trump all subjects in American media. There is the NY Magazine piece, “The Paradox of the First Black President” by white writer Jennifer Senior, asks what has the Obama Presidency done for Black people?

Why the need for a Black Life Matters movement during his watch, which can be read if there is no other reading material. Ta-Nehesi Coates, Atlantic Magazine cover story “The Black Family In The Age of Mass Incarceration” is well researched/analyzed piece which opens with the Moynihan Report on the “Black Family” before visiting and dissecting American history and its myriad dysfunction vis-à-vis Blacks. It reads like an appendage to Dr. Khalil Muhammad’s book “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.” It is required reading as is “Who Do You Think You Are” by African American Pulitzer prize winner,

Wesley Morris Wesley Morris, the new NY Times Critic at Large, Culture. His essay looks into into America’s psychic/cultural upheaval which attends the Obama Presidency.

Morris says. “But Obama became everybody’s problem. He was black. He was white. He was hope. He was apocalypse. And he brought a lot of anxiety into weird relief. We had never really had a white president until we had a black one.” If this is a sampler of the Morris mind, I cannot wait to consume more.

BUSINESS MATTERS Private equity company Bain Capital, co-founded by 201s GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, obtains a minority share in Sundial, a New York based. Blackowned manufacturer of hair and skin care products, which caters to African Americans.

Founded in 1992 by Africans from Liberia and Sierra

A Harlem-based writer, Victoria Horsford can be reached at victoria.horsford@gmail.com

Leones, Sundial is valued at $700 million with annual revenues of $200 million. Sundial products are sold under two brand names, Shea Moisture and Nubian Heritage, and are available in national retail outlets. Sundial founders/ owners headed by Richelieu Dennis, CEO, retain their majority interest.

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created the Madiba- Harlem Restaurant, which was be housed at Mist Harlem, the omnibus entertainment/ culture complex, located at 46 West 116 Street. Madiba Harlem opened with great promise and brouhaha.

Madiba-Harlem Restaurant is closed.

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Mabley, Foxx, Pryor inducted into the Walk of Fame

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Jonelle Procope

The Landmark Apollo Theater located on famed 125 th Street in the Village of Harlem for the first time inducted non-musical artists into its Walk of Fame on Tuesdays, October 1st, 2015. World renowned Comedians, Jackie “Moms” Mabley, Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor, all of whom had a longstanding relationship with the Theater and are considered Apollo Legends, was officially inducted into the Apollo Walk of Fame.

The event included presentations recognizing Jackie “Moms” Mabley, Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor delivered by President/ CEO Jonelle Procope, Executive

Richard Pryor, Jr., and Rain Pryor, (son and daughter) of Comedian Richard Pryor

Comedian Richard Pryor plaque

Comedienne Mable “Moms” Mabley plaque

Producer Mikki Shepard, Apollo Comedy Club Curator Bob Summer, producer of Def Comedy Jam and creator of LAFFMOBB

on Aspire, Comedienne Rain Pryor, daughter of Richard Pryor, Actor Richard Pryor, Jr., son of Richard Pryor and other guests.

Comedian Redd Foxx plaque

The Walk of Fame induction was followed by a post reception and a sneak peek of the all new Apollo Comedy Club, the Theater’s new com-

edy initiative. The event also kicked-off The Apollo Comedy Club, which officially opened.

The new initiative celebrated the Theater’s returning to its comedic roots and featured an evening of comedy on the intimate huge Soundstage starring the best up-and-coming talent in comedy today including Davian Velez, Marshall Brandon and Del Harrison.

Hosted by Harlem native Smokey Suarez and with music

by DJ Qool Marv, the comedy shows will regularly precede the Theater’s weekend music series, Apollo Music Café, extending the Theater’s late night offerings. (D.T.)

Living Legend

Grace Jones signs new book

By Jim Carroll (Contributing Scribe)

A crowd of 300 plus devoted individuals filled the rows of chairs on the top floor of the Manhattan’s Barnes & Nobles book store in Union Square holding copies of internationally known entertainer Grace Jones’ new book “Grace-InYour-Face,” as lines of people with books on the next level down waited to be added to get their book signed by the Icon of Shock.

Jones opened more than the pages of her tell it like it is book. She gave attendees a taste of Grace by flashing her breast for camera carrying fans. The book in which she emphatically tells how the current crops of performers are mere fractions of her originality is filled with a history of Jones’ multifaceted career.

From runway model to singer to actress, the book gives readers an in-depth view

of how she was sculpted into the person and performer she is today. { Excerpt: Later, still on the quest to find my voice, I would work with a singing teacher back in New York, a German lady in the 80s and she was so much better for me---The total opposite of the uptight Parisian professor, who I’m sure was good for opera, but not for me.

When I told her that in Paris the teacher spent the whole time trying to teach me how to breathe, she said, ridiculous, you know how to breathe as soon as you are born. Why do you need to be taught how to breathe? This is what I want you to do----I want you to jump on the furniture, leap around the room, and let the note fly !” She was amazing.

She treated being a vocal coach like being a therapist and like a kind of performance. I needed to feel I was being taught by a performer.

She taught me so well I could

Grace Jones signs book for devoted fan (Photo: Jim Carroll)

be a vocal coach now.} This book really shows how someone from a very

modest and strict background can come out of their shell and do things that

they would never think they could do but still keep their integrity.

Pandemonium breaks out at Pan’s star-studded opening

Hugh Jackman

The mega talented movie star Hugh Jackman and the cast and crew members of Warner Bros. $150M action-adventure fantasy movie Pan walked the magical blue carpet for the New York City premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on Sunday, October 4, 2015 as scores of fans lined both sides of the Street to get a glimpse of their favorite stars.

This was a family outing as scores of stars accompanied by their children attended the dream opening.

Pandemonium broke out as fans spotted the film’s young new star Levi Miller who portrays the 12-year-old orphan Peter who’s spirited away to the magical world of Neverland where he finds both fun and danger and ultimately discovers his destiny – to become the hero who

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will be forever known as Peter Pan. Pan co-stars Rooney Mara, Garrett Hedlund and Nonso Anozie also attended the fantasy midday opening along with daring director Joe Wright who brings the characters created by J.M. Barrie from a screenplay by creative genie Jason Fuchs to reel life. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Oscar nominee Paul Webster are producing, with Tim Lewis serving as executive producer.

Pan stars Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard; Garrett Hedlund as James Hook; Oscar nominee Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily; newcomer Levi Miller as Peter; and Amanda Seyfried as Mary. Rounding out the cast are Adeel Akhtar as Smee; Taejoo Na as Kwahu; Nonso Anozie as Bishop; Kathy

Kelly Rutherford, Helena Grace Rutherford Girsch

Burke as Mother Barnabas; Kurt Egyiawan as Murray; Lewis MacDougall as Nibs; and Jack Charles as The Chief.

Wr i g h t ’s b e h i n d - t h e scenes creative team includes Oscar-nominated directors of photography Seamus McGarvey and John Mathieson; Oscar-nominated production designer

Condola Rashad

Nonso Anozie

Rooney Mara

Garrett Hedlund

Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Samuel Kai Schreiber, Alexander Pete Schreiber

Levi Miller

Summer Ambrose, June Ambrose, Chance Ambrose

Aline Bonetto; editors Paul Tothill and William Hoy; Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran; and makeup and hair des ig n er I va n a Pr im o ra c .

The magical music is by Oscar-nominated composer John Powell.

Warner Bros. Pictures Presents, in association with RatPac-Dune Entertain-

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PAN Cast-Jason Fuchs, Garrett Hedlund, Levi Miller, Rooney Mara, Hugh Jackman, Joe Wright

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ment, a Berlanti Production, a Joe Wright film, Pan., filed at Warner Bros. Studios.

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. Pan was released worldwide in RealD 3D and 2D on October 9, 2015. The film has been rated PG by the MPAA for fantasy action. (Photos courtesy Warner Bros.)

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Movie chronicles Rapper’s reunion with Dad

By Kam Williams Senior Movie Critic

Che “Rhymefest” Smith is among the handful of Rappers who have actually managed to make it in the music industry.

What’s even more remarkable is the fact that the Grammy Award-winning artist also overcame a challenging childhood, having been raised on the rough South Side of Chicago by a single-mom who’d given birth to him while still in her early teens.

Despite his phenomenal success in the music business, one thing that nagged at Rhymefest was why he’d been abandoned by his father, Brian, a man he’d only seen a few times in his entire life, and not at all over the past two decades. He wondered whether his Dad ever cared or thought about him? Or might he be dead?

Rhymefest’s curiosity was probably piqued because of the guilt he himself felt about having three out-of-wedlock offspring with baby-mamas he’d never committed to. He wanted to understand why he’d perpetuated the cycle of parental neglect, especially since fatherless kids represent 60 percent of youth suicides, 71 percent of juvenile incar-

Che “Rhymfest” Smith poses with his Dad

cerations and 90 percent of homeless children.

So, first, he proceeded to buy the house that his father grew up in and moved in with his wife, Donnie. Then, after hearing rumors that Brian was a local hobo and an alcoholic, he started scouring the streets of the Windy City for him.

Yes, he did search for and get his Dad into rehab right after their tearful reunion. But would the lush find the strength to keep his nose clean with the help of this new lease on life coming in the form of a job, an apartment, and a loving, supportive son?

That is the tension that tugs at your heart while watching “In My Father’s House,” a ‘Prodigal Dad’ documentary co-directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. The picture proves to be very compelling as a sociological examination

of profound dysfunction, but it’s simultaneously a bitter disappointment for anyone expecting a miraculous, happy Hollywood ending.

Unfortunately, Rhymfest just can’t get no satisfaction from the father he’s craved and loved from afar for as long as he can remember. But at least he continues to flourish professionally, having recently co-written the 2015 Oscar-winning Best Song “Glory” with Common and John Legend for the film “SELMA.” The movie’s message, if any? If you’re a successful Rap Star, you might want to think twice before returning to the ghetto to track down the deadbeat Dad you never knew. Excellent (4 stars).

Rated R for profanity and ethnic slurs. Running time: 93 minutes. Distributor: Arc Entertainment.

Che holds Oscar for Best Song “Glory” heard in “SELMA,” that he co-wrote with Common (left) and John Legend

Astronaut survives in outer space

By Kam Williams “MacGyver” was a TV series which revolved around a title character famous for relying on his vast body of scientific knowledge while using everyday household items to save the day in a variety of life-and-death situations. “The Martian” is an outer space adventure in which a stranded astronaut with an uncanny knack for improvisation takes a similar approach to surviving on Mars.

The picture stars Matt Damon as (Mark Watney), a

wounded botanist inaccurately presumed dead and left behind by fellow crew members in the wake of a dangerous dust storm on the red planet. However, he is actually very much alive, but without the oxygen, water, food, equipment and other resources needed to last the four years it would take for NASA to mount a rescue mission.

So, resourceful Mark proceeds to do everything from performing surgery on himself to growing potatoes in a makeshift garden, fertilizing the plants with his own poop. And,

Actor Matt Damon in scene from "The Martian"

like an intergalactic variation of the island-bound protagonist played by Tom Hanks in “Cast Away,” Matt appears alone on screen for the bulk of the scifi saga.

The great news is that Damon proves captivating, and the 141 minutes running time flies by in a flash.

Besides amusing us with his ingenious inventions, Matt repeatedly makes us laugh via myriad humorous asides.

Directed by three-time Oscar-nominee Ridley Scott for “Thelma and Louise,” “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down,” “The Martian” has all the tension of “Gravity,” plus it manages to keep you on the edge of your seat for an hour longer.

Furthermore, its visual effects are the equal of “Interstellar,” and it features Matt Damon for the duration instead of merely for a cameo. Think Robinson Crusoe on Mars, though sans any primitive manservant named Friday. Excellent (4 stars).

Rated PG-13 for profanity, injury images and brief profanity. Running time: 141 minutes. Distributor: 20th Century Fox.

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Jean & Martin Shafiroff, Brenda Simmons

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Wanda Roberts Brown, Janice Norwood

Patsy Rembert, Brenda Simmons, Winfred Rembert

By Audrey J. Bernard Lifestyles Editor The Southampton African American Museum’s (SAAM) presentation of its hugely successful 10th Annual African American Film Festival (AAFF) at the Southampton Arts Center concluded Sunday, October 4, 2015 with a screening of HBO’s Emmy award-winning film “Bessie” about the life of Bessie Smith, directed by Dee Rees and starring Queen Latifah as the legendary “Queen of the Blues.”

This year’s festival theme was “Sing Your Song” and featured films about extraordinary African and African American musicians and artists.

The Saturday screenings included “Soundtrack for a Revolution” telling

Bond Lincoln Memorial

J.D. Lawrence’s Martin Malcolm & Me

the story of the American Civil Rights Movement through the powerful music that emerged out of it by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman; “Marvin Gaye: What’s Goin’ On,” a documentary about the iconic R&B artist by Director Sam Pollard; and “Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks” was an intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks, a true Re-

Annie Jackson, Joyce Russell

Brenda & Tiana Simmons

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legend Bob Marley by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald.

Shifting artistic genres, the festival kicked off on Thursday, October 1, 2015 with the stage play “Martin, Malcolm and Me” by celebrated actor/ director/playwright J.D. Lawrence who performed in the play and sat for a Q&A with the very enthusiastic and appreciative audience members.

Friday evening was an offering of spoken word and live jazz performances featuring R&B singer Cheryl Pepsii Riley, HBO Def and Grammy Award Poet J Ivy, Dynamic 2x Grammy Award singer/songwriter Tarrey Torae, and Charles Certain and the Certain Moves Jazz Quartet.

The VIP wine & cheese reception between screenings on Saturday was catered by Tim Burke, 230 Elm Events and attended by numerous directors and producers of the featured films including among others Producer/ Director Vivian Ducat and Producer Bruce Nalepinski and his wife Fran Donovan, along with philanthropists and host committee members Martin & Jean Shafiroff, Ralph & Eleanor Christian, artist Winfred Rembert & his wife Patsy Rembert, SAAM Executive Director Brenda Simmons, AAFF Artistic Director and SAAM Board Member Nigel Noble, SAAM Board Members Brenda Simmons, Shonda Campbell, Nancy Stevens Smith, Nigel Noble, Cheryl Buck, Nina Beaty, Charles Certain, Siamak Samii and Host Committee Members Jean & Martin Shafiroff, Fred W. Thiele Jr., Jay Schneiderman, Dede & Terry Moan, Flo Anthony, Jessica Mackin, Cassandra Seidenfeld, Raven Solomon, Sarah Herbert Galloway, Joyce Jackson, Douglas Harrington and John Wegorzewski.

SAAM thanks the generous support from its financial and media Sponsors Suffolk County’s Motion Pictures/Television Film Commission and Community Development, Southampton Inn, Town of Southampton, Village of Southampton, 230 Elm, WPPB, WVVH and special thanks to Southampton Arts Center; and to ace publicist John Wegorzewski of Alchmyst Public Relations & Marketing and consulting partner Douglas Mackaye Harrington & Associates.

For a decade the Southampton African American Museum’s annual film festival has brought the richness of diversity to the cultural landscape of the Hamptons through extraordinary films and performances that foster an understanding of the incredible contributions and indelible impact that the African American community has had not only on the East End, but on all of America and the World itself. For more information go to: www.southamptonafricanamericanmuseum.org (Photos by Douglas Harrington)

naissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician, and filmmaker. Directed by Craig Laurence Rice, the screening was followed by a Q&A with the film’s line producer Bruce Nalepinski.

The day concluded with “All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert,” a documentary on the artist Winfred Rembert, whose paintings depicted bigotry in America in the latter part of the 20th century. The screening was followed by a Q&A featuring the film’s producer/director Vivian Ducat and the artist himself, Winfred Rembert!

Along with Sunday’s offering of the aforementioned “Bessie,” the finale of the festival included the screening of “Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement,” an award winning documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley and chosen as a tribute remembrance of the seminal civil rights leader who pasted away in August. The screening was followed by a panel discussion and Q&A, “The Past, the Present Work of Julian Bond and How His Work Affects Today” with civil rights experts Natalie Byfield, Carol Spencer, and William Pickens III. Also in Sunday’s lineup was “Marley,” a biographical documentary about musician, revolutionary, and reggae

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By Vinette K. Pryce (Special Assignment) Sheila E fashioned style and talent and in the process punctuated the perception that she still leads the “Glamorous Life” headlining the South South Awards Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria joining with her famous musician-father Pete Escovedo to amplify the United Nations’ adoption of the Millennium Development Goal and supporting its Post-2015 agenda.

Reprising the hit song with percussive emphasis on her instruments she had drum sticks flying during the close-out performance capping an evening of rousing tributes to Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Fiji and the community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) countries that have implemented effectively the United Nations aim at eradicating hunger.

Bedazzling in silver, Sheila E managed to elevate the black-tie VIP crowd of diplomatic emissaries, politicians and philanthropists who danced and cheered during the invitation-only event. She joined musician Ray Chew and his band to drum up additional support for initiatives which promote support for the adoption of Post-2015 development agenda and its goal to successfully aid countries struggling with poverty and other debilitating disadvantages.

Simultaneous to the black-tie

gala, Beyonce echoed endorsement of the same sentiment at the Global Citizen Festival singing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” to a dressed-down crowd – many of whom proved that they performed acts of kindness in order to gain access to the free, Central Park event.

Following a red-carpet procession which featured Paulina Vega, Miss Universe, fashion-forward Costa Rican pop singer, Debi Nova, an appearance from Academy Award winner Forrest Whitaker and video messages from former President Bill Clinton, Actors Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas and presentations to honorees, music dominated the evening’s celebration of achievements of the Global south.

Making a grand appearance since exiting the now-defunct David Letterman “Late Night Show,” Paul Shaffer proved unlike his boss, he was not retiring after 33-years on television by accepting the Cultural Achievement Recognition Award.

He not only bowed to the honor but after an introduction from musician Jean Baptiste -- who is the new musical director of the Late Show -- lavished praises on his “two favorite islands” -- Antigua and Barbuda playing a song he considered worthy of the accolades.

Patrons might have surmised that perhaps, Shaffer’s choice of Caribbean territories were limited to the twin islands conspicuously laud-

ed throughout the gala because of its member status with South South and the fact national Dr. John Ashe, lobbied relentlessly for the original Millennium Development Goals.

Ashe was president of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly when the MDG were adopted by a global group.

As chairman of the South South Steering Committee for Sustainable Development he endorsed Shaffer’s preference of places to vacation despite the musician’s choice to play the infectious song “Funky Nassau” as a party tribute to laud the islands.

In addition to Shaffer’s musical foray, Ashe and his Prime Minister Gaston Browne also toasted the availability of 365 beaches to visitors and nationals on any given day pointing to their uniquely distinct attraction of sand and surf. PM Browne described the AB islands as “an investment paradise” where anyone can “retire or become a citizen.”

Gov. General Sir Rodney Williams and his wife beamed as the two Ambassadors boasted the unique attributes of the eastern Caribbean destination. A poignant moment for pause highlighted the contribution of William F. Austin who was presented the Humanitarian Award.

Austin is the founder of the Starkey Hearing Foundation and a hero to thousands throughout the world who are now able to hear because

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Shelia E (front) performs with Dad Pete Escovedo (back left) (Photo: Vivian Scott Chew)

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn was particularly entrancing accepting his golden globed award for slashing hunger in his country by a whopping 57 percent. Listed among the fastest growing countries on the planet, the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was distinguished for its successful, advanced efforts in defeating poverty and hunger.

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CLASSIFIED SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF NEW YORK SUN KYUNG BAE, Plaintiff against DAVID BENJAMIN HUNT Defendant Index No. 300909/15Date Summons Filed: January 23, 2015 Plaintiff designates New York County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff resides at 15 Park Row, Apt 24N New York, New York 10038. ACTION FOR DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. Dated: January 16, 2015Jeffrey B. Peltz, Esq JEFFREY B. PELTZ, PC Attorneys for Plaintiff26 Court St, Ste 503Brooklyn, NY 11242(718) 625-0800NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 170 subd. (2) – the abandonment of the Plaintiff by the Defendant for a period of more than one year. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the Family Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Court with respect to any future issues of maintenance and support. That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses. That both parties may resume the use of any prior surname. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. The parties

have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution. Notice of Automatic Orders pursuant to DRL Sec. 236(B) (2) and Notice Concerning Continuation of Health Care Coverage pursuant to DRL Sec. 255(1) accompany this summons. NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L. 236) Rev. 1/13FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE ORDERS MAY BE DEEMED A CONTEMPT OF COURTPURSUANT TO the Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts, and DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Section 236, Part B, Section 2, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against you and your spouse in your divorce action pursuant to 22 NYCRR Section 202.16(a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action, unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties:(1) ORDERED: Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fee in connection with this action. (2) ORDERED: Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401k accounts, profit sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annu-

ity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court; except that any party who is already in pay status may continue to receive such payments thereunder.

(3) ORDERED: Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to, further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual housing expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (4) ORDERED: Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. (5) ORDERED: Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect. IMPORTANT NOTE: After service of Summons with Notice or Summons and Complaint for divorce, if you or your spouse wishes to modify or dissolve the automatic orders, you must ask the court for approval to do so, or enter into a written modification agreement with your spouse duly signed and acknowledged before a notary public. NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Required by Section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NEW YORK CHAITAWAT CHUNTON, PLAINTIFF against PRIYA CHUNTON, Defendant. Index No. 308982/15 Date Summons Filed: July 9, 2015 Plaintiff designates New York County as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is CPLR Sec. 509.SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff resides at 51-22 65th street Woodside, New York 11377. ACTION FOR DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. Dated: June 17, 2015 Jeffrey B. Peltz, Esq JEFFREY B. PELTZ, PC Attorneys for Plaintiff 26 Court St, Ste. 503 Brooklyn, NY 11242 (718) 625-0800 NOTICE:The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 170 subd.(2) - the abandonment of the Plaintiff by the Defendant for a period of more than one year. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the Family Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Court with respect to any future issues of maintenance and support. That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses. That both parties may resume the use of any prior surname. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution. Notice of Automatic Orders pursuant to DRL Sec. 236(B)(2) and Notice Concerning Continuation of Health Care Coverage pursuant to DRL Sec. 255(1) accompany this summons. NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L. 236) Rev. 1/13 FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE ORDERS MAY BE DEEMED A CONTEMPT OF COURT PURSUANT TO the Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts, and DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Section 236, Part B, Section 2, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against you and your spouse in your divorce action pursuant to 22 NYCRR Section 202.16(a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action, unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the par-

ties: (1) ORDERED: Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fee in connection with this action. (2) ORDERED: Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401k accounts, profit sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court; except that any party who is already in pay status may continue to receive such payments thereunder.

(3) ORDERED: Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to, further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual housing expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (4) ORDERED: Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental Publishers insurance coverage in full NY force Black and effect.

(5) ORDERED: Neither party shall10/1/15 change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insur2x2 ance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect. IMPORTANT NOTE: After service of Summons with Notice or Summons and Complaint for divorce, if you or your spouse wishes to modify or dissolve the automatic orders, you must ask the court for approval to do so, or enter into a written modification agreement with your spouse duly signed and acknowledged before a notary public. NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Required by Section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK CO­ UNTY OF NEW YORK Index No. 54568/2014 Date Summons Filed: October 10, 2014MICHELE GREENIDGE, Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. Plaintiff, SUMMONSWITH NOTICE -against- HERMAN VASQUEZ. Plaintiff resides at 1040 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn New York 11221. Herman Vasquez, Defendant.

ACTION FOR DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Notice set forth below. Dated: October 9, 2014, Todd Spodek, Esq., Spodek Law Group P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff 100 Church Street, 8th Floor, New York, New York 100007 (212) 300-5196 NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds: DRL Section 170 subd. (2)—the abandonment of the Plaintiff by the Defendant for a period of more than one year. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature ofany ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the Family Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Court with respect to any future issues of maintenance and support. That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses. That both parties may resume the use of any prior surname. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem fit and proper. The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by either party under equitable distribution. Notice of Automatic Orders pursuant to DRL Sec. 236(B)(2) and Notice Concerning Continuation of Health Care Coverage pursuant to DRL Sec. 255(1) accompany this summons.

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The good, the bad and the ugly of the NLDS

By Marc Rasbury As I watched the first three games of the National League Division Series the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers, all I can think of is the rollercoster of the emotions most New York Mets fans are going through. The Mets took a 2 games to one lead over the Dodgers going into Tuesday’s contest. However, the sway of momentum throughout the first three games is enough to put the average fan through the ringer.

I will start with the Ugly.

Obviously, the play that we will be talking about until Jesus comes again is the Chase Utley play that ended Ruben Tejada’s season in Game 2. Tejada

went to turn a double play, he got spun around and was put in a vulnerable position as Utley was barreling down towards second base taking him out. Tejada’s leg was broken in the process. Baseball fans all over the world went ballistic over the play. Some felt that it was the dirtiest play since Abner Doubleday invented the game, while others felt that it was just a baseball play.

Yes, it appeared that veteran second baseman literally went out of his way to break up the potential double play with little regards for Tejada’s safety. It was excessive. But folks, it is part of the game and infielders know that when they sign up for certain positions, especially second

base, when they are susceptible to plays like that.

The Bad was the play opened up the flood gate and ruined what was a great performance by the Mets young stud Noah Syndergaad who stuck out nine and scattered five hits over 6 1/3 innings. Bartolo Colon came in for relief when the infamous play took place.

The Dodgers scored four runs in that inning and went on to win the game, 5-2, to even up the series at a game a piece.

The Good was the Mets starting pitching, their redhot hitting in Game 3 and their clutch hitting in Game 1. Based on his performance in Game 1, you could change his name from Jacob deGrom to Jacob deGreat. In his first post season start, the kid went out there and struck out 13 while allowing no earn runs in seven innings on the road

against Clayton Kershaw. He pitched as if he had three or four Cy Young awards on his resume. He definitely justified Manager Terry Collins’ decisions to start him in Game 1 as the Mets took the first game of the series 3-1.

Syndergaad pitched well until that ill-fated 7th inning of Game 2. Matt Harvey struggled a bit in Game 3 giving up three runs in the second inning but that will be a foot note in that game because the Mets bats exploded for 13 runs in that contest.

The Amazins had their best postseason offensive explosion in franchise history on Monday as they blew away Don Mattingly’s crew 13-3 in Game 3.

Yoenis Cespedes went three for five driving in three runs in the contest. Cespedes had a monster home run that still has not landed. And he was

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One of the biggest concerns Knicks management and their fans had at the announcement they drafted 7-3, 233lbs Kristaps Porzingis from Latvia was whether or not he would be able to handle the physical rigors of the 82 game NBA schedule. Zingis handled the summer league competition but that was against players with no NBA experience as well. Against team Bauru from Brazil Zingis played 20+ minutes scoring 9 points. 2 nights later against Washington playing another 20 minutes, he registered just 7 points. Unfortunately, a nagging injury (strained left quad) has limited his practice time and he was not able to suit up against the Philadelphia 76ers this past Tuesday night.

In his last year playing in Latvia, Porzingis didn’t miss any games due to injuries but he readily admits they did not play the same amount of games with the frequencies games are played here. “I didn’t miss a game last season and before maybe I missed 1 game” he said sitting in his lockerroom.

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“We’re not nearly as concerned as we were at that time.” The next couple of days will determine if he suit up when the Boston Celtics come to the Garden Friday.

Zingis‘ absence has given other players a chance to show their talents. In his 4th year in the league and 3rd NBA stop (Minnesota and Sacramento) Derrick Williams scored 8 and 23 points respectfully against Bauru and Washington. In the first half victory over Philadelphia 94-88, Williams hit 6 of his first 7 shots for 13 points finishing with 21. Kyle O’Quinn, a local product from Flushing Queens has returned home with hopes of making the roster. He spent the last 3 years in Orlando and averaged a paltry 5 ppg. O’Quinn scored 14 points in each of the first 2 games.

In his second year with the team, Langston Galloway (11points) is hoping to make a bigger impact after being selected to the All-Rookie Second team. Galloway finished 3rd among rookies in scoring with 11.8 ppg.

There are currently 19 players on the roster that can only have 12 at the start of the season. The New York Knicks clearly have taken a chance drafting Kristaps Porzigis knowing he would be a work in progress. They’re hoping his progress isn’t slowed by more injuries.

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not even the offensive MVP of the game. Curtis Granderson drove in five runs on the night going 2 for 5 including a decisive double that blew the game wide open. Lost in deGrom’s brilliant performance was David Wright’s timely two run double in Game 1. The Mets were not hitting coming into the playoffs and the Captain’s smash was just what the doctor ordered.

Seeing Tejada walk out during the team introduction before Game 3 sent chills up my spine. CitiField was rocking for its first postseason game since the facility opened in 2009. By the time this issue hits the stands, we will know if the Mets close out this series. All I know is that Terry Collins and company have given Mets fans enough highs and lows to last a lifetime over the past few weeks.

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